SCR 123 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

REQUESTING THE JUDICIARY TO CONVENE A WORKING GROUP TO REVIEW THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE TO DETERMINE IF ANY AMENDMENTS OR UPDATES ARE NECESSARY TO IMPROVE LANDLORD-TENANT INTERACTIONS AND ADDRESS OTHER HOUSING ISSUES.

SCR 123 is a Senate Concurrent Resolution requesting Hawaii's Judiciary to convene a three-year working group to study landlord-tenant issues. The group will examine ways to increase rental housing supply, improve interactions between renters and property owners, and identify potential updates to the state's landlord-tenant code. It specifies members including judges, legislators, tenant advocates, property owners, and legal experts, with a report due to the Legislature by early 2026. This resolution does not change existing laws but asks for research to inform future policy.

Issues: ✓ Housing

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

May 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Governor

Introduced Mar 7, 2025 Last action May 2, 2025

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SCR123_HD1 → SCR123_SD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was reformatted from a Senate document to a Senate Concurrent Resolution format with updated metadata. The substantive policy content remains largely the same, requesting the Judiciary to convene a working group to review the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code. The scope of the working group's tasks was slightly expanded to specifically include identifying unused rental housing stock. The composition of the working group and its timeline remain unchanged.

Scope change

The bill's scope was slightly expanded to explicitly include identifying rental housing stock that is not being offered for rent as one of the working group's tasks.

TECHNICAL

Document was reformatted from a standard Senate bill format to a Senate Concurrent Resolution format with updated metadata fields.

Resolved clauses were reformatted with different spacing and character encoding while maintaining the same substantive content.

SCOPE

Added specific task to identify potential unused rental housing stock that is not being offered for rent.

Floor votes

How they voted

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

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Amendments

May 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

Resolution adopted in final form.

upper

Apr 30, 2025

Introduced

Senate agrees with House Amendments. Placed on the calendar for Final Adoption on 05-02-25.

upper

Apr 30, 2025

Introduced

Reconsideration of action taken on 04-21-25; agree to House amendments.

upper

Apr 21, 2025

Amended

Senate disagrees with House amendments.

upper

Apr 21, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 777).

upper

Apr 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

Adopted with Representative(s) Iwamoto voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Amato, Cochran, Garrett, Ichiyama, Perruso, Quinlan excused (6).

lower

Apr 17, 2025

Committee

Re-referred to CPC, referral sheet 33

lower

Apr 14, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on JHA as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0).

lower

Apr 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from CPC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2081) as amended in HD 1, recommending referral to JHA.

lower

Apr 10, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Chun, Kong, Marten, Tam; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Iwamoto; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Ilagan, Ichiyama, Lowen, Pierick.

lower

Apr 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to CPC, JHA, referral sheet 28

lower

Apr 3, 2025

Introduced

Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 507) in amended form (SD 1).

lower

Apr 3, 2025

Upper · Passed

Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1). Transmitted to House.

upper

Apr 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from CPN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1598) with recommendation of adoption, as amended (SD 1).

upper

Apr 1, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Richards, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

upper

Mar 25, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on CPN has scheduled a public hearing on 04-01-25 10:06AM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 12, 2025

Committee

Referred to CPN.

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Introduced

Offered.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors