| HI | HB2286 | Intro
25% | Requires fees for attorneys retained by a condominium association to be paid from the association's funds or reserves, except in matters involving the collection of delinquent assessments. Prohibits associations from assessing, demanding, or seeking ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2554 | Intro
25% | Requires pharmacies, other than on-site pharmacies in institutional facilities, to make a pharmacy intern, pharmacy technician, pharmacy employee, or an employee of the retail establishment the pharmacy is located in available to assist a registered ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1970 | Intro
25% | Requires solar conduit- and electrical panel-readiness for new residential construction offered for sale at fair market value and electric vehicle-readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2616 | Intro
25% | Establishes a funding program that incentivizes electric vehicle charging systems and infrastructure development and allows the Electric Vehicle Charging System Subaccount to expend funds for this program. Increases the amount of petroleum tax to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1687 | Intro
25% | Requires full retail crediting for energy exports enrolled in grid services programs, whereby energy exported to the electrical grid past a participating customer-generator's point of common coupling from photovoltaic solar systems paired with batter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1990 | Intro
25% | Establishes a regulatory framework for the sale of travel insurance in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2165 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a landlord from renting or leasing, or offering to rent or lease, a dwelling unit in the district described in section 4-1(2)(D), HRS, at a rate that exceeds the rate for which that dwelling unit was rented or leased or offered for rent or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1984 | Intro
25% | Amends the deadlines related to the repair of conditions that constitute health or safety violations and the payment of past due rent. Increases the amount deducted from a tenant's rent for the tenant's actual expenditures to correct health or safety...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1692 | Intro
25% | Allows condominiums to be eligible for commercial property assessed financing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1647 | Intro
25% | Requires boards of directors of condominium associations to deposit at least ten per cent of all revenues for each fiscal year, except for estimated replacement reserve assessments, into the total replacement reserves fund of the association. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1728 | Intro
25% | Establishes tax credits for insurers providing full property coverage to owners and associations of condominiums in the amount equal to twenty per cent of the insurance premium. Provides additional ten per cent tax credits to insurers incorporated in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2639 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Combat Sports Commission of Hawaii. Provides for regulation of combat sports. Prohibits no rules combat or similar contests. Establishes the Combat Sports Commission Special Fund. Makes appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2589 | Intro
25% | Establishes a three-year surcharge on the liquor tax. Repeals 06/30/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2290 | Intro
25% | Prohibits planned community associations from planting yellow oleander or causing or allowing yellow oleander to be planted on their real property. Effective 7/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2314 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a condominium unit owner, resident, tenant, or their guests, or any person acting on behalf of the unit owner, from harassing or interfering with board members, managing agents, resident managers, association employees, or vendors contracte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2680 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Ombudsman's Office for condominium associations within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes the Ombudsman's Office Special Fund. Requires condominium association board members to meet certain educational requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2207 | Intro
25% | Authorizes persons to apply for a permit to act as solicitors or representatives of licensed wineries, brewpubs, and small craft producer pubs any county of the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2726 | Intro
25% | Allows tenants who prevail in a lawsuit for a violation of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs and threefold damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2386 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the eligibility to recover from the Mortgage Loan Recovery Fund to include consumers aggrieved by the conduct of a mortgage loan originator licensee. Allows for the annual use of $50,000 of the fund for training the Division of Financial In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2615 | Intro
25% | Requires the PUC to solicit competitive offers from an entity operating under a non-investor-owned utilities ownership model before approving the sale of a public utility, in whole or in part, to a private entity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2794 | Intro
25% | Requires electronic smoking device of e-liquid manufacturers to submit certifications with the Department of Taxation annually, stating that products comply with federal regulations. Requires the Department of Taxation to maintain a directory. Impose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2741 | Intro
25% | Establishes a definition for "premium cigar" that is distinct from a "large cigar" and adds a definition for "characterizing flavor" in the Cigarette Tax and Tobacco Tax Law. Excludes premium cigars from percentage excise tax. Establishes an excise t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2681 | Intro
25% | Establishes an ombudsman's office for homeowner associations within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Office of Consumer Protection. Establishes an Ombudsman's Office Special Fund. Requires board members of condominium associations, coo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2442 | Intro
25% | Repeals section 328J-11.5, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2624 | Intro
25% | Establishes a substance abuse treatment special fund. Increases liquor tax rates to unspecified amounts. Allocates increased liquor tax revenues to the substance abuse treatment special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2206 | Intro
25% | Removes the requirement that establishments holding specific classes of liquor licenses maintain liquor liability insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2512 | Intro
25% | Requires a landlord to accept either rental security insurance or security deposit installment payments in lieu of a traditional security deposit, upon a tenant's request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2387 | Intro
25% | Focuses the law on its intended scope, installment lenders, and clarifies that the law is not intended to eliminate the ability of lenders to make low interest rate loans under the interest and usury law. Removes the term "consumer loan" to consisten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2312 | Intro
25% | Requires employees, applicants, and contracted vendors of condominium associations in employment positions that grant access to security cameras and footage to undergo a background check and be licensed consistent with the requirements in chapter 463...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2203 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary restriction that only current and former residents of Hawaii may purchase residential property. Prohibits real estate brokers and real estate salespersons from buying, offering to buy, or negotiating the purchase of residentia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2209 | Intro
25% | Authorizes liquor sold through a class 10 license to be consumed on or off the premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2727 | Intro
25% | Requires planned community associations to either develop and adopt program rules for a neighborhood security watch program within the association's planned community or allocate a portion of the association's regular assessments to fund a neighborho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2573 | Intro
25% | Requires planned community associations to either develop and adopt program rules for a neighborhood security watch program within the association's planned community or allocate a portion of the association's regular assessments to fund a neighborho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2701 | Intro
25% | Prohibits retaliatory actions against a unit owner, board member, managing agent, resident manager, or association employee who takes lawful action in an effort to address, prevent, or stop a violation of the condominium law, the governing documents ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1983 | Intro
25% | Amends the landlord-tenant code to provide for a process to dispense of property and return the premises to a landlord when there is a death of a tenant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2163 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "prospective loss costs" to incorporate catastrophe modeling instead of historical aggregate losses. Prohibits insurers from basing certain insurance rates on past loss experience within or outside the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1683 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the rights and duties of landlords and tenants in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1681 | Intro
25% | Repeals the regulation of motor carriers by the Public Utilities Commission. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2050 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to modernize and expand technology systems and software for new and existing policies and programs in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1532 | Intro
25% | Establishes a tax credit for certain owners of a condominium whose association is increasing maintenance fees to comply with a county ordinance requiring an automatic fire sprinkler system or alternative fire prevention and fire safety system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2053 | Intro
25% | Establishes a cap on insurance premiums for residential properties located in lava zones on Hawaii island based on premiums of comparable residential properties not located in lava zones on Hawaii island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1982 | Intro
25% | Defines "low alcohol by volume spirits beverage". Establishes a tax on low alcohol by volume spirits beverages at a rate of $1.98 per wine gallon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2055 | Intro
25% | Establishes a moratorium on foreclosure actions for property located in lava zones 1 and 2.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1745 | Intro
25% | Establishes an ombudsman's office for homeowner associations within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes an ombudsman's office special fund. Requires board members of condominium associations, cooperative housing corporations,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1739 | Intro
25% | Establishes labeling requirements for products that were developed or tested using human cells.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2054 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Property Insurance Association to offer additional types of homeowners insurance policy options that exclude lava coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2036 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Fire-free Program within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to provide interest-free loans to condominiums for the installation of fire sprinklers or alternative life safety improvements. Declares that the appropriation e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2088 | Intro
25% | Requires that condominium renters who prevail in a lawsuit for a violation of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs and threefold damages. Requires the Real Estate Commission to establish a Condominium A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1672 | Intro
25% | Removes the regulation of dancing on licensee premises from the jurisdiction of liquor commissions. Repeals the grant of police powers upon liquor commission investigators. Repeals a category for dispenser licenses in which employees sit with patrons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1748 | Intro
25% | Authorizes condominiums to invest funds in excess of their estimated replacement reserves into medium grade or high grade obligations, as specified by the Securities Valuation Office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
