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HISB2337Engross
50%
Expands the counties' authorization to exercise the same powers as the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for purposes of developing, constructing, financing, refinancing, or providing mixed-use developments. Applies to bond proceeds ...
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2024-03-20
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1808Engross
50%
Expands the counties' authorization to exercise the same powers as the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for purposes of developing, constructing, financing, refinancing, or providing mixed-use developments. Applies to bond proceeds ...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2018Engross
50%
Prohibits a county from changing the land use designation or zoning of a parcel or parcels of property to a less intensive use or reducing the intensity of land use within an existing zoning district below what was allowed under the general plan or s...
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2024-03-14
To House Housing Committee
HIHB2007Engross
50%
Allows religious institutions, educational institutions, and medical institutions to build dwelling units on lands within the state urban land use district, under certain conditions. Sunsets 1/1/2034. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3)
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2024-03-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2011Engross
50%
Allows the construction of multi-family dwelling units on any lot within certain designated county zoning districts, subject to reasonable standards adopted by each county. Takes effect 4/14/2112. (SD2)
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2024-03-07
To House Housing Committee
HISB2029Engross
50%
Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale or rent in perpetuity to buyers or renters who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants or renters, and do not own a...
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2024-03-07
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB2607Intro
25%
Revises the construction defect claims process. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2606Intro
25%
Establishes additional requirements for notices of claims of construction defects. Takes effect 7/1/24040. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2100Intro
25%
Prohibits landlords from discriminating against a potential tenant based on the tenant's credit history, credit score, or creditworthiness. Expands prohibition on employers from discriminating against an individual in compensation or in the terms, co...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2077Intro
25%
Establishes an Interim Construction Subaccount within the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund to be used for the interim financing of new construction projects under section 201H-43, HRS, prioritizing projects located on state- or county-owned lands; provid...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2045Intro
25%
Amends the priority for which moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund are to be used. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to: (1) prioritize the allocation of low-income housing tax credits to certain projects and (2) ...
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2024-02-13
The committee on WAM deferred the measure.
HISB2026Intro
25%
Requires the Director of Finance to consider, before the selection of a depository for the state treasury, the beneficial effects to the State of using depositories within the State, including but not limited to lending at favorable terms for the cre...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2469Intro
25%
Adds credit enhancement for construction loans to the list of permitted uses of moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to adopt rules.
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2024-02-13
The committee on WAM deferred the measure.
HISB2065Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Revolving Fund to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for the purpose of enhancing credit and guaranteeing and insuring loans made by private financial instituti...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1339Intro
25%
Requires, for fixed-term tenancies, a landlord to notify a tenant of any intent to raise the rent for any subsequent rental agreement or any intent to terminate a rental agreement sixty days before the expiration of the original rental agreement. Inc...
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2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB2507Intro
25%
Excludes from civil service requirements employees performing services in University of Hawaii student or employee housing and certain personal services in privately financed leased or owned buildings.
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2024-02-08
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2175Intro
25%
Authorizes the counties to reclassify up to one hundred acres of land areas in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts; provided that at least seventy-five per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB2212Intro
25%
Allows religious, educational, and medical institutions to build residential units on lands zoned for residential or commercial use within the urban state land use district, under certain conditions.
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2024-02-07
To House Housing Committee
HISB3331Intro
25%
Establishes an alternative process for the termination of the rental agreement that involves mediation. Requires the Governor to notify the Chief Justice, Legislature, and Revisor of Statutes when the final wildfire proclamation will expire. Declares...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2042Intro
25%
Requires counties to grant building permits within sixty days if the application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other certain conditions are met. (SD1)
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2024-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2063Intro
25%
Prohibits the legislative body of a county from imposing requirements for residential incomes lower than those adopted or established by the State for housing projects. (SD1)
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2024-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3227Intro
25%
Allows religious, educational, and medical institutions to build residential units on lands zoned for residential or commercial use within the urban state land use district, under certain conditions.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Housing Committee
HIHB2333Intro
25%
Establishes the accessory dwelling unit housing development program with the Hawaii Community Development Authority to award subsidies to individuals who build accessory dwelling units. Exempts those accessory dwelling units from general excise tax f...
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2024-01-26
To House Housing Committee
HISB3046Intro
25%
Repeals the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's Homebuyers' Club Program.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB3105Intro
25%
Requires the Director of Taxation to develop and administer a one-time tax amnesty program that would waive criminal prosecution, fines, penalties, and interest related to general excise tax and transient accommodations tax for qualified owners who c...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB3108Intro
25%
Repeals the July 1, 2024, sunset date of section 1 of Act 197, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, to make permanent the exemption of housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from school impact fees.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2419Intro
25%
Repeals the July 1, 2024, sunset date of section 1 of Act 197, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, to make permanent the exemption of housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from school impact fees.
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2024-01-26
To House Education Committee
HISB2015Intro
25%
Amends the priority for which moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund are to be used.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Housing Committee
HIHB1632Intro
25%
Requires the counties to adopt an ordinance allowing licensed architects and professional engineers to self-certify that plans accompanying a building permit application are in compliance with all applicable state and county building codes.
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2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee
HIHB1730Intro
25%
Establishes the accessory dwelling unit housing development program with the Hawaii Community Development Authority to award subsidies to individuals who build accessory dwelling units on an island with a population of more than 150,000, but less tha...
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1702Intro
25%
Reduces zoning restrictions for affordable housing development.
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1764Intro
25%
Amends the priority for which moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund are to be used.
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2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee
HIHB2009Intro
25%
Short form bill relating to housing.
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2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee
HIHB2008Intro
25%
Short form bill relating to housing.
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2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee
HIHB2075Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to further reduce its homestead program applicant waitlist.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2030Intro
25%
Makes permanent the exemption from school impact fees of housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
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2024-01-24
To House Education Committee
HIHB2010Intro
25%
Short form bill relating to housing.
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2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee
HISB2651Intro
25%
Makes permanent the exemption from school impact fees of housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2263Intro
25%
Relating To Housing. Short form bill.
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2024-01-19
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2340Intro
25%
Provides a timeframe for a claimant to accept a contractor's proposal to inspect an alleged construction defect. Provides a timeframe for a claimant and contractor to agree to the date of the inspection. Provides a timeframe for a claimant to accept ...
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2024-01-19
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2025Intro
25%
Eliminates certain restrictions for developing state-owned real property located within one-half mile radius of any station along the elevated mass transit system. Permits high-density development of state-owned real property located within one-half ...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2041Intro
25%
Requires that in evaluating and determining the award for redevelopment of state or county lands through competitive sealed bidding or competitive sealed proposals, the number of housing units proposed in conjunction with project design and financial...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2022Intro
25%
Exempts certain housing developments from assessments of school impact fees.
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2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB553Intro
25%
Relating To Housing. Short form bill.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB863Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Corporation and the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Special Fund for the purpose of enhancing credit and guaranteeing and insuring loans made by private financial institutions to developers of res...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1256Intro
25%
Establishes and appropriates moneys for a Maui campus housing pilot program, to be administered by the school facilities authority which shall make on-campus housing available to employees at Lahainaluna and Kulanihakoi high schools on the island of ...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1617Intro
25%
Authorizes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, in consultation with the Department of Human Services and Department of Health, to establish and administer a Kauhale Program to provide individual or shared housing units and support services to certai...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB331Intro
25%
Prohibits a county from enacting a development policy, standard, or condition that would have the effect of changing the land use designation or zoning of a parcel or parcels of property to a less intensive use or reducing the intensity of land use w...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB867Engross
50%
Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale in perpetuity to buyers who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants, and do not own any other real property. Requir...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB1464Intro
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Requires, for fixed term tenancies, a landlord to notify a tenant of any intent to raise the rent for any subsequent rental agreement or any intent to terminate a rental agreement ninety days before the expiration of the original rental agreement, bu...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
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