HB 1773 Summary

• Adds new paragraph (28) to Hawaii Revised Statutes Section 46-1.5 authorizing counties to enact and enforce ordinances regulating hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodation operators within their jurisdiction.

• Defines "booking service" as any reservation or payment service provided by a person facilitating transient accommodations transactions between prospective users and hosts.

• Defines "hosting platform" as a person who participates in the transient accommodations business by collecting or receiving fees, directly or indirectly, for conducting booking transactions.

• Legislature finds that illegal and unregulated transient accommodations have caused detrimental impacts to the state's housing supply and purposes this act to preserve residential housing and prevent further proliferation of illegal transient accommodations.

• Takes effect upon approval.