| HI | SB104 | Intro
25% | Restricts the use of restrictive housing in state-operated and state-contracted correctional facilities, with certain specified exceptions. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop written policies and procedures regarding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB31 | Intro
25% | Allows a person who discovers a recorded discriminatory restrictive covenant to take certain actions without liability, to invalidate the covenant. Defines discriminatory restrictive covenant. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB51 | Intro
25% | Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State of Hawaii, to begin with the 2028 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB103 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling and Reuse Working Group within the Hawaii State Energy Office. Requires the working group to examine how to maximize the recycling and reuse of electric vehicle batteries and recommend electri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB26 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Affordable Housing Land Inventory Task Force within the Hawaii Community Development Authority to update the Affordable Rental Housing Report and Ten-Year Plan maps, tier tables, and inventories of state lands suitable and available f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB66 | Intro
25% | Requires counties to grant building permits within sixty days if the completed application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other certain conditions are met. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB71 | Intro
25% | Renames the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to the State Housing Revolving Fund. Clarifies the prioritization of, and eligibility and preference criteria for, projects that may be funded by, State Housing Revolving Fund moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB88 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the payment of allowances for TRICARE, TRICARE Dental Program, and vision coverage to all officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel of the Hawaii National Guard ordered to active duty for more than 30 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB102 | Intro
25% | Prohibits third-party restaurant reservation services from listing, advertising, promoting, or selling restaurant reservations without first obtaining a written agreement from the applicable restaurant authorizing the action. Establishes civil penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB25 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a county to reduce the number of housing units that may be built within any portion of the county only if the county increases the number of housing units that may be built elsewhere in the county, such that there is no net loss in residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB119 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program at the University of Hawaii Maui College. Effective 7/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB191 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Program within the Department of Human Services to assist qualifying households in paying their energy bills. Requires the Public Utilities Commission Public Benefits Fee Administrator to provide certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB177 | 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] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB228 | Intro
25% | Prohibits excited delirium from being recognized as a valid medical diagnosis or cause of death in the State. Prohibits a local health officer or local agent of the Department of Health from stating on a certificate of death or in any report that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB321 | Intro
25% | Provides that fee simple absolute title of a privately owned highway, road, alley, street, way, lane, bikeway, bridge, or trail is deemed transferred to adjacent property owners or the community association if certain conditions are met. Effective 7/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB338 | Intro
25% | For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2025, temporarily reinstates the Technology Infrastructure Renovation Tax Credit and expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers. Requires the Department of Taxation to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB301 | Intro
25% | Establishes an additional penalty for a dog owner whose dog destroys property while on land zoned for agricultural use. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB295 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalties imposed on individuals convicted for violation of a temporary restraining order and order for protection. Clarifies that the court shall not sentence a defendant to pay a fine for violating a temporary restraining order or ord...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB340 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Hawaii Labor Relations Board has the authority to enforce its own orders issued pursuant to state law governing collective bargaining in public employment, in addition to discretion to seek judicial enforcement of its orders under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB319 | Intro
25% | Changes from 1 ounce to 30 grams the minimum amount of marijuana that constitutes the offense of promoting a detrimental drug in the second degree. Increases from 3 grams or less to 15 grams or less the amount of marijuana that constitutes the offens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Failed to pass Third Reading. Ayes, 11; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 12 (Senator(s) Aquino, DeCorte, Dela Cruz, Elefante, Fevella, Gabbard, Hashimoto, Inouye, Kim, Moriwaki, Richards, Wakai). Excused, 2 (Senator(s) Fukunaga, Kidani). |
| HI | SB330 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to enforce quarantines issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB292 | Intro
25% | Establishes safe harbor protections for survivors of sexual exploitation who seek medical or law enforcement assistance. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB298 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to be expended by the Department of Human Services to increase funding for Medicaid in-home services. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB336 | 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] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB299 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Healthcare Education Loan Repayment Program. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB391 | Engross
50% | Establishes an End-of-Life Lithium-ion Battery Management Working Group. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 1/1/2026. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 40) in amended form (SD 1). |
| HI | SB361 | Intro
25% | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB382 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a procurement officer from disclosing a competing offeror's proposal or evaluation score, except the summary of scores, during a debriefing requested by a non-selected offeror. Authorizes the disclosure of a competing offeror's proposal or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB419 | Intro
25% | Requires each motor vehicle insurance policy to cover the replacement cost of a child passenger restraint system damaged or that was in use by a child during a motor vehicle accident for which liability coverage under the policy is applicable. Effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB414 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to institute proceedings to condemn certain lands in Lahaina to build a new access road from Keawe Street to the Kilohana and Kalaiola sites developed in the Villages of Leialii. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB378 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to identify existing mixed-use developments in Maui County that could be acquired by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for use as affordabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB423 | Engross
50% | Adds the Director of the Hawaii Head Start State Collaboration Office, or their designee, as an ex officio, non-voting member to the Early Learning Board. Requires the Early Learning Board to invite the President of the Head Start Association of Hawa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Pass First Reading |
| HI | SB422 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to award a high school diploma to qualified persons who did not receive a high school diploma as a result of compulsory or voluntary induction into the armed services of the United States or whose high school ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB494 | Intro
25% | Requires the Auditor to conduct a financial audit of each charter school under the State Public Charter School Commission. Requires a report to the Legislature. Requires the State Public Charter School Commission to take action based on the Auditor's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB534 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the process by which the Hawaii Community Development Authority may approve residential development on certain parcels of Kakaako Makai. Raises the building height limit and the maximum floor area ratio on certain parcels in the area. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| HI | SB588 | Intro
25% | Authorizes certain government entities to establish a self-certification process for behind-the-meter, customer-sited solar distributed energy resource systems and exempt the systems from the Federal Emergency Management Agency No-Rise/No-Impact decl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB601 | Intro
25% | Requires law enforcement to post notice that a warranted or warrantless search has been conducted on a property. Requires a law enforcement officer to secure any entrance used by an officer in the search. Allows the breaking of any doors, gates, othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB614 | Intro
25% | Establishes "La Kuokoa", or Hawaiian Independence Day, as a state holiday to be observed annually on November 28th. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB589 | Intro
25% | Authorizes retail wheeling of renewable energy and requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish policies and procedures to implement retail wheeling and microgrid service tariffs. Ensures that fair compensation is provided for solar and ener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB583 | Intro
25% | Allows the naming rights of any state-owned facility to be leased to any public or private entity. Requires any revenues derived from advertising or marketing in or on any state-owned facility to be deposited into the appropriate special fund of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB639 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the level of environmental restoration that owners and operators of underground storage tanks or tank systems must satisfy in the event of a confirmed release of jet fuel from an underground storage tank or tank system. Establishes that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB562 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Plant Nursery Registry Program to regulate the sale of nursery stock. Requires certain plant nurseries to register with the Department of Agriculture. Establishes penalties. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB642 | Intro
25% | Requires all health insurance policies, contracts, plans, and agreements issued or renewed after 12/31/2025, to provide optional coverage for standard fertility preservation services for persons undergoing medically necessary cancer-related treatment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB717 | 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 to grieve a suspension or discharge. Effective 7/1/2050. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB716 | Intro
25% | Expands the circumstances where the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations may waive the requirements for individuals to register to work and report to an employment office to be eligible for unemployment benefits. Authorize the Department to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB816 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Due Process in Immigration Proceedings Program to provide legal representation to individuals in immigration-related proceedings in immigration court. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB819 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to establish an international teacher license for certain visa holders. Establishes criteria for obtaining and renewing an international teacher license. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB763 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Agricultural Enforcement Program within the Department of Law Enforcement. Establishes the Agricultural Enforcement Special Fund. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB828 | Intro
25% | Expands workers' compensation medical benefits for firefighters to include coverage for adenocarcinoma or mesothelioma of the respiratory system; cancer of the buccal cavity, colon, pharynx, and thyroid; and malignant melanoma. Specifies that an empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1032 | Intro
25% | Prohibits foreign entities and foreign-influenced business entities from making contributions, expenditures, electioneering communications, or donations for election purposes. Allows every business entity that contributes or expends funds in a state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
