| HI | HB193 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "farming operation" by including customary and traditional subsistence farming conducted by native Hawaiian cultural practitioners and excluding concentrated animal feeding operations and business entities with unclear or non...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB657 | Intro
25% | Exempts disabled veterans from the State's vehicle weight tax and repeals the exemption for disabled veterans from the State's annual vehicle registration fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB603 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to administer and oversee a Native Hawaiian Marketing Program to promote businesses owned by Native Hawaiians through marketing and technical assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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 | HB674 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the payment of allowances for TRICARE, TRICARE Dental Program, and vision coverage to all officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel of the Hawaii National Guard ordered to active duty for more than 30 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 8:30 am]
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB652 | Intro
25% | Regulates persons receiving compensation for providing advice or assistance regarding veterans benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 8:30 am]
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB606 | Intro
25% | Extends the Act 279 Special Fund to 6/30/2028. Deposits funds into the Act 279 Special Fund and appropriates funds out of the Special Fund for the Department of Hawaiian Homelands to eliminate its waitlist. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home La...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 9:15 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB740 | 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 29 @ 9:15 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB736 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for a three-year new wastewater system and individual wastewater system technology testing pilot program within the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center. Requires interim and final reports to the Leg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB871 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that Act 130, SLH 2024, which amended the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, takes effect on either the date of the Secretary of the Interior's notification letter that Act 130 does not require congressional approval, or on the date that the Un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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 | HB874 | Intro
25% | Requires a parent or legal guardian of a minor in theatrical employment to establish a trust account for the minor. Requires the employer of a minor in theatrical employment to deposit a portion of the minor's earnings into the trust account until th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:35 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB864 | Intro
25% | Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers' compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in Department of Education-sponsored work-based learning programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
To House Labor & Public Employment 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 | HB1177 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Transportation to establish and implement a five-year Interisland Transportation Fee Reimbursement Pilot Program, to be funded by revenues received from the rental motor vehicle surcharge. Extends the increase of the rental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1179 | Intro
25% | Creates a framework for the licensure of rural emergency hospitals by the Department of Health. Provides for the continuation of Medicaid policy protections for hospitals transitioning to a rural emergency hospital designation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1189 | Intro
25% | Requires law enforcement to post notice that a warranted or warrantless search has been conducted on a property. Requires a law enforcement officer to secure any entrance used by an officer in the search.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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 | HB1178 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to establish a cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training program for public school students in grades six through twelve as part of exist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education 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 | HB1235 | Intro
25% | Establishes a wealth asset tax of one per cent of the state net worth of each individual taxpayer who holds $20,000,000 or more in assets in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Finance 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 | HB1269 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Accessible Wilderness and State Parks Trails Program within the Division of State Parks of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Establishes the Accessible Wilderness and State Parks Trails Program Special Fund. Requires repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1319 | Intro
25% | Establishes green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines for state facility systems, infrastructure, transit projects, and other areas in the Hawaii State Planning Act to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1315 | Intro
25% | Requires all parliamentarians doing business in the State to be licensed with the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and complete mandatory training courses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1289 | Intro
25% | Requires electronic smoking device and e-liquid manufacturers to submit certifications with the Department of Taxation annually, stating that the manufacturer's products comply with federal regulations. Requires the Department of Taxation to maintain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1230 | 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] | 2025-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection 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 | HB1324 | Intro
25% | Requires the Judiciary to contract for legal services for residential tenants in actions or proceedings with their landlord under certain circumstances. Authorizes attorneys, paralegals, and law student to provide legal services to residential tenant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1271 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the eleventh representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1239 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaiian Homes Commission to retain independent legal counsel, with any legal fees owed to be paid by the State, and also use the services of the Attorney General as needed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1293 | Intro
25% | Exempts Department of Education purchases of local edible produce and packaged food products less than a certain amount from the electronic procurement system requirement. Requires at least three written quotes for Department of Education purchases o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1274 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Auditor to conduct management and financial audits of Medicaid health care insurance contractors at least once every two years, with the first audit report to be submitted no later than twenty days prior to the Regular Session of 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1259 | Intro
25% | Specifies that an engineering study is not required to be considered when reducing the maximum speed limit within ten miles per hour of the current speed limit for that road.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1244 | Intro
25% | Establishes certain minimum registered nurse-to-patient staffing requirements for hospitals. No later than 9/1/2025, requires hospitals to create hospital registered nurse staffing committees. Beginning 7/1/2026, requires hospitals to implement regis...
[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 | HB1238 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys for a structural engineering analysis; the planning, design, and construction of repairs and improvements to the water line system; and the reopening of a roadway related to Manele Small Boat Harbor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1283 | Intro
25% | Establishes an exemption from mediation in paternity proceedings where there are allegations of domestic abuse. Clarifies the exemption from mediation in divorce proceedings as it relates to domestic abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1305 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department Education, in coordination with the Department of Health, to develop a fireworks education and marketing program for implementation in public schools, including charter schools, and distribution to private schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1325 | Intro
25% | Requires developers developing an affordable housing project under HHFDC to assist certain tenants who are subject to displacement or eviction by the proposed project by: granting those tenants the right of first refusal of a comparable unit in the h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 9:15 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1272 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Registered Teacher Apprenticeship Program, to be administered by the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1312 | Intro
25% | Creates regulation requirements for association managers who oversee the daily operations of a condominium unit owners' association. Beginning 7/1/2027, requires licensure of association managers by the Real Estate Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1267 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Taxation to establish a pilot program that would grant participating landlords a certain general excise tax exemption for each unit they rent to a long-term tenant with a pet. Requires the Department of Taxation to submit r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1237 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for agricultural biosecurity and the prevention, detection, and control of invasive species in Maui County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1273 | Intro
25% | Disallows the dividends-paid deduction for real estate investment trusts. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1270 | Intro
25% | Beginning 7/1/26, requires any public or private entity that operates a public lot, including a business lot, that provides more than 25 parking spaces to increase the number of federally mandated parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1247 | Intro
25% | Provides immediate judicial review of orders fixing minimum terms of imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1268 | Intro
25% | Allows family leave to also apply to an employee's domestic partner or the child of an employee's domestic partner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
