HB 323 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO TEACHER HOUSING.

Summary

Establishes the Teacher Housing Assistance Program to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers. Appropriates funds out of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 16, 2025 Last action Feb 12, 2025

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HB323 → HB323_HD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

This bill version was reformatted from a standard legislative document to a Microsoft Word document format, which added metadata headers and footers but did not change the substantive policy content. The core provisions regarding teacher housing assistance remain identical, though the effective date was changed from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000 in the final section.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; only formatting and metadata differences.

TECHNICAL

The document format changed from plain text legislative markup to a Word document (.docx) with embedded metadata including author information, timestamps, and page numbers.

Multiple metadata lines were added including document title, author (Patrick Comiso), timestamps, and revision numbers that are not part of the legislative text.

Original page headers and footers from the legislative markup were removed in favor of Word document formatting.

TIMELINE

Section 6 was changed from an effective date of July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000, which appears to be an error or placeholder rather than an intentional policy change.

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Committee

Feb 3, 2025

Committee

Reported from EDN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 47) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to HSG.

lower

Jan 28, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to EDN, HSG, FIN, referral sheet 1

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 16, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

7 primary · 0 co-sponsors