| HI | HB498 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Agricultural Crimes Council. Expands the duties of the Department of Agriculture to collaborate with and support the Council. Establishes the Agricultural Enforcement Special Fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance 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. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB508 | Intro
25% | Extends the sunset date of Act 67, SLH 2023, to 6/30/2030. Appropriates funds for the illegal fireworks task force. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB90 | Intro
25% | Amends payroll requirements for public officers and employees by requiring them to be paid pursuant to a predicted payroll schedule, rather than an after-the-fact payroll schedule. Provides that the predicted payroll schedule shall not be subject to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance 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] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB781 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Waiahole Water System for bond debt service and tunnel repair. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB840 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to athletics departments of the University of Hawaii. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB114 | Intro
25% | Establishes positions and appropriates funds for the Adult Client Services Branch of the First Circuit Court. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB146 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Judiciary to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB959 | Intro
25% | Exempts the sale of groceries and nonprescription drugs from the general excise tax. Incrementally increases the general excise tax over four years, with the increased proceeds during certain fiscal years to be deposited into the general fund. Remove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1246 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis and Hemp Office within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning 1/1/2026, legalizes the personal adult use of cannabis. Establishes taxes on the retail sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB859 | Intro
25% | Establishes an agricultural crime prevention program within the Department of Agriculture to provide grants, education, administrative enforcement, and other services for the benefit of the State's agricultural industry. Clarifies, creates, and stren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1182 | Intro
25% | Grants the Public Utilities Commission the ability to authorize preferential rates for the purchase of renewable energy from facilities that meet certain prevailing wage requirements. Requires public utilities to forward certain requests for preferen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB69 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Compensatory Time Cash-Out Pilot Program for eligible employees of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who work in any state correctional facility. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB1191 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates moneys for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 43rd Representative District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1242 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to implement a plan for a Hawaiian language immersion school in Kapolei that shall be ready to educate students in grades kindergarten through 12 by the 2028-2029 school year. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| 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 | HB1245 | Intro
25% | Expands the authority of the State and counties to develop adaptation pathways plans to modify and relocate infrastructure away from critically threatened areas to locations outside sea level rise and coastal flooding exposure areas. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1353 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to purchase a parcel of land identified as tax map key: (1) 9-1-013-025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1493 | Intro
25% | Establishes the State of Hawaii Film Commission within the Creative Industries Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to support the State's film and media industries. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Economic Development 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 | HB1436 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Civics Collaborative within the Department of Accounting and General Services to promote civics engagement and perpetuate the Aloha Spirit. Requires the Department of Education, University of Hawaii Matsunaga Institute for Peac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Culture & Arts Committee |
| HI | HB1416 | Intro
25% | Requires the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division of the Department of Health to develop and implement a comprehensive messaging and informational campaign to prevent cannabis use among the State's youth. Requires the Division to establish and enter into ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Health 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 | HB1455 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology within the University of Hawaii to establish and operate a Center for Climate Resilient Development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB845 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain foreign parties from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in agricultural lands. Establishes an Office of Agricultural Intelligence within the Department of Agriculture to investigate claims that land is unlawfully owned by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB821 | Intro
25% | Requires the City and County of Honolulu to transfer to the State the City and County of Honolulu's authority to construct a Makakilo Drive extension. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB819 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to collect data and submit to the Legislature a report focused on the health disparities experienced by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities in the State prior to the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB884 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain foreign parties or their agents, trustees, and fiduciaries from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in agricultural lands. Establishes an Office of Agricultural Intelligence within the Department of Agriculture to investiga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB869 | Intro
25% | Expands eligibility for scholarships under the Hawaii Community College Promise Program to all qualified students. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB890 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Ombudsman's Office for Condominium Associations within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Updates the Condominium Property Act to integrate the role and functions of the ombudsman's office for condominium associations. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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 | HB971 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Office of the State Architect within the Department of Accounting and General Services to be headed by the State Architect. Authorizes the State Architect to organize, manage, and oversee the design review of all state construction pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB1057 | Intro
25% | Expands the powers of the Hawaii Property Insurance Association and Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to help to stabilize the property insurance market in the State. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to conduct a study. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1116 | Intro
25% | Beginning July 1, 2026, bans the sale of all flavored tobacco products and mislabeled e-liquid products. Establishes positions and appropriates funds to enforce the ban. Repeals section 328J-11.5, HRS. Effective July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1016 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct an integrated land use study for the use of lands within the agricultural districts. Establishes one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) planner position, exempt from chapter 76.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Water & Land 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 | HB61 | Intro
25% | Requires the mayor of each county to appoint, and the county council or city council to confirm, a county medical examiner. Provides that the medical examiner for each county shall serve as the county's coroner. Makes conforming amendments. Appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB83 | Intro
25% | Increases penalties for certain firework violations and establishes higher penalties for any subsequent violation. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB112 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to establish and operate a free statewide mental health warm line to provide mental health support in non-emergency situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB197 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Space Commission within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to promote innovation in the fields of space exploration and commercial aerospace. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB209 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii State Fellows Program within the Department of Human Resources Development to match talented applicants with full-time, paid fellowship roles in various state agencies for a period of ten to eleven months. Establishes minimum q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB233 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state breast milk bank under the Department of Health. Establishes the breast milk bank special fund. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB335 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year pilot program that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free school lunch to all students enrolled at a department school. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education 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 | HB451 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Aerospace and Aeronautics Development Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB500 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish a permanent Educational Support Associate position within the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources' Kona Cooperative Extension.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB539 | Intro
25% | Expands eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to include any individual or household whose monthly income is equal to or less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB656 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Office of Veterans' Services to perform its statutory duties, including maintaining a center that provides information, counsel, aid, and assistance to veterans, their families, and their dependents; and cooperating with fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Public Safety 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 |
