STAND. COM. REP. NO. 445

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1112

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1112 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DELETING STATE PUBLIC HOUSING DELINQUENT ACCOUNTS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to:

 

     (1)  Delete delinquent accounts receivable records for state low-income public housing projects that have been delinquent at least ninety days; and

 

     (2)  Assign delinquent accounts to a collection agency.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services and Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

 

     Your Committees find that existing law allows the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to delete from its accounts receivable the records of delinquent accounts for vacated units within the federal low-income public housing program that have been delinquent for over ninety days and allow those delinquent accounts to be assigned to a collection agency.

 

     Your Committees further find that unless this measure is enacted, due to the fact that there are no similar statutory provisions for the administration of the state low-income public housing program, any account receivable must be delinquent for more than two years and meet the requirements of section 40-82, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1112 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Judiciary and Labor,

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair