STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 1350-22
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2022
RE: S.B. No. 3247
S.D. 2
H.D. 2
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 S.B. No. 3247, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) For a single-family home or vacant lot for a house; and
(2) To rent or rent-to-own
a single-family home, duplex, apartment, or townhouse, with the option to buy
in the future.
Your
Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Hawaiian
Home Lands.
Your Committee finds that in 2019,
approximately 28,500 native Hawaiian adults were on the Department of Hawaiian
Home Lands application waiting list for residential, farming, or ranching homesteads. The homelessness crisis in Hawaii is already
serious, and the waiting list backlog exacerbates this crisis that
disproportionately affects native Hawaiians.
Your Committee finds that the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands' 2020
Beneficiaries Study Applicant Report indicates that seventy-six percent of
applicants on the Department's waiting list preferred a lot with a
single-family home or vacant lot for a house, while sixteen percent preferred a
rental apartment, duplex, or townhouse, with the option to buy. This measure recognizes the housing
preferences of native Hawaiian applicants on the waiting list for homestead
leases by requiring the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to develop a
strategic plan to meet certain housing preferences of its beneficiaries on the
waiting list.
Your Committee
has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the effective date to January 1, 2222, to encourage further discussion; 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 Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3247, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3247, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair |
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