Bill Text: HI SB905 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Appropriation; Housing; Affordable; Public

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB905 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB905-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 320

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 905

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 905 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to improve existing public housing stock and increase public housing units in the State of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, Department of Human Services; Catholic Charities Hawai‘i; and Cynthia Rezentes.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism; and Hawaii Community Development Authority.

 

     Your Committees find that there is a great need for new affordable housing units in the State of Hawaii.  Your Committees further find that capital maintenance and repairs to existing affordable housing are necessary and would improve the living environment of some of the most vulnerable people in the State, including the disabled, the elderly, and those earning less than thirty percent of area median income.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 905 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Human Services,

 

____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair		____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair