STAND. COM. REP. NO. 914

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 463

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 463, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Require each county to adopt, no later than June 30, 2024, ordinances applicable to subdivisions not approved by July 1, 2024, requiring as a condition of approval, the subdivider or developer to obtain a street address and install a mailbox for lots, parcels, structures, or units of a structure within the subdivision before the sale or lease thereof;

(2) Require condominium maps recorded in the Bureau of Conveyances or registered in the Land Court after June 30, 2024, to include a mailbox plan for the condominium property regime, showing the location of all mailboxes for all units in the regime;

(3) Define approval, mail, mailbox, street address, subdivider, and subdivision; and

(4) Require, prior to the sale of residential real property, the disclosure as to the existence of a United States Postal Service deliverable mailbox for the property.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from two individuals. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu.

Your Committees find that certain post offices do not have the capacity to deal with the growing populations they serve. This problem is becoming increasingly urgent as many of those affected by the lack of mail service rely on the United States Postal Service as their means of receiving correspondence, obtaining prescriptions, and paying bills. Ensuring that all parcels within newly created subdivisions have a mailbox will reduce the strain on local post offices and bring much needed relief to affected residents throughout the State.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 463, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 463, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Ways and Means,

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

________________________________ JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair