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.
