| HI | HB422 | Engross
50% | Repeals school impact fees. Abolishes and transfers unencumbered balances of the school impact fee subaccounts and certain fair share contribution accounts to School Facilities Special Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 101). |
| HI | HB455 | Engross
50% | 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 106). |
| HI | HB703 | Engross
50% | Extends the sunset date for the State Rent Supplement Program for Kupuna to 6/30/2028. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 119). |
| HI | HB103 | Engross
50% | Changes the age for which individuals are eligible for life without parole sentences from eighteen years of age or older to twenty-one years of age or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Garcia, Matsumoto, Muraoka, Shimizu voting no (4) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB89 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Teacher Home Assistance Program to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers. Appropriates funds out of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB133 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support the establishment of surfing as an interscholastic sport. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB131 | Engross
50% | Allows agencies to disclose government records to researchers for certain research purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB139 | Engross
50% | For policies, contracts, plans, and agreements issued or renewed after 12/31/2025, requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services for persons undergoi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with Representative(s) Belatti voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB145 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to transmit all expungement orders to the Judiciary to effectuate the purposes of Act 159, SLH 2023. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB175 | Intro
25% | Requires owners or lessees of real property to maintain their property and establish penalties for failure to do so. Allows for exceptions. Requires DOA to establish rules for the enforcement and collection of fines for violations relating to the pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1147), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB212 | Intro
25% | Requires the Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions to establish a permanent Return-to-Home Program to return homeless individuals in the State to families and relatives in their home states. Requires the Office to report to the Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB244 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the department of human services to collaborate with contracted community-based organizations to address the need for social services in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB239 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "child abuse or neglect" by clarifying that the failure to provide certain needs to a child shall not constitute child abuse or neglect if the sole reason the person responsible for the care of the child is unable to adequate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1051), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB250 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB242 | Engross
50% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii State Energy Office to examine how to maximize the recycling and reuse of electric vehicle batteries and recommend electric vehicle battery management practices. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB280 | Intro
25% | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB302 | Intro
25% | Repeals the requirement that a provider-patient relationship be established in person. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1079), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB345 | Intro
25% | Establishes the pae ula as the state shrimp to protect anchialine pool ecosystems throughout Hawaii. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB307 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to recognize the island of Kahoolawe. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB299 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Native Resources and Fire Protection Program and Hawaii Invasive Species Council to ensure their long-term viability and continue to control and eradicate invasive species in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1148), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB420 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the applicability of the statute of repose for actions arising from construction defects. Repeals the two-year limitation for actions arising from construction defects. Clarifies the required contents of a notice of claim of construction de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB424 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to students enrolled in a public school who meet certain requirements. Reduces the amount the Department of Education is authorized to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB359 | Intro
25% | Amends covered offender registration laws by expanding the definition of "sexual offense" to include additional sexual offenses from the Penal Code. Provides that the exception to public access requirements for misdemeanors does not apply when the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB448 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to assist small businesses, including those related to the tourism sector, with technology enablement. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1115), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB431 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the continued operation of the Kauhale Initiative and authorizes those funds to be used for the Ohana Zones Pilot Program. Establishes and appropriates funds into and out of the Supportive Housing Special Fund. Effective 6/29/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Garcia, Muraoka voting no (2) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB427 | Engross
50% | Part I: Renames the Department of Agriculture to the "Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity". Renames the Board of Agriculture to the "Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity". Part II: Establishes and appropriates funds for a Deputy Director of Bio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB432 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Mixed-Income Subaccount within the Rental Housing Revolving Fund that targets workforce rental housing projects for persons and families with incomes at or below one hundred forty per cent of the area median income. Authorizes the Dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1119), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB437 | Engross
50% | Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish an out-of-state office in the Philippines. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Garcia, Muraoka voting no (2) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB429 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB474 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to fund an unspecified number of full-time equivalent fall prevention and early detection coordinator positions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB472 | Intro
25% | Requires digitized identification cards to be accepted as a valid form of identification, under certain conditions. Authorizes state and county law enforcement agencies to accept a digitized identification card as proof of a person's identity. Effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1138), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB428 | Engross
50% | 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB430 | 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. Provides that the State shall be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB496 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the use of certain words on the label of a consumer package that contains or includes tea or dried leaves from the plant Pipturus albidus, unless one hundred per cent of the tea or dried leaves were grown in the State. Appropriates funds fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB433 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for reentry services to connect offenders with community-based services. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB463 | Intro
25% | Requires the courts to disassociate, within a reasonable time, a residential tenant from a legal proceeding brought by a landlord to evict a tenant if certain conditions are met. Authorizes the court to disassociate a residential tenant from a legal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB692 | Engross
50% | Expands the Preschool Open Doors Program's eligibility criteria. Repeals the requirement that Preschool Open Doors Program providers be accredited. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB550 | Intro
25% | PART I: Allows recordings made by law enforcement agencies who are using, controlling, or operating unmanned aerial vehicles to establish probable cause for arrests under the Fireworks Control Law if the unmanned aerial vehicle is recording directly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB619 | Engross
50% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt and enact a policy by the 2026-2027 school year directing Department of Education public schools to incorporate financial literacy education in the school's curriculum. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB560 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Judiciary for services contracted with community-based organizations that deliver essential services, streamline judicial processes, and support the judiciary's capacity to effectively meet the needs of vulnerable households...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1139), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB664 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Office of Gun Violence Prevention to conduct community outreach on gun violence prevention, develop and administer a grant program for gun violence prevention, and develop and administer a gun violence resource bank. Establishes the G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1141), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB622 | Engross
50% | Changes the due date of the Department of Education's computer science legislative report from June 30 to twenty days prior to the start of each legislative regular session. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB613 | Engross
50% | Makes the Safe Spaces for Youth Pilot Program permanent within the Office of Youth Services. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia, Muraoka voting no (3) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB643 | Engross
50% | Establishes short-term management initiatives for the coconut rhinoceros beetle response program. Appropriates funds for activities and positions related to coconut rhinoceros beetle infestation control. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB683 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for student transportation coordinators positions within the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services across the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB505 | Intro
25% | Establishes a WAI Policy Coordinator for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1152), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB606 | Intro
25% | Extends the Act 279 Special Fund to 6/30/2028. Deposits funds into and appropriates funds out of the Act 279 Special Fund to eliminate its waitlist. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to submit a strategic plan detailing the anticipated u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1127), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB620 | Intro
25% | Establishes state policy to promote braille literacy for eligible blind students. Requires the individualized education programs and section 504 plans of eligible blind students to include the assessment and evaluation of eligible blind students' rea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1101), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB806 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct sting operations on Oahu to enforce fireworks ordinances or laws. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1107), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB807 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Condominium Loan Program to provide condominium associations with low-cost financing, or refinancing for previously obtained loans, for maintenance or repair projects. Establishes the Condominium Loan Loss Reserves Program to incentiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
