STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1592-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2265

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2265, S.D. 1, H.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; BIA-Hawaii; and Community Alliance for Mental Health supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the issuance of general obligation bonds to an unspecified amount;

     (2)  Inserting the Hawaii Public Housing Authority as the expending agency; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2265, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2265, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair