| HI | SB38 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the legislative body of a county from making modifications or imposing conditions to housing development proposals that would increase the cost of the project. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Judiciary 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 | SB73 | Intro
25% | Requires county permitting agencies to establish and fill positions exclusively to process permit applications submitted for state projects. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:02 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB67 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale or rent in perpetuity to buyers or renters who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants or renters, and do not own a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | HB29 | Intro
25% | Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted, and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property. Requires the county to remit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB511 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that approval for certain housing projects seeking exemptions from planning and development laws and rules shall be granted by the appropriate county legislative body, rather than the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB563 | Intro
25% | Directs that Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Agribusiness Development Corporation and the counties, to conduct an agricultural water infrastructure study for the State of Hawaii. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:06 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB586 | Intro
25% | Requires the state and counties to upgrade to zero emission buses by 2045.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:01 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB415 | Intro
25% | Amends the sunset date of Act 83, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, to repeal section 46-19.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, on June 29, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB786 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2027, requires all government records required to be open to public inspection under the Uniform Information Practices Act to be made available in a disability-accessible format upon request. Requires the Governor, Chief Justice, and Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:05 pm]
To Senate Government Operations 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 | SB1133 | Intro
25% | Authorizes each county to establish by ordinances a rental unit price control that prohibits a landlord from increasing the rental price of a dwelling unit at a rate that exceeds the percentage calculated and published by the county based on changes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB1221 | Intro
25% | Prohibits counties from permitting or allowing retention and detention ponds to be constructed except under certain conditions. Requires the Department of Health to inspect retention and detention ponds statewide. Establishes certain safety requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1222 | Intro
25% | Prohibits counties from permitting or allowing retention or detention ponds to be constructed except under certain conditions. Establishes safety requirements for retention and detention ponds statewide. Requires the department of health to conduct a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1013 | Intro
25% | Repeals the provision authorizing farm dwellings and farm employee housing on important agricultural lands, amends the provision for priority permit processing to include farm cluster housing, and adopts a new provision establishing farm cluster hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1091 | Intro
25% | Requires that all county sewer transmission lines on Hawaiian home lands in compliance or brought into compliance by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, are licensed or dedicated to the respective county within sixty days after the receipt by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Todd. |
| HI | SB1409 | Intro
25% | Exempts the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from county user fees, in the amount of $100,000 aggregate per year, and ensures county services to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for Hawaiian Home Lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1090 | Intro
25% | Exempts the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from county user fees, in the amount of $100,000 aggregate per year, and ensures county services to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for Hawaiian Home Lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1321 | Intro
25% | Requires the counties to adopt the Hawaii state building codes no later than one year after its adoption. Authorizes a county with a population in excess of 500,000 to amend its building energy conservation code to require more stringent energy-savin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1457 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaiian Homes Commission to designate tax increment districts that may utilize tax increment financing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Garcia; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Todd. |
| HI | SB92 | Intro
25% | No later than January 1, 2026, requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to install and maintain automated external defibrillators in all state buildings, including all public schools. Requires DAGS to establish a Cardiac Emergency R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB490 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Kamaaina Homes Program to provide funding to the counties to purchase voluntary deed restrictions from eligible homeowners or homebuyers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB491 | 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] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | HB502 | Intro
25% | Temporarily allows each county, by resolution of its county council, to petition for the redistricting of land from an agricultural district to a rural district through the Land Use Commission's declaratory ruling process. Effective 7/1/2026. Sunsets...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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 | SB1095 | Intro
25% | Removes the decal size restrictions for special number plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB732 | Intro
25% | Requires the valuation of development that determines the necessity of a special management area minor permit or special management area use permit to be adjusted annually for inflation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:00 am]
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB915 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Commission on Water Resource Management, as a condition for issuing permits, to require the use of dual line water supply systems in new residential and mixed-use developments located in designated water management areas. Authorizes th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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, Souza; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Shimizu; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Woodson. |
| HI | HB1165 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to sell or dispose of property bordering the ocean when the Department of Transportation requests the acquisition of the property for state highway purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, Miyake; Ayes with reservations: none; 2 Noes: Representative(s) Muraoka, Pierick; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, La Chica. |
| HI | HB1233 | Intro
25% | Prohibits counties from permitting or allowing retention or detention ponds to be constructed except under certain conditions. Establishes safety requirements for retention and detention ponds statewide. Requires the department of health to conduct a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:00 am]
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB251 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to adopt rules and carry out an Invasive Species Placard Program for plant nurseries. Allows a county to adopt an Invasive Species Placard Program if the Department does not adopt the Program within a certain nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in AEN were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, DeCoite, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Richards. |
| HI | HB364 | Intro
25% | Requires that cats over the age of three months be surgically sterilized, with certain exceptions. Authorizes county animal control authorities to establish and enforce a permit program to allow the responsible breeding of cats. Establishes minimum r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Chun, Ilagan, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Marten, Tam; Ayes with reservations: none; 2 Noes: Representative(s) Kong, Pierick; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Lowen. |
| HI | HB733 | Intro
25% | Removes the exemption that allowed owners of multiple parking facilities within the State to designate and electrify fewer parking spaces than required in one or more of the properties if the requirement for the total number of aggregate spaces on al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 9:00 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1540 | 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] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| 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 | SB25 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a county to reduce the number of housing units that may be built within any portion of the county only if the county increases the number of housing units that may be built elsewhere in the county, such that there is no net loss in residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Hashimoto, Aquino, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| 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 | SB593 | Intro
25% | Defines a "dog breeder" as any person who owns, possesses, controls, or otherwise has charge or custody of more than ten dogs over the age of twelve months with intact sexual organs, and who sells, barters, or otherwise transfers more than three litt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB755 | Intro
25% | Designates each county as the special management area authority within the county's respective jurisdiction. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB964 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to establish a publicprivate partnership to develop a waste-to-energy generating facility in each county having a population below 800,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on EIG recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EIG were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Richards ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Chang, DeCoite. |
| HI | SB750 | Intro
25% | Transfers from the Department of Land and Natural Resources certain state boating facilities on Maui to the County of Maui with the corresponding revenue from those harbors. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1214 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Vacant Homes Special Fund under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for rental assistance programs. Establishes a general excise tax surcharge on an owner that allows a residential real property to remain vacant for 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB1210 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Commission on Water Resource Management, as a condition for issuing permits, to require the use of dual line water supply systems in new residential and mixed-use developments located in designated water management areas. Authorizes th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1240 | Intro
25% | Increases the number of voter service centers in the State. Requiring all voter services centers to operate during the same days and hours statewide. Clarifies that during each day of operation, during all hours of operation, each voter service cente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1453 | 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 the Attorne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1410 | Intro
25% | Requires that all county sewer transmission lines on Hawaiian home lands in compliance or brought into compliance by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, are licensed or dedicated to the respective county within sixty days after the receipt by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1484 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to sell or dispose of property bordering the ocean when the Department of Transportation requests the acquisition of the property for state highway purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1332 | Intro
25% | Repeals the provision authorizing farm dwellings and farm employee housing on important agricultural lands, amends the provision for priority permit processing to include farm cluster housing, and adopts a new provision establishing farm cluster hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB1232 | Intro
25% | Prohibits counties from permitting or allowing retention and detention ponds to be constructed except under certain conditions. Requires the Department of Health to inspect retention and detention ponds statewide. Establishes certain safety requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1260 | Intro
25% | Requires each county, in collaboration with the Department of Transportation to establish a Summer Streets Pilot Program that closes vehicular traffic and repurposes roads for pedestrian and cyclist use, outdoor events, and other community-driven act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Transportation Committee |
