Bill Text: HI SB2137 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
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
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2559
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 Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2137, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CLUBS,"
begs 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 Committee finds that military personnel enter into agreements with health clubs in good faith and have no control over deployment orders. Moreover, while the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act provides benefits to military personnel who are deployed on active duty in the context of rental agreements, credit card interest rates, income tax payment, and other terms, it is unclear whether its provisions would also allow military personnel to cancel or suspend a health club contract. This measure provides needed clarification and also provides for a pro rata refund of consideration paid by military personnel under the contract.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2137, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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