HB 655 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Summary

Limits the required payment of certain unpaid motor vehicle taxes and fees and accompanying financial penalties to those incurred during the most recent five consecutive years of delinquency. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Last action Feb 14, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB655 → HB655_HD1 · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill was reformatted from a draft version to a House Committee version (HD1), with minor text cleanup and a significant change to the effective date. The core policy remains the same: limiting unpaid motor vehicle tax penalties to only the most recent five years of delinquency to prevent vehicle abandonment. The effective date was changed from 'upon approval' to July 1, 3000, which appears to be a placeholder or clerical error rather than an intentional policy change.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; the policy provisions remain identical.

TIMELINE

The effective date was changed from 'upon approval' to July 1, 3000, which is likely a clerical error or placeholder and should be verified.

TECHNICAL

The document was reformatted from a draft version to a House Committee version (HD1), with minor text cleanup and removal of metadata.

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Committee

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Matayoshi, Poepoe, Ward excused (4).

lower

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 749), recommending referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 13, 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, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Shimizu; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.

lower

Feb 4, 2025

Committee

Reported from TRN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 72) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JHA.

lower

Jan 28, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, La Chica, Miyake, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to TRN, JHA, FIN, referral sheet 2

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors