STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1578-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2401

      S.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2401, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS:  MAKING VARIOUS TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES FOR THE PURPOSE OF CORRECTING ERRORS AND REFERENCES, AND CLARIFYING LANGUAGE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to amend various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to condominiums to reflect the existence of two different chapters relating to condominiums.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Legislative Reference Bureau.

     Act 164, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, repealed portions of chapter 514A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to condominium property regimes, and enacted a new condominium law, codified as chapter 514B, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  Act 164 also substituted references to chapter 514B in place of chapter 514A in a substantial number of Hawaii Revised Statutes sections.  Act 244, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, reinstated the portions of chapter 514A that were repealed in the 2004 legislation, resulting in two operative chapters relating to condominiums, but did not, among other things, reinstate the references to chapter 514A in the Hawaii Revised Statutes sections from which they had been deleted.

     Your Committees find that all of the statutory amendments proposed by the measure are of a technical housekeeping nature and are done simply to correct the types of errors noted in the title of this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2401, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary,

____________________________ TOMMY WATERS, Chair

____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair