STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3457

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1749

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Housing and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1749, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds for a supportive housing task force to improve data collection on supportive housing needs in the State.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Catholic Charities Hawai‘i, and four individuals. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Office of Information Practices, Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Human Services, and Common Cause Hawaii.

Your Committees find that there is a shortage of over ten thousand housing units for extremely low-income households with incomes below thirty percent of the area median income. Currently, there are no existing systems to address the supportive housing needs in each county for extremely low-income households. This measure establishes and appropriates funds for a task force to collect data on and analyze the supportive housing needs for various populations of vulnerable persons in each county.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Requiring at least one supportive services user or advocate to have a lived experience with homelessness at the time of appointment or earlier;

(2) Removing the exemption to Chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

(3) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1749, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1749, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Human Services,

________________________________ JOY A. SAN BUENAVENTURA, Chair

________________________________ STANLEY CHANG, Chair