| HI | SB943 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to adopt by rules, a mandate that the primary caregiver caring for two or three clients in community care foster family homes to be a certified nurse aide or licensed nurse who has completed a state-approved training...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB880 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary Medi-Medi Project within the Hawaii State Health Insurance Assistance Program administered by the Executive Office on Aging to assist older adults, Medicare beneficiaries, individuals with disabilities, and other underserved p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB877 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for Medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1138 | Intro
25% | Requires health plan insurers to align their prior authorization processes with Medicare policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1145 | Intro
25% | Requires bike owners to pay an annual registration fee each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1115 | Intro
25% | Requires the driver's license examination to test the applicant's knowledge of the dangers that larger motor vehicles present to pedestrians and bicyclists. Requires persons who commit the offense of excessively speeding or habitually driving while i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1147 | Intro
25% | Establishes that a person's conduct that produces, or causes to be produced, noise exceeding a certain decibel level during nighttime hours in any area zoned as residential or mixed-use residential is an unreasonable noise that constitutes the offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1148 | Intro
25% | Makes it a deceptive practice to advertise, display, or offer a price for goods or services that does not include all mandatory fees or charges, with certain exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB294 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support educational training programs to expand the State's health care workforce. Allocates funds to the Department of Education for health care certificate programs and classroom renovations for health care training in public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB349 | Intro
25% | Taxes capital gains income at the same rate as ordinary income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | SB359 | Intro
25% | Defines "residential zone" for purposes of leaf blower restrictions to include residential districts, apartment districts, and business mixed use districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB362 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that chapter 489D, HRS, relating to the Money Transmitters Modernization Act, applies to digital currency companies and activity.
[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 | SB389 | Intro
25% | Expands the general excise tax exemption established by Act 47, Session Laws of Hawaii 2024, to include amounts received by optometrists, audiologists, and chiropractors, for healthcare-related goods or services purchased under the Medicare, Medicaid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB365 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2027, prohibits the sale or offer for sale of gasoline-powered leaf blowers. Repeals the exemption on leaf blower restrictions for government agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB360 | Intro
25% | Requires the Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions to establish a permanent Return-to-Home program to return homeless individuals in the State to families and relatives in their home states. Requires the Office to report to the Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB434 | Intro
25% | Establishes a pilot program in the Department of Health to provide intensive mobile treatment-type services, e.g., "street psychiatry", to chronically houseless adult individuals suffering from serious brain disorders like schizophrenia and schizoaff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB455 | Intro
25% | Beginning September 30, 2028, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to annually calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate to within the nearest twenty-five cents using the Urban Hawaii Consumer Price index to take effect on January ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB460 | Intro
25% | Specifies that any minor who resides in the same household as a victim of domestic abuse may file a petition for and be granted an order of protection or temporary restraining order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services 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 | SB524 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to exercise its power of eminent domain to acquire certain parcels. Appropriates funds for the acquisition of those parcels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Economic Development and Technology 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 | 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 | SB508 | Intro
25% | Establishes the hike safe card program and search and rescue special fund to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land 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 | 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 | SB139 | Intro
25% | Authorizes any department of the Invasive Species Council, county, or any agent of a department of the Invasive Species Council or a county, including the Hawaii Ant Lab or an island-based invasive species committee to use community action programs f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB195 | Intro
25% | Requires the counties, before implementing any new mass transit fare or increasing any existing fare, to first seek revenues from alternative sources, including transit-based advertisements. Requires a county that decides, after seeking alternative r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB172 | Intro
25% | Requires Liquor Commissions or Boards to deny any renewal for a liquor license if the applicant for renewal has violated any provision of the Intoxicating Liquor Law under chapter 281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, on three separate occasions during the t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs 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 |
| HI | SB174 | Intro
25% | Requires the licensing of sellers of ammunition, and for the identification and proper permitting of purchasers or possessors of ammunition. Regulates ammunition in the same manner that firearms are regulated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB208 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to assess the feasibility of offering a 20% discount on certain goods and services for the State's low- to moderate-income elders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB241 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Climate Health and Environmental Action Special Fund in the Department of Land and Natural Resources to minimize the impacts of, and respond to, climate crises, which, beginning 1/1/2026, will be funded by a $25 tax on transient accom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB225 | Intro
25% | Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make restitution in the form of financial support t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB44 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to prohibit discrimination against a renter based on the renter's source of income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB85 | Intro
25% | Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, or School Facilities Authority. Repeals 1/1/2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB91 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB93 | Intro
25% | Decreases the time period for the legislative body of a county to approve, approve with modification, or disapprove housing developments exempt from certain requirements pursuant to section 201H-38, HRS, from forty-five days to thirty days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB62 | Intro
25% | Restricts the sale of liquor under temporary liquor licenses to confined and demarcated spaces not located on public streets, roads, sidewalks, or pedestrian walkways. Applies restrictions to temporary liquor licenses granted to nonprofit organizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB61 | Intro
25% | Establishes enhanced penalties for multiple violations of the same liquor law by licensees in a county with a population of 500,000 or more, under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB57 | Intro
25% | Requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of independent expenditures and political contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB99 | Intro
25% | Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as a school resource officer or investigator in positions identified by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB60 | Intro
25% | Defines "residential zone" for purposes of leaf blower restrictions to include residential districts, apartment districts, and business mixed use districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB23 | Intro
25% | Removes discriminatory requirements for mandatory insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization procedures to create parity of coverage for same-sex couples, unmarried individuals, transgender persons, and opposite-sex couples for whom male infertilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB39 | Intro
25% | Makes an application for voter registration part of the enrollment applications or course registration process for Department of Education high schools. Requires eligible student applicants to be given the choice to be registered to vote. Requires up...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB81 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services' Med-QUEST division to automatically transmit applicants' voter registration information to the Office of Elections and clerk of the county of the applicant's residence, subject to certain conditions. Authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB41 | Intro
25% | Allocates ten per cent of conveyance tax collections to the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund. Removes the annual cap on conveyance taxes paid into the Rental Housing Revolving Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
