STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1195-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2998

      S.D. 2

      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 Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2998, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority (HPHA) for the modernization, repair, and maintenance of HPHA facilities and public housing units statewide.

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority testified in support of the intent of this measure.  The United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the general fund appropriation for fiscal year 2016-2017 to an unspecified amount.

Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $180,000,000 for the purposes of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2998, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2998, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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MARK J. HASHEM, Chair