| HI | SB707 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Lava Zone Insurance Fund to subsidize the cost of insurance premiums for properties in lava zones 1 and 2. Defines lava zones 1 and 2. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB761 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Agricultural Development Corporation for the purchase of the North Kohala Kynnersly East Site Land Parcel for agricultural development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB839 | Intro
25% | Establishes a criminal penalty and monetary fines for aquarium fishing violations. Clarifies that each fish or aquatic life specimen taken in violation of certain fishing laws regarding aquarium fish and the possession and use of prohibited explosive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB824 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Family Health Services Division of the Department of Health to establish and oversee peer-to-peer support programs for children from birth to age five and their families, including the establishment of two full-time equival...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB762 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Agricultural Crimes Council. Expands the duties of the Department of Agriculture to collaborate with and support the Council. Authorizes the Council to withdraw and deposit moneys, revenues, and fines into and out of the Animal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB836 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Business Activity Water Catchment System Working Group within the Department of Health to assess the feasibility of allowing business owners in the State to utilize filtered water collected by water catchment systems for business activi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB760 | Intro
25% | Authorizes rodeos on lands that are zoned for agricultural use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB840 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract or form a partnership with private parties to assist with the maintenance and management of sunscreen dispensers at all state beaches, as well as publicize that the mineral-based sunscre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB891 | Intro
25% | Relating To Economic Development. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1000 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for teacherrequested classroom supplies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB901 | Intro
25% | Relating To Government Operations. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB899 | Intro
25% | Relating To Intergovernmental Affairs. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB909 | Intro
25% | Relating To Higher Education. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB848 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Desalination Planning Task Force to examine the feasibility of, and develop a plan and timeline for, the use desalination as a source of potable water in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB957 | Intro
25% | Establishes and provides criteria for overdose prevention centers, including standards for the Department of Health to designate certain facilities as overdose prevention centers. Establishes an Overdose Prevention Center Oversight Committee. Provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB860 | Intro
25% | Increases penalties for the offense of theft by means of shoplifting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB905 | Intro
25% | Relating To Agriculture. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB927 | Intro
25% | Relating To Transportation. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB958 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the cesspool compliance pilot grant project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB881 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Food Security Special Fund to restore Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit levels to those provided in federal fiscal year 2023. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB865 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish a permanent Educational Support Associate position within the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources' Kona Cooperative Extension.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB916 | Intro
25% | Relating To The Judiciary. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB934 | Intro
25% | Relating To The State Budget. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB892 | Intro
25% | Relating To Tourism. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB929 | Intro
25% | Relating To International Affairs. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB912 | Intro
25% | Relating To Housing. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1004 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to establish and administer a three-year Rural Community Health Worker Pilot Program that enables community health workers to provide outreach, education, training, and navigation to individuals residing in rural com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1003 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Agribusiness Development Corporation for the purchase of a land parcel in Kau for agricultural development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB921 | Intro
25% | Relating To Labor. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB959 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Health Infrastructure Grant Program within the Department of Health, to be administered by the State Health Planning and Development Agency, to support health information technology infrastructure and the implementation of interoperab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB851 | Intro
25% | Authorizes emergency medical technicians in the State to administer buprenorphine after the administration of an opioid antagonist during an opioid-related drug overdose response. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules, allocate resources f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB880 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary Medi-Medi Project within the Hawaii State Health Insurance Assistance Program administered by the Executive Office on Aging to assist older adults, Medicare beneficiaries, individuals with disabilities, and other underserved p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB895 | Intro
25% | Relating To Education. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB877 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB864 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for student transportation coordinators positions within the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services across the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1200 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Workforce Housing Regulatory Sandbox Program within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Establishes an Advisory Council within the Workforce Housing Regulatory Sandbox Program to advise on environmental and cultura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1127 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hawaii Island Community Health Center to purchase or lease land on the island of Hawaii and develop primary care health care facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1203 | Intro
25% | Requires all health care providers who accept Medicare to provide a cognitive assessment as part of the Medicare Part B annual wellness visit for Medicare beneficiaries sixty-five years of age or older, with certain exceptions. Requires health care p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1146 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB121 | Intro
25% | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to extend the amount of time allowed the Senate to consider and act on the appointments of justices and judges from thirty to sixty days for appointments made between April 1 and December 31 when...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB134 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Elections to establish three additional voting centers in a county with a population of five hundred thousand or more. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB133 | Intro
25% | Authorizes state facilities to wheel electricity that is produced by their own facility from renewable energy sources to another state facility pursuant to administrative rules established by the Public Utilities Commission. Requires the Public Utili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB132 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program. Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program special fund. Requires DBEDT to submit an annual report to the Legislature regarding the program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB125 | Intro
25% | Extends the eligibility period of the State business tax credit and general excise tax exemption for qualified businesses within State Enterprise Zones from seven years to nine years. Extends the eligibility period of the State business tax credit an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB128 | Intro
25% | Establishes the crime of criminal trespass on agricultural land. Prohibits persons being prosecuted for or convicted of the crime of criminal trespass on agricultural land from owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm or ammunition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB126 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture and University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to conduct a study on the effects of neonicotinoids on Hawaii beehive and apiary operations, including beekeeping activities at solar ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB130 | Intro
25% | Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter an area closed to the public or hiking on a trail closed to the public, and ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB127 | Intro
25% | Establishes the conventional farming grant program to provide grants to small and midsized farmers who practice conventional farming. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB136 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from disassembling, dismantling, or demolishing iron projects unless the person has completed an apprenticeship program for ironworkers approved and registered with the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations. Establishes pena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB152 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to utilize funds in the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund as collateral when DHHL is an eligible borrower of a loan guaranteed by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
