STAND. COM. REP. NO 335

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1100

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs, Human Services and Housing, and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1100 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make permanent provisions allowing for affordable housing credits to be requested by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and received from each county for units developed on Hawaiian home lands.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting, and Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from one individual.

     Your Committees find that affordable housing credits have allowed the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to gain resources to develop Hawaiian home lands consistent with its mission to return native Hawaiians to their trust lands.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of June 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs, Human Services and Housing, and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1100, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1100, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs, Human Services and Housing, and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair	____________________________ MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair
	____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair