STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1297

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 462

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Environment and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 462, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to exempt residence or occupancy in a structure or on property directly controlled, owned, or managed by the Department of Agriculture from the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture.

 

     Your Committees find that this measure clarifies that farm dwellings are not subject to eviction and related rules under the Landlord-Tenant Code.  Your Committees further find that exempting residence or occupancy in a structure or on property directly controlled, owned, or managed by the Department of Agriculture from the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code provides greater consistency in the management of residential uses on public lands and for public purposes.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making it effective on July 1, 2019.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Environment and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 462, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 462, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Environment and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair

 

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair