{"id":3507,"date":"2026-04-13T18:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:28:42","slug":"hawaii-hb1990-hamajang-bill-sailing-ahead-amidst-over-3000-bills-this-legislative-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=3507","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii HB1990 Hamajang Bill sailing ahead amidst over 3,000 bills this legislative session!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kill HB 1990! This is a knee-jerk vindictive Bill<\/a> that will create more problems to ordinary citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My quick note to the Senators and Representatives, again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aloha!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have over 3,000 bills\u00a0this legislature session?\u00a0\u00a0About\u00a020%, including this punitive and half-baked bill,\u00a0have made the cross-over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you gotten the chance\u00a0personally to read\u00a0<\/strong>through this Bill that has passed quickly this session?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I cannot imagine that you would\u00a0 expose your own communities and constituents as sitting ducks
to this far-reaching and tyrannical Bill HB1990.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your\u00a0constituents will become\u00a0easy targets of complaints\u00a0because most residential dwellings\u00a0have violations neighbors or the government can complain about.\u00a0You\u00a0must 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\u00a0that will create more problems<\/a> for Hawaii.\u00a0There is a latest new amendment <\/a>to\u00a0HB1990.
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ONE EXAMPLE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Establishes penalties, including fines and liens, for an owner of residential real property’s failure to remediate zoning violations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Requires, under certain conditions, county planning or permitting agencies to record the notice of violation as a lien on\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

the property with the Bureau of Conveyances.\u00a0\u00a0Requires referral to the applicable county corporation counsel for foreclosure,\u00a0subject to certain conditions, if the owner fails to satisfy certain conditions.\u00a0\u00a0Requires the applicable district or circuit\u00a0court to hold a de novo review of penalties assessed<\/strong>\u00a0for unaddressed residential real property zoning violations,\u00a0<\/em>including foreclosure, upon appeal by the affected residential real property owner.\u00a0\u00a0Effective 7\/1\/3000.\u00a0\u00a0(SD2)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who will this new amendment disenfranchise? <\/strong>Local owners with no means to afford expensive legal fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note also that the Honolulu County who first initiated this Power of Sale in 2021, based on new County fines\u00a0had this\u00a0reason for asking for more new powers:(HB 1990 aka HB1861 aka HB29 aka . . .) The amendment will only create more ” legal manpower and funding<\/em>” that the county claims it does not have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The City has lacked the legal manpower and funding to pursue foreclosure . . .”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did you read any of the testimonies<\/a>? 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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\u00a0this legislature session?\u00a0\u00a0About\u00a020%, including this punitive and half-baked bill,\u00a0have made the cross-over. Have you gotten the chance\u00a0personally to read\u00a0through this Bill that has passed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}