Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2760 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish civil penalties for property owners who fail to make reasonable efforts at remediation of, and to authorize counties to condemn and demolish, facilities abandoned due to a natural disaster, and to place a lien on the property for costs incurred.

No testimony was submitted on this measure.

Your Committee finds that owners of commercial and industrial facilities do not always rebuild or repair damaged structures after a natural disaster. Dangerous property conditions should not be allowed to persist, to the detriment of the community. This measure establishes a civil penalty for property owners who fail to make a reasonable effort to remediate dangerous property conditions. It also enables a county to place a lien on the property for costs incurred for condemning, demolishing, or remediating the dangerous condition.

Upon further consideration, your Committee amended this measure to:

Your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs to consider whether to expand the scope of the civil fine from properties damaged by natural disaster to include property owners who fail to repair a dangerous property condition in general.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2760, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2760, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.