Bill Text: HI HB402 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Housing; Clotheslines; Feasibility Study

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-20 - This measure has been deleted from the meeting scheduled on Friday 02-22-13 2:00PM in conference room 325. [HB402 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB402-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  8

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 402

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 402 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure, as received by your Committee, is to permit the installation and use of clotheslines in any public housing project or state low-income housing project, subject to rules adopted by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority (HPHA).

 

     The League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Westside Service Provider Network, and an individual testified in support of this measure.  HPHA opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee noted HPHA's comments that many public housing projects and state low-income housing projects currently allow and have installed clotheslines where there is adequate space and where appropriate.  However, your Committee is aware that not all of these properties permit the installation of clotheslines, and believes that the cost-efficiencies and environmental benefits of installing clotheslines in all public housing projects merit further consideration.

     As such, your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Deleting provisions mandating that clotheslines be permitted in any public housing and state low-income housing projects in the State; and

 

     (2)  Requiring HPHA, in conjunction with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, to:

 

          (A)  Conduct a study on the feasibility of installing clotheslines in all public housing and state low-income housing projects in the State; and

 

          (B)  Submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than twenty days before the convening of the Regular Session of 2014.

 

     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. 402, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 402, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair