STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1320

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   S.B. No. 920

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 920, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to prevent abuses that may occur from the distribution of condominium association membership lists.  Specifically, this bill prohibits:

(1)  The use or distribution of membership lists without the prior written consent of the condominium association's board of directors; and

(2)  The condominium's managing agent, manager, and board of directors from using information from membership lists to create any separate list as a means of evading restrictions on the use of such information.

     The Real Estate Commission, Hawaii Council of Associations of Apartment Owners, and Hawaii Independent Condominium & Cooperative Owners testified in support of this bill.  The Hawaii Legislative Action Committee of the Community Associations Institute supported this measure with amendments.

     Your Committee finds that this bill seeks to protect condominium association membership lists from uses that fall outside of association purposes, such as commercial or political uses.

     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 Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 920, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 920, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair