| HI | HB159 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the civil service exemption for personal service contracts for building, custodial, and grounds maintenance services with qualified community rehabilitation programs shall not cost more than $850,000 in the aggregate per private person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Lee, M., Morikawa, Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB367 | Intro
25% | Allows for county permit exemptions for certain kinds of activities, including agricultural and maintenance activities. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1152 | Intro
25% | Permanently exempts the software developer supervisor in the Department of Taxation and the data privacy officer and tax business analysts in the Office of the Director of taxation from civil service. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Lee, M., Morikawa, Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | SB1195 | Intro
25% | Establishes buffer zones that ban street parking within certain distances of crosswalks under certain posted speed limits. Authorizes the enforcement of prohibited parking regardless of signage or curb markings. Specifies that signs or curb marking s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in JDC were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Chang, San Buenaventura; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Gabbard. |
| HI | HB1379 | Intro
25% | Specifies the types of foreign medical schools whose graduates may be accepted for licensure. Specifies licensure requirements for foreign medical graduates. Exempts foreign medical graduates from the residency requirements for medical licensure if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Chun, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Kong, Marten, Tam; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Ilagan, Lowen, Pierick. |
| HI | HB1422 | Intro
25% | Exempts non-profit community-based organizations providing transportation services from motor carrier regulations under certain circumstances. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Chun, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Kong, Marten, Tam; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Ilagan, Lowen, Pierick. |
| HI | SB1470 | Engross
50% | For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024, (1) repeals the maximum tax rate that may be considered in determining the amount of income tax that must be withheld and the requirement that a standard deduction allowance be treated as if it was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 14). |
| HI | SB1669 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Transit Oriented Community Improvement Partnership within the Department of Transportation. Establishes the Community Improvement Revolving Fund. Allows for transfers of land development rights to the Partnership. Requires annual repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
48 Hrs. Notice 02-27-25. |
| HI | SB1124 | Intro
25% | Establishes the retail delivery safety fee of 50 cents to be imposed on a retailer for each transaction involving a non-food item retail delivery in the State. Allows the retailer to transfer the fee to the purchaser. Creates certain exemptions. Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1423 | Intro
25% | Prohibits vessels longer than seventy-five feet from entering Hanalei Bay except for vessels operated by a federal, state, or county agency. Requires the Board of Land and Natural Resources to define boundaries of Hanalei Bay by rule. Effective 7/1/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1440 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain positions in the Department of Health, including the Hawaii State Hospital, from civil service. Requires a report to the Legislature. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB425 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the civil service exemption for personal service contracts for building, custodial, and grounds maintenance services with qualified community rehabilitation programs shall not cost more than $850,000 in the aggregate per private person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB368 | Intro
25% | Exempts from restrictions on light transmittance percentages, up to a certain percent, of certain motor vehicle sun screening devices for persons having light sensitivity of the eyes due to a medical condition. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB245 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2026, prohibits certain entities from owning, purchasing, or acquiring ownership of agricultural lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB724 | Intro
25% | Repeals the exemptions for certain dealers of deposit beverage containers and related provisions. Requires all dealers of deposit beverage containers to operate as redemption centers. Effective 7/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection 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] | 2025-02-07
To House Housing 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 | SB74 | 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] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB639 | Intro
25% | Requires corporations, organizations, or individuals engaging to commercial transactions or trade practices to clearly and conspicuously notify consumers when the consumer is interacting with an artificial intelligence chatbot or other technology cap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB325 | Intro
25% | Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment based on the person's status as a medical cannabis registry card holder, under certain conditions. Authorizes an employer to use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB1241 | Intro
25% | Establishes general excise tax exemptions for various medical services, including dental services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1474 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the Hawaii Public Procurement Code contracts by government bodies to procure certain construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1471 | Intro
25% | Permanently exempts the software developer supervisor in the Department of Taxation and the data privacy officer and tax business analysts in the Director's office of the Department from civil service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1510 | Intro
25% | Exempts non-profit community-based organizations providing transportation services from motor carrier regulations under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB1480 | Intro
25% | Requires housing projects developed pursuant to section 201H-38, HRS, to be located within county-designated transit-oriented zones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB719 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Fee Program to be administered by the Department of Health that, beginning 7/1/2026, imposes a fee on the distribution and sale of sugar-sweetened beverages in the State. Establishes the Healthy Ohana Special Fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB806 | Intro
25% | Requires housing projects developed pursuant to section 201H-38, HRS, to be located within county-designated transit-oriented zones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | HB873 | Intro
25% | Increases the buffer zone for restricted use pesticides around schools to one-half mile. Allows the use of restricted use pesticides within the buffer zone as part of invasive species control conducted by the Department of Agriculture or invasive spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Agriculture 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 | HB1121 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain positions in the Department of Health, including the Hawaii State Hospital, from civil service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1155 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the Hawaii Public Procurement Code contracts by government bodies to procure certain construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1151 | Intro
25% | For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024, (1) repeals the maximum tax rate that may be considered in determining the amount of income tax that must be withheld and the requirement that a standard deduction allowance be treated as if it was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB515 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Fee Program to be administered by the Department of Agriculture that, beginning 1/1/2026, imposes a fee on the distribution and sale of sugar-sweetened beverages in the State. Establishes the Sugar-Sweetened Be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB234 | Intro
25% | Amends the income tax bracket for taxpayers filing a joint return and surviving spouses to exempt those taxpayers whose taxable income is $200,000 or less. Amends the income tax bracket for unmarried individuals and married individuals who do not fil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB240 | Intro
25% | Establishes and provides criteria for overdose prevention centers, including standards for the Department of Health to designate certain facilities as overdose prevention centers. Establishes an Overdose Prevention Center Oversight Committee. Provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB311 | Intro
25% | Establishes general excise tax exemptions for various medical services, including dental services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB194 | Intro
25% | Establishes general excise tax exemptions for food, medical services, and feminine hygiene products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Health and Human Services 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 |
