Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1345, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to remove the types of issues that may not be adjudicated in an administrative hearing involving condominium disputes and allow adjudication of these and other issues that were unresolved in a preceding mediation.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, the Community Associations Institute-Hawaii Chapter, the Hawaii Independent Condominium and Cooperative Owners, and the Hawaii Council of Associations of Apartment Owners.

This measure will allow all issues, involving condominium disputes that were considered in an unsuccessful preceding mediation, to be adjudicated in an administrative hearing.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1345, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.