| HI | HB86 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the establishment of one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) permanent Makai Watch Coordinator position. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB106 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the authority of condominium associations to impose fines for violations of the declaration, bylaws, house rules, or regulations adopted by the condominium association. Establishes a process for the unit owner or tenant of the unit owner to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB134 | Intro
25% | Requires the Chief Election Officer to provide a system for the electronic filing of nomination papers. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB137 | Intro
25% | Provides that felons that are in violation of the prohibition against owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm or ammunition are subject to a mandatory prison term.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB126 | Intro
25% | Increases transparency and accountability surrounding property forfeiture. Clarifies which property is subject to forfeiture. Amends the authorized disposition of forfeited property and the proceeds thereof. Repeals language that requires the Hawaii ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB139 | Intro
25% | For policies, contracts, plans, and agreements issued or renewed after 12/31/2025, requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services for persons undergoi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Holt, Lee, M., Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB177 | Intro
25% | Makes the issuance or renewal of a civil identification card free of charge. Repeals the civil identification card fee special fund and lapses any unexpended and unencumbers funds into the general fund. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 13 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Lee, M., Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB175 | Intro
25% | Requires owners or lessees of real property to maintain their property and establish penalties for failure to do so. Allows for exceptions. Requires DOA to establish rules for the enforcement and collection of fines for violations relating to the pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 2:00 pm]
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] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Holt, Lee, M., Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB212 | Intro
25% | Requires the Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions to establish a permanent Return-to-Home Program to return homeless individuals in the State to families and relatives in their home states. Requires the Office to report to the Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB214 | Intro
25% | Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as a school resource officer or investigator in positions identified by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB309 | Intro
25% | Establishes a fishpond inventory working group within the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to create an inventory and map of all fishponds on state land and conduct a literature review. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 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] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Holt, Lee, M., Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB244 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the department of human services to collaborate with contracted community-based organizations to address the need for social services in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Finance 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 shall not constitute child abuse or neglect if the sole reason the person responsible for the care of the child is unable to adequate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB250 | Intro
25% | Requires utilization review entities to submit data relating to the prior authorization of health care services to the State Health Planning and Development Agency. Establishes timelines for the approval of prior authorization requests for urgent and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Holt, Lee, M., Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB280 | Intro
25% | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB302 | Intro
25% | Repeals the requirement that a provider-patient relationship be established in person. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB345 | Intro
25% | Establishes the pae ula as the state shrimp to protect anchialine pool ecosystems throughout Hawaii. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Todd. |
| HI | HB277 | Intro
25% | Establishes a vehicular pursuit policy for law enforcement agencies. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB237 | 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 program specialist po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Holt, Lee, M., Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB299 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Native Resources and Fire Protection Program and Hawaii Invasive Species Council to ensure their long-term viability and continue to control and eradicate invasive species in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB306 | Intro
25% | Adds a minimum penalty and maximum penalty per violation of the State Water Code and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offense. Establishes factors the Commission on Water Resource Management must consider when d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB348 | Intro
25% | Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal care products in small plastic containers within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping room accommodations, or bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB89 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Teacher Home Assistance Program to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers. Appropriates funds out of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB422 | Intro
25% | Repeals school impact fees. Abolishes and transfers unencumbered balances of the school impact fee subaccounts and certain fair share contribution accounts to School Facilities Special Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB448 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to assist small businesses, including those related to the tourism sector, with technology enablement. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 2:00 pm]
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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB432 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 10:00 am]
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] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Lee, M., Morikawa, Alcos, Ward. |
| 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 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] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Holt, Lee, M., Alcos, Ward. |
| 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 12:00 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] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Lee, M., Morikawa, Alcos, Ward. |
| 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] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Lee, M., Morikawa, Alcos, Ward. |
| 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] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Holt, Lee, M., Alcos, Ward. |
| 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB596 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the types of events that constitute disasters and emergencies for the purposes of emergency management. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB692 | Intro
25% | Expands the Preschool Open Doors Program's eligibility criteria. Repeals the requirement that Preschool Open Doors Program providers be accredited. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 12:00 pm]
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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 12:00 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] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Lee, M., Morikawa, Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB560 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Judiciary for services contracted with community-based organizations that deliver essential services, streamline judicial processes, and support the judiciary's capacity to effectively meet the needs of vulnerable households...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 12:00 pm]
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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB648 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year pilot program in the Probate Court and Family Court of the First Circuit to fund certain guardianship- and conservatorshiprelated court resources in situations where the respondent does not have sufficient funds to pay for one ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB613 | Intro
25% | Makes the Safe Spaces for Youth Pilot Program permanent within the Office of Youth Services. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB640 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of the Ombudsman to publish an annual report on its website that identifies the number and nature of complaints that it receives regarding the Child Welfare Services Branch of the Department of Human Services. Requires the Child W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Lee, M., Morikawa, Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB697 | Intro
25% | Allows authorized employees of the Department of Transportation and Department of Law Enforcement, in addition to county police departments, to perform certain actions in reviewing recorded images produced by automated speed enforcement systems. Appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 13 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Lee, M., Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB667 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Transportation or appropriate county department when disposing of a deceased cat or dog from a public roadway to scan the animal for a microchip, record certain information, and report that information to the appropriate co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 13 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Lee, M., Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB628 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a program to award high school diplomas to persons who did not receive a diploma as a result of compulsory or voluntary induction into the armed services and persons whose high school education was ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB576 | Intro
25% | Exempts transfers of Hawaiian Home Lands from transfer restrictions for real property under housing development programs of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
