Bill Text: HI SB912 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Housing Placement Program; Homelessness; Affordable Housing; Homeless Programs Office; DHS; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [SB912 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB912-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1022

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 912

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.B. No. 912, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to help increase the availability of rental housing for persons who face obstacles in moving from homelessness to permanent housing and persons with lower incomes who need to find affordable rental housing, by:

 

(1)  Appropriating funds for the Housing Placement Program that includes improving existing affordable housing stock and increasing affordable housing units in the State; and

 

(2)  Requiring the Department of Human Services (DHS) to identify real estate properties statewide that are appropriately zoned and have necessary infrastructure for developing affordable rental housing for low-income individuals and families under the Housing First Program.

 

Catholic Charities Hawai‘i, Helping Hands Hawai‘i, and Partners in Care testified in support of this bill.  The Roman Catholic Church in the State of Hawaii testified in support of the bill and suggested amendments.  DHS, the City and County of Honolulu Department of Community Services, and the Hawai‘i Association of Realtors® submitted comments.

 

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Specifying "affordable rental housing" and "public rental housing," rather than "affordable housing" and "public housing," respectively; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments 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. 912, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 912, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair		____________________________ RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair