| 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 | HB628 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a program to award high school diplomas to persons who did not receive a diploma as a result of compulsory or voluntary induction into the armed services and persons whose high school education was ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB98 | Intro
25% | Authorizes public school complexes to use authentic assessments as part of classroom-based performance assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB303 | Intro
25% | Expands the definitions of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors, including removing "primary care" from the criteria to q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB284 | Intro
25% | Requires counties to grant building permits within sixty days if the application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Housing 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 | 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 | HB295 | Intro
25% | Provides that a living beneficiary's place on the Department of Hawaiian Home Land's waitlist for any residential, agricultural or pastoral tract may be designated for transfer to a successor if the living beneficiary dies before receiving an offer f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB673 | Intro
25% | Amends chapter 127A, HRS, to clarify State and local authority. Prohibits the Governor or Mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital specifics during a state of emergency. Adds definition of the term "severe warning". Allows the Legis...
[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 | 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 | HB640 | Intro
25% | Requires specialized training for all employees of the Office of the Ombudsman to develop relevant expertise to handle complaints about the child welfare system. Requires the Office of the Ombudsman to publish a quarterly report on its website that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HI | HB689 | Intro
25% | Establishes safe harbor protections for survivors of sexual exploitation who seek medical or law enforcement assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 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 | 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 | HB639 | 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Holt, Tam, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Templo. |
| HI | HB712 | Intro
25% | Prohibits drug manufacturers and wholesale distributors from restricting or denying access for pharmacies contracted with 340B covered entities to purchase 340B drugs at a discounted price under the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program. Imposes civil pe...
[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 | HB737 | Intro
25% | Redefines "historic property" with respect to the State Historic Preservation Program. Requires historic review for proposed projects on existing privately-owned single-family detached dwelling units or townhouses only if the unit or townhouse is his...
[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 | HB752 | Intro
25% | Effective 7/1/2027, establishes the Environmental Stewardship Fee Program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources, through which the Department will collect a fee from visitors for a license to visit a state park, forest, hiking trail, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB763 | Intro
25% | Establishes the civic education trust fund to support programs benefiting civic education of public school students. Appropriates funds for the expansion of civic education in the public schools and for two full-time equivalent permanent civic educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB883 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii emergency management agency to inventory all designated emergency shelters and their ability to withstand a category one hurricane or higher. Requires Hawaii emergency management agency to publish a publicly available list of shel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 11:00 am]
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB838 | Intro
25% | Increases the bonus for teachers who achieve and maintain a current national board certification from $5,000 to $10,000. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1202 | Intro
25% | Promotes teacher retention by recognizing prior teaching experience at an equal salary rating for entering or reentering teachers into the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1197 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to utilize student education partnerships to increase the amount of mental health care providers in correctional facilities across the State. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 11:00 am]
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 11:00 am]
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB1321 | Intro
25% | Requires the counties to adopt the Hawaii state building codes no later than one year after its adoption. Authorizes a county with a population in excess of 500,000 to amend its building energy conservation code to require more stringent energy-savin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB490 | Intro
25% | Requires the Insurance Commissioner to develop comprehensive standards and requirements for condominium associations and developers to obtain property insurance through self-insurance and mutual insurance, and examine and evaluate the feasibility of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB594 | Intro
25% | Requires hotelkeepers to provide adequate notice of service disruptions to guests and third-party vendors under certain conditions. Allows for recovery of damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee on TOU recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Tam, Templo, Holt, Hussey, Ilagan, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB625 | Intro
25% | Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Kapela. |
| HI | HB735 | Intro
25% | Allows an individual wastewater system to serve up to five bedrooms, regardless of the number of dwelling units or accessory units, whether attached or detached. Permits, until 6/30/2030, certain new buildings constructed within a priority level 3 ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Perruso, Kahaloa, Kusch, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB749 | Intro
25% | Creates within the Department of Health's Wastewater Branch a Cesspool Conversion Section, which shall be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for positions within the Cesspool ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:01 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1328 | Intro
25% | Continues a licensing scheme for licensed certified midwives and licensed certified professional midwives, to be overseen by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Reestablishes the home birth task force to provide recommendations on issues...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1329 | Intro
25% | Requires any state or county department pursuing any major plan or work effort that is likely to significantly affect members of any community to: (1) Conduct a public hearing on the issue, and post notices on the department's website; and (2) Send d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1346 | Intro
25% | Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement negotiated for Bargaining Unit (5) and subject to the availability of funds, provides annual salary step increases for public school teachers who have completed a year's satisfactory service and comply wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kila, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Olds; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Kapela. |
| HI | HB286 | Intro
25% | Updates the Individual Housing Account statute to reflect the current cost of housing down-payments more accurately.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, Kitagawa, La Chica, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB572 | Intro
25% | Exempts food and groceries from the general excise tax. Expands a 2024 session law exempting certain medical and dental services to include all medical and dental services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB751 | Intro
25% | Establishes statewide goals for solid waste reduction and organic waste diversion. Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to divert certain organic waste generated within the county in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 9:00 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1442 | Intro
25% | Establishes the office of entrepreneurship. Authorizes the use of the Hawaii film and creative industries development special fund for a partnership program with the office. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB131 | Intro
25% | Allows agencies to disclose government records to researchers for certain research purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Hashem, Todd. |
| 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] | 2025-01-28
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, Todd, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Garcia; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB806 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Honolulu Police Department and Department of Law Enforcement to conduct sting operations on Oahu to enforce fireworks ordinances or laws. Authorizes a court to order the forfeiture of one-half of any pension of an Employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on LAB recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Sayama, Lee, M., Garrett, Kapela, Kong, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB772 | Intro
25% | Disallows the use of campaign funds to purchase up to two tickets for an event or fundraiser held by another candidate or committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB750 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to conduct a statewide needs assessment to determine what will be needed to reduce waste generation, increase reuse, improve recycling collection services, and expand local processing of materials through an extended...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Perruso, Kahaloa, Kusch; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan, Ward. |
| 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] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1190 | Intro
25% | Repeals the authority for campaign funds to carry over to subsequent elections. Requires, at the latest, for campaign funds not expended to escheat to the State after a certain period. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to make reasonable effo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1186 | Intro
25% | Prohibits landlords, including those operating in public housing and educational dorm settings, from renting a dwelling unit that the landlord knows has a current bed bug infestation. Establishes procedures that landlords shall take upon receiving no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1196 | Intro
25% | Establishes a high school law enforcement curriculum-to-career pipeline initiative. Appropriates funds to develop and implement the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1195 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to prohibit cell phone use during the instructional day, prohibit student access to social media through the school's internet, and implement a social media education campaign. Creates exemptions for students requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1226 | Intro
25% | Categorizes electric bicycles into three classes based on speed and operation. Requires electric bicycle manufacturers and distributors to apply a label to each electric bicycle. Authorizes county police to confiscate bicycles for certain offenses. I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1215 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the general excise tax, amounts received by a contractor for contracting work performed in a county having a population of more than one hundred twenty-five thousand but less than one hundred eighty-five thousand.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1225 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "dangerous to self". Defines the terms "gravely disabled" and "psychiatric deterioration". Broadens the term of "imminently dangerous to self and others". Increases the maximum period of emergency hospitalization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1199 | Intro
25% | Requires the office of legislative analyst to produce fiscal notes on all fiscal bills. Prohibits a committee from making a decision on a fiscal bill without a fiscal note. Mandates that fiscal notes be made available to the public. Appropriates fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Legislative Management Committee |
