HB 1467 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO HOUSING RESILIENCY.

Summary

Establishes the Strengthen Hawaii Homes Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to administer grants to retrofit residential properties to enhance resilience against disaster impacts and reduce potential insurance liabilities. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)

Issues: ✓ Housing

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 23, 2025 Last action Mar 20, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB1467_HD1 → HB1467_HD2 · 5 edits

MODERATE

The bill was reformatted from a standard legislative text to a document template with metadata headers, but the substantive policy content remains largely unchanged. The core provisions establishing the Strengthen Hawaii Homes Program, eligibility criteria, and grant requirements are preserved in the new format.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; the content remains the same Strengthen Hawaii Homes Act for residential property retrofitting.

TECHNICAL

Document structure changed from standard legislative format to template metadata format with headers, timestamps, and system identifiers.

Page numbers and line numbers were removed from the text body.

Header information was reorganized with metadata fields including bill numbers, dates, and system codes.

The effective date was changed from a standard placeholder to July 1, 3000, which appears to be a placeholder or error.

New metadata section added at the end with report title, description, and legislative intent notes.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on EDT has scheduled a public hearing on 03-20-25 1:00PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Committee

Referred to EDT, WAM/CPN.

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 377).

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Muraoka, Shimizu voting no (4) and Representative(s) Pierick, Ward excused (2). Transmitted to Senate.

lower

Feb 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Alcos, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Kitagawa, Ward.

lower

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Garcia, Pierick voting no (2) and Representative(s) Cochran, Matayoshi, Poepoe, Ward excused (4).

lower

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from CPC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 782) as amended in HD 2, recommending referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Chun, Ilagan, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Kong, Lowen, Marten, Tam; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Pierick.

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Committee

Reported from HSG (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 207) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to CPC.

lower

Feb 5, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, Kitagawa, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, La Chica, Pierick.

lower

Jan 27, 2025

Committee

Referred to HSG, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 4

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

5 primary · 0 co-sponsors