STAND. COM. REP. NO. 276

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 98
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Government Operations and Housing, to which was referred S.B.
No. 98 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     KIKALA-KEOKEA SELF HELP PROJECT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for a
self-help housing project in Kikala-Keokea.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Hawaii County Economic
Opportunity Council, the Kikala Keokea Tenant Association, and
four individuals.  The Housing and Community Development
Corporation of Hawaii testified in support of the intent of the
measure.

     Your Committees find that self-help housing is a proven
method of providing safe and decent affordable housing to
residents of the State and, therefore, feels that this measure
merits further discussion.  Your Committees have amended the
measure by deleting the specified dollar amount.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and Government
Operations and Housing that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.
No. 98, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second

 
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Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 98, S.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



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ROD TAM, Chair                     COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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