STAND. COM. REP. NO. 881-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2514

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. 2514, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Establish the Teacher Housing Assistance Program to be administered by the Department of Education to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers;

(2) Expand the authorized uses of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund to include the Teacher Housing Assistance Program; and

(3) Appropriate funds out of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund to provide housing vouchers through the Teacher Housing Assistance Program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association; Democratic Party of Hawaiʻi Education Caucus; and two individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Education.

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. 2514, 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