Bill Text: HI SB3333 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Housing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-29 - Referred to HOU/EDU, WAM. [SB3333 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB3333-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to housing.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 302A-1602, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "new residential development" to read as follows:
""New residential
development" means new residential projects involving rezoned properties
or parcels, current zoned parcels with or without buildings, and redevelopment
projects. These projects include [subdivisions]:
(1) Subdivisions and other forms of
"lot only" developments (when the dwelling units will not be built by
the developer)[, and developments]; and
(2) Developments that include
single-family and multi-family units[,] and condominiums, [and]
but does not include additional or accessory dwelling units as defined
by each county."
SECTION 2. Section 302A-1603, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The following shall be exempt from this
section:
(1) Any
form of housing permanently excluding school-aged children, with the necessary
covenants or declarations of restrictions recorded on the property;
(2) Any
form of housing that is or will be paying the transient accommodations tax
under chapter 237D;
(3) All
nonresidential development;
(4) Any
development with an executed education contribution agreement or other like
document with the authority or the department for the contribution of school
sites or payment of fees for school land or school construction;
(5) Any
form of housing developed by the department of Hawaiian home lands for
use by beneficiaries of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended; [and]
(6) Any form of development by the Hawaii
community development authority pursuant to part of chapter
206E[.];
(7) Legally permitted additional or accessory
dwelling units, as defined by the applicable county;
(8) Legally permitted ohana dwelling units, as
defined by the applicable county; and
(9) Affordable rental housing projects
developed pursuant to a county ordinance; provided that, at a minimum, the
ordinance requires:
(A) At least eighty per cent of the
total units to be rented to households earning one hundred per cent and below
the area median income, as determined by the United States Department of
Housing and Urban Development, and rented at or below the rental rate limits
established by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
for households earning one hundred per cent of the area median income for the
applicable household size;
(B) Households occupying affordable
rental housing units to have a lease for the unit with a minimum six month term
and a prohibition against subleasing; and
(C) A complete application for a
building permit to construct an affordable rental housing project to be
approved or disapproved within ninety calendar days of receipt or the permit is
deemed automatically approved."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on June 30, 2024; provided that:
(1) The amendments made to section 302A-1603(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, by section 2 of this Act shall not be repealed when that section is reenacted on July 1, 2024, pursuant to Act 197, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021; and
(2) This Act shall be repealed on July 1, 2026, and:
(A) Section 302A-1602, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be reenacted in the form it read on the day before the effective date of this Act; and
(B) Section 302A-1603(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be reenacted in the form it read on the day before the effective date of Act 197, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021; provided that the amendments made to section 302A-1603(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, by Act 97, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, shall be retained when that section is reenacted pursuant to this Act.
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Report Title:
Affordable Rental Housing; Counties; Accessory Dwelling Units; Ohana Dwelling Units; School Impact Fee; Exemption
Description:
Exempts accessory dwelling units, ohana dwelling units, and certain affordable rental housing projects developed pursuant to a county ordinance from school impact fees. Effective 6/30/2024. Sunsets 7/1/2026.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
