STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1076-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2541

      S.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Housing and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2541, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELDERLY HOUSING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to help meet the ever increasing need for elderly housing in the State by appropriating funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to:

(1)  Redevelop the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's administrative offices; and

(2)  Construct an elderly-only housing complex at the same location.

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority, League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Community Alliance for Mental Health, and United Self Help testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committees respectfully request that, should your Committee on Finance choose to consider this measure, the Committee on Finance consider authorizing the issuance of $60,000,000 in General Obligation Bonds and appropriating the funds to be expended by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2541, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Human Services,

____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair

____________________________ MARK J. HASHEM, Chair