STAND. COM. REP. NO.  198

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1314

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1314 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish an Emergency Home Relocation Special Fund and appropriate general funds to the special fund to assist individuals displaced from their homes due to natural disaster by providing for infrastructure development, grants, and loans.

 

     The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Budget and Finance submitted comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee on Housing respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $2,500,000 for deposit into the Emergency Home Relocation Special Fund to assist individuals who have been dispossessed of their homes as a result of a natural disaster.

 

     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. 1314, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1314, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARK J. HASHEM, Chair