STAND. COM. REP. NO. 480-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2744

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. 2744 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING ASSISTANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure to appropriate funds to support the State's Rent Supplement Program.

The Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii supported this measure. The Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness and Hawaii Public Housing Authority offered comments for this measure.

Your Committee finds that the Rent Supplement Program assists many households in maintaining housing, and notes that the Governor's Executive Budget request included $1,551,577 for the State Rent Supplement Program.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to promote further discussion.

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. 2744, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2744, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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TOM BROWER, Chair