STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2764

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2836

       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. 2836 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make permanent the temporary provisions that require counties to issue affordable housing credits for Department of Hawaiian Home Lands housing projectsw.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.  Written comments in opposition to this measure were submitted by the Kauai County Housing Agency.

     Your Committee finds that making the provisions for the affordable housing credits permanent will allow the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to continue to provide incentives for private developers to construct affordable homes on Hawaiian Home Lands.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     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. 2836, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2836, 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