Report Title:

Housing; Public Lands; Native Hawaiians

Description:

Requires HCDCH to identify public lands suitable for housing development and to allocate 20% of housing units developed on public lands for purchases by qualified native Hawaiians. (SD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1731

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

H.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

S.D. 1


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO HOUSING.

 

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 201G, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to subpart F of part II to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§201G-   Housing projects on public lands; priority to native Hawaiians; public land trust resolution. (a) The corporation, in consultation with the department of land and natural resources and the office of Hawaiian affairs, shall identify and prioritize public lands, as defined in section 171-2, in the various counties that are suitable for housing projects to be developed pursuant to this part. Upon the completion of a prioritized list of suitable parcels, the corporation shall request the governor to transfer the parcels or a portion of the parcels to the corporation to be developed pursuant to this part.

(b) Twenty per cent of all units developed on lands transferred pursuant to this section for sale, in fee or leasehold, or for rent shall be made available to any qualified native Hawaiian; provided that:

(1) The period during which a preference for the purchase of a unit shall be given to a native Hawaiian shall be up to sixty days from the acceptance of the completion of a housing project, not to exceed a total of one hundred twenty days; and

(2) The term "native Hawaiian" shall have the same meaning as in section 10-2.

The corporation and the office of Hawaiian affairs shall work collaboratively to determine the number of units to be dedicated to sales to native Hawaiians.

(c) Upon a final resolution of the public land trust issue that results in a transfer of assets by the State to the office of Hawaiian affairs or any successor receiving entity, included in that transfer shall be assets equal to the value of any lands transferred to the corporation pursuant to this section. The value of the lands transferred shall be determined as of the date of any transfer."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2010, and shall be repealed on July 1, 2010.