| HI | 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] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | 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] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB729 | 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] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1512 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for a cesspool conversion on-bill financing program to be administered by the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority to provide low-interest loans to eligible homeowners for the upgrade, conversion, or connection of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1258 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Green Bonds Working Group within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1507 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Lottery and Gaming Corporation for the purpose of conducting and regulating wagering and gaming in the State. Establishes the Lottery and Gaming Special Fund and allocates certain percentages of the fund to various community be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1529 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from charging any fees on a transient accommodation unit, room, or service that were not disclosed before the time of booking. Requires any person offering, listing, advertising, soliciting, or displaying a rate or price for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1247 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Agricultural Development Corporation for the purchase of an agricultural parcel for agricultural development. Establishes one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) Hawaii Island Property Manager pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1206 | Intro
25% | Authorizes condominium associations and planned community associations located in a zoning district that allows for transient vacation rentals to impose an impact fee on owners who use their units as transient vacation rentals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1518 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to establish a two-year Hawaii Office of Naval Research Grant Program to provide 50 per cent matching grants to Hawaii awardees of alternative energy research grants from the United States Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1572 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii State Sports Wagering Commission within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Establishes licensing requirements for sports wagering operators. Establishes penalties for violations. Specifies that sport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1574 | Intro
25% | Amends provisions relating to the Motion Picture, Digital Media, and Film Production Income Tax Credit. Increases the percentage of the qualified production costs that can be claimed by a qualified production company in different counties. Clarifies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1538 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to identify all legislative districts in the State in which a majority of the population consists of Native Hawaiians. Designates these districts as Native Hawaiian majority distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1560 | 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] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1215 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Malama Aina Visitor Impact Tax Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to allocate funds to state agencies to improve the quality of visitor experience to sustain the economic benefits contributed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1183 | Intro
25% | Imposes labeling requirements for mmaki tea grown in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1330 | Intro
25% | Increases the cap for awards to assist businesses applying for the Small Business Innovation Research Grant Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Grant Program of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Adds purchasing of renewabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1299 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to establish and implement projects to assist small businesses related to the tourism sector with technology enablement. Requires HTDC to submit a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB982 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority and School of Travel Industry Management at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to collaborate to actively plan for the design, construction, and operations and management of a state hotel. Requires reports to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1062 | Intro
25% | Transfers the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Office of Enterprise Technology Services in the Department of Accounting and General Services. Establishes the Hawaii B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB670 | Intro
25% | Prohibits lodging establishments in the State from providing personal care products packaged in small plastic containers in any sleeping room accommodations, space within sleeping room accommodations, and bathrooms used by the public or guests. Estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1045 | Intro
25% | Transfers the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Department of Accounting and General Services. Transfers the broadband duties of the Director of Commerce and Consumer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB690 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects per the agricultural infrastructure of the State, a food and product innovation network, and outstanding debt on the Waiahole water system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB584 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority's duties include supporting aquaculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1143 | Intro
25% | Requires annual submission of an updated tourism functional plan by the Hawaiian Tourism Authority, subject to available funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB815 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1144 | Intro
25% | Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to offer, list, advertise, or display a transient accommodations rental rate that includes all resort fees required for the furnishing of transient accommodations. Requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB618 | Intro
25% | Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit by requiring the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to publish on its website the names of the qualified productions and the amount of the tax cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB761 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Agricultural Development Corporation for the purchase of the North Kohala Kynnersly East Site Land Parcel for agricultural development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB892 | Intro
25% | Relating To Tourism. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1113 | Intro
25% | Makes the Agribusiness Development Corporation responsible for the maintenance of the Kohala Ditch. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB941 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Green Bonds Working Group within the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, to determine the feasibility of a green bond financing program for the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB369 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Food and Beverage Supply Chain Resiliency Income Tax Credit to be administered by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and Department of Taxation. Requires DBEDT to establish expedited permitting processes for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB334 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to sponsor a Michelin Guide for restaurants statewide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB524 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to exercise its power of eminent domain to acquire certain parcels. Appropriates funds for the acquisition of those parcels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB509 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to identify sites throughout the State that are suitable for the development of slaughterhouses. Requires the Agribusiness Development Corporation to plan, design, construct, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB505 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism's Research and Economic Analysis Division to conduct a comprehensive study to assess the impacts of minimum wage increases on small businesses and the overall economic health of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB373 | Intro
25% | Establishes an online fantasy sports contests registration and monitoring program under the Department of the Attorney General. Imposes an online fantasy sports contests tax on the gross revenues of registrants. Establishes the Online Fantasy Sports ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB499 | Intro
25% | Requires the Agribusiness Development Corporation to develop a succession planning education program to educate and assist farmers and ranchers in the process of transitioning agricultural businesses to new owners. Requires the program to connect ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB516 | Intro
25% | Permits film production on lands that are zoned for agricultural use in counties with a population of less than five hundred thousand and that meet other conditions. Establishes the Agricultural Film Production Land Use Oversight Committee to monitor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB355 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from advertising, displaying, or offering a price for the rental or letting of a transient accommodation or resort time share vacation unit that does not include all taxes and fees imposed by a government entity that the renter o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB354 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from charging any fees on a transient accommodation or resort time share vacation interest, plan, or unit that were not disclosed before the time of purchase. Requires a person to clearly and conspicuously display a rate or price...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB495 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop, construct, and support facilities that can accommodate shock aging processes for meat products. Appropriates funds into and out of the Hawaii Agricultura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB132 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB218 | Intro
25% | Replaces the Hawaii Tourism Authority with the Corporation for the Stewardship of Hawaii Tourism, a nonprofit entity to guide Hawaii's visitor economy in collaboration with public, private, nonprofit, and community stakeholders in achieving beneficia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB33 | Intro
25% | Renames the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Department of Housing, Economic Development, and Tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
