STAND. COM. REP. NO. 929

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2021

RE: H.B. No. 1132

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1132, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds for Phase I of construction of a senior affordable housing project on Hawaii Public Housing Authority property on School Street on the island of Oahu.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Hawaii Public Housing Authority, AARP Hawaii, AlohaCare, Catholic Charities Hawai‘i, Partners in Care, Hawaiian Humane Society, Retirement Housing Foundation, Hawai‘i Health & Harm Reduction Center, and three individuals.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the amounts appropriated into and out of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to unspecified amounts; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1132, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1132, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair