STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2865

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2497

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2497 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to encourage landlords to rent to tenants who participate in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program.

 

     More specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to:

 

(A)  Establish a program to offer dwelling insurance policies to landlords that rent their property to tenants who participate in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program; and

 

(B)  Submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2019; and

 

(2)  Makes an appropriation for the establishment of the dwelling insurance program.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from HPHA and OCC Legislative Priorities Committee, Democratic Party of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that establishing a program to provide dwelling insurance policies to landlords could encourage landlords to rent their properties to tenants who participate in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

(2)  Making technical nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, 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. 2497, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2497, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair