Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2545 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend for two years the condominium management dispute resolution pilot program administered by the Office of Administrative Hearings within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from Hawaii Council of Associations of Apartment Owners, Hawaii Community Associations Institute-Hawaii Chapter, Hawaii Independent Condominium and Cooperative Owners. The Office of Administrative Hearings submitted comments on the measure and testified that it had no opposition to the measure.

This measure establishes the condominium management dispute resolution pilot program by placing provisions for the program into the newly codified condominium law in chapter 514B, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2545, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2545, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.