STAND. COM. REP. NO. 476-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2475

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. 2475 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and to appropriate the bond proceeds for the development and construction of permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals.

Catholic Charities Hawaii, The Community Health Outreach Work Project, IMUAlliance, The League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Partners in Care, and a few individuals supported this measure. The Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness and Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation offered comments for this measure.

Your Committees find that the issues that accompany the problem of chronic homelessness and its possible solutions are complex and that the possibility of the State assuming such a large fiscal obligation warrants further discussion.

Your Committees have amended the measure by changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to promote further discussion.

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. 2475, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2475, 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

____________________________ TOM BROWER, Chair