| SB716 | Intro
25% | Expands the circumstances where the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations may waive the requirements for individuals to register to work and report to an employment office to be eligible for unemployment benefits. Authorize the Department to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB133 | Intro
25% | Authorizes state facilities to wheel electricity that is produced by their own facility from renewable energy sources to another state facility pursuant to administrative rules established by the Public Utilities Commission. Requires the Public Utili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB855 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee opts out. Repeals the limit on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1337 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience to establish an endemic plant seed bank pilot program to preserve and promote the planting of plant species that are endemic to Hawaii. Effective 7/1/3000...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB742 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Data Sharing and Governance Working Group within the Office of Enterprise Technology Services. Requires the Working Group to submit annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1186 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Statewide Interagency Food Systems Coordination Team and the Interagency Food Systems Working Group within the Department of Agriculture. Requires reports to the Legislature. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB719 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale, offer, possession with intent to sell, display, distribution, or trade of fur products in the State, with certain exceptions. Establishes civil penalties for violations. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1320 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii system to collect, analyze, and publicly report certain graduate outcome data. Requires and appropriates funds for the development and maintenance of a graduate outcomes dashboard. Appropriates funds for positions wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| SB175 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from seventy to seventy-five years of age. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB585 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Bana Pacific Inc. in constructing a biogas production facility. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1291 | Intro
25% | Extends the offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes a mandatory $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false-labeling of Hawaii-grown roasted coffee. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB464 | Intro
25% | Requires, for tenancies greater than 90 days, a landlord to notify a tenant of any intent to raise the rent for any subsequent rental agreement or any intent to terminate a rental agreement 60 days before the expiration of the original rental agreeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1118 | Intro
25% | Repeals the non-medical exemption from immunization requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 8:45 am]
To House Health Committee |
| HB756 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of flavored nicotine products and nicotine product flavor enhancers and the mislabeling of e-liquids as nicotine free. Establishes penalties for violations. Authorizes the Department of Health to appoint, commission, or contract fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB450 | Intro
25% | Transfers the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission from the Department of Accounting and General Services to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the authority hel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB745 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2028, makes the most recent Hawaii state building codes adopted by the state building code council supersede all existing county building codes and thereafter allows counties to remove requirements of the state building codes or add req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Kila, Kitagawa, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Grandinetti; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, La Chica, Pierick. |
| SB250 | Intro
25% | Creates an income tax credit for qualified transportation costs incurred by certain taxpayers who ship agricultural products and inputs between counties. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2025. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB176 | Intro
25% | Increases the qualifying criteria for an automatic election recount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:15 am]
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, San Buenaventura; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Chang. |
| HB1330 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates moneys to the Department of Accounting and General Services for the replacement and relocation of the Oahu Community Correctional Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 8:30 am]
The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Hashem, Lamosao, Poepoe, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Iwamoto; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Ichiyama, Morikawa, Woodson. |
| HB528 | Intro
25% | Exempts state and county lands leased after July 1, 2025, for an initial period of not less than ninety-nine years from chapters 516 and 516D, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, Kitagawa, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, La Chica, Pierick. |
| HB1188 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Teacher Workforce Housing Stipend Program to support teacher retention at public and charter schools classified as hard-to-staff. Requires reports to the Legislature. Amends the purpose and uses of the Teacher Housing Revolving Fund. Ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Housing Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:46 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB1008 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to adopt ordinances to enforce the accessible parking space requirements for parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities and electric vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB1 | Intro
25% | Amends responsibilities of the State Building Code Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HB1056 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Strengthen Hawaii Homes Program to encourage single-family homeowners to retrofit their homes to resist damage by providing for grants to help offset the cost of retrofits. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HB671 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to identify all legislative districts in the State in which at least twenty-five per cent of the population consists of Native Hawaiians. Designates these districts as Native Hawaiian notable districts. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB118 | Intro
