| 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] | 2025-02-07
The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Holt, Tam, Templo, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB332 | 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 13 @ 10:15 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB288 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to use alternative vehicles for student transportation under certain conditions and appropriates funds for the purchase of alternative vehicles and individuals to obtain CDL licensure. Allows Department schools ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:01 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Evslin, Muraoka. |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Iwamoto, Lamosao, Morikawa, Poepoe, Woodson, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Hashem, Ichiyama. |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB806 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct sting operations on Oahu to enforce fireworks ordinances or laws. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Belatti, Cochran. |
| 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, with certain exclusions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB712 | Intro
25% | Prohibits drug manufacturers from denying, restricting, or prohibiting the acquisition, shipping, or delivery of a 340B drug to pharmacies contracted with 340B covered entities under the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB862 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans for school bus services if certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:01 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB861 | 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:01 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB951 | Intro
25% | Allows a patient seen in-person by another health care provider in the same medical group as the prescribing physician to be prescribed an opiate prescription for a three-day supply or less via telehealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
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; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Garcia; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB1286 | Intro
25% | Prohibits pedestrians from walking along the roadway of an interstate highway, an auxiliary interstate highway, or certain state highways except while conducting authorized first responder duties or highway maintenance duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:30 am]
To House Transportation 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1343 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt a policy that bans the use of phones and related devices by students during school hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:01 pm]
To House Education 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:45 am]
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB295 | Intro
25% | Amends the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended, to authorize the transfer of a living beneficiary's place on the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands' waitlist for any residential, agricultural, or pastoral tract to a qualified application...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB640 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of the Ombudsman to publish a quarterly report on its website that identifies the number and nature of complaints that it receives regarding the Child Welfare Services Branch of the Department of Human Services. Requires the Child...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:45 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB689 | Intro
25% | Establishes safe harbor protections for survivors of sexual exploitation who seek medical or law enforcement assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:45 am]
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness 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] | 2025-02-06
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 | HB737 | Intro
25% | Redefines "historic property" with respect to the State Historic Preservation Program. Deletes the requirement for an application for a proposed project on an existing privately-owned single-family detached dwelling unit to have a historic preservati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1202 | Intro
25% | Recognizes prior teaching experience at an equal salary rating for teachers entering or reentering into the service of the Department of Education. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB1200 | Intro
25% | Codifies the board of education's policy for class sizes to promote quality education and positive student-teacher interactions. Informs parents if changes to class sizes are needed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB134 | Intro
25% | Requires the Chief Election Officer to provide a system for the electronic filing of nomination papers. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB336 | Intro
25% | Requires condominium associations to repair defective conditions of common elements that constitute health or safety violations. Allows unit owners to make the repairs at the association's expense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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] | 2025-02-05
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd; Ayes with reservations: none; 2 Noes: Representative(s) Garcia, Shimizu; 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] | 2025-02-05
The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Holt, Tam, Templo, 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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] | 2025-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance 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] | 2025-02-05
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] | 2025-02-05
To House Housing 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] | 2025-02-05
To House Labor & Public Employment 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] | 2025-02-05
The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Holt, Tam, Templo, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB98 | Intro
25% | Authorizes public school complexes to use authentic assessments as part of classroom-based performance assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB286 | Intro
25% | Increases the maximum annual deduction for contributions to, and maximum account levels for, individual housing accounts. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Development 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 by injured consumers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-04
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| 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] | 2025-02-04
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 | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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] | 2025-02-04
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| 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] | 2025-02-04
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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
To House Public Safety 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 | 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 | 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. |
