| HI | SB134 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Elections to establish three additional voting centers in a county with a population of five hundred thousand or more. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB131 | Intro
25% | Requires the Procurement Policy Board to adopt rules requiring contracts to impose mandatory fines or provide for termination of a contract for default if a contractor fails to perform the contractor's duties or if there is a major delay in a deliver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB125 | Intro
25% | Extends the eligibility period of the State business tax credit and general excise tax exemption for qualified businesses within State Enterprise Zones from seven years to nine years. Extends the eligibility period of the State business tax credit an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB128 | Intro
25% | Establishes the crime of criminal trespass on agricultural land. Prohibits persons being prosecuted for or convicted of the crime of criminal trespass on agricultural land from owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm or ammunition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB129 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of raw ahi and raw ahi products in retail establishments without a label that states the country where the ahi was landed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB126 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture and University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to conduct a study on the effects of neonicotinoids on Hawaii beehive and apiary operations, including beekeeping activities at solar ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB130 | Intro
25% | Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter an area closed to the public or hiking on a trail closed to the public, and ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB127 | Intro
25% | Establishes the conventional farming grant program to provide grants to small and midsized farmers who practice conventional farming. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB152 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to utilize funds in the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund as collateral when DHHL is an eligible borrower of a loan guaranteed by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB137 | Intro
25% | Requires the PUC to impose certain conditions of approval on any order approving, in whole or in part, an application for the proposed acquisition, merger, or consolidation of an electric utility company by an acquiring entity. Establishes a process ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB143 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate the island of Kahoolawe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB145 | Intro
25% | Amends the conditions, manner, and areas in which the Commission on Water Resource Management can declare and provide notice of water shortages and emergencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB217 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Director of Transportation to designate as a toll road, and impose toll charges for the use of, any existing state highway. Requires the Director of Transportation to designate as a toll road a certain portion of Hana Highway. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB218 | Intro
25% | Replaces the Hawaii Tourism Authority with the Corporation for the Stewardship of Hawaii Tourism, a nonprofit entity to guide Hawaii's visitor economy in collaboration with public, private, nonprofit, and community stakeholders in achieving beneficia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB216 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the construction of new farm dwellings on agricultural park lots beginning 1/1/2026. Prohibits residence within an unpermitted farm dwelling. Authorizes inspections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB204 | Intro
25% | Adds a minimum penalty and amends the maximum penalty per violation of the State Water Code, expands the types of potential violations of the State Water Code, and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offense. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB178 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support the establishment of surfing as an interscholastic sport.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB205 | Intro
25% | Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, or the chairperson's designee, to the Commission on Water Resource Management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB219 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that harbor use fees shall not be waived for vessels engaging in inter-island ferry service within Maui county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB249 | Intro
25% | Modifies certain benchmark goals and timeline for the Department of Education to provide locally-sourced agricultural and food products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB226 | Intro
25% | Establishes requirements for the clinical review criteria and clinical practical guidelines used to establish step therapy protocols. Provides a process for a patient to request an exception to using step therapy protocols. Establishes insurance cove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB526 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary three-year woman's court pilot program within the second, third, and fifth circuits. Establishes temporary positions. Requires a report. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB508 | Intro
25% | Establishes the hike safe card program and search and rescue special fund to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB554 | Intro
25% | Requires claims of post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by first responders to be compensable under workers' compensation under certain conditions if the post-traumatic stress disorder resulted from the first responder acting within the course and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB558 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Food and Product Innovation Network within the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Appropriates funds for food and product development or innovation facilities in the county of Maui and on the islands of Oahu and Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB560 | Intro
25% | Raises the minimum age requirement to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Removes the parental consent and written approval by the family court requirements for a minor to marry. Removes spousal cohabitation after the parties a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB528 | 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] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB555 | Intro
25% | Creates a presumption for workers' compensation purposes that diseases of the heart in firefighters and law enforcement officers were proximately caused by and resulted from the nature of the person's employment if certain conditions are met. Exempts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB505 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism's Research and Economic Analysis Division to conduct a comprehensive study to assess the impacts of minimum wage increases on small businesses and the overall economic health of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB557 | Intro
25% | Requires University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) to direct Huli Au Oli to conduct a study on physician and dentist recruitment and retention to serve the island of Molokai. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB556 | Intro
25% | Creates a framework for the licensure of rural emergency hospitals by the Department of Health. Provides for the continuation of Medicaid policy protections for hospitals transitioning to a rural emergency hospital designation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB496 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Agriculture to define the terms "bona fide farmer" and "bona fide agricultural activity". Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB527 | Intro
25% | Establishes, and appropriates funds for, five full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) positions within the Civil Rights Compliance Branch of the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB504 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Local Agriculture Transportation Cost Reimbursement Program within the Department of Agriculture to reimburse eligible ranchers and farmers a portion of their costs to transport livestock, livestock products, agricultural commodities, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB567 | Intro
25% | Establishes an income tax credit for medically-related travel expenses not covered by insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB534 | Intro
25% | Allows the Hawaii Community Development Authority to approve residential development on certain parcels of land in the Kakaako Makai area. Raises the building height limit on certain parcels in the area. Requires a certain percentage of the residenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB580 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the School Facilities Authority is responsible for certain development, planning, and construction projects for prekindergarten, preschool, and child care facilities, as well as workforce housing. Allows the School Facilities Authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB577 | Intro
25% | Authorizes departments to issue permits for the development of multi-family rental housing projects on state or county land that was used for a multi-family rental housing project before a state emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB643 | Intro
25% | Extends the State's energy-efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045 and updates the standards. Authorizes the public utilities commission to adjust the 2045 and interim standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB730 | Intro
25% | Adds definitions for certain Department of Law Enforcement employees. Establishes guidance for the computation of retirement benefits for the Director of Law Enforcement, Deputy Director of the Department of Law Enforcement, Sheriff Division Investig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB729 | 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] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB731 | Intro
25% | Allows a retirant employed as an investigator identified by the Department of Law Enforcement or Department of the Attorney General as a labor shortage or difficult-to-fill position to be rehired without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement Syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB732 | Intro
25% | Requires qualified production costs of a taxpayer that exceed $1,000,000 to be certified by an independent third-party certified public accountant to qualify for the tax credit. Increases the total amount of tax credits allowed in any given year from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB841 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and conduct the Marine Life Conservation District Carrying Capacity Program. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit a report to the Legislature and adopt admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB829 | Intro
25% | Authorizes physicians to practice at organized ambulatory health care facilities even if the physician does not have hospital privileges at a licensed hospital in the same geographic location as the ambulatory facility. Provides that a written transf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB838 | Intro
25% | Requires all health insurers in the State, including Medicaid managed care programs, to cover the cost of continuous glucose monitors and related supplies under certain conditions. Applies to insurance policies, contracts, plans, or agreements issued...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB835 | Intro
25% | Authorizes individuals who possess a commercial driver's license with a passenger "P" endorsement to provide pupil transportation student services without also possessing a school bus "S" endorsement in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB840 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract or form a partnership with private parties to assist with the maintenance and management of sunscreen dispensers at all state beaches, as well as publicize that the mineral-based sunscre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
| HI | SB987 | Intro
25% | Allows manufacturers to coordinate activities directly related to the recycling of covered electronic devices. Expands the scope of covered electronic devices to include electronic device peripherals and certain legacy devices. Requires manufacturers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced. |
