STAND. COM. REP. NO. 871-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1631

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. 1631, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the School Facilities Authority to work with the Department of Education to prioritize projects for the construction of educator workforce housing for teachers and staff employed by the Department of Education;

(2) Require the School Facilities Authority to include in its annual report to the Legislature its planned actions to increase educator workforce housing; and

(3) Require the Department of Education to collaborate with certain state and county agencies to submit a preliminary report to the Legislature on the status of lands designated to be transferred to the Department of Education pursuant to Act 307, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education; School Facilities Authority; Housing Hawaiʻi's Future; Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association; aio; Hawaiian Host Group; Hawaiʻi Community Foundation; HPM Building Supply; Mana Up; Title Guaranty of Hawaiʻi; Democratic Party of Hawaiʻi Education Caucus; Holomua Collaborative; and three individuals.

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. 1631, 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