STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2637

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2332

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2332, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the definitions of "public housing project" and "tenant" for the purpose of eviction from federal public housing.

The measure also amends the references to the time period in which a public housing tenant has to request a grievance hearing in the written notice of eviction, to conform to the recently amended grievance procedure rules, and amends the reference to public housing project or complex in the residential landlord-tenant code.

The Department of Human Services submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure removes obsolete statutory references that are to be repealed pursuant to Act 196, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, and limits the statutory eviction process to federal public housing.

Your Committee has amended the bill by inserting a savings clause and making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2332, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2332, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair