STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1509

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1395

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1395, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase the available supply of housing units in the State.

More specifically, the measure appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the planning and design of up to one hundred fourteen housing units at the Kapaa public housing project site in Kapaa, Kauai, including the development of:

(1) Thirty-six replacement public housing units; and

(2) Up to seventy-eight additional housing units consisting of a mix of supportive housing, affordable housing, and workforce housing.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

Your Committee finds that the funding provided by this measure will significantly ease the ongoing shortage of housing units on Kauai.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation from $2,000,000 to an unspecified amount to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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 H.B. No. 1395, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1395, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair