Bill Text: HI HB1746 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Condominiums; Metering of Utilities

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-13 - (S) Act 018, 4/12/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1118). [HB1746 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1746-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  264-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1746

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1746 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow an association of apartment owners and a unit owners' association to authorize the installation of utility meters to determine utility use by each of the residential and commercial apartments and units in a condominium; provided that the association bears the cost of installing the utility meters.

 

     Meridian East Condominium AOAO and an individual testified in support of the measure.  The Hawai‘i Legislative Action Committee of the Community Associations Institute commented on the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Applying the existing requirement that condominiums separately meter utility consumption by residential and nonresidential units within a project to all condominium projects, irrespective of the date of construction;

 

(2)  Clarifying that the associations of all condominium projects may institute separate metering of each unit within the project if the association pays the cost of installing the necessary meters; and

 

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1746, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1746, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair