HB 528 Hawaii House · 2026 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

Feb 2026

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Last action Feb 2, 2026

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HB528 → HB528_HD1 · 1 edit

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted to include metadata headers and updated the effective date of the law from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 3000. This change significantly delays when the new leasehold exemptions will take effect, likely to allow for future legislative review or to align with a different fiscal cycle.

Scope change

The substantive scope of the bill remains unchanged; it still exempts state and county lands leased after a specific date from residential leasehold regulations.

TIMELINE

The effective date for the Act was changed from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 3000, meaning the new exemptions will not apply until the year 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

Feb 2, 2026

Committee

Re-Referred to CPN/WLA, JDC.

upper

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

Lower · Passed

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