HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1822
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

Relating to Housing.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to delay the execution of a writ of summary possession for persons who have been tenants for more than one year and are at risk of becoming homeless to allow these persons time to apply for rapid re-housing or shallow rent subsidy funds.

SECTION 2. Chapter 666, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§666-    Summary possession; non-payment of rent; delay in execution. Except in cases of death or abandonment of the lease by the original tenant, where a summary possession action is sought for non-payment of rent for any tenancy of a residential property for which a continuous tenancy has existed for more than one year and for which timely payment of rent has occurred for more than one year, no writ of possession shall be executed until the later of either a refund of the tenant's security deposit, if applicable, or two weeks after the entry of an order granting a writ of possession."

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Landlord-Tenant; Summary Possession; Execution of Writ

Description:

Delays the execution of a writ of possession in a summary possession action until either two weeks after the issuance of the later of either the writ or the tenant's security deposit has been refunded.

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