| HI | HB223 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy Special Fund to support pharmacist workforce assessment and planning efforts. Establishes the pharmacist workforce assessment fee. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB249 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Executive Office on Early Learning to contract with third-party providers of family-child interaction learning programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB221 | Intro
25% | Requires graduates of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine who have paid in-state tuition to serve as a physician in the State for at least 2 years following their medical residency or fellowship. Begins with the class of 2029.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB219 | Intro
25% | Provides state and county employees with five days of paid family leave each calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB303 | Intro
25% | Expands the definitions of "preceptor" and "volunteerbased supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors, including removing "primary care" from the criteria to qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB222 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "employee" in Hawaii's wage and hour law by excluding individuals who are primarily engaged in the range production of livestock.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB301 | Intro
25% | Makes a second or subsequent conviction for violation of a domestic abuse protective order a class C felony. Increases the sentencing requirements for second or subsequent convictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB220 | Intro
25% | Requires that moped operators carry an insurance policy by incorporating mopeds into the insurance laws governing motorcycles and motor scooters, including with respect to provisions concerning required licensure, the relationship with tort law, proo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB278 | Intro
25% | Requires county police departments and police oversight agencies to collect and report certain data regarding police stops, arrests, uses of force, and complaints to the Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance Division of the Department of the Attorn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB238 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and implement a child care provider subsidy and bonus program to provide subsidies to retain the existing child care workforce in licensed infant and toddler child care centers, group child care ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB279 | Intro
25% | Allows the carrying or possessing of firearm parts only at or between certain locations and in an enclosed container. Defines firearm parts and prohibited persons. Establishes and increases penalties for the carrying or possessing of certain firearms...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB302 | Intro
25% | Repeals the requirement that a provider-patient relationship be established in person. Allows applicants or primary caregivers to temporarily purchase medical cannabis after the submission of the applicant's certification form.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB225 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Department of the Attorney General to study the issue of squatting in Hawaii and provide recommendations. Requires reports to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB246 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to post on its website an easily understandable, searchable, and sortable list of all state-licensed care facilities including information on their licenses and inspections. Requires that the list be updated within f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB325 | Intro
25% | Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment based on the person's status as a medical cannabis registry card holder, under certain conditions. Authorizes an employer to use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB335 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year pilot program that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free school lunch to all students enrolled at a department school. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB423 | N/A
0% | Clarifies the process for selecting a certified provider of rehabilitation services. Requires providers to automatically approve vocational rehabilitation services for an injured employee if those services will likely be required for suitable gainful...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB424 | N/A
0% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to students enrolled in a public school who meet certain requirements. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB434 | N/A
0% | Requires any person providing doula services for compensation or representing or advertising themselves as a certified doula to register with the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes certain rights for certified doulas, including be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB431 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds for the Kauhale Initiative. Establishes and appropriates funds into and out of the Supportive Housing Special Fund. Establishes the Kauhale Initiative Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB440 | N/A
0% | Prohibits certain covered educational entities and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation facilities from collecting information regarding citizenship or immigration status or allowing officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter certain facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB425 | N/A
0% | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 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. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB473 | N/A
0% | Establishes a process, beginning on January 1, 2026, for automatically preregistering or registering public, charter, and private school-enrolled students who are at least 16 years old to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB427 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB432 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB477 | N/A
0% | Repeals the definition for "registered for work" or "registration for work" and repeals the requirement to post work availability online. Amends the qualifications for unemployed individuals who are able to receive certain unemployment benefits. Begi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB437 | N/A
0% | Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish an out-of-state office in the Philippines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB476 | N/A
0% | Increases the capital gains tax threshold to nine percent. Increases the alternative capital gains tax for corporations to five percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB438 | N/A
0% | Establishes the Due Process in Immigration Proceedings Program within the Judiciary to provide legal representation to individuals in immigration-related proceedings in immigration court. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB497 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB439 | N/A
0% | Requires the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to establish an international teacher license for certain visa holders. Establishes criteria for obtaining an international teacher license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB455 | N/A
0% | 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
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB429 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB478 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB474 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to fund one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) fall prevention and early detection coordinator position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB472 | N/A
0% | Allows for a digitized identification card to be accepted as a valid form of identification, under certain conditions. Authorizes state and county law enforcement agencies to accept a digitized identification card as proof of a person's identity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB428 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB442 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to the UH system for various nursing programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB479 | N/A
0% | Beginning 1/1/2026, increases the tip credit to be twenty per cent of the minimum wage and requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to annually calculate an adjusted tip credit amount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB480 | N/A
0% | Authorizes an attending physician to request a functional capacity exam and refer an injured employee for the exam without first obtaining permission from the employee's employer. Allows licensed occupational and physical therapists to be deemed qual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB475 | N/A
0% | Creates regulation requirements for managers of homeowners' associations, planned community associations, cooperative housing corporations, and condominium unit owners' associations in the State. Requires licensure of association managers beginning 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB430 | N/A
0% | Permits the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to enter into contracts with eligible employers or registered apprenticeship programs in the private sector to provide on-the-job training to eligible interns. Provides that the State shall be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB441 | N/A
0% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB433 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for reentry services to connect offenders with community-based services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB435 | N/A
0% | Amends the definition of electric bicycles subject to various state laws and classifies electric bicycles by top assisted speed. Establishes additional regulations for the registration and use of electric bicycles. Increases the minimum age to operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB436 | N/A
0% | Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" for enterprise zone program purposes to include retail sales of tangible personal property manufactured and sold in the enterprise zone that is to be used or consumed by the purchaser and not for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB550 | N/A
0% | PART I: Allows video recordings made by law enforcement agencies who are using, controlling, or operating an unmanned aerial vehicles to establish probable cause for an arrest under the Fireworks Control Law if the unmanned aerial vehicle is recordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB619 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB627 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for positions to implement and maintain school safety measures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
