Bill Text: HI SB1125 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Condominiums; Dispute Resolution

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB1125 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1125-Amended.html

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1015

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1125

      S.D. 2

      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 S.B. No. 1125, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to:

 

(1)  Make the Condominium Dispute Resolution Pilot Project permanent; and

 

(2)  Preserve the availability of mediation, arbitration, administrative resolution and the right of judicial appeal for disputes related to certain condominium matters;

 

by repealing the sunset date of the Condominium Dispute Resolution Pilot Project.

 

The Hawaii Council of Associations of Apartment Owners and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  Mililani Town Association, CAI, and several individuals testified in opposition to this measure.

 

 

 

 

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Extending the sunset date of the Condominium Dispute Resolution Pilot Project to June 30, 2015;

 

(2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment to reflect a June 29, 2050, effective date.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1125, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1125, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Judiciary and Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

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

 

 

 

 

____________________________

RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair

 

 

 

 

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