Bill Text: HI HB581 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Condominiums; Residential Real Property; Planned Community

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB581 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB581-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  589

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 581

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 581 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to require planned community associations, condominium property managers, and associations of apartment owners to make association records and documents available to owners and their respective agents under reasonable terms and for reasonable costs.

 

     Two concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Real Estate Commission testified in support of the intent of this bill with comments.  Mililani Town Association and the Co-Chair of the Legislative Action Committee of the Community Associations Institute testified in opposition to the measure.  The Hawaii Association of REALTORS® and two concerned individuals submitted comments.

 

     Upon consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by making the following changes that affect planned community associations under Chapter 421J, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS); condominium property regimes under Chapter 514A, HRS; and condominiums Chapter 514B, HRS:

 

 

     (1)  Eliminating the availability of association records and        documents on 24-hour loan;

 

(2)  Making association records and documents available in electronic form through websites, maintained by associations and property management companies, if available and accessible to the members or owners; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity,      consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 581, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 581, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,

 

 

		____________________________ RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair