STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1397

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 136

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 136, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING AN UPDATE OF THE STATE HOUSING FUNCTIONAL PLAN,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to update the State's housing strategy.

 

     Specifically, the measure requests the Governor, in coordination with the Office of Planning and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, to:

 

     (1)  Update the State Housing Functional Plan; and

 

     (2)  Submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2016.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Office of Planning, and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Housing Finance and Development Corporation, now known as the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, prepared the State Housing Functional Plan in 1989, which set out a comprehensive plan for the development, preservation, and management of housing in the State.  Your Committee further finds that the Housing Finance and Development Corporation updated the State Housing Functional Plan in 1990 to address the housing needs for all income levels, including the homeless.  Your Committee believes that it is necessary to update the State Housing Functional Plan to reflect changes to the State's housing requirements since the Plan was last updated.

 

     Your Committee notes that Senate Bill No. 1074, as introduced, would appropriate $250,000 for fiscal years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 for the Office of Planning to review and propose updates to the Hawaii State Planning Act.  Your Committee recognizes that this appropriation is necessary to enable the Office of Planning to update the State Housing Functional Plan, as requested by this measure.

 

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 136, S.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.

 

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

 

 

 

________________________________

JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair