| HI | SB563 | Intro
25% | Directs that Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Agribusiness Development Corporation and the counties, to conduct an agricultural water infrastructure study for the State of Hawaii. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, Richards, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) DeCoite, Awa. |
| HI | SB678 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Agricultural Development and Food Security Special Fund. Requires a portion of the Environmental Response, Energy, and Food Security Tax to be deposited into the special fund. Appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture in an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
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, Richards, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) DeCoite. |
| HI | SB841 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and conduct the Marine Life Conservation District Carrying Capacity Program. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit a report to the Legislature and adopt admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
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 | SB878 | Intro
25% | Extends the sunset date for the State Rent Supplement Program for Kupuna to 6/30/2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB848 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Desalination Planning Task Force to examine the feasibility of, and develop a plan and timeline for, the use desalination as a source of potable water in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
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 | SB868 | Intro
25% | Establishes a one-year School Bus Driver Certification Subsidy Pilot Program within the Department of Education for the 20252026 school year. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB996 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that adjustments linked to premium interest rates for high yield credit are just and reasonable. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to include these incremental adjustments to the rate for electricity generated from nonfossil fuels....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1171 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a program to provide certain monofilament netting free of charge to the public through local hardware stores to slow the growth and spread of coconut rhinoceros beetles in the State. Requires the DO...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
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, Richards, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) DeCoite. |
| HI | SB1250 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Farm to Families Program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Requires reports to the Legislature prior to the Regular Sessions of 2026 and 2027. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
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, Richards, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) DeCoite. |
| HI | SCR2 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Insurance Commissioner To Conduct A Statewide Study On Title Insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB75 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group to revise the State's Qualified Allocation Plan, the prioritization of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund, and the terms of loans made from the RHRF. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Economic Development and Technology 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Richards, Awa. |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Richards, Awa. |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 3:10 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on LBT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in LBT were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Aquino, Lee, C., Ihara, Moriwaki; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on LBT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in LBT were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Aquino, Lee, C., Ihara, Moriwaki; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 3:10 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:25 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB531 | Intro
25% | Establishes provisions for the storage and maintenance of a stock supply of bronchodilators at schools. Requires the Department of Education to establish a protocol for the storage, usage, and administration of bronchodilators. Establishes provisions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB501 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health, to the extent allowable under federal law, to prioritize the use of Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund moneys for projects by homeowners to upgrade cesspools to director-approved wastewater systems or connect ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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, Aquino, Hashimoto; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fevella. |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Richards, Awa. |
| HI | SB640 | Intro
25% | Requires corporations, organizations, or individuals engaging to commercial transactions or trade practices to clearly and conspicuously notify consumers when the consumer is interacting with an artificial intelligence chatbot or other technology cap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:35 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB664 | Intro
25% | Expands the duties and powers of the Department of Health that relate to water quality and water quality testing to ensure the safety and health of Hawaii's residents. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB675 | Intro
25% | Creates within the Department of Health's Wastewater Branch a Cesspool Conversion Section, which shall be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for positions within the Cesspool ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, DeCoite, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Richards, Awa. |
| HI | SB639 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the level of environmental restoration that owners and operators of underground storage tanks or tank systems must satisfy in the event of a confirmed release of jet fuel. Specifies the restoration condition and quality acceptable by the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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, Aquino, Hashimoto; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fevella. |
| HI | SB674 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to conduct a statewide needs assessment to determine what will be needed to reduce waste generation, increase reuse, improve recycling collection services, and expand local processing of materials through an extended...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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, Aquino, Hashimoto; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fevella. |
| HI | SB694 | Intro
25% | Prohibits minors from being held in jails, lockups, or prisons for adults.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Richards, Awa. |
| HI | SB725 | Intro
25% | Requires judges to make certain findings regarding a defendant's ability to afford bail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB780 | Intro
25% | Specifies that election ballots issued by the Chief Election Officer or county clerk shall exclude any candidate who is disqualified by a constitutional or statutory provision. Provides for a process for challenging an inclusion or exclusion of a can...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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 | 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] | 2025-01-31
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, Chang, San Buenaventura; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Gabbard ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa. |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Richards, Awa. |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1028 | Intro
25% | Allows community service in place of the assessment of any fines, fees, or court costs against a person who was adjudicated for a traffic-related offense committed while the person was a minor under the age of 18 years, or against the person's parent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:25 am]
To Senate Judiciary 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB946 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the exemptions to the prohibition on discharging any wastewater or raw sewage into state waters after December 31, 2026, including an exemption for treatment plants having a treatment capacity of less than 10,000,000 gallons per day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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, Aquino, Hashimoto; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fevella. |
| HI | SB958 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the cesspool compliance pilot grant project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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, Aquino, Hashimoto; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fevella. |
| HI | SB951 | Intro
25% | Requires mandatory reports of child abuse or neglect to include the military status of the child's parent or guardian, if known. Requires the Department of Human Services to make efforts to determine the military status of a person implicated in chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 3:10 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1140 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) program, which shall be administered under the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to ensure that residents in highrisk areas can purchase affordable and comprehensive property insu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keohokalole, Fukunaga, McKelvey; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Richards, Awa. |
| HI | SB1202 | Intro
25% | Allows campaign funds to be used for a candidates child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. 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 | 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] | 2025-01-31
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 | SB1211 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state breast milk bank under the Department of Health. Establishes the breast milk bank special fund. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1545 | Intro
25% | Repeals language in the State's Code of Ethics that exempts the Legislative Branch from prohibitions against nepotism in public employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:25 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1531 | Intro
25% | Offers rights and protections to citizens who bring civil nuisance abatement suits related to illegal gambling. Imposes a mandatory fine of $5,000 for violating nuisance abatement laws related to gambling offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1619 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Governor to enter into a Cosmetology Licensure Compact on behalf of the State to provide a streamlined process that allows cosmetologists to obtain a multistate license enabling them to practice cosmetology in another state without obt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:50 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1612 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with the Department of Health, to establish and implement a 5-year fitness to proceed pilot program. Requires an interim report and final report t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 3:10 pm]
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1620 | Intro
25% | Exempts natural hair braiders from licensing requirements under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:50 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1621 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt rules establishing a license and corresponding licensing requirements specifically for nail technicians separate from a general cosmetologist license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:50 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection 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] | 2025-01-30
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, Kanuha, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Aquino. |
