STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3024

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2251

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2251, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to develop mixed-income and mixed-financed housing projects, provided that those projects shall not be constructed on ceded land that is vacant on or after January 1, 2022.

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

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from Kupuna for the Mo‘opuna.

Your Committee finds that this measure will help address the State's housing shortage by authorizing the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to develop mixed-income and mixed-financed housing projects, provided that the projects are not developed or constructed on ceded land that is vacant on or after January 1, 2022. Your Committee notes that on February 18, 2022, your Committee voted to recommend for passage S.B. No. 2588, S.D. 1, a related measure that appropriates moneys to the Authority to remodel, renovate, repair, and rehabilitate two hundred sixty—four housing units. Your Committee believes that passage of these two measures will significantly expand the inventory of urgently needed affordable housing units across the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying, with respect to the measure's prohibition on the development or construction of a housing project on vacant ceded land, that:

(A) The prohibition applies to ceded land that is vacant on or after January 1, 2022; and

(B) "Housing project" means any home, house, residence, building, apartment, living quarters, abode,

domicile, or dwelling unit that is designed principally for the purposes of sheltering people;

(2) Deleting "housing project" from the list of terms defined in section 356D-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

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

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. 2251, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2251, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair