The Honolulu City Council on Wednesday held up a final vote on a bill that would ban lying and sitting at five Chinatown malls.

Councilwoman Carol Fukunaga, Bill 62’s author, said she asked for the measure to be sent back to the Council Zoning and Planning Committee to address concerns raised by the administration of Mayor Kirk Caldwell and others.

The five malls are College Walk Mall, Sun Yat Sen Mall, Kekaulike Mall, Union Mall and Fort Street Mall.

The bill calls for the prohibition to be in place from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

The bill was introduced on the heels of the passage of bills that make it illegal to sit and lie on city sidewalks in Waikiki and business areas of 15 other Oahu neighborhoods.

Chinatown and downtown leaders argued that homeless people who will be pushed out of area sidewalks will instead congregate at the malls outside the ban, impeding traffic flow and commerce.

Critics of sit-lie laws argue that they criminalize homelessness.