Hawaii House Bill 973

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-27 - Bill scheduled to be heard by TOU on Thursday, 01-30-25 9:00AM in House conference room 423 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
Pending: House Tourism Committee
Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am in Conference Room 423 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to offer, list, advertise, or display a transient accommodations rental rate that includes all resort fees required for the furnishing of transient accommodations. Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to include all applicable taxes and fees imposed by a government on the stay in the total price to be paid before the consumer reserves the furnishing of transient accommodations. Establishes penalties. Effective 1/1/2026.

Relating To Transient Accommodations.

Rep. Adrian Tam [D]	Rep. Terez Amato [D]	Rep. Della au Belatti [D]	Rep. Tina Grandinetti [D]
Rep. Susan Keohokapu-Lee Loy [D]	Rep. Darius Kila [D]	Rep. Matthias Kusch [D]	Rep. Lisa Marten [D]
Rep. Scot Matayoshi [D]	Rep. Sean Quinlan [D]	Rep. Kanani Souza [R]	Rep. David Tarnas [D]
Rep. Chris Todd [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-27	House	Bill scheduled to be heard by TOU on Thursday, 01-30-25 9:00AM in House conference room 423 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
2025-01-23	House	Referred to TOU, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 3
2025-01-23	House	Introduced and Pass First Reading.
2025-01-21	House	Pending introduction.

SB1144 (Same As) 2025-01-23 - Referred to EDT, CPN/JDC.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=973&year=2025
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/HB973_.HTM
Supplement	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/Testimony/HB973_TESTIMONY_TOU-HSG-ECD_01-30-25_.PDF