THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR

Senator Clayton Hee, Chair

Senator Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

TIME:

10:50 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

HB 25, HD2, SD1

      (SSCR926)

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO SUSPENSION OF FORECLOSURE ACTIONS BY JUNIOR LIENHOLDERS.

Allows a condominium association, as a junior lienholder, to commence or continue a nonjudicial foreclosure action on a property subject to a judicial foreclosure even if the lender has filed for foreclosure.  Preserves the right of owner-occupants to require the foreclosing mortgagee to participate in the dispute resolution process in situations where an association forecloses on residential real property occupied by one or more owner-occupant mortgagors for whom the unit is and has been the person's primary residence for a continuous period of not less than two hundred days immediately preceding the date on which the notice is served and the mortgagee subsequently forecloses its lien on the same property.  (SD1)

 

CPN, JDL

HB 791, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR893)

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS.

Explicitly provides that directors of a nonprofit corporation shall have access to the books, records, and documents of the corporation to the extent reasonably related to their duties as directors at any reasonable time.  (SD1)

 

CPN, JDL

HB 21, HD2, SD1

      (SSCR1002)

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Permits the board of directors of a condominium association to collect a six-month special assessment from the mortgagee or other purchaser of a unit with a recorded lien for delinquent common assessments.  Specifies how excess rental income received by a condominium association shall be paid to existing lien holders.  (SD1)

 

CPN, JDL

HB 847, HD2, SD1

      (SSCR1001)

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO ENFORCEMENT TOOLS TO IMPROVE PATIENT SAFETY.

Authorizes the Hawaii medical board to summarily suspend a license and order a licensee to submit to a physical and mental examination under specific circumstances.  Specifies immunities for licensees who provide certain information to the Hawaii medical board.  (SD1)

 

CPN, JDL

HB 1202, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR1000)

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO BUSINESS.

Clarifies that a professional or vocational licensee who inadvertently fails to maintain licensing requirements but who subsequently corrects the failure so that there was no lapse in licensure shall not be guilty of unlicensed activity.  Clarifies that a contractor who inadvertently fails to maintain licensing requirements and who subsequently corrects the failure so that there was a lapse of no more than sixty days in licensure shall not be guilty of unlicensed contracting activity.  (SD1)

 

CPN, JDL

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Clayton Hee

Chair