Bill Text: HI SB84 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Public Housing Authority; Public Housing Project; Definition

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-25 - Act 149, on 6/21/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1252). [SB84 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB84-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 562

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 84

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 84 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to expand the scope of the definition of "public housing project" to include any housing project controlled or managed by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority pursuant to federally assisted housing.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services, the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, the Community Alliance for Mental Health, and one individual.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from the Subcontractors Association of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that the current definition of the term "public housing project" in section 356D-1 Hawaii Revised Statutes, is inaccurate and overly limiting for the purposes of the federal low-income public housing program.  Under the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development regulations, public housing agencies are authorized to administer a variety of federally assisted housing beyond simply "public housing".  Since the Hawaii Public Housing Authority is the only public housing agency in the State, the definition of "public housing" should correspond to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's definition of housing that may be administered by a public housing agency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 84 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair