Report Title:

State Rent Supplement Program; Rental Assistance

Description:

Raises the amount provided by the state rental assistance program from $160 per month to $300 per month.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1854

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

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-231, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§201G-231[]] Rent supplements. The corporation [is authorized to] may make, and contract to make, annual payments to a "housing owner" on behalf of a "qualified tenant", as those terms are defined in this subpart, in [such] amounts and under [such] circumstances as are prescribed in or pursuant to this subpart. No payment on behalf of a qualified tenant shall exceed a segregated amount of [$160] $300 a month."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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