STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1557

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 507

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 507, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure that all members of a planned community association are provided notice of regular annual meetings and special meetings of the association by specifying the means by which notice is to be provided and the required contents of notices.

The Hawaii State Association of Parliamentarians and a few individuals provided testimony in opposition to this measure.  An individual provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the provision allowing notice to be given by posting of the meeting notice to the association's website;

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2112, for the purpose of further discussion; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     Your Committee notes that a majority of the concerns of this measure centered on the provision allowing notice to be posted to the association's website and as such, this section was removed by your Committee.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 507, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 507, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair