| HI | HB731 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a licensed health care provider properly trained in the medical forensic care of a patient who has experienced sexual assault or abuse, upon consultation with a minor patient who indicates that the minor was the victim of a sexual offense,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB431 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Kauhale Initiative. Establishes and appropriates funds into and out of the Supportive Housing Special Fund. Effective 6/29/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB727 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary three-year woman's court pilot program within the second, third, and fifth circuits. Establishes temporary positions. Requires a report. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Hashem. |
| HI | HB1248 | Intro
25% | Requires, beginning 1/1/2026, vaping stores to register with the Department of Health and be subject to inspections for compliance with federal and state laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1358 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to facilitate the hiring of necessary staff and the purchase of equipment and professional services on behalf of the public land trust working group.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:00 am]
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1346 | Intro
25% | Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement negotiated for Bargaining Unit (5) and subject to the availability of funds, provides annual salary step increases for public school teachers who have completed a year's satisfactory service and comply wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kila, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Olds; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Kapela. |
| HI | HB440 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain covered educational entities and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation facilities from collecting information regarding citizenship or immigration status or allowing officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter certain facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB427 | Intro
25% | Part I: Renames the Department of Agriculture to the "Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity". Renames the Board of Agriculture to the "Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity". Part II: Establishes and appropriates funds for a Deputy Director of Bio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB437 | Intro
25% | Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish an out-of-state office in the Philippines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB438 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Due Process in Immigration Proceedings Program within the Judiciary to provide legal representation to individuals in immigration-related proceedings in immigration court. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Holt, Tam, Templo, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB1442 | Intro
25% | Establishes the office of entrepreneurship. Authorizes the use of the Hawaii film and creative industries development special fund for a partnership program with the office. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1451 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Affordable Housing Land Inventory Task Force within the Hawaii Community Development Authority to update the Affordable Rental Housing Report and Ten-Year Plan maps, tier tables, and inventories of state lands suitable and available f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, Kitagawa, La Chica; Ayes with reservations: none; 2 Noes: Representative(s) Muraoka, Pierick; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB1291 | Intro
25% | Extends the offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false-labeling of Hawaii-grown roasted coffee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1361 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for a small business fee waiver program within the Business Registration Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to waive certain fees for applicants registering a new small business in the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1407 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish a Chamber of Commerce Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1406 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Intergovernmental Task Force for Permit Simplification to identify actions taken, challenges encountered, and legislative measures necessary to facilitate, expedite, and coordinate state and intergovernmental development permit proces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1405 | Intro
25% | Establishes specific deadlines within the facilitated application process and requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish certain resources and processes to help streamline permit applications. Establishes and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1210 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to provide and disseminate its procedures for dealing with bullying. Requires principals, teachers, and staff to disseminate the Department's bullying procedures to students. Defines bullying procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1289 | Intro
25% | Requires electronic smoking device and e-liquid manufacturers to submit certifications with the Department of Taxation annually, stating that the manufacturer's products comply with federal regulations. Requires the Department of Taxation to maintain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1286 | Intro
25% | Prohibits pedestrians from walking along the roadway of an interstate highway, an auxiliary interstate highway, or certain state highways except while conducting authorized first responder duties or highway maintenance duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Transportation 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 | HB1290 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Portable Benefits Program under the administration of a board of trustees to provide portable benefits to gig workers. Expands the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program to gig workers. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB1306 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Kupuna Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Program under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1279 | Intro
25% | Establish a medical education liaison position within the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine to support programs that utilize a team of medical specialists to support primary care providers and other health care professionals throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1310 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor to provide profiles of Filipino immigrants related to demographic, education, and vocation data. Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to collaborate with cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1332 | Intro
25% | Establishes Hawaii Beach Day. Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority, in collaboration with the Department of Land and Natural Resources, to organize and support events and activities to celebrate and observe Hawaii Beach Day. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Culture & Arts Committee |
| HI | HB1360 | Intro
25% | Directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a comprehensive review of the existing land registration systems and transition to a single, unified registry system; oversee the digitization of all land records into an online database...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1343 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt a policy that bans the use of phones and related devices by students during school hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1382 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to contract with a non-profit specializing in domestic violence to provide training and staff to be housed on-site in Child Welfare Services Branch offices to support all aspects of screening fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1359 | Intro
25% | Establishes a grant program for drainage system maintenance and flood mitigation measures in residential areas, to be administered by the Board of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1331 | Intro
25% | Changes the name and expands the functions and duties of the Office of International Relations. Establishes the Matsunaga Aloha Pacific Academy within the Office of International Relations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1452 | Intro
25% | Expands the types of health care providers who can submit an affidavit for a new certificate of birth for certain birth registrants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1477 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the monthly needs allowance afforded to individuals living in certain long-term care facilities is not intended to replace or affect funds received as a state supplemental payment for domiciliary care and shall be supplemental to any f...
[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 | HB1416 | Intro
25% | Requires the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division of the Department of Health to develop and implement a comprehensive messaging and informational campaign to prevent cannabis use among the State's youth. Requires the Division to establish and enter into ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1483 | Intro
25% | Establishes an adjudication system and procedures to process fireworks infractions. Amends multiple definitions and penalties for fireworks offenses, including heightened penalties if another person suffers substantial bodily injury, serious bodily i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1453 | Intro
25% | Prohibits boards from beginning or continuing meetings after 9:00 p.m., excluding county council meetings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1389 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the City and County of Honolulu for the expansion of the feral chicken program and the Vector Control Branch of the Department of Health for a statewide education campaign for the feeding of feral animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1500 | Intro
25% | Repeals the authority of the Department of Education to set the price for school meals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB439 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to establish an international teacher license for certain visa holders. Establishes criteria for obtaining an international teacher license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB429 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB433 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for reentry services to connect offenders with community-based services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB436 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" for enterprise zone program purposes to include retail sales of tangible personal property manufactured and sold in the enterprise zone that is to be used or consumed by the purchaser and not for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB730 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB729 | 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 House Health Committee |
| HI | HB728 | Intro
25% | Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose to obtain an abortion and to obtain or use contraceptives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
