| HI | HB89 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Teacher Home Assistance Program to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers. Appropriates funds out of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB107 | Intro
25% | Requires the Executive Office on Early Learning to establish an Imagination Library of Hawaii Program to provide one free book each month to children from birth through five years of age who reside in the State. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB97 | Intro
25% | Establishes a new regulatory framework for the sale of travel insurance in the State, including licensing and registration requirements for limited lines travel insurance producers. Effective 10/1/25.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB110 | Intro
25% | Modifies certain benchmark goals and timeline for the Department of Education to provide locally-sourced agricultural and food products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB123 | Intro
25% | Exempts actions involving the operation and management of fisheries in the State from environmental review requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB131 | Intro
25% | Allows agencies to disclose government records to researchers for certain research purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB137 | Intro
25% | Provides that felons that are in violation of the prohibition against owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm or ammunition are subject to a mandatory prison term.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB125 | Intro
25% | Requires retail sellers of firearms to provide purchasers with notice regarding the law on firearms storage. Expands the requirements for the secure storage of firearms. Clarifies the offense of criminally negligent storage of a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB136 | Intro
25% | Requires a trigger lock for all firearms purchases from a licensed dealer. Requires licensed firearms dealers to provide purchasers with notice regarding the law on firearms storage. Amends the requirements for the secure storage of firearms and esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB139 | Intro
25% | For policies, contracts, plans, and agreements issued or renewed after 12/31/2025, requires the insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services for persons unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB146 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB138 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the requirements for the secure storage of firearms. Amends the offense of criminally negligent storage of a firearm to establish felony penalties for when a minor obtains an unsecured firearm and it results in injury or death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB178 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish a state tea agent at UH Manoa CTAHR.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB169 | Intro
25% | Increases the minimum age for moped operators from fifteen to sixteen years. Increases the minimum age requirement for individuals prohibited from operating a moped unless they wear a safety helmet from eighteen to twenty-one years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB185 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the licensing of an adult residential care home, expanded adult residential care home, or developmental disabilities domiciliary home that is financed, managed, operated, supervised, directed, or owned in whole or in part by a person convic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB182 | Intro
25% | Permanently increases the state earned income tax credit to fifty per cent of the federal earned income tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB156 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB179 | Intro
25% | Makes permanent the amendments made by Act 163, SLH 2023, to the state earned income tax credit and refundable food/excise tax credit. Amends the income thresholds and credit amounts for the low-income household renters tax credit and refundable food...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB183 | Intro
25% | Authorizes each qualifying individual taxpayer to claim an additional credit if the taxpayer claims any dependent under the age of eighteen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB177 | Intro
25% | Makes the issuance or renewal of a civil identification card free of charge. Effective 6/30/25.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB175 | Intro
25% | Requires owners, lessees, or managers of real property to maintain their property and establish penalties for failure to do so. Allows for exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB180 | Intro
25% | Exempts the tax collected on the sale of groceries that are eligible under the supplemental nutrition assistance program or special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, regardless of the means of purchase and the program e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB184 | Intro
25% | Requires operators of low-speed electronic bicycles to possess a valid driver's license, instruction permit, or provisional license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB213 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Healthcare Education Loan Repayment Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB216 | Intro
25% | Establishes requirements for the clinical review criteria and clinical practical guidelines used to establish step therapy protocols. Provides a process for a patient to request an exception to using step therapy protocols. Establishes insurance cove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB204 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB205 | Intro
25% | Establishes a payment rate of cost plus forty per cent for nonprescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, or nonlegend drugs for workers' compensation purposes, subject to certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB249 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds for the Executive Office on Early Learning to contract with third-party providers of family-child interaction learning programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB303 | N/A
0% | Expands the definitions of "preceptor" and "volunteerbased 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 qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB209 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii State Fellows Program within the Department of Human Resources Development to match talented applicants with full-time, paid fellowship roles in various state agencies for a period of ten to eleven months. Establishes minimum q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB330 | N/A
0% | Places oversight of the School Impact Fee Program under the School Facilities Authority Board. Allows the School Facilities Authority Board to dissolve a school impact district without a public hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB248 | N/A
0% | Establishes fees that medical providers may charge for requests for a patient's medical records from the patient's family member, caregiver, or representative. Requires medical providers to respond to requests in a timely manner. Establishes penaltie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB420 | N/A
0% | Clarifies the applicability of the statute of repose for actions arising from construction defects. Clarifies the required contents of a notice of claim of construction defect served on a contractor. Amends the process and time frame for a claimant t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB422 | N/A
0% | Repeals school impact fees. Transfers unencumbered balances of the school impact fee subaccounts to School Facilities Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB366 | N/A
0% | Requires contested cases, environmental assessment cases, or environmental impact statement cases involving renewable energy projects over twenty megawatts in size, except cases that involve any form of incineration, to be appealed from an agency's d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB421 | N/A
0% | Repeals the leasing restriction on owner-builders who obtain an owner-builder exemption to act as their own contractor and who build or improve residential or farm buildings or structures on property they own or lease and do not offer the buildings o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Pending introduction. |
