STAND. COM. REP. NO.  435-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2090

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2090 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAND COURT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to streamline the operations of the Office of the Assistant Registrar of the Land Court by removing the requirement that the assistant registrar certify pending certificates of title for fee time share interests, all of which were removed from the land court system as of July 1, 2012.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, American Resort Development Association Hawaii, and Wyndham Vacation Ownership provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Judiciary provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Clarifying that the assistant registrar is authorized, instead of required, to certify pending certificates of titles for time share interests;

     (2)  Amending the definitions of "certified fee time share interest certificate of title" and "pending fee time share interest certificate of title"; and

     (3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2016.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2090, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2090, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair