STAND. COM. REP. NO.  913-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2628

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2628, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to extend the exemption from the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to residences directly controlled and managed by any university or college in the State and private dorm management companies offering fifty or more beds to students of any college, university, or other institution of higher education in the State.

 

     Chaminade University of Honolulu; Hawaii Student Suites, Inc.; and two concerned individuals testified in support of the measure.  The University of Hawaii provided comments on this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2628, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair