STAND. COM. REP. NO. 209

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1851

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1851 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR HOMELESS AND TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROJECTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to assist homeless and transitional housing projects statewide.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by a member of the Hawaii County Council, five members from the Maui County Council, and the East Hawaii Coalition for the Homeless. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that homelessness is a problem in our State, and programs for the homeless and transitional housing are crucial to getting individuals and families off the streets and homeless shelters and into homes. This measure specifically appropriates funds for:

(1) Homeless and transitional housing projects on the islands of Kauai, Hawaii, and Maui;

(2) Self-help projects in all counties; and

(3) The state homeless shelter program.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Appropriating $650,000 for homeless and transitional housing projects on Kauai;

(2) Appropriating $500,000 for homeless and transitional housing projects on Hawaii; and

(2) Naming the Department of Human Services as the expending agency for the appropriations.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1851, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1851, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing,

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RON MENOR, Chair