Bill Text: HI SB1587 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Affordable Housing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-12 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB1587 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB1587-Amended.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
(b) The task force shall consist of the following members or their designees:
(1) The director of the office of planning and sustainable development, who shall serve as the chairperson;
(2) The comptroller of the department of accounting and general services;
(3) The executive director of the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation;
(4) The executive director of the Hawaii public housing authority;
(5) The executive director of the Hawaii community development authority;
(6) The chairperson of the board of land and natural resources; and
(7) The executive director of the land use commission.
Task force members may recommend additional members with appropriate special expertise to the task force, including representatives from organizations with experience in development or redevelopment for approval by the chairperson.
(c) The task force shall:
(1) Update the maps, tier tables, and inventories of State lands suitable and available for affordable housing development in the affordable rental housing report and ten-year plan that was generated pursuant to Act 127, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016;
(2) Focus on existing urban lands to minimize the need for major regional infrastructure improvements;
(3) Examine mixed-use development opportunities to redevelop underutilized existing state-owned lands with one government tenant or use;
(4) Identify lands to accommodate one hundred thousand new housing units and designate these as important housing lands; and
(5) 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 2025.
(d) The members of the task force shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for expenses, including travel expenses, necessary for the performance of their duties.
(e) No member of the task force shall be subject to chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes, solely because of the member's participation in the task force.
(f) The Hawaii community development authority shall provide administrative and clerical support required by the task force.
(g) The task force shall be dissolved on January 1, 2025.
SECTION 2. In accordance with section 9 of article VII of the Hawaii State Constitution and sections 37-91 and 37-93, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the legislature has determined that the appropriations contained in Act 164, Regular Session of 2023, and this Act will cause the state general fund expenditure ceiling for fiscal year 2024-2025 to be exceeded by $ or per cent. This current declaration takes into account general fund appropriations authorized for fiscal year 2024-2025 in Act 164, Regular Session of 2023, and this Act only. The reasons for exceeding the general fund expenditure ceiling are that:
(1) The appropriation made in this Act is necessary to serve the public interest; and
(2) The appropriation made in this Act meets the needs addressed by this Act.
SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $1,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2024-2025 to fund a staff position and for contractual services incurred by the task force established pursuant to section 1 of this Act.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the Hawaii community development authority for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that section 3 shall take effect on July 1, 2024.
Report Title:
HCDA; Affordable Housing Development; Task Force; State Lands; Expenditure Ceiling; Appropriation
Description:
Establishes the Affordable Housing Land Inventory Task Force within the Hawaii Community Development Authority to update the maps, tier tables, and inventories of State lands suitable and available for affordable housing development in the Affordable Rental Housing Report and Ten-Year Plan. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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