STAND. COM. REP. NO.  24-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1693

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1693 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the household income level and unit availability eligibility requirements for low-income housing and mixed-income rental projects receiving loans and grants from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund.

The Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice, PHOCUSED, Catholic Charities of Hawaii, Hawaii Children's Action Network, Partners in Care, and several individuals supported this measure.  The Building Industry Association of Hawaii and the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii supported the intent of this measure.  The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation opposed this measure.

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1693, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1693, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Housing.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair