STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3593

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2244

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2244, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make appropriations for various housing programs.

 

     Specifically, this measure provides appropriations for:

 

     (1)  The rental housing revolving fund;

 

     (2)  Continued implementation and expansion of the housing first program;

 

     (3)  Repair and maintenance of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's existing public housing stock; and

 

     (4)  A rental assistance program, also known as a rapid re-housing program, within the Department of Human Services.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Catholic Charities Hawaii, Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, Hawaii Association of Realtors, Partners in Care, The CHOW Project, and three individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will provide proven and much-needed cost-effective solutions to address homelessness in the State.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by establishing one full-time equivalent position within the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to assist in the administration of the rent supplement program.  Your Committee intends that the position be funded from the base budget of the rent supplement program.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2244, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2244, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair