RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
Summary
Expands from forty-five days to sixty days, the time within which: any agency that reviews and comments upon an application for a business or development-related permit, license, or approval for a Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing project shall respond; a county shall approve, approve with modification, or disapprove housing projects developed by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation; and the Land Use Commission shall approve, approve with modification, or disapprove a boundary change for a Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing project. Clarifies that the provisions that require agencies, counties, and the Land Use Commission to act within sixty days, or deem their failure to do so as their acceptance or approval of the application, project, or petition, do not apply to applications, projects, and petitions that have been withdrawn.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 20, 2023
Last action Jan 27, 2023
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
4
Key actions
0
Committee
2
Jan 27, 2023
Committee
Re-Referred to HOU/WTL, JDC.
upper
Jan 25, 2023
Committee
Referred to HOU/PSM/WTL, JDC.
upper
Jan 20, 2023
Introduced
Introduced.
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Brandon Elefante
DDemocratic
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