| HI | HB134 | Intro
25% | Requires the Chief Election Officer to provide a system for the electronic filing of nomination papers. Effective 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Garcia; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB280 | 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] | 2025-01-28
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos. |
| HI | HB431 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Kauhale Initiative. Establishes and appropriates funds into and out of the Supportive Housing Special Fund. Establishes the Kauhale Initiative Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos. |
| HI | HB471 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to establish a Korean language program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB480 | Intro
25% | Authorizes an attending physician to request a functional capacity exam and refer an injured employee for the exam without first obtaining permission from the employee's employer. Allows licensed occupational and physical therapists to be deemed qual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on LAB recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Sayama, Lee, M., Garrett, Kapela, Kong, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB737 | Intro
25% | Redefines "historic property" with respect to the State Historic Preservation Program. Requires historic review for proposed projects on existing privately-owned single-family detached dwelling units or townhouses only if the unit or townhouse is his...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:15 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB731 | 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] | 2025-01-28
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Garcia; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos. |
| HI | HB701 | Intro
25% | Establishes a refundable Family Caregiver Tax Credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature before the convening of each Regular Session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos. |
| HI | HB786 | Intro
25% | Repeals certain exemptions for beverage dealers from the requirement to operate redemption centers and amends the types of containers they must accept for redemption. Allows the establishment of regional centers for the redemption of refillable bever...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:01 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB841 | Intro
25% | Requires retirants rehired as teachers or administrators in teacher shortage areas or in difficult-to-fill positions to be paid at least the minimum salary for their experience and qualifications. Prohibits rehired retirants from receiving additional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB859 | Intro
25% | Establishes an agricultural crime prevention program within the Department of Agriculture to provide grants, education, administrative enforcement, and other services for the benefit of the State's agricultural industry. Clarifies, creates, and stren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB976 | Intro
25% | Establishes the sustainable aviation fuel import tax credit. Increases the renewable fuels production tax credit amount. Repeals the: (1) cap amount of claimable renewable fuels production tax credit; (2) requirement that the tax credit be claimed fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Perruso, Kahaloa, Kusch; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan, Ward. |
| HI | HB1185 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Plant-based Building Materials Working Group to study and report on how best to grow plants and develop plant-based building materials in Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1184 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for the development of a controlledenvironment agriculture research and demonstration facility at the Magoon research and teaching site in Manoa, Oahu.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1188 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Teacher Workforce Housing Stipend Program to support teacher retention at public and charter schools classified as rural and underserved. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1292 | Intro
25% | Authorizes Executive and Administrative Departments and Agencies to enter into intergovernmental and partnership agreements with private sector entities, nonprofit organizations, and other governmental bodies. Requires annual report to the Legislatur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1337 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii to establish an endemic plant seed bank pilot program to preserve and promote the planting of plant species that are endemic to Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1496 | Intro
25% | Establishes the position of Ka Papahana Kaiapuni Program Complex Area Superintendent. Requires that at least one at-large member of the Board of Education be a Hawaiian educator, practitioner, or scholar of Hawaiian studies or the Hawaiian language, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1384 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council. Requires an action plan and reports to the Governor and Legislature by certain dates. Establishes 2 permanent full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) positions. Authorizes the hiring of consulta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB299 | 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] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB425 | Intro
25% | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB503 | 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 @ 8:30 am]
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB604 | Intro
25% | Beginning on 1/1/2026, increases transient accommodations tax rates by 1 percentage point. Deposits the increased revenues into the Hawaiian Home General Loan Fund established under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB818 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Waiakea Peninsula Community Development District. Provides for the transfer of land and leases within the Waiakea Peninsula Community Development District from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Hawaii Community Devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB877 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the erection, placement, construction, or maintenance of an encampment within one hundred feet from the property line of a K-12 public or private school or school facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:35 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB880 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to reclassify certain early intervention specialist positions within the Early Childhood Services Unit in the Department of Health. Appropriates funds for the reclassification of certain position...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:35 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB879 | Intro
25% | Increases the maximum grant amount for the Cesspool Compliance Pilot Grant Project from $20,000 to $30,000. Establishes positions within the Department of Health for the Cesspool Compliance Pilot Grant Project. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB969 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of any waste or disposal facility on land that is near or above a significant aquifer as determined by the Department of Health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB973 | Intro
25% | Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to offer, list, advertise, or display a transient accommodations rental rate that includes all resort fees required for the furnishing of transient accommodations. Requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB1180 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a landlord to petition a district court for a temporary restraining order, permanent restraining order, or injunction to compel a tenant's compliance with section 521-51, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1186 | Intro
25% | Prohibits landlords, including those operating in public housing and educational dorm settings, from renting a dwelling unit that the landlord knows has a current bed bug infestation. Establishes procedures that landlords shall take upon receiving no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1187 | Intro
25% | Phases in a ban on state departments administratively attached and agencies from purchasing imported flowers and lei.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1232 | Intro
25% | Prohibits counties from permitting or allowing retention and detention ponds to be constructed except under certain conditions. Requires the Department of Health to inspect retention and detention ponds statewide. Establishes certain safety requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1233 | Intro
25% | Prohibits counties from permitting or allowing retention or detention ponds to be constructed except under certain conditions. Establishes safety requirements for retention and detention ponds statewide. Requires the department of health to conduct a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1234 | Intro
25% | Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Education to establish a standards-based Water Safety Education Pilot Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1286 | Intro
25% | Prohibits pedestrians from walking along the roadway of an interstate highway, an auxiliary interstate highway, or certain state highways except while conducting authorized first responder duties or highway maintenance duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1288 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Rare Disease Advisory Council within the Department of Health to advise the State on the needs of rare disease patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1229 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Department of Human Services from using any social security income payments, including supplemental income payments it receives on behalf of a child under foster custody of the Department to cover the cost of foster care services. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1231 | Intro
25% | Requires the State to prioritize the installation of photo red light imaging detector systems in school zones if the State establishes a photo red light imaging detector system. Requires proceeds of fines collected for disregarding a steady red signa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1279 | Intro
25% | Establish a medical education liaison position within the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine to support programs that utilize a team of medical specialists to support primary care providers and other health care professionals throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1277 | Intro
25% | Imposes a daily maximum of $2,000 on transactions through a digital financial asset transaction kiosk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1278 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the assessment and removal of hazardous trees on state lands across Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1365 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the preparation of an environmental impact statement to drill non-potable water wells on individual parcels at Panaewa agricultural park and Panaewa farm lots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1362 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to expand the sewer network and lines within and throughout the Keaukaha homestead.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1358 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to facilitate the hiring of necessary staff and the purchase of equipment and professional services on behalf of the public land trust working group.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1356 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for a flood mitigation study of Hoaka Road in Hilo, Hawaii, contingent upon a dollar-for-dollar match by the County of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1379 | Intro
25% | Exempts graduates from international medical schools from the residency requirements for medical licensure if the applicant has had at least one year of fellowship training in a program whose parent program or hospital is accredited by the Accreditat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1349 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to authorize Medicaid coverage through the Children's Health Insurance Program to income-qualified pregnant persons and children regardless of immigration status.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1350 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the second representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1462 | Intro
25% | Expands the Crisis Intervention and Diversion Services Program to include at least two sites on the island of Oahu, including one program in west Oahu.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health Committee |
