STAND. COM. REP. NO.  443-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2628

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2628, H.D. 1, 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 extend the exemption from the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to residences directly controlled and managed by private universities and colleges and private dorm management companies offering fifty or more beds to students of private colleges, universities, or other institutions of higher education in the State.

Hawaii Student Suites, Inc., and two concerned individuals supported this measure.  The University of Hawaii System supported the intent of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Extending the exemption to private dorm management companies offering a minimum of 50 beds to students of public, as well as private, universities, colleges, and other institutions of higher education in the State; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2628, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2628, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

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SCOTT NISHIMOTO, Chair