2024
2024
Every year, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands prepares and submits legislative proposals for inclusion in the Governor’s Administrative Package for the next session of the Hawaii State Legislature. Legislative Timeline
- June 27, 2023 – DHHL solicits legislative proposals
- July 31, 2023 – Deadline to submit legislative proposals to DHHL
- August 21, 2023 – DHHL submits draft legislative proposals to the Hawaiian Homes Commission
- September 18, 2023 – HHC approves legislative proposals to move forward for consideration for the Governor’s Administrative Package
Draft Legislative Proposals
| Legislative Proposal | Description | Senate Bills | House Bills |
| HHL-01(24) Relating to Independent Legal Counsel | This proposal allows the Hawaiian Homes Commission to retain independent legal counsel to be paid by the State and use the services of the attorney general as needed when the interests of the State and the Hawaiian Homes Commission are aligned. | ||
| HHL-02(24) Relating to the Commission on Water Resource Management | This proposal adds the Chair of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chair’s designee to the Commission on Water Resource Management. | ||
| HHL-03(24) Relating to Housing | This proposal exempts any development of homestead lots or housing for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise and use taxes. | ||
| HHL-04(24) Relating to Historic Preservation Reviews | This proposal allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to assume review of the effect of any proposed project on historic properties or burial sites for lands under its jurisdiction. | SB 2653 | |
| HHL-05(24) Relating to Compliance on Hawaiian Home Lands | This proposal establishes a compliance and enforcement program within the Department to investigate complaints, conduct investigations, and cooperate with enforcement authorities to ensure compliance with the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended and rules adopted thereunder as well as all other state laws and rules, and county ordinances on Hawaiian Home Lands. |
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| HHL-06(24) Relating to School Impact Fees | This proposal repeals the July 1, 2024, sunset of Act 197, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, to make permanent the exclusion of housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from school impact fees. |
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| HHL-07(24) Relating to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands | This proposal allows for the expenditure of funds appropriated in Act 279, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022 until June 30, 2025. | HB 2420 HB 2076 | |
| HHL-08(24) Relating to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands | This proposal requests an appropriation of $6,000,000 dollars for the next steps in the investigation, exploration and identification of geothermal resources on Hawaiian Home Lands. | ||
| HHL-09(24) Relating to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation | This proposal adds the Chair of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chair’s designee to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. | HB 2421 | |
| HHL-10(24) Relating to the Hawaii Community Development Authority | This proposal adds the Chair of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chair’s designee to the Hawaii Community Development Authority. | ||
| HHL-11(24) Relating to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act | This proposal increases the loan limit for DHHL Direct Loans to seventy-five percent of the maximum single residence loan amount allowed in Hawaii by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), instead of fifty percent, as currently outlined in Section 215 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended. | ||
| HHL-12(24) Relating to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act | This proposal increases the allowable loan term for DHHL Direct Loans made available to be forty years, instead of thirty years, as currently outlined in Section 215 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended. |
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