Bill Text: HI SB2137 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health Club Contracts; Deployed Military

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-22 - (S) Act 045, 4/22/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 503). [SB2137 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2137-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2211

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2137

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2137 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CLUBS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow military personnel deployed outside the State on federal active duty to cancel or suspend health club membership at any time during the contract term under certain conditions. 

 

     Your Committees received comments from the Office of Consumer Protection.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that military personnel who are deployed on active duty and by reason of the deployment are unable to use the health club facilities and services, should be entitled to cancel or suspend the health club contract.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Deleting the provision that allows the health club to retain a portion of the contract price plus a reimbursement for expenses;

 

(2)  Adding a provision to require a pro rata refund to the member;

 

(3)  Clarifying that proof of deployment is required to cancel or suspend the contract; and

 

(4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2137, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2137, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair