Bill Text: HI SB142 | 2021 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Housing Development.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-04-23 - Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 630). [SB142 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2021-SB142-Amended.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to housing development.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 302A-1603, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§302A-1603 Applicability
and exemptions.
(a) Except as provided in [subsection]
subsections (b)[,] and (c), any person who seeks to
develop a new residential development within a designated school impact
district requiring:
(1) A county subdivision approval;
(2) A county building permit; or
(3) A condominium property regime approval for the
project,
shall be required to fulfill the land component impact fee or fee in lieu requirement
and construction cost
component impact fee requirement of the department[,
including all government housing projects and projects processed pursuant to
sections 46‑15.1 and 201H-38].
(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; and
(4) Any development with an executed education
contribution agreement or other like document with the department for the
contribution of school sites or payment of fees for school land or school
construction.
(c) The following shall be exempt from one hundred per cent of the fees pursuant to subsection (a):
(1) Any housing project certified or approved for a general excise
tax exemption pursuant to section 201H‑36, and all government housing
projects and projects processed pursuant to sections 46-15.1 and 201H-38;
(2) Any alteration to, or expansion of, an existing dwelling unit
where no additional dwelling unit is created and the unit's use has not
changed, even if the alteration or expansion may require a county building
permit;
(3) Accessory dwelling units that are legally permitted by a county;
as used in this paragraph, "accessory dwelling unit" means a second
dwelling unit, including separate kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom facilities,
attached or detached from the primary dwelling unit on the same lot;
(4) Ohana dwelling units that are legally permitted by a county; as
used in this paragraph, "ohana dwelling unit" means a second dwelling
unit, including separate kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom facilities, attached or
detached from the primary dwelling unit on the same lot, which is occupied by
persons who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the persons residing
in the first dwelling unit; provided that an ohana dwelling unit for which a
building permit was obtained before September 10, 1992, may be occupied by
persons who are not related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the persons
residing in the first dwelling unit; and
(5) Any housing project or property developed by the Hawaii public housing authority."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2021.
Report Title:
Housing Development; School Impact Fees; Exemption
Description:
Exempts affordable housing units, additions to existing dwelling units, accessory dwelling units, ohana dwelling units, and affordable housing projects developed by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority from school impact fee requirements. (SD1)
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
