| HI | SB417 | Intro
25% | Establishes as a class B felony the unlicensed performance of contractor work, during or within 5 years following a national emergency, state of emergency, or disaster proclamation, in an affected political subdivision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB364 | Intro
25% | Establishes a State Boating Facility Lease Program within the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to be administered by DOBOR. Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural to lease Ala Wai Small Boat H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB410 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the State or any of its branches, political subdivisions, or agencies or any county from requiring a bachelor's degree as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in state or county employment. Establishes exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB385 | Intro
25% | Requires that condominium associations make the governing documents available on the association's website and make them accessible to all owners, occupants, and tenants free of charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB392 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of electric bicycles subject to various state laws and classifies electric bicycles by top assisted speed. Establishes additional regulations for the registration and use of electric bicycles. Increases the minimum age to operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB368 | Intro
25% | Requires health care providers to provide patients with copies of billing records within ten working days of a request from the patient and provide written notice to patients if there is a credit on the patient's account. Clarifies that health care p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB377 | Intro
25% | Exempts medical services from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB357 | Intro
25% | Establishes clear criteria for unpaid student internship programs under the state wage laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB420 | Intro
25% | Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers' compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in Department of Education-sponsored work-based learning programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB421 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to administer a general dyslexia screening to all students in kindergarten through grade three. Requires the Department of Education to continue to administer the general English language arts universal screening ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB423 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB425 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the civil service exemption for personal service contracts for building, custodial, and grounds maintenance services with qualified community rehabilitation programs shall not cost more than $850,000 in the aggregate per private person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB437 | Intro
25% | Exempts the Center for Cultural and Technical Exchange Between East and West, Inc. from the qualifying standards and conditions related to the receipt of funds contained in chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, provided that if the center contracts w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB441 | Intro
25% | Designates the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra as the State of Hawaii Symphony Orchestra. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB444 | Intro
25% | Authorizes boards and commissions to make employment decisions related to its officers and employees without the approval of the head of the department to which the board or commission is administratively attached.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB443 | Intro
25% | Requires that lands within the agricultural district that have solar energy facilities must also obtain certification from the Board of Land and Natural Resources that the lands are also used for a farming operation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB445 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates moneys for the Public Utilities Commission to establish standards requiring each electric utility company to remove from the rate base a commensurate amount of costs related to fossil fuel resources when adding new or conver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB432 | Intro
25% | Requires publicly held domestic corporations to have gender-diverse boards of directors. Requires the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to publish certain reports on the Department's website. Establishes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB450 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for applied behavioral analysis services for persons with autism. Requires the Department of Human Services to obtain maximum federal matching funds and pursue all other funding sources. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB439 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules to impose user fees that solely apply to nonresidents visiting state parks and trails, as selected by the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB436 | Intro
25% | Provides that no person shall serve as State Fire Marshal for more than 3 terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB535 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Advisory Committee convened by the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Health to inventory lands owned by the United States government which may be reasonably transferred back to the State and to make recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB541 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the level of environmental restoration owners and operators of underground storage tanks or tank systems that had a confirmed release must satisfy by requiring the removal of all jet fuel, including fuel additives and all compounds resultin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB553 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "power-generating facility" for the purposes of environmental impact assessments to include facilities that rely on the combustion of any fuel source, including facilities operating beginning 1/1/2025, and facilities that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB560 | Intro
25% | Raises the minimum age requirement to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Removes the parental consent and written approval by the family court requirements for a minor to marry. Removes spousal cohabitation after the parties a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB542 | Intro
25% | Requires certain priority level 1 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2035. Requires priority level 2 and other cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2040, rather than before 1/1/2050, with certain exem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB537 | Intro
25% | Establishes statewide goals for solid waste reduction and organic waste diversion. Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to reduce all organic waste produced within the county by faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB528 | Intro
25% | Raises the minimum age to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Repeals the authority of parents and the family court to consent to a minor's marriage. Repeals spousal cohabitation after the parties attain legal age as an excepti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB530 | Intro
25% | Establishes Braille literacy as a policy of the State. Requires literacy assessments for eligible low vision and blind students to include Braille instruction and the use of Braille. Authorizes the Department of Education to adopt administrative rule...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB556 | Intro
25% | Creates a framework for the licensure of rural emergency hospitals by the Department of Health. Provides for the continuation of Medicaid policy protections for hospitals transitioning to a rural emergency hospital designation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB500 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the labeling and advertising requirements for coffee that is grown and processed in the State. Defines regional origin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB539 | Intro
25% | Requires state agencies that monitor environmental toxins and pollutants to establish environmental action levels (EALs) to ensure the preservation of a safe environment. Prohibits modifications to EALs unless certain procedural requirements are met....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB538 | Intro
25% | Requires municipal solid waste combustor ash to be disposed of only in a lined landfill. Prohibits the reuse of municipal solid waste incinerator ash for uses such as roadbuilding, fill, or construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB527 | Intro
25% | Establishes, and appropriates funds for, five full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) positions within the Civil Rights Compliance Branch of the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB532 | Intro
25% | Allows school staff and agents trained by a licensed clinician to volunteer to administer medication to students at Department of Education public schools under certain conditions. Clarifies who may prescribe medication to be administered to students...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB551 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2026, requires persons that provide single-use compostable plastic packaging or utensils for any food or beverages sold in the State to have on-site composting collection bins and ensure the collection and delivery of disposed single-us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB529 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for its Hoakea Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB540 | Intro
25% | Requires state agencies to establish a Plant-Based-By-Default Program for food and drinks offered at state-operated prisons, state-licensed hospitals, and government-sponsored events. Requires the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Comptroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB536 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to construct, establish, and operate an environmental toxins testing laboratory to test samples submitted by the public for diseases; water, air, and soil quality; and complex testing. Requires a report to the Legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB543 | Intro
25% | Part I: Establishes a WAI Policy Coordinator and other positions within the Commission on Water Resource Management for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund. Requires reports to the Legislature, Gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB568 | Intro
25% | Designates the Department of Land and Natural Resources as the primary agency for the trapping of feral goats, sheep, and pigs. Requires the Department to establish a program to humanely manage populations of feral goats, sheep, and pigs in the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB134 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Elections to establish three additional voting centers in a county with a population of five hundred thousand or more. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB135 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the macadamia nut labeling requirements apply if the applicable products are produced in whole or in part from Hawaii-grown and Hawaii-processed macadamia nuts. Effective 1/2/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB178 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support the establishment of surfing as an interscholastic sport.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
