| HI | SB468 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing statutory language that: (1) declares that the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic devices are a statewide concern; and (2) preempts all local ordinances and regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB472 | Intro
25% | Accelerates the dates for the required upgrades, conversions, or connections of priority level 1 and priority level 2 cesspools to 2035 and 2040, respectively. Appropriates funds to implement the cesspool compliance pilot grant program. Re-establishe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB465 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a study of the carrying capacity of Kikiaola Small Boat Harbor in the County of Kauai. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB469 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Homeless Services Special Fund. Allows counties to apply for matching funds from the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund for certain housing projects. Increases the conveyance tax rates for certain properties. Establishes conveyan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB463 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2026, requires kratom products to be registered with the Department of Health and imposes labeling requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB471 | Intro
25% | Requires newly installed or modified individual wastewater systems that are near the shoreline, or likely to pollute groundwater, to include denitrification capacity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB470 | Intro
25% | Establishes a deferred retirement option program to allow qualified officers who are eligible for retirement to continue working.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB473 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the operating and capital improvement budget of the Executive Branch for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB464 | Intro
25% | Allows direct shipment of beer and distilled spirits by certain licensees. Requires the liquor commission of each county to adopt rules and regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB466 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) to consider as a preference under chapter 201H, HRS, the proximity between the housing location and the applicant's place of employment; whether the applicant is a state or count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB467 | Intro
25% | Authorizes each county that has established a surcharge on state tax before 7/1/2015 to extend the surcharge until 12/31/2045, at the same rates, if the county does so before 1/1/2028; Provides that no county surcharge on state tax authorized for a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB265 | Intro
25% | Increases the rate of compensation and maximum allowable amounts per case for court-appointed counsel and guardians ad litem in family court proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB273 | Intro
25% | Establishes a deferred retirement option program for police officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB257 | Intro
25% | Prohibits state or county grantees, officers and immediate family members of state or county contractors, and officers and immediate family members of state or county grantees from contributing to candidate or noncandidate committees for the duration...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB266 | Intro
25% | Establishes 1 additional district court judgeship in the First Circuit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB272 | Intro
25% | Defines the public trust responsibilities of the Commission on Water Resource Management. Allows the Commission to retain independent legal counsel. Amends the scope of the Commission to include declaration of emergencies. Repeals the position of Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB274 | Intro
25% | Establishes a licensing scheme for licensed certified midwives and licensed certified professional midwives, to be overseen by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Reestablishes the home birth task force to provide recommendations on issu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB267 | Intro
25% | Establishes 1 additional district court judgeship in the Third Circuit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB264 | Intro
25% | Establishes the amount of compensation for private-sector examiners who evaluate a criminal defendant's penal responsibility or fitness to proceed in a legal case. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB258 | Intro
25% | Prohibits state and county elected officials from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the state legislature, including any extension of any regular session or special session or any legisla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB271 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to adopt or amend rules to establish a classification system for composting facilities or operations. Allows composting and co-composting in the agricultural district, including on lands with class A or class B soils...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB260 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Judiciary for the fiscal biennium beginning 7/1/2025, and ending 6/30/2027. Effective 7/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB270 | Intro
25% | Authorizes any member of a board to attend an informational meeting or presentation on matters relating to board business; provided that the meeting or presentation is not specifically and exclusively organized for or directed toward members of the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB263 | Intro
25% | Increases the rate of compensation and maximum allowable amounts per case for court-appointed counsel in criminal proceedings. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB261 | Intro
25% | Increases the amount each juror or prospective juror is paid for each day of actual attendance at court. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB262 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Judiciary to determine the format of the juror qualification form and the means of its delivery and return. Removes the requirement that the form be mailed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB254 | Intro
25% | Increases the procurement thresholds for small purchases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB259 | Intro
25% | Establishes recordkeeping requirements for secondhand dealers, requiring records to be retained for 2 years from the date of sale. Amends and standardizes recordkeeping requirements for pawnbrokers, requiring records to be retained for 2 years from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB255 | Intro
25% | Amends section 11-364, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide that an excess contribution of more than $100 in cash, in the aggregate, from a single person during an election period to a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee shall es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB268 | Intro
25% | Decreases the size of the Island Burial Councils from 9 to 7 members. Removes the requirement for the councils to include members having development and large property owner interests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB269 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to fund the operating expenses of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the fiscal biennium beginning on 7/1/2025, and ending on 6/30/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB278 | Intro
25% | Removes state of mind requirement pertaining to a victim's age for felony assaults aggravated by the victim's age. Raises the threshold age from 60 years of age or older to 65 years of age or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB256 | Intro
25% | Increases the amount of partial public campaign financing available for all state and county elective offices. Amends section 11-425, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), by increasing the maximum amount of public funds available for each election for cand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB284 | Intro
25% | Removes requirement that all wiretapping applications made to a designated judge be accompanied by a written memorandum from the Department of the Attorney General recommending approval or disapproval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB302 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "cultural". Prohibits the use of consumer fireworks except for cultural use by permit. Repeals the wording of section 132D-3(1), HRS, that generally allows the use of consumer fireworks without a permit on New Year's Eve, New...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB287 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys as a grant-in-aid to the City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the Victim Witness Assistance Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB283 | Intro
25% | Establishes heightened penalties for the offense of bribery, under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB276 | Intro
25% | Reinstates mandatory minimum jail sentences for successive violations of the same order for protection. Removes the distinction between domestic and non-domestic violations of an order for protection. Eliminates the court's ability to suspend mandato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB291 | Intro
25% | Clarifies administrative oversight of statutory restrictions relating to prohibited lobbyist contributions. Clarifies that the regular or special sessions in which lobbyist contributions are prohibited are periods during which both houses of the legi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB288 | Intro
25% | Repeals the sunset provision in Act 45, SLH 2024, related to the counties' authorization to develop, construct, finance, refinance, or otherwise provide mixed-use developments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB285 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the possession, transfer, and sale of ghost guns. Establishes mandatory minimum sentencing for use of a ghost gun in the commission of a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB289 | Intro
25% | Establishes uniform provisions for the assessment of administrative penalties under the State Ethics Code and Lobbyist Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB277 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalty for promoting minor-produced sexual images to a felony if the person is more than 3 years older than the minor. Extends the probationary term for felony obscenity offenses. Tolls the statute of limitations for obscenity offenses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB282 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalty for using an uncrewed aircraft in the furtherance of the commission of a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB290 | Intro
25% | Establishes certain presumptions regarding testimony when provided by a lobbyist. Makes certain contracts voidable when entered into in violation of the state lobbying law. Expands the definition of "lobbying" in the state lobbying law to include cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB286 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the career criminal prosecution unit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB280 | Intro
25% | Amends the offense of negligent injury in the first degree to include injuries negligently inflicted by intoxicated drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB281 | Intro
25% | Defines and prohibits the offense of torture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB279 | Intro
25% | Conforms fentanyl to the possession offense thresholds for methamphetamine, heroin, morphine, and cocaine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB275 | Intro
25% | Extends the deadline to register to vote by mail from 30 to 10 days prior to a primary or general election. Repeals obsolete language regarding permanent absentee ballots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
