STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2172

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2790

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2790 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to begin development of or construction for housing and other projects without having the full amount of the cost of the projects on hand at the start of the projects.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly, Kewalo Hawaiian Homestead Association, Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead Community Association, Waianae Kai Hawaiian Homestead Association, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that eliminating the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands' tools for creating new, affordable housing is contrary to the interests of Hawaiian home lands applicants.  Act 187, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, created financing tools for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to create new, affordable housing for its beneficiaries.  The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands anticipates using the financing tools created by Act 187 to manage a number of upcoming projects within the next three years. 

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2790 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

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BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair