STAND. COM. REP. NO. 632-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2315

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2315 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the laws regarding the use of electronic voting devices, electronic meetings, and electronic, machine, or mail voting for condominium association voting and meetings.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Palehua Townhouse Association; IP Xpert of Honolulu; and six individuals. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Honolulu Tower AOAO and two individuals. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Hawaii First Realty LLC; AOAO Waialae Place; AOAO Mariner's Village 1; The Continental Apartments; AOAO Lakeview Sands; Law Offices of Mark K. McKellar, LLLC; Hawaiʻi State Association of Parliamentarians Legislative Committee; and numerous individuals.

Your Committees find that there have been several efforts to utilize technology to expand participation in condominium association governance. Act 14, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019, authorized condominium associations to use electronic voting devices. Act 83, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, and Act 62, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, authorized and clarified the use of electronic meetings and electronic, machine, or mail voting for association meetings and voting in a post-COVID-19 reality. This measure continues those efforts to further clarify and streamline the use of technology in condominium association governance.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2315, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2315, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

____________________________ DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair

____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair