| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| SB601 | Intro
25% | Requires law enforcement to post notice that a warranted or warrantless search has been conducted on a property. Requires a law enforcement officer to secure any entrance used by an officer in the search.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB328 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to authorize and facilitate complex areas or individual public 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 serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB532 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that proof that a transferor has filed required notice forms serves as a complete defense to any action brought against the transferor for an act or omission, civil or criminal, arising out of the use, operation, or abandonment of the vehic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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] | 2025-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB935 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for a digital navigator pilot program to offer technical assistance with computers and electronic devices to residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1115 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Universal Immunization Purchase Special Fund into which the fees will be deposited to finance the distribution of immunizations free of charge to qualifying healthcare providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 8:45 am]
To House Health Committee |
| HB872 | Intro
25% | Authorizes health care practitioners to make undesignated prescriptions of epinephrine for the purpose of stocking a supply at various types of businesses and state and county government offices, including public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 8:45 am]
To House Health Committee |
| SB1088 | Intro
25% | Provides rebates for the installation of eligible electric vehicle-ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HB701 | Intro
25% | Establishes a refundable Family Caregiver Tax Credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
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. |
| SB352 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to use consistent units of measurement in its summary to the public on the amounts of restricted use pesticides applied. Establishes a one-half mile buffer zone for pesticides around schools during normal school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB741 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain projects funded by the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund from prevailing wages provisions.
[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. |
| HB625 | Intro
25% | Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1467 | Intro
25% | Establishes the strengthen Hawaii homes program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to administer grants to retrofit residential properties located in historically vulnerable areas to enhance resilience against disast...
[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. |
| SB498 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Agricultural Workforce Housing Working Group within the Department of Agriculture to address the shortage and challenges of agricultural workforce housing in the State. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB572 | Intro
25% | Exempts food and groceries from the general excise tax. Expands a 2024 session law exempting certain medical and dental services to include all medical and dental services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
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. |
| HB250 | Intro
25% | Requires utilization review entities to submit data relating to the prior authorization of health care services to the State Health Planning and Development Agency. Establishes timelines for the approval of prior authorization requests for urgent and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB108 | Intro
25% | Allows direct shipment of beer and distilled spirits by certain licensees. Requires the liquor commissions to adopt rules and regulations. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB735 | Intro
25% | Allows an individual wastewater system to serve up to five bedrooms, regardless of the number of dwelling units or accessory units, whether attached or detached, with certain exclusions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB27 | Intro
25% | Exempts housing developments that have obtained financing commitments from the State from the requirement to obtain approval from the applicable county council. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB772 | Intro
25% | Disallows the use of campaign funds to purchase up to two tickets for an event or fundraiser held by another candidate or committee. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HB133 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support the establishment of surfing as an interscholastic sport. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| HB428 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
