| HI | HB36 | Intro
25% | Prohibits excited delirium from being recognized as a valid medical diagnosis or cause of death in the State. Prohibits a medical examiner, coroner, or health care provider from stating on a certificate of death or in any report that the cause of dea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB126 | Intro
25% | Increases transparency and accountability surrounding property forfeiture. Clarifies which property is subject to forfeiture. Amends the authorized disposition of forfeited property and the proceeds thereof. Repeals language that requires the Hawaii ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1131), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB145 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to transmit all expungement orders to the Judiciary to effectuate the purposes of Act 159, SLH 2023. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB213 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the Healthcare Education Loan Repayment Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB212 | Intro
25% | Requires the Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions to establish a permanent Return-to-Home Program to return homeless individuals in the State to families and relatives in their home states. Requires the Office to report to the Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB214 | Intro
25% | Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as a school resource officer or investigator in positions identified by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1106), recommending passage on Third 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 fishponds on state land and conduct a literature review. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1150), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB303 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB244 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the department of human services to collaborate with contracted community-based organizations to address the need for social services in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB239 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "child abuse or neglect" by clarifying that the failure to provide certain needs to a child shall not constitute child abuse or neglect if the sole reason the person responsible for the care of the child is unable to adequate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1051), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB250 | Engross
50% | Requires utilization review entities to submit data relating to the prior authorization of health care services to the State Health Planning and Development Agency. Establishes timelines for the approval of prior authorization requests for urgent and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB280 | Intro
25% | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB302 | Intro
25% | Repeals the requirement that a provider-patient relationship be established in person. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1079), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB307 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to recognize the island of Kahoolawe. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB359 | Intro
25% | Amends covered offender registration laws by expanding the definition of "sexual offense" to include additional sexual offenses from the Penal Code. Provides that the exception to public access requirements for misdemeanors does not apply when the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB424 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to students enrolled in a public school who meet certain requirements. Reduces the amount the Department of Education is authorized to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB448 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to assist small businesses, including those related to the tourism sector, with technology enablement. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1115), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB431 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the continued operation of the Kauhale Initiative and authorizes those funds to be used for the Ohana Zones Pilot Program. Establishes and appropriates funds into and out of the Supportive Housing Special Fund. Effective 6/29/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Garcia, Muraoka voting no (2) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB432 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Mixed-Income Subaccount within the Rental Housing Revolving Fund that targets workforce rental housing projects for persons and families with incomes at or below one hundred forty per cent of the area median income. Authorizes the Dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1119), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB455 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program. Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program special fund. Requires DBEDT to submit an annual report to the Legislature regarding the program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB429 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB427 | Engross
50% | Part I: Renames the Department of Agriculture to the "Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity". Renames the Board of Agriculture to the "Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity". Part II: Establishes and appropriates funds for a Deputy Director of Bio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB474 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to fund an unspecified number of full-time equivalent fall prevention and early detection coordinator positions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB472 | Intro
25% | Requires digitized identification cards 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. Effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1138), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB428 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Farm to Families Program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Requires reports to the Legislature prior to the Regular Sessions of 2026 and 2027. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB442 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the UH system for various nursing programs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB430 | 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. Provides that the State shall be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB496 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the use of certain words on the label of a consumer package that contains or includes tea or dried leaves from the plant Pipturus albidus, unless one hundred per cent of the tea or dried leaves were grown in the State. Appropriates funds fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB433 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for reentry services to connect offenders with community-based services. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB692 | Engross
50% | Expands the Preschool Open Doors Program's eligibility criteria. Repeals the requirement that Preschool Open Doors Program providers be accredited. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB627 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for positions to implement and maintain school safety measures. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB664 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Office of Gun Violence Prevention to conduct community outreach on gun violence prevention, develop and administer a grant program for gun violence prevention, and develop and administer a gun violence resource bank. Establishes the G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1141), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB549 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Early Learning Apprenticeship Grant Program to be administered by the University of Hawaii to provide financial support for early learning program service providers in the State to participate in state- or federally-approved early lear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB624 | Engross
50% | Creates a School Psychologists Working Group to recommend actionable steps or propose legislation for an immediate pathway to licensure for school psychologists that can be acted upon in 2026. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB648 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year pilot program in the Probate Court and Family Court of the First Circuit to fund certain guardianship- and conservatorshiprelated court resources in situations where the respondent does not have sufficient funds to pay for one ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1140), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB563 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for salaries and fringe benefits of positions for the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy's Space Science and Engineering Initiative Workforce Development Program, Maunakea Scholars Program, and Internship Program. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1103), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB643 | Engross
50% | 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. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB640 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of the Ombudsman to publish an annual 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 W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB697 | Engross
50% | Allows authorized employees of the Department of Transportation and Department of Law Enforcement, in addition to county police departments, to perform certain actions in reviewing recorded images produced by automated speed enforcement systems. Appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Alcos, Amato, Garcia, Kong, Souza voting no (5) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB667 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Transportation or appropriate county department when disposing of a deceased cat or dog from a public roadway to scan the animal for a microchip, record certain information, and report that information to the appropriate co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| 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] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1102), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB683 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for student transportation coordinators positions within the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services across the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB505 | Intro
25% | Establishes a WAI Policy Coordinator for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1152), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB606 | Intro
25% | Extends the Act 279 Special Fund to 6/30/2028. Deposits funds into and appropriates funds out of the Act 279 Special Fund to eliminate its waitlist. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to submit a strategic plan detailing the anticipated u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1127), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB531 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to recognize the University of Hawaii Cancer Center. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| 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] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1107), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| 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. Authorizes the 340B covered ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB718 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine for faculty positions in the fields of cardiovascular biology, tropical medicine, and quantitative health biostatistics, and an environmental health and safety officer st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB703 | Engross
50% | Extends the sunset date for the State Rent Supplement Program for Kupuna to 6/30/2028. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | HB716 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Health Infrastructure Grant Program within the Department of Health, to be administered by the State Health Planning and Development Agency, to support health information technology infrastructure and the implementation of interoperab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with Representative(s) Garcia voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
