| HB224 | Intro
25% | Establishes a procedure for immediately removing an unlawful occupant of a dwelling or premises with assistance from law enforcement. Provides that an unlawful occupant of a dwelling or premises is civilly liable for unpaid utility bills. Provides th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB745 | Intro
25% | Beginning on the date the International Code Council 2024 suite of published codes is adopted as the Hawaii state building code, makes the most recent Hawaii state building codes adopted by the state building code council supersede all existing count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB951 | Intro
25% | Requires mandatory reports of child abuse or neglect to include the military status of the child's parent or guardian, if known. Requires the Department of Human Services to make efforts to determine the military status of a person implicated in chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Hashimoto, Keohokalole; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HB841 | Intro
25% | Repeals the provision prohibiting retirants to be rehired as teachers or administrators in teacher shortage areas or in hard-to-fill positions within twelve calendar months of leaving employment with the State or a county. Prohibits rehired retirants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:00 am]
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB296 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a physician, upon consultation with a minor patient who indicates that the minor was the victim of a sexual offense, with the consent of the minor patient, to perform customary and necessary examinations to obtain evidence of the sexual of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB662 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to transfer the public roads of the Villages of Kapolei to the City and County of Honolulu by January 1, 2026. Authorizes county police officers to enforce the statewide traffic code on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1310 | Intro
25% | Deletes the term "agent of the contractor" in sections 28-17 and 846-2.7, HRS, to comply with requirements of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation deemed the term overly broad for purposes of accessing its criminal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1030 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the practice of election fraud intimidation includes carrying any firearm or weapon at or near a voter service center, place of deposit, or polling place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB496 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the use of certain words that can be used on the label of a consumer package that contains or includes tea or dried leaves from the plant Pipturus albidus, unless one hundred per cent of the tea or dried leaves were grown in the State. Appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB228 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to adopt rules for the use of electronic license plates and for intentionally obscuring a license plate with a cover or shield. Prohibits the use of license plate flipping devices. Establishes minimum and maximum fines. Effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1022 | Intro
25% | Prohibits intentionally leaving or confining pet animals in a vehicle under conditions that endanger their health, safety, or well-being. Allows law enforcement officers, animal control officers, and firefighters to enter an unattended vehicle to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 2 Aye(s): Senator(s) Elefante, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) DeCorte; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Wakai, Fukunaga. |
| SB1525 | Intro
25% | Requires electronic smoking device and e-liquid manufacturers to submit certifications with the Department of Taxation annually, stating that the manufacturer's products comply with federal regulations. Requires the Department of Taxation to maintain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:32 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB1304 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funding to the department of agriculture to continue the statewide pesticide drift monitoring study.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, DeCoite, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Richards. |
| HB643 | Intro
25% | Establishes short-term management initiatives for the coconut rhinoceros beetle response program. Appropriates funds for activities and positions related to coconut rhinoceros beetle infestation control. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Evslin, Muraoka. |
| HB454 | Intro
25% | Establishes a public policy framework that addresses state goals related to economic diversification. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology and Development Corporation to implement specific programs that address these goals. Requires the Hawaii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Holt, Tam, Templo, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| SB583 | Intro
25% | Allows the naming rights of any state-owned facility to be sold or leased to any public or private entity. Requires any revenues derived from advertising or marketing in or on any state-owned facility to be deposited into the appropriate special fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:03 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HB1176 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Economic Diversification Grant Program under the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to qualified high technology businesses engaging in qualified research activities. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Holt, Tam, Templo, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HB303 | Intro
25% | Expands the definitions of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors, including removing "primary care" from the criteria to q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Holt, Tam, Templo, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| SB492 | Intro
25% | Authorizes each county that has established a surcharge on state tax before 7/1/2015 to extend the surcharge until 12/31/2045, at the same rates, if the county does so before 1/1/2028; Provides that no county surcharge on state tax authorized for a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 3:20 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| SB1446 | Intro
25% | Authorizes each county to enact ordinances to enforce the design and construction requirements for the provision of accessible parking spaces, including the establishment of penalties for failure to comply with the ordinances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB319 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the crime of cruelty to animals in the second degree the extermination of insects, vermin, and pests, and the extermination of feral chickens on private property by the property owner; provided that the extermination is conducted in acco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB147 | Intro
25% | Increases the real property exemption amount for attachment or execution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1470 | Intro
25% | For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024, (1) repeals the maximum tax rate that may be considered in determining the amount of income tax that must be withheld and the requirement that a standard deduction allowance be treated as if it was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB338 | Intro
25% | For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025, temporarily reinstates the Technology Infrastructure Renovation Tax Credit and expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on LBT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in LBT were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Aquino, Lee, C., Moriwaki; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Ihara, Fevella. |
| SB1364 | Intro
25% | Makes emergency appropriations for fiscal year 2024-2025 to the Department of Accounting and General Services and the Judiciary for payroll and fringe benefits of affected Department of Law Enforcement personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Elefante, Wakai, Fukunaga, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) DeCorte. |
| SB757 | Intro
25% | Requires reasonable terms in license agreements for digital literary materials between libraries and publishers. Defines prohibited terms for license agreements between libraries and publishers. Declares offer of a license agreement with a prohibited...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB851 | Intro
25% | Authorizes emergency medical technicians in the State to administer buprenorphine after the administration of an opioid antagonist during an opioid-related drug overdose response. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules, allocate resources f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1347 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (2) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1009 | Intro
25% | Makes the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Pilot Program permanent. Allows partial or full repayment of Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund interim loans in the form of unit equity through the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kitagawa, La Chica, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kila. |
| SB12 | Intro
25% | Classifies neonicotinoid pesticides as restricted use pesticides and establishes a list of chemicals that shall belong to the neonicotinoid class of chemicals. Prohibits the sale or use of seeds coated or treated with neonicotinoid pesticides. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1358 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to facilitate the hiring of necessary staff and the purchase of equipment and professional services on behalf of the public land trust working group. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB24 | Intro
25% | Establishes an organizational, tax, and regulatory framework for limited-profit housing associations. Establishes the Limited-Profit Housing Council to oversee limited-profit housing associations. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1357 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (13) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB532 | Intro
25% | Allows school staff and agents trained by a licensed clinician to volunteer to administer medication to students at Department of Education public schools under certain conditions. Clarifies who may prescribe medication to be administered to students...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Hashimoto, Keohokalole; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Aquino, Fevella. |
| SB802 | Intro
25% | Requires insurers to provide advance written notice to policyholders and the Insurance Commissioner, with reasonable explanations and primary factors, of any policy cancellation, non-renewal, or proposed premium increase, if, upon renewal, premiums a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
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. |
| HB892 | Intro
25% | Establishes limitations on geographical restrictions provided as a condition of probation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Shimizu; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Garcia; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Belatti, Cochran, Todd. |
| SB1591 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health and Department of Agriculture to prevent, monitor, and respond to avian influenza in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Hashimoto, Keohokalole; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| SB182 | Intro
25% | Requires hotelkeepers to provide adequate notice of strikes and lockouts to guests and third-party vendors under certain conditions. Allows for recovery of damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB1171 | Intro
25% | Amends the University of Hawaii Tuition and Fees Special Fund by allowing the Board of Regents to dedicate funding for student aid in direct response to an emergency or disaster, as declared by the governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Evslin, Muraoka. |
| SB1440 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain positions in the Department of Health, including the Hawaii State Hospital, from civil service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB128 | Intro
25% | Establishes factors under which officers may, without warrant, arrest and detain persons for petty misdemeanors and violations. Requires officers to record the factors that justified the warrantless arrest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama; Ayes with reservations: none; 2 Noes: Representative(s) Garcia, Shimizu; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Belatti, Cochran, Todd. |
| SB1156 | Intro
25% | Establishes the crime of unlawful creation or distribution of a sexually explicit deepfake.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB11 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to create and annually update a wildfire hazard map. Requires private and public property owners to trim grasses within certain proximities of public rights of way and utility lines. Authorizes el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Richards; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa; and 0 Excused: none. |
| SB308 | Intro
25% | Expands the ban on pistols with a detachable magazine with over a ten-round capacity to any firearm with a detachable magazine with over a ten-round capacity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB149 | Intro
25% | Establishes that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice for public accommodations to deny a person with a disability full and equal enjoyment of information related to their services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations using inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB636 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for one retention coordinator position, one internship coordinator position, and student enrollment management initiatives at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 3:10 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB18 | Intro
25% | Makes appropriations into and out of the Hawaii Historic Preservation Special Fund to the State Historic Preservation Division to inventory historic properties and burial sites in the State, collect data on burial site locations, and conduct an archa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HWN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HWN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Richards, Keohokalole, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Ihara. |
| HB799 | Intro
25% | Authorizes physicians to practice at organized ambulatory health care facilities even if the physician does not have hospital privileges at a licensed hospital in the same geographic location as the ambulatory facility. Provides that a written transf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 10:00 am]
To House Health Committee |
| SB76 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the dwelling units eligible for the Rent-to-Own Program shall be units that are for sale in fee simple or leasehold on state or county land under a lease with an initial term of not less than ninety-nine years. Increases the time perio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB135 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the macadamia nut labeling requirements apply if the applicable products are produced in whole or in part from Hawaii-grown and Hawaii-processed macadamia nuts. Effective 1/2/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:02 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
