republic-os/legislation/us/states/hi/2019-regular-session/hb-543.md

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Bill	RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.	Directs the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to initiate negotiations and exercise its power of eminent domain to acquire the Front Street Apartments affordable housing project on Maui unless the ground lease is renegotiated, or a new lease is issued by 12/31/19. Extends the deadline to complete the Lealii affordable housing project on Maui. Appropriates funds from the rental housing revolving fund. (HB543 CD1)	us/states/hi	Hawaii Legislature	2019 Regular Session	HB 543	Hawaii HB 543 (2019 Regular Session)	bill	HHFDC Affordable Housing Front Street Apartments Acquisition Report Lealii Affordable Housing Project Appropriation ($)	enacted	BROWER DECOITE HASHIMOTO MATAYOSHI MCKELVEY WILDBERGER WOODSON YAMASHITA	3	48	7	2019-01-18	2019-06-12	openstates	ocd-bill/ef9762df-ec4f-46b7-bc6d-07d90909ed1d	http://capitol.hawaii.gov/Archives/measure_indiv_Archives8-12.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=543&year=2019	f5f3ca34cf1e3ce3a7f25401c75de71db7553e7ca45b920cead9e73f0901cc8d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-hi

Hawaii HB 543 (2019 Regular Session) — RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Directs the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to initiate negotiations and exercise its power of eminent domain to acquire the Front Street Apartments affordable housing project on Maui unless the ground lease is renegotiated, or a new lease is issued by 12/31/19. Extends the deadline to complete the Lealii affordable housing project on Maui. Appropriates funds from the rental housing revolving fund. (HB543 CD1)

Version chain

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

1. HB543 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB543_CD1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB543_HD1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 3–0 (pass) · upper
• The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• The committees on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• BROWER — primary (person)
• DECOITE — primary (person)
• HASHIMOTO — primary (person)
• MATAYOSHI — primary (person)
• MCKELVEY — primary (person)
• WILDBERGER — primary (person)
• WOODSON — primary (person)
• YAMASHITA — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-18 Pending introduction.
• 2019-01-22 Introduced and Pass First Reading. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-01-22 Referred to HSG, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 4 referral-committee
• 2019-02-01 Bill scheduled to be heard by HSG on Tuesday, 02-05-19 9:30AM in House conference room 423.
• 2019-02-05 The committees on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Brower, Matayoshi, Aquino, Cullen, Hashem, Hashimoto, Woodson; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) McDermott. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-08 Reported from HSG (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 164) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JUD.
• 2019-02-08 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 Representative(s) Cabanilla Arakawa, Nakamura, Thielen excused (3). reading-2, referral-committee
• 2019-02-19 Re-referred to HSG, FIN, referral sheet 23 referral-committee
• 2019-02-22 Bill scheduled to be heard by FIN on Tuesday, 02-26-19 12:30PM in House conference room 308.
• 2019-02-26 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; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-01 Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1084), recommending passage on Third Reading.
• 2019-03-01 Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) DeCoite excused (1). Transmitted to Senate. passage
• 2019-03-05 Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 193). introduction
• 2019-03-05 Passed First Reading. reading-1
• 2019-03-05 Referred to HOU, JDC/WAM. referral-committee
• 2019-03-13 The committee(s) on HOU has scheduled a public hearing on 03-19-19 1:20PM in conference room 225.
• 2019-03-19 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
• 2019-03-22 Reported from HOU (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1441) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDC/WAM.
• 2019-03-22 Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC/WAM.
• 2019-03-29 The committee(s) on JDC/WAM will hold a public decision making on 04-03-19 10:00AM in conference room 211.
• 2019-04-03 The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in JDC were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) K. Rhoads, Wakai, Gabbard, Kim, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-03 The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in WAM were as follows: 10 Aye(s): Senator(s) Dela Cruz, Keith-Agaran, Inouye, Kanuha, Kidani, Moriwaki, Riviere, Shimabukuro, Taniguchi, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 3 Excused: Senator(s) English, Harimoto, K. Kahele. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-05 Reported from JDC/WAM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1961) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading.
• 2019-04-05 One Day Notice 04-09-19.
• 2019-04-09 Report adopted; Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. passage
• 2019-04-09 Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 753) in amended form (SD 1).
• 2019-04-11 House disagrees with Senate amendment (s).
• 2019-04-12 Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 804).
• 2019-04-15 Re-referred to HSG, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 52 referral-committee
• 2019-04-15 House Conferees Appointed: Brower, C. Lee, Cullen Co-Chairs; Yamashita, McDermott.
• 2019-04-15 Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 808).
• 2019-04-18 Senate Conferees Appointed: S. Chang Chair; K. Rhoads, English Co-Chairs; Fevella.
• 2019-04-18 Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 919).
• 2019-04-22 Bill scheduled for Conference Committee Meeting on Wednesday, 04-24-19 1:05PM in conference room 423.
• 2019-04-24 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Thursday 04-25-19 1:05PM in conference room 423.
• 2019-04-25 The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Brower, C. Lee, Cullen, Yamashita, McDermott; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none.
• 2019-04-25 The Conference committee recommends that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes of the Senate Conference Managers were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) S. Chang, K. Rhoads, English; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-26 Reported from Conference Committee (Conf Com. Rep. No. 144) as amended in (CD 1).
• 2019-04-26 Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 04-30-19.
• 2019-04-26 Reported from Conference Committee as amended CD 1 (Conf. Com. Rep. No. 144).
• 2019-04-26 48 Hrs. Notice (as amended CD 1) 04-30-19.
• 2019-04-30 Passed Final Reading as amended in CD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0).
• 2019-04-30 Passed Final Reading, as amended (CD 1). Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . 0 No(es): none. 0 Excused: none.
• 2019-05-01 Received notice of Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 968).
• 2019-05-02 Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 883).
• 2019-05-01 Transmitted to Governor.
• 2019-06-12 Act 098, on 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1199). executive-signature
• 2019-06-12 Act 098, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1199). executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef9762df-ec4f-46b7-bc6d-07d90909ed1d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).