STAND. COM. REP. NO. 26

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 973

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 973 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriate funds for the redevelopment, design, and construction of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority administrative offices, the creation of public housing and affordable rental housing, and the development of a small commercial space at the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's North School Street location.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and Hawaii Primary Care Association.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

     Your Committee finds that development of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's North School Street location will help meet the need for additional public housing and administrative services.  The development would increase public housing inventory by producing approximately 300 housing units and include a new administrative building and a small commercial space.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Specifying that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority is the expending agency for the general obligation bond proceeds in this measure; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 973, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 973, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair