STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3259

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2425
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which
was referred H.B. No. 2425, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY
     REGIMES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure that projects
created and established as condominium property regimes conform
to the underlying county zoning provisions and development
ordinances and are consistent with the purposes of adopted county
land use policies and State land use law.  The measure also
requires that a declaration asserting conformance with county
ordinances be filed according to the methods required by the
bureau of conveyances and land court.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Office of Planning, the Real Estate Commission, and Hawaii's
Thousand Friends.

     Your Committee finds that this measure requires condominium
property regimes to conform to county regulations yet avoids
infringing upon the activities of the Housing and Community
Development Corporation of Hawaii and other state agencies which
may be exempted specifically under the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to

 
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this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 2425, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading.

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



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                                   BRIAN KANNO, Co-Chair



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                                   BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair

 
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