STAND. COM. REP. NO. 216

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 668

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 668 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 state housing powers upon the county's continued compliance with provisions regarding accepting dedication of infrastructure and public highways in affordable housing developments.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Chief Housing Officer of the Office of the Governor and 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 yet accepted dedication of infrastructure improvements constructed by the predecessor agency to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. 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.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 668, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 668, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,

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TROY N. HASHIMOTO, Chair