STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1278

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1361

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Public Housing and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1361, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to correct chapter 356D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, to reflect the Legislature's intent to codify various acts into the chapter, and to make other necessary technical and housekeeping amendments.

 

     The Hawaii Public Housing Authority and the Hawaii Community Development Authority submitted testimony in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committees find that this measure makes necessary amendments to relevant sections of chapter 356D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to ensure the codification of analogous amendments made in Act 24, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying, in section 8 of the measure, that with regard to the former Barbers Point Naval Air Station, the Hawaii Public Housing Authority shall work with landowners and the local redevelopment authority on the use of barracks and other facilities located in the Kalaeloa Community Development District that are suitable for temporary emergency housing for homeless individuals and families; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Public Housing and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1361, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1361, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Public Housing and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair