| HI | HB47 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Division of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture to adopt, amend, and repeal rules to develop an assessment and approval process to import and move aquatic livestock in the State. Requires the Aquaculture Program to develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB123 | Intro
25% | Exempts actions involving the operation and management of fisheries in the State from environmental review requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB143 | Intro
25% | Amends the conservation district use permit application, approval, and oversight responsibilities of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority, and lessees. Provides that certain conservation district use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB146 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB145 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to transmit all expungement orders to the Judiciary to effectuate the purposes of Act 159, SLH 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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 | HB185 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the licensing of an adult residential care home, expanded adult residential care home, or developmental disabilities domiciliary home that is financed, managed, operated, supervised, directed, or owned in whole or in part by a person convic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB189 | Intro
25% | Requires the counties to adopt ordinances setting forth procedures and requirements for the review and permitting of agricultural tourism uses and activities as secondary uses, in addition to accessory uses, on a working farm or farming operation. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB328 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to authorize and facilitate complex areas or individual department schools to form their own farm to school meal programs through partnerships to meet the local farm to school meal goal of thirty per cent of food ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB239 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "child abuse or neglect" by clarifying that the failure to provide certain needs to a child constitutes child abuse or neglect only if the person or entity responsible for the care of the child is financially able to provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB233 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state breast milk bank under the Department of Health. Establishes the breast milk bank special fund. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB345 | Intro
25% | Establishes the pae ula as the state shrimp to protect anchialine pool ecosystems throughout Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Referred to CAA, JHA, referral sheet 1 |
| HI | HB247 | Intro
25% | Repeals the requirement to use the Hawaii ABLE Savings Program Trust Fund if the Director elects to accept deposits from contributors instead of sending deposits directly to the ABLE program manager. Authorizes the Director of Finance to expend money...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB226 | Intro
25% | Lowers the level of light transmittance allowed on sun screening glazing on motor vehicle windows from thirty-five per cent to twenty per cent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB327 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the office of the governor for a state childcare facility for state employees and their families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB304 | Intro
25% | Requires that the Hawaiian version of a law be held binding if the law in question was originally drafted in Hawaiian and then translated into English.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB346 | Intro
25% | Provides rebates for the installation of eligible electric vehicle-ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB344 | Intro
25% | Requires the design of all new state building construction where parking is to be included to provide that at least twenty-five per cent of parking stalls be electric vehicle charger-ready. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, in consultation wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB308 | Intro
25% | Increases the matching fund payments to candidates in the partial public financing program for excess qualifying contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB364 | Intro
25% | Requires that cats over the age of three months be surgically sterilized, with certain exceptions. Authorizes county animal control authorities to establish and enforce a permit program to allow the responsible breeding of cats. Establishes minimum r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB431 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB440 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB473 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB446 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority and School of Travel Industry Management at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to collaborate to actively plan for the design, construction, and operations and management of a state hotel. Requires reports to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Tourism Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB439 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB455 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB471 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to establish a Korean language program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB436 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB533 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "historic property" under the State's historic preservation program to include only property that predates Statehood Day and, with respect to buildings and structures, is registered on the Hawaii Register of Historic Places.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB626 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for the Department's Hokea Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB503 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services to hire a consultant to evaluate potential locations and designs for the Hawaii First Responders Memorial.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB498 | 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
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB539 | Intro
25% | Expands eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to include any individual or household whose monthly income is equal to or less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB598 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the imposition of cost-sharing requirements for certain diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB499 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Food and Beverage Supply Chain Resiliency Income Tax Credit to be administered by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and Department of Taxation. Requires DBEDT to establish expedited permitting processes for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB613 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to provide emergency shelter and services to unaccompanied homeless youth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB643 | Intro
25% | Establishes short-term management initiatives for the coconut rhinoceros beetle response program. Appropriates funds for activities and positions related to coconut rhinoceros beetle infestation control.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB536 | Intro
25% | Prohibits residing in, on, or within fifty feet of a freshwater waterway. Authorizes state and local law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program and county police, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB557 | Intro
25% | Updates the State's laws on telehealth services to conform with federal Medicare regulations. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to report to the Legislature on reimbursements claimed in the previous year for certain telehealth services. Repeals the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB579 | Intro
25% | Requires Liquor Commissions or Boards to deny any renewal for a liquor license if the applicant for renewal has violated any provision of the Intoxicating Liquor Law under chapter 281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, on three separate occasions during the t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB636 | Intro
25% | Establishes a school capital improvement project modernization initiative in the School Facilities Authority to create a planning database for school facilities. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB543 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the operation of a motor vehicle with, possession, purchase, installation, sale, offer for sale, or distribution of license plate flipping devices. Establishes a $2,000 fine for each separate violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB597 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including present and future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches shall b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB641 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2026, requires health insurers and mutual benefit societies to provide coverage for traditional native Hawaiian healing and cultural practices offered through a Federally Qualified Health Center or a Native Hawaiian Health Care System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB576 | Intro
25% | Exempts transfers of Hawaiian home lands from transfer restrictions for real property under Chapter 201H housing development programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB505 | Intro
25% | Establishes a WAI Policy Coordinator for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB558 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Nuclear Energy Task Force within the Hawaii State Energy Office. Requires reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
