STAND. COM. REP. NO. 750

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 715

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 715, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SPECIAL ACTION TEAM ON AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to expand the membership of the special action team on affordable rental housing to include the executive director of the Hawaii Community Development Authority and the executive director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of Planning and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Hawaii Community Development Authority.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Community Development Authority has jurisdiction over areas conducive to the development of affordable rental housing, and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority provides affordable rental housing for low-income families and individuals.  For those reasons, your Committee believes that the executive directors of both agencies would be valuable additions to the Special Action Team on Affordable Rental Housing.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by removing language authorizing the executive directors of the Hawaii Community Development Authority and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to appoint designees to represent their respective agency on the special action team, as members already have that authority under section 6(b) of Act 127, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016.

 

     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. 715, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 715, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair