STAND. COM. REP. NO. 13

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 728

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 728 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SENIOR RESIDENCE AT PIIKOI, OAHU,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds for the construction of the Senior Residence at Piikoi, an affordable senior rental housing project on Oahu.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority; the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation; the Pacific Housing Assistance Corporation; and Alexander and Baldwin, Inc.

 

Your Committee finds that with the aging of Hawaii's population, the need for affordable rental housing becomes especially acute for senior citizens.  Nearly twenty-nine percent of Hawaii's population is over fifty years of age.  Facing challenging economic conditions, the ability to meet monthly housing expenses is a constant and growing concern for senior renters.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the description of the land on which the Senior Residence at Piikoi will be situated from state-owned leased land to gifted land; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 728, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 728, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair