Bill Text: HI HB2132 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Mortgages; Foreclosure; Mediation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2010-04-12 - (S) Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 558). [HB2132 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2132-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2991

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2132

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

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 H.B. No. 2132, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide protections to mortgagors who are consumers and owner-occupants by:

 

     (1)  Requiring a foreclosing mortgagee, who is foreclosing under a power of sale pursuant to section 667-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to provide the mortgagee with written notice of the availability of credit counseling through a credit counseling agency approved by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development;

 

     (2)  Prohibiting a foreclosing mortgagee from foreclosing under a power of sale pursuant to section 667-5, HRS, from initiating proceeding until the mortgagee provides a copy of the promissory note and mortgage document, if these documents are requested by the mortgagor; and

 

     (3)  Providing that a public sale price of seventy per cent of the fair market value of the mortgaged property, as established by an appraisal or broker's price opinion, shall be fair and reasonable.

 

     Written comments regarding this measure were submitted by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.  Written comments presented to your Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that, in these difficult economic times, foreclosures have become more prevalent and have affected many homeowners, who may or may not understand the implications of the foreclosure process.  While your Committee believes that protections should be in place to assist these vulnerable homeowners in avoiding confusion and misunderstandings regarding the foreclosure process, these protections should not unduly burden mortgagors or inappropriately create inflexible standards that are too rigid when applied in practice.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting section 3 of the measure, which contains the provision that a public sale price of seventy per cent of the fair market value of the mortgaged property is fair and reasonable;

 

     (2)  Inserting an effective date of September 14, 2047, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2132, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2132, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair