STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3685

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                   

 

RE:     H.B. No. 2746

        H.D. 2

        S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2746, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Office of Planning for administration and operation of the special action team on affordable rental housing.

 

     Furthermore, this measure adds three new members to the special action team, elevates the Executive Director of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to co-chairperson, and adds extremely low-income and very low-income families and individuals to the target groups served by the special action team.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness, Office of Planning, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Catholic Charities Hawaii, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that to successfully address homelessness, the State must develop housing solutions not only for those who are currently homeless but also for extremely low-income and very low-income families and individuals, who are at the greatest risk of becoming homeless if rents continue their sharply rising trend.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical nonsubstantive change for the purpose of clarity and style.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2746, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2746, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair