STAND. COM. REP. NO.  789

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 742

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 742, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to assign to a collection agency and to delete from its accounts receivable records with the Attorney General's approval, accounts for vacated units in state low-income public housing projects that are delinquent for at least 90 days.

 

     The Hawaii Public Housing Authority provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 742, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 742, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair