HB 504 Summary

• Amends Hawaii Revised Statutes § 46-1.5 to grant counties power to adopt ordinances regulating hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodations operators.

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

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

• Addresses the legislature's finding that illegal and unregulated transient accommodations have harmed the state's housing supply by enabling county-level regulation to prevent proliferation of illegal transient accommodations and preserve residential housing.

• Takes effect upon approval.