STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1190-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2762

S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2762, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide flexibility in the public housing eligibility process by allowing persons who were denied eligibility because of an eviction after 1985, but not less than ten years prior to the current application, the right to appeal the denial.

The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii supported this bill.

While your Committee understands the need to authorize evictions from public housing, it notes that a lifetime status of ineligibility for public housing may be too severe. This measure grants those previously evicted from public housing a second chance.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2762, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,

 

		____________________________ MICHAEL P. KAHIKINA, Chair