| HI | SB614 | Intro
25% | Establishes "La Ku oko a", or Hawaiian Independence Day, as a state holiday to be observed annually on November 28th.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB606 | Intro
25% | Requires the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to make all business registration applications available online. Requires all applications to contain certain contact information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB703 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the agricultural loan program to offer loans with an interest rate cap of four per cent; a line of credit program with a prevailing interest rate; and loans with an interest rate cap of three per cent for new farmers that commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB595 | Intro
25% | Establishes additional requirements to revoke or make changes relating to agents under powers of attorney of principals diagnosed with cognitive deficits. Requires submittals to the Adult Protective and Community Service Branch of the Department of H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB610 | Intro
25% | Establishes the rounding up for teachers' salaries special fund, to be administered by the Department of Education. Requires electric utilities and county boards of water supply to provide an option for customers to voluntarily round up their bill to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB649 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Transportation to inspect personal aircraft that enter the State and land at state airports for the purpose of preventing the unauthorized transportation of fireworks and article pyrotechnic into the State. Requires the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB596 | Intro
25% | Establishes an income tax credit for the purchase of electric garbage trucks by qualified taxpayers. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB575 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract its review of proposed state projects, projects on privately owned historic property, and projects affecting historic properties to third-party consultants if the Department is unable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB605 | 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 Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB652 | Intro
25% | Requires tire retailers to collect and submit to the Department of Health certain information relating to tires sold by the retailer. Requires the Department of Health to establish and maintain a database containing this information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB677 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop and publish a Hawaii climate adaptation and resilience implementation plan and updates to the plan every five years thereafter. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB676 | Intro
25% | Establishes statewide goals for solid waste reduction and organic waste diversion. Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to divert certain organic waste generated within the county in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB638 | Intro
25% | Requires employers to provide employees with paid breaks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB590 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expend the moneys from the State Parks Special Fund for programs aimed at environmental protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB583 | Intro
25% | Allows the naming rights of any state-owned facility to be sold or leased to any public or private entity. Requires any revenues derived from advertising or marketing in or on any state-owned facility to be deposited into the appropriate special fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB622 | Intro
25% | Requires landfills to have dust monitoring stations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB631 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to allow other executive branch departments to select applicants for civil service positions from the applicant pool for initial screening.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB691 | Intro
25% | Establishes a minimum age of twelve for delinquency adjudication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB701 | Intro
25% | Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distribu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB586 | Intro
25% | Requires the state and counties to upgrade to zero emission buses by 2045.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB647 | Intro
25% | Amends various definitions of "moped" throughout the Hawaii Revised Statutes to exclude low-speed electric bicycles. Deletes an unused term from Chapter 286, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Establishes regulations for low-speed electric bicycles and clarifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB650 | Intro
25% | Makes financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult by a caregiver a Class A felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB658 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to support the Hawaii Ant Lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB660 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a study to identify the most cost-effective investments for clean energy alternatives to combustible fuels. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB648 | Intro
25% | Requires the Developmental Disabilities Division of the Department of Health to amend its eligibility criteria for the home and community-based services Medicaid waiver to include individuals having an intellectual or a developmental disability and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB651 | Intro
25% | Requires laws that enact, modify, or extend the availability of a tax expenditure to contain specific information, revenue estimates, and analyses before becoming law. Allows the disclosure of certain tax credit information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB699 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor, in collaboration with the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, to oversee and administer grants to low-income residents, and condominium associations on behalf of lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB577 | Intro
25% | Authorizes departments to issue permits for the development of multi-family rental housing projects on state or county land that was used for a multi-family rental housing project before a state emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB656 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources to install one hundred monitoring wells to collect data and map the migration of the Red Hill contamination plume.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB630 | Intro
25% | Authorizes each county director of finance to waive, for up to one year, certain abandoned vehicle tow, storage, and other charges, fees, and fines owed to the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB698 | Intro
25% | Requires all newly constructed single-family residences and apartment buildings located within specified geographic areas to be built to withstand certain categories of hurricanes and to contain residential safe rooms with attached bathrooms. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB619 | Intro
25% | Implements a 4-phase plan for the Department of Health to address contamination of Ulehawa Stream. Requires the University of Hawaii to provide assistance. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB690 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects per the agricultural infrastructure of the State, a food and product innovation network, and outstanding debt on the Waiahole water system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB644 | Intro
25% | Repeals the Land Court. Requires registered owners of an interest in property registered in land court to deregister their interest. Requires the land court to inform registered owners of the requirement to deregister. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB685 | Intro
25% | Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to address carbon emissions. Incrementally increases the tax rate over time. Establishes a refundable tax credit to mitigate the effect of a carbon emissions tax on taxpayers. Reenacts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB584 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority's duties include supporting aquaculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB643 | Intro
25% | Extends the State's energy-efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045 and updates the standards. Authorizes the public utilities commission to adjust the 2045 and interim standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB694 | Intro
25% | Prohibits minors from being held in jails, lockups, or prisons for adults.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB692 | Intro
25% | Regulates the retail and wholesale sales of spray paint. Designates the Department of Law Enforcement with jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB582 | Intro
25% | Transfers the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission from the Department of Accounting and General Services to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the authority hel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB594 | Intro
25% | Removes the requirement that a perpetrator of certain crimes knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a person sixty years of age or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB696 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor, in collaboration with the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, to: (1) plan and administer income tax credits relating to emergency management or disaster preparedne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB714 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to provide Medicaid coverage under the Children's Health Insurance Program for income-qualified pregnant persons and children who are otherwise ineligible due to their immigration status.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB713 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to provide health insurance through Medicaid's Children's Health Insurance Program to income-qualified children and pregnant persons regardless of their immigration status.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB712 | Intro
25% | Expands the preschool open door program's eligibility criteria. Repeals the requirement that open door program providers be accredited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB710 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Child Welfare Task Force to develop strategies and policy changes to transform and improve the State's child welfare system. Requires support from the Department of Human Services. Requires a report to the legislature. Appropriates mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB715 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to achieve full funding status, including estimated payment increases, of Medicaid home- and community-based services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB719 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Fee Program to be administered by the Department of Health that, beginning 7/1/2026, imposes a fee on the distribution and sale of sugar-sweetened beverages in the State. Establishes the Healthy Ohana Special Fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB709 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to track and publicly report certain data relating to crisis reports, emergency mental health transports, and court-ordered treatments. Requires DOH to respond to reports about persons having severe mental illness wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB718 | Intro
25% | Requires all places of public accommodation and public entity constructions constructed after 7/31/2026, to provide universal changing accommodations that are equally accessible regardless of gender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
