Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1523, H.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to repeal provisions of Chapter 516, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the Residential Leaseholds Law, relating to mandatory leasehold conversion, while retaining certain rights of lessees of residential lots, such as free assignability and the prohibition against discrimination.

A member of the Maui County Council, Small Landowners Association of Hawaii, Small Landowners of Oahu, Kamehameha Schools, and a concerned citizen supported this bill. The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii supported the intent of this bill.

Through inadvertence, this bill failed to repeal Part V of Chapter 516, HRS, which relates to the Fee Title Acquisition Loan Program component of the mandatory leasehold conversion process.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1523, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1523, H.D. 2.