| HI | HB288 | Intro 25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to use alternative vehicles for student transportation under certain conditions and appropriates funds for the purchase of alternative vehicles and individuals to obtain CDL licensure. Allows Department schools ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11 The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB572 | Intro 25% | Exempts food and groceries from certain healthcare-related goods or services that were not the general excise tax. Expands general excise tax exemptions to include purchased under the Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE programs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1286 | Intro 25% | Prohibits pedestrians from walking along the roadway of an interstate highway, an auxiliary interstate highway, or certain state highways except while conducting authorized first responder duties or highway maintenance duties. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11 The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Kitagawa, La Chica, Miyake, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Evslin; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB1231 | Intro 25% | Requires the State to prioritize the installation of photo red light imaging detector systems in school zones if the State establishes a photo red light imaging detector system. Requires proceeds of fines collected for disregarding a steady red signa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11 [Hearing: Feb 13 @ 10:00 am] To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB692 | Intro 25% | Expands the Preschool Open Doors Program's eligibility criteria. Repeals the requirement that Preschool Open Doors Program providers be accredited. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1417 | Intro 25% | Creates an exclusion from income tax for the first $50,000 of income earned by farmers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 11:00 am] To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB295 | Intro 25% | Amends the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended, to authorize the transfer of a living beneficiary's place on the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands' waitlist for any residential, agricultural, or pastoral tract to a qualified application... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1503 | Intro 25% | Excludes from the definition of "development" for purposes of coastal zone management restrictions, the reconstruction, under certain circumstances, of structures destroyed in the August 8, 2023, wildfires in Lahaina, Maui. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1197 | Intro 25% | Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to utilize student education partnerships to increase the amount of mental health care providers in correctional facilities across the State. Appropriates funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB1346 | Intro 25% | Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement negotiated for Bargaining Unit (5) and subject to the availability of funds, provides annual salary step increases for public school teachers who have completed a year's satisfactory service and comply wi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB263 | Intro 25% | Creates an exemption to the vehicle weight tax for full-time college students. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB286 | Intro 25% | Increases the maximum annual deduction for contributions to, and maximum account levels for, individual housing accounts. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1486 | Intro 25% | Makes it a disorderly conduct offense to remain or loiter within twenty feet of a bus stop with no intent to utilize any bus service. Authorizes law enforcement officers to immediately remove any person committing a disorderly conduct offense of rema... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB284 | Intro 25% | Requires counties to grant building permits within sixty days if the application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other certain conditions are met. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31 To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1195 | Intro 25% | Requires the department of education to prohibit cell phone use during the instructional day, prohibit student access to social media through the school's internet, and implement a social media education campaign. Creates exemptions for students requ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1226 | Intro 25% | Categorizes electric bicycles into three classes based on speed and operation. Requires electric bicycle manufacturers and distributors to apply a label to each electric bicycle. Authorizes county police to confiscate bicycles for certain offenses. I... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1224 | Intro 25% | Requires the department of education to prohibit cell phone use during the instructional day, prohibit student access to social media through the school's internet, and implement a social media education campaign. Creates exemptions for students requ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1198 | Intro 25% | Establishes civil liability for any commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally publishes or distributes materially harmful to minors without following certain age verification requirements. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1249 | Intro 25% | Requires each public school to develop a disaster and attack preparedness plan by 1/1/2026 that includes shelter-in-place drills. Requires each school to maintain emergency goods sufficient for at least 48 hours in its facilities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1311 | Intro 25% | Removes from the standard condominium proxy form the option of giving a proxy vote to the board of directors of a condominium association as a whole or to those directors present at an association meeting. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1241 | Intro 25% | Requires state agencies to offer individuals who resigned or were dismissed from employment for not complying with vaccination or testing requirements the option to be reinstated, with back pay, to the position that person held prior to their termina... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB1227 | Intro 25% | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to twelve weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB1338 | Intro 25% | Establishes a 2-year homelessness sanctuary pilot program, to be administered by the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness in coordination with the Department of Human Services and the City and County of Honolulu. Directs the Governor's Coordinator ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1340 | Intro 25% | Establishes strict liability for crimes against elders with respect to the attendant circumstance that the victim was sixty years of age or older. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1339 | Intro 25% | Exempts food and groceries from the general excise tax. Expands a 2024 session law exempting certain medical and dental services to include all medical and dental services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1341 | Intro 25% | Establishes tax credits for insurers providing full property coverage to owners and associations of condominiums in the amount equal to twenty per cent of the insurance premium. Provides additional ten per cent tax credits to insurers incorporated in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1335 | Intro 25% | Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the manufacture, production, packaging, and sale of diapers. Establishes a surcharge on the general excise tax and use tax for the sale or use of luxury cars. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1399 | Intro 25% | Requires each Department of Education classroom to be equipped with an opioid antagonist. Requires the Department of Education to train employees on opioid-related drug overdose prevention, recognition, and response and opioid antagonist administrati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1412 | Intro 25% | Designates the neighborhood commission as the appropriate oversight authority for application of the sunshine law to neighborhood boards. Authorizes neighborhood boards to discuss official government reports without placing it on the agenda, provided... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1397 | Intro 25% | Prohibits the State and counties from adopting or ordaining any rules, regulations, or ordinances that infringe upon a parent's right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and welfare of the parent's child, except in certain narrowly tailored ci... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1441 | Intro 25% | Creates the offense of organized retail theft. Provides penalties for organized retail theft. Creates an organized retail theft task force. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1474 | Intro 25% | Establishes the Insurance Affordability Assistance Pilot Program within the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to assist eligible homeowners with sudden increases in property insurance premiums. Sunsets 6/30/2028. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1487 | Intro 25% | Increases the category of offense for criminal trespass in the first and second degree and criminal property damage in the second, third, and fourth degree. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1444 | Intro 25% | Requires motor vehicle safety inspections to be conducted every two years rather than annually. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1485 | Intro 25% | Establishes penalties for property managers and owners of real property on or in which massage parlors or similar prostitution establishments are located. Requires workers to be treated as victims and offered resources. Appropriates funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1419 | Intro 25% | Defines stages of wildfire suppression efforts. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB1443 | Intro 25% | Establishes a high school law enforcement curriculum-to-career pipeline initiative. Appropriates funds to develop and implement the program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1398 | Intro 25% | Establishes an expedited procedure to remove persons from a property who are not tenants or former tenants. Establishes criminal offenses for persons who illegally occupy and damage property, for making a false statement to detain real property, and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1418 | Intro 25% | Requires a wireless telecommunications carrier, as a condition for any permit under section 206N-6 or certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 269-7.5, to maintain emergency backup power for a minimum of twelve hours. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB884 | Intro 25% | Prohibits certain foreign parties or their agents, trustees, and fiduciaries from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in agricultural lands. Establishes an Office of Agricultural Intelligence within the Department of Agriculture to investiga... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB851 | Intro 25% | Clarifies that a person who uses deadly force in self-defense does not have a duty to retreat if they are in their dwelling or on their property unless they are the initial aggressor. Repeals statutory language that permits a person to use deadly for... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB885 | Intro 25% | Establishes a program that requires property insurers to offer discounts to condominium associations that make certain upgrades or take other specific actions to increase the building's resilience or reduce the association's risk profile. Requires th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB911 | Intro 25% | Expands programming and training for the comprehensive offender reentry program under the department of corrections and rehabilitation to reduce the rate of recidivism and increase inmate marketability. Appropriates funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | HB155 | Intro 25% | Specifies that the penalty for sex trafficking shall be payment of a fine of no less than $200,000 but no more than $500,000, and a definite term of imprisonment of up to 20 years without the possibility of a suspended sentence, probation, or parole.... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21 To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB191 | Intro 25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally rais... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21 To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB207 | Intro 25% | Creates the requirement of school sports to designate sex-specific teams for the purpose of gender equality. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21 To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB270 | Intro 25% | Creates the offense of urinating or defecating in public. Provides penalties for public urination or defecation. Requires mental health evaluation and supportive services for a person experiencing homelessness who is arrested for urinating or defecat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21 To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB264 | Intro 25% | Amends provisions relating to criteria in family court determinations regarding custody and visitation rights. Clarifies that no court shall consider a parent's affirmation of their child's gender identity or expression in a custody determination. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21 To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB260 | Intro 25% | Eliminates state taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel for motor vehicles. Requires savings be passed from distributor to consumer. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21 To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB261 | Intro 25% | Establishes the offense of loitering on public property and adds trespassing on public property to the offense of criminal trespass in the first degree. Establishes the homeless case management program and special fund, administered by the judiciary ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21 To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |