STAND. COM. REP. NO. 670

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 814

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 814 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE LOW-INCOME PUBLIC HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase safety of low-income housing projects.  Specifically this measure would authorize the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to permit law enforcement officers to reside at state low-income housing projects for the purpose of increasing security.

 

     The Department of Public Safety submitted written comments in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that authorizing otherwise ineligible law enforcement officers to reside at state low-income housing projects will increase security, prevent crime, assist in crime intervention efforts, and help protect the residents of public housing developments.

 

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussions on the measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 814, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 814, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair