HB 1096 Hawaii House · 2026 Regular Session

RELATING TO TENANT SELECTION.

Summary

Repeals the tenant selection preferences for disabled veterans and the spouses of deceased veterans in the State Low-Income Housing Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Issues: ✗ Housing ✗ Veterans

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 21, 2025 Last action Dec 8, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB1096 → HB1096_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

This bill amends HB 1096 to repeal tenant selection preferences for disabled veterans and the spouses of deceased veterans in Hawaii's low-income public housing program, aligning state law with federal requirements. The changes include updating the bill's title to reflect House District 1 sponsorship, adjusting metadata such as author names and dates, and modifying the effective date to July 1, 3000. Additionally, minor formatting adjustments were made to the text, including capitalization and punctuation.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains focused on repealing specific tenant selection preferences in the State Low-Income Housing Program, but the effective date was changed to a future date of July 1, 3000, indicating a placeholder or intentional delay.

TIMELINE

The effective date of the Act was changed from 'upon approval' to 'July 1, 3000'.

TECHNICAL

The bill title was updated to include 'HD 1', and author names were changed from 'Merle Bala' and 'Shelby Ichiyama' to 'Jpatton' and 'Bill HD.dotm clerk2'.

Minor text adjustments were made, including changing 'State law' to 'state law' and adding a semicolon in a sentence about federal government limitations.

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 7, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HOU/PSM has scheduled a public hearing on 03-11-25 1:00PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Committee

Referred to HOU/PSM, JDC.

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 328).

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) 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, Belatti, Hashem, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kahaloa.

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Lower · Passed

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on JHA with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Kitagawa, Ward excused (3).

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Committee

Reported from PBS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 547), recommending referral to JHA.

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Iwamoto, Hashem, Lamosao, Morikawa, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Ichiyama, Poepoe, Woodson.

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Committee

Reported from HSG (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 208) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to PBS.

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 23, 2025

Committee

Referred to HSG, PBS, JHA, referral sheet 3

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors