STAND. COM. REP. NO. 437-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 2280

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2280 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit planned community associations from prohibiting or unreasonably restricting the use of a unit owner's enclosed yard for personal agriculture.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from three individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Community Associations Institute Legislative Action Committee and one individual.

Your Committee finds that providing latitude to unit owners of planned community associations to use their enclosed yards for personal agriculture can promote good health, improve the local environment, and improve neighborhood spaces.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2280, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2280, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,

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MARK J. HASHEM, Chair