| HI | HB437 | Intro
25% | Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish an out-of-state office in the Philippines. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB476 | Intro
25% | Increases the capital gains tax rate for individuals, estates, and trusts to nine percent. Increases the alternative capital gains tax for corporations to five percent. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB133 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support the establishment of surfing as an interscholastic sport. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB162 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to request the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to furnish a list of five qualified and experienced interest arbitrators in the event the parties fail to select the neutral third member of the arb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB165 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to enforce its own orders. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB423 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-20
The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Chun, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Kong, Marten, Tam; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Ilagan, Lowen, Pierick. |
| HI | HB424 | Intro
25% | 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. Reduces the amount the Department of Education is authorized to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| 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] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB439 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to establish an international teacher license for certain visa holders and the requirements to obtain the international teacher license. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB429 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB627 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for positions to implement and maintain school safety measures. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB980 | Intro
25% | Amends the law authorizing the killing of mongoose by clarifying the circumstances under which mongoose may be killed and authorizing feral chickens to be killed under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB164 | Intro
25% | Requires disbursing officers to notify employees within sixty days of making a determination that an indebtedness has occurred to the government resulting from salary or wage overpayment. Amends the amount that a disbursing officer may deduct from an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB159 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the civil service exemption for personal service contracts for building, custodial, and grounds maintenance services with qualified community rehabilitation programs shall not cost more than $850,000 in the aggregate per private person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB202 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "adequate reserve fund" for calendar years 2026 and thereafter. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB213 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Healthcare Education Loan Repayment Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB303 | Intro
25% | Expands the definitions of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based 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 q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB477 | Intro
25% | Repeals the requirement to post work availability online. Amends the qualifications for unemployed individuals who are able to receive certain unemployment benefits. Beginning 4/1/2027, permits electronic notification of determinations or redetermina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB474 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to fund one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) fall prevention and early detection coordinator position. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB442 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the UH system for various nursing programs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB480 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB430 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB441 | Intro
25% | Beginning 7/1/2025, amends 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. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance 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] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB807 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Condominium Loan Program to provide condominium associations with low-cost financing, or refinance previously obtained loans, for maintenance or repair projects. Establishes the Condominium Loan Loss Reserves Program to incentivize le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB729 | Intro
25% | Raises the minimum age to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Repeals the authority of parents and the family court to consent to a minor's marriage. Repeals spousal cohabitation after the parties attain legal age as an excepti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Garcia; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB756 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of flavored nicotine products and nicotine product flavor enhancers and the mislabeling of e-liquids as nicotine free. Establishes penalties for violations. Authorizes the Department of Health to appoint, commission, or contract fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB714 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support educational training programs to expand the State's health care workforce, including health care certificate programs and classroom renovations for health care training in public high schools and education programs that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB700 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Cognitive Assessments for Medicare Beneficiaries Pilot Program within the Executive Office on Aging. Requires the Executive Office on Aging to collaborate with a health care system for the pilot program, health care providers participat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1343 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt a policy that bans the use of phones and related devices by students during school hours. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1389 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the City and County of Honolulu for the expansion of the feral chicken program and the Vector Control Branch of the Department of Health for a statewide education campaign for the feeding of feral animals. Effective 7/1/3000. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| 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. Effective July 1, 3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB431 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the continued operation of the Kauhale Initiative and authorizes those funds to be used for the Ohana Zones Pilot Program. Establishes and appropriates funds into and out of the Supportive Housing Special Fund. Effective 6/29/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB438 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Due Process in Immigration Proceedings Program within the Judiciary to provide legal representation to individuals in immigration-related proceedings. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB433 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for reentry services to connect offenders with community-based services. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB549 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Early Learning Apprenticeship Grant Program to be administered by the University of Hawaii to provide financial support for early learning program service providers in the State to participate in state- or federally-approved early lear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB557 | Intro
25% | 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 12/31/2026. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB505 | Intro
25% | Establishes a WAI Policy Coordinator for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance 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] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB810 | Intro
25% | Establishes a private right of action for any person aggrieved by a violation of the Federal Aviation Act and existing federal laws to bring a civil action against the owner or operator of the helicopter in violation and collect damages and litigatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB755 | Intro
25% | By 1/1/2028, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2029, requires the Department to start ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1183 | Intro
25% | Includes certain law enforcement administrators and employees of the Department of Law Enforcement as class A members of the pension and retirement systems and provides guidance for the computation of retirement benefits similar to police officers. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1221 | Intro
25% | Requires a bidder and their subcontractors for certain public works construction contracts to utilize apprentices if the bidder receives a bidding advantage for being a party to an apprenticeship agreement registered with the State at the time of gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB161 | Intro
25% | 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 and their excluded counterparts to grieve a suspension or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB166 | Intro
25% | Requires the State to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions or proceedings, under certain circumstances. Clarifies that the employee may employ their own attorney at the employee's own expense. Establishes a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB278 | Intro
25% | Requires county police departments and police oversight agencies to collect and report certain data regarding police stops, uses of force, and complaints to the Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance Division of the Department of the Attorney Genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB472 | Intro
25% | Requires digitized identification cards 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. Effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB550 | Intro
25% | PART I: Allows recordings made by law enforcement agencies who are using, controlling, or operating unmanned aerial vehicles to establish probable cause for arrests under the Fireworks Control Law if the unmanned aerial vehicle is recording directly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
