STAND. COM. REP. NO.  396

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 354

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 354 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure timely delivery of much-needed affordable housing by imposing a 60-day time limit on the counties to accept or reject the dedication of infrastructure that has been developed as part of an affordable housing project, when the infrastructure has been constructed to county building code standards.

 

     The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, the Hawaii Developers' Council, the Building Industry Association of Hawaii, and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  The Affordable Housing Regulatory Barriers Task Force supported this measure with amendments.  Housing Hawaii provided comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Clarifying that dedicated infrastructure must meet the county building codes that are in effect at the time of construction;

 

(2)  Providing a definition for "third-party licensed building inspector;" and

 

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 354, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 354, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Transportation.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

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KEN ITO, Chair

 

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RIDA CABANILLA, Chair