| HI | SB112 | Intro
25% | Allows surviving immediate family members of deceased persons for whom law enforcement initiated an investigation to receive a copy of the closing report prepared by the investigating police department upon the conclusion of all criminal proceedings ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 02-11-25 10:00AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference. |
| HI | SB26 | 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] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WTL were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, Chang, McKelvey, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB66 | Intro
25% | Requires counties to grant building permits within 60 days if the application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB12 | Intro
25% | Classifies neonicotinoid pesticides as restricted use pesticides and establishes a list of chemicals that shall belong to the neonicotinoid class of chemicals. Prohibits the sale or use of seeds coated or treated with neonicotinoid pesticides. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 1:01 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB24 | Intro
25% | Establishes an organizational, tax, and regulatory framework for limited-profit housing associations. Establishes the Limited-Profit Housing Council to oversee limited-profit housing associations. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB18 | Intro
25% | Makes appropriations into and out of the Hawaii Historic Preservation Special Fund to the State Historic Preservation Division to inventory historic properties and burial sites in the State, collect data on burial site locations, and conduct an archa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HWN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HWN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Richards, Keohokalole, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Ihara. |
| HI | SB76 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the dwelling units eligible for the Rent-to-Own Program shall be units that are for sale in fee simple or leasehold on state or county land under a lease with an initial term of not less than ninety-nine years. Increases the time perio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB79 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to determine the effect of any certain proposed housing projects within ninety days of a request for determination. Establishes historical review requirements based on the project area's known his...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HWN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HWN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Richards, San Buenaventura, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Ihara, Keohokalole. |
| HI | SB49 | Intro
25% | Authorizes manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products that are pending approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration to make the drugs or products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions. Effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB22 | Intro
25% | Exempts actions involving the operation and management of fisheries in the State from environmental review requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB116 | Intro
25% | Establishes provisions relating to civil remedies for discriminatory reporting to a law enforcement officer. Provides that any person who contacts a law enforcement officer to contact a person on the basis of the person's actual or perceived race, co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 02-11-25 10:00AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference. |
| HI | SB135 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the macadamia nut labeling requirements apply if the applicable products are produced in whole or in part from Hawaii-grown and Hawaii-processed macadamia nuts. Effective 1/2/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:02 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB136 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from disassembling, dismantling, or demolishing iron projects unless the person has completed an apprenticeship program for ironworkers approved and registered with the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations. Establishes pena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 3:15 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB150 | Intro
25% | Establishes a WAI Policy Coordinator for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB146 | Intro
25% | Amends the conditions and procedures of alternative dispute resolution methods for condominium-related disputes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB149 | Intro
25% | Establishes that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice for public accommodations to deny a person with a disability full and equal enjoyment of information related to their services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations using inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB169 | Intro
25% | Requires the State to provide written notice to certain persons regarding the ability to file a claim for redress under applicable wrongful conviction law. Requires the liberal construction of that law. Provides for advance compensation for petitione...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB222 | Intro
25% | Amends Act 67, SLH 2023, to appropriate funds for the illegal fireworks task force for FY 2025-2026 and FY 2026-2027 and to extend the sunset date of the Act from 6/30/2025 to 6/30/2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB228 | Intro
25% | Prohibits excited delirium from being recognized as a valid medical diagnosis or cause of death in the State. Prohibits a local health officer or local agent of the Department of Health from stating on a certificate of death or in any report that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Hashimoto, Keohokalole; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB249 | Intro
25% | Modifies certain benchmark goals and timeline for the Department of Education to provide locally-sourced agricultural and food products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 3:02 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB233 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative Program to design and implement a plan to increase jobs that strengthen emergency preparedness and climate resilience. Authorizes the use of the Energy Security Special Fund to advance the State's goals of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 3:20 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB339 | 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB307 | Intro
25% | Establishes the right of a person to record law enforcement activities. Establishes a private right of action for any violation of the right to record law enforcement activities. Effective 7/1/2077. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
The committee(s) on JDC will hold a public decision making on 02-11-25 10:00AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference. |
| HI | SB338 | Intro
25% | For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025, temporarily reinstates the Technology Infrastructure Renovation Tax Credit and expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on LBT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in LBT were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Aquino, Lee, C., Moriwaki; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Ihara, Fevella. |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB296 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a physician, upon consultation with a minor patient who indicates that the minor was the victim of a sexual offense, with the consent of the minor patient, to perform customary and necessary examinations to obtain evidence of the sexual of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB308 | Intro
25% | Expands the ban on pistols with a detachable magazine with over a ten-round capacity to any firearm with a detachable magazine with over a ten-round capacity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB326 | Intro
25% | Requires the Legislature, in establishing or reviewing a revolving fund, to ensure the revolving fund is financially self-sustainable by either annual projections that show that the revolving fund will be sustainable without appropriations of general...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB315 | Intro
25% | Creates an expedited permitting process to authorize the destruction or control of feral pigs on privately owned land, if the feral pigs have caused or are likely to cause substantial damage to agricultural or aquacultural crops, indigenous plants or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB391 | Intro
25% | Expands the Electronic Device Recycling and Recovery Act to include the collection and recycling of certain lithium-ion batteries. Requires manufacturers of lithium-ion batteries to recycle or arrange for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries sold i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 1:01 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB363 | Intro
25% | Allows the carrying or possessing of firearm parts only at or between certain locations and in an enclosed container. Defines firearm parts and prohibited persons. Establishes and increases penalties for the carrying or possessing of certain firearms...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB385 | Intro
25% | Requires that condominium associations make the governing documents available on the association's website and make them accessible to all owners, occupants, and tenants free of charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
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 | SB401 | Intro
25% | Includes any firearm or rifle with the capacity to fire ammunition of fifty caliber or higher, excluding antique pistols and revolvers, and muzzleloaders, in the list of prohibited weapons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB422 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to award a high school diploma to qualified persons who did not receive a high school diploma as a result of compulsory or voluntary induction into the armed services of the United States or whose high school ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Elefante, Wakai, Fukunaga, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Rhoads. |
| HI | SB426 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Early Learning Apprenticeship Grant Program to be administered by the University of Hawaii to provide financial support for early learning program service providers in the State to participate in state- or federally-approved early lear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB421 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to administer a general dyslexia screening to all students in kindergarten through grade three. Requires the Department of Education to continue to administer the general English language arts universal screening ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on EDU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EDU were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Kidani, Kim, Hashimoto, Kanuha, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB440 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Future Career and Technical Education Teacher Scholarship Program to be administered by the Department of Education to facilitate the recruitment and retention of career and technical education teachers in Hawaii public schools. Estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB441 | Intro
25% | Designates the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra as the State of Hawaii Symphony Orchestra. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB502 | Intro
25% | Allows all-terrain vehicle to drive on streets with posted speed limits of not more than forty-five miles per hour. Allows all-terrain vehicles to drive in the evening and night if they are equipped with headlights, tail lights, and while displaying ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB548 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Native Resources and Fire Protection Program and Hawaii Invasive Species Council to ensure their long-term viability and continue to control and eradicate invasive species in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB533 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to evaluate school needs to mitigate the impact of the planned public safety power shutoff program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB492 | Intro
25% | Authorizes each county that has established a surcharge on state tax before 7/1/2015 to extend the surcharge until 12/31/2045, at the same rates, if the county does so before 1/1/2028; Provides that no county surcharge on state tax authorized for a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 3:20 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB558 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Food and Product Innovation Network within the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Appropriates funds for food and product development or innovation facilities in the county of Maui and on the islands of Oahu and Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:01 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB547 | Intro
25% | Incentivizes the installation and use of gray water recycling systems and atmospheric water generators in the State by establishing an income tax credit to be administered by the Department of Taxation. Requires the Department of Business, Economic D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB520 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to amend its administrative rules to: (1) Authorize not more than five dwelling units per dwelling connected to a single individual wastewater system; and (2) Provide that not more than five tiny homes with a total o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Hashimoto, Keohokalole; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB494 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Budget and Finance, in collaboration with the Auditor, to conduct a financial audit of each charter school operating in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on EDU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EDU were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Kidani, Kim, Hashimoto, Kanuha, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB544 | Intro
25% | Requires courts to consider certain factors when sentencing a person convicted as an adult for an offense that the person committed when the person was a minor. Allows courts to reduce a mandatory minimum period of incarceration or depart from a mand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa. |
| HI | SB530 | Intro
25% | Establishes Braille literacy as a policy of the State. Requires literacy assessments for eligible low vision and blind students to include Braille instruction and the use of Braille. Authorizes the Department of Education to adopt administrative rule...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Hashimoto, Keohokalole; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Aquino, Fevella. |
| HI | SB556 | Intro
25% | Creates a framework for the licensure of rural emergency hospitals by the Department of Health. Provides for the continuation of Medicaid policy protections for hospitals transitioning to a rural emergency hospital designation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB500 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the labeling and advertising requirements for coffee that is grown and processed in the State. Defines regional origin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, DeCoite, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Richards. |
