STAND. COM. REP. NO.  102-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 518

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. 518 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ACCESS TO REAL PROPERTY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require a seller or seller's agent to disclose in writing to a buyer the existence, if any, of any legal or traditional public access that burdens or may burden the residential or agricultural real property being sold.

The Hawaii Association of REALTORS and an individual testified in support of this measure.

     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. 518 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

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

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RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair