Report Title:

Landlord-Tenant Code

Description:

Clarified definition of "tenant" to a person who executes a rental agreement.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2683

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the landlord-tenant code.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 521-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "tenant" to read as follows:

""Tenant" means any person who occupies a dwelling unit for dwelling purposes [under] and has executed a rental agreement[.] with a landlord."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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