| SB1350 | Intro
25% | Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (5) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB94 | Intro
25% | Increases the mandatory minimum jail sentence for a first conviction of knowingly or intentionally violating a temporary restraining order from forty-eight to seventy-two hours. Requires mandatory mental health counseling for a first conviction of kn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB323 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Teacher Housing Assistance Program to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers. Appropriates funds out of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HB750 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to conduct a statewide needs assessment to determine what will be needed to reduce waste generation, increase reuse, improve recycling collection services, and expand local processing of materials through an extended...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Perruso, Kahaloa, Kusch; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan, Ward. |
| SB958 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the cesspool compliance pilot grant project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB655 | Intro
25% | Limits the required payment of certain unpaid motor vehicle taxes and fees and accompanying financial penalties to those incurred during the most recent 5 consecutive years of delinquency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, La Chica, Miyake, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HB531 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to recognize the University of Hawaii Cancer Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To House Culture & Arts Committee |
| SB142 | Intro
25% | Requires insurers who choose to pay the proceeds of or a claim under an insurance policy by issuing a check to deliver the check by certified mail, restricted delivery, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, to the last known address of the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:35 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB134 | Intro
25% | Requires the Chief Election Officer to provide a system for the electronic filing of nomination papers. Effective 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Garcia; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| SB102 | Intro
25% | Prohibits third-party restaurant reservation services from listing, advertising, promoting, or selling restaurant reservations without first obtaining a written agreement from the applicable restaurant authorizing the action. Establishes civil penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Richards, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| SB1132 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to identify all state-owned buildings that have the space and capability to establish a child care center on its premises and establish and administer child care centers within the identified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB1502 | Intro
25% | Establishes requirements for property and casualty insurers and policies for pre- and post-disaster protections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 8:30 am]
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB318 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt rules establishing privacy requirements for directtoconsumer genetic testing in the State. Requires the Department's rules to specify whether consumers' genetic information may be used...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB912 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to offset the debt for the Waiahole Water System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB1356 | Intro
25% | Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (11) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal bienniu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB1459 | Intro
25% | Sets standards for sustainable aviation fuel adoption for intrastate travel airlines by certain times. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:00 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB446 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority and School of Travel Industry Management at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to collaborate to actively plan for the design, construction, and operations and management of a state hotel. Requires reports to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on TOU recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Tam, Templo, Hussey, Ilagan, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Holt. |
| HB1337 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii to establish an endemic plant seed bank pilot program to preserve and promote the planting of plant species that are endemic to Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB616 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education and public charter schools to take certain steps to report incidents of harassment and implement procedures for handling harassment of educational workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HB463 | Intro
25% | Requires that all court records of any eviction proceeding be sealed within specified timeframes upon resolution of the proceeding. Authorizes the court to seal certain eviction records prior to the expiration of these timeframes upon motion by a ten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:15 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HB628 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a program to award high school diplomas to persons who did not receive a diploma as a result of compulsory or voluntary induction into the armed services and persons whose high school education was ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HB231 | Intro
25% | Increases the fines for violating motor vehicle insurance requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, La Chica, Miyake, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HB471 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to establish a Korean language program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| SB265 | Intro
25% | Increases the rate of compensation and maximum allowable amounts per case for court-appointed counsel and guardians ad litem in family court proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HB328 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to authorize and facilitate complex areas or individual department schools to form their own farm to school meal programs through partnerships to meet the local farm to school meal goal of thirty per cent of food ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HB532 | Intro
25% | Reduces the period in which a transferee is required to forward the certificate of ownership to the director of finance when a title of vehicle is transferred from thirty days to fourteen days. Allows a letter of attestation to the Director of Financ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, La Chica, Miyake, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| SB1230 | Intro
25% | Exempts the donation of wild game meat, including axis deer, to a charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization to needy persons from certain laws regarding the inspection and transportation of meat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:34 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB639 | Intro
25% | Requires corporations, organizations, or individuals engaging to commercial transactions or trade practices to clearly and conspicuously notify consumers when the consumer is interacting with an artificial intelligence chatbot or other technology cap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1302 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development, in collaboration with various state and county agencies, to establish a Transportation Demand Management Program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 10:00 am]
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB245 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health, to develop statewide guidelines related to managing heat exposure to protect students' health during outdoor activities. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HCR9 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Director Of Transportation To Establish The Makakilo Drive Extension Task Force To Address Issues Delaying The Construction Of The Makakilo Drive Extension Project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
Offered |
| SB137 | Intro
25% | Requires the PUC to impose certain conditions of approval on any order approving, in whole or in part, an application for the proposed acquisition, merger, or consolidation of an electric utility company by an acquiring entity. Establishes a process ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:35 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB261 | Intro
25% | Increases the amount each juror or prospective juror is paid for each day of actual attendance at court. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| SB78 | Intro
25% | Makes an application for voter registration part of certain state agency application processes. Requires the sharing of certain information among certain state agencies, election personnel, and online voter registration system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB639 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the level of environmental restoration that owners and operators of underground storage tanks or tank systems must satisfy in the event of a confirmed release of jet fuel. Specifies the restoration condition and quality acceptable by the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB426 | Intro
25% | Expands the powers of the Hawaii Property Insurance Association and reactivates the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to help to stabilize the property insurance market in the State. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to conduct a study. Appropriates mon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB319 | Intro
25% | Changes from 1 ounce to 30 grams the minimum amount of marijuana that constitutes the offense of promoting a detrimental drug in the second degree. Increases from 3 grams or less to 15 grams or less the amount of marijuana that constitutes the offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
25% | Protects individuals who make claims of sexual misconduct from defamation lawsuits unless the claims were proven to be made with malice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 2 No(es): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Awa; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HB339 | Intro
25% | Requires the PUC to impose certain conditions of approval on any order approving, in whole or in part, an application for the proposed acquisition, merger, or consolidation of an electric utility company by an acquiring entity. Establishes a process ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Perruso, Kahaloa, Kusch; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan, Ward. |
| SB1081 | Intro
25% | Establishes the legislative budget office to produce fiscal analyses and reports on bills impacting state or county finances. Repeals the joint legislative budget committee and the office of the legislative analyst. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB1076 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Climate Mitigation and Resiliency Special Fund. Mandates the allocation of all earned interest from the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund to the newly established special fund. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:00 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB747 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Audit Office within the Board of Education to audit operations and expenditures of the Department of Education. Exempts positions within the Audit Office from civil service law. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Establishes s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1211 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state breast milk bank under the Department of Health. Establishes the breast milk bank special fund. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:34 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB157 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the use of algorithmic price-setting in Hawaii's rental market. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to develop and undertake a public education program regarding the prohibition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Richards, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HB806 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Honolulu Police Department and Department of Law Enforcement to conduct sting operations on Oahu to enforce fireworks ordinances or laws. Authorizes a court to order the forfeiture of one-half of any pension of an Employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on LAB recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Sayama, Lee, M., Garrett, Kapela, Kong, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HB938 | Intro
25% | Authorizes manufacturers and distributors to sell directly to consumers items activated or installed through remote electronic transmission. Clarifies the applicability of the Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Act to common entities. Amends the ground...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 10:00 am]
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB625 | Intro
25% | Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HB1074 | Intro
25% | Requires the School Facilities Authority to consult with the Department of Education and other impacted departments or agencies prior to the conveyance of ownership rights or lease of lands to the School Facilities Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HB760 | Intro
25% | Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to address carbon emissions. Incrementally increases the tax rate over time. Establishes a refundable tax credit to mitigate the effect of a carbon emissions tax on lower-income taxpaye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:02 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB1349 | Intro
25% | Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (4) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
