Bill Text: HI SB690 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Residential Landlord-Tenant Code; Rent

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB690 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB690-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 509

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 690

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 690 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD‑TENANT CODE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to specify that a landlord and tenant in a rental agreement may agree that duly apportioned rent shall be due at intervals more frequently than monthly.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawai‘i Association of REALTORS.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure clarifies the existing law to specify that parties to a residential rental transaction may agree to payment of rent at intervals more frequently than monthly.  Your Committee notes that existing law implicitly allows agreements of this type.  However, your Committee finds that by explicitly enabling those agreements this measure assists renters who may have irregular income streams, such as those who work in the hospitality industry and derive a large portion of their income from tips, and who may find it easier to make several small payments rather than one large rental payment each month.  Finally, your Committee finds that this measure benefits landlords and tenants by helping to ensure that renters are able to establish a payment schedule that allows them to remain current on their rent payments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 690 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair