Bill Text: HI SB767 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Construction Task Force (2010); County Housing Requirements; Temporary Relief

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB767 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB767-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 512

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 767

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 767 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ECONOMIC RECOVERY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to support the findings of the Small Business Working Group and the recommendations proposed by the construction Industry Task Force to provide temporary relief from county requirements for affordable and workforce housing to stimulate housing construction statewide.  Specifically, this measure reduces the county affordable and workforce housing requirements by forty percent.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu, and two individuals.

 

     Your Committees find that legislative action is necessary to create new jobs in Hawaii's construction industry.  The intent of your Committees is that by reducing the affordable and workforce housing requirements, developers would have more incentive to build needed housing in general.  The increased housing construction benefits the economy, increases employment, and augments tax revenue.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Water, Land, and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 767 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Water, Land, and Housing,

 

____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair