STAND. COM. REP. NO. 318-20

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2020

RE: H.B. No. 2208

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2208 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for the acquisition of land in East Oahu to be developed by the Department for affordable housing units to be made available by July 1, 2027.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual. Your Committees received comments on this measure from one individual.

Your Committees finds that this measure supports the Oahu Island Plan adopted by the Hawaiian Homes Commission in July 2014 by appropriating funds to enable the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to purchase land for development of affordable housing in East Oahu, an area where the Department for Hawaiian Home Lands currently has no landholdings to develop affordable housing units.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2208 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs and Housing,

____________________________ TOM BROWER, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair