| HI | HB648 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year pilot program in the Probate Court and Family Court of the First Circuit to fund certain guardianship and conservatorship related court resources in situations where the respondent does not have sufficient funds to pay for one ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB130 | Intro
25% | Imposes a cap on charges for searching for, reviewing, and segregating government records under the Uniform Information Practices Act. Provides for a waiver of fees in certain circumstances when the public interest is served by a government record's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB111 | Intro
25% | Authorizes civil claims to be made against a person, business, business owner, or business operator that profits from sexual exploitation or sex trafficking. Extends the statute of limitations for civil claims related to sexual exploitation or sex tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB186 | Intro
25% | Makes harassment by stalking a class C felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB198 | Intro
25% | Increases the mandatory minimum jail sentence for a first conviction of knowingly or intentionally violating a temporary restraining order from forty-eight to seventy-two hours. Requires mandatory mental health counseling for a first conviction of kn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB104 | Intro
25% | Requires objections made by an officer of a political party to candidate nomination papers to be filed with and determined by the Office of Elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB115 | Intro
25% | Requires defendants convicted of causing the death or disability of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant to make restitution in the form of financial support to each chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB147 | Intro
25% | Increases the real property exemption amount for attachment or execution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB662 | Intro
25% | Repeals the exemption for the expenditure of candidate's own funds under the definition of contribution. Makes contributions by the candidate's immediate family subject to contribution limits. Amends the loan amount that a candidate or candidate comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB291 | Intro
25% | Clarifies when the use of deadly force is not justified. Removes the requirement to retreat or surrender possessions prior to using deadly force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB493 | Intro
25% | For purposes of the state ethics laws, subjects legislators to all ethics laws applicable to employees by including legislators within the definition of "employees". Repeals references to legislators under the state ethics laws made redundant by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB128 | Intro
25% | Establishes factors under which officers may, without warrant, arrest and detain persons for petty misdemeanors and violations. Requires officers to record the factors that justified the warrantless arrest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB83 | Intro
25% | Increases penalties for certain firework violations and establishes higher penalties for any subsequent violation. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB127 | Intro
25% | Requires the court to enter on the record its written findings regarding the necessity of the conditions imposed on a defendant's release. Requires bail to be set in an amount that the defendant can afford based on certain factors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB148 | Intro
25% | Protects individuals who make claims of sexual misconduct from defamation lawsuits unless the claims were proven to be made with malice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB711 | Intro
25% | Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make restitution in the form of financial support t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB301 | Intro
25% | Makes a second or subsequent conviction for violation of a domestic abuse protective order a class C felony. Increases the sentencing requirements for second or subsequent convictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB538 | Intro
25% | Prohibit individuals from residing in a doorway or surrounding area of certain places. Gives county police departments primary authority to enforce the prohibition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB586 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to the Penal Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB140 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to specify that reapportionment shall be based on the resident population, as counted in the most recent decennial United States census for the respective reapportionment year, rather than the permanent resident po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB698 | Intro
25% | Amends the criminal penalties for various animal cruelty offenses by increasing the category of offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB769 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Democracy Dollars Program to be administered by the Campaign Spending Commission to provide vouchers to eligible residents for the purpose of making contributions to certain candidates, beginning with the 2028 elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB145 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to transmit all expungement orders to the Judiciary to effectuate the purposes of Act 159, SLH 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB134 | Intro
25% | Requires the Chief Election Officer to provide a system for the electronic filing of nomination papers. Effective 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB146 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB132 | Intro
25% | Makes an amendment to the Department of the Attorney General pilot project for a state-initiated expungement process of arrest records concerning promoting a detrimental drug in the third degree to include the possession of any schedule V substance i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB82 | Intro
25% | Excludes from the offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products the direct sale of large cigars to adult consumers for personal use. Effective 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB308 | Intro
25% | Increases the matching fund payments to candidates in the partial public financing program for excess qualifying contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB765 | Intro
25% | Prohibits officers, senior employees, consultants, and immediate family members of state or county contractors from contributing to candidate committees or noncandidate committees for the duration of the contract. Provides that if any unlawful contri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB103 | Intro
25% | Changes the age for which individuals are eligible for life without parole sentences from eighteen years of age or older to twenty-one years of age or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB675 | Intro
25% | Requires judges to make certain findings regarding a defendant's ability to afford bail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB523 | Intro
25% | Provides that a person who commits theft of property or services the value of which does not exceed $750, commits theft in the second degree if the person was convicted two or more times for any theft offenses in the five years prior to the current o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB772 | Intro
25% | Disallows the use of campaign funds to purchase up to two tickets for an event or fundraiser held by another candidate or committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB278 | Intro
25% | Requires county police departments and police oversight agencies to collect and report certain data regarding police stops, arrests, uses of force, and complaints to the Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance Division of the Department of the Attorn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB410 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to fund the operating expenses of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the fiscal biennium beginning on 7/1/2025, and ending on 6/30/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB766 | Intro
25% | Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in Hawaii, to begin with the 2026 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit reports to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB58 | Intro
25% | Amends the misdemeanor offense of criminal property damage in the third degree to include intentionally or knowingly damaging the property of another, if the property is used in a business operation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB388 | Intro
25% | Defines and prohibits the offense of torture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB686 | Intro
25% | Defines community outreach board to mean a board established to serve in a community advisory capacity under a county commission or a county department. Includes community outreach boards in existing provisions of the Sunshine Law relating to neighbo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB395 | Intro
25% | Increases the amount each juror or prospective juror is paid for each day of actual attendance at court. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB408 | Intro
25% | Extends the deadline to register to vote by mail from 30 to 10 days prior to a primary or general election. Repeals obsolete language regarding permanent absentee ballots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB633 | Intro
25% | Prohibits fireworks. Imposes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB691 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the campaign spending commission for permanent positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB767 | Intro
25% | Extends from 5 business days to 13 calendar days the time period for ballot curing after the date of election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB642 | Intro
25% | Requires all state agencies adopting, amending, or repealing a rule to make the full text of the rules of the agency available on the website of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor in a digitally accessible and searchable format.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB297 | Intro
25% | Requires that each county council district feature at least one voter service center for elections. Provides further, that each county council district must have one voter service center open on election day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB151 | Intro
25% | Requires the State to provide written notice to certain persons regarding the ability to file a claim for redress under applicable wrongful conviction law. Requires the liberal construction of that law. Provides for advance compensation for petitione...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB369 | Intro
25% | Amends section 11-364, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide that an excess contribution of more than $100 in cash, in the aggregate, from a single person during an election period to a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee shall es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB614 | Intro
25% | Defines "reported hate crime". Requires reporting of all possible reported hate crimes to appropriate authorities, including consistent documentation and analysis of such incidents. Requires law enforcement officers to receive annual training to iden...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB298 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the legislature to a maximum of twelve years in the house of representatives or senate, or both, for terms beginning on or after the general election of 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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