THE SENATE

THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2019

 

COMMITTEE ON HOUSING

Senator Stanley Chang, Chair

Senator Dru Mamo Kanuha, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Chair

Senator Donna Mercado Kim, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

TIME:

1:15 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 225

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 303

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO GARDENS.

Authorizes the department of education and Hawaii community development authority to develop programs that provide incentives to establish gardens on school campuses and within housing projects and communities.

 

HOU/EDU, WAM

SB 114

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO TEACHER HOUSING.

Establishes the teacher home assistance program to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide housing vouchers to full-time teachers employed by the department of education, including teachers at public charter schools, who teach in a hard-to-fill school, as determined by the department of education, and whose household income does not exceed eighty per cent of the area median income.  Appropriates funds.

 

HOU/EDU, WAM

SB 387

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO TEACHER RENTAL HOUSING.

Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to assist the Department of Education in developing teacher housing projects.  Authorizes the Department of Education to lease land and contract with private entities for the development, revitalization, maintenance, and management of teacher housing.  Permits the Department of Education to lease teacher housing to other eligible tenants if occupancy of teacher housing falls below 95%.  Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds for deposit into the dwelling unit revolving fund.  Appropriates funds.

 

HOU/EDU, WAM

SB 891

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.

Exempts affordable housing units, additions to existing dwelling units, accessory dwelling units, ohana dwelling units, and affordable housing projects developed by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority from school impact fee requirements.

 

 

HOU/EDU, WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Michelle N. Kidani

Chair

 

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Senator Stanley Chang

Chair