STAND. COM. REP. NO.  972-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2090

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2090, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAND COURT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to streamline the operations of the Office of the Assistant Registrar of the Land Court by removing the requirement that the assistant registrar certify pending certificates of title for fee time share interests, all of which were removed from the land court system as of July 1, 2012.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, American Resort Development Association Hawaii, and Wyndham Vacation Ownership provided testimony in support of the measure.  The Judiciary and an individual provided comments on the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2090, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2090, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair