| HI | SB193 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the penalty for sex trafficking shall be payment of a fine of no less than $50,000 but no more than $100,000, and a definite term of imprisonment of up to 20 years without the possibility of a suspended sentence, probation, or parole. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB189 | Intro
25% | Expands coverage of breast cancer screening and imaging to include an annual mammogram for a woman of any age having an above-average risk for breast cancer, risk factor screening for women 30 years of age and older, and additional supplemental imagi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1175 | Intro
25% | Adds state contractor's performance assessment to information required to be included in the past performance database maintained by the State Procurement Office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1203 | Intro
25% | Requires all health care providers who accept Medicare to provide a cognitive assessment as part of the Medicare Part B annual wellness visit for Medicare beneficiaries sixty-five years of age or older, with certain exceptions. Requires health care p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1204 | Intro
25% | Reestablishes the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii as an organized research unit within the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) that is administered by a director appointed by the University of Hawaii's board of regents wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB1202 | Intro
25% | Allows campaign funds to be used for a candidates child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB103 | Intro
25% | Establishes an 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 electric vehicl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB328 | Intro
25% | Establishes an income tax credit for capital infrastructure costs incurred in the conversion of a dairy farm to a hog farm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB329 | Intro
25% | Requires at least fifty per cent of treatment works effluent to be R-1 recycled water by January 1, 2045. Amends the year by which no treated or raw sewage shall be discharged into state waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB380 | Intro
25% | Reclassifies certain non-general funds of the Department of Accounting and General Services, pursuant to the recommendations made by the Auditor in Auditor's Report No. 23-17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB327 | 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. Requires the Department of Human ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB382 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a procurement officer from disclosing a competing offeror's proposal or evaluation score, except the summary of scores, during a debriefing requested by a non-selected offeror. Authorizes the disclosure of a competing offeror's proposal or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB601 | Intro
25% | Requires law enforcement to post notice that a warranted or warrantless search has been conducted on a property. Requires a law enforcement officer to secure any entrance used by an officer in the search.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB855 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out. Repeals th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology 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] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB641 | Intro
25% | Defines "low alcohol by volume spirits beverage". Establishes a tax on low alcohol by volume spirits beverages at a rate of $0.85 per wine gallon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB653 | Intro
25% | Requires the court to impose a mandatory fine per violation for nuisance abatement laws related to gambling offenses. Allows citizens who bring civil nuisance abatement suits against places used for illegal gambling the same rights and protections as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB605 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in kindergarten through grade twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete a one-half credit in financ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB652 | Intro
25% | Requires tire retailers to collect and submit to the Department of Health certain information relating to tires sold by the retailer. Requires the Department of Health to establish and maintain a database containing this information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB582 | Intro
25% | Transfers the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission from the Department of Accounting and General Services to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the authority hel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB708 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and appropriates moneys for the Board of Psychology to grant prescriptive authority to clinical psychologists who meet specific education, training, and registration requirements. Requires the Board of Psychology to accept applications for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB772 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB762 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Agricultural Crimes Council. Expands the duties of the Department of Agriculture to collaborate with and support the Council. Authorizes the Council to withdraw and deposit moneys, revenues, and fines into and out of the Animal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB740 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Land Use Commission to designate another agency, including the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, Department of Agriculture, or Agribusiness Development Corporation, to monitor compliance with any restrictions imposed in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB752 | Intro
25% | Increases the notice period for an insurer to notify a policy holder of a cancellation or nonrenewal of a property casualty insurance policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB856 | Intro
25% | Establishes a standard for covered educational entities and certain health facilities when interacting with federal immigration authorities regarding civil immigration violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB857 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1008 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to adopt ordinances to enforce the accessible parking space requirements for parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities and electric vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB965 | Intro
25% | In addition to the current requirement that towing companies allow individuals to pay by cash, credit card, or debit card, requires towing companies to have an on-site automatic teller machine. Specifies that a towing company cannot charge for tows i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1256 | Intro
25% | Prohibits restaurants from imposing a mandatory gratuity service charge for the sale of food or beverage services unless the party includes ten or more customers, the service charge does not exceed eighteen per cent, and the customer is notified of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1252 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to establish a specialized training program to educate healthcare providers on methods to best care for patients having Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1255 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that government records subject to disclosure requirements under the Uniform Information Practices Act include information that is created, received, maintained, or used by private contractors in performance of a government function outsour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1253 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the prohibition against board and commission holdover members from holding office beyond the end of the second regular legislative session following the expiration of the member's term of office takes precedence over any conflicting st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1300 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for meal subsidies for students whose families is classified as asset limited, income constrained, employed (ALICE) households.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1254 | Intro
25% | Prohibits active employees of the University of Hawaii and the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii from serving on the Board of Regents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1288 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Efficient Transitional Homes Commission to provide recommendations for the efficient, effective, and transparent management of transitional homes. Requires annual reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1569 | Intro
25% | Allows for the regulation of sports wagering by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Establishes licensing requirements for sports wagering operators and sports wagering suppliers. Specifies that sports wagering shall not be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1543 | Intro
25% | Requires each purchasing agency to provide justification for hiring external consultants. Caps the amount each agency can spend on external consultants. Requires each agency to seek approval from the Legislature for consulting contracts exceeding a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1572 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii State Sports Wagering Commission within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Establishes licensing requirements for sports wagering operators. Establishes penalties for violations. Specifies that sport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1545 | Intro
25% | Repeals language in the State's Code of Ethics that exempts the Legislative Branch from prohibitions against nepotism in public employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1571 | Intro
25% | Exempts all positions within the Hawaii Tourism Authority from the state civil service law. Provides that the powers described in section 201B-3, HRS, shall be granted to the Hawaii Tourism Authority except as otherwise provided by law. Amends the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1546 | Intro
25% | Requires retirants rehired as teachers or administrators in teacher shortage areas or in difficult-to-fill positions to be paid at least the minimum salary for their experience and qualifications. Prohibits rehired retirants from receiving additional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1531 | Intro
25% | Offers rights and protections to citizens who bring civil nuisance abatement suits related to illegal gambling. Imposes a mandatory fine of $5,000 for violating nuisance abatement laws related to gambling offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1542 | Intro
25% | Beginning 7/1/2027, requires app store providers to determine the age category for each of their users in the State and verify their age; provide a mechanism for parents to block minors from downloading unsuitable apps; and obtain parental consent be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1544 | Intro
25% | Requires each public school to implement a policy to prohibit students from using cellular phones and other wireless communication devices during school hours, subject to exceptions for education, health, and emergencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1619 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Governor to enter into a Cosmetology Licensure Compact on behalf of the State to provide a streamlined process that allows cosmetologists to obtain a multistate license enabling them to practice cosmetology in another state without obt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced. |
| HI | SB1618 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Journalistic Ethics Commission within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes a Journalistic Code of Ethics. Requires news media outlets to provide training in the ethics of journalism to journalists and editors in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced. |
| HI | SB1622 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds to establish the aloha intelligence institute within the university of Hawaii to develop, support, and advance artificial intelligence initiatives statewide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced. |
| HI | SB1620 | Intro
25% | Exempts natural hair braiders from licensing requirements under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced. |
| HI | SB1621 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt rules establishing a license and corresponding licensing requirements specifically for nail technicians separate from a general cosmetologist license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced. |
