| HI | HB675 | Intro
25% | Requires judges to make certain findings regarding a defendant's ability to afford bail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB683 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for student transportation coordinators positions within the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services across the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB597 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including present and future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches shall b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB610 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates money for a Cold Case Investigation Unit within the Department of the Attorney General. Prioritizes unsolved cases involving an Indigenous victim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB694 | Intro
25% | Establishes a refundable child tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB676 | Intro
25% | Requires the State's youth and adult correctional facilities to provide free and accessible voice communication services for incarcerated persons in state correctional facilities. Prohibits any state agency from deriving revenue or financial benefit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB618 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for a one-time hazard pay bonus to state officers and employees in bargaining units 5, 6, and 7, and their excluded counterparts under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB695 | Intro
25% | By 1/1/2027, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2028, requires the Department to start ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB698 | Intro
25% | Amends the criminal penalties for various animal cruelty offenses by increasing the category of offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB535 | Intro
25% | Establishes a three-year surcharge on the liquor tax. Repeals 06/30/2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB687 | Intro
25% | For the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, requires the Department of Human Services to: (1) prorate or exclude certain income from household members who are ineligible for the Program; (2) establish a standardized medical expense deduction o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB766 | Intro
25% | Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in Hawaii, to begin with the 2026 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit reports to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB770 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HI | HB721 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state-owned bank implementation board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to determine the need for, potential costs and benefits of, and prerequisites to establishing a state-owned bank. Requires a report to the legi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB730 | Intro
25% | Establishes, and appropriates funds for, five full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) positions within the Civil Rights Compliance Branch of the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB783 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds and appropriates funds to finance capital improvement projects for irrigation systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB773 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for grant specialist positions to assist farmers and ranchers in meeting the requirements to receive grants offered by the United States Department of Agriculture, State, counties, or private entities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB785 | Intro
25% | Extends the State's energy-efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045 and updates the standards. Authorizes the public utilities commission to adjust the 2045 and interim standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB725 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding of certain Medicaid home and community-based services, including adult day programs and residential services offered in community care foster family homes and expanded adult residential care homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB754 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for community schools and a program manager position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB780 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB748 | 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. Reduces the required buffer zone around waste or disposal faciliti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB764 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the Legislature, as provided by law, for terms beginning after the general election of 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB722 | Intro
25% | Allows striking workers to be eligible for unemployment benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB743 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop a model that assesses the fiscal impacts of land use development projects and regional infrastructure investments. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB788 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii State Energy Office to make recommendations for the reuse and recycling of electric vehicle batteries and requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB789 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Program within the Department of Human Services to assist households in paying their energy bills. Requires the Public Utilities Commission's Public Benefits Fee Administrator to provide information and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB782 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a working group to review and make recommendations on amending or repealing unnecessary or obsolete laws pertaining to agriculture. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB726 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for a data and artificial intelligence governance and decision intelligence center and necessary positions to improve data quality and data sharing statewide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB704 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Food Security Special Fund to restore Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit levels to those provided in federal fiscal year 2023. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB728 | Intro
25% | Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose to obtain an abortion and to obtain or use contraceptives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB758 | Intro
25% | Clarifies and strengthens the State's protections against sex-based harassment, sex discrimination, and retaliation that occur in public schools, public charter schools, or at the University of Hawaii, including discrimination based on gender identit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB767 | Intro
25% | Extends from 5 business days to 13 calendar days the time period for ballot curing after the date of election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
