HB1485 • 2026

RELATING TO PROSTITUTION.

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Sponsor: OLDS, ALCOS, AMATO, GARCIA, KILA, MARTEN, MATAYOSHI, MURAOKA, SHIMIZU
Last action: 2025-12-08
Official status: Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill does not provide details on the specific resources offered to workers or the exact amounts appropriated for each county.

Rules About Massage Parlors and Prostitution

This bill sets penalties for property managers and owners who allow massage parlors or similar prostitution establishments on their properties, treats workers as victims, and provides funds to enforce the rules.

What This Bill Does

Establishes penalties for property managers and owners if they have massage parlors or places where prostitution happens on their land.
Requires anyone working in these places to be treated like a victim of crime and given help.
Appropriates funds to cities and counties to enforce the new laws.

Who It Names or Affects

Property managers and owners who have massage parlors or prostitution establishments on their land.
Workers at massage parlors or similar places where prostitution happens.
Law enforcement agencies that will enforce these new laws.

Terms To Know

Complicity: When someone helps in a crime, even if they didn't do the main part of it themselves.
Victim: A person who is hurt or harmed by a criminal act.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify how much money will be given to each city and county.
It's unclear what specific resources workers will receive as victims of crime.

Bill History

2025-12-08 D
Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.
2025-01-27 H
Referred to JHA, FIN, referral sheet 4
2025-01-23 H
Introduced and Pass First Reading.

Official Summary Text

RELATING TO PROSTITUTION.
Penal Code; Massage Parlors; Prostitution Establishments; Property Managers; Property Owners; Liability; Appropriation ($)
Establishes penalties for property managers and owners of real property on or in which massage parlors or similar prostitution establishments are located. Requires workers to be treated as victims and offered resources. Appropriates funds.

Current Bill Text

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HB1485

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B.
NO.

1485

THIRTY-THIRD
LEGISLATURE, 2025

STATE OF
HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN
ACT

RELATING TO PROSTITUTION
.

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

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SECTION
1.
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Chapter 712, Hawaii Revised Statutes,
is amended by adding a new section to part I to be appropriately designated and
to read as follows:

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Massage parlors and similar prostitution
establishments; property managers and owners; liability.
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(a)
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If any massage parlor or
similar prostitution establishment is searched by law enforcement, pursuant to
a warrant or an exception to the warrant clause, and any person is charged with
the offense of commercial sexual exploitation under section 712-1200.5, sex
trafficking under section 712-1202, or promoting prostitution under section
712-1203 as a result of the search, the property manager and owner of the real
property on or in which the massage parlor or similar prostitution
establishment is located may be charged with complicity in the offenses
charged.

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(b)
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If compelling evidence is
presented proving complicity or inaction to address a massage parlor or similar
prostitution establishment, both the property manager and owner of the real
property on or in which the massage parlor or similar prostitution
establishment is located shall be fined $100,000, in addition to any other
penalties.

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(c)
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Any worker of the massage
parlor or similar prostitution establishment or any person, against whom the offense
of commercial sexual exploitation under section 712-1200.5, sex trafficking
under section 712-1202, or promoting prostitution under section 712-1203 has
been committed, shall be treated as a victim and offered resources to determine
the nature of their involvement and the potential for reunification with family
if the worker or person is trafficked.
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SECTION 2.
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There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii
the sum of $ or so
much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2025-2026 and the same sum or
so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2026-2027 to enforce this
Act, to be allocated as follows:

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(1)
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$
to the city and county of Honolulu;

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(2)
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$
to the county of Hawaii;

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(3)
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$
to the county of Maui; and

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(4)
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$
to the county of Kauai.

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The sums

appropriated shall be expended by each
county for the purposes of this Act.

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SECTION 3.
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This Act does not affect rights and duties
that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun
before its effective date.

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SECTION 4.
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New statutory material is underscored.

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SECTION 5.
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This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2025.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Penal
Code; Massage Parlors; Prostitution Establishments; Property Managers; Property
Owners; Liability; Appropriation

Description:

Establishes
penalties for property managers and owners of real property on or in which
massage parlors or similar prostitution establishments are located.
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Requires workers to be treated as victims and
offered resources.
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Appropriates funds.

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