Rep. Nadine Nakamura

Establishes the Homeless Services Special Fund. Allows counties to apply for matching funds from the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund for certain housing projects. Increases the conveyance tax rates for certain properties. Establishes conveyance tax rates for multifamily residential properties. Establishes new exemptions to the conveyance tax. Allocates collected conveyance taxes to the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund, Homeless Services Special Fund and, and Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund. Amends allocations to the Land Conservation Fund and Rental Housing Revolving Fund.

Removes state of mind requirement pertaining to a victim's age for felony assaults aggravated by the victim's age. Raises the threshold age from 60 years of age or older to 65 years of age or older.

Maddy summaryHB 390 establishes increased penalties for bribery offenses under specific circumstances, as stated in its official abstract. The bill directly affects individuals or entities involved in bribery cases by raising the potential criminal consequences. Key provisions include heightened penalties (though the abstract does not specify exact changes or qualifying circumstances). The bill was introduced on January 16, 2025, and referred to the Judiciary Committee on January 21, 2025. No further details about the mechanisms or affected parties are provided in the available context.

Establishes recordkeeping requirements for secondhand dealers, requiring records to be retained for 2 years from the date of sale. Amends and standardizes recordkeeping requirements for pawnbrokers, requiring records to be retained for 2 years from the date of maturity.

Maddy summaryThis procedural resolution sets the specific recess days for Hawaii's 2025 legislative session. It designates February 20-26 as mandatory recess days and identifies additional recess dates in January, March, April, and May. The bill does not create new laws or affect policy; it only establishes the session schedule per constitutional requirements. All legislators and staff participating in the 2025 session will be affected by these scheduling changes.

Maddy summaryThis concurrent resolution (HCR 2) schedules a joint session of Hawaii's legislature for January 21, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in the House chambers to hear an address from Governor Josh Green. It directly affects the legislature (both House and Senate) and the Governor, requiring them to convene as a single body for this purpose. The resolution has no policy provisions - it solely sets a date and location for the Governor's address to the assembled legislature. No substantive policy changes or affected constituents are involved.

Requires the University of Hawaiʻi Water Resources Research Center and the Sea Grant College Program to develop an overlay with the Hawaiʻi Cesspool Prioritization Tool to identify specific priority areas in which the county sewer system or other centralized treatment system may most feasibly be expanded or constructed to reduce or eliminate cesspools before 1/1/2050. Makes an appropriation. (CD1)

Establishes a pre-litigation mediation procedure for tenancies that are subject to the eviction moratorium issued under the Governor's emergency proclamations relating to wildfires once the eviction moratorium expires. Restricts when landlord remedies are available depending on the amount of rent due. Appropriates funds to the Judiciary for mediation services. Effective 7/1/2024, except the new pre-litigation procedures are effective on the expiration of the final eviction moratorium. Repeals certain provisions on 12/31/2026, or on the one-year anniversary of the expiration of the Governor's final eviction moratorium emergency supplementary proclamation relating to wildfires, whichever occurs sooner. (CD1)

Increases the maximum fine for violations of the fire protection laws. Specifies that each day a violation exists or continues to exist shall constitute a distinct and separate offense. Raises the criminal penalty for the offense of arson in the fourth degree to a class C felony if the offense was committed during the time period and within the geographic area in which a red flag warning was in effect. Provides that the state of mind requirement with respect to the attendant circumstance that the red flag warning was in effect is negligence. (SD1)

Beginning 7/1/2027, requires roasted coffee, instant coffee, and ready-to-drink coffee beverages that contain Hawaiʻi-grown and Hawaiʻi-processed coffee blended with coffee of another regional origin to contain no less than fifty-one per cent coffee by weight from the Hawaiʻi geographic origin. Exempts retailers that do not package roasted coffee, instant coffee, or ready-to-drink coffee beverages from liability for the sale of roasted coffee, instant coffee, or ready-to-drink coffee beverages that use a label or advertisement in violation of the coffee labeling law. (CD1)