| HI | SB1272 | Intro
25% | Requires towing truck operators to obtain a towing license. Establishes the Towing Authority within the Department of Transportation to issue towing licenses and regulate towing operations. Prohibits the act of vehicle mobilization without a valid to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB985 | Intro
25% | Establishes a new gift card fraud law, under the scope of unfair and deceptive practices law, which requires merchants and third-party gift card resellers to take certain steps to prevent gift card scams. Requires the conspicuous provision of informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB617 | Intro
25% | Requires, for each draft environmental impact statement, a public hearing in the community directly affected by the underlying proposed action. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB297 | Intro
25% | Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose to obtain an abortion and to obtain or use contraceptives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB179 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the applicability of the statute of repose for actions arising from construction defects. Clarifies the required contents of a notice of claim of construction defect served on a contractor. Amends the process and time frame for a claimant t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1315 | Intro
25% | Abolishes joint and several liability for government entities in claims and cases relating to the maintenance and design of highways. Makes government entities liable only for the percentage share of the damages actually attributable. Effective 7/1/2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB416 | Intro
25% | Prohibits rental agreements from prohibiting tenants from keeping pet animals in dwelling units, subject to certain conditions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB593 | Intro
25% | Defines a "dog breeder" as any person who owns, possesses, controls, or otherwise has charge or custody of more than ten dogs over the age of twelve months with intact sexual organs, and who sells, barters, or otherwise transfers more than three litt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1314 | Intro
25% | Amends the annual reporting requirements imposed on the Department of the Attorney General and the chief of police of each county regarding licenses to carry firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1417 | 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] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB7 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any employer or employee from subjecting an employee to abusive conduct. Requires employers and certain employees to take all reasonable preventative and responsive measures to ensure a safe work environment free of abusive conduct. Prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1031 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Legislature to adopt any Concurrent Resolution to propose a non-binding advisory referendum question concerning the issuance of general obligation bonds to the people, who may vote on the question during any general election. Imposes n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1293 | Intro
25% | Provides the amount of recovery for tenants who prevail in civil suits for a landlord's violation of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code concerning a dwelling unit within an area that was a federally declared disaster area as of 8/8/2023. Provides f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB417 | Intro
25% | Establishes as a class B felony the unlicensed performance of contractor work, during or within 5 years following a national emergency, state of emergency, or disaster proclamation, in an affected political subdivision. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1506 | Intro
25% | Establishes a statute of repose prohibiting the commencement of a civil action against a professional land surveyor or owner of real property if ten years has elapsed since the latter of the date of completion of a contract or final payment for land ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1109 | Intro
25% | Repeals the definition of "finding of no significant impact". Defines "finding of completion of environmental disclosure process". Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1611 | Intro
25% | Requires a person appointed to serve as the Governor's Senior Advisor for Mental Health and the Justice System, Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness, or another position that serves as a Senior Advisor to the Governor to obtain the advice and conse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1248 | Intro
25% | Establishes that, in certain circumstances, an actor rightfully present on agricultural lands may exercise deadly force with a right to stand the actor's ground and not retreat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB216 | Intro
25% | Prohibits residing on agricultural park lots unless within a farm dwelling permitted by the Board of Agriculture. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to conduct inspections of agricultural park lots for unpermitted farm dwellings during fiscal y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1159 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain octopus aquaculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB740 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Land Use Commission to designate another agency, including the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, Department of Agriculture, or Agribusiness Development Corporation, to monitor compliance with any restrictions imposed in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB381 | Intro
25% | Requires appointments and selections of heads of state divisions and agencies that require a board approval to be made through a publicly established process and timeline. Requires the approval of the process and timeline to appoint or select a new h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB185 | Intro
25% | Requires disbursing officers to notify employees within sixty days of making a determination that an indebtedness has occurred to the government resulting from salary or wage overpayment. Amends the amount that a disbursing officer may deduct from an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB67 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale or rent in perpetuity to buyers or renters who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants or renters, and do not own a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1412 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the Hawaii Public Housing Authority?s powers relating to housing projects. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB302 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "cultural". Prohibits the use of consumer fireworks except for cultural use by permit. Repeals the wording of section 132D-3(1), HRS, that generally allows the use of consumer fireworks without a permit on New Year's Eve, New...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3 | Intro
25% | Establishes a public trust purpose for the Commission on Water Resource Management. Allows the Commission on Water Resource Management to retain independent counsel. Repeals the First Deputy to the Chairperson of the Commission on Water Resource Mana...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB711 | Intro
25% | Requires any appointment of a person by the Governor to serve in the Executive Branch in the position of an advisor to be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate if that person's salary is greater than $200,000, and is not paid from the Gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB384 | Intro
25% | Requires, when a defendant is convicted of negligent homicide in the first degree for causing the death of another while driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, that victim restitution shall include financial support to raise the decedent's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB485 | Intro
25% | Decreases the exempted light transmittance for motor vehicle sun screening devices on front side wing vents and windows from thirty-five per cent to twenty per cent plus or minus six per cent. Exempts the light transmittance for motor vehicle sun scr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1254 | Intro
25% | Prohibits active employees of the University of Hawaii and the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii from serving on the Board of Regents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB282 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalty for using an uncrewed aircraft in the furtherance of the commission of a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB406 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the cost of reproducing government records in a digital format from exceeding 5 cents per digital record that has already been digitized. Effective 1/1/2525. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1336 | Intro
25% | Repeals the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | 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 |
| HI | SB477 | Intro
25% | Makes a second or subsequent conviction for violation of a domestic abuse protective order a class C felony. Increases the sentencing requirements for second or subsequent convictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB130 | Intro
25% | Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter an area closed to the public or hiking on a trail closed to the public, and ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB280 | Intro
25% | Amends the offense of negligent injury in the first degree to include injuries negligently inflicted by intoxicated drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB335 | Intro
25% | Requires objections made by an officer of a political party to candidate nomination papers to be filed with and determined by the Office of Elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB8 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2027, allows an advanced practice registered nurse to claim exemption from service as a juror. Effective 12/31/2050. Sunsets 1/1/2032. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB559 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches, shall be protected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB255 | Intro
25% | Amends section 11-364, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide that an excess contribution of more than $100 in cash, in the aggregate, from a single person during an election period to a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee shall es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB861 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to transmit all expungement orders to the Judiciary to effectuate the purposes of Act 159, SLH 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1313 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the offense of Promoting Pornography for Minors to be instituted by written information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1606 | Intro
25% | Imposes an increased penalty upon any person who trespasses upon certain state or county lands when the person trespasses again by returning, within 30 days after the initial offense, to the same land at which the person committed the initial offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1607 | Intro
25% | For the purposes of state justifiable-use-of-force law: (1) Amends the definition of "dwelling" to include agricultural land used as a residence or place of lodging; and (2) Creates a definition of "place of work" that includes agricultural land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB846 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Governor or a Mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital statistics during a declared state of emergency. Allows for a reasonable delay in an agency's response to a request as a result of extenuating circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB725 | Intro
25% | Requires judges to make certain findings regarding a defendant's ability to afford bail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB733 | Intro
25% | Establishes a continuous Legislature. Requires the Legislature to convene at least once each month. Repeals language regarding special sessions, adjournment, and recesses. Creates a 2-year deadline for a bill to be submitted for gubernatorial conside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1531 | Intro
25% | Offers rights and protections to citizens who bring civil nuisance abatement suits related to illegal gambling. Imposes a mandatory fine of $5,000 for violating nuisance abatement laws related to gambling offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