25% | Establishes an investigator position in the Campaign Spending Commission. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:15 am]
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Chang. |
| HB468 | Intro
25% | Requires the Civil Rights Commission to receive and investigate complaints related to acts of discrimination committed by transportation network company drivers against riders with service animals and report the results of its investigation to the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB127 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Conventional Farming Grant Program to be administered by the Department of Agriculture to provide grants to small and midsized farmers who practice conventional farming. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB685 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Agribusiness Development Corporation for the purchase of a land parcel in Kau for agricultural development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB984 | Intro
25% | Updates the agricultural loan program by lowering interest rates, increasing and standardizing loan limits, and reducing the number of credit denials. Authorizes the agricultural loan program to issue lines of credit. Creates a new class of loans to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB88 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the payment of allowances for TRICARE, TRICARE Dental Program, and vision coverage to all officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel of the Hawaii National Guard ordered to active duty for more than 30 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB782 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a working group to review and make recommendations on amending or repealing unnecessary or obsolete laws pertaining to agriculture. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB744 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Condominium Loan Program and the Condominium Loan Program Special Fund, to be administered by the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority on behalf of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, for the purpose of pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:45 am]
The committee(s) on EDT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EDT were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) DeCoite, Wakai, Fukunaga, Kim; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa. |
| SB1228 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group for legal services for youth in the child welfare system within the judiciary. Appropriates funds for the working group.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB458 | Intro
25% | Designates April 27 of every year as Brother Joseph Dutton Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:30 am]
The committee on CAA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kapela, Kong, Garrett, Lee, M., Sayama; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Reyes Oda. |
| HB1013 | Intro
25% | Repeals the provision authorizing farm dwellings and farm employee housing on important agricultural lands, amends the provision for priority permit processing to include farm cluster housing, and adopts a new provision establishing farm cluster hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, Kitagawa, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, La Chica, Pierick. |
| HB1496 | Intro
25% | Establishes the position of Ka Papahana Kaiapuni Program Complex Area Superintendent. Requires that at least one at-large member of the Board of Education be a Hawaiian educator, practitioner, or scholar of Hawaiian studies or the Hawaiian language, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1068 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a statewide environmental assessment for, and subsequently administer, a Slim-Hole Resource Characterization Program. Requires reports to the Legislature. Establishes a position. Appropriates funds. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB638 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a landlord or the landlord's agent from charging an application fee for a criminal background check or credit report if an applicant provides a certified copy of a criminal background check or credit report. Prohibits a landlord or the land...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1096 | Intro
25% | Repeals the tenant selection preferences for disabled veterans and the spouses of deceased veterans in the State Low-Income Housing Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, Kitagawa, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, La Chica, Pierick. |
| SB116 | Intro
25% | Establishes provisions relating to civil remedies for discriminatory reporting to a law enforcement officer. Provides that any person who contacts a law enforcement officer to contact a person on the basis of the person's actual or perceived race, co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB134 | Intro
25% | Requires the Chief Election Officer to provide a system for the electronic filing of nomination papers. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1059 | Intro
25% | Converts the Emergency Management Specialist series positions at level V and higher in the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency from civil service status to exempt status. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB1535 | Intro
25% | Provides for the transfer of certain parcels in the Liliha Civic Center area and Iwilei Fire Station area from various state agencies to the City and County of Honolulu. Provides for the transfer of the parcel of land on which Alii Place is sited fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB1023 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Spay and Neuter Special Fund to reduce pet overpopulation and the reproduction of free-roaming cats and various revenue and fundraising sources for the special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
The committee(s) on EIG recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EIG were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Chang, DeCoite; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Richards ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| SB765 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the registration process for beekeepers with the Department of Agriculture. Requires the Department of Agriculture to provide guidance and support to registered beekeepers to help beekeepers adhere to certain industry standards and best man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB547 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Spay and Neuter Special Fund to reduce pet overpopulation and the reproduction of free-roaming cats and various revenue and fundraising sources for the special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan, Ward. |
