STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1014-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2084

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2084, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds for a Vacated Homeless Encampment Clean Up Task Force within the Department of Transportation to:

(1) Identify parcels of land that require intergovernmental coordination to clean up vacated homeless encampments located on land managed by government agencies, including but not limited to the United States Army Garrison Hawaii; and

(2) Execute a memorandum of agreement to coordinate clean-up of vacated homeless encampments located on the identified land parcels.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Castle & Cooke Homes Hawaii, Inc.; and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness and Hawaii Military Affairs Council.

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. 2084, 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