Bill Text: HI HB197 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Condominiums; Solar Energy; Wind Energy

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB197 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB197-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  713

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 197

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 197 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce Hawaii's dependence on fossil fuels by authorizing condominium association boards of directors to install or allow the installation of solar energy or wind energy devices on the common elements of the project.

 

     The Hawaii Council of Associations of Apartment Owners and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.

 

     Section 196-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, allows individual owners within certain common-interest communities to install solar energy devices.  This bill proposes to give condominium association boards a similar option for solar energy and wind energy devices installed on common elements.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the definition of "wind energy device" to clarify that if such "equipment to be installed," rather than "equipment sold," cannot be used without the incorporation of other equipment, the equipment must be installed in place and made readily operational to qualify as a wind energy device.

 

     Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity 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. 197, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 197, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair