| HI | SB378 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to identify existing mixed-use developments in Maui County that could be acquired by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for use as affordabl...
[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 | HB309 | Intro
25% | Establishes a fishpond inventory working group within the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to create an inventory and map of all state-owned fishponds and conduct a literature review. Appropriates funds.
[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 | HB225 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Department of the Attorney General to study the issue of squatting in Hawaii and provide recommendations. Requires reports to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos. |
| HI | HB624 | Intro
25% | Creates a School Psychologists Working Group to recommend actionable steps or propose legislation for an immediate pathway to licensure for school psychologists that can be acted upon in 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB900 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group for legal services for youth in the child welfare system within the judiciary. Appropriates funds for the working group.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos. |
| HI | SB998 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services to hire a consultant to evaluate potential locations and designs for the Hawaii First Responders Memorial.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB503 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services to hire a consultant to evaluate potential locations and designs for the Hawaii First Responders Memorial.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 8:30 am]
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | SB1185 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a working group to review and make recommendations on amending or repealing unnecessary or obsolete laws pertaining to agriculture. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1228 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group for legal services for youth in the child welfare system within the judiciary. Appropriates funds for the working group.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1514 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary working group to study the feasibility of transitioning the Hawaii State Legislature's regular session from one that meets for 3.5 months from mid-January to early May, to one that meets on a year-round basis. Requires the Leg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1381 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group for legal services for youth in the child welfare system within the judiciary. Appropriates funds for the working group.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1425 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary working group to study the feasibility of transitioning the Hawaii State Legislature's regular session from one that meets for 3.5 months from mid-January to early May, to one that meets on a year-round basis. Requires the Leg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HI | SB103 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling and Reuse Working Group within the Hawaii State Energy Office. Requires the working group to examine how to maximize the recycling and reuse of electric vehicle batteries and recommend electric vehicl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1129 | Intro
25% | Requires the Insurance Commissioner to convene a working group to identify, assess, and recommend certain risk transfer market mechanisms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB75 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group to revise the State's Qualified Allocation Plan, the prioritization of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund, and the terms of loans made from the RHRF. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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, Kanuha, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Aquino. |
| HI | SB737 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary working group in the Office of the Governor to investigate the existence and environmental dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and related chemicals. Requires reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB949 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group to reform or eliminate the land court in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB867 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Office of the Governor for administrative purposes to ascertain the State's available water resources and water system source capacity and to streamline well permit approval processes to further plan for the dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Housing 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 | SB507 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Department of Agriculture to develop a plan that creates an educational pathway in the University of Hawaii community college system to equip interested students with the necessary entry level knowledge, skill s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB242 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii State Energy Office to make recommendations for the reuse and recycling of electric vehicle batteries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB564 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Department of Transportation to conduct a comprehensive study to assess the State's port and harbor system and the potential viability of each location in that system to support current and future agricultural p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB324 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Baby Bonds Working Group to develop a plan for the creation of a baby bonds program for the State to address intergenerational poverty and wealth inequality in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB418 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group to revise the State's Qualified Allocation Plan, the prioritization of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund, and the terms of loans made from the RHRF. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB514 | Intro
25% | Creates an offshore wind energy working group to generate a roadmap to define standards to consider in the developmental process for offshore wind energy. Requires the working group to submit a report to the legislature prior to the 2027 regular sess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB788 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii State Energy Office to make recommendations for the reuse and recycling of electric vehicle batteries and requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB782 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a working group to review and make recommendations on amending or repealing unnecessary or obsolete laws pertaining to agriculture. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | SB164 | Intro
25% | Repeals statutory requirements for certain housing projects to be eligible for loans from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund. Repeals certain statutory provisions for grants to developers for rental units eligible to be financed in part or in whole by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
