| HI | SB1214 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Vacant Homes Special Fund under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for rental assistance programs. Establishes a general excise tax surcharge on an owner that allows a residential real property to remain vacant for 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced. |
| HI | SB1215 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Malama Aina Visitor Impact Tax Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to allocate funds to state agencies to improve the quality of visitor experience to sustain the economic benefits contributed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
Introduced. |
| 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 | SB744 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Condominium Loan Program and the Condominium Loan Program Special Fund, to be administered by the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority on behalf of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, for the purpose of pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB817 | Intro
25% | Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish an out-of-state office in the Philippines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB455 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program. Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program special fund. Requires DBEDT to submit an annual report to the Legislature regarding the program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB450 | Intro
25% | Transfers the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission from the Department of Accounting and General Services to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the authority hel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Referred to CAA, ECD/LAB, FIN, referral sheet 2 |
| 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 | HB445 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to exercise its power of eminent domain to acquire certain parcels. Appropriates funds for the acquisition of those parcels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB650 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for providing education and support to local businesses regarding the United States Food and Drug Administration's guidance on colored sea salt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | SB941 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Green Bonds Working Group within the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, to determine the feasibility of a green bond financing program for the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB499 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Food and Beverage Supply Chain Resiliency Income Tax Credit to be administered by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and Department of Taxation. Requires DBEDT to establish expedited permitting processes for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | SB983 | Intro
25% | Establishes that Hawaii Start-Up Business Program within the Business Development and Support Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Establishes the Hawaii Start-Up Business Program Special Fund. Requires DBEDT to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB981 | Intro
25% | Requires the Research and Economic Analysis Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to study the impacts of the Act 114, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, minimum wage increases on businesses and other employers. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1045 | Intro
25% | Transfers the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Department of Accounting and General Services. Transfers the broadband duties of the Director of Commerce and Consumer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB875 | Intro
25% | Reduces the general excise tax rate on the gross proceeds or income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) or special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WI...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB132 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program. Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program special fund. Requires DBEDT to submit an annual report to the Legislature regarding the program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB524 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to exercise its power of eminent domain to acquire certain parcels. Appropriates funds for the acquisition of those parcels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB547 | Intro
25% | Incentivizes the installation and use of gray water recycling systems and atmospheric water generators in the State by establishing an income tax credit to be administered by the Department of Taxation. Requires the Department of Business, Economic D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB495 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop, construct, and support facilities that can accommodate shock aging processes for meat products. Appropriates funds into and out of the Hawaii Agricultura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB505 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism's Research and Economic Analysis Division to conduct a comprehensive study to assess the impacts of minimum wage increases on small businesses and the overall economic health of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB509 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to identify sites throughout the State that are suitable for the development of slaughterhouses. Requires the Agribusiness Development Corporation to plan, design, construct, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB581 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Aerospace and Aeronautics Development Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB618 | Intro
25% | Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit by requiring the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to publish on its website the names of the qualified productions and the amount of the tax cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB582 | Intro
25% | Transfers the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission from the Department of Accounting and General Services to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the authority hel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB437 | N/A
0% | Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish an out-of-state office in the Philippines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB489 | N/A
0% | Establishes a Vacant Homes Special Fund under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for rental assistance programs. Establishes a general excise tax surcharge on an owner that allows a residential real property to remain vacant for 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB671 | N/A
0% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to identify all legislative districts in the State in which a majority of the population consists of Native Hawaiians. Designates these districts as Native Hawaiian majority distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | SB33 | Intro
25% | Renames the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Department of Housing, Economic Development, and Tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB369 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Food and Beverage Supply Chain Resiliency Income Tax Credit to be administered by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and Department of Taxation. Requires DBEDT to establish expedited permitting processes for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
Introduced and passed First Reading. |
