STAND. COM. REP. NO.  401

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 768

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 768, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's power to dispose of property abandoned, seized, or remaining from an eviction in or around a federal, elder or elderly, or state low-income housing project.

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority ("Authority") testified in support of this measure and proposed amendments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to:

(1)  Specify that the Authority shall provide public notice no fewer than 10 days prior to the disposition of the abandoned or seized property;

(2)  Reduce the storage fee from $25 to $5 per day;

(3)  Specify that the balance of the sales proceeds less authorized charges shall be deposited into the Authority's special fund; and

(4)  Make technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.   

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 768, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 768, H.D. 2.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair