HB 528 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL LEASEHOLDS.

Summary

Exempts state and county lands leased after July 1, 2025, for an initial period of no less than ninety-nine years from state law governing residential leaseholds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

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 17, 2025 Last action Mar 6, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB528 → HB528_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted from a clean legislative document to a file with metadata headers and footers. The substantive content of the bill remains the same, though the effective date in Section 4 was changed from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000 in the new version. The description section was also updated to reflect this new effective date.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; the exemptions for state and county lands leased after July 1, 2025 remain the same.

TIMELINE

The effective date of the Act was changed from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000 in Section 4.

TECHNICAL

The document format changed from a clean legislative text to a file with metadata headers, footers, and file information.

The summary description was updated to reflect the new effective date of July 1, 3000.

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 6, 2025

Committee

Referred to CPN/WTL, JDC.

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 252).

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading with Representative(s) Amato, Belatti, Souza voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Iwamoto, Perruso voting no (2) and Representative(s) Pierick, Ward excused (2). Transmitted to Senate.

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Hashem, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Belatti; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kahaloa.

lower

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on JHA with Representative(s) Amato voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Matayoshi, Poepoe, Ward excused (4).

lower

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from WAL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 717), recommending referral to JHA.

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Ichiyama, Morikawa, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Belatti, Souza; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Iwamoto; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Poepoe, Woodson.

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Committee

Reported from HSG (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 204) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to WAL.

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 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to HSG, WAL, JHA, referral sheet 2

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors