STAND. COM. REP. NO.  143-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2357

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2357 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to create an eviction process for the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's (Authority) state low-income housing and state housing for elders programs.

 

     The Authority, League of Women Voters of Hawaii, and an individual supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure is substantially similar to the eviction process currently employed for the federal low-income public housing program.  If passed, this measure will help streamline the eviction process for all of the Authority's state and federal low-income public housing programs, and lessen the caseloads of the Judiciary and the Department of the Attorney General.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

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

 

     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. 2357, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2357, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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TOM BROWER, Chair