| HI | HB1266 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Community Housing and Rental Oversight Agency within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to establish and oversee a process for receiving and addressing complaints relating to short-term vacation rentals, in coordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB1264 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Extended Producer Responsibility Program. Requires certain producers of fast-moving consumer goods to register with the Department of Health and pay an annual fee based on the amount of packaging volume the covered producer places on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection 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 | HB1395 | Intro
25% | Requires counties that use neighborhood boards to ensure that: (1) Board member terms do not exceed one year; and (2) Neighborhood residents may vote for members of their corresponding neighborhood board by electronic means and in-person means. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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 | 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 | HB944 | Intro
25% | Authorizes neighborhood boards to solicit suggestions for capital improvement projects and operating budget priorities from residents. Requires each county mayor to consider and respond in writing to the suggestions for capital improvement projects a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB895 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the county police departments to enforce applicable fireworks laws, subject to certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1134 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB51 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment 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 | HB214 | 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 a school resource officer or investigator in positions identified by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment 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 |
| HI | HB419 | Intro
25% | Decreases the time period for the legislative body of a county to approve, approve with modification, or disapprove housing developments exempt from certain requirements pursuant to section 201H-38, HRS, from forty-five days to thirty days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB459 | Intro
25% | Requires county permitting agencies to establish and fill positions exclusively to process permit applications submitted for state projects. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB489 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB516 | Intro
25% | Repeals the requirement imposed on the counties to allow for the construction of at least two accessory dwelling units on all residentially zoned lots. Establishes the accessory dwelling unit housing development program with the Hawaii Community Deve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB527 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the legislative body of a county from making modifications to housing development proposals that would increase the cost of the project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB536 | Intro
25% | Prohibits residing in, on, or within fifty feet of a freshwater waterway. Authorizes state and local law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program and county police, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB541 | Intro
25% | Makes certain urban development and land use requirements applicable only to counties with a population of less than five hundred thousand, including: vesting the director of the county land use agency with the administrative authority to act on any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB601 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB526 | Intro
25% | Requires county permitting agencies to establish and fill positions exclusively to process permit applications submitted for state projects. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB811 | Intro
25% | Establishes penalties for failure to remediate violations, including fines and, under certain circumstances, foreclosure on the real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB141 | Intro
25% | Establishes the eighth day of August of each year as "Hawaii Disaster Drill Day". Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, in coordination with all state departments and agencies, to conduct drills and perform other activities for that day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB195 | Intro
25% | Requires the counties, before implementing any new mass transit fare or increasing any existing fare, to first seek revenues from alternative sources, including transit-based advertisements. Requires a county that decides, after seeking alternative r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB192 | Intro
25% | Requires the county police departments to purchase and deploy explosion detection technology equipment to assist in the location of and response to explosions caused by the illegal use of firearms and fireworks. Appropriates moneys to the counties as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB44 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to prohibit discrimination against a renter based on the renter's source of income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB66 | Intro
25% | Requires counties to grant building permits within 60 days if the application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB93 | Intro
25% | Decreases the time period for the legislative body of a county to approve, approve with modification, or disapprove housing developments exempt from certain requirements pursuant to section 201H-38, HRS, from forty-five days to thirty days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB99 | 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 a school resource officer or investigator in positions identified by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB84 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, establishes a pilot program that requires the Department of Education to include cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training for public school students in grades six through tw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB36 | Intro
25% | Requires the Land Use Commission to reclassify lands that are designated for urban growth under a county general plan or county development plan as being in the urban district at the request of the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
