STAND. COM. REP. NO.  522

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 868

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 868 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require the Hawaii Public Housing Authority (Authority) to establish trust accounts to provide matching funds to tenants who rent dwelling units and to require the trust account moneys to be spent by the tenant on purchases relating to housing;

 

     (2)  Specify that in a state low-income housing project, tenancy shall terminate for all tenants upon the termination of the tenancy of the last household member, who was an original household member, at the time the initial lease or rental agreement was executed; and

 

     (3)  Authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriate funds for capital improvement projects at state low-income housing projects and to establish trust accounts pursuant to this measure.


 

     The Authority provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Authority to issue a housing choice voucher to a tenant who has established a trust account with the Authority, and who chooses to vacate the rented unit.  The voucher shall be used towards the purchase or to assist in paying the mortgage of a housing unit;

 

     (2)  Authorizing a former tenant who established a trust account with the Authority to sell or assign the housing unit purchased with the housing choice voucher, free from any price restrictions after the end of the tenth year from the date of the initial purchase or execution of an agreement of sale; provided that the Authority shall receive the sum of the Authority's share of the net appreciation value of the real property;

 

     (3)  Changing its effective date to take effect upon a date to be determined to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 868, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 868, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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TOM BROWER, Chair