| HI | HB251 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with the Department of Human Services, to develop and establish a social work training program to assist nonviolent incarcerated individuals in the area of social work. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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 state-owned fishponds and conduct a literature review. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB336 | Intro
25% | Requires condominium associations to repair defective conditions of common elements that constitute health or safety violations. Allows unit owners to make the repairs at the association's expense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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 the Health Care Appropriateness and Necessity Commission within the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB305 | Intro
25% | Creates the Aloha Aina Land Trust to rehabilitate and manage lands transferred by the United States military to the State after the leases for those lands expires. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB242 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii State Energy Office to make recommendations for the reuse and recycling of electric vehicle batteries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB279 | Intro
25% | Allows the carrying or possessing of firearm parts only at or between certain locations and in an enclosed container. Defines firearm parts and prohibited persons. Establishes and increases penalties for the carrying or possessing of certain firearms...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB345 | Intro
25% | Establishes the pae ula as the state shrimp to protect anchialine pool ecosystems throughout Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB332 | Intro
25% | Expands the Electronic Device Recycling and Recovery Act to include the collection and recycling of certain lithium-ion batteries. Requires manufacturers of lithium-ion batteries to recycle or arrange for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries sold i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB248 | Intro
25% | Establishes fees that medical providers may charge for requests for a patient's medical records from the patient's family member, caregiver, or representative. Requires medical providers to respond to requests in a timely manner. Establishes penaltie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB329 | 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
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB324 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Baby Bonds Working Group to develop a plan for the creation of a baby bonds program for the State to address intergenerational poverty and wealth inequality in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB308 | Intro
25% | Increases the matching fund payments to candidates in the partial public financing program for excess qualifying contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB359 | Intro
25% | Amends covered offender registration laws to include offenders who, while acting in a professional capacity, commit the offense of sexual assault in the fourth degree against a minor who is at least sixteen years old. Provides that the exception to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB459 | N/A
0% | Requires county permitting agencies to establish and fill positions exclusively to process permit applications submitted for state projects. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB431 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB473 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB432 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB497 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB429 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB471 | N/A
0% | Requires the Board of Education to establish a Korean language program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB472 | N/A
0% | Allows for a digitized identification card 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB428 | N/A
0% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB427 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB469 | N/A
0% | Requires the Disability and Communication Access Board to issue a disability travel placard to an applicant who has a valid removeable windshield placard and provides proof of travel. Effective 7/1/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB430 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB464 | N/A
0% | Requires, for tenancies greater than 90 days, a landlord to notify a tenant of any intent to raise the rent for any subsequent rental agreement or any intent to terminate a rental agreement 60 days before the expiration of the original rental agreeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB496 | N/A
0% | Imposes labeling requirements for mmaki tea grown in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB433 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for reentry services to connect offenders with community-based services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB435 | N/A
0% | Amends the definition of electric bicycles subject to various state laws and classifies electric bicycles by top assisted speed. Establishes additional regulations for the registration and use of electric bicycles. Increases the minimum age to operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB657 | N/A
0% | Exempts disabled veterans from the State's vehicle weight tax and repeals the exemption for disabled veterans from the State's annual vehicle registration fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB692 | N/A
0% | Expands the preschool open door program's eligibility criteria. Repeals the requirement that open door program providers be accredited.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB603 | N/A
0% | Requires the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to administer and oversee a Native Hawaiian Marketing Program to promote businesses owned by Native Hawaiians through marketing and technical assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB533 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB619 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB627 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for positions to implement and maintain school safety measures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB507 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds for the cesspool compliance pilot grant project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB548 | N/A
0% | Authorizes the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to issue revenue bonds for the acquisition of the Saint Francis School campus located at 2707 Pamoa Road in Honolulu. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the acquisition of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB626 | N/A
0% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for the Department's Hokea Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB503 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB498 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB629 | N/A
0% | Expands the scopes of practice for occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech pathologists employed by or contracted with the Department of Education to diagnose students with a medical condition in an educational setting and treat the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB539 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB622 | N/A
0% | Changes the due date of the Department of Education's computer science legislative report from June 30 to twenty days prior to the start of each legislative regular session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB674 | N/A
0% | 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] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB501 | N/A
0% | Establishes the Agricultural Enforcement Program within the Department of Law Enforcement. Establishes the Agricultural Enforcement Special Fund. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB559 | N/A
0% | Beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB624 | N/A
0% | Creates a School Psychologists Working Group to recommend actionable steps or propose legislation for an immediate pathway to licensure for school psychologists that can be acted upon in 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB554 | N/A
0% | Designates the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice of each year as the Lunar New Year. Establishes the Lunar New Year as a state holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
Pending introduction. |
