| HI | HB249 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Executive Office on Early Learning to contract with third-party providers of family-child interaction learning programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB221 | Intro
25% | Requires graduates of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine who have paid in-state tuition to serve as a physician in the State for at least 2 years following their medical residency or fellowship. Begins with the class of 2029.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB333 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high school classes to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB251 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with the Department of Human Services, to develop and establish a social work training program to assist nonviolent incarcerated individuals in the area of social work. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB336 | Intro
25% | Requires condominium associations to repair defective conditions of common elements that constitute health or safety violations. Allows unit owners to make the repairs at the association's expense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB244 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the department of human services to collaborate with community-based organizations to address the need for social services in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB328 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to authorize and facilitate complex areas or individual department schools to form their own farm to school meal programs through partnerships to meet the local farm to school meal goal of thirty per cent of food ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB238 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and implement a child care provider subsidy and bonus program to provide subsidies to retain the existing child care workforce in licensed infant and toddler child care centers, group child care ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB242 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii State Energy Office to make recommendations for the reuse and recycling of electric vehicle batteries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB330 | Intro
25% | Places oversight of the School Impact Fee Program under the School Facilities Authority Board. Allows the School Facilities Authority Board to dissolve a school impact district without a public hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB335 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year pilot program that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free school lunch to all students enrolled at a department school. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB346 | Intro
25% | Provides rebates for the installation of eligible electric vehicle-ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB334 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Law Enforcement to establish traffic cameras and issue a citation by mail for certain violations of traffic-related laws. Establishes that intentional destruction or damage to a traffic camera is a class C felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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. Allows the School Facilities Authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB331 | Intro
25% | Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of any state department or agency, under certain conditions. Clarifies that contracts for the construction, reno...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB365 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain octopus aquaculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB424 | N/A
0% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to students enrolled in a public school who meet certain requirements. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB461 | N/A
0% | Requires the Director of Human Resources Development, in consultation with the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, State Energy Office, and Department of Accounting and General Services, to develop and implement a comprehensiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB448 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to assist small businesses, including those related to the tourism sector, with technology enablement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB466 | N/A
0% | Prohibits landlords from terminating certain tenancies without cause. Establishes criteria under which landlords can undertake a no-fault eviction. Requires landlords, when proceeding with a no-fault eviction, to offer relocation assistance to the te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB431 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB440 | N/A
0% | Prohibits certain covered educational entities and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation facilities from collecting information regarding citizenship or immigration status or allowing officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter certain facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB425 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB473 | N/A
0% | Establishes a process, beginning on January 1, 2026, for automatically preregistering or registering public, charter, and private school-enrolled students who are at least 16 years old to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB432 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB427 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB446 | N/A
0% | Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority and School of Travel Industry Management at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to collaborate to actively plan for the design, construction, and operations and management of a state hotel. Requires reports to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB477 | N/A
0% | Repeals the definition for "registered for work" or "registration for work" and repeals the requirement to post work availability online. Amends the qualifications for unemployed individuals who are able to receive certain unemployment benefits. Begi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB437 | N/A
0% | Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish an out-of-state office in the Philippines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB447 | N/A
0% | Amends the types of occurrences for which the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board of Directors may request the Governor to declare a tourism emergency. Reduces the minimum balance to be maintained in the Tourism Emergency Special Fund through an allocatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB438 | N/A
0% | Establishes the Due Process in Immigration Proceedings Program within the Judiciary to provide legal representation to individuals in immigration-related proceedings in immigration court. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB497 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB439 | N/A
0% | Requires the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to establish an international teacher license for certain visa holders. Establishes criteria for obtaining an international teacher license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB455 | N/A
0% | Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program. Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program special fund. Requires DBEDT to submit an annual report to the Legislature regarding the program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB429 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB428 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB469 | N/A
0% | Requires the Disability and Communication Access Board to issue a disability travel placard to an applicant who has a valid removeable windshield placard and provides proof of travel. Effective 7/1/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB430 | N/A
0% | Permits the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to enter into contracts with eligible employers or registered apprenticeship programs in the private sector to provide on-the-job training to eligible interns. Provides that the State shall be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB441 | N/A
0% | Beginning 7/1/2025, increases the cigarette tax and amends the cigarette tax disposition of revenues by allocating the increase in the cigarette tax amount to the Hawaii Cancer Research Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB464 | N/A
0% | Requires, for tenancies greater than 90 days, a landlord to notify a tenant of any intent to raise the rent for any subsequent rental agreement or any intent to terminate a rental agreement 60 days before the expiration of the original rental agreeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB496 | N/A
0% | Imposes labeling requirements for mmaki tea grown in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB433 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for reentry services to connect offenders with community-based services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB435 | N/A
0% | Amends the definition of electric bicycles subject to various state laws and classifies electric bicycles by top assisted speed. Establishes additional regulations for the registration and use of electric bicycles. Increases the minimum age to operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB542 | N/A
0% | Expands the Hawaii promise program to provide scholarships for the unmet needs of qualified students at any four-year university of Hawaii campus who meet certain criteria. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB619 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB507 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds for the cesspool compliance pilot grant project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB548 | N/A
0% | Authorizes the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to issue revenue bonds for the acquisition of the Saint Francis School campus located at 2707 Pamoa Road in Honolulu. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the acquisition of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB626 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for the Department's Hokea Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB503 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
