| HI | SB121 | Intro
25% | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to extend the amount of time allowed the Senate to consider and act on the appointments of justices and judges from thirty to sixty days for appointments made between April 1 and December 31 when...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB125 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB177 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Division of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture to adopt, amend, and repeal rules to develop an assessment and approval process to import and move aquatic livestock in the State. Requires the Aquaculture Program to develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB252 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the importation of any item or material infested or infected with an insect or other animal, disease, or other pest is prohibited. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to inspect any item imported or moved into the State from anoth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB295 | 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] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB345 | Intro
25% | Raises the cap on the maximum amount of matching funds available to candidates for the Hawaii Partial Public Financing Program. Increases the cap on the amount of expenditures a candidate can make in the Program. Increases the matching fund ratio fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB327 | Engross
50% | 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. Requires the Department of Labor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Pass First Reading |
| HI | SB330 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to enforce quarantines issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB292 | Intro
25% | Establishes safe harbor protections for survivors of sexual exploitation who seek medical or law enforcement assistance. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB308 | Intro
25% | Expands the ban on pistols with a detachable magazine with over a ten-round capacity to any firearm with a detachable magazine with over a thirty-round capacity. Exempts detachable ammunition magazines with a capacity in excess of thirty rounds that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB326 | Engross
50% | Requires the Legislature, in establishing or reviewing a revolving fund, to ensure the revolving fund is financially self-sustainable by either annual projections that show that the revolving fund will be sustainable without appropriations of general...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Pass First Reading |
| HI | SB329 | Engross
50% | Requires at least fifty per cent of treatment works effluent to be R-1 recycled water by January 1, 2045. Amends the year by which no treated or raw sewage shall be discharged into state waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 39). |
| HI | SB371 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of criminal property damage to critical infrastructure facilities in the first and second degree. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB378 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to identify existing mixed-use developments in Maui County that could be acquired by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for use as affordabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB423 | Engross
50% | Adds the Director of the Hawaii Head Start State Collaboration Office, or their designee, as an ex officio, non-voting member to the Early Learning Board. Requires the Early Learning Board to invite the President of the Head Start Association of Hawa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Pass First Reading |
| HI | SB422 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to award a high school diploma to qualified persons who did not receive a high school diploma as a result of compulsory or voluntary induction into the armed services of the United States or whose high school ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB440 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Future Career and Technical Education Teacher Scholarship Program to be administered by the Department of Education to facilitate the recruitment and retention of career and technical education teachers in Hawaii public schools. Appro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Pass First Reading |
| HI | SB441 | Intro
25% | Designates the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra as the State of Hawaii Symphony Orchestra. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB443 | Engross
50% | Requires that lands within the agricultural district that have solar energy facilities must also obtain certification from the Department of Agriculture that the lands are also used for a farming operation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 42) in amended form (SD 1). |
| HI | SB442 | Intro
25% | Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) and without loss or interruption of benefits provided by the ERS or under Chapter 88, HRS, if the retirant is employed as an investigator in a position id...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB438 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of any waste or disposal facility for hazardous waste or solid waste on land that is near or above a significant aquifer as determined by the Department of Health, in consultation with the Commis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB436 | Engross
50% | Provides that no person shall serve as State Fire Marshal for more than three terms. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 41) in amended form (SD 1). |
| HI | SB533 | Engross
50% | Requires a local investor-owned electric utility to provide and fund support to public schools impacted by the utility's planned public safety power shutoff program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Pass First Reading |
| HI | SB544 | Intro
25% | Requires courts to consider certain factors when sentencing a person convicted as an adult for an offense that the person committed when the person was a minor. Allows courts to reduce a mandatory minimum period of incarceration or depart from a mand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB552 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | SB534 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the process by which the Hawaii Community Development Authority may approve residential development on certain parcels of Kakaako Makai. Raises the building height limit and the maximum floor area ratio on certain parcels in the area. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| HI | SB529 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for its Hoakea Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB601 | Intro
25% | Requires law enforcement to post notice that a warranted or warrantless search has been conducted on a property. Requires a law enforcement officer to secure any entrance used by an officer in the search. Allows the breaking of any doors, gates, othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB602 | Intro
25% | Includes any parcels owned by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority as areas that may be closed to the public. Specifies required signage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB717 | Intro
25% | Repeals the prohibition placed on certain employees exempt from Civil Service Law from grieving a suspension or discharge. Allows any employee who is a member of an appropriate bargaining unit to grieve a suspension or discharge. Effective 7/1/2050. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB716 | Intro
25% | Expands the circumstances where the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations may waive the requirements for individuals to register to work and report to an employment office to be eligible for unemployment benefits. Authorize the Department to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB741 | Intro
25% | Establishes an External Audit Committee within the University of Hawaii to audit the University of Hawaii System and the Board of Regents. Requires annual reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB744 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority the Condominium Loan Program to provide qualified condominium associations with low-cost financing or refinancing on previously obtained loans for maintenance and essential repairs. Establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 45) in amended form (SD 1). |
| HI | SB841 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and conduct the Marine Life Conservation District Carrying Capacity Program. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit a report to the Legislature and adopt admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 46) in amended form (SD 1). |
| HI | SB746 | Intro
25% | Establishes a 2-year coconut rhinoceros beetle eradication pilot program under the Department of Land and Natural Resources that incentivizes community members to collect and submit the coconut rhinoceros beetle and its larvae for compensation. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB747 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Audit Office within the Board of Education to audit operations and expenditures of the Department of Education. Exempts positions within the Audit Office from civil service law. Requires annual reports to the Governor and Director of F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1032 | Intro
25% | Prohibits foreign entities and foreign-influenced business entities from making contributions, expenditures, electioneering communications, or donations for election purposes. Allows every business entity that contributes or expends funds in a state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB984 | Intro
25% | Requires a landowner in possession of ten thousand or more acres to be liable for damages and fines arising from runoff originating on the land and entering into state waters or onto state lands. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules as ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB878 | Intro
25% | Extends the sunset date for the State Rent Supplement Program for Kupuna to 6/30/2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1022 | Intro
25% | Allows law enforcement officers, animal control officers, and firefighters to enter an unattended vehicle to protect the health, safety, or well-being of a pet animal that is endangered by being left or confined in an unattended vehicle. Allows priva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB855 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee opts out. Repeals the limit on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | SB989 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to assist small businesses with technology enablement. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB865 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to establish a permanent Educational Support Associate position within the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience's Kona Cooperative Extension. Effective 7/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 47) in amended form (SD 1). |
| HI | SB871 | Intro
25% | Authorizes periods of imprisonment for individuals with previous arson convictions. Authorizes additional penalties for arson crimes that endanger vulnerable areas. Requires restitution for victims of arson who experienced property damage. Effective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB867 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Office of the Governor for administrative purposes to ascertain the State's available water resources and water system source capacity and to streamline well permit approval processes to further plan for the dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1008 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to adopt ordinances to enforce the accessible parking space requirements for parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities and electric vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1102 | Intro
25% | Establishes that the Chief of the State Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting Unit of the Airports Division of the Department of Transportation shall serve not more than three terms of four years each. Requires the Director of Transportation to appoint the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| 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] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1202 | Intro
25% | Allows campaign funds to be used for a candidates child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1100 | Intro
25% | Renames the Department of Agriculture as the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity (Department). Establishes a Deputy Chairperson for Biosecurity. Requires the Department to establish an emergency response team to respond to biosecurity events. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
