STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2878

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3121

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 3121 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to make housekeeping amendments to sections 356D-8, 356D-10, 356D-21, 356D-22, 356D-23, and 356D-24, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to incorporate the definition of "housing project" in section 356D‑11, HRS, to align with previous amendments to chapter 356D, HRS, under Act 251, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022.

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

Your Committee finds that concentrating public housing for extremely low‐income families in dense urban areas has shown to not be an effective use of scarce affordable housing resources. Your Committee also finds that the mixed‐income and mixed-finance redevelopment model is a proven and successful redevelopment model nationwide and supported and encouraged by the federal government. Accordingly, this measure clarifies statutory references to give an opportunity to people of all income levels to live side by side in a community that does not isolate the poor.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3121 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair