| HI | HCR43 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Department Of Law Enforcement And Department Of Transportation To Study The Possibility Of A Highway Patrol And The Installation Of Speed Cameras Along Major Freeways And Highways In Primary Areas Of Speeding, Including The Impact It W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HCR23 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation, In Planning And Designing The New Oahu Community Correctional Center In Halawa, To Include A Circuit And District Court Facility And Establish A Release Procedure Under Which Detainees Or I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HCR72 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Ethics Commission Of Each County To Adopt Standards Similar To That Applicable To State Elected Officials And Officers As Adopted And Enforced By The State Ethics Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HCR100 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The State Of Hawaii To Require That Any Individual Or Group That Administers The Mandatory Harassment And Discrimination Training To Employees Demonstrate Adequate Competency In Lgbtq+ (lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, And More ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SR124 | Intro
Sine Die | Supporting The Implementation Of The Recommendations From All Cycles Of The Universal Periodic Review By The United Nations Human Rights Council, Where Applicable To The State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SCR154 | Intro
Sine Die | Supporting The Implementation Of The Recommendations From All Cycles Of The Universal Periodic Review By The United Nations Human Rights Council, Where Applicable To The State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB463 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Judiciary to conduct a study to determine the ability, best approaches, various issues, and potential impacts of requiring courts to disassociate a residential tenant from an eviction proceeding brought by a landlord in certain circumsta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1097 | Engross
Sine Die | Reduces the time the Hawaii Public Housing Authority is required to store unclaimed personal effects of a tenant evicted from public housing from thirty days to fourteen days. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB229 | Engross
Sine Die | Restricts motor vehicles that tow a motor vehicle or trailer from the far left lane on roads with three or more lanes going in the same direction with exemptions. Specifies penalties for restricted motor vehicles who drive in the far left lane on roa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1334 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts the donation of wild game meat or meat products, including axis deer, to a charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization for the purpose of feeding needy individuals from certain laws regarding the inspection and transportation of meat. Ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SR74 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Legislature To Advance Legislation And Support Policies That Safeguard Individuals In The Agricultural Community, Their Families, Their Livestock And Other Property, And Other Individuals Under Their Employment Or Care By Amending The Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SCR91 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Legislature To Advance Legislation And Support Policies That Safeguard Individuals In The Agricultural Community, Their Families, Their Livestock And Other Property, And Other Individuals Under Their Employment Or Care By Amending The Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB892 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes limitations on geographical restrictions provided as a condition of probation. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB367 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 |
| HI | SR128 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Office Of Elections To Convene A Working Group On Automatic Voter Registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SR182 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Establishment Of An Intergovernmental Task Force To Eradicate Illegal Gambling And Drug Activities And To Establish Community Safe Zones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SCR207 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Establishment Of An Intergovernmental Task Force To Eradicate Illegal Gambling And Drug Activities And To Establish Community Safe Zones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SCR208 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Judiciary To Urge Courts To Prioritize Victim And Witness Rights To Speedy Trials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SR183 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Judiciary To Urge Courts To Prioritize Victim And Witness Rights To Speedy Trials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB372 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits state legislators from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the Legislature, including any extension of any regular session or special session or any legislative recess day, holida...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB141 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes the members of the Elections Commission subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. Clarifies that a majority of all members to which the Elections Commission is entitled shall constitute a quorum to do business. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB411 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes uniform provisions for the assessment of administrative penalties under the State Ethics Code and Lobbyist Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1272 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires towing truck operators to obtain a towing license. Establishes the Towing Authority within the Department of Transportation to issue towing licenses and regulate towing operations. Prohibits the act of vehicle mobilization without a valid to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB985 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a new gift card fraud law, under the scope of unfair and deceptive practices law, which requires merchants and third-party gift card resellers to take certain steps to prevent gift card scams. Requires the conspicuous provision of informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB617 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, for each draft environmental impact statement, a public hearing in the community directly affected by the underlying proposed action. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB297 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose to obtain an abortion and to obtain or use contraceptives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the applicability of the statute of repose for actions arising from construction defects. Clarifies the required contents of a notice of claim of construction defect served on a contractor. Amends the process and time frame for a claimant t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1315 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolishes joint and several liability for government entities in claims and cases relating to the maintenance and design of highways. Makes government entities liable only for the percentage share of the damages actually attributable. Effective 7/1/2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB416 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits rental agreements from prohibiting tenants from keeping pet animals in dwelling units, subject to certain conditions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB593 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines a "dog breeder" as any person who owns, possesses, controls, or otherwise has charge or custody of more than ten dogs over the age of twelve months with intact sexual organs, and who sells, barters, or otherwise transfers more than three litt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1314 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the annual reporting requirements imposed on the Department of the Attorney General and the chief of police of each county regarding licenses to carry firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1417 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to a protective services worker who is engaged in the performance of the worker's duties is a class C felony. Clarifies that a protective services worker is a public servant for the purp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB7 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB1031 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Legislature to adopt any Concurrent Resolution to propose a non-binding advisory referendum question concerning the issuance of general obligation bonds to the people, who may vote on the question during any general election. Imposes n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1293 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the amount of recovery for tenants who prevail in civil suits for a landlord's violation of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code concerning a dwelling unit within an area that was a federally declared disaster area as of 8/8/2023. Provides f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB417 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes as a class B felony the unlicensed performance of contractor work, during or within 5 years following a national emergency, state of emergency, or disaster proclamation, in an affected political subdivision. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1506 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a statute of repose prohibiting the commencement of a civil action against a professional land surveyor or owner of real property if ten years has elapsed since the latter of the date of completion of a contract or final payment for land ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1109 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the definition of "finding of no significant impact". Defines "finding of completion of environmental disclosure process". Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1611 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a person appointed to serve as the Governor's Senior Advisor for Mental Health and the Justice System, Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness, or another position that serves as a Senior Advisor to the Governor to obtain the advice and conse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1248 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that, in certain circumstances, an actor rightfully present on agricultural lands may exercise deadly force with a right to stand the actor's ground and not retreat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB216 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits residing on agricultural park lots unless within a farm dwelling permitted by the Board of Agriculture. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to conduct inspections of agricultural park lots for unpermitted farm dwellings during fiscal y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1159 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits certain octopus aquaculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB740 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Land Use Commission to designate another agency, including the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, Department of Agriculture, or Agribusiness Development Corporation, to monitor compliance with any restrictions imposed in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB381 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires appointments and selections of heads of state divisions and agencies that require a board approval to be made through a publicly established process and timeline. Requires the approval of the process and timeline to appoint or select a new h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires disbursing officers to notify employees within sixty days of making a determination that an indebtedness has occurred to the government resulting from salary or wage overpayment. Amends the amount that a disbursing officer may deduct from an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale or rent in perpetuity to buyers or renters who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants or renters, and do not own a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1412 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the Hawaii Public Housing Authority?s powers relating to housing projects. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB302 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "cultural". Prohibits the use of consumer fireworks except for cultural use by permit. Repeals the wording of section 132D-3(1), HRS, that generally allows the use of consumer fireworks without a permit on New Year's Eve, New...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a public trust purpose for the Commission on Water Resource Management. Allows the Commission on Water Resource Management to retain independent counsel. Repeals the First Deputy to the Chairperson of the Commission on Water Resource Mana...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB711 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any appointment of a person by the Governor to serve in the Executive Branch in the position of an advisor to be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate if that person's salary is greater than $200,000, and is not paid from the Gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
