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

MEASURES DEFERRED TO TUESDAY, APRIL 02, 2013

DATE:	Tuesday, April 02, 2013
TIME:	10:30 AM
PLACE:	Conference Room 016 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

HB25 SD1 (SSCR926) Status and 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
HB21 SD1 (SSCR1002) Status and 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
HB1202 SD1 (SSCR1000) Status and 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
HB622 HD1 (HSCR354) Status and Testimony	RELATING TO EVIDENCE. Makes permanent the limited news media privilege against the compelled disclosure of sources and unpublished sources.  Expands the exceptions to claiming the privilege.  Clarifies that only persons who validly invoke the privilege will be shielded from fines or imprisonment.  Effective June 29, 2013.  (HB622 HD1)	JDL [Measure added on 3/28/2013]

No testimony will be accepted.

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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-7330.