| HI | SB1388 | Intro
25% | Adds two voting members that represent the Department of Education or the Board of Education to the School Facilities Authority Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1462 | Intro
25% | Reenacts the Historic Preservation Income Tax Credit, establishes a cap of the tax credit at $1,000,000, for taxable year 2025 to taxable year 2030, respectively, and repeals the tax credit on December 31, 2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1307 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a procurement officer from disclosing a competing offeror's proposal or evaluation score, except the summary of scores, during a debriefing requested by a non-selected offeror. Authorizes the disclosure of a competing offeror's proposal or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1340 | Intro
25% | Provides needed clarifications on the applicability and scope of section 225P-5, HRS. Clarifies current emissions reduction goals and defines critical terms used in climate mitigation. Establishes a total or gross emissions target as well as sector-s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1442 | Intro
25% | Clarifies and updates the responsibilities of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division of the Department of Health to reflect the current mental health systems of care that address the mental health needs of children and adolescents in the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1304 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funding to the department of agriculture to continue the statewide pesticide drift monitoring study.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1439 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Department of Health has the legal authority and obligation to prevent and address nuisances that affect environmental health or public health, or both.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1410 | Intro
25% | Requires that all county sewer transmission lines on Hawaiian home lands in compliance or brought into compliance by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, are licensed or dedicated to the respective county within sixty days after the receipt by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1435 | Intro
25% | Beginning July 1, 2026, bans the sale of all flavored tobacco products and mislabeled e-liquid products. Establishes positions and appropriates funds to enforce the ban. Repeals section 328J-11.5, HRS. Effective July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1469 | Intro
25% | Suspends the statute of limitations on collections during the period an assessment is pending on appeal before the taxation board of review or tax appeal court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1398 | Intro
25% | Directs the Office of Wellness and Resilience to collaborate with the Department of Human Services to, either directly or by contract, design, administer, and implement a program for trauma-informed organizational assessments and a training curriculu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1470 | Intro
25% | For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024, (1) repeals the maximum tax rate that may be considered in determining the amount of income tax that must be withheld and the requirement that a standard deduction allowance be treated as if it was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1413 | Intro
25% | Allows the Hawaii Public Housing Authority (HPHA) to sell, donate, or dispose of property abandoned or seized in federal public housing projects. Requires the HPHA to notify the known owner of the abandoned or seized property. Creates procedures for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB1422 | Intro
25% | Repeals the birth defects special fund and deposits a portion of fees for certified copies and marriage licenses into the vital statistics improvement special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1458 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources the environmental stewardship fee program to collect a fee from visitors through an environmental stewardship license and allocate the revenue to protect, restore, and manage natural and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1403 | Intro
25% | Lowers the blood alcohol content threshold for driving while under the influence of alcohol from .08 to .05 or more grams of alcohol to reduce impaired driving and fatal crashes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1433 | Intro
25% | Repeals the one-to-one syringe limit for the needle exchange program. Authorizes the Sterile Needle and Syringe Exchange Program to provide needs-based distribution. Authorizes non-injection drug user participation in the Program. Modifies liability ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1423 | Intro
25% | Amends section 323D-54, HRS, to exempt the Department of Health from the State Health Planning and Development Agency's certificate of need requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1338 | Intro
25% | Requires high quality resource characterization of pumped storage hydropower locations, or other long duration clean energy storage technologies, and promotes their development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1368 | Intro
25% | Aligns the State's Money Transmitters Modernization Act with the Model Money Transmitters Modernization Act, thereby enabling Hawaii to work within a network of states to license, supervise, and examine transglobal money transmission companies as a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1342 | Intro
25% | Modifies and improves the effectiveness of the renewable portfolio standards law, which stipulates the central role of Hawaii's electric utility companies in complying with the State's renewable energy and climate goals to address emerging trends.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1437 | Intro
25% | Repeals the non-medical exemption from immunization requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1360 | Intro
25% | Amends chapter 88, HRS, to conform to updated required beginning dates and automatic cashout requirements in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1474 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the Hawaii Public Procurement Code contracts by government bodies to procure certain construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1321 | Intro
25% | Beginning July 1, 2025, extends the term of the oversight coordinator for the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission. Clarifies that the oversight coordinator has the general authority to inspect agencies and correctional facilities without ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1397 | Intro
25% | Provides the Governor with discretion to not fill a vacant legislative position if the vacancy occurs one hundred twenty days or less from an upcoming primary election until after the results of the primary election are certified.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1392 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to implement dyslexia-sensitive universal screenings, provide evidence-based interventions, and offer professional development on dyslexia and structured literacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1464 | Intro
25% | Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1306 | Intro
25% | Establishes a procurement automation system special fund and aligns section 103D-203(b), HRS, with section 302A-1702, HRS, which added the Executive Director of the School Facilities Authority as a chief procurement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1447 | Intro
25% | Requires any order to cease and desist issued by the Director of Health that is administratively appealed to remain in effect during the appeals process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1449 | Intro
25% | Requires utilization review entities in the State to submit to the State Health Planning and Development Agency data relating to prior authorization of health care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1367 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the intended scope of chapter 480J, HRS, which is the regulation of installment lenders, and that the law does not intend to eliminate the ability of lenders to make low-interest rate loans under existing interest and usury laws. Replaces t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1324 | Intro
25% | Amends multiple definitions and penalties for fireworks offenses, including heightened penalties if another person suffers substantial bodily injury, serious bodily injury, or death as a result of the fireworks offenses. Establishes criminal offenses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1486 | Intro
25% | Makes an emergency appropriation out of the State Highway Fund to provide funds for fiscal year 2024-2025 for the Department of Transportation to enforce the Motor Carrier Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1366 | Intro
25% | Supports mortgagors during disasters and other instances of damage to property by requiring licensed mortgage servicers and financial institutions to pay interest on insurance proceeds held for the benefit of consumers. Provides that a fee shall not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1457 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to issue interim rules regarding commercial and recreational use of water sports equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1450 | Intro
25% | Establish a pilot program in the Department of Health to provide intensive mobile treatment-type services, e.g., "street psychiatry," to chronically houseless people suffering from serious brain disorders like schizophrenia and schizoaffective disord...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1420 | Intro
25% | Makes the Safe Spaces for Youth Pilot Program permanent within the Office of Youth Services. Requires the program to collaborate with all state and county departments that offer services for youth and young adults to coordinate the identification of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1318 | Intro
25% | Amends section 200-14, HRS, to clarify that enforcement of criminal water pollution offenses remains under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health, rather than the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1416 | Intro
25% | Reduces the time required to store unclaimed personal effects of an evicted tenant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1339 | Intro
25% | Establishes a statewide underground water and carbon sequestration resource characterization program via slim hole bores and a related statewide environmental assessment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1472 | Intro
25% | Authorizes supplemental allotments and transfer of unrequired balances for capital improvement program projects and establishes a protocol fund for each state principal department. Effective upon approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1489 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii to grant the resident tuition fee for enrollment at any University of Hawaii campus to individuals who have graduated from a Hawaii high school and are enrolling in an undergraduate degree program, under certain cond...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB1483 | Intro
25% | Restores the revenue bond authorization for the Department of Transportation to issue Highway Revenue Bonds for highway capital improvement projects authorized in Act 164, Session Laws of Hawaii (SLH) 2023, as amended by Act 230, SLH 2024. Effective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1369 | Intro
25% | Provides amendments to net solvency report filing requirements for mutual benefit societies, dental insurers, and health maintenance organizations. Effective 10/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1325 | Intro
25% | Includes agricultural tourism in the definition of "enterprise" to authorize the Agribusiness Development Corporation to financially support farming businesses engaged in agricultural tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1476 | Intro
25% | Amends section 266-19.5(d), HRS, for the purpose of increasing the cap for the contract value of any one capital advancement contract (CAC) and the cap for the total aggregate value of CACs in a fiscal year entered into by the Department of Transport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1436 | Intro
25% | Repeals section 328J-11.5, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1380 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the payment of allowances for TRICARE Reserve Select, TRICARE Dental Program, and vision coverage to all officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel of the Hawaii National Guard ordered to active duty for more than 30 days in the se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1484 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to sell or dispose of property bordering the ocean when the Department of Transportation requests the acquisition of the property for state highway purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
