| HI | SB51 | Intro
25% | Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State of Hawaii, to begin with the 2026 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB118 | Intro
25% | Establishes an investigator position in the Campaign Spending Commission. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB69 | Intro
25% | Requires the Director of Finance to consider, before the selection of a depository for the state treasury, the beneficial effects to the State of using depositories within the State, including but not limited to lending at favorable terms for the cre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:30 am]
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB345 | Intro
25% | Raises the cap on the maximum amount of matching funds available to candidates for the Hawaii Partial Public Financing Program. Increases the cap on the amount of expenditures a candidate can make in the Program. Increases the matching fund ratio fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB311 | Intro
25% | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to provide that freedom of speech protected under the Hawaii State Constitution does not include the expenditure of money to influence elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB329 | Intro
25% | Requires at least fifty per cent of treatment works effluent to be R-1 recycled water by January 1, 2045. Amends the year by which no treated or raw sewage shall be discharged into state waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB496 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Agriculture to define the terms "bona fide farmer" and "bona fide agricultural activity". Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB534 | Intro
25% | Allows the Hawaii Community Development Authority to approve residential development on certain parcels of land in the Kakaako Makai area. Raises the building height limit on certain parcels in the area. Requires a certain percentage of the residenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:55 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment 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] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:15 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB55 | Intro
25% | Requires all state agencies adopting, amending, or repealing a rule to make the full text of the rules of the agency available on the website of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor in a digitally accessible and searchable format.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB5 | Intro
25% | Provides that if a state legislative vacancy occurs due to the death or permanent incapacitation of the prior incumbent before a primary election, but after the close of filing for that election, and the prior incumbent was the only person whose name...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB78 | Intro
25% | Makes an application for voter registration part of certain state agency application processes. Requires the sharing of certain information among certain state agencies, election personnel, and online voter registration system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB131 | Intro
25% | Requires the Procurement Policy Board to adopt rules requiring contracts to impose mandatory fines or provide for termination of a contract for default if a contractor fails to perform the contractor's duties or if there is a major delay in a deliver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations 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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:35 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:35 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection 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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB300 | Intro
25% | Establishes unspecified deadlines for the governor to appoint, and for political parties to nominate, individuals to fill certain state senatorial vacancies. Provides that if the Governor fails to appoint an individual to fill a state legislative vac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB380 | Intro
25% | Reclassifies certain non-general funds of the Department of Accounting and General Services, pursuant to the recommendations made by the Auditor in Auditor's Report No. 23-17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB382 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a procurement officer from disclosing a competing offeror's proposal or evaluation score, except the summary of scores, during a debriefing requested by a non-selected offeror. Authorizes the disclosure of a competing offeror's proposal or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB383 | Intro
25% | Increases the minimum amount for purchases constituting small purchase procurements from $25,000 to $50,000. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB375 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates moneys for a Select Commission on Government Restructuring. Requires an interim report and final report to the Legislature. Dissolves the Commission on 12/31/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB372 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Advisory Commission in the Department of Accounting and General Services to propose names or a change of names for state buildings, parks, facilities, and events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB381 | Intro
25% | Requires appointments and selections of heads of state divisions and agencies that require a board approval to be made through a publicly established process and timeline. Requires the approval of the process and timeline to appoint or select a new h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB418 | Intro
25% | Establishes a regulatory review program overseen by the Department of the Attorney General to evaluate all Hawaii Administrative Rules adopted by state agencies and identify any rules that should be retained, modified or repealed. Requires each state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| 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 teachers in Hawaii public schools. Appropriates fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB462 | Intro
25% | Requires all performance incentive contracts to specify a pricing basis, performance goals, and a formula in calculating the contractor's profit, fees, or price decrease if the specified performance goals are exceeded or not met. Allows moneys remain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB546 | Intro
25% | Requires the State to ensure and enforce that all certified arborists in its employ, including contractors, adhere to best management practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB525 | Intro
25% | Beginning 10/1/2025, requires mortuaries, cemeteries, and pre-need funeral authorities that contract to provide cremation services to provide written notice if precious metals are recovered after cremation and to obtain written consent before the sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:35 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection 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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB657 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology within the University of Hawaii to establish and operate a Center for Climate Resilient Development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:50 pm]
To Senate Higher Education 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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:00 pm]
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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB686 | Intro
25% | Establishes short-term management initiatives for the coconut rhinoceros beetle response program. Appropriates funds for activities and positions related to coconut rhinoceros beetle infestation control.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:50 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB609 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Office of Veterans' Services to perform its statutory duties, including maintaining a center that provides information, counsel, aid, and assistance to veterans, their families, and their dependents; and cooperating with fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:10 pm]
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB711 | Intro
25% | Requires a person appointed to serve in the executive branch to obtain the advice and consent of the Senate if that person's salary is greater than or equal to: (1) The Governor's salary, if the person is appointed to serve in the Office of the Gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB870 | Intro
25% | Requires the Comptroller to identify state office buildings that can provide equitable telecommunication access to allow certain residents, including residents with disabilities, to participate remotely in legislative hearings. Requires a report to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 3:01 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB958 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the cesspool compliance pilot grant project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:34 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 1:34 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| 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 |
