Report Title:

State Rent Supplement Program

 

Description:

Allows persons receiving welfare to be qualified tenants so that HCDA can make state rent supplement payments to housing owners on behalf of qualified tenants. Appropriates $        for FY 2001-2002 and $        for FY 2002-2003 to HCDA to fund the state rent supplement program.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

247

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the state rent supplement program.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 201G-233, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§201G-233 Qualified tenant defined. As used in this subpart, the term "qualified tenant" means any single person or family, pursuant to criteria and procedures established by the corporation, that has been determined to have an income not exceeding the very low income limit as determined by the corporation pursuant to rules adopted by the corporation; provided that the qualified tenant's primary place of residence shall be in the State of Hawaii or that the qualified tenant intends to make the State of Hawaii the qualified tenant's primary place of residence. The terms "qualified tenant" and "tenant" include a member of a cooperative who satisfies the foregoing requirements and who, upon resale of the member's membership to the cooperative, will not be reimbursed for more than fifty per cent of any equity increment accumulated through payments under this subpart. With respect to members of a cooperative, the terms "rental" and "rental charges" mean the charges under the occupancy agreements between the members and the cooperative. The term "qualified tenant" [shall not] may include any person receiving money payments for public assistance from the department of human services; provided that the term "public assistance" shall exclude aid provided through the federal Supplemental Security Income Program."

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003, to fund the state rent supplement program under section 201G-231, Hawaii Revised Statutes. The sums appropriated shall be expended by the housing and community development authority for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval, except that section 2 shall take effect on July 1, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

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