STAND. COM. REP. NO.  928-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2265

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2265, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase the supply of public housing units and improve the existing public housing stock in the State by appropriating funds to be expended by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for these purposes.

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority, Hawai‘i Primary Care Association, Community Alliance for Mental Health, and United Self Help provided testimony in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Inserting an appropriation amount of $50,000,000;

(2)  Directing that the funds to be appropriated shall come from general obligation bonds instead of from the general revenues of the State of Hawaii; and

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2265, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2265, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,

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MARK J. HASHEM, Chair