| HI | HB318 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to operate and approve conservation banks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB315 | Intro
25% | Adds a minimum penalty of $50 per violation of the State Water Code and makes each day that a violation exists or continues a separate offense. Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to determine the amount of the penalty based on the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB317 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expend the moneys from the State Parks Special Fund for programs aimed at environmental protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB343 | Intro
25% | Defines "isolated wetlands" and "wetlands". Clarifies the definition of "state waters" to include wetlands and isolated wetlands. Requires the Director of Health to determine all wetlands in the State, including whether a wetland is an isolated wetla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB431 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds for the Kauhale Initiative. Establishes and appropriates funds into and out of the Supportive Housing Special Fund. Establishes the Kauhale Initiative Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB440 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB473 | N/A
0% | Establishes a process, beginning on January 1, 2026, for automatically preregistering or registering public, charter, and private school-enrolled students who are at least 16 years old to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB427 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB432 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB477 | N/A
0% | Repeals the definition for "registered for work" or "registration for work" and repeals the requirement to post work availability online. Amends the qualifications for unemployed individuals who are able to receive certain unemployment benefits. Begi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB437 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB439 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB429 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB471 | N/A
0% | Requires the Board of Education to establish a Korean language program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB472 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB428 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB430 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB433 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for reentry services to connect offenders with community-based services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB436 | N/A
0% | Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" for enterprise zone program purposes to include retail sales of tangible personal property manufactured and sold in the enterprise zone that is to be used or consumed by the purchaser and not for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB661 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB653 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB657 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB658 | N/A
0% | Clarifies the scope of an action subject to environmental review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB654 | N/A
0% | Amends the definition of "special management area minor permit", in section 205A-22, HRS, to mean an action by the applicable authority authorizing: (1) Development, the valuation of which does not exceed $1,000,000, and that has no substantial adver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB507 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds for the cesspool compliance pilot grant project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB660 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB651 | N/A
0% | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to operate and approve conservation banks and amends the Endangered Species Recovery Committee's membership and scope of authority. Effective upon approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB650 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB659 | N/A
0% | Requires the State to consider hurricane resistant criteria when designing and constructing new state buildings, constructed on or after 7/1/2025, for the capability of providing shelter refuge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB656 | N/A
0% | Appropriates moneys to the Office of Veterans' Services to perform its statutory duties, including maintaining a center that provides information, counsel, aid, and assistance to veterans, their families, and their dependents; and cooperating with fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB649 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB652 | N/A
0% | Regulates persons receiving compensation for providing advice or assistance regarding veterans benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB509 | N/A
0% | Adds a minimum penalty and amends the maximum penalty per violation of the State Water Code, expands the types of potential violations of the State Water Code, and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offense. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB506 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB510 | N/A
0% | 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
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB511 | N/A
0% | Provides that a survey of the land to be set aside shall not be a condition precedent to the setting aside of public lands to any department or agency of the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB502 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB655 | N/A
0% | Limits the required payment of certain unpaid motor vehicle taxes and fees and accompanying financial penalties to those incurred during the most recent 5 consecutive years of delinquency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB760 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB718 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB703 | N/A
0% | Extends the sunset date for the State Rent Supplement Program for Kupuna to 6/30/2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB713 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funding for the Department of Human Services to conduct a rate study for Medicaid home health services in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB702 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB714 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to support educational training programs to expand the State's health care workforce. Allocates funds to the Department of Education for health care certificate programs and classroom renovations for health care training in public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB782 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB704 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB701 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB40 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
