Bill Text: HI SB2110 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Affordable Housing; Sixty-Day Review
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-19 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Carroll, Chang, Har, Manahan, Morita, M. Oshiro, Tokioka, Ward excused (8). [SB2110 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2110-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2425
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2110
S.D. 2
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2110, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to expedite the construction of affordable housing units by requiring ministerial permits associated with the project to be issued by the state or county within sixty days of receipt of a permit application deemed to be complete by the receiving state or county agency.
Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency and four organizations. Two state agencies support the intent, and one county agency submitted testimony in opposition. Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
This measure was proposed by the Affordable Housing Regulatory Barriers Task Force which was established in response to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's National Call to Action for Affordable Housing Through Regulatory Reform. The Task Force's main objective was to identify regulatory barriers to affordable housing developments in the State and to recommend solutions. One of the barriers identified by the Task Force is that non-discretionary, ministerial permits, issued subsequent to the approval of an affordable housing project, take a significant amount of time to issue. Your Committee finds that by establishing standard timeframes to issue these ministerial permits, this measure will expedite the construction of affordable housing.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050 for the purposes of facilitating further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purpose of style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2110, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2110, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair |
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