STAND. COM. REP. NO.  99-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2628

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2628 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to exempt private dorm management companies that offer a minimum of six hundred beds to students of private universities or other institutions of higher education from Chapter 521, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code.

Hawaii Student Suites, Inc. and two individuals testified in support of the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Expanding the exemption from the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to include other universities and colleges in the State; and

(2)  Broadening the number of private dorm management companies that would qualify for exemption from the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code by decreasing the minimum number of beds offered by a private dorm management company, from six hundred beds to fifty beds.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2628, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2628, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,

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RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair