04/22/1998 03:20 PM House L&C

HB 477 - COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITIES                                           
                                                                               
Number 0185                                                                    
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN ROKEBERG announced the next order of business is HB 477,              
"An Act relating to common interest communities; and amending Rule             
72(k), Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure," requested by the Alaska               
Home Builders Association by request.  He indicated this is a very             
long and complex law and that he had asked the Alaska Home Builders            
Association to come up with a light version of the bill due to the             
late hour in the session.                                                      
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN ROKEBERG said, "This is the Alaska [Uniform] Common                   
Ownership Act which is - replace the Horizontal Regime Act, so it's            
for all condominiums and townhouse-type associations and so forth              
in the state.  One of the key elements we found in administering               
the condominiums and so forth is that hearing the real estate crash            
in the mid-eighties, a lot of nonresident owners purchased units so            
there's an (indic.) amount.  So there's a lot of tenants in a lot              
of units now and it's very difficult under the existing law to get             
the majority, or a high enough a number of owners to vote on any               
changes to the declarations and bylaws or any other revisions.  So             
there's a sum (indisc.--noise) of that and so forth.  I just wanted            
to bring the up today and just to make you guys aware of it in case            
you have anybody that's interested in this type of thing that you              
could pass it along to.  I hope to be able to bring this up before             
we shut down the committees real quickly so it might have a chance             
to (indisc.) through if we can but I don't want to take up too much            
time of the committee on it so I'm going to -- if there's any                  
questions then we'll just hold the bill over.  Again, I just want              
to bring up so we can bring it up under bills previously heard if              
we can come up with a..."                                                      
                                                                               
Number 0203                                                                    
                                                                               
REPRESENTATIVE KUBINA indicated, basically without a hearing you'll            
be able to move it out the next time just by bringing it up.                   
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN ROKEBERG guaranteed he wouldn't do that.                              
                                                                               
REPRESENTATIVE RYAN said he would like to read the bill.                       
                                                                               
Number 0205                                                                    
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN ROKEBERG commented the bill is a tough goer.  He stated he            
would hold HB 477 for further consideration.                                   
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN ROKEBERG asked for a brief at ease at 3:43 p.m.                       
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN ROKEBERG called the meeting back to order at 3:51 p.m.                
                                                                               
REPRESENTATIVE HUDSON commented on the committee scheduling of a               
bill regarding multi year labor contracts and an opinion he                    
received from the attorney general.                                            
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN ROKEBERG indicated HB 477 will be held in committee.