| HI | SB51 | Intro
25% | Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State of Hawaii, to begin with the 2026 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB35 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Housing Efficiency and Innovation Subaccount within the Rental Housing Revolving Fund. Specifies permissible uses of funding and priorities. Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to transfer moneys between ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB40 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to utilize revenue bonds when securing a line of credit or other instrument of indebtedness for the Bond Volume Cap Recycling Program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB118 | Intro
25% | Establishes an investigator position in the Campaign Spending Commission. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB148 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Combat Sports Commission of Hawaii. Provides for regulation of combat sports. Prohibits no rules combat or similar contests. Repeals chapter 440E, HRS, relating to Mixed Martial Arts Contests. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 9:35 am]
The committee(s) on EDT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EDT were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) DeCoite, Wakai, Fukunaga; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Kim, Awa. |
| HI | SB345 | Intro
25% | Raises the cap on the maximum amount of matching funds available to candidates for the Hawaii Partial Public Financing Program. Increases the cap on the amount of expenditures a candidate can make in the Program. Increases the matching fund ratio fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB589 | Intro
25% | Establishes an installation goal for customer-sited distributed energy resources in the State. Ensures that fair compensation is provided to distributed energy resources exports as part of grid service programs. Authorizes retail wheeling of renewabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 9:45 am]
The committee(s) on EIG recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EIG were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Chang, DeCoite; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Fevella; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Richards. |
| HI | SB74 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Office of the State Architect within the Department of Accounting and General Services to be headed by the State Architect. Authorizes the State Architect to organize, manage, and oversee the design review of all state construction pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB71 | Intro
25% | Amends the preference criteria and eligibility requirements for applicant developers seeking assistance from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Aquino, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Hashimoto ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB70 | Intro
25% | Requires eligible applicants of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to be either governmental agencies or organizations that are required to use all financial surplus to develop additional housing in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Aquino, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Hashimoto ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB55 | Intro
25% | Requires all state agencies adopting, amending, or repealing a rule to make the full text of the rules of the agency available on the website of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor in a digitally accessible and searchable format.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB5 | Intro
25% | Provides that if a state legislative vacancy occurs due to the death or permanent incapacitation of the prior incumbent before a primary election, but after the close of filing for that election, and the prior incumbent was the only person whose name...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB115 | Intro
25% | Increases the real property exemption amount for attachment or execution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB94 | Intro
25% | Increases the mandatory minimum jail sentence for a first conviction of knowingly or intentionally violating a temporary restraining order from forty-eight to seventy-two hours. Requires mandatory mental health counseling for a first conviction of kn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB78 | Intro
25% | Makes an application for voter registration part of certain state agency application processes. Requires the sharing of certain information among certain state agencies, election personnel, and online voter registration system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB117 | Intro
25% | Protects individuals who make claims of sexual misconduct from defamation lawsuits unless the claims were proven to be made with malice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 2 No(es): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Awa; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB25 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a county to reduce the number of housing units that may be built within any portion of the county only if the county increases the number of housing units that may be built elsewhere in the county, such that there is no net loss in residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Hashimoto, Aquino, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB27 | Intro
25% | Exempts state-financed housing developments from the requirement to obtain approval from the applicable county council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Hashimoto, Aquino, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB38 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the legislative body of a county from making modifications to housing development proposals that would increase the cost of the project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Hashimoto, Aquino, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB123 | Intro
25% | Eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Requires reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Hashimoto, Aquino, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB131 | Intro
25% | Requires the Procurement Policy Board to adopt rules requiring contracts to impose mandatory fines or provide for termination of a contract for default if a contractor fails to perform the contractor's duties or if there is a major delay in a deliver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB157 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the use of algorithmic price-setting in Hawaii's rental market. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to develop and undertake a public education program regarding the prohibition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Richards, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB165 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "qualified nonprofit housing trust" to specify organizations that exclusively serve qualified residents as defined in section 201H-32, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Hashimoto, Aquino, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB163 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to maximize the amount of housing built that utilizes loans from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund by prioritizing projects with the shortest projected loan repayment terms that produce ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB158 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state-owned bank implementation board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to determine the need for, potential costs and benefits of, and prerequisites to establishing a state-owned bank. Requires a report to the legi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB137 | Intro
25% | Requires the PUC to impose certain conditions of approval on any order approving, in whole or in part, an application for the proposed acquisition, merger, or consolidation of an electric utility company by an acquiring entity. Establishes a process ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:35 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB142 | Intro
25% | Requires insurers who choose to pay the proceeds of or a claim under an insurance policy by issuing a check to deliver the check by certified mail, restricted delivery, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, to the last known address of the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:35 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB151 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to continue geophysical data collection, investigation, exploration, and identification of geothermal resources on Hawaiian home lands. Authorizes DHHL to hire consultants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on EIG recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EIG were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Chang, Richards, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) DeCoite. |
| HI | SB140 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the importation of firewood into the State, except for firewood that meets certain standards. Requires firewood that is imported into the State from another state to be certified and labeled as heat-treated. Establishes certain exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB173 | Intro
25% | Requires the Judiciary to establish a three-year pilot program to provide free child care services to minor children of parties and witnesses who are attending court hearings in the first circuit. Requires the Judiciary to submit reports to the Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB175 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from seventy to seventy-five years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB318 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt rules establishing privacy requirements for directtoconsumer genetic testing in the State. Requires the Department's rules to specify whether consumers' genetic information may be used...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB332 | Intro
25% | Prohibit sellers of foreclosed homes from bundling properties at a public sale and requires each foreclosed home to be sold separately. Specifies that the sale of a foreclosed property is not final until either fifteen days after the public sale or f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey, Richards, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB337 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to request the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to furnish a list of five qualified and experienced interest arbitrators in the event the parties fail to select the neutral third member of the arb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB301 | Intro
25% | Establishes an additional penalty for a dog owner whose dog destroys property while on land zoned for agricultural use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB319 | Intro
25% | Changes from 1 ounce to 30 grams the minimum amount of marijuana that constitutes the offense of promoting a detrimental drug in the second degree. Increases from 3 grams or less to 15 grams or less the amount of marijuana that constitutes the offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB330 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to enforce quarantines issued by the United States Department of Agriculture or another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB300 | Intro
25% | Establishes unspecified deadlines for the governor to appoint, and for political parties to nominate, individuals to fill certain state senatorial vacancies. Provides that if the Governor fails to appoint an individual to fill a state legislative vac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB336 | Intro
25% | Requires the State to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions or proceedings, under certain circumstances. Clarifies that the employee may employ their own attorney at the employee's own expense. Establishes a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB380 | Intro
25% | Reclassifies certain non-general funds of the Department of Accounting and General Services, pursuant to the recommendations made by the Auditor in Auditor's Report No. 23-17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB382 | 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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB383 | Intro
25% | Increases the minimum amount for purchases constituting small purchase procurements from $25,000 to $50,000. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB375 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates moneys for a Select Commission on Government Restructuring. Requires an interim report and final report to the Legislature. Dissolves the Commission on 12/31/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB414 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to institute proceedings to condemn certain lands in Lahaina to build a new access road from Keawe Street to the Kilohana and Kalaiola sites developed in the Villages of Leialii. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Hashimoto, Aquino, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB371 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of criminal property damage to critical infrastructure facilities in the first and second degree. Adds commitment of the offense of criminal damage of critical infrastructure facilities that causes the death of another person ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Elefante, Wakai, Rhoads, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fukunaga. |
| HI | SB378 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to identify existing mixed-use developments in Maui County that could be acquired by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for use as affordabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Hashimoto, Aquino, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB372 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Advisory Commission in the Department of Accounting and General Services to propose names or a change of names for state buildings, parks, facilities, and events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB379 | Intro
25% | Requires that Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing projects include a restrictive covenant that states that the units designated as affordable housing, as described in the submitted project application, shall remain as affordabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Hashimoto, Aquino, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB381 | Intro
25% | Requires appointments and selections of heads of state divisions and agencies that require a board approval to be made through a publicly established process and timeline. Requires the approval of the process and timeline to appoint or select a new h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB418 | Intro
25% | Establishes a regulatory review program overseen by the Department of the Attorney General to evaluate all Hawaii Administrative Rules adopted by state agencies and identify any rules that should be retained, modified or repealed. Requires each state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
