STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2483

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2541

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2541 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to redevelop the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's administrative offices and to design and construct an elderly-only housing complex at the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's 1002 North School Street location.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and the Community Alliance for Mental Health.

Your Committee finds that, currently, the Hawaii Public Housing Authority does not operate any elderly-only facility and that there is an increasing need for elderly housing within the State.  This measure will allow the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to establish an elderly-only housing complex to help address that need.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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

(2)  Changing the appropriation amount to an unspecified sum; and

(3)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments 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. 2541, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2541, S.D. 1.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair