STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1498

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1854

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1854, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE RENT SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the State Rent Supplement Program (Program) by:

(1) Repealing the $160 monthly limit on payments to qualified tenants under the Program;

(2) Repealing the provision that prohibits persons receiving public assistance, except for Federal Supplemental Security Income, from receiving state rent supplements; and

(3) Specifying that the income of the qualified tenants under the Program shall not exceed 60 percent of the area median income.

A concerned individual supported this bill. The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2010, to promote further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1854, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1854, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair