STAND. COM. REP. NO. 932-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 2280

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2280, H.D. 1, 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 member's enclosed yard for personal agriculture.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from two 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 members of a planned community association 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 making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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 H.B. No. 2280, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2280, H.D. 2.

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

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair