| HI | SB235 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to authorize and facilitate complex areas or individual department schools to form their own farm to school meal programs through partnerships to meet the local farm to school meal goal of thirty per cent of food ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB226 | Intro
25% | Establishes requirements for the clinical review criteria and clinical practical guidelines used to establish step therapy protocols. Provides a process for a patient to request an exception to using step therapy protocols. Establishes insurance cove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB225 | Intro
25% | Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make restitution in the form of financial support t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB220 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a county that has adopted a surcharge to state tax to extend the surcharge to 12/31/2056. Extends the end date of the one percent Transient Accommodation Tax increase to 12/31/2056. Requires the State Auditor to conduct an audit and annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts 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] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB82 | Intro
25% | Conforms the Hawaii income tax laws to the provision of the American Rescue Plan Act relating to tax treatment of restaurant revitalization grants. Applies retroactively to taxable years beginning after 12/31/24.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB96 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Law Enforcement to establish traffic cameras and issue a citation by mail for certain violations of traffic-related laws. Establishes that intentional destruction or damage to a traffic camera is a class C felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB44 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to prohibit discrimination against a renter based on the renter's source of income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB85 | Intro
25% | Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, or School Facilities Authority. Repeals 1/1/2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB80 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Program. Repeals the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Pilot Program. Clarifies that the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation may utilize funds in the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB28 | Intro
25% | Specifies that a simple majority of affirmative votes of the members of the Land Use Commission present at a meeting and qualified to vote is required for any boundary amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB86 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year pilot program that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free school lunch to all students enrolled at a department school. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB98 | Intro
25% | Increases the minimum age to operate a low-speed electric bicycle from fifteen to sixteen years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB59 | Intro
25% | Prohibits users of algorithmic decision-making from utilizing algorithmic eligibility determinations in a discriminatory manner. Requires users of algorithmic decision-making to send corresponding notices to individuals whose personal information is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB7 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any employer or employee from subjecting an employee to abusive conduct. Requires employers and certain employees to take all reasonable preventative and responsive measures to ensure a safe work environment free of abusive conduct. Prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB64 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, requires each public school in the State, including charter schools, to employ, or retain under contract, at least 1 mental health professional for every 250 students enrolled, subject to certain conditions. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB91 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB93 | Intro
25% | Decreases the time period for the legislative body of a county to approve, approve with modification, or disapprove housing developments exempt from certain requirements pursuant to section 201H-38, HRS, from forty-five days to thirty days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB33 | Intro
25% | Renames the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Department of Housing, Economic Development, and Tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB47 | Intro
25% | Designates the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice of each year as the Lunar New Year. Establishes the Lunar New Year as a state holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB6 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Board of Land and Natural Resources' authority shall supersede the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority for all lands designated under the state conservation district; provided that the Board of Land and Natural Resources ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB105 | Intro
25% | Repeals staff of the legislative branch of the State from the list of individuals not included in any appropriate bargaining unit. Specifies that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each have one vote if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB56 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to establish and operate a Child Care Center Pilot Program on Oahu for eligible children of state employees, one in or near the state capitol and one in Kapolei. Appropriates funds. Repeals o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB63 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high school classes to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB87 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to establish three additional permanent mental health practitioner positions within the Division of Student Success' Counseling and Student Development Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB57 | Intro
25% | Requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of independent expenditures and political contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB99 | Intro
25% | Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as a school resource officer or investigator in positions identified by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB37 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires all public and private schools that serve students in grades 6 through 12 and issue student identification cards to have information on mental health and suicide prevention hotlines printed on the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB29 | Intro
25% | Repeals the definition of "vehicle license recovery fees". Limits to vehicle license and registration fees and weight taxes the fees and taxes that a motor vehicle lessor may pass on to a lessee. Amends the prorated amount of vehicle license and regi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB32 | Intro
25% | Adopts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact to regulate the practice of telepsychology and temporary in-person, face-to-face practice of psychology by psychologists across state boundaries in the performance of their psychological practice. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB22 | Intro
25% | Exempts actions involving the operation and management of fisheries in the State from environmental review requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB84 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, establishes a pilot program that requires the Department of Education to include cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training for public school students in grades six through tw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB34 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to identify an absence due to the mental health of a student as an excused absence. Defines the term "excused absence". Exempts an absence due to the mental health of a student from the enforcement of penalties re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB23 | Intro
25% | Removes discriminatory requirements for mandatory insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization procedures to create parity of coverage for same-sex couples, unmarried individuals, transgender persons, and opposite-sex couples for whom male infertilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB72 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) to consider as a preference under chapter 201H, HRS, the proximity between the housing location and the applicant's place of employment; whether the applicant is a state or count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB90 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Compensatory Time Cash-Out Pilot Program for eligible employees of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who work in any state correctional facility. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB39 | Intro
25% | Makes an application for voter registration part of the enrollment applications or course registration process for Department of Education high schools. Requires eligible student applicants to be given the choice to be registered to vote. Requires up...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB81 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services' Med-QUEST division to automatically transmit applicants' voter registration information to the Office of Elections and clerk of the county of the applicant's residence, subject to certain conditions. Authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB45 | Intro
25% | Provides for the making of restitution by a defendant who has been convicted of violating section 707-702.5(1)(a), HRS, where the violation caused the death of a parent or legal guardian of a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB77 | Intro
25% | Exempts state and county lands leased after July 1, 2025, for an initial period of not less than ninety-nine years from chapters 516 and 516D, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB36 | Intro
25% | Requires the Land Use Commission to reclassify lands that are designated for urban growth under a county general plan or county development plan as being in the urban district at the request of the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB54 | Intro
25% | Adopts the Interstate Compact to Phase Out Corporate Welfare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB41 | Intro
25% | Allocates ten per cent of conveyance tax collections to the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund. Removes the annual cap on conveyance taxes paid into the Rental Housing Revolving Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
