STAND. COM. REP. NO. 492-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2359

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2359 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure to specify the areas in a public housing project, elder or elderly housing, or state low-income housing project that are closed to the public, and amend the criminal trespass statute to include entering and remaining unlawfully in areas of a housing project that are closed to the public and violation of a written warning or request to leave the housing project property.

The Department of the Attorney General and Hawaii Public Housing Authority supported this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to promote further discussion; and

(2) Making technical non-substantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

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 H.B. No. 2359, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2359, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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TOM BROWER, Chair