Hawaii Subject | Residential Landlord-Tenant Code

Filter View [Reset All]
Syndicate content
StanceStateBillStatusSummary/TitleLast Actionsort icon
HISB2132PassAmends the deadline related to the repair of conditions that constitute health or safety violations. Increases the amount deducted from a tenant's rent for the tenant's actual expenditures to correct health or safety violations and defective conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-05-29
Act 032, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1132).
HISB2834PassAmends the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to provide for a process to dispose of the tenant's personal property and surrender the dwelling unit to a landlord when there is a death of a tenant. Takes effect 11/1/2024. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-05-29
Act 033, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1133).
HISB2126Engross

Sine Die
Requires a landlord to accept either rental security insurance or a surety bond in lieu of a traditional security deposit, upon a tenant's request. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2094Engross

Sine Die
Requires landlords to change or rekey all locks to a residential property before the tenant's date of initial occupancy for any lease with a term of six months or longer. Provides a grace period of thirty days after the tenant's date of initial occup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB3211Intro

Sine Die
Requires landlords to change or rekey all locks to a residential property before the tenant's date of initial occupancy for any lease period of six months or longer. Provides a grace period of thirty days after the tenant's date of initial occupancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-20
The committee on CPN deferred the measure.
HISB2336Intro

Sine Die
Requires that condominium renters who prevail in a lawsuit for a violation of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code be awarded reasonable attorneys' fees, costs, and the greater of $1,000 or threefold damages. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1339Intro

Sine Die
Requires, for fixed-term tenancies, a landlord to notify a tenant of any intent to raise the rent for any subsequent rental agreement or any intent to terminate a rental agreement sixty days before the expiration of the original rental agreement. Inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1984Intro

Sine Die
Amends the deadlines related to the repair of conditions that constitute health or safety violations and the payment of past due rent. Increases the amount deducted from a tenant's rent for the tenant's actual expenditures to correct health or safety...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-30
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2512Intro

Sine Die
Requires a landlord to accept either rental security insurance or security deposit installment payments in lieu of a traditional security deposit, upon a tenant's request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2726Intro

Sine Die
Allows tenants who prevail in a lawsuit for a violation of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs and threefold damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2088Intro

Sine Die
Requires that condominium renters who prevail in a lawsuit for a violation of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs and threefold damages. Requires the Real Estate Commission to establish a Condominium A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB2907Intro

Sine Die
Requires a landlord to remediate a residential premises to a habitable standard in compliance with certain national standards upon receiving notice from a tenant of a condition due to an environmental public health event. Establishes conditions for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1464Intro

Sine Die
Requires, for fixed term tenancies, a landlord to notify a tenant of any intent to raise the rent for any subsequent rental agreement or any intent to terminate a rental agreement ninety days before the expiration of the original rental agreement, bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HIHB1484Intro

Sine Die
Prohibits a landlord from increasing a tenant's rent more than five per cent plus the percentage change in the cost of living during the previous twelve months. Prohibits a landlord from increasing a tenant's rent more than once over a twelve-month p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB644Intro

Sine Die
Allows a landlord or landlord's agent to charge an application screening fee for certain applicants at the time a rental application is processed for residential property. Requires the landlord or landlord's agent to provide a receipt for payment of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB1113Intro

Sine Die
Prohibits a landlord from increasing a tenant's rent more than five per cent plus the percentage change in the cost of living during the previous twelve months. Prohibits a landlord from increasing a tenant's rent more than once over a twelve-month p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
Syndicate content
feedback