STAND. COM. REP. NO.  366

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 185

      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 Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 185 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to determine cost drivers of housing by establishing a demonstration project in Waianae on Oahu and South Kohala on Hawaii Island.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported the intent of this bill.  The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation provided comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the provisions that would have exempted environmental assessments, environmental impact statements, and building permits; and

 

     (2)  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 Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 185, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 185, 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 Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

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KEN ITO, Chair

 

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MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair