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House committee backs consumer-notice changes for hotels, adopts DCCA amendments to SB 83
Summary
The House Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs Committee recommended SB 83 with amendments to require hotel notice of service disruptions and restore consumer remedies; committee adoption was recorded after testimony from consumer advocates, hotel workers, and hotel industry representatives.
Chair David Tarnas opened the discussion of Senate Bill 83, SD2, HD1, which would require hotel keepers to provide notice to guests and third‑party vendors about certain service disruptions. The committee voted to adopt amendments from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) to reinstate remedies and add a no‑waiver provision, and recommended the measure with technical edits.
Representatives of the DCCA’s Office of Consumer Protection urged reinserting remedies and adding language that would void any attempted waiver of the notice requirements, saying without remedies “this bill has…
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