| HI | SB1070 | Intro
25% | Expands the definitions of "preceptor" and "volunteerbased supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors, including removing "primary care" from the criteria to qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:34 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1567 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to complete a comprehensive review of the classification and compensation systems for all positions within the State's executive branch. Allows the Department to contract with a third-party, with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB31 | Intro
25% | Allows a person who discovers a recorded discriminatory restrictive covenant to take certain actions without liability, to invalidate the covenant. Defines discriminatory restrictive covenant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:10 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB95 | Intro
25% | Creates additional fines for any individual found operating a vehicle or moped without a current certificate of inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB92 | Intro
25% | No later than January 1, 2026, requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to install and maintain automated external defibrillators in all state buildings, including all public schools. Requires DAGS to establish a Cardiac Emergency R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB68 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Department of Housing. Places the Hawaii Community Development Authority, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, and Hawaii Public Housing Authority within the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB114 | Intro
25% | Beginning 6/1/2026, establishes presidential preference primary elections for the 2028 election cycle. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB30 | Intro
25% | Requires all moped drivers to wear a safety helmet when driving a moped, regardless of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB133 | Intro
25% | Authorizes state facilities to wheel electricity that is produced by their own facility from renewable energy sources to another state facility pursuant to administrative rules established by the Public Utilities Commission. Requires the Public Utili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB125 | Intro
25% | Extends the eligibility period of the State business tax credit and general excise tax exemption for qualified businesses within State Enterprise Zones from seven years to nine years. Extends the eligibility period of the State business tax credit an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB152 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to utilize funds in the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund as collateral when DHHL is an eligible borrower of a loan guaranteed by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB161 | Intro
25% | Exempts state projects from county building permit, inspection, and certificate of occupancy requirements under certain conditions. Requires counties to accept the dedication of state projects exempt from the county permitting process. Prohibits stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB156 | Intro
25% | Requires certain landlords to provide a specified notice to a tenant regarding the tenant's potential right to purchase the property, under certain conditions. Allows tenants, families, local governments, affordable housing nonprofits, and community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:10 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB215 | Intro
25% | Changes the fees that a towing company may charge to tow vehicles left unattended on private and public property. Allows a towing company or parking management company to charge a fee for the placement or removal of vehicle immobilization devices. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB232 | 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] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB361 | Intro
25% | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB412 | Intro
25% | Requires state departments to prepare a report assessing the feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each facility. Requires state departments to implement and install the distributed energy resource systems detailed in the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB435 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Elections to include a notice to voters that a digital and print voter information guide is available. Requires the notice to be in thirty-two-point font and enclosed as a separate insert with each ballot. Requires the Office o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB490 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Kamaaina Homes Program to provide funding to the counties to purchase voluntary deed restrictions from eligible homeowners or homebuyers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:10 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB491 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Accessory Dwelling Unit Financing and Deed Restriction Program to allocate funds to the counties to provide grants to eligible homeowners or homebuyers to finance construction costs, development costs, and non-reoccurring closing cost...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:10 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB588 | Intro
25% | Authorizes certain state government entities to establish a self-certification process for behind-the-meter, customer-sited solar distributed energy resource systems and exempt the systems from the Federal Emergency Management Agency No-Rise/No-Impac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB666 | Intro
25% | Converts two temporary farm-to-school extension agent positions within the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources into permanent positions. Establishes an agriculture education coordinator position. Appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:05 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB672 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for a capital improvement project for the repair, maintenance, and demolition of buildings at the Waimanalo Research Station.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:05 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB581 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Aerospace and Aeronautics Development Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB663 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to establish eight full-time equivalent (8.0 FTE) agricultural technician positions and four full-time equivalent (4.0 FTE) community coordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:05 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB572 | Intro
25% | Adds loan funds administered by Nonprofit Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)for certain for-sale affordable housing projects to list of loan priorities for the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund. Expands use of moneys in the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:10 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB602 | Intro
25% | Includes any parcels owned by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority as areas that may be closed to the public. Specifies required signage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:10 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB576 | Intro
25% | Amends the requirements of legislative reports to be submitted by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Amends the scope of moneys to be deposited into and the purposes of the public housing speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:10 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB598 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Hope Card Program within the Department of the Attorney General to issue hope cards upon request to those holding a long-term protective order, with specified relevant information about the protective orders and all covered par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB700 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to assess the potential and feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each state facility and submit reports to the Legislature detailing the department's findings. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB725 | Intro
25% | Requires judges to make certain findings regarding a defendant's ability to afford bail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB816 | 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] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB759 | Intro
25% | Adds the Chairperson of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, or the Chairperson's designee, to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation Board of Directors. Amends quorum requirements for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB834 | Intro
25% | Exempts transfers of Hawaiian home lands from transfer restrictions for real property under Chapter 201H housing development programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB771 | Intro
25% | Repeals the requirement that the Chairperson of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation Board of Directors be a public member. Repeals the prohibition that certain ex officio board members shall not be eligible to serve as Chairperson ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:10 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB998 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services to hire a consultant to evaluate potential locations and designs for the Hawaii First Responders Memorial.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB846 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Governor or a Mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital statistics during a declared state of emergency. Allows for a reasonable delay in an agency's response to a request as a result of extenuating circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB733 | Intro
25% | Establishes a continuous Legislature. Requires the Legislature to convene at least once each month. Repeals language regarding special sessions, adjournment, and recesses. Creates a 2-year deadline for a bill to be submitted for gubernatorial conside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB989 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to assist small businesses with technology enablement. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB865 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish a permanent Educational Support Associate position within the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources' Kona Cooperative Extension.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:05 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB981 | Intro
25% | Requires the Research and Economic Analysis Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to study the impacts of the Act 114, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, minimum wage increases on businesses and other employers. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1035 | Intro
25% | Requires businesses to clearly and conspicuously disclose the total price of all fees or charges that a consumer may have to pay for any live-event tickets or short-term lodging before the consumer consents to pay. Prohibits any business from chargin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB869 | Intro
25% | Defines community outreach board to mean a board established to serve in a community advisory capacity under a county commission or a county department. Includes community outreach boards in existing provisions of the Sunshine Law relating to neighbo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1229 | Intro
25% | Makes the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Pilot Program permanent. Allows partial or full repayment of Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund interim loans in the form of unit equity through the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Program. Gives preference...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:10 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB1225 | Intro
25% | Proposes to amend article XVII, section 3 of the Hawaii State Constitution regarding the standard for ratification of a constitutional amendment proposed by the legislature, to require that a majority of all the votes tallied upon the question be a "...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB697 | Intro
25% | Establishes a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for expenses paid to retrofit a residence with wind resistive devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB706 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Property Insurance Association to include in its plan of operation insurance coverage for commercial properties twice denied by private insurers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB805 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Condominium Mutual Insurance Company to provide property and casualty insurance to high-rise residential condominium properties and the owners of those units. Establishes a loan fund to assist associations of apartment owners e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB803 | Intro
25% | Requires insurers to provide automatic, advance written premium change notices to common interest community policyholders and the Insurance Commissioner, with reasonable explanations and primary factors, disclosing the causes of any premium increase ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1044 | Intro
25% | Expands the powers of the Hawaii Property Insurance Association and reactivates the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to help to stabilize the property insurance market in the State. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to conduct a study. Appropriates mon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
