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Bill 58 (2025): RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS.

BILL058(25) · introduced by VAL OKIMOTO, Aug. 8, 2025

Summary, as the council's system prints it
Amends the real property tax exemption for low-income rental housing to require property owners to allocate the benefits of the tax exemption exclusively to a rental assistance program for persons who are low-income and reside in the housing project or to the maintenance and preservation ofthe housing project. Takes effect on July 1 2027.
Last event, as printed
Sept. 3, 2025: Passed first reading.
Vote, as printed: 9 AYES: CORDERO, DOS SANTOS-TAM, KIAʻĀINA, NISHIMOTO, OKIMOTO, TULBA, TUPOLA, WATERS, WEYER*
The measure in the council's system
BILL058(25)

Basis. Title, summary, introducers, dates, last event and vote are copied from the council's document system (hnldoc) as read by script; nothing is paraphrased. First on the record Sept. 19, 2026. Corrections: the corrections log.