| HI | HB429 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB428 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Farm to Families Program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Requires reports to the Legislature prior to the Regular Sessions of 2026 and 2027. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HCR23 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation, In Planning And Designing The New Oahu Community Correctional Center In Halawa, To Include Circuit And District Court Facilities And Establish A Release Procedure Under Which Detainees Or I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To be offered. |
| HI | HB474 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to fund one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) fall prevention and early detection coordinator position. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB430 | Intro
25% | 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. Provides that the State shall be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HCR17 | Intro
25% | Designating The State As A Purple Heart State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To be offered. |
| HI | HR17 | Intro
25% | Designating The State As A Purple Heart State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To be offered. |
| HI | HB431 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the continued operation of the Kauhale Initiative and authorizes those funds to be used for the Ohana Zones Pilot Program. Establishes and appropriates funds into and out of the Supportive Housing Special Fund. Effective 6/29/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB433 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for reentry services to connect offenders with community-based services. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB432 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Mixed-Income Subaccount within the Rental Housing Revolving Fund that targets workforce rental housing projects for persons and families with incomes at or below one hundred forty per cent of the area median income. Authorizes the Dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB572 | Intro
25% | Exempts food and groceries from certain healthcare-related goods or services that were not the general excise tax. Expands general excise tax exemptions to include purchased under the Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE programs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1442 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Office of Entrepreneurship. Authorizes the use of the Hawaii Film and Creative Industries Development Special Fund to fund a program in partnership with the Office that creates opportunities in film, media, electronic sports, and crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB455 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program. Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program special fund. Requires DBEDT to submit an annual report to the Legislature regarding the program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1328 | Intro
25% | Continues 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 issues...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HR12 | Intro
25% | Urging The United States Environmental Protection Agency To Provide Federal Assistance For The City And County Of Honolulu's Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure Improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Offered |
| HI | HCR12 | Intro
25% | Urging The United States Environmental Protection Agency To Provide Federal Assistance For The City And County Of Honolulu's Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure Improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
Offered |
| HI | HB1344 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education's existing Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) working group to create a state plan to make completion of the FAFSA or an opt-out waiver a statewide graduation requirement by the 2027-2028 school year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB471 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to establish a Korean language program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB12 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that persons who enter private property for recreational purposes have no cause of action, unless exempted under law. Requires courts to award attorneys' fees and costs to landowners if plaintiffs bring unreasonable actions. Establishes, as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1288 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Rare Disease Advisory Council within the Department of Health to advise the State on the needs of rare disease patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1340 | Intro
25% | Establishes strict liability for crimes against elders with respect to the attendant circumstance that the victim was sixty years of age or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1441 | Intro
25% | Creates the offense of organized retail theft. Provides penalties for organized retail theft. Creates an organized retail theft task force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB865 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in kindergarten through grade twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete a one-half credit in financ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB13 | Intro
25% | Establishes notice requirements for employers under Hawaii's Workers' Compensation Law. Requires employers who deny the compensability of an employee's injury to submit a written report supporting the denial to the Director of Labor and Industrial Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB11 | Intro
25% | Eliminates the certificate of need requirement for all health care facilities and health care services except for nursing homes, hospices, intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities, and ambulance service providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB10 | Intro
25% | Excludes from the offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products the direct sale of large cigars and pipe tobacco to adult consumers for personal use. Effective 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB9 | Intro
25% | Designates Hawaii as a Purple Heart State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB81 | Intro
25% | Establishes a telework tax credit for small business employers who allow telework for at least 30% of their employees. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/24.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB83 | Intro
25% | Increases penalties for certain firework violations and establishes higher penalties for any subsequent violation. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB84 | Intro
25% | Reduces the minimum wage increase beginning 1/1/2026, to $15.00 per hour and repeals certain minimum wage and tip credit increases after 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB82 | Intro
25% | Excludes from the offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products the direct sale of large cigars to adult consumers for personal use. Effective 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB310 | Intro
25% | Requires all public schools, including public charter schools, to maintain a stock supply of opioid antagonists. Requires the Department of Education and State Public Charter School Commission to offer training to school employees on the administrati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB607 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Class A felony-level offense of serious bodily injury or death resulting from fireworks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB725 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding of certain Medicaid home and community-based services, including adult day programs and residential services offered in community care foster family homes and expanded adult residential care homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
