STAND. COM. REP. NO. 145-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2037

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 Health & Human Services and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2037 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOMELESS SHELTERS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to exempt temporary homeless shelters from state and county health and sanitation provisions, and from county zoning provisions, from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2028.

One individual testified in support of this measure. The Department of Human Services, City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting, and one individual testified in opposition. The Department of Health and Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness provided comments.

Your Committees note that Hawaii has the highest per capita rate of homelessness in the United States.

Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 3000, to facilitate further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health & Human Services and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2037, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2037, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Water & Land.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health & Human Services and Housing,

____________________________ TOM BROWER, Chair

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair