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Congress Appropriates $250M for Rail

Hawaii’s Congressional Delegation successfully worked to include an additional $250M in federal appropriations for the construction of rail. The U.S. Senate and House appropriations committees included the funding in both of their Fiscal Year 2016 Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Bills.

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Call For Action: Stop Patent Trolls

The National Association of REALTORS® issued a Call For Action to support H.R.9, The Innovation Act, legislation that would close loopholes in the legal system that currently allow patent trolls to target REALTORS® for using common business technologies, such as dropdown menus and search functions on websites, or scan-to-email technologies found in every office scanner. 

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Important Notice Regarding Windows 10 Upgrade

On July 29, Microsoft plans to release Windows 10 as a free upgrade to its operating system.  This Windows upgrade will include Internet Explorer 11 (IE11), which is the same version of Internet Explorer included with Windows 8 and is compatible with all current versions of Matrix.

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TVR Enforcement Bill Delayed in Committee

The purpose of Bill 22 is to amend the Land Use Ordinance (LUO) relating to Transient Vacation Rentals (TVR).

The amendments would:

  • Require advertisements for vacation rentals (Transient Vacation Units and Bed and Breakfasts) to include certain information that would facilitate the city’s efforts to enhance the regulations of vacation rental operations and improve enforcement measures targeting illegal vacation rentals in residential and other districts;

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