STAND. COM. REP. NO.  121

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 755

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 755 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to streamline the public housing eviction process by:

 

     (1)  Conforming procedural requirements to federal law; and

 

     (2)  Requiring eviction hearings to be conducted by hearings        officers appointed by the Hawaii Public Housing                    Authority (HPHA).

 

     Several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The HPHA opposed this measure.

 

     The public housing eviction process has numerous procedural requirements that could be streamlined by conforming to federal law.  Additionally, allowing hearings officers to conduct eviction hearings will reduce delays; however, your Committee believes that the selection of these hearings officers should be conducted with collaboration from the Department of Human Services (DHS).
     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by requiring hearings officers to be appointed by HPHA, in collaboration with DHS.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 755, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 755, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,

 

 

 

 

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RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair