Requires, rather than permits, a background check for certain employees of condominiums.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. Section 514B-133, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§514B-133[]] Association employees; background check; prohibition. (a) The board, managing agent, or resident manager, upon the written authorization of an applicant for employment as a security guard or resident manager or for a position that would allow the employee access to the keys of or entry into the units in the condominium or access to association funds, [may] shall conduct a background check on the applicant or direct another responsible party to conduct the check. Before initiating or requesting a check, the board, managing agent, or resident manager shall first certify that the signature on the authorization is authentic and that the person is an applicant for [such] employment. The background check, at a minimum, shall require the applicant to disclose whether the applicant has been convicted in any jurisdiction of a crime [which] that would tend to indicate that the applicant may be unsuited for employment as an association employee with access to association funds or the keys of or entry into the units in the condominium, and the judgment of conviction has not been vacated.

For purposes of this section, the criminal history disclosure made by the applicant [may] shall be verified by the board, managing agent, resident manager, or other responsible party, if so directed by the board, managing agent, or resident manager, by means of information obtained through the Hawaii criminal justice data center. The applicant shall provide the Hawaii criminal justice data center with personal identifying information, which shall include, but not be limited to, the applicant's name, social security number, date of birth, and gender. This information shall be used only for the purpose of conducting the [criminal history record] background check authorized by this section. Failure of an association, managing agent, or resident manager to conduct or verify or cause to have conducted or verified a background check shall not alone give rise to any private cause of action against an association, managing agent, or resident manager for acts and omissions of the employee hired.

(b) An association's employees shall not engage in selling or renting units in the condominium in which they are employed, except association-owned units, unless [such] the activity is approved by sixty-seven per cent of the unit owners."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.