| HI | HB302 | Intro
25% | Repeals the requirement that a provider-patient relationship be established in person. Allows applicants or primary caregivers to temporarily purchase medical cannabis after the submission of the applicant's certification form. Effective 7/1/3000. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB245 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health and State Public Charter School Commission, to conduct a study on the current practices of managing heat exposure in state public and charter schools to protect stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB307 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to recognize the island of Kahoolawe. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB496 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the use of certain words that can be used 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. Appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB501 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Agricultural Enforcement Program within the Department of Law Enforcement. Establishes the Agricultural Enforcement Special Fund. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB499 | 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] | 2025-02-03
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB643 | Intro
25% | 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. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Higher Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB139 | Intro
25% | For policies, contracts, plans, and agreements issued or renewed after 12/31/2025, requires the insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services for persons unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Takayama, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Amato, Chun, Marten, Olds, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB208 | Intro
25% | Establishes when unannounced visits and inspections may be conducted. Repeals a category for dispenser licenses in which employees sit with patrons. Clarifies the investigator's and police officer's authority to enter a liquor premises if they are de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB251 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with the Department of Human Services, to develop and establish a social work training program to assist nonviolent incarcerated individuals in the area of social work. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 11:00 am]
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 11:00 am]
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB353 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor, in collaboration with the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, to oversee and administer grants to low-income residents, and condominium associations on behalf of lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 11:00 am]
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB301 | 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB244 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the department of human services to collaborate with community-based organizations to address the need for social services in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB239 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "child abuse or neglect" by clarifying that the failure to provide certain needs to a child constitutes child abuse or neglect only if the person or entity responsible for the care of the child is financially able to provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:30 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | 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 the Health Care Appropriateness and Necessity Commission within the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Takayama, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Amato, Chun, Marten, Olds, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| 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. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB225 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Department of the Attorney General to study the issue of squatting in Hawaii and provide recommendations. Requires reports to the legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB246 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to post on its website an easily understandable, searchable, and sortable list of all state-licensed care facilities including information on their licenses and inspections. Requires that the list be updated within f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB327 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the office of the governor for a state childcare facility for state employees and their families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB304 | Intro
25% | Requires that the Hawaiian version of a law be held binding if the law in question was originally drafted in Hawaiian and then translated into English.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Todd. |
| HI | HB324 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Baby Bonds Working Group to develop a plan for the creation of a baby bonds program for the State to address intergenerational poverty and wealth inequality in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB420 | 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, La Chica, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Muraoka; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kitagawa. |
| HI | HB357 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor, in collaboration with the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to strengthen existing hurricane shelters and develop new hurri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 11:00 am]
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB359 | Intro
25% | Amends covered offender registration laws to include offenders who, while acting in a professional capacity, commit the offense of sexual assault in the fourth degree against a minor who is at least sixteen years old. Provides that the exception to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB467 | Intro
25% | Prohibit sellers of foreclosed homes from bundling properties at a public sale and requires each foreclosed home to be sold separately. Specifies that the sale of a foreclosed property is not final until either fifteen days after the public sale or f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, La Chica, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kitagawa. |
| HI | HB446 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority and School of Travel Industry Management at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to jointly perform a study regarding the design, construction or purchase, and operations and management of a state hotel. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB439 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to establish an international teacher license for certain visa holders. Establishes criteria for obtaining an international teacher license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB429 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB474 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to fund one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) fall prevention and early detection coordinator position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB472 | Intro
25% | Allows for a digitized identification card 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB692 | Intro
25% | Expands the preschool open door program's eligibility criteria. Repeals the requirement that open door program providers be accredited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:30 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB463 | Intro
25% | Requires that all court records of any eviction proceeding be sealed within specified timeframes upon resolution of the proceeding. Authorizes the court to seal certain eviction records prior to the expiration of these timeframes upon motion by a ten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, La Chica, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kitagawa. |
| HI | HB503 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services to hire a consultant to evaluate potential locations and designs for the Hawaii First Responders Memorial.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Iwamoto, Hashem, Ichiyama, Lamosao, Morikawa, Poepoe, Souza; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Shimizu; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson. |
| HI | HB629 | Intro
25% | Expands the scopes of practice for occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech pathologists employed by or contracted with the Department of Education to diagnose students with a medical condition in an educational setting and treat the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB674 | 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Iwamoto, Hashem, Ichiyama, Lamosao, Morikawa, Poepoe, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson. |
| HI | HB613 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to provide emergency shelter and services to unaccompanied homeless youth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB677 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with various agencies and upon request of the inmates, to assist inmates in obtaining the inmates' civil identification card, birth certificate, social security card, and oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Iwamoto, Hashem, Ichiyama, Lamosao, Morikawa, Poepoe, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson. |
| HI | HB621 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates funds to pay salary differentials to English language educators as an incentive to attract and retain these educators. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB612 | Intro
25% | Prohibits physicians and surgeons from performing certain procedures on individuals born with variations in their physical sex characteristics who are under one year of age, unless the procedure is a surgery required to address an immediate risk of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB556 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Human Services to develop and implement a public assistance program offering state-funded colorectal screenings for certain persons. Requires coverage for all colorectal cancer screenings in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB715 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to issue a certificate of stillbirth, upon request of the parent or parents named on a fetal death certificate issued in the case of a stillbirth. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB718 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine for faculty positions in the fields of cardiovascular biology, tropical medicine, and quantitative health biostatistics, and an environmental health and safety officer st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB703 | Intro
25% | Extends the sunset date for the State Rent Supplement Program for Kupuna to 6/30/2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB729 | Intro
25% | Raises the minimum age to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Repeals the authority of parents and the family court to consent to a minor's marriage. Repeals spousal cohabitation after the parties attain legal age as an excepti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB713 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funding for the Department of Human Services to conduct a rate study for Medicaid home health services in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:30 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB813 | Intro
25% | Reduces the minimum number of years of credited service from ten years to five years qualified Tier 2 employee's retirement system members must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes. Appropriates fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:00 am]
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
