STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2671

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2265

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2265 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to improve the existing public housing stock and increase the supply of available public housing units.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's public housing stock has extensive and growing capital needs that have been under-funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and that there is a pressing need for additional housing units.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the amount of the appropriation to an unspecified sum;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; 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 Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2265, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2265, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair