2025 Regular SessionHawaii Legislature

HB594: Relating To Hotels.

Legislative Summary

Requires hotelkeepers to provide adequate notice of service disruptions to guests and third-party vendors under certain conditions. Allows for recovery of damages by injured consumers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)

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Bill History

1/17/2025
Pending introduction.
House of Representatives
1/21/2025
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
House of Representatives
1/21/2025
Referred to TOU, JHA, CPC, referral sheet 2
House of Representatives
1/27/2025
Bill scheduled to be heard by TOU on Thursday, 01-30-25 9:00AM in House conference room 423 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
House of Representatives
1/30/2025
The committee on TOU recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Tam, Templo, Holt, Hussey, Ilagan, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none.
House of Representatives
2/4/2025
Reported from TOU (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 127) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to JHA.
House of Representatives
2/4/2025
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JHA with Representative(s) Garcia voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Kong, Ward excused (3).
House of Representatives
2/10/2025
Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Thursday, 02-13-25 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
House of Representatives
2/13/2025
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Shimizu; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.
House of Representatives
2/14/2025
Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 748) as amended in HD 2, recommending referral to CPC.
House of Representatives
2/14/2025
Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on CPC as amended in HD 2 with Representative(s) Matsumoto, Shimizu voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Matayoshi, Poepoe, Ward excused (4).
House of Representatives

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(1/17/2025)
Chamber
House of Representatives
Committee
Consumer Protection & Commerce(House of Representatives)

Documents

Amended
Bill Text2/13/202524.7 KB
Amended
Bill Text2/3/202527.1 KB
Introduced
Bill Text1/17/202519.3 KB
Misc
Misc2/14/2025424.6 KB
Misc
Misc2/12/2025259.6 KB
Misc
Misc2/4/2025309.9 KB
Misc
Misc1/29/2025336.8 KB