| HI | SB169 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 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. Changes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB804 | Intro
25% | Requires property insurers to offer discounts on a condominium association's annual insurance premium if the association adopts specific risk mitigation upgrades or develops comprehensive disaster response plans. Requires property insurers of condomi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 10:16 am]
The committee(s) on WAM/JDC will hold a public decision making on 02-19-25 10:16AM; Conference Room 211 & Videoconference. |
| HI | SB1030 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the practice of election fraud intimidation includes carrying any firearm or weapon at or within two hundred feet of a voter service center, place of deposit, or polling place. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1146 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the development of an action plan and pre-engineering concept plan to help with debris management and water quality control in the Ala Wai watershed. Effective 7/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB802 | Intro
25% | Requires insurers to provide advance written notice to policyholders and the Insurance Commissioner, with reasonable explanations and primary factors, of any policy cancellation, non-renewal, or proposed premium increase, if, upon renewal, premiums a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB805 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Condominium Mutual Insurance Company to provide property and casualty insurance to high-rise residential condominium associations and the owners of those units. Requires reports to the Governor. Establishes the Condominium Loan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB51 | Intro
25% | Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State of Hawaii, to begin with the 2028 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means 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] | 2025-02-12
The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WAM were as follows: 13 Aye(s): Senator(s) Dela Cruz, Moriwaki, Aquino, DeCoite, Elefante, Hashimoto, Inouye, Kanuha, Kidani, Kim, Lee, C., Wakai, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB878 | Intro
25% | Extends the sunset date for the State Rent Supplement Program for Kupuna to 6/30/2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB869 | Intro
25% | Defines community outreach board to mean a board established to serve in a community advisory capacity under a county commission or a county department. Includes community outreach boards in existing provisions of the Sunshine Law relating to neighbo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1632 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to establish a comprehensive action plan under the "Yes In My Back Yard" Working Group to establish a local housing market in Hawaii. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB870 | Intro
25% | Requires the Comptroller and State Librarian to identify state office buildings, including state libraries, that can provide equitable telecommunication access to allow certain residents, including residents with disabilities, to participate remotely...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB580 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the School Facilities Authority is responsible for certain development, planning, and construction projects for prekindergarten, preschool, and child care facilities, as well as workforce housing. Allows the School Facilities Authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1557 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to provide for a citizens' assembly and to authorize the citizens' assembly to propose to the Legislature constitutional and statutory revisions or amendments to the laws governing elections, political campaigns, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1556 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Trusted Public Representative Program within the Office of Information Practices under which the Office assigns a volunteer Trusted Public Representative trained in the requirements of the Sunshine Law and observes public agency meeting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1558 | Intro
25% | Applies the campaign finance laws to candidates for the neighborhood boards. Requires candidate committees for neighborhood board elections to file an organizational report with the Campaign Spending Commission regarding campaign contributions used f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1554 | Intro
25% | Establishes a program within the Office of Community Services to authorize the formation of community collaborative capital improvement projects eligible for state grants, which may be exempted from certain state and county regulatory requirements un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1555 | Intro
25% | Adopts the Code of Fair Campaign Practices that candidates may use as a guide for their election campaigns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1594 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the number of years members may serve in the Legislature to a maximum of sixteen years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1631 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Civics Collaborative within the Department of Accounting and General Services to promote civics engagement and perpetuate the Aloha Spirit. Requires the Department of Education, University of Hawaii Matsunaga Institute for Peac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB807 | Intro
25% | Expands the time period within which a county legislative body must approve, approve with modifications, or disapprove housing projects the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation develops or assists under a government assistance program f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB879 | Intro
25% | Establishes a refundable Family Caregiver Tax Credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature before the convening of each Regular Session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB881 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Food Security Special Fund to restore Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit levels to those provided in federal fiscal year 2023. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB880 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary Medi-Medi Project within the Hawaii State Health Insurance Assistance Program administered by the Executive Office on Aging to assist older adults, Medicare beneficiaries, individuals with disabilities, and other underserved p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB877 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for Medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB57 | Intro
25% | Requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of independent expenditures and political contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
