STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3111

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3247

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. 3247, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to address the housing needs of Native Hawaiians on the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands application waitlist for homestead leases by requiring the Department to build additional rental housing, including apartment units and rent-with-option-to-buy housing units.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

Your Committee finds that the construction of rental housing units by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, as required by this measure, would be a significant step toward reducing the Department's waitlist backlog, which has not significantly decreased despite plans to develop more Hawaiian home lands lots.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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

(2) 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. 3247, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3247, 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