STAND. COM. REP. NO. 679-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 2444

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2444, 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 condition the authority of a county whose population is greater than five hundred thousand to exercise the same state housing powers as those granted to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation on a finding that the county has fulfilled its duty to accept dedication of public infrastructure and public highways in affordable housing developments.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.

Your Committee finds that this measure takes steps to address a thirty-year-old problem that has existed at the Villages of Kapolei, where the City and County of Honolulu has not accepted dedication of infrastructure improvements constructed by a Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation predecessor agency. Your Committee further finds that although the City and County of Honolulu receives the real property tax revenues derived, in part, from the State's infrastructure improvements, the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation must maintain those same improvements at an average cost to the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund of more than $1,000,000 per year. This measure will enable the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to make better use of the funds in the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund for the development of new infrastructure for affordable housing projects in the State.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2444, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair