| SB1048 | Intro
25% | Amends Act 205, Session Laws of Hawaii 2024, to clarify standards and safeguards in online crowdfunding. Takes effect 7/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
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. |
| HB3 | Intro
25% | Extends the deadline for the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to submit the North Shore Beach Management Plan to the Governor and Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB981 | Intro
25% | Requires the Research and Economic Analysis Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to study the impacts of the incremental minimum wage increases pursuant to Act 114, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, on businesses and o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB506 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for equipment for the Oahu Branch of the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1460 | Intro
25% | Requires that lease extensions approved by the Board of Land and Natural Resources be drafted on forms that reflect contemporary leasing practices and policies of the Board, and which shall control over conflicting or inconsistent provisions in the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in WTL were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, Chang, McKelvey, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| SB31 | Intro
25% | Allows a person who discovers a recorded discriminatory restrictive covenant to take certain actions without liability, to invalidate the covenant. Defines discriminatory restrictive covenant. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1384 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council. Requires an action plan and reports to the Governor and Legislature by certain dates. Establishes positions. Authorizes the hiring of consultants to assist the advisory council. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB496 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Agriculture to define the terms "bona fide farmer" and "bona fide agricultural activity". Requires a report to the Legislature. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1009 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state reserved parking space enforcement fine for parking in parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities or electric vehicles. Increases the fines for any person who parks a non-electric vehicle in a space designated and marke...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1229 | Intro
25% | Makes the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Pilot Program permanent. Gives preference to projects developed under governmental assistance programs pursuant to section 201H-36(a)(2), HRS. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB809 | Intro
25% | Prohibits state or county grantees, officers and immediate family members of state or county contractors, and officers and immediate family members of state or county grantees, from contributing to candidate committees and noncandidate committees for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB604 | Intro
25% | Beginning on 1/1/2026, increases transient accommodations tax rates by 1 percentage point. Deposits the increased revenues into the Hawaiian Home General Loan Fund established under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended. Effective 7/1/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB976 | Intro
25% | Allows direct shipment of beer and distilled spirits by certain licensees. Requires the Liquor Commission or Liquor Control Adjudication Board of each county to adopt rules and regulations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1260 | Intro
25% | Establishes an agroecological and climate-smart farming practices tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, Richards, DeCoite, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| SB1359 | Intro
25% | Effective 1/1/2026, increases the employer base composite monthly contribution to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund by 5.2 percent of the 2025 employer base composite monthly contribution. Effective 1/1/2027, requires that the empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB216 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the construction of new farm dwellings on agricultural park lots beginning 1/1/2026. Prohibits residence within an unpermitted farm dwelling. Authorizes inspections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, Richards, DeCoite, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HB1036 | Intro
25% | Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Bargaining Unit (10) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1410 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Supportive Housing Special Fund. Restructures the conveyance tax to a marginal rate system and adjusts the tax for multifamily properties to reflect value on a per-unit basis. Allocates revenues from conveyance tax collections to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 9:30 am]
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB450 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for applied behavioral analysis services for persons with autism. Requires the Department of Human Services to obtain maximum federal matching funds and pursue all other funding sources. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1250 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Farm to Families Program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Requires reports to the Legislature prior to the Regular Sessions of 2026 and 2027. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1169 | Intro
25% | Establishes the University of Hawaii Conference Center Revolving Fund to facilitate the administration of the revolving fund for conference center programs among various campuses and operating units of the University of Hawaii system. Repeals the Con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1098 | Intro
25% | Specifies that intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to a protective services worker who is engaged in the performance of the worker's duties is a class C felony. Clarifies that a protective services worker is a public servant for the purp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB414 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to institute proceedings to condemn certain lands in Lahaina to build a new access road from Keawe Street to the Kilohana and Kalaiola sites developed in the Villages of Leialii. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB401 | Intro
25% | Establishes one additional district court judgeship in the Third Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1335 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct an integrated land use study for the use of lands within the agricultural districts. Establishes one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) planner position, exempt from chapter 76.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WTL were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, Chang, McKelvey, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| SB1629 | Intro
25% | Increases the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit for qualified productions that utilize qualified production facilities located within the State. Changes the cap amount and aggregate cap amount of the motion picture,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:01 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB344 | Intro
25% | Requires all skateboard users under the age of sixteen to wear a helmet while operating a skateboard. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB447 | Intro
25% | Establishes a hiring pilot program within the Department of Health, which includes an amended hiring procedure for delegated position classifications, certain flexibilities regarding minimum qualifications for positions having a salary range at or be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
The committee(s) on LBT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in LBT were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Aquino, Lee, C., Ihara, Moriwaki, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HB114 | Intro
25% | Establishes positions and appropriates funds for the Adult Client Services Branch of the First Circuit Court. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1323 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to transfer certain public lands for agricultural use to the Department of Agriculture without approval from the Board of Land and Natural Resources and Board of Agriculture. Requires the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 9:30 am]
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB713 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to conduct a rate study for Medicaid home health services in Hawaii. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB252 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the importation of any item or material infested or infected with an insect or other animal, disease, or other pest is prohibited. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to inspect any item imported or moved into the State from anoth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB975 | Intro
25% | Codifies and makes permanent the Hawaii Carbon Smart Land Management Assistance Program under the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 10:15 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB378 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to identify existing mixed-use developments in Maui County that could be acquired by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for use as affordabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1575 | Intro
25% | Allows authorized insurers in the State to offer building and hurricane damage insurance for condominium buildings at a lesser rate than the building's prior surplus lines insurance policy for the same coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 14 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1179 | Intro
25% | Creates a framework for the licensure of rural emergency hospitals by the Department of Health. Provides for the continuation of Medicaid policy protections for hospitals transitioning to a rural emergency hospital designation. Effective 7/1/3000. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1382 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to contract with a non-profit specializing in domestic violence to provide training and staff to be housed on-site in Child Welfare Services Branch offices to support all aspects of screening fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB95 | Intro
25% | Creates additional fines for any individual found operating a vehicle or moped without a current certificate of inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB893 | Intro
25% | Grants twenty-year licenses for casinos in the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District and Hawaii Convention Center. Establishes the Hawaii Gaming Control Commission. Imposes fifteen per cent wagering tax on gross receipts. Establishes the State Gam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:03 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HB1028 | Intro
25% | Provides appropriations 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 fisc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB563 | Intro
25% | Directs the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Agribusiness Development Corporation and the counties, to conduct a statewide agricultural water infrastructure study. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB309 | Intro
25% | Establishes a fishpond inventory working group within the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to create an inventory and map of all fishponds on state land and conduct a literature review. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1503 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to develop and implement training programs, public-private partnerships, funding opportunities, and recruitment strategies to develop a local workforce to meet the growing demand in defense-re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB997 | Intro
25% | Grants the Public Utilities Commission the ability to authorize preferential rates for the purchase of renewable energy from facilities that meet certain prevailing wage requirements. Requires public utilities to forward certain requests for preferen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB702 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for Medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1368 | Intro
25% | Amends the composition of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund board of trustees. Clarifies vacancy procedures. Amends quorum requirements and voting powers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 9:00 am]
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB626 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the planting of large trees along evacuation routes. Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to identify large trees along evacuation routes and trim, spray, or remove large trees having the potential to obstruct an evacuation route...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB327 | Intro
25% | Permits the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to enter into contracts with eligible employers or registered apprenticeship programs in the private sector to provide on-the-job training to eligible interns. Requires the Department of Labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 10:01 am]
The committee(s) on WAM will hold a public decision making on 02-12-25 10:01AM; Conference Room 211 & Videoconference. |
| SB1128 | Intro
25% | Establishes requirements for insurers relating to claims for additional living expenses under homeowners insurance policies, including situations where losses are incurred during a state of emergency. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB455 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program. Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program special fund. Requires DBEDT to submit an annual report to the Legislature regarding the program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
