Bill Text: HI SB2817 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Solar Energy Device; Homeowners Associations

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-07-07 - (S) Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 201, 7/6/2010, (Gov. Msg. No. 693). [SB2817 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2817-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2078

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2817

       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 Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2817 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SOLAR ENERGY DEVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify that the rules of a private association of homeowners adopted regarding the placement of solar energy devices may not render the device more than twenty-five per cent less efficient, increase the cost of installation, maintenance, or removal of the device by more than fifteen per cent, or require an encumbrance on title.

 

     Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by two private organizations.  Written testimony presented to your Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that clarification of existing laws regarding private restrictions on placement of solar energy devices is needed, because some homeowners associations may, by rule, put up obstacles for people who wish to install solar water heaters and photovoltaic systems on their single-family dwellings or townhouses. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying the language that describes the prohibitions on private entity rules to reflect how such rules might impact the efficiency or cost of a solar energy device.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2817, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2817, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Environment,

 

		____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair