2015-2016 Legislative Update and Condominiums - Structures and Sales. Covers the laws promulgated by the 2016 Hawaii State Legislature. It also covers the development of condominiums.

Both Core A and Core B are required to renew your license for the 2015/2016 biennium. 

Pursuant to the Real Estate Commission’s (REC) objective of making licensees aware of each year’s major law changes relating to real estate, this section lists bills that were passed by the Hawaii State Legislature during the 2015 session and sent to the Governor. Bills can become law either by the Governor signing them or not vetoing them by the applicable deadline. If the Governor vetoes a bill, it will not become law unless the Governor’s veto is overridden by the Legislature.

Article III, section 16 of the Hawaii State Constitution specifies that the Governor has ten days to consider bills presented to the governor ten or more days before the adjournment of the legislature and forty-five days, after the adjournment of the legislature, to consider bills presented to the governor less than ten days before such adjournment. Saturdays, Sundays, holidays and any days in which the legislature is in recess prior to its adjournment are not counted in determining these time periods.

Bills that have become law are identified by an Act number in bold type under the bill number. The others that are not yet law will be updated when the information becomes available.

Note: Each bill contains a provision stating when it will become effective. The date that a bill becomes law may not be the date that the law will take effect.

The bills are arranged numerically by House and Senate followed by bill titles (which are not always descriptive of a bill’s contents) and a brief description. There is space under each bill for you to insert any additional contents or notes you wish. Copies of the bills and committee reports can be viewed by at the Hawaii Legislature’s website http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov. 

Instructor: Scott Alan Bly, Esquire