STAND. COM. REP. NO.  12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 532

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 532 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Hawaii Public Housing Authority (HPHA) to include, subject to any limitations set by federal laws or regulations, the value of all motor vehicles registered to all tenants in a dwelling unit as an asset in the calculation for the established maximum limits of annual net income and assets for state low-income housing.

 

     HPHA and two individuals commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring HPHA to establish a threshold amount for the value of all registered motor vehicles of all tenants of a dwelling unit, which is to be excluded from the calculation in determining whether the tenants' annual net income and assets are within established maximum limits.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 532, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 532, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair