| HI | HB309 | Intro 25% | Establishes a fishpond inventory working group within the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to create an inventory and map of all fishponds on state land and conduct a literature review. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 Reported from HED (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 294), recommending referral to FIN. |
| HI | HB239 | Intro 25% | Amends the definition of "child abuse or neglect" by clarifying that the failure to provide certain needs to a child shall not constitute child abuse or neglect if the sole reason the person responsible for the care of the child is unable to adequate... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB443 | Intro 25% | Appropriates funds for one retention coordinator position, one internship coordinator position, and student enrollment management initiatives at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB702 | Intro 25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for Medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB871 | Intro 25% | Clarifies that Act 130, SLH 2024, which amended the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, takes effect on the earlier of the date of the Secretary of the Interior's notification letter that Act 130 does not require congressional approval, or on the date tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB972 | Intro 25% | Authorizes condominium associations and planned community associations located in a zoning district that allows for transient vacation rentals to impose an impact fee on owners or members who use their units as transient vacation rentals. Effective 7... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1220 | Intro 25% | Appropriates funds to support the efforts of the Division of Aquatic Resources of the Department of Land and Natural Resources in the removal of the majano anemone from Kaneohe Bay. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1239 | Intro 25% | Authorizes the Hawaiian Homes Commission to retain independent legal counsel, with any legal fees owed to be paid by the State, and also use the services of the Attorney General as needed. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1382 | Intro 25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to contract with a non-profit specializing in domestic violence to provide training and staff to be housed on-site in Child Welfare Services Branch offices to support all aspects of screening fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1477 | Intro 25% | Clarifies that the monthly needs allowance afforded to individuals living in certain long-term care facilities is not intended to replace or affect funds received as a state supplemental payment for domiciliary care and shall be supplemental to any f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1384 | Intro 25% | Establishes the Hawaii Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council. Requires an action plan and reports to the Governor and Legislature by certain dates. Establishes positions. Authorizes the hiring of consultants to assist the advisory council. Appropr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB85 | Intro 25% | Restores the amount of conveyance tax revenues to be paid into the Land Conservation Fund to ten per cent of conveyance taxes collected each fiscal year. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am] To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB144 | Intro 25% | Authorizes 2 or more members of the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority to meet during its transition period regarding any matter relating to the Authority's business; provided that no commitment to vote is made or sought and no decision-ma... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am] To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB175 | Intro 25% | Requires owners or lessees of real property to maintain their property and establish penalties for failure to do so. Allows for exceptions. Requires DOA to establish rules for the enforcement and collection of fines for violations relating to the pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm] To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB214 | Intro 25% | Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as a school resource officer or investigator in positions identified by the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:00 am] To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB333 | Intro 25% | Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high school classes to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:01 pm] To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB224 | Intro 25% | Establishes a procedure for immediately removing an unlawful occupant of a dwelling or premises with assistance from law enforcement. Provides that an unlawful occupant of a dwelling or premises is civilly liable for unpaid utility bills. Provides th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB228 | Intro 25% | Authorizes the counties to adopt rules for the use of electronic license plates and for intentionally obscuring a license plate with a cover or shield. Prohibits the use of license plate flipping devices. Establishes minimum and maximum fines. Effect... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm] To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB319 | Intro 25% | Exempts from the crime of cruelty to animals in the second degree the extermination of insects, vermin, and pests, and the extermination of feral chickens on private property by the property owner; provided that the extermination is conducted in acco... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:30 am] To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB332 | Intro 25% | Expands the Electronic Device Recycling and Recovery Act to include the collection and recycling of certain lithium-ion batteries. Requires manufacturers of lithium-ion batteries to recycle or arrange for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries sold i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 13 @ 10:15 am] To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB299 | Intro 25% | Appropriates funds for the Native Resources and Fire Protection Program and Hawaii Invasive Species Council to ensure their long-term viability and continue to control and eradicate invasive species in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:30 am] To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB366 | Intro 25% | Requires contested cases, environmental assessment cases, or environmental impact statement cases involving renewable energy projects over twenty megawatts in size, except cases that involve any form of incineration, to be appealed from an agency's d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm] To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB427 | Intro 25% | Part I: Renames the Department of Agriculture to the "Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity". Renames the Board of Agriculture to the "Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity". Part II: Establishes and appropriates funds for a Deputy Director of Bio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:00 pm] To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB432 | Intro 25% | Establishes the mixed-income subaccount within the Rental Housing Revolving Fund that targets workforce rental housing projects for persons and families with incomes at or below one hundred forty per cent of the area median income. Authorizes the Dir... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kitagawa, La Chica, Muraoka; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Pierick; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kila. |
| HI | HB497 | Intro 25% | Transfers the Hawaii Child Nutrition Programs Agency from the Department of Education to the Department of Agriculture and codifies its establishment. Establishes a grant program to be administered by the Agency to support the funding of certain init... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB478 | Intro 25% | Amends the definition of "employer" in state law that governs payment of wages and other compensation to include the State and counties when a provision in that law has no comparable provision in state law that governs public officers and employees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:00 am] To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB428 | Intro 25% | Establishes the Hawaii Farm to Families Program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Requires reports to the Legislature prior to the Regular Sessions of 2026 and 2027. Appropriates funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB442 | Intro 25% | Appropriates funds to the UH system for various nursing programs. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Evslin, Muraoka. |
| HI | HB441 | Intro 25% | Beginning 7/1/2025, increases the cigarette tax and amends the cigarette tax disposition of revenues by allocating the increase in the cigarette tax amount to the Hawaii Cancer Research Special Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Evslin, Muraoka. |
| HI | HB668 | Intro 25% | Makes mandatory the suspension of the driver's license of a driver or registered owner of a vehicle for operating a motor vehicle without a motor vehicle insurance policy. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am] To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB542 | Intro 25% | Expands the Hawaii promise program to provide scholarships for the unmet needs of qualified students at any four-year university of Hawaii campus who meet certain criteria. Appropriates funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Evslin, Muraoka. |
| HI | HB619 | Intro 25% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt and enact a policy by the 2026-2027 school year directing Department of Education public schools to incorporate financial literacy education in the school's curriculum. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:01 pm] To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB546 | Intro 25% | Establishes and appropriates funds to establish the aloha intelligence institute within the university of Hawaii to develop, support, and advance artificial intelligence initiatives statewide. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 The committee on ECD recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Ilagan, Hussey, Holt, Tam, Templo, Todd, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB664 | Intro 25% | Establishes the Office of Gun Violence Prevention to conduct community outreach on gun violence prevention, develop and administer a grant program for gun violence prevention, and develop and administer a gun violence resource bank. Establishes the G... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm] To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB531 | Intro 25% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to recognize the University of Hawaii Cancer Center. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm] To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB547 | Intro 25% | Establishes the Spay and Neuter Special Fund to reduce pet overpopulation and the reproduction of free-roaming cats and various revenue and fundraising sources for the special fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:30 am] To House Culture & Arts Committee |
| HI | HB806 | Intro 25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct sting operations on Oahu to enforce fireworks ordinances or laws. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Belatti, Cochran. |
| HI | HB782 | Intro 25% | Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a working group to review and make recommendations on amending or repealing unnecessary or obsolete laws pertaining to agriculture. Appropriates funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 The committee on AGR recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Kahaloa, Kusch, Lowen, Perruso, Quinlan; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HB841 | Intro 25% | Repeals the provision prohibiting retirants to be rehired as teachers or administrators in teacher shortage areas or in hard-to-fill positions within twelve calendar months of leaving employment with the State or a county. Prohibits rehired retirants... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:00 am] To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB840 | Intro 25% | Appropriates moneys to athletics departments of the University of Hawaii. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Evslin, Muraoka. |
| HI | HB833 | Intro 25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to establish a five-year community land trust equity pilot program to provide community land trusts with a line of credit to fund the acquisition, rehabilitation, renovation, or constr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kitagawa, La Chica, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Kila. |
| HI | HB862 | Intro 25% | Authorizes the use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans for school bus services if certain conditions are met. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:01 pm] To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB861 | Intro 25% | Designates student transportation as critical infrastructure and a critical service for Hawaii's public education system. Requires all school bus contracts between the State and the contractor to include certain standards, performance metrics, and ac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 2:01 pm] To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB858 | Intro 25% | Establishes the agricultural statistics program in statute. Appropriates funds for the program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 9:30 am] To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB872 | Intro 25% | Authorizes health care practitioners to make undesignated prescriptions of epinephrine for the purpose of stocking a supply at various types of businesses and state and county government offices, including public schools. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 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. |
| HI | HB830 | Intro 25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract its review of proposed state projects, projects on privately owned historic property, and projects affecting historic properties to third-party consultants if the Department is unable ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:00 am] To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB843 | Intro 25% | Appropriates funds for critical repairs, maintenance, demolition, design, and construction for facilities of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Establishes and appropriates funds for positio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Evslin, Muraoka. |
| HI | HB842 | Intro 25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to establish three additional permanent mental health practitioner positions within the Division of Student Success' Counseling and Student Development Center. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Evslin, Muraoka. |
| HI | HB874 | Intro 25% | Requires a parent or legal guardian of a minor in theatrical employment to establish a trust account for the minor with an independent third-party trustee . Requires the employer of a minor in theatrical employment to deposit a portion of the minor's... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 9:00 am] To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB959 | Intro 25% | Exempts the sale of groceries and nonprescription drugs from the general excise tax. Incrementally increases the general excise tax over four years, with the increased proceeds during certain fiscal years to be deposited into the general fund. Remove... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 To House Economic Development Committee |