| HI | SB1300 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for meal subsidies for students whose families are classified as asset limited, income constrained, employed (ALICE) households. Requires the Department of Education to adopt administrative rules. Eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
One Day Notice 02-19-25. |
| HI | SB7 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any employer or employee from subjecting an employee to abusive conduct. Requires employers and certain employees to take all reasonable preventative and responsive measures to ensure a safe work environment free of abusive conduct. Prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB439 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules to impose user fees that solely apply to nonresidents visiting state parks and trails, as selected by the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB520 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to amend its administrative rules to: (1) Authorize not more than five dwellings and dwelling units connected to a single individual wastewater system; and (2) Provide that not more than five bedrooms may be connecte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB738 | Intro
25% | Requires a wastewater treatment works to test sewage sludge and any other residual material for the presence of PFAS. Requires the Department of Health to adopt administrative rules for the safe disposal and sequestration of sewage sludge and other r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1197 | Intro
25% | Requires the Director of Transportation to adopt rules that require tour aircraft operators to carry aircraft liability insurance coverage. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 9:35 am]
The committee(s) on CPN will hold a public decision making on 02-19-25 9:35AM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference. |
| HI | SB1432 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Kalaupapa State Historical Area. Authorizes the Department of Health to continue providing services statewide to Hansen's disease patients living in the community. Repeals sections of chapter 326, Hawaii Revised Statutes, upon the one...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 10:16 am]
The committee(s) on WAM/JDC will hold a public decision making on 02-19-25 10:16AM; Conference Room 211 & Videoconference. |
| HI | SB1619 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Governor to enter into a Cosmetology Licensure Compact on behalf of the State to provide a streamlined process that allows cosmetologists to obtain a multistate license enabling them to practice cosmetology in another state without obt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 10:02 am]
The committee(s) on WAM will hold a public decision making on 02-19-25 10:02AM; Conference Room 211 & Videoconference. |
| HI | SB144 | Intro
25% | Beginning 7/1/2027, allows chiropractic students enrolled in a qualified chiropractic college to engage in clinical practice as part of their college instruction if directly supervised by a qualified licensed chiropractor. Section 1 effective 7/1/202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 9:35 am]
The committee(s) on CPN will hold a public decision making on 02-19-25 9:35AM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference. |
| HI | SB1396 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Climate Mitigation and Resiliency Special Fund to be administered by the Department of Defense to advance projects addressing climate change impacts. Requires the DOD to convene a selection committee to review and recommend projects f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB970 | Intro
25% | Allows students enrolled in certain qualifying chiropractic colleges to engage in clinical practice as part of their college instruction if directly supervised by a qualified licensed chiropractor. Requires the Hawaii Board of Chiropractic to adopt r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB734 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health, in consultation with various agencies and professionals, to review rules and practices and propose changes that have the potential to make wastewater systems and cesspool upgrades more affordable without compromisin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB530 | Intro
25% | Establishes Braille literacy as a policy of the State. Requires literacy assessments for eligible low vision and blind students to include Braille instruction and the use of Braille. Authorizes the Department of Education to adopt administrative rule...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB639 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the level of environmental restoration that owners and operators of underground storage tanks or tank systems must satisfy in the event of a confirmed release of jet fuel from an underground storage tank or tank system. Establishes that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB953 | Intro
25% | Establishes the State's Hospital Price Transparency Act. Prohibits hospitals from taking certain debt collection actions against a patient if the hospital is not in compliance with hospital price transparency laws. Allows patients and patient guarant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB851 | Intro
25% | Authorizes emergency medical technicians in the State to administer buprenorphine after the administration of an opioid antagonist during an opioid-related drug overdose response. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules, allocate resources f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB786 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2027, requires all government records required to be open to public inspection under the Uniform Information Practices Act to be made available in a disability-accessible format upon request. Requires the Governor, Chief Justice, and Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1171 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish rules allowing the sale and distribution of fine mesh nets in the State to protect plants from invasive species. Requires DOA to establish a program to provide certain monofilament netting free of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1120 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules governing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB816 | Intro
25% | Authorizes emergency medical technicians in the State to administer buprenorphine after the administration of an opioid antagonist during an opioid-related drug overdose response. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules that incorporate stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB12 | Intro
25% | Classifies neonicotinoid pesticides as restricted use pesticides and establishes a list of chemicals that shall belong to the neonicotinoid class of chemicals. Prohibits the sale or use of seeds coated or treated with neonicotinoid pesticides. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
The recommendation was not adopted. |
| HI | SB136 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from disassembling, dismantling, or demolishing iron projects unless the person has completed an apprenticeship program for ironworkers approved and registered with the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations. Establishes pena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB418 | Intro
25% | Establishes a regulatory review program overseen by the Department of the Attorney General to evaluate all Hawaii Administrative Rules adopted by state agencies and identify any rules that should be retained, modified or repealed. Requires each state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB684 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt administrative rules to ban the usage of cell phones at Department of Education schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1304 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules governing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1017 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to adopt by rule, any federal rule or regulation relating to the public lands of the State as it existed on 1/1/2025 that it deems are in the public interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB956 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from disassembling, dismantling, or demolishing iron projects unless the person has completed an apprenticeship program for ironworkers approved and registered with the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations. Establishes pena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | SB318 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt rules establishing privacy requirements for directtoconsumer genetic testing in the State. Requires the Department's rules to specify whether consumers' genetic information may be used...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1165 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to determine standards for safe levels of nicotine in products to ensure the prevention of addiction. Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to restrict the sale of any products that contain levels ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1556 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Trusted Public Representative Program within the Office of Information Practices under which the Office assigns a volunteer Trusted Public Representative trained in the requirements of the Sunshine Law and observes public agency meeting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB1230 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the level of environmental restoration that owners and operators of underground storage tanks or tank systems must satisfy in the event of a confirmed release of jet fuel. Specifies the restoration condition and quality acceptable by the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1552 | Intro
25% | Adopts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact to regulate the practice of telepsychology and temporary in-person, facetoface practice of psychology by psychologists across state boundaries in the performance of their psychological practice. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1554 | Intro
25% | Establishes a program within the Office of Community Services to authorize the formation of community collaborative capital improvement projects eligible for state grants, which may be exempted from certain state and county regulatory requirements un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1542 | Intro
25% | Beginning 7/1/2027, requires app store providers to determine the age category for each of their users in the State and verify their age; provide a mechanism for parents to block minors from downloading unsuitable apps; and obtain parental consent be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1636 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health, in consultation with various agencies and professionals, to review rules and practices and propose changes that have the potential to make wastewater systems and cesspool upgrades more affordable without compromisin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1655 | Intro
25% | Allows any hemp processor with a permit from the Department of Health to: (1) Sell, hold, offer or distribute for sale edible manufactured hemp products in the form of a gummy or beverage; and (2) manufacture, hold, and sell a manufactured hemp produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB669 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2026, prohibits the issuance of building permits for new single-family dwellings that are part of a development of twenty or more dwellings and do not include a rooftop photovoltaic energy generating system, unless a variance is granted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs 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 | SB764 | Intro
25% | Establishes a 1-year Physician Licensing Subsidy Pilot Program within the Professional and Vocational Licensing Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to provide subsidized licensing fees for eligible medical school graduates and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1039 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Health to adopt, by rule, any federal regulations as they existed on 1/1/2025, relating to the protection, preservation, care, and improvement of the physical and mental health of the people of the State that it deems to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1014 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii State Energy Office to adopt certain federal regulations as they existed on 1/1/2025, that it deems to be in the public interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs 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 | SB1125 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Early Learning Cooperative Program within the Department of Human Services. Establishes an Advisory Council to advise on the goals of the Early Learning Cooperative Program. Requires the Department of Human Services to secure federal f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1113 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Kalaupapa State Historical Area. Authorizes the Department of Health to continue providing services statewide to Hansen's disease patients living in the community. Repeals sections of chapter 326, Hawaii Revised Statutes, upon the one...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB466 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) to consider as a preference under chapter 201H, HRS, the proximity between the housing location and the applicant's place of employment; whether the applicant is a state or count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB541 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the level of environmental restoration owners and operators of underground storage tanks or tank systems that had a confirmed release must satisfy by requiring the removal of all jet fuel, including fuel additives and all compounds resultin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Health and Human Services 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 | SB486 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Pomaikai Hawaii Fund within the Department of Budget and Finance for administrative purposes. Requires the Department of Budget and Finance to adopt administrative rules to administer the Pomaikai Hawaii Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB517 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Microbial Algae Soil Products Pilot Program within the Department of Agriculture in collaboration with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and other relevant stakeholders. Establishes the Microbi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB666 | Intro
25% | Requires the Director of Transportation to adopt rules that require tour aircraft operators to have aircraft liability insurance coverage no less than $5,000,000 per person per incident.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Transportation Committee |
