STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 383-18
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2018
RE: H.B. No. 1637
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Ninth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2018
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Housing and Health & Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1637 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to address the issues of affordable housing and homelessness by:
(1) Authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds to generate revenues to increase the inventory of affordable rental housing especially for low-income individuals and homeless families or families at risk of becoming homeless; and
(2) Appropriating funds to the Department of Human Services to support homelessness mitigation and prevention efforts in the State through various programs.
Your Committees find that Hawaii's high cost of living, particularly the high cost of rental housing, has had a negative impact on families in Hawaii with many of these families just a single crisis away from becoming homeless. Your Committees further find that there is a serious need to develop affordable rental housing and support other means to assist struggling families to remain in housing and to move those who are homeless into housing. This measure is a first step in this challenging effort.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Inserting language authorizing the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to develop interim rules without regard to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for assisting participants in the housing subsidies for homeless families through the rent supplement program;
(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Health & Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1637, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1637, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Health & Human Services,
____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair |
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____________________________ TOM BROWER, Chair |
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