Bill Text: HI HB1442 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Planned Community Associations; DCCA Report

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1442 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1442-Introduced.html

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Report Title:

Planned Community Associations; DCCA Report

 

Description:

Requires the director of commerce and consumer affairs to identify and report on planned community associations in Hawaii.  Appropriates funds.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1442
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to planned community associations.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  The director of commerce and consumer affairs shall prepare, and submit to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the 2010 regular session, a report on planned community associations governed by chapter 421J, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  The report shall:

     (1)  Identify all planned community associations within the State of Hawaii by name and location;

     (2)  Describe the association's size in terms of owners and units; and

     (3)  List any formal procedures of the association allowing the association to:

         (A)  Provide access to association documents; and

         (B)  Resolve disputes.

     The report shall also identify the state or county laws that govern the management of community associations.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2009-2010 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 for one full-time temporary position in the department of commerce and consumer affairs (with the option of hiring a person as either an employee of the department or a consultant to the department), and other current expenses.

The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of commerce and consumer affairs for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2009.

 

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