| HI | SB1121 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2027, establishes a preference in the Hawaii Public Procurement Code that favors bids or offers from businesses that intend to use a higher proportion of allelectric construction vehicles in Department of Transportation construction pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| HI | SB1093 | Intro
25% | Establishes a parking demand management program. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to transition all state employee monthly parking options to daily rate parking. Requires the Department to procure parking reservation softwar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| 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
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| HI | SB1513 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the transfer of funds appropriated for positions to operating expenses, and vice versa, except to fulfill the Legislature's purpose for which the funds were appropriated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
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| HI | SB1617 | Intro
25% | Prohibits boards from beginning or continuing meetings after 9:00 p.m., excluding county council meetings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | SB444 | Intro
25% | Authorizes boards and commissions to make employment decisions related to its officers and employees without the approval of the head of the department to which the board or commission is administratively attached.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | SB1253 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the prohibition against board and commission holdover members from holding office beyond the end of the second regular legislative session following the expiration of the member's term of office takes precedence over any conflicting st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | SB1637 | Intro
25% | Expands the authority of the Office of the Ombudsman by amending the definition of "administrative act" to include the lease of state agricultural lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | SB74 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Office of the State Architect within the Department of Accounting and General Services to be headed by the State Architect. Authorizes the State Architect to organize, manage, and oversee the design review of all state construction pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | SB92 | Intro
25% | No later than January 1, 2026, requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to install and maintain automated external defibrillators in all state buildings, including all public schools. Requires DAGS to establish a Cardiac Emergency R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| HI | SB1132 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to identify all state-owned buildings that have the space and capability to establish a child care center on its premises and establish and administer child care centers within the identified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | SB615 | Intro
25% | Requires that any procurement change order that increases the contract cost by more than fifty per cent or substantially increases the scope of work be considered a new contract for procurement purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| HI | SB270 | Intro
25% | Authorizes any member of a board to attend an informational meeting or presentation on matters relating to board business; provided that the meeting or presentation is not specifically and exclusively organized for or directed toward members of the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| HI | SB131 | Intro
25% | Requires the Procurement Policy Board to adopt rules requiring contracts to impose mandatory fines or provide for termination of a contract for default if a contractor fails to perform the contractor's duties or if there is a major delay in a deliver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| HI | SB78 | Intro
25% | Makes an application for voter registration part of certain state agency application processes. Requires the sharing of certain information among certain state agencies, election personnel, and online voter registration system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| HI | SB380 | Intro
25% | Reclassifies certain non-general funds of the Department of Accounting and General Services, pursuant to the recommendations made by the Auditor in Auditor's Report No. 23-17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| HI | SB300 | Intro
25% | Establishes unspecified deadlines for the governor to appoint, and for political parties to nominate, individuals to fill certain state senatorial vacancies. Provides that if the Governor fails to appoint an individual to fill a state legislative vac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| HI | SB372 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Advisory Commission in the Department of Accounting and General Services to propose names or a change of names for state buildings, parks, facilities, and events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| HI | SB1005 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the Lieutenant Governor's duties as Secretary of State for Intergovernmental Relations, including working to prevent other jurisdictions from making or supporting travel arrangements to Hawaii for homeless or unhoused individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| HI | SB1307 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a procurement officer from disclosing a competing offeror's proposal or evaluation score, except the summary of scores, during a debriefing requested by a non-selected offeror. Authorizes the disclosure of a competing offeror's proposal or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | SB1474 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the Hawaii Public Procurement Code contracts by government bodies to procure certain construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | SB1397 | Intro
25% | Provides the Governor with discretion to not fill a vacant legislative position if the vacancy occurs one hundred twenty days or less from an upcoming primary election until after the results of the primary election are certified.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| 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
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| HI | SB1472 | Intro
25% | Authorizes supplemental allotments and transfer of unrequired balances for capital improvement program projects and establishes a protocol fund for each state principal department. Effective upon approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | SB1583 | Intro
25% | Authorizes state legislators to use state-owned or stateoperated equipment for bona fide community initiatives within their respective electoral districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | SB1227 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2026, requires contracts for services awarded to community-based organizations by the Department of Health, Department of Human Services, or Judiciary in support of fulfilling their statutory mandates to individuals, families, and commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| HI | SB833 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the office of the governor for a state childcare facility for state employees and their families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | SB1089 | Intro
25% | Requires the design of all new state building construction where parking is to be included to provide that at least twenty-five per cent of parking stalls be electric vehicle charger-ready. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, in consultation wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | SB863 | 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] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | SB902 | Intro
25% | Relating To Procurement. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB900 | Intro
25% | Relating To Government. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | SB1108 | Intro
25% | Requires specialized training for all employees of the Office of the Ombudsman to develop relevant expertise to handle complaints about the child welfare system. Requires the Office of the Ombudsman to publish a quarterly report on its website that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | SB901 | Intro
25% | Relating To Government Operations. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB341 | Intro
25% | Requires the State or a county to reimburse an officer or employee within thirty calendar days of a request for reimbursement for travel costs that the officer or employee loaned to the State or a county. Requires the State or a county to pay a perce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | SB540 | Intro
25% | Requires state agencies to establish a Plant-Based-By-Default Program for food and drinks offered at state-operated prisons, state-licensed hospitals, and government-sponsored events. Requires the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Comptroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | SB188 | Intro
25% | Establishes the State Permitting Office within the Department of Transportation to process building and infrastructure permits for construction of state-owned buildings, state roads and highways, and other construction on state lands. Appropriates mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
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| HI | SB230 | Intro
25% | Requires that if parking is to be included in any new state building construction, the design provide that at least twenty-five per cent of parking stalls be electric vehicle charger-ready. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, in consultation wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
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| HI | SB56 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to establish and operate a Child Care Center Pilot Program on Oahu for eligible children of state employees, one in or near the state capitol and one in Kapolei. Appropriates funds. Repeals o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
