| HI | SB123 | Intro
25% | Eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Requires reports to the Legislature. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB992 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to establish state goals and implement projects to promote economic diversification through innovation and technology. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to the Small ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB747 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Audit Office within the Board of Education to audit operations and expenditures of the Department of Education. Exempts positions within the Audit Office from civil service law. Requires annual reports to the Governor and Director of F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB428 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Farm to Families Program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Requires reports to the Legislature prior to the Regular Sessions of 2026 and 2027. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:30 am]
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB833 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to establish a five-year community land trust equity pilot program to provide community land trusts with a line of credit to fund the acquisition, rehabilitation, renovation, or constr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:00 am]
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kitagawa, La Chica, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kila. |
| HI | HB968 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:30 am]
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB967 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Statewide Interagency Food Systems Coordination Team and the Interagency Food Systems Working Group within the Department of Agriculture. Requires reports to the Legislature. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:30 am]
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB1450 | Intro
25% | Establishes a three-year climate-resilient food systems grant pilot program, to be administered by the Department of Agriculture. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:30 am]
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | SB744 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority the Condominium Loan Program to provide qualified condominium associations with low-cost financing or refinancing on previously obtained loans for maintenance and essential repairs. Establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1044 | Intro
25% | Expands the powers of the Hawaii Property Insurance Association and reactivates the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to help to stabilize the property insurance market in the State. Allows the Hawaii Property Insurance Association and the Hawaii Hurrican...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1117 | Intro
25% | Renames the Electric Bicycle and Electric Moped Rebate Program to the Electric Mobility Rebate Program. Expands eligibility and amends the maximum rebate amounts. Prohibits individuals under fifteen years of age from riding electric bicycles. Amends ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB411 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to engage in capital improvement project work at state small boat harbors and state parks without prior approval from the Legislature and Governor for existing facilities. Requires annual reports to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 3:05 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB549 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Early Learning Apprenticeship Grant Program to be administered by the University of Hawaii to provide financial support for early learning program service providers in the State to participate in state- or federally-approved early lear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:45 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | SB1040 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Wellness and Resilience to develop, implement, and administer a Medical Debt Acquisition and Forgiveness Program to acquire and forgive medical debt owed by certain households in the State. Requires annual reports to the Legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:45 am]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB705 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary Medi-Medi Project within the Hawaii State Health Insurance Assistance Program administered by the Executive Office on Aging to assist older adults, Medicare beneficiaries, individuals with disabilities, and other underserved p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB778 | 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 and submit interim and final reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Hashem, Lamosao, Belatti, Iwamoto, Morikawa, Poepoe, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Shimizu; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ichiyama. |
| HI | SB1186 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Statewide Interagency Food Systems Coordination Team and the Interagency Food Systems Working Group within the Department of Agriculture. Requires reports to the Legislature. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1255 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that government records subject to disclosure requirements under the Uniform Information Practices Act include information that is created, received, maintained, or used by private contractors in performance of a government function outsour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
The committee(s) on GVO recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in GVO were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) McKelvey, Gabbard, Moriwaki, San Buenaventura, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB1188 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Teacher Workforce Housing Stipend Program to support teacher retention at public and charter schools classified as hard-to-staff. Requires reports to the Legislature. Amends the purpose and uses of the Teacher Housing Revolving Fund. Ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:00 am]
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB1543 | Intro
25% | Requires each purchasing agency to provide justification for hiring external consultants. Caps the amount each agency can spend on external consultants. Requires each agency to seek approval from the Legislature for consulting contracts exceeding a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
The committee(s) on GVO recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in GVO were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) McKelvey, Gabbard, Moriwaki, San Buenaventura, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB1588 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Nuclear Energy Task Force within the Hawaii State Energy Office. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 5/13/2040. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1641 | 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB1484 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Transit-Oriented Community Improvement Partnership within the Department of Transportation. Establishes the Community Improvement Revolving Fund. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1495 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for the Keauhou Aquifer System Monitoring Pilot Project within the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds for the installation of two monitoring wells in the Keauhou Aquifer System. Requires re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB742 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Data Sharing and Governance Working Group within the Office of Enterprise Technology Services. Requires the Working Group to submit annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB412 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to assess the feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each state department facility. Requires state departments to implement and install the distributed energy resource systems detaile...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1567 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to complete a comprehensive review of the classification and compensation systems for all positions within the State's executive branch. Allows the Department to contract with a third-party, with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1376 | Intro
25% | Requires the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reduce the number of individuals incarcerated in private, out-of-state correctional institutions. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective July 1, 3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB251 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with the Department of Human Services, to develop and establish a social work training program to assist nonviolent incarcerated individuals in the area of social work. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB238 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and implement a Child Care Provider Subsidy and Bonus Program to provide subsidies to retain the existing child care workforce in licensed infant and toddler child care centers, group child care ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB802 | Intro
25% | Requires insurers to provide advance written notice to policyholders and the Insurance Commissioner, with reasonable explanations and primary factors, of any policy cancellation, non-renewal, or proposed premium increase, if, upon renewal, premiums a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 9:46 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB970 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a tax credit for businesses that pay the public transportation costs of employees. Applies to counties having populations of 700,000 or more. Applies for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024 but not beginning after 12/31/2029. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1602 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to install two monitoring wells in the Keauhou Aquifer System. Establishes the Keauhou Aquifer System Monitoring Program. Requires reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1601 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority the Condominium Loan Program to provide qualified condominium associations with low-cost financing or refinancing on previously obtained loans for maintenance or repair projects. Establishe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:01 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1068 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a statewide environmental assessment for, and subsequently administer, a Slim-Hole Resource Characterization Program. Requires reports to the Legislature. Establishes a position. Appropriates funds. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB173 | Intro
25% | Requires the Judiciary to establish a three-year pilot program to provide free child care services to minor children of parties and witnesses who are attending court hearings in the first circuit. Requires the Judiciary to submit reports to the Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB351 | Intro
25% | Requires quarterly rather than annual reporting of all use of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB552 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB700 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to assess the potential and feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each state facility and submit reports to the Legislature detailing the department's findings. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
The committee(s) on GVO recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in GVO were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) McKelvey, Moriwaki, San Buenaventura, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Gabbard. |
| HI | SB741 | Intro
25% | Establishes an External Audit Committee within the University of Hawaii to audit the University of Hawaii System and the Board of Regents. Requires annual reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
The committee(s) on HRE recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HRE were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Kim, Kidani, Fukunaga, Hashimoto, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB854 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Universal Representation in Immigration Proceedings Program within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Office of Community Services to provide access to legal representation, under certain conditions. Requires annual report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB646 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to automatically enroll, or authorize the Social Security Administration to automatically enroll, in the State's Medicaid program any individual in the State who receives federal Supplemental Security Income ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB577 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a tax credit for businesses that pay the public transportation costs of employees. Requires reports to the Legislature. Applies for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2025 but not beginning after 12/31/2029. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:15 am]
To House Economic Development 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] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:15 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB853 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Immigration Services Trust Fund to support immigration-related matters within the Office of Community Services. Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to submit annual reports to the Legislature on the accounting of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1200 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Workforce Housing Regulatory Sandbox Program within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Establishes an Advisory Council within the Workforce Housing Regulatory Sandbox Program to advise on environmental and cultura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. 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 | SB1169 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to establish a five-year community land trust equity pilot program to provide community land trusts with a line of credit to fund the acquisition, rehabilitation, renovation, or constr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. 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 | HB960 | Intro
25% | Increases the maximum value of capital advancement contracts that may be executed by the Department of Transportation without legislative approval. Repeals the requirement for the Department of Transportation to obtain legislative approval through co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, La Chica, Miyake, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | SB1283 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Emergency Home Loan Assistance Revolving Fund to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Establishes terms for loans issued from the Revolving Fund. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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. |
