| HI | SB95 | Intro
25% | Creates additional fines for any individual found operating a vehicle or moped without a current certificate of inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB5 | Intro
25% | Establishes that if a state legislative vacancy occurs due to the death or permanent incapacitation of the prior incumbent before a primary election, but after the close of filing for that election, and the prior incumbent was the only person whose n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB102 | Intro
25% | Prohibits third-party restaurant reservation services from listing, advertising, promoting, or selling restaurant reservations without first obtaining a written agreement from the applicable restaurant authorizing the action. Establishes civil penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB189 | Intro
25% | Expands mandatory health insurance coverage for low-dose mammography for occult breast cancer to include any supplemental imaging deemed medically necessary for a patient of any age having an above-average risk for breast cancer as determined by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB252 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the importation of any item or material infested or infected with an insect or other animal, disease, or other pest is prohibited. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to inspect any item imported or moved into the State from anoth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB361 | Intro
25% | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB383 | Intro
25% | Increases the minimum amount for purchases constituting small purchase procurements from $25,000 to $50,000. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 1/1/2525. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB414 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to institute proceedings to condemn certain lands in Lahaina to build a new access road from Keawe Street to the Kilohana and Kalaiola sites developed in the Villages of Leialii. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB379 | Intro
25% | Requires that Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing projects include a restrictive covenant that states that the units designated as affordable housing, as described in the submitted project application, shall remain as affordabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB456 | Intro
25% | Requires landlords to ensure that the dwelling unit premises is free of bed bugs at all times during the tenancy. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB526 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary three-year Women's Court Pilot Program within the second, third, and fifth circuits. Establishes temporary positions. Requires a report. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2028. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB642 | Intro
25% | Requires all health insurance policies, contracts, plans, and agreements issued or renewed after 12/31/2025, to provide optional coverage for standard fertility preservation services for persons undergoing medically necessary treatment that may cause...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB678 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Agricultural Development and Food Security Special Fund. Requires a portion of the Environmental Response, Energy, and Food Security Tax to be deposited into the Special Fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB724 | Intro
25% | Repeals the exemptions for certain dealers of deposit beverage containers and related provisions. Requires all dealers of deposit beverage containers to operate as redemption centers. Effective 7/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB809 | Intro
25% | Prohibits state or county grantees, officers and immediate family members of state or county contractors, and officers and immediate family members of state or county grantees, from contributing to candidate committees and noncandidate committees for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB749 | Intro
25% | Requires rental housing projects to maintain, in perpetuity, fifty per cent of the project's units for certain low-income tenants to be eligible for assistance under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's rental assistance program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB803 | Intro
25% | Requires insurers to provide automatic, advance written premium change notices to common interest community policyholders and the Insurance Commissioner, with reasonable explanations and primary factors, disclosing the causes of any premium increase ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB981 | Intro
25% | Requires the Research and Economic Analysis Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to study the impacts of the incremental minimum wage increases pursuant to Act 114, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, on businesses and o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB104 | Intro
25% | Restricts the use of restrictive housing in state-operated and state-contracted correctional facilities, with certain specified exceptions. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop written policies and procedures regarding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB18 | Intro
25% | Makes appropriations into and out of the Hawaii Historic Preservation Special Fund to the State Historic Preservation Division to inventory historic properties and burial sites in the State, collect data on burial site locations, and conduct an archa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HWN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HWN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Richards, Keohokalole, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Ihara. |
| HI | SB150 | Intro
25% | Establishes a WAI Policy Coordinator for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB253 | Intro
25% | Excludes the good faith defense for associations whose boards adopt a budget that omits a detailed budget summary as required by section 514B-148, HRS. Clarifies a unit owner's standing and the association's burden of proving compliance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Richards, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB249 | Intro
25% | Modifies certain benchmark goals and timeline for the Department of Education to provide locally-sourced agricultural and food products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 3:02 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB338 | Intro
25% | For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025, temporarily reinstates the Technology Infrastructure Renovation Tax Credit and expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on LBT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in LBT were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Aquino, Lee, C., Moriwaki; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Ihara, Fevella. |
| HI | SB391 | Intro
25% | Expands the Electronic Device Recycling and Recovery Act to include the collection and recycling of certain lithium-ion batteries. Requires manufacturers of lithium-ion batteries to recycle or arrange for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries sold i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 1:01 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB385 | Intro
25% | Requires that condominium associations make the governing documents available on the association's website and make them accessible to all owners, occupants, and tenants free of charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Richards, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB426 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Early Learning Apprenticeship Grant Program to be administered by the University of Hawaii to provide financial support for early learning program service providers in the State to participate in state- or federally-approved early lear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB548 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB533 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to evaluate school needs to mitigate the impact of the planned public safety power shutoff program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB532 | Intro
25% | Allows school staff and agents trained by a licensed clinician to volunteer to administer medication to students at Department of Education public schools under certain conditions. Clarifies who may prescribe medication to be administered to students...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Hashimoto, Keohokalole; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Aquino, Fevella. |
| HI | SB640 | Intro
25% | Requires corporations, organizations, or individuals engaging to commercial transactions or trade practices to clearly and conspicuously notify consumers when the consumer is interacting with an artificial intelligence chatbot or other technology cap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB677 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop and publish a Hawaii climate adaptation and resilience implementation plan and updates to the plan every five years thereafter. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB658 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to support the Hawaii Ant Lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 1:01 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB799 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to select materials for inclusion, circulation, and exclusion in school library collections according to certain criteria. Requires the Department of Education to uphold the freedom to read. Prohibits the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 3:02 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB801 | Intro
25% | Requires managing agents for residential condominium properties over seventy-five feet in height to have commercial property management experience.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Richards; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB802 | Intro
25% | Requires insurers to provide advance written notice to policyholders and the Insurance Commissioner, with reasonable explanations and primary factors, of any policy cancellation, non-renewal, or proposed premium increase, if, upon renewal, premiums a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Richards, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB804 | Intro
25% | Requires property insurers to offer discounts on a condominium association's annual insurance premium if the association adopts specific risk mitigation upgrades or develops comprehensive disaster response plans. Requires property insurers of condomi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, McKelvey, Richards, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Fukunaga ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB850 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to collect data and submit to the Legislature a report focused on the health disparities experienced by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities in the State prior to the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB951 | Intro
25% | Requires mandatory reports of child abuse or neglect to include the military status of the child's parent or guardian, if known. Requires the Department of Human Services to make efforts to determine the military status of a person implicated in chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Hashimoto, Keohokalole; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB1044 | Intro
25% | Expands the powers of the Hawaii Property Insurance Association and reactivates the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to help to stabilize the property insurance market in the State. Allows the Hawaii Property Insurance Association and the Hawaii Hurrican...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1266 | Intro
25% | Establishes an inter-division program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources consisting of certain agencies to address the location, movement, and restoration of Hawaiian burial sites or iwi, exposed or likely to be exposed by coastal er...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HWN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HWN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Richards, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Keohokalole ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Ihara. |
| HI | SB1496 | Intro
25% | Establishes that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice for places of public accommodation to deny a person with a disability full and equal enjoyment of information related to their services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on LBT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in LBT were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Aquino, Lee, C., Moriwaki; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Ihara, Fevella. |
| HI | SB1492 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Mobility Management, established pursuant to Act 214, SLH 2013, in consultation with the Aging and Disability Resource Center of the Executiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Hashimoto, Keohokalole; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB1523 | Intro
25% | Expands the types of employees protected by the Hawaii Employment Relations Act to include independent contractors and all individuals subject to the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 3:15 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1648 | Intro
25% | Establishes requirements for compensation to utility customers following a power outage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 9:35 am]
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Richards ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB103 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling and Reuse Working Group within the Hawaii State Energy Office. Requires the working group to examine how to maximize the recycling and reuse of electric vehicle batteries and recommend electri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB114 | Intro
25% | Beginning 6/1/2026, establishes presidential preference primary elections for the 2028 election cycle. Appropriates funds. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB97 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalty for a third or subsequent offense of excessive speeding to a class C felony. Authorizes the court, as part of the person's sentencing for the third or subsequent offense, to order that the vehicle used by the person in the commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
The committee(s) on TCA recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in TCA were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Lee, C., Elefante, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) DeCorte; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Inouye. |
| HI | SB115 | Intro
25% | Increases the real property exemption amount for attachment or execution. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB345 | Intro
25% | Raises the cap on the maximum amount of matching funds available to candidates for the Hawaii Partial Public Financing Program. Increases the cap on the amount of expenditures a candidate can make in the Program. Increases the matching fund ratio fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
