STAND. COM. REP. NO.  31

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1265

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1265 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to address Hawaii's affordable housing crisis by providing alternatives for affordable and rental housing.  This measure, among other things:

(1)  Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Department of Human Services, to establish mobile home parks throughout the State for persons meeting certain income levels;

(2)  Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the implementation and administration of mobile home park development; and

(3)  Allows the private sector to develop mobile home parks under the same guidelines established for the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Several individuals testified in support of the measure. The Hawaii Public Housing Authority supported the intent of the measure.  The Department of Human Services, Department of Land and Natural Resources, and an individual commented on the measure.

Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1265, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1265, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water & Land.

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

____________________________ MARK J. HASHEM, Chair

____________________________ DEE MORIKAWA, Chair