STAND. COM. REP. NO.  662

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1695

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services & Housing and Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1695 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $400,000 as a grant to the Hawaii Habitat for Humanity and Kumulipo for a site study and plans for an integrated approach to affordable housing, a private corrections facility focusing on rehabilitation, innovative agricultural systems, and waste management solutions in a planned community in Central Oahu.

 

     The Department of Public Safety (DPS) provided comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Removing the appropriation to the Hawaii Habitat for Humanity and Kumulipo;

 

     (2)  Adding provisions requiring DPS to conduct a feasibility study on an integrated approach to affordable housing, a private corrections facility focusing on rehabilitation, innovative agricultural systems, and waste management solutions in planned communities statewide; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services & Housing and Public Safety & Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1695, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1695, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services & Housing and Public Safety & Military Affairs,

 

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair

 

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MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair