THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2011

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Brian T. Taniguchi, Vice Chair

 

AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

TIME:

8:30 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A M E N D E D  A G E N D A

 

 

 

SB 1178

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO MORTGAGE LENDERS.

Requires financial institutions otherwise exempt from regulation as mortgage servicers or licensing by the commissioner of financial institutions to register with the commissioner of financial institutions and be subject to the commissioner's regulatory authority.

 

CPN

SB 154

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO BROKER PRICE OPINIONS.

Permits a licensed real estate broker or real estate sales person to prepare broker price options for use in real estate transactions where an appraisal is not required by law or otherwise.

 

CPN

SB 646

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO ESCROW DEPOSITORIES.

Requires every person subject to section 454F-1.5 to include the person's unique identifier on every document submitted to an escrow depository in a real estate transaction; requires escrow depositories to report invalid unique identifiers to the commissioner of financial institutions.

 

CPN

SB 653

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS.

Expands the scope of the current law to include the regulation of real estate appraisal management companies in order to comply with the federal Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 ("FIRREA") and the federal rules adopted thereunder.

 

CPN

SB 1483

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO HAWAII REVISED STATUTES SECTION 514B-153(E).

Exempts a condominium association from maintaining records for individual time share owners, when the project or units in the condominium project as subject to a time share plan under chapter 514E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, unless the individual time share owner requests that the condominium association maintain the owner's name and address in the condominium association's records.

 

CPN

SB 750

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Permits members of condominium associations to make electronic recordings of association meetings for personal use.

 

CPN

SB 1499

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Requires condominium projects or associations of apartment owners to submit with their biennial registrations with the real estate commission data on the number of leasehold units in a project or association and their appraised value.

 

CPN

SB 690

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE.

Specifies that a landlord and tenant may agree that duly apportioned rent shall be due at intervals more frequent than monthly.

 

CPN

SB 714

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY.

Requires that condominium property managers, associations of apartment owners, and planned community associations make association documents available to owners and their respective agents under reasonable terms and for reasonable costs.

 

CPN [Measure added 02-10-11]

 

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

FOR AMENDED HEARING NOTICES:  If the notice is an amended notice, measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If there is a measure that is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

Persons wishing to testify should submit testimony in one of the following ways by 4:00 p.m. the day prior to the hearing:

 

·         By Email:  Testimony may be emailed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Committee at [email protected] .  Please indicate the measure, date and time of the hearing. Email sent to individual offices or any other Senate office will not be accepted.

 

·         By Web: Testimony may be submitted online if less than 4MB in size, at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/emailtestimony.

 

·         In person:  1 copy of their testimony to the committee clerk, Room 229, State Capitol.

 

·         By fax:  Testimony may be faxed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Office at 586-6659 or 1-800-586-6659 (toll free for neighbor islands), at least 24 hours prior to the hearing.  When faxing, please indicate to which committee the testimony is being submitted and the date and time of the hearing.

 

Please note:  If you submit your written testimony after 4:00 p.m. the day prior to the hearing, please sign-in at the staff table to testify orally.  A copy of your testimony may not be available during the hearing but will be posted online for the public after the hearing. 

 

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If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., sign or foreign language interpreter or wheelchair accessibility), please contact the committee clerk 24 hours prior to the hearing so arrangements can be made.

 

Please note:  All testimony received by the Hawaii Senate will be posted on the Hawaii Legislature's Website.  Documents made available through the Testimony hyperlink(s) above may not be posted until the start of the hearing.

 

Public Folder.  A folder labeled “Public Folder” containing the testimonies for the hearing will be available for shared use by members of the public.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6070.

 

 

 

 

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair