STAND. COM. REP. NO.  860-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2110

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.B. No. 2110, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to implement recommendations of the Call to Action Task Force to help eliminate barriers to building more affordable housing by placing a standard timeframe on agency issuance of ministerial permits for approved affordable housing projects.

 

     The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, and Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council-AFL-CIO supported this bill.  The Governor supported this measure with amendments.  The City and County of Honolulu submitted comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive, changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2110, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2110, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair		____________________________ RIDA CABANILLA, Chair