STAND. COM. REP. NO.82-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2073

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2073 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to assist workers displaced after the September 11th terrorist attacks to qualify for transitional housing in the community.

The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii, Affordable Housing and Homeless Alliance, Hawaii Catholic Conference, and the Hawaii Women's Coalition testified in support of this measure. The Special Assistant to the Governor for Housing and the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee recognizes that many individuals were affected by the economic downturn following September 11, 2001, and are in need of transitional housing assistance. An appropriation would help nonprofit organizations that have experienced difficulties in obtaining the necessary resources to provide services at existing levels.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Removing the amount of the appropriation to facilitate further discussion;

(2) Correcting an error by replacing the word "traditional" with "transitional"; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2073, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2073, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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MICHAEL P. KAHIKINA, Chair