| HI | SB40 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to secure a line of credit or other instrument of indebtedness for the Bond Volume Cap Recycling Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:30 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB65 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:30 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB134 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Elections to establish three additional voting centers in a county with a population of five hundred thousand or more. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB133 | Intro
25% | Authorizes state facilities to wheel electricity that is produced by their own facility from renewable energy sources to another state facility pursuant to administrative rules established by the Public Utilities Commission. Requires the Public Utili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB128 | Intro
25% | Establishes the crime of criminal trespass on agricultural land. Prohibits persons being prosecuted for or convicted of the crime of criminal trespass on agricultural land from owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm or ammunition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB130 | Intro
25% | Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter an area closed to the public or hiking on a trail closed to the public, and ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB127 | Intro
25% | Establishes the conventional farming grant program to provide grants to small and midsized farmers who practice conventional farming. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB152 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to utilize funds in the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund as collateral when DHHL is an eligible borrower of a loan guaranteed by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB144 | Intro
25% | Allows chiropractic students to engage in clinical practice as part of their college instruction if directly supervised by a licensed chiropractor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB161 | Intro
25% | Exempts state projects from county building permit, inspection, and certificate of occupancy requirements under certain conditions. Requires counties to accept the dedication of state projects exempt from the county permitting process. Prohibits stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB150 | Intro
25% | Establishes a WAI Policy Coordinator for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB146 | Intro
25% | Amends the conditions and procedures of alternative dispute resolution methods for condominium-related disputes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB163 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to maximize the amount of housing built that utilizes loans from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund by prioritizing projects with the shortest projected loan repayment terms that produce ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB149 | Intro
25% | Establishes that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice for public accommodations to deny a person with a disability full and equal enjoyment of information related to their services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations using inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB142 | Intro
25% | Requires insurers who choose to pay the proceeds of or a claim under an insurance policy by issuing a check to deliver the check by certified mail, restricted delivery, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, to the last known address of the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB137 | Intro
25% | Requires the PUC to impose certain conditions of approval on any order approving, in whole or in part, an application for the proposed acquisition, merger, or consolidation of an electric utility company by an acquiring entity. Establishes a process ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB167 | Intro
25% | Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of any state department or agency, under certain conditions. Clarifies that contracts for the construction, reno...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB143 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate the island of Kahoolawe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB139 | Intro
25% | Authorizes any department of the Invasive Species Council, county, or any agent of a department of the Invasive Species Council or a county, including the Hawaii Ant Lab or an island-based invasive species committee to use community action programs f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB145 | Intro
25% | Amends the conditions, manner, and areas in which the Commission on Water Resource Management can declare and provide notice of water shortages and emergencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB140 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the importation of firewood into the State, except for firewood that meets certain standards. Requires firewood that is imported into the State from another state to be certified and labeled as heat-treated. Establishes certain exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB170 | Intro
25% | Proposes to amend the Hawaii State Constitution by establishing the right of each person to own and have an exclusive property right in the data they generate on the Internet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB192 | Intro
25% | Requires the county police departments to purchase and deploy explosion detection technology equipment to assist in the location of and response to explosions caused by the illegal use of firearms and fireworks. Appropriates moneys to the counties as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB173 | Intro
25% | Requires the Judiciary to establish a three-year pilot program to provide free child care services to minor children of parties and witnesses who are attending court hearings in the first circuit. Requires the Judiciary to submit reports to the Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB191 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii low-income home energy assistance program within the Department of Human Services to assist low-income households in paying their energy bills. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to assess ratepayers a percentage fee to f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB178 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support the establishment of surfing as an interscholastic sport.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB175 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from seventy to seventy-five years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB169 | Intro
25% | Requires the State to provide written notice to certain persons regarding the ability to file a claim for redress under applicable wrongful conviction law. Requires the liberal construction of that law. Provides for advance compensation for petitione...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB205 | Intro
25% | Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, or the chairperson's designee, to the Commission on Water Resource Management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB186 | Intro
25% | Repeals inspection requirements for motor carrier vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB177 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Division of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture to adopt, amend, and repeal rules to develop an assessment and approval process to import and move aquatic livestock in the State. Requires the Aquaculture Program to develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB237 | Intro
25% | Expands the authority of the State and counties to develop adaptation pathways plans to modify and relocate infrastructure away from critically threatened areas to locations outside sea level rise and coastal flooding exposure areas. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB231 | Intro
25% | Requires the counties to adopt ordinances setting forth procedures and requirements for the review and permitting of agricultural tourism uses and activities as secondary uses, in addition to accessory uses, on a working farm or farming operation. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB248 | Intro
25% | Provides that complex area superintendents have the authority to implement the farm to school and farm to school meals programs. Requires certain school cafeteria supervisors to report directly to complex area superintendents. Establishes school cafe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB222 | Intro
25% | Amends Act 67, SLH 2023, to appropriate funds for the illegal fireworks task force for FY 2025-2026 and FY 2026-2027 and to extend the sunset date of the Act from 6/30/2025 to 6/30/2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB232 | Intro
25% | Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distribu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB221 | 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. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB223 | Intro
25% | Requires certain owners and occupants of properties located in hazardous fire areas to maintain effective firebreaks within thirty feet of the property and to practice other fire prevention activities. Establishes the Community Fuels Reduction Projec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB240 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "farming operation" by including customary and traditional subsistence farming conducted by native Hawaiian cultural practitioners and excluding concentrated animal feeding operations and business entities with unclear or non...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB235 | 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB225 | Intro
25% | Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make restitution in the form of financial support t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB224 | 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] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB526 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary three-year woman's court pilot program within the second, third, and fifth circuits. Establishes temporary positions. Requires a report. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB523 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish and administer a Biosecurity Fencing Cost-Sharing Program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB508 | Intro
25% | Establishes the hike safe card program and search and rescue special fund to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB535 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Advisory Committee convened by the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Health to inventory lands owned by the United States government which may be reasonably transferred back to the State and to make recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB502 | Intro
25% | Allows all-terrain vehicle to drive on streets with posted speed limits of not more than forty-five miles per hour. Allows all-terrain vehicles to drive in the evening and night if they are equipped with headlights, tail lights, and while displaying ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB493 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Veterinarian Workforce Development Special Fund. Establishes the Veterinarian Workforce Development Fee to support recruitment and retention of veterinarians in the State. Establishes the Veterinarian Workforce Development Loan Repaym...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB541 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the level of environmental restoration owners and operators of underground storage tanks or tank systems that had a confirmed release must satisfy by requiring the removal of all jet fuel, including fuel additives and all compounds resultin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB548 | 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
Passed First Reading. |
