STAND. COM. REP. NO. 27

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 715

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 715 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SPECIAL ACTION TEAM ON AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to expand the membership of the Special Action Team on Affordable Rental Housing to include the Executive Director of the Hawaii Community Development Authority and the Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, Office of Planning, and one individual.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Community Development Authority.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Community Development Authority has jurisdiction over areas conducive to the development of affordable rental housing, and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority has the objective of providing affordable rental housing for low-income families and individuals.  Because of the subject matter and mission of the respective agencies, your Committee further finds that the addition of the Executive Director of the Hawaii Community Development Authority and the Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority would be valuable to the Special Action Team on Affordable Rental Housing.  Your Committee additionally finds that allowing the Executive Director of the Hawaii Community Development Authority and the Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to designate representatives to be members of the special action team would increase the flexibility and effectiveness of those members.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by allowing the option for the Executive Director of the Hawaii Community Development Authority and the Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to each designate a representative to be members of the Special Action Team on Affordable Rental Housing.

     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. 715, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 715, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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WILL ESPERO, Chair