Bill Text: HI HB2259 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Bill 2259 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating To Affordable Housing.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-27 - Referred to LHE/HSG, FIN, referral sheet 5 [HB2259 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2020-HB2259-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2259
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to affordable housing.

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

SECTION 1. The legislature recognizes that Hawaii is experiencing a severe affordable housing crisis with a lack of affordable rental and for sale units. Government must do all it can to support affordable housing. Hawaii must build at least twenty-two thousand affordable rental housing units by 2026.

According to the "Affordable Rental Housing Report and Ten-Year Plan," prepared by the department of business, economic development, and tourism (July 2018), housing demand is projected to reach 64,693 units by 2025, with nearly seventy per cent (43,828 units) needed for households earning eighty per cent or less of the area median income.

The legislature further finds that Hawaii teachers are the lowest-paid in the nation when the high cost of housing, goods, and transportation are taken into consideration.

The purpose of this Act is to exempt workforce development projects from paying school impact fees for the development of workforce housing if at least ninety per cent of the residential units that are set aside for purchase or rent for residents in the low-income or moderate-income ranges are set aside specifically for public school teachers.

SECTION 2. Section 302A-1603, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) The following shall be exempt from this section:

(1) Any form of housing permanently excluding school-aged children, with the necessary covenants or declarations of restrictions recorded on the property;

(2) Any form of housing that is or will be paying the transient accommodations tax under chapter 237D;

(3) All nonresidential development; [~~and~~]

(4) Any development with an executed education contribution agreement or other like document with the department for the contribution of school sites or payment of fees for school land or school construction[.]; and

(5) Any development of workforce housing, where at least ninety per cent of the residential units that are set aside for purchase or rent for residents in the low-income or moderate-income ranges are set aside specifically for residents who are public school teachers who:

(A) Hold a certificate or license in good standing from the Hawaii teacher standards board; and

(B) Have been continuously employed by the department of education or a public charter school for at least one year.

For the purposes of this paragraph, "workforce housing" has the same meaning as in section 206E-2."

SECTION 3. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Workforce Housing; Public School Teachers; Educators

Description:

Exempts workforce development projects from paying school impact fees for the development of workforce housing if at least 90% of the residential units that are set aside for purchase or rent for residents in the low-income or moderate-income ranges are set aside specifically for public school teachers.

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