HB 1467 Hawaii House · 2026 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 Dec 8, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB1467_HD1 → HB1467_HD2 · 6 edits

MODERATE

The bill was revised from House District 1 to House District 2, primarily to reorganize the statutory sections and remove the establishment of a special fund. The definition of 'Disaster' was reordered to list earthquakes first, and a section requiring the confidentiality of grant applications was deleted. The annual reporting requirements were adjusted to remove financial fund details, and the appropriations section was simplified to eliminate the creation of a special fund account.

Scope change

The bill's scope regarding fund management was narrowed by removing the legal establishment of a special fund and the associated reporting requirements for that fund, while the core program scope remains unchanged.

DEFINITION

The list of items included in the definition of 'Disaster' was reordered, placing 'earthquakes' at the beginning of the list.

REQUIREMENT

A provision requiring that grant application documents remain confidential and inadmissible in private civil actions was deleted.

The annual report requirements were updated to remove the mandate for reporting revenues and expenditures from the special fund.

FISCAL

The legal establishment of the 'Strengthen Hawaii Homes Program Special Fund' and the specific rules for depositing moneys into it were removed.

The appropriations section was revised to remove references to the special fund and simplify the language regarding the use of general revenues.

TECHNICAL

The bill's section numbering was reorganized, merging the former Section 3 and 4 into a single Section 3 and renaming the final section to Section 4.

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

Lower · Passed

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