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,
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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

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

2026 also has another similar Trojan Horse in HB1861. The Introducers are recorded as (GANG OF 4)

Introducer(s):	QUINLAN, MARTEN, MATAYOSHI, OLDS

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 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 votes and “amendments” before hand. So the Committee will pass it out to the next chain.

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.