STAND. COM. REP. NO.  173

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 734

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 734 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to create the Housing First Voucher Program within the Department of Human Services to assist certain chronically homeless individuals in obtaining rental housing.

 

     The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, Building Industry Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Primary Care Association, and Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Human Services, PHOCUSED, and Hawaii's Thousand Friends provided comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion; 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 and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 734, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 734, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

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MARK J. HASHEM, Chair

 

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair