STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1079

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1224

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1224, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to exempt lands assigned to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority from the definition of "public lands" under section 171-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

Your Committee finds that the lands now held by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority were exempted from the definition of "public lands" when held by predecessor agencies: the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii and the Hawaii Housing Authority. When the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii bifurcated into two separate agencies, the exemption for land assigned to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority was inadvertently omitted from section 171-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Your Committee finds that this measure is primarily a housekeeping measure that seeks to rectify this omission.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1224, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair