| HI | HB223 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy Special Fund to support pharmacist workforce assessment and planning efforts. Establishes the pharmacist workforce assessment fee. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB221 | Intro
25% | Requires graduates of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine who have paid in-state tuition to serve as a physician in the State for at least 2 years following their medical residency or fellowship. Begins with the class of 2029.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB252 | Intro
25% | Requires managing agents for residential condominium properties over seventy-five feet in height to have commercial property management experience.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB309 | Intro
25% | Establishes a fishpond inventory working group within the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to create an inventory and map of all state-owned fishponds and conduct a literature review. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB228 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to adopt rules for the use of electronic license plates. Prohibits the use of license plate flipping devices. Establishes minimum fines for intentionally obscuring a license plate with a cover or shield.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB319 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the crime of cruelty to animals in the second degree the extermination of insects, vermin, and pests, and the extermination of feral chickens on private property by the property owner; provided that the extermination is conducted in acco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB328 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to authorize and facilitate complex areas or individual department schools to form their own farm to school meal programs through partnerships to meet the local farm to school meal goal of thirty per cent of food ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB305 | Intro
25% | Creates the Aloha Aina Land Trust to rehabilitate and manage lands transferred by the United States military to the State after the leases for those lands expires. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB255 | 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB242 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii State Energy Office to make recommendations for the reuse and recycling of electric vehicle batteries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB227 | Intro
25% | Creates additional fines for any individual found operating a vehicle or moped without a current certificate of inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB247 | Intro
25% | Repeals the requirement to use the Hawaii ABLE Savings Program Trust Fund if the Director elects to accept deposits from contributors instead of sending deposits directly to the ABLE program manager. Authorizes the Director of Finance to expend money...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB254 | 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB321 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from charging any fees on a transient accommodation or resort time share vacation interest, plan, or unit that were not disclosed before the time of purchase. Requires a person to clearly and conspicuously display a rate or price...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB323 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Teacher Housing Assistance Program to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers. Appropriates funds out of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB245 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health, to develop statewide guidelines related to managing heat exposure to protect students' health during outdoor activities. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB307 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to recognize the island of Kahoolawe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB349 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a statewide environmental assessment for, and subsequently administer, a Slim-Hole Resource Characterization Program. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB253 | Intro
25% | Allows authorized insurers in the State to offer building and hurricane damage insurance for condominium buildings at a lesser rate than the building's prior surplus lines insurance policy for the same coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB334 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Law Enforcement to establish traffic cameras and issue a citation by mail for certain violations of traffic-related laws. Establishes that intentional destruction or damage to a traffic camera is a class C felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB237 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Family Health Services Division of the Department of Health to establish and oversee peer-to-peer support programs for children from birth to age five and their families, including the establishment of two full-time equival...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB230 | Intro
25% | Requires police officers to send a carbon copy of a citation to the registered owner of a vehicle within a certain time frame after the citation is issued.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB320 | Intro
25% | Allows qualified adults, including adults with a disability, mentally ill adults, and adults sixty-five years of age or older, to enter into supported decision-making agreements with one or members of a supportive community. Specifies the terms of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB231 | Intro
25% | Increases the fines for violating motor vehicle insurance requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB1 | Intro
25% | Amends responsibilities of the State Building Code Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB29 | Intro
25% | Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted, and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB69 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Compensatory Time Cash-Out Pilot Program for eligible employees of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who work in any state correctional facility. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB72 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2026, requires physician technicians to be registered. Imposes a duty on pharmacists-in-charge to report violations conducted by registered pharmacy technicians. Specifies that supervising registered pharmacists are responsible for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB70 | Intro
25% | States that the defense of good faith compliance is unavailable to any association whose board adopts a budget that omits the required budget summary. Clarifies the ability to enforce compliance with budget summary and replacement reserves requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB71 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the smoking of cannabis and the smoking of cannabis for medical use, including via an electronic smoking device, in any area accessible by the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB88 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer a three-year student athlete travel pilot program to provide funding intra-county travel expenses for student athletes of Maui county. Appropriates funds. Repeals 6/30/28.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB85 | Intro
25% | Restores the amount of conveyance tax revenues to be paid into the Land Conservation Fund to ten per cent of conveyance taxes collected each fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB86 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the establishment of one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) permanent Makai Watch Coordinator position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB100 | Intro
25% | Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in their standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB87 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires public schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB109 | Intro
25% | Increases the deposit and refund value for beverage containers from 5 cents to 10 cents under the deposit beverage container program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB117 | Intro
25% | Provides that a condominium board's or its officer's or member's failure to maintain the minimum required balance for a condominium's replacement reserves fund may constitute a violation of the fiduciary duty owed. Establishes a minimum balance for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB130 | Intro
25% | Imposes a cap on charges for searching for, reviewing, and segregating government records under the Uniform Information Practices Act. Provides for a waiver of fees in certain circumstances when the public interest is served by a government record's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB134 | Intro
25% | Requires the Chief Election Officer to provide a system for the electronic filing of nomination papers. Effective 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB137 | Intro
25% | Provides that felons that are in violation of the prohibition against owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm or ammunition are subject to a mandatory prison term.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB146 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB178 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish a state tea agent at UH Manoa CTAHR.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB191 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally rais...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB185 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the licensing of an adult residential care home, expanded adult residential care home, or developmental disabilities domiciliary home that is financed, managed, operated, supervised, directed, or owned in whole or in part by a person convic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB182 | Intro
25% | Permanently increases the state earned income tax credit to fifty per cent of the federal earned income tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB156 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB179 | Intro
25% | Makes permanent the amendments made by Act 163, SLH 2023, to the state earned income tax credit and refundable food/excise tax credit. Amends the income thresholds and credit amounts for the low-income household renters tax credit and refundable food...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
