STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1094-26

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2026

RE: H.B. No. 1799

H.D. 2

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2026

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1799, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COUNTIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand a county's experimental and demonstration housing project authority to include the development of commercial projects.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Housing and Land Management of the City and County of Honolulu; Honolulu Board of Water Supply; and Housing Hawaiʻi's Future. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an unspecified sunset date.

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. 1799, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1799, H.D. 2.

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

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CHRIS TODD, Chair