STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2708

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3033

       S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 3033, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SELF-STORAGE FACILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Authorize motor vehicle and boat towing options for self-service storage facility owners after sixty days or more of delinquency, provided that an occupant is provided notice;

     (2)  Require self-storage facility owners to provide occupants with a notice of delinquent rent and charges, a notice of lien, and a notice of final demand and notice of sale via two of the following three methods:  last known telephone number, last known electronic mail address, or last known postal address;

     (3)  Allow self-storage facility owners to disseminate advertisements of sales in any commercially reasonable manner, conduct sales online, and charge late fees; and

     (4)  Authorize a limit on the liability of self-service storage facility owners based on the maximum monetary value of the stored property allowed under the rental agreement.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the National Self Storage Association.

     Your Committee finds that the State's self-storage facilities lien law has remained virtually unchanged since its enactment in 1984.  Accordingly, this measure updates and clarifies Hawaii's self-storage facilities law.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3033, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3033, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair