| HI | HB307 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to recognize the island of Kahoolawe. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-03
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB501 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Agricultural Enforcement Program within the Department of Law Enforcement. Establishes the Agricultural Enforcement Special Fund. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB628 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a program to award high school diplomas to persons who did not receive a diploma as a result of compulsory or voluntary induction into the armed services and persons whose high school education was ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB557 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "interactive telecommunications system" for purposes of reimbursement for services provided through telehealth. Requires health care providers to append a modifier to any claim for telehealth services using two-way, real-time...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB739 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Kamaaina Homes Program to provide funding to the counties to purchase voluntary deed restrictions from eligible homeowners or homebuyers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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] | 2025-02-03
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB903 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a school to maintain a stock supply of bronchodilators to be administered under certain conditions. Authorizes certain employees of a school and department personnel to administer certain medication in emergency situations, under certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB223 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy Special Fund to support pharmacist workforce assessment and planning efforts. Establishes the pharmacist workforce assessment fee. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Evslin, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB301 | Intro
25% | Makes a second or subsequent conviction for violation of a domestic abuse protective order a class C felony. Increases the sentencing requirements for second or subsequent convictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB303 | Intro
25% | Expands the definitions of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors, including removing "primary care" from the criteria to q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Economic Development Committee |
| 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB225 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Department of the Attorney General to study the issue of squatting in Hawaii and provide recommendations. Requires reports to the legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB327 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the office of the governor for a state childcare facility for state employees and their families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB359 | Intro
25% | Amends covered offender registration laws to include offenders who, while acting in a professional capacity, commit the offense of sexual assault in the fourth degree against a minor who is at least sixteen years old. Provides that the exception to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB439 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB429 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB474 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to fund one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) fall prevention and early detection coordinator position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB472 | Intro
25% | Allows for a digitized identification card to be accepted as a valid form of identification, under certain conditions. Authorizes state and county law enforcement agencies to accept a digitized identification card as proof of a person's identity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB596 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the types of events that constitute disasters and emergencies for the purposes of emergency management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Iwamoto, Hashem, Ichiyama, Lamosao, Morikawa, Poepoe, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson. |
| HI | HB627 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for positions to implement and maintain school safety measures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee on PBS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Iwamoto, Hashem, Ichiyama, Lamosao, Morikawa, Poepoe, Souza; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Shimizu; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson. |
| HI | HB530 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the macadamia nut labeling requirements apply if the applicable products are produced in whole or in part from Hawaii-grown and Hawaii-processed macadamia nuts. Effective 1/2/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB629 | Intro
25% | Expands the scopes of practice for occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech pathologists employed by or contracted with the Department of Education to diagnose students with a medical condition in an educational setting and treat the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB617 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program at the University of Hawaii Maui College. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB640 | Intro
25% | Requires specialized training for all employees of the Office of the Ombudsman to develop relevant expertise to handle complaints about the child welfare system. Requires the Office of the Ombudsman to publish a quarterly report on its website that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Legislative Management 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB637 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to implement dyslexia-sensitive universal screenings and evidence-based interventions, offer professional development on structured literacy and evidenced-based interventions, and support pre-teacher programs in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB528 | Intro
25% | Exempts state and county lands leased after July 1, 2025, for an initial period of not less than ninety-nine years from chapters 516 and 516D, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB556 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Human Services to develop and implement a public assistance program offering state-funded colorectal screenings for certain persons. Requires coverage for all colorectal cancer screenings in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB534 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of raw ahi and raw ahi products in retail establishments without a label that states the country where the ahi was landed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB712 | Intro
25% | Prohibits drug manufacturers and wholesale distributors from restricting or denying access for pharmacies contracted with 340B covered entities to purchase 340B drugs at a discounted price under the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program. Imposes civil pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB703 | Intro
25% | Extends the sunset date for the State Rent Supplement Program for Kupuna to 6/30/2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, La Chica, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kitagawa. |
| 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:30 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB745 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2028, makes the most recent Hawaii state building codes adopted by the state building code council supersede all existing county building codes and thereafter allows counties to remove requirements of the state building codes or add req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB705 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary Medi-Medi Project within the Hawaii State Health Insurance Assistance Program administered by the Executive Office on Aging to assist older adults, Medicare beneficiaries, individuals with disabilities, and other underserved p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB741 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain projects funded by the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund from prevailing wages provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB900 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group for legal services for youth in the child welfare system within the judiciary. Appropriates funds for the working group. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, La Chica, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kitagawa. |
| HI | HB860 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the State or a county that repairs or maintains a street of which the ownership or jurisdiction is in dispute between the State and county, shall be immune from liability for personal injuries or property damage arising out of the repa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 10:00 am]
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB838 | Intro
25% | Increases the bonus for teachers who achieve and maintain a current national board certification from $5,000 to $10,000. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB863 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for teacher-requested classroom supplies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB963 | Intro
25% | Establishes strict liability for crimes against elders with respect to the attendant circumstance that the victim was sixty years of age or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB966 | Intro
25% | Establishes statewide, uniform standards to promote agricultural tourism activities in the State by establishing state agricultural tourism activity requirements that are applicable to all counties that have adopted an agricultural tourism ordinance....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 8:45 am]
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB943 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Health to establish a homeless triage and treatment center program to serve homeless individuals and individuals at risk of homelessness with substance abuse issues or mental illness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness 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] | 2025-01-31
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; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
