| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB1597 | Intro
25% | Increases the valuation threshold of development subject to a special management area minor permit or a special management area use permit from $500,000 to $750,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1644 | Intro
25% | Establishes that development of a fixed guideway system in a county having a population greater than 500,000 is a function of state government. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to develop a fixed guideway system in a county having a popula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1614 | 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] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB1666 | 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 Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB616 | Intro
25% | Requires the immediate towing of any parked motor vehicle that is not properly registered, does not display a valid safety inspection sticker, or is parked in violation of any state traffic law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB630 | Intro
25% | Authorizes each county director of finance to waive, for up to one year, certain abandoned vehicle tow, storage, and other charges, fees, and fines owed to the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB731 | Intro
25% | Allows a retirant employed as an investigator identified by the Department of Law Enforcement or Department of the Attorney General as a labor shortage or difficult-to-fill position to be rehired without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement Syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB966 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Transportation, in coordination with the counties of the State, to establish a 1-year unregistered motor vehicle amnesty pilot program to encourage motor vehicle registration and mandate the surrender or impoundment of unre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1008 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to adopt ordinances to enforce the accessible parking space requirements for parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities and electric vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1079 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1147 | Intro
25% | Establishes that a person's conduct that produces, or causes to be produced, noise exceeding a certain decibel level during nighttime hours in any area zoned as residential or mixed-use residential is an unreasonable noise that constitutes the offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1157 | Intro
25% | Allows the counties to amend district boundaries involving land areas greater than fifteen acres without appearing before the Land Use Commission if the affected lands are included in the County General Plan or County Development Plan. Requests the L...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1075 | Intro
25% | Makes a person or entity liable for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when the person or entity knowingly enters state, county, or private property, knowingly enters a hiking trail that is closed to the public, or violates applicable laws...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1080 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB316 | Intro
25% | Requires lot owners in subdivisions that are not planned communities to pay for the repair and maintenance of subdivision roads. Authorizes counties to assess and collect fees for repair and maintenance of subdivision roads if no courtappointed or de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB343 | Intro
25% | Allows the Director of Human Resources Development and the Director's county counterparts, with the approval of the Civil Service Commission in the case of the county, to grant temporary hazard pay to public employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB303 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB442 | Intro
25% | Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) and without loss or interruption of benefits provided by the ERS or under chapter 88, HRS, if the retirant is employed as an investigator in a position id...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB508 | Intro
25% | Establishes the hike safe card program and search and rescue special fund to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB537 | Intro
25% | Establishes statewide goals for solid waste reduction and organic waste diversion. Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to reduce all organic waste produced within the county by faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB513 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Health to allow any county to implement a gray water recycling program that permits small farms of less than ten square acres in size the ability to use gray water for the purposes of irrigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
