| HI | HB98 | Intro
25% | Authorizes public school complexes to use authentic assessments as part of classroom-based performance assessments.
[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 | HB99 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish a climate literacy certificate program to provide students with an advanced understanding of climate change through academic coursework and hands-on learning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB128 | Intro
25% | Establishes factors under which officers may, without warrant, arrest and detain persons for petty misdemeanors and violations. Requires officers to record the factors that justified the warrantless arrest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB133 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support the establishment of surfing as an interscholastic sport.
[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 | HB129 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the assessment of any fees, fines, or court costs against a person who was adjudicated for an offense committed during the person's minority, or against the person's parent or guardian, and discharges all related debt obligations assessed b...
[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 | 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 | HB124 | Intro
25% | Establishes a ten year statute of repose for land surveyors, after which time a complaint for a civil action cannot be made.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB127 | Intro
25% | Requires the court to enter on the record its written findings regarding the necessity of the conditions imposed on a defendant's release. Requires bail to be set in an amount that the defendant can afford based on certain factors.
[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 | HB148 | Intro
25% | Protects individuals who make claims of sexual misconduct from defamation lawsuits unless the claims were proven to be made with malice.
[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 | HB132 | Intro
25% | Makes an amendment to the Department of the Attorney General pilot project for a state-initiated expungement process of arrest records concerning promoting a detrimental drug in the third degree to include the possession of any schedule V substance i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB151 | 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] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB149 | 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
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB145 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to transmit all expungement orders to the Judiciary to effectuate the purposes of Act 159, SLH 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB192 | Intro
25% | Prohibits foreign entities from owning, leasing, or holding a controlling interest in more than an unspecified number of acres of agricultural land. Limits the lease term for agricultural land by foreign entities. Requires foreign entities that own o...
[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 | HB190 | 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] | 2025-01-16
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 | HB196 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Port Worker Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the Department of Transportation regarding management of state-owned and state-managed ports. Requires the Department to conduct meetings to solicit input from port workers on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB194 | Intro
25% | Designates of each year as Maritime Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB176 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalties imposed on individuals convicted for violation of a temporary restraining order and order for protection. Clarifies that the court shall not sentence a defendant to pay a fine for violating a temporary restraining order or ord...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB191 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally rais...
[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 | HB195 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to identify and preserve historically significant areas within state harbors and place educational displays at the areas for public awareness.
[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 | HB186 | Intro
25% | Makes harassment by stalking a class C felony.
[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 | 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] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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. |
