STAND. COM. REP. NO. 905

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 814

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 814, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the counties to adopt ordinances by July 1, 2024, to allow religious institutions, educational institutions, and medical institutions to design and build housing units on land that the institutions own for purchase in fee simple or use by the institutions, their employees, or their contractors, under certain conditions; and

(2) Require the institutions to retain these housing units for thirty years before offering the housing units for sale.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Housing Hawai‘i's Future. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and Grassroot Institute of Hawai‘i.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 814, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair