| HI | HB309 | Intro
25% | Establishes a fishpond inventory working group within the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to create an inventory and map of all fishponds on state land and conduct a literature review. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Reported from HED (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 294), recommending referral to FIN. |
| HI | HB692 | Intro
25% | Expands the Preschool Open Doors Program's eligibility criteria. Repeals the requirement that Preschool Open Doors Program providers be accredited. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB533 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "historic property" under the State's historic preservation program to include properties included on, or eligible for inclusion on, the national register of historic places or Hawaii register of historic places and any artif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB646 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to automatically enroll, or authorize the Social Security Administration to automatically enroll, in the State's Medicaid program any individual in the State who receives federal Supplemental Security Income ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB718 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine for faculty positions in the fields of cardiovascular biology, tropical medicine, and quantitative health biostatistics, and an environmental health and safety officer st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB702 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for Medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB871 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that Act 130, SLH 2024, which amended the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, takes effect on the earlier of the date of the Secretary of the Interior's notification letter that Act 130 does not require congressional approval, or on the date tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB972 | Intro
25% | Authorizes condominium associations and planned community associations located in a zoning district that allows for transient vacation rentals to impose an impact fee on owners or members who use their units as transient vacation rentals. Effective 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1382 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to contract with a non-profit specializing in domestic violence to provide training and staff to be housed on-site in Child Welfare Services Branch offices to support all aspects of screening fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1477 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the monthly needs allowance afforded to individuals living in certain long-term care facilities is not intended to replace or affect funds received as a state supplemental payment for domiciliary care and shall be supplemental to any f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance 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 positions. Authorizes the hiring of consultants to assist the advisory council. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB250 | Intro
25% | Requires utilization review entities to submit data relating to the prior authorization of health care services to the State Health Planning and Development Agency. Establishes timelines for the approval of prior authorization requests for urgent and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB332 | Intro
25% | Expands the Electronic Device Recycling and Recovery Act to include the collection and recycling of certain lithium-ion batteries. Requires manufacturers of lithium-ion batteries to recycle or arrange for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries sold i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 10:15 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB329 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the School Facilities Authority is responsible for certain development, planning, and construction projects for prekindergarten, preschool, and child care facilities, as well as workforce housing. Authorizes the School Facilities Autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB427 | Intro
25% | Part I: Renames the Department of Agriculture to the "Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity". Renames the Board of Agriculture to the "Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity". Part II: Establishes and appropriates funds for a Deputy Director of Bio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB432 | Intro
25% | Establishes the mixed-income subaccount within the Rental Housing Revolving Fund that targets workforce rental housing projects for persons and families with incomes at or below one hundred forty per cent of the area median income. Authorizes the Dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kitagawa, La Chica, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Pierick; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kila. |
| HI | HB497 | Intro
25% | Transfers the Hawaii Child Nutrition Programs Agency from the Department of Education to the Department of Agriculture and codifies its establishment. Establishes a grant program to be administered by the Agency to support the funding of certain init...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB428 | 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] | 2025-02-07
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB496 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the use of certain words that can be used on the label of a consumer package that contains or includes tea or dried leaves from the plant Pipturus albidus, unless one hundred per cent of the tea or dried leaves were grown in the State. Appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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] | 2025-02-07
The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, La Chica, Miyake, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB619 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt and enact a policy by the 2026-2027 school year directing Department of Education public schools to incorporate financial literacy education in the school's curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:01 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB498 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Agricultural Crimes Council. Expands the duties of the Department of Agriculture to collaborate with and support the Council. Establishes the Agricultural Enforcement Special Fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB624 | Intro
25% | Creates a School Psychologists Working Group to recommend actionable steps or propose legislation for an immediate pathway to licensure for school psychologists that can be acted upon in 2026. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB643 | 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Evslin, Muraoka. |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:01 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB553 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2026, requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, health maintenance organizations, and health plans under the State's Medicaid managed care program to provide coverage for biomarker testing. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB505 | Intro
25% | Establishes a WAI Policy Coordinator for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 10:15 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB606 | Intro
25% | Extends the Act 279 Special Fund to 6/30/2028. Deposits funds into and appropriates funds out of the Act 279 Special Fund to eliminate its waitlist. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to submit a strategic plan detailing the anticipated u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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] | 2025-02-07
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Garcia; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Belatti, Cochran. |
| HI | HB531 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to recognize the University of Hawaii Cancer Center. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB547 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Spay and Neuter Special Fund to reduce pet overpopulation and the reproduction of free-roaming cats and various revenue and fundraising sources for the special fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:30 am]
To House Culture & Arts Committee |
| HI | HB806 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct sting operations on Oahu to enforce fireworks ordinances or laws. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Belatti, Cochran. |
| 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB712 | Intro
25% | Prohibits drug manufacturers from denying, restricting, or prohibiting the acquisition, shipping, or delivery of a 340B drug to pharmacies contracted with 340B covered entities under the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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] | 2025-02-07
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB716 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Health Infrastructure Grant Program within the Department of Health, to be administered by the State Health Planning and Development Agency, to support health information technology infrastructure and the implementation of interoperab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Finance 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] | 2025-02-07
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB738 | Intro
25% | Creates a process for expediting the review of majority residential mixed-use transit-oriented development, or residential transit-oriented development, on certain parcels within county-designated transit-oriented development zones that have a low ri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
To House Water & Land 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB841 | Intro
25% | Repeals the provision prohibiting retirants to be rehired as teachers or administrators in teacher shortage areas or in hard-to-fill positions within twelve calendar months of leaving employment with the State or a county. Prohibits rehired retirants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:00 am]
To House Labor & Public Employment 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:00 am]
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB862 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans for school bus services if certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:01 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB861 | Intro
25% | Designates student transportation as critical infrastructure and a critical service for Hawaii's public education system. Requires all school bus contracts between the State and the contractor to include certain standards, performance metrics, and ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:01 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB858 | Intro
25% | Establishes the agricultural statistics program in statute. Appropriates funds for the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB872 | Intro
25% | Authorizes health care practitioners to make undesignated prescriptions of epinephrine for the purpose of stocking a supply at various types of businesses and state and county government offices, including public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Takayama, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Amato, Chun, Marten, Olds, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB866 | Intro
25% | Directs the Department of Health to purchase and store a 1 year supply of mifepristone by working with 1 or more pharmacies in the State. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Takayama, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Amato, Chun, Marten, Olds, Takenouchi; Ayes with reservations: none; 2 Noes: Representative(s) Alcos, Garcia; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB830 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract its review of proposed state projects, projects on privately owned historic property, and projects affecting historic properties to third-party consultants if the Department is unable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB843 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for critical repairs, maintenance, demolition, design, and construction for facilities of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Establishes and appropriates funds for positio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Evslin, Muraoka. |
| HI | HB842 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to establish three additional permanent mental health practitioner positions within the Division of Student Success' Counseling and Student Development Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Evslin, Muraoka. |
