| HI | HB428 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB782 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a working group to review and make recommendations on amending or repealing unnecessary or obsolete laws pertaining to agriculture. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB934 | Intro
25% | Transfers the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Office of Enterprise Technology Services in the Department of Accounting and General Services. Establishes the Hawaii B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Holt, Tam, Templo, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB914 | Intro
25% | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish automatic adjustment mechanisms. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to grant exemptions to any water carrier from any requirement under the Hawaii Water Carrier Act. Effective 7/1/3000. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB316 | Intro
25% | Makes appropriations to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to continue the Green Jobs Youth Corps program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Belatti, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Morikawa, Poepoe, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Shimizu; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB314 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to develop adaptation pathways plans to modify and relocate development and associated infrastructure away from critically vulnerable areas to locations outside of sea level rise...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Belatti, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Morikawa, Poepoe, Woodson, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB427 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB439 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to establish an international teacher license for certain visa holders. Establishes criteria for obtaining an international teacher license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Souza; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Muraoka; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB429 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB653 | Intro
25% | Closes or reclassifies certain non-general funds of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, pursuant to certain recommendations made by the Auditor in Auditor's Report No. 2408.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB649 | Intro
25% | Increases harbor fees for commercial vessels. Requires that revenue from the fee increase be used by the Department of Land and Natural Resources for improvements that primarily benefit commercial vessels that utilize state small boat harbors. Author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 9:00 am]
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB510 | 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] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 9:00 am]
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB655 | Intro
25% | Limits the required payment of certain unpaid motor vehicle taxes and fees and accompanying financial penalties to those incurred during the most recent five consecutive years of delinquency. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB713 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funding for the Department of Human Services to conduct a rate study for Medicaid home health services in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB702 | 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] | 2025-02-04
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Alcos; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Garcia. |
| HI | HB714 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support educational training programs to expand the State's health care workforce, including health care certificate programs and classroom renovations for health care training in public high schools and education programs that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB818 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Waiakea Peninsula Community Development District. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB915 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Board of Agriculture to investigate and survey the availability of nonpotable water. Authorizes the Commission on Water Resource Management, as a condition for issuing permits, to require the use of dual line water supply systems in ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB912 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to offset the debt for the Waiahole Water System. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB916 | Intro
25% | Allows tax credits claimed under the State Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program to be used to offset taxes imposed by the state transient accommodations tax law. Specifies that tax credit amounts applied to state transient accommodations taxes be li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB982 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Wildfire Recovery Fund. Allows securitization for electric utilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 11:30 am]
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 11:30 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1323 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to transfer certain public lands for agricultural use to the Department of Agriculture without approval from the Board of Land and Natural Resources and Board of Agriculture. Requires the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Water & Land Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 9:00 am]
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB433 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for reentry services to connect offenders with community-based services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 8:30 am]
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB472 | Intro
25% | Allows for a digitized identification card 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB661 | Intro
25% | Permits, except in certain circumstances, a previously authorized activity challenged as being subject to environmental review to continue while the applicable agency conducts an environmental assessment, prepares an environmental impact statement, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:15 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB658 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the scope of an action subject to environmental review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:15 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB652 | Intro
25% | Regulates persons receiving compensation for providing advice or assistance regarding veterans benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB718 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB703 | Intro
25% | Extends the sunset date for the State Rent Supplement Program for Kupuna to 6/30/2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1321 | Intro
25% | Requires the counties to adopt the Hawaii state building codes no later than one year after its adoption. Authorizes a county with a population in excess of 500,000 to amend its building energy conservation code to require more stringent energy-savin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1279 | Intro
25% | Establish a medical education liaison position within the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine to support programs that utilize a team of medical specialists to support primary care providers and other health care professionals throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1367 | Intro
25% | Appropriates general obligation bonds to the Board of Water Supply for the planning, design, and construction of two monitoring wells.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:15 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB431 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Kauhale Initiative. Establishes and appropriates funds into and out of the Supportive Housing Special Fund. Effective 6/29/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB471 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to establish a Korean language program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB660 | Intro
25% | Repeals the Land Court. Requires registered owners of an interest in property registered in land court to deregister their interest. Requires the land court to inform registered owners of the requirement to deregister. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB506 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for equipment for the Oahu Branch of the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Belatti, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Morikawa, Poepoe, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson. |
| HI | HB502 | Intro
25% | Temporarily allows each county, by resolution of its county council, to petition for the redistricting of land from an agricultural district to a rural district through the Land Use Commission's declaratory ruling process. Effective 7/1/2026. Sunsets...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Belatti, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Morikawa, Poepoe, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson. |
| HI | HB760 | Intro
25% | Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to address carbon emissions. Incrementally increases the tax rate over time. Establishes a refundable tax credit to mitigate the effect of a carbon emissions tax on lower-income taxpaye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB701 | Intro
25% | Establishes a refundable Family Caregiver Tax Credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1220 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support the efforts of the Division of Aquatic Resources in the removal of the majano anemone from Kaneohe Bay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Belatti, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Morikawa, Poepoe, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson. |
| HI | HB440 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain covered educational entities and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation facilities from collecting information regarding citizenship or immigration status or allowing officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter certain facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB437 | Intro
25% | Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish an out-of-state office in the Philippines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB650 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for providing education and support to local businesses regarding the United States Food and Drug Administration's guidance on colored sea salt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB657 | Intro
25% | Exempts disabled veterans from the State's vehicle weight tax and repeals the exemption for disabled veterans from the State's annual vehicle registration fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB1286 | Intro
25% | Prohibits pedestrians from walking along the roadway of an interstate highway, an auxiliary interstate highway, or certain state highways except while conducting authorized first responder duties or highway maintenance duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1322 | Intro
25% | Restricts the use of solitary confinement in state-operated and state-contracted correctional facilities, with certain specified exceptions. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop written policies and procedures regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB1448 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the nineteenth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB870 | Intro
25% | Directs the Department of Human Services to adopt rules to expand Medicaid eligibility to all children in the State from birth to age 5 years without regard to household income. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
