| HI | 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] | 2025-02-03
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB497 | Intro
25% | Transfers the Hawaii Child Nutrition Programs Agency from the Department of Education to the Department of Agriculture and codifies its establishment. Establishes a grant program to be administered by the Agency to support the funding of certain init...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB110 | Intro
25% | Modifies certain benchmark goals and timeline for the Department of Education to provide locally-sourced agricultural and food products. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1185 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Plant-based Building Materials Working Group to study and report on how best to grow plants and develop plant-based building materials in Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | 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 6/30/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1184 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for the development of a controlledenvironment agriculture research and demonstration facility at the Magoon research and teaching site in Manoa, Oahu.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB189 | Intro
25% | Requires the counties to adopt ordinances setting forth procedures and requirements for the review and permitting of agricultural tourism uses and activities as secondary uses, in addition to accessory uses, on a working farm or farming operation. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 8:45 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB966 | Intro
25% | Establishes statewide, uniform standards to promote agricultural tourism activities in the State by establishing state agricultural tourism activity requirements that are applicable to all counties that have adopted an agricultural tourism ordinance....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 8:45 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB530 | 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB222 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "employee" in Hawaii's wage and hour law by excluding individuals who are primarily engaged in the range production of livestock. Effective July 1, 3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1497 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to develop an online reporting tool for restricted use pesticide reporting. Appropriates funds to convert temporary environmental health specialist III positions into permanent positio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1284 | Intro
25% | Requires quarterly rather than annual reporting of all use of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1417 | Intro
25% | Creates an exclusion from income tax for the first $50,000 of income earned by farmers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1187 | Intro
25% | Phases in a ban on state departments administratively attached and agencies from purchasing imported flowers and lei.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1285 | 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 used. Establishes a one-half mile buffer zone for pesticides around schools and state and county pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB193 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "farming operation" by including customary and traditional subsistence farming conducted by native Hawaiian cultural practitioners and excluding concentrated animal feeding operations and business entities with unclear or non...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1393 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to revitalize and enhance the agricultural statistics program to collect data on local agricultural interests. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1450 | Intro
25% | Establishes a three-year climate-resilient food systems grant pilot program, to be administered by the Department of Agriculture. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1237 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for agricultural biosecurity and the prevention, detection, and control of invasive species in Maui County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1310 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor to provide profiles of Filipino immigrants related to demographic, education, and vocation data. Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to collaborate with cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB986 | Intro
25% | Increases the ceiling of the pesticide use revolving fund. Effective July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB845 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain foreign parties from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in agricultural lands. Establishes an Office of Agricultural Intelligence within the Department of Agriculture to investigate claims that land is unlawfully owned by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB858 | Intro
25% | Establishes the agricultural statistics program in statute. Appropriates funds for the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB985 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funding to the department of agriculture to continue the statewide pesticide drift monitoring study.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB873 | Intro
25% | Increases the buffer zone for restricted use pesticides around schools to one-half mile. Allows the use of restricted use pesticides within the buffer zone as part of invasive species control conducted by the Department of Agriculture or invasive spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB968 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB884 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain foreign parties or their agents, trustees, and fiduciaries from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in agricultural lands. Establishes an Office of Agricultural Intelligence within the Department of Agriculture to investiga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB967 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB93 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB436 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" for enterprise zone program purposes to include retail sales of tangible personal property manufactured and sold in the enterprise zone that is to be used or consumed by the purchaser and not for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB48 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the labeling and advertising requirements for coffee that is grown and processed in the State. Defines regional origin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB95 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB192 | Intro
25% | Prohibits foreign entities from owning, leasing, or holding a controlling interest in more than an unspecified number of acres of agricultural land. Limits the lease term for agricultural land by foreign entities. Requires foreign entities that own o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB812 | Intro
25% | Requires a contract for the purchase of local produce having a value of more than $250 to be for a term of at least 5 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB783 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds and appropriates funds to finance capital improvement projects for irrigation systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB776 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the Hawaii Agricultural Transportation Assistance Program, to consist of a reimbursement program and grant program, to assist certain farmers and livestock producers with transportation costs for agric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB773 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for grant specialist positions to assist farmers and ranchers in meeting the requirements to receive grants offered by the United States Department of Agriculture, State, counties, or private entities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB92 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB775 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for permanent positions in agricultural biosecurity established by Act 231, SLH 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB96 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to biosecurity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB365 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain octopus aquaculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB94 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
