| HI | SB523 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish and administer a Biosecurity Fencing Cost-Sharing Program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB546 | Intro
25% | Requires the State to ensure and enforce that all certified arborists in its employ, including contractors, adhere to best management practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB502 | Intro
25% | Allows all-terrain vehicle to drive on streets with posted speed limits of not more than forty-five miles per hour. Allows all-terrain vehicles to drive in the evening and night if they are equipped with headlights, tail lights, and while displaying ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB548 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Native Resources and Fire Protection Program and Hawaii Invasive Species Council to ensure their long-term viability and continue to control and eradicate invasive species in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB558 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Food and Product Innovation Network within the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Appropriates funds for food and product development or innovation facilities in the county of Maui and on the islands of Oahu and Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB547 | Intro
25% | Incentivizes the installation and use of gray water recycling systems and atmospheric water generators in the State by establishing an income tax credit to be administered by the Department of Taxation. Requires the Department of Business, Economic D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB550 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Landfill Advisory Committee within the Department of Health. Requires the DOH, in consultation with the Department of Land and Natural Resources and each county's department of board or water supply to create maps of the State's drink...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB555 | Intro
25% | Creates a presumption for workers' compensation purposes that diseases of the heart in firefighters and law enforcement officers were proximately caused by and resulted from the nature of the person's employment if certain conditions are met. Exempts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB549 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish a recognition program to incentivize schools to submit to the Department a plan for the school to reach the local farm to school meal goal of thirty per cent of food served in the school to consist of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB521 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to work with the appropriate county board or department of water supply to provide access to potable and agricultural water on Hawaiian home lands; provided that any agreement between DHHL and that count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB557 | Intro
25% | Requires University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) to direct Huli Au Oli to conduct a study on physician and dentist recruitment and retention to serve the island of Molokai. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB552 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB525 | Intro
25% | Beginning 10/1/2025, requires mortuaries, cemeteries, and pre-need funeral authorities that contract to provide cremation services to provide written notice if precious metals are recovered after cremation and to obtain written consent before the sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB511 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that approval for certain housing projects seeking exemptions from planning and development laws and rules shall be granted by the appropriate county legislative body, rather than the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB545 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the usage of synthetic substances in school meals at Department of Education and public charter schools. Defines "synthetic substances".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB476 | Intro
25% | Increases fines that may be assessed against certain fireworksrelated violations. Effective 7/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB522 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Agribusiness Development Corporation for the purchase of the Halaula Agricultural Parcel for agricultural development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB496 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Agriculture to define the terms "bona fide farmer" and "bona fide agricultural activity". Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB531 | Intro
25% | Establishes provisions for the storage and maintenance of a stock supply of bronchodilators at schools. Requires the Department of Education to establish a protocol for the storage, usage, and administration of bronchodilators. Establishes provisions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB514 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund and Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund Corporation within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to provide compensation for property damage resulting from catastrophic wildfires in the State. Requires re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB477 | Intro
25% | Makes a second or subsequent conviction for violation of a domestic abuse protective order a class C felony. Increases the sentencing requirements for second or subsequent convictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB529 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for its Hoakea Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB517 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Microbial Algae Soil Products Pilot Program within the Department of Agriculture in collaboration with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and other relevant stakeholders. Establishes the Microbi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB518 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to update the online Wiki Permits service to include locations for which a right-of-entry permit for commercial activity is available via the service. Requires public input prior to the removal of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB501 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health, to the extent allowable under federal law, to prioritize the use of Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund moneys for projects by homeowners to upgrade cesspools to director-approved wastewater systems or connect ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB559 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches, shall be protected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB657 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology within the University of Hawaii to establish and operate a Center for Climate Resilient Development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB666 | Intro
25% | Converts two temporary farm-to-school extension agent positions within the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources into permanent positions. Establishes an agriculture education coordinator position. Appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB611 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale, importation, personal use, and commercial use of all fireworks, except consumer fireworks. Removes permitting requirements for consumer fireworks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB697 | Intro
25% | Establishes a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for expenses paid to retrofit a residence with wind resistive devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB702 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches, shall be protected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB633 | 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB684 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt administrative rules to ban the usage of cell phones at Department of Education schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB682 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any state or county law, rule, ordinance, or regulation from requiring the addition of any substance, product, or chemical for preventative health care or medical purposes, that is unrelated to chemicals necessary for protection against con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
