STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 744
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2021
RE: H.B. No. 305
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2021
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 305 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to eliminate the requirement that a condominium association first advertise the sale, donation, or disposition of personalty abandoned in or on the common elements of a condominium project, and allow the association to proceed directly to sell, store, donate, or dispose of the personalty and keep the proceeds.
Your Committee finds that personalty
may be left in common areas of a condominium by residents, their visitors, or
other third parties. When the owner of
the personalty or the owner's address is not known, existing law requires a
condominium association to first advertise the sale, donation, or disposition
at least once in a daily paper of general circulation. Your Committee further finds that this
requirement is unnecessarily burdensome to condominium associations and merely
increases the costs associated with the operation of condominiums.
Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.
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. 305, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 305, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,
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____________________________ AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair |
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