Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2105, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a procedure for the resolution of condominium management disputes in an expeditious manner.

Your Committee on Ways and Means finds that presently there is a procedure for the mediation of condominium management disputes; however, the failure of resolving the dispute by mediation leaves no expeditious method of resolution. This measure would provide for a complaint and hearing process overseen by the Office of Administrative Hearings of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. The process contains built-in time constraints to expedite the dispute resolution.

Your Committee has made technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2105, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2105, S.D. 2.