| HI | SB114 | Intro
25% | Beginning 6/1/2026, establishes presidential preference primary elections for the 2028 election cycle. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Chang; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Gabbard, San Buenaventura ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa. |
| HI | SB440 | Intro
25% | Establishes the future career and technical education teacher scholarship program to be administered by the Department of Education to facilitate the recruitment and retention of career and technical teachers in Hawaii public schools. Appropriates fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on EDU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EDU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Kidani, Kim, Hashimoto, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Kanuha. |
| HI | SB586 | Intro
25% | Requires the state and counties to upgrade to zero emission buses by 2045.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:01 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1018 | Intro
25% | Requires a seller of real property adjacent to the shoreline, and the seller's agent, to disclose and include in all advertisements shoreline erosion certain issues related to the parcel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1017 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to adopt by rule, any federal rule or regulation relating to the public lands of the State as it existed on 1/1/2025 that it deems are in the public interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:06 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1028 | Intro
25% | Allows community service in place of the assessment of any fines, fees, or court costs against a person who was adjudicated for a traffic-related offense committed while the person was a minor under the age of 18 years, or against the person's parent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:25 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1033 | Intro
25% | Establishes an excise tax on certain taxpayers who own excess single-family residences for failure to sell those residences. Establishes and allocates excise tax revenues to the Housing Downpayment Trust Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB993 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a statewide environmental assessment for, and subsequently administer, a Geothermal Resources Characterization Program under the direction of the Hawaii Groundwater and Geothermal Resources Center at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1031 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Legislature to adopt any Concurrent Resolution to propose a non-binding advisory referendum question to the people, who may vote on the question during any general election. Imposes notice, certification, and reporting requirements on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:05 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1023 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Spay and Neuter Special Fund to reduce pet overpopulation and the reproduction of free-roaming cats and various revenue and fundraising sources for the special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1195 | Intro
25% | Establishes buffer zones that ban street parking within certain distances of crosswalks under certain posted speed limits. Designates exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1124 | Intro
25% | Establishes the retail delivery safety fee of 50 cents to be imposed on a retailer for each transaction involving a non-food item retail delivery in the State. Allows the retailer to transfer the fee to the purchaser. Creates certain exemptions. Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1118 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any business established after January 1, 2026, that uses, rents, or offers for rent mopeds in the course of their commercial business, from using a combustion engine-powered moped. Establishes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1123 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Highway Modernization and Safety Council to conduct a thorough evaluation of vehicle characteristics and develop a set of standards to identify high-risk vehicles. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1194 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from engaging in any activity that has the intent and effect of distracting drivers along streets, roadways, or other public property within one hundred feet of an intersection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1091 | Intro
25% | Requires the Comptroller to periodically assess teleworkeligible positions and notify all eligible employees of their eligibility to telework. Requires the Department of Human Resources Development and Office of Enterprise Technology Services to assi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 3:05 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1094 | Intro
25% | Requires that any new motor vehicle permitted by law to be equipped with a siren, whether purchased or contracted in the State to be equipped with dual frequency sirens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1166 | Intro
25% | Requires that property and casualty insurance rates that incorporate historical or projected losses from fire or catastrophe hazards be conditioned on agreement by the insurer to file and litigate subrogation claims against responsible parties. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:50 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1100 | Intro
25% | Renames the Department of Agriculture as the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity. Establishes a Deputy Chairperson for Biosecurity. Requires the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity to establish an emergency response team to respond to bio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1120 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules governing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:01 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1284 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to prohibit discrimination against a person because of ethnicity, age, disability, religion, national ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1283 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Emergency Home Loan Assistance Revolving Fund to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Establishes terms for loans issued from the Revolving Fund. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB1286 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the collection, sale, or disclosure of any driver data that is obtained by a motor vehicle or other connected car service, feature, or application to any third-party without the explicit consent of the owner or lessee of the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1287 | Intro
25% | Requires under the State's Unfair and Deceptive Practices Law, food, beverage, and service establishments that accept tips and employ tipped employees to post signs that include certain language explaining their tip allocation practices and the conta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 3:10 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1667 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any vehicles from blocking marked crosswalks. Establishes additional penalties for repeat convictions for reckless driving and excessive speeding. Requires a person under arrest who refuses to submit to a breath, blood, or urine test to sur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1669 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Transit Oriented Community Improvement Partnership within the Department of Transportation. Establishes the Community Improvement Revolving Fund. Authorizes the Hawaii Community Development Authority to assist the mission of the Partn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-30
The committee(s) on TCA recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in TCA were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Lee, C., Inouye, Elefante, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) DeCorte; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB92 | Intro
25% | No later than January 1, 2026, requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to install and maintain automated external defibrillators in all state buildings, including all public schools. Requires DAGS to establish a Cardiac Emergency R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB106 | Intro
25% | Authorizes pedestrians to act contrary to the statewide traffic code when a reasonably careful pedestrian would determine that there is no immediate danger of a collision with a moving vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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., Inouye, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 2 No(es): Senator(s) Elefante, DeCorte; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB133 | Intro
25% | Authorizes state facilities to wheel electricity that is produced by their own facility from renewable energy sources to another state facility pursuant to administrative rules established by the Public Utilities Commission. Requires the Public Utili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee(s) on EIG recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EIG were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Chang, DeCoite; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Richards, Fevella. |
| HI | SB606 | Intro
25% | Requires the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to make all business registration applications available online. Requires all applications to contain certain contact information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:35 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1032 | Intro
25% | Amends the prohibition against foreign nationals and foreign corporations making campaign finance contributions and expenditures. Requires every business entity that contributes or expends funds in a state election to file a statement of certificatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee(s) on TCA recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in TCA were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Lee, C., Inouye, Elefante, Kanuha, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB1009 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state accessible parking space enforcement fine for parking in parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities or electric vehicles. Increases the fines for any person who parks a non-electric vehicle in a space designated and mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee(s) on TCA recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in TCA were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Lee, C., Inouye, Elefante, Kanuha, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB1035 | Intro
25% | Requires businesses to clearly and conspicuously disclose the total price of all fees or charges that a consumer may have to pay for any live-event tickets or short-term lodging before the consumer consents to pay. Prohibits any business from chargin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee(s) on EDT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EDT were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) DeCoite, Wakai, Kim; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Fukunaga, Awa. |
| HI | SB1095 | Intro
25% | Removes the decal size restrictions for special number plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1160 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of tickets at higher price than the original price charged by the primary venue ticket provider. Repeals provisions relating to ticket brokers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee(s) on TCA recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in TCA were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Lee, C., Inouye, Elefante, Kanuha, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB1149 | Intro
25% | Defines "reported hate crime". Requires reporting of all possible reported hate crimes to appropriate authorities, including consistent documentation and analysis of such incidents. Requires law enforcement officers to receive annual training to iden...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 3:15 pm]
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1117 | Intro
25% | Renames the Electric Bicycle and Electric Moped Rebate Program to the Electric Mobility Rebate Program. Expands eligibility and amends the maximum rebate amounts. Prohibits individuals under fifteen years of age from riding electric bicycles. Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee(s) on TCA recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in TCA were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Lee, C., Elefante, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Inouye ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) DeCorte; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB104 | Intro
25% | Restricts the use of solitary confinement 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 regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Elefante, Wakai, Fukunaga, Rhoads, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB115 | Intro
25% | Increases the real property exemption amount for attachment or execution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| 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] | 2025-01-28
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 | SB123 | Intro
25% | Eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Requires reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Hashimoto, Aquino, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB318 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt rules establishing privacy requirements for directtoconsumer genetic testing in the State. Requires the Department's rules to specify whether consumers' genetic information may be used...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB319 | Intro
25% | Changes from 1 ounce to 30 grams the minimum amount of marijuana that constitutes the offense of promoting a detrimental drug in the second degree. Increases from 3 grams or less to 15 grams or less the amount of marijuana that constitutes the offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1196 | Intro
25% | Establishes a ridesharing fee. Deposits fees collected into the Safe Routes to School Program Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1167 | Intro
25% | Requires the plan of operation for the Hawaii hurricane relief fund to include the filing and litigation of subrogation claims against responsible parties for claims paid by the fund for losses attributable to climate change. Requires insurance rates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1199 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans for school bus services if certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1208 | Intro
25% | Allows authorized employees of the Department of Transportation and Department of Law Enforcement to inspect and provide a certificate of certain evidence of speed limit violations obtained by automated speed enforcement systems. Appropriates funds t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1197 | Intro
25% | Requires the Director of Transportation to adopt rules that require tour aircraft operators to carry aircraft liability insurance coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1198 | Intro
25% | Designates student transportation as critical infrastructure and a critical service for Hawaii's public education system. Requires all school bus contracts between the State and the contractor to include certain standards, performance metrics, and ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
