---
type: "Bill"
title: "RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING."
description: "Extends the deadline for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to renegotiate an existing, or issue a new, ground lease for the Front Street Apartments affordable housing project before the corporation's requirement to initiate condemnation proceedings is triggered. (SD2)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/hi"
legislature: "Hawaii Legislature"
session: "2020 Regular Session"
identifier: "HB 1929"
citation: "Hawaii HB 1929 (2020 Regular Session)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HHFDC", "Affordable Housing", "Front Street Apartments", "Extension"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["BROWER", "HASHIMOTO", "MCKELVEY", "WOODSON", "YAMASHITA"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-17"
last_action: "2020-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9fb3ec8-3b8d-4e5b-bc3c-3d64a3c6013a"
source_url: "http://capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives8-12.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=1929&year=2020"
source_hash: "aafc0c80a10b2118c7a0ecc10131829b72f60e50c8ce765b498217ecb8c521fd"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-hi"]
---

# Hawaii HB 1929 (2020 Regular Session) — RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Extends the deadline for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to renegotiate an existing, or issue a new, ground lease for the Front Street Apartments affordable housing project before the corporation's requirement to initiate condemnation proceedings is triggered. (SD2)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB1929** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2020/bills/HB1929_.HTM)
2. **HB1929_HD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2020/bills/HB1929_HD1_.HTM)
3. **HB1929_HD2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2020/bills/HB1929_HD2_.HTM)
4. **HB1929_SD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2020/bills/HB1929_SD1_.HTM)
5. **HB1929_SD2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2020/bills/HB1929_SD2_.HTM)

## Votes

- The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- The committees on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- BROWER — primary (person)
- HASHIMOTO — primary (person)
- MCKELVEY — primary (person)
- WOODSON — primary (person)
- YAMASHITA — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-01-17** Pending introduction.
- **2020-01-21** Introduced and Pass First Reading. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-01-23** Referred to HSG, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 4 `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Bill scheduled to be heard by HSG on Thursday, 01-30-20 9:45AM in House conference room 423.
- **2020-01-30** The committees on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Brower, Matayoshi, Aquino, Cullen, Hashem, Hashimoto, Woodson, McDermott; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-04** Reported from HSG (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 37-20) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JUD.
- **2020-02-04** Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0). `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Bill scheduled to be heard by JUD on Thursday, 02-13-20 2:05PM in House conference room 325.
- **2020-02-13** The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) C. Lee, San Buenaventura, Brower, Creagan, Lowen, McKelvey, Perruso, Say, Takayama, Yamane, Thielen; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Nakashima. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-14** Reported from JUD (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 639-20) as amended in HD 2, recommending referral to FIN.
- **2020-02-14** Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Holt, Takayama excused (2).
- **2020-02-18** Bill scheduled to be heard by FIN on Thursday, 02-20-20 1:00PM in House conference room 308.
- **2020-02-20** The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 15 Ayes: Representative(s) Luke, Cullen, Eli, Gates, Hashimoto, Holt, Kitagawa, B. Kobayashi, Matayoshi, Nakamura, Nishimoto, Todd, Wildberger, Yamashita, McDermott; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-27** Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 736-20), recommending passage on Third Reading.
- **2020-02-27** Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cabanilla Arakawa excused (1). Transmitted to Senate. `passage`
- **2020-02-28** Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 41). `introduction`
- **2020-02-28** Passed First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2020-03-03** Referred to HOU, WAM. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** The committee(s) on HOU has scheduled a public hearing on 03-12-20 1:15PM in conference room 225.
- **2020-03-12** The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) S. Chang, Kanuha, Moriwaki, L. Thielen; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-05-21** Reported from HOU (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3625) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.
- **2020-05-21** Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.
- **2020-07-02** The committee(s) on WAM will hold a public decision making on 07-02-20 12:30PM in conference room Auditorium.
- **2020-07-02** The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WAM were as follows: 11 Aye(s): Senator(s) Dela Cruz, Keith-Agaran, English, Inouye, K. Kahele, Kanuha, Kidani, Moriwaki, Riviere, Shimabukuro, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Taniguchi. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-07-02** Reported from WAM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3784) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 2).
- **2020-07-02** 48 Hrs. Notice 07-06-20.
- **2020-07-06** Report adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). Ayes, 24; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. `passage`
- **2020-07-06** Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 581) in amended form (SD 2).
- **2020-07-08** Received notice of House intent to agree to the amendments proposed by the Senate (Hse. Com. No. 421).
- **2020-07-10** House agrees to Senate amendment(s).
- **2020-07-10** Passed Final Reading as amended in SD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Ohno excused (1).
- **2020-07-10** Received notice of House agreement and passage on Final Reading (Hse. Com. No. 425).
- **2020-07-10** Transmitted to Governor.
- **2020-09-15** Act 034, 09/15/2020 (Gov. Msg. No. 1139). `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-15** Act 034, on 09/15/2020 (Gov. Msg. No. 1139). `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9fb3ec8-3b8d-4e5b-bc3c-3d64a3c6013a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).