| HI | SB88 | Pass | Authorizes the payment of allowances for TRICARE, TRICARE Dental Program, and vision coverage to all officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel of the Hawaii National Guard ordered to active duty for more than 30 days. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Act 181, on 06/06/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1281). |
| HI | SB65 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Act 182, on 06/06/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1282). |
| HI | SB589 | Enroll
75% | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish an installation goal for customer-sited distributed energy resources in the State. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish tariffs to achieve the installation goal and for grid servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Notice of intent to veto (Gov. Msg. No. 1301) |
| HI | SB865 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Agribusiness Development Corporation to support the Coffee and Orchard Crops Extension and Applied Research Program and Kona Research Station in the County of Hawaii, and to fund the establishment of one permanent Extension ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Act 184, on 06/06/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1284). |
| HI | SB1146 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the development of an action plan and pre-engineering concept plan to help with debris management and water quality control in the Ala Wai watershed and establishment of two graduate assistant positi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Act 183, on 06/06/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1283). |
| HI | SB1567 | Pass | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to complete a comprehensive review of the classification and compensation systems for all civil service positions under its jurisdiction by 10/31/2026. Allows the Department to contract with a th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Act 180, on 06/06/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1280). |
| HI | SB385 | Pass | Requires condominium associations to provide electronic copies of their governing documents, as amended or restated, to unit owners or their authorized agents, upon request, at no cost. Repeals the authority of condominium associations to charge a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-03
Act 161, on 06/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1261). |
| HI | SB662 | Pass | Authorizes county police officers to enforce the Statewide Traffic Code on all public streets, roadways, or highways within the State. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-03
Act 164, on 06/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1264). |
| HI | SB1300 | Pass | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, expands free school meal coverage to students who currently qualify for reduced-price lunch. Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, expands free school meal coverage to students whose family income is not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-30
Act 139, on 05/30/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1239). |
| HI | SB752 | Pass | Beginning 1/1/2026, amends the notice period for a property insurer to notify a policyholder of a cancellation, including cancellation due to nonpayment, or nonrenewal of a policy of property insurance. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
Act 110, on 05/29/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1210). |
| HI | SB1008 | Pass | Authorizes the counties to adopt ordinances to enforce the accessible parking space requirements for parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities and electric vehicles. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
Act 111, on 05/29/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1211). |
| HI | SB1048 | Pass | Amends Act 205, SLH 2024, to clarify standards and safeguards in online crowdfunding, including creating separate registration, reporting, and fee requirements that are specific to platform charities and charitable fundraising platforms. Extends the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
Act 108, on 05/29/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1208). |
| HI | SB849 | Pass | Prohibits and imposes penalties for the intentional taking, harming, or killing of Io (Hawaiian hawk). Increases penalties and fees for taking and killing indigenous species of aquatic life, wildlife, and land plants that are native to the State. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-27
Act 098, on 05/27/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1198). |
| HI | SB102 | Pass | Prohibits third-party restaurant reservation services from advertising, listing, promoting, facilitating, enabling, or selling restaurant reservations without first obtaining a written agreement from the applicable restaurant authorizing the action. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-19
Act 077, on 05/19/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1177). |
| HI | SB869 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-15
Act 053, on 05/15/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1153). |
| HI | SB119 | Enroll
75% | Appropriates funds to establish a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program at the University of Hawaii Maui College. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB140 | Enroll
75% | Prohibits the importation of firewood into the State unless the firewood is certified as heat-treated and labeled accordingly or the importation is authorized and permitted by the Department of Agriculture before importation. Requires persons who imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB222 | Enroll
75% | Extends the sunset date of the Illegal Fireworks Task Force from 6/30/2025 to 6/30/2030 and extends the annual reporting requirements to the Legislature. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB223 | Enroll
75% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish an independent program relating to the prevention, control, and extinguishment of wildland fires within forest reserves. Authorizes the Administrator of Forestry and Wildlife to estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB292 | Enroll
75% | Establishes safe harbor protections for survivors of sexual exploitation who seek medical or law enforcement assistance. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB383 | Enroll
75% | Increases the minimum amount for purchases constituting small purchase procurements that are subject to an electronic system, from $25,000 to $50,000. Requires a report to the Legislature. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB423 | Enroll
75% | Requires one voting member of the Early Learning Board to have experience as a local provider of early childhood education and development services. Adds the Director of the Hawaii Head Start State Collaboration Office as an ex officio, nonvoting mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB825 | Enroll
75% | Beginning 2/5/2026, extends the period for a notice of termination of a rental agreement from five business days to ten calendar days; requires landlords, or their agents, and tenants to engage in mediation and requires landlords and their agents to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB850 | Enroll
75% | Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to collect data and submit to the Legislature a report focused on the health disparities experienced by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities in the State prior to the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB951 | Enroll
75% | Requires mandatory written reports of child abuse or neglect to the Department of Human Services to include the military status of the child's parent or other persons responsible for the child's care, if known. Requires the Department of Human Servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1044 | Enroll
75% | Expands the powers of the Hawaii Property Insurance Association and reactivates the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to help stabilize the property insurance market in the State. Establishes the Condominium Loan Program and the Condominium Loan Revolving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1170 | Enroll
75% | Authorizes the director of a county planning department to issue a special management area use permit to redevelop permanent affordable multi-family rental housing that has been substantially destroyed as result of certain natural disasters, with cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1186 | Enroll
75% | Establishes the Statewide Interagency Food Systems Coordination Team and the Interagency Food Systems Working Group within the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1281 | Enroll
75% | Extends the sunset date of Act 107, SLH 2023, which allows for the reimbursement of services provided through telehealth via an interactive telecommunications system, until 12/31/2027. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1249 | Enroll
75% | Establishes the temporary Agricultural Enforcement Pilot Program within the Department of Law Enforcement. Clarifies, creates, and strengthens laws regarding crimes and violations related to agriculture or agricultural lands. Establishes clear distin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SCR12 | Pass | Recognizing International Dark Sky Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Received notice of Adoption (Sen. Com. No. 890). |
| HI | SCR60 | Pass | Urging The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Develop A Plan To Produce Sufficient Housing To Meet The State's Demand.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Received notice of Adoption (Sen. Com. No. 890). |
| HI | SCR115 | Pass | Affirming The Importance Of Marine Ecosystem Restoration To Achieve The State's Decarbonization Goals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Received notice of Adoption (Sen. Com. No. 890). |
| HI | SB1296 | Enroll
75% | Exempts reconstruction of any lawfully constructed structure that was damaged or destroyed in a disaster proclaimed by the Governor to constitute a state of emergency or a disaster declared pursuant to federal law from the requirements of a special m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-29
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB382 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-04-25
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-25 1:00 PM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB717 | Engross
50% | Repeals the prohibition placed on certain employees exempt from Civil Service Law from grieving a suspension or discharge. Allows any employee who is a member of an appropriate bargaining unit to grieve a suspension or discharge. Effective 7/1/3000. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-25 4:30 PM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB828 | Engross
50% | Expands workers' compensation medical benefits for firefighters to include coverage for adenocarcinoma or mesothelioma of the respiratory system; cancer of the buccal cavity, colon, pharynx, and thyroid; and malignant melanoma. Specifies that an empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-25 4:30 PM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB1120 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a feasibility study on implementing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State. Requires, no later than 1/1/2028, the Department of Transportation to adopt rules governing a clean fue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-25 5:15 PM; Conference Room 225. |
| HI | SB1229 | Engross
50% | Extends the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Pilot Program to 6/30/2030. Gives preference to for-sale housing development projects developed under governmental assistance programs approved by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Received notice of change in Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 880). |
| HI | SCR54 | Pass | Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Convene And Provide Administrative Assistance To A Desalination Planning Task Force To Determine Whether The Use Of Desalination For Large-scale Water Consumption In The State Is Feasible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Received notice of Adoption (Sen. Com. No. 877). |
| HI | SCR53 | Pass | Requesting The Comptroller To Cooperate With The Hawaii State Public Library System, Office Of Planning And Sustainable Development, And Hawaii Broadband And Digital Equity Office To Identify Rural And Underserved Communities In The State With A Need...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Received notice of Adoption (Sen. Com. No. 877). |
| HI | SB952 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Human Services, in collaboration with the Office of Wellness and Resilience, to design a five-year Child Welfare System Diversion and Intervention Pilot Program to support families and children involved, at risk of involvem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-24
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 876). |
| HI | SB657 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology within the University of Hawaii at Manoa to establish and operate a Center for Climate Resilient Development. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-25-25 3:00PM in conference room 229. |
| HI | SB989 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to assist small businesses with technology enablement and develop project management software to simplify the facilitated application process for small businesses. Requires a report ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 874). |
| HI | SB1202 | Pass | Allows campaign funds to be used for a candidates child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-23
Act 019, on 04/22/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1119). |
| HI | SB125 | Engross
50% | Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" for State Enterprise Zone Program purposes to include retail sales of tangible personal property manufactured and sold in the enterprise zone to the final consumer, the processing of value-added a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 863). |
| HI | SB298 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to be expended by the Department of Human Services to increase funding for Medicaid in-home services. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-25 3:30PM; Conference Room 329. |
| HI | SB299 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the Healthcare Education Loan Repayment Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-25 3:30PM; Conference Room 329. |
| HI | SCR31 | Pass | Endorsing Taiwan's International Participation, Supporting The Signing Of A United States-taiwan Bilateral Trade Agreement, And Commemorating The Relationships And Exchanges Between The State Of Hawaii And Taiwan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | SCR20 | Pass | Requesting The Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation To Comprehensively Reevaluate Its Policies Regarding In-person Contact Visitation At Correctional Facilities Throughout The State To Best Support Incarcerated Persons In Staying Connected Wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
