HB 1096 Hawaii House · 2025 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

Sub-Topics: Affordable Housing Veteran 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 21, 2025 Last action Mar 11, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB1096 → HB1096_HD1 · 2 edits

MINOR

This bill was reformatted from a standard legislative text to a metadata-heavy document structure, likely representing a system-generated version rather than a human-readable draft. The core policy content remains consistent: repealing tenant selection preferences for disabled veterans and spouses of deceased veterans in Hawaii's low-income public housing program to align with federal requirements. No substantive policy changes were made to the bill's provisions.

Scope change

No substantive change to scope; the document structure changed from standard legislative format to a metadata-rich format with timestamps and system identifiers.

TECHNICAL

Document format changed from standard legislative text to a metadata-heavy structure with system identifiers, timestamps, and template information.

TIMELINE

Effective date changed from 'upon approval' to 'July 1, 3000' (likely a placeholder or system error in the metadata version).

Floor votes · House Mar 4, 2025

How they voted

49–0

Passed · 2 other

Total votes 51

Mar 4, 2025

D Democratic41

41 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican10

8 Yea 2

80% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

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

Committee

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