STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3151

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2240

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing and Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 2240 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS) and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDA) to plan for public/private partnerships to construct affordable housing units on or adjacent to future state facilities, including on state property in Iwilei, Oahu.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii and the Pacific Housing Assistance Corporation. The Department of Accounting and General Services testified that the measure is not necessary.

Your Committees find that although DAGS is already moving forward to assist in the development of the Iwilei parcel for an affordable housing project, this measure will put to rest the notion that a state office complex will be built on the site.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing and Transportation and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2240, 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 Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing and Transportation and Government Operations,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

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RON MENOR, Chair