THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Brickwood Galuteria, Vice Chair

 

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

DATE:

Friday, February 1, 2013

TIME:

8:30am

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

 

SB 336

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Establishes the condominium dispute resolution program for condominiums.  Permits a party to proposed or terminated mediation to file a request for a hearing with the office of administrative hearings of the department of commerce and consumer affairs.

 

CPN

SB 913

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO TIME SHARES.

Requires a time share plan's disclosure of the financial obligation of the purchaser to consist of:  (1) A statement that the purchaser is obligated to pay the initial price in the purchase agreement; and (2) A list or description of any additional charges.  Clarifies that a sales or acquisition agent is not required to provide any promotional device or instrument to a prospective purchaser prior to making a sales presentation.  Repeals the prohibition on selling, offering to sell, advertising for sale, or otherwise offering to give away any tourist activity with the purpose of inducing a person to purchase a time share plan or to attend a time share marketing event.

 

CPN

SB 507

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS.

Creates notice requirements for meetings of a planned community association or its board of directors.

 

CPN

SB 742

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE.

Specifies that a landlord and tenant may agree that duly apportioned rent shall be due at intervals more frequently than monthly.

 

CPN

SB 41

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO REAL ESTATE.

Clarifies the activities custodians or caretakers may engage in under chapter 467, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

CPN

SB 505

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Specifies that a percentage of fees paid into the condominium education trust fund shall be used to support mediation of condominium related disputes.

 

CPN, WAM

SB 328

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ANIMALS.

Allows a landlord to hold a tenant's security deposit for the purpose of paying for damages caused by an animal residing in the premises.  Authorizes a landlord as a condition of a rental agreement to add to the security deposit an amount for an animal to reside in the premises.

 

CPN

SB 611

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY.

Restricts management fees to an amount that reflects a reasonable value for services rendered.  Requires that condominium property managers, associations of apartment owners, and planned community associations make association documents available to owners under reasonable terms, including through a property management company's or association's website, if one exists, and for reasonable costs.

 

CPN

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair