Why? Why does the public not know about this?
AYES (WR) With Reservations is still a “YES” vote.
HOUSE REPORT FROM THE Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee:
All these Bills have the same agenda = HB1990, HB1861, HB811, HB106, HB29 for the last five years.
Who reads these Bills? Shouldn’t these over-reaching and tyrannical Bills be vetted first? Why did the public not know about this sea-change bills that affect them?
SENATE JUDICIARY and WAYS & MEANS COMMITTEES’ VOTING RECORD.
This was a very secretive Bill. While Hawaii was trying to handle the Kona Low flooding and storms, this Bill was sailing through without public knowledge until at the end.
Hawaii was protesting “NO KING” “NO TYRANT” “NO DICTATOR” OUTSIDE the State Capitol while legislators INSIDE the Capitol were passing these tyrannical bills.
Typically, an ordinary person does not have the time to participate. Most people who are at these sessions are lobbyists, bureaucrats, interest groups, and corporations. The procedures are also foreign to most citizens.
Hawaii SENATE Judiciary Committee and Ways and Mean Committee Report to the Senate President.
What is the intent of these quickie tyrannical Power of Sale and Foreclosure Sale?
While there are vigorous protests of “NO KING”, “NO DICTATOR” “NO TYRANNY” outside the Hawaii State Capitol, tyrannical laws are being pushed through inside the Capitol
Mahalo again for giving voice AGAINST HB1990.
Keep calling the senators to Kill HB1990! They should hear from you.
The last I look, HB1990 is still recommitted to the Judicial and Ways and Means. No movement or no new amendments to it. I hope there is no Gut & Replace actions.
It’s never a good idea to give the government more overarching, overreaching and tyrannical powers to fine you $1,000 per day minimum. And when it reaches to $20,000, you can be slammed with a foreclosure. This is Tyranny.
The Bill language is very vague – ANY – ANY violations of county ordinances, rules, and regulations. Every owner becomes a sitting duck to the whim of the long arm of the government.
Chronology of tyranny:
This Power of Sale based on county fines first began as an annual Legislative Package to the State Legislature in 2021. All neighbor Mayors were part of this package. This covered ALL COUNTIES.
2021 – 2024 Mayor Rick Blangiardi persisted. We saw HB106 and many similar Bills with the same Agenda. But fortunately, these bills never got passed.
In 2025, the Honolulu Mayor distanced himself. HouseRepresentative Corey Chun from Waipahu introduced HB29. Fortunately, it was DEFERED By the Finance Committee.
2025 also saw Bill 811 introduced by Scot Matayoshi, Corey Chun, MichaelLee . Lisa Marten, Sean Quinlan, Greg Takayama. This is a bill on steriods. Foreclosure begins when your fines reaches $5,000! It will only take 5 days when the bill wants to fine you $1,000 per day minimum. What are these politicians thinking? This Bill did not gain traction.
| Introducer(s): | MATAYOSHI, CHUN, LEE, M., MARTEN, QUINLAN, TAKAYAMA This one imposes only $5,000 instead of $20,000 for a foreclosure slam! It did not gain traction. |
2026 These Power of Sale Bills only needed 2 House Committees to pass the House. Finance Committee was bypassed. HB1861 was introduced by Quinland, Matayoshi, Marten, and Olds did not cross over this year.
Simultanteously, another Bill1990 which we did not know about till recently, quietly progressed to where we are today
| Introducer(s): | MATAYOSHI, GRANDINETTI, KILA, KUSCH, LEE, M., MARTEN, MORIKAWA, OLDS, TAKAYAMA, TAM, TARNAS, TEMPLO, TODD, WOODSON |
Demoracy is at stake. We cannot be protesting NO KINGS – NO TYRANTS and then impose tyranny upon Hawaii’s residents with these secretive Bills to oppress.
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Kill HB 1990! This is a knee-jerk vindictive Bill that will create more problems to ordinary citizens.
My quick note to the Senators and Representatives, again.
Aloha!
You have over 3,000 bills this legislature session? About 20%, including this punitive and half-baked bill, have made the cross-over.
Have you gotten the chance personally to read through this Bill that has passed quickly this session?
I cannot imagine that you would expose your own communities and constituents as sitting ducks
to this far-reaching and tyrannical Bill HB1990.
Your constituents will become easy targets of complaints because most residential dwellings have violations neighbors or the government can complain about. You must be aware that counties also have systemic problems. It’s well-known knowledge. A lot of the rationale provided for this ill-thought HB1990 are off-tangent, illogical, and counter-productive that will create more problems for Hawaii. There is a latest new amendment to HB1990.
ONE EXAMPLE:
Description:
Establishes penalties, including fines and liens, for an owner of residential real property’s failure to remediate zoning violations.
Requires, under certain conditions, county planning or permitting agencies to record the notice of violation as a lien on
the property with the Bureau of Conveyances. Requires referral to the applicable county corporation counsel for foreclosure, subject to certain conditions, if the owner fails to satisfy certain conditions. Requires the applicable district or circuit court to hold a de novo review of penalties assessed for unaddressed residential real property zoning violations, including foreclosure, upon appeal by the affected residential real property owner. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD2)
Who will this new amendment disenfranchise? Local owners with no means to afford expensive legal fees.
Note also that the Honolulu County who first initiated this Power of Sale in 2021, based on new County fines had this reason for asking for more new powers:(HB 1990 aka HB1861 aka HB29 aka . . .) The amendment will only create more ” legal manpower and funding” that the county claims it does not have.
“The City has lacked the legal manpower and funding to pursue foreclosure . . .”
Did you read any of the testimonies? The most articulate written testimony is from LURF who has institutional knowledge of Hawaii’s land use issues. It’s cogent, reasonable and pono with a little aloha for the people of Hawaii.
Some legislators are quietly robbing basic constitutional civil rights of their private property owners constituents!
We were informed a couple days ago that HB1990 is sailing through! This is an abusive and greedy bill – – A notice of violation of ANY county zoning ordinance, rule or regulation shall be fined . . . $1000 per day subject to a lien if the fines exceed $20,000 and subject to foreclosure within 30 days of notice.
The Bill affects ALL Counties.
Who in Oahu alone can get a quick response from the County within 30 days! There are 30 days in a month, so $20,000 is easy number to become ripe for foreclosure!
What can you do?
Email the Senators. Tell them to “KILL HB1990” and other opinions you may have. Cut and paste on your email addresses.
sens@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senihara@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senelefante@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senChang@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senkouchi@capitol.hawaii.gov,
sendelacruz@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senrichards@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senmisalucha@capitol.hawaii.gov,
sennishihara@capitol.hawaii.gov,
sendecoite@capitol.hawaii.gov,
sensshimabukuro@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senfevella@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senmoriwaki@capitol.hawaii.gov,
sengabbard@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senwakai@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senawa@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senfukunaga@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senhashimoto@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senkeohokalole@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senkidani@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senkim@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senlamosao@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senmckelvey@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senrhoads@capitol.hawaii.gov,
sensanbuenaventura@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senlee@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senkanuha@capitol.hawaii.gov,
A DEEPER DIVE:
The person who just informed us of HB1900 (2026) also shared HB811(2025).
HB811( 2025) too is very alarming and jarring. Who in their right mind think that fines of $5,000 should trigger a foreclosure within 30 days! Who knows how tedious and long it is to work with a county bureaucracy to get a permit for anything?
It’s common knowledge that any one or group can ask a Hawaii Legislator to draft a bill and sponsor it. This is a good democratic exercise for public participation.
However, there should be a litmus test to ensure that basic constitutional civil rights are not violated or infringed upon. Any proposed Bill ought to be for the public good and for the benefit for all Hawaii.
A proposed Bill can’t be appeasing one person or group to the detriment of the rest of Hawaii.
A proposed Bill cannot be a Mafia hit to a single issue because someone/group wants to. The Multiplier Impacts as well as Unintended Consequences on different levels of any proposed bill ought to analyzed and discussed intelligently BEFORE introduction.
I cannot recognize the signature of the legislative introducer. But the record shows the Introducers of HB811 as ( GANG OF SIX)
| Introducer(s): | MATAYOSHI, CHUN, LEE, M., MARTEN, QUINLAN, TAKAYAMA |
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I would like to know what’s their heads? Does any one of them own property or know what it’s like to own a property? Why waste taxpayers’ money to write this type of pilau bill? Does the introducer even know a typical home in Hawaii is $1M? Most of our local families are not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. They work hard to own a house that they can call their own. Why turn their own constituents into a sitting duck for the long arm of the government? It’s never a good idea to give the long arm of the government more powers.
The above (2025) HB811 looks like an early draft to HB1990 (2026) which is sailing through quietly at the State Capitol as of this writing.
Note they’ve added a few more legislators to sign into it. GANG OF 14.
| Introducer(s): | MATAYOSHI, GRANDINETTI, KILA, KUSCH, LEE, M., MARTEN, MORIKAWA, OLDS, TAKAYAMA, TAM, TARNAS, TEMPLO, TODD, WOODSON |
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2026 also has another similar Trojan Horse in HB1861. The Introducers are recorded as (GANG OF 4)
| Introducer(s): | QUINLAN, MARTEN, MATAYOSHI, OLDS |
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Did you legislator tell you about this possible sea-change?
Do you know what’s going on? Has any of your legislators disclose this drastic actions to you? The common denominator for repeat introducers is QUINLAN, MARTEN, MATAYOSHI, OLDS, CHUN*.
What’s just as alarming is that these Capitol Committee Chairs have the tendency to simply get along to move along to the detriment of the public. They spill out the same old illogical phrases – “This Bill deserves more conversation” or “This deserves more discussion” or “This deserves more dialogue”. They cherry-pick what they want to hear and do. They usually prepare the “amendments” before hand. So the Committee Chair will pass it out to the next chain for the sake of “more conversation”.
How can a conversation work for the constituents with a 2-minute testimony? How does a conversation work for the 99.9% public who cannot attend these hearings?
Shouldn’t these discussions/dialogue/conversations happening with the grassroots constituents first?
First, constituents need to know about these Bills. Constituents need to know about these Bills BEFORE they are introduced and put on the fast track to adopt. After-the-Fact laws is sneaky and undemocratic.
All these new civil fines and foreclosures began with Honolulu Mayor Blangiardi in 2021. He persisted each subsequent year until Representative Corey Chun of Waipahu because the sole introducer of similar agenda in 2025.
But the Hawaii State Legislature HB1990 to fine residents $1000 a day and quick foreclosure is secretly sailing through.
We are trying to stop HB1861 with the same agenda. But we did not know about HB1990. It feels sneaky. Why no disclosure of these significant changes that affect the lives of residents. Ordinary residents shouldn’t have to bird-dog politicians to make sure they do us no harm or just introduce hamajang Bills!
This agenda to have a new foreclosure powers through new county fines was initiated by Mayor Blangiardi in 2021. Blangiardi pushed every year. In 2025, a similar Bill 29 was introduced by House Representative Corey Chun of Waipahu.
This year, HB1861 was introduced by four (4) House Representatives – Sean Quinlan, Scott Matayoshi, Lisa Marten and Ikaika Olds.
Unfortunately, while ordinary residents were stopping HB1861, there was a concurrent BILL HB1990 sailing through. We heard about it a day ago! What a devious system! Three of the 4 Introducers for HB1861 are also introducers for HB1990 – Scott Matayoshi, Lisa Marten, and Ikaiko Olds. ( Sean Quinland’s name is no longer here.)
This unconstitutional agenda has been ongoing and initiated by Mayor Blangiardi since 2021. Blangiardi pushed every year. In 2025, a similar Bill 29 was introduced by House Representative Corey Chun of Waipahu. 2026 brought new and more introducers!
Or is it because we forget we live on an island and keep cementing?
Here are some comments for thoughts.
Oahu’s topography looks like this. There is not much flat land. But somehow, the powers-that-be keep thinking they can develop more and more without serious infrastructure engineering.
The uphill streams need to be maintained and cleaned. The drainages and culverts need to be cleaned out. If the County says it does not have the staff or its hard to find employees, what’s going to happen?
If the County approves a subdivision or project without an over-arching drainage system, legit traffic study, or other municipal services, what’s going to happen?
” Friday the 13th took on a deeper meaning when the winds and rains started. Kona low impacting Hawaii A subtropical system called a Kona low is passing north of Hawaii. This brings screaming southwest winds ahead of the storm’s cold front. This causes upsloping winds on the west-facing, or “Kona”, side of the mountains.“
KITV provides helpful hints as this Kona Low Disaster winds down. We were without electric for about 2 days but it was nothing like the Iniki Hurricane that lasted for about five days for us in Laie. The entire island lacked electricity and television service for an extended period. Electric companies restored only 20% of the island’s power service within four weeks of Iniki, while other areas had no power for three to four months. (AI)
Outage update as of 9 p.m. HST on Sunday, March 15, 2026: Hundreds of our employees and contractors have been working non-stop to restore power to customers impacted by the destructive Kona Low storm. In many areas, toppled trees, branches and other debris must be cleared before damage assessments and repairs can begin. All customers are urged to stay prepared for potential extended outages.
As of 9 p.m.:
• Oahu: About 7,000 customers in areas including Nanakuli, Kaimuki, Kaneohe, and Waipio, are without power (3% of customers on island). The H-3 Freeway was reopened in both directions shortly after 6 p.m. after crews completed repairs to a major transmission line that crosses over traffic.
• Maui County: This evening, crews restored power to a majority of South Maui customers. Crews also brought back online a majority of Kula customers between the Omaopio Road area to Lower Kula Highway. About 4,600 customers (6% of customers on Maui) are currently without power, with the majority in Upcountry and East Maui.
• Hawaii Island: About 14,500 customers are without power in various areas around the island. Today, crews worked in Keaau, Kurtistown, Mountain View, Volcano, South Point, and North and South Kona. Two transmission lines also were repaired, and repairs to a third line are expected to be completed by tomorrow. Damage assessments were conducted in accessible areas in Kaloko, Holualoa, South Point, Volcano Village, Mauna Loa Estates, Royal Hawaiian Estates, and Nanawale Estates. In total, 30 damaged or broken poles were identified.
Customers can view current outages and report outages on the outage map at hawaiianelectric.com and on the mobile app. Estimated restoration times displayed on the outage maps are approximations. Inspections must be completed and any repairs made before power can be safely restored.
Customers experiencing a long duration power outage can find safety reminders and other tips in our Handbook for Emergency Preparedness available on hawaiianelectric.com/prepare.
HOW WE RESTORE FOLLOWING A STORM:
We don’t restore power based on when customers report an outage, where customers live or the status of accounts. Rather, we begin with multiple locations and follow an overall plan that calls for restoring power to the largest number of customers safely and as quickly as possible.
• We start by repairing any damage to our power plants and the power lines that carry electricity from our plants to the local substations.
• We prioritize restoring power to critical facilities such as hospitals, water pumping sites, wastewater plants, military facilities, and airports.
• At the same time, we work to return service to the largest number of customers in the shortest amount of time.
• From here, we repair the infrastructure serving smaller groups and neighborhoods, converging on the hardest hit areas until every customer’s power is restored.
For more information on our power restoration steps, visit hawaiianelectric.com/restorationprocess