STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1035

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 89

H.D. 3

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 89, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEACHER HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds for the Teacher Housing Assistance Program to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers who are employed by the Department of Education or a charter school and teach at a hard-to-staff school.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association; Hawaiʻi Children's Action Network Speaks!; Democratic Party of Hawaiʻi Education Caucus; and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Education; State Public Charter School Commission; and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the maximum amount for a housing voucher to an unspecified amount.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 89, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 89, H.D. 3.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair