Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2545, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the condominium management dispute resolution pilot program.

The program allows parties to an unresolved condominium dispute to request an administrative hearing before a hearings officer of the Office of Administrative Hearing in the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

This pilot program, established by section 28 of Act 164, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, under the old condominium law, is scheduled for repeal on June 30, 2006. This measure will carry the pilot program forward under the new condominium law until June 30, 2008, and require the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to report to the Legislature on the program twenty days prior to the convening of the 2007 and 2008 regular sessions.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 2545, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2545, S.D. 2.