| SB1377 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Veterans Cemeteries Board within the Office of Veterans' Services of the Department of Defense to provide veterans cemeteries in the State with guidance, education, technical assistance, and other support to ensure compliance with sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB858 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to revitalize and enhance the Agricultural Statistics Program to collect data on local agricultural interests. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1382 | Engross
50% | Specifies that intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to a national guard member in the performance of duty is a class C felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1093 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the Hawaii Public Housing Authority?s powers relating to housing projects. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB865 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to establish a permanent extension agent position within the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience's Kona Cooperative Extension. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB428 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Farm to Families Program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Requires reports to the Legislature before the Regular Sessions of 2026 and 2027. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1487 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to issue revenue bonds for the purpose of financing qualifying priority capital improvement projects. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB395 | Engross
50% | Increases the amount each juror or prospective juror is paid for each day of actual attendance at court. Appropriates funds. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB529 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to secure revenue bonds as a line of credit or other instrument of indebtedness for the Bond Volume Cap Recycling Program. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB367 | Engross
50% | Allows for county permit exemptions for certain kinds of activities, including maintenance activities, installing group U structures, and certain interior remodeling work, when located outside a special management area. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1051 | Engross
50% | Extends the State's deadline to achieve its energy-efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045 and updates the standards. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish additional interim standards for electricity use reduction to be achi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB1547 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Budget and Finance to issue special purpose revenue bonds to assist Aloun Kauai Farming LLC, in the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of an integrated dairy. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1411 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to allow projects to grant preferences in the sale or lease of housing units to applicants who live or work within five miles of the project. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB119 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to establish the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program at the University of Hawaii Maui College. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB455 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Start-Up Business Loan Program. Establishes the Hawaii Start-Up Business Loan Program Special Fund. Requires Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to submit an annual report to the Legislature regarding the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1388 | Engross
50% | Adds two ex officio members that represent the Department of Education and the Board of Education to the School Facilities Authority Board. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB648 | Engross
50% | Establishes a two-year pilot program in the Probate Court and Family Court of the First Circuit to fund certain guardianship- and conservatorshiprelated court resources in situations where the respondent does not have sufficient funds to pay for one ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| SB1431 | Engross
50% | Establishes and appropriates funds for a Hepatitis Prevention Program within the Department of Health. Repeals the authority given to the Department of Health to provide medications for the treatment of certain newborns. Repeals the no implied warran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Takayama, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Amato, Chun, Marten, Olds, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HB306 | Engross
50% | Adds a minimum penalty and maximum penalty per violation of the State Water Code and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offense. Establishes factors the Commission on Water Resource Management must consider when d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WTL were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, Chang, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) McKelvey. |
| HB1007 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Hawaii Community Development Authority to cooperate with or assist public and private sector entities to engage in projects that improve the State. Establishes the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement program under t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB86 | Engross
50% | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the establishment of full-time equivalent permanent Makai Watch Coordinator positions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in WTL were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, Chang, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) McKelvey. |
| SB572 | Engross
50% | Adds loan funds administered by Nonprofit Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)for certain for-sale affordable housing projects to list of loan priorities for the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund. Expands use of moneys in the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, Kitagawa, La Chica, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick. |
| SB533 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support public schools impacted by a local investorowned electric utility's planned public safety power shutoff program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB1432 | Engross
50% | 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, HRS, and makes associated conforming ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1359 | Engross
50% | Establishes a grant program for drainage system maintenance and flood mitigation measures in residential areas, to be administered by the Board of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB54 | Engross
50% | Increases the penalty for a third or subsequent offense within five years of excessive speeding to a misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum jail sentence of thirty days. Authorizes the court, as part of the person's sentencing for the third or subseque...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB662 | Engross
50% | Authorizes county police officers to enforce the Statewide Traffic Code on all public streets, roadways, and highways within the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1343 | Engross
50% | Amends the quorum requirements to do business and validate acts of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Tam, Templo, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Holt. |
| HB496 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the use of certain words on the label of a consumer package that contains or includes tea or dried leaves from the plant Pipturus albidus, unless one hundred per cent of the tea or dried leaves were grown in the State. Appropriates funds fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18 @ 1:01 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB1456 | Engross
50% | Amends the definition of "beach restoration" to include activities undertaken to maintain and improve eroded beaches and degraded dune systems through the management of sand and native vegetation, place sand on an eroded beach, and remove abandoned r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB1022 | Engross
50% | Allows law enforcement officers, animal control officers, and firefighters to enter an unattended vehicle to protect the health, safety, or well-being of a pet animal that is endangered by being left or confined in an unattended vehicle. Allows priva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan, Ward. |
| SB1442 | Engross
50% | Clarifies and updates the responsibilities of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division of the Department of Health to reflect the current mental health systems of care that address the mental health needs of children and adolescents in the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:00 am]
To House Health Committee |
| SB1304 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to continue the statewide pesticide drift monitoring study. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Quinlan, Ward. |
| SB191 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Program within the Department of Human Services to assist eligible households in paying their energy bills. Requires the Public Utilities Commission Public Benefits Fee Administrator to provide certain in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB454 | Engross
50% | Establishes state goals related to economic diversification. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology and Development Corporation to meet those goals. Requires the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to submit annual reports over three years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18 @ 1:02 pm]
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB1408 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that Act 130, Session Laws of Hawaii 2024, shall take effect on either the date of the Secretary of the Interior's notification letter to the Congressional Committee Chairpersons that this Act meets none of the criteria in title 43 Code of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Garcia. |
| SB741 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-14
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB40 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to utilize revenue bonds when securing a line of credit or other instrument of indebtedness for the Bond Volume Cap Recycling Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, Kitagawa, La Chica, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick. |
| SB1469 | Engross
50% | Suspends the statute of limitations on collections during the period an assessment is pending on appeal before the Taxation Board of Review or Tax Appeal Court. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Garcia. |
| SB21 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish a Water Carrier Inflationary Cost Index Automatic Adjustment Mechanism and grant exemptions to any water carrier from any requirement under the Hawaii Water Carrier Act. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18 @ 2:05 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1402 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that the requirements for the securing of mooring lines in state commercial harbors shall not apply to certain vessels. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18 @ 9:30 am]
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB727 | Engross
50% | Establishes a temporary three-year women's court pilot program within the Second and Fifth Circuits. Requires the Third Circuit of the Judiciary and Big Island Drug Court to conduct an interim study to establish a blueprint for a women's court pilot ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:45 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1194 | Engross
50% | Makes laws regulating midwives and the practice of midwifery permanent. Clarifies the scope of practice of midwifery. Establishes licensure requirements for certified midwives and certified professional midwives. Establishes continuing education requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 17 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB338 | Engross
50% | For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2025, temporarily reinstates the Technology Infrastructure Renovation Tax Credit and expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers. Requires the Department of Taxation to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 10:00 am]
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB479 | Engross
50% | Repeals language that gives the Director of Finance discretion to use moneys in the Hawaii ABLE Savings Program Trust Fund if the Director elects to accept deposits from contributors instead of sending deposits directly to the ABLE Program Manager. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:05 am]
To House Health Committee |
| SB532 | Engross
50% | Allows school staff and agents trained by a health care professional to volunteer to administer medication to students at Department of Education public schools under certain conditions. Clarifies who may prescribe medication to be administered to st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:05 am]
To House Health Committee |
| SB1035 | Engross
50% | Prohibits businesses from offering, displaying, or advertising the price of a live-event tickets or short-term lodging without clearly and conspicuously disclosing the maximum total of all fees or charges; provided that government charges, shipping c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18 @ 2:05 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1396 | Engross
50% | Amends the transient accommodations tax rate beginning on 1/1/2027. Beginning 1/1/2027, requires a $20 transient accommodation tax to be levied per night for each furnishing of transient accommodations in exchange for points, miles, or other amounts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Tourism Committee |
| SB816 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Due Process in Immigration Proceedings Program to provide legal representation to individuals in immigration-related proceedings in immigration court. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 18 @ 2:15 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB935 | Engross
50% | Sets the retirement allowance for a member who first earns credited service as a judge after 6/30/2025, to 1.75 per cent of the judge's average final compensation for each year of credited service as a judge. Reduces the minimum number of years of cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
