Bill Text: HI HB24 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Condominiums; Condominium Education Trust Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to CPN, WAM. [HB24 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB24-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  491

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 24

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 24 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to encourage mediation in condominium settings by dedicating portions of the condominium education trust fund to support the mediation of condominium-related disputes.

 

     The Hawaii Chapter of Community Associations Institute Legislative Action Committee and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Real Estate Commission testified in opposition of this measure.  The State of Hawaii Judiciary and an individual provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee defers to the Committee on Finance regarding the necessary amounts to be appropriated from the condominium education trust fund for condominium-related mediation to effectuate the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the words "community-based and professional" from the description of mediation services;

 

     (2)  Changing to unspecified the per unit fee amounts established to fund the mediation services;

 

     (3)  Authorizing the establishment of additional fee amounts by rules;

 

     (4)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2013; and

 

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 24, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 24, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

 

 

		____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair