| HI | HB1317 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Workforce Housing Regulatory Sandbox Program within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Establishes an Advisory Council within the Workforce Housing Regulatory Sandbox Program to advise on environmental and cultura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Kila, Kitagawa, La Chica; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Grandinetti; 2 Noes: Representative(s) Muraoka, Pierick; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB1409 | Intro
25% | Establishes what constitutes transit-oriented development and incentivizes development in county-designated transit-oriented development areas or zones. Prioritizes the allocation of a minimum percentage of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund for certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
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, Kitagawa, La Chica, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Pierick; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB175 | Intro
25% | Requires owners, lessees, or managers of real property to maintain their property and establish penalties for failure to do so. Allows for exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Belatti, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Morikawa, Poepoe, Shimizu, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson. |
| HI | HB184 | Intro
25% | Requires operators of low-speed electronic bicycles to possess a valid driver's license, instruction permit, or provisional license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 10:30 am]
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB228 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to adopt rules for the use of electronic license plates. Prohibits the use of license plate flipping devices. Establishes minimum fines for intentionally obscuring a license plate with a cover or shield.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB227 | Intro
25% | Creates additional fines for any individual found operating a vehicle or moped without a current certificate of inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| 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] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Perruso, Kahaloa, Kusch, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB366 | Intro
25% | Requires contested cases, environmental assessment cases, or environmental impact statement cases involving renewable energy projects over twenty megawatts in size, except cases that involve any form of incineration, to be appealed from an agency's d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Perruso, Kahaloa, Kusch; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Quinlan; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB532 | Intro
25% | Reduces the period in which a transferee is required to forward the certificate of ownership to the director of finance when a title of vehicle is transferred from thirty days to fourteen days. Allows a letter of attestation to the Director of Financ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB543 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the operation of a motor vehicle with, possession, purchase, installation, sale, offer for sale, or distribution of license plate flipping devices. Establishes a $2,000 fine for each separate violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB708 | Intro
25% | Imposes insurance coverage as a prerequisite for the operation of electric bicycles in the State. Establishes a regulatory framework for electric bicycle insurance. Effective 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 10:30 am]
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB806 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Honolulu Police Department and Department of Law Enforcement to conduct sting operations on Oahu to enforce fireworks ordinances or laws. Authorizes a court to order the forfeiture of one-half of any pension of an Employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on LAB recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Sayama, Lee, M., Garrett, Kapela, Kong, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB742 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Community Development Authority to prepare environmental impact statements for the Iwilei/Kapalama and University of Hawaii West Oahu transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement districts on the island of Oahu.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Lowen, Perruso, Kahaloa, Kusch, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB1307 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for water well development for geophysical investigation, exploration, and identification of geothermal resources on Hawaiian home lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:00 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1181 | Intro
25% | Narrows the scope of the definition of the term "development" in coastal zone management law by excluding reconstruction of certain lawfully constructed structures impacted by certain events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land 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 | HB1192 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates moneys for a Charli Alert program to help locate persons who are 18 to 64 years old, missing, and thought to be in danger.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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 | HB1286 | Intro
25% | Prohibits pedestrians from walking along the roadway of an interstate highway, an auxiliary interstate highway, or certain state highways except while conducting authorized first responder duties or highway maintenance duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Transportation 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 | 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 | HB1278 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the assessment and removal of hazardous trees on state lands across Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land 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 | 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 |
| HI | HB1381 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1357 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates moneys for a Missing Indigenous Person Alert program to help locate indigenous persons who are missing and thought to be in danger.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1379 | Intro
25% | Exempts graduates from international medical schools from the residency requirements for medical licensure if the applicant has had at least one year of fellowship training in a program whose parent program or hospital is accredited by the Accreditat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1344 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education's existing Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) working group to create a state plan to make completion of the FAFSA or an opt-out waiver a statewide graduation requirement by the 2027-2028 school year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1345 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Regents to grant a waiver on all tuition and mandatory fees to a resident student enrolled in the College of Education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for the semester or term that the student enrolls in a State-Approved Te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1445 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to equip all classroom doors with interior locks, maintain a public address system, feature an emergency access route, and maintain fire alarms. Mandates the establishment of school emergency plans. Requires schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1483 | Intro
25% | Establishes an adjudication system and procedures to process fireworks infractions. Amends multiple definitions and penalties for fireworks offenses, including heightened penalties if another person suffers substantial bodily injury, serious bodily i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1388 | Intro
25% | Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as an investigator in a position identified by the Department of Law Enforce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB1411 | Intro
25% | Allows the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to allow projects to grant preferences in the sale or lease of housing units to applicants who live or work within 5 miles of the project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1500 | Intro
25% | Repeals the authority of the Department of Education to set the price for school meals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB828 | Intro
25% | Requires state agencies to establish a Plant-Based-By-Default Program for food and drinks offered at state-operated prisons, state-licensed hospitals, and government-sponsored events. Requires the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Comptroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB847 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out. Repeals th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB827 | Intro
25% | Expands workers' compensation medical benefits for firefighters to include coverage for adenocarcinoma or mesothelioma of the respiratory system; cancer of the buccal cavity, colon, pharynx, and thyroid; and malignant melanoma. Specifies that an empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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] | 2025-01-23
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] | 2025-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB858 | Intro
25% | Establishes the agricultural statistics program in statute. Appropriates funds for the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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] | 2025-01-23
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB817 | Intro
25% | Authorizes physicians to practice at organized ambulatory health care facilities even if the physician does not have hospital privileges at a licensed hospital in the same geographic location as the ambulatory facility. Provides that a written transf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB865 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in kindergarten through grade twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete a one-half credit in financ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Education 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Higher Education Committee |
