HB 973 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS.

Summary

Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to offer, list, advertise, or display a transient accommodations rental rate that includes all resort fees required for the furnishing of transient accommodations. Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to include all applicable taxes and fees imposed by a government on the stay in the total price to be paid before the consumer reserves the furnishing of transient accommodations. Establishes penalties. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 21, 2025 Last action Feb 4, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB973 → HB973_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was reformatted and standardized from a House draft version to a House Committee version (HD1), with minor text corrections and a significant change to the effective date from January 1, 2026 to January 1, 3000. The core policy requirements regarding transparent pricing for transient accommodations remain unchanged.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; the policy requirements for fee transparency remain the same.

TIMELINE

The effective date was changed from January 1, 2026 to January 1, 3000, likely as a placeholder or error during committee review.

TECHNICAL

Text formatting and markup were standardized to match House Committee version conventions, including corrections to character encoding and spacing.

Minor text corrections were made, such as changing 'sam~ pricing' to 'same pricing' and adjusting spacing around em-dashes.

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Key actions

Committee

Feb 4, 2025

Committee

Reported from TOU (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 128) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to CPC.

lower

Jan 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on TOU recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Tam, Templo, Holt, Hussey, Ilagan, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none.

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Committee

Referred to TOU, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 3

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

13 primary · 0 co-sponsors