STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2859

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2588

S.D. 1

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. 2588 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide funding to assist with the care and maintenance of public housing units in the State.

More specifically, the measure appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to remodel, renovate, repair, and rehabilitate two hundred sixty-four housing units.

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

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committee finds that the appropriation made by this measure will provide the Hawaii Public Housing Authority with much-needed funds for the repair, maintenance, and modernization of its aging public housing properties and for federally mandated accessibility improvements to these properties.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation from $25,445,000 to an unspecified amount; and

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

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. 2588, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2588, S.D. 1.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair