STAND. COM. REP. NO. 946

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1851

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1851, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR HOMELESS AND TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROJECTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide funding to assist homeless and transitional housing projects throughout the State.

Your Committee finds that, as real estate prices for first-time home buyers in Hawaii continue to rise to an average of half a million dollars and there continue to be new housing developments throughout the State, there remains a continued, unmet need for housing for the growing homeless population and for those requiring transitional housing. This measure is one step that will help to assist individuals and families in getting off the streets by providing funding to increase the capacity of homeless providers and transitional housing.

Upon further review, your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the funding source from the general revenues of the State to the emergency and budget reserve fund;

(2) Changing the appropriation amounts for items (1) and (2) of section 2 to unspecified amounts to facilitate continued discussion on this matter; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1851, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1851, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair