| HI | HB71 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the smoking of cannabis and the smoking of cannabis for medical use, including via an electronic smoking device, in any area accessible by the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB156 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB177 | Intro
25% | Makes the issuance or renewal of a civil identification card free of charge. Effective 6/30/25.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB213 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Healthcare Education Loan Repayment Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB204 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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 | HB238 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and implement a child care provider subsidy and bonus program to provide subsidies to retain the existing child care workforce in licensed infant and toddler child care centers, group child care ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB335 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year pilot program that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free school lunch to all students enrolled at a department school. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education 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 | HB334 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Law Enforcement to establish traffic cameras and issue a citation by mail for certain violations of traffic-related laws. Establishes that intentional destruction or damage to a traffic camera is a class C felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Transportation Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Education 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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 | 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 | HB425 | Intro
25% | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment 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 | HB477 | Intro
25% | Repeals the definition for "registered for work" or "registration for work" and repeals the requirement to post work availability online. Amends the qualifications for unemployed individuals who are able to receive certain unemployment benefits. Begi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB447 | Intro
25% | Amends the types of occurrences for which the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board of Directors may request the Governor to declare a tourism emergency. Reduces the minimum balance to be maintained in the Tourism Emergency Special Fund through an allocatio...
[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 | HB441 | Intro
25% | Beginning 7/1/2025, increases 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB464 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Housing 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 | HB548 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Higher 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 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Higher Education 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 | HB624 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB635 | Intro
25% | Allows tenants who prevail in a lawsuit for a violation of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to be awarded damages, reasonable attorney's fees, and costs of the suit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| 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 | 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 | HB623 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt a policy that bans the use of phones and related devices by students during school hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB611 | Intro
25% | Establishes a streamlined procedure for determining parentage in cases of assisted reproduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB620 | Intro
25% | Establishes state policy to promote braille literacy for eligible blind students. Requires the individualized education programs and section 504 plans of eligible blind students to include the assessment and evaluation of eligible blind students' rea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB638 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a landlord or the landlord's agent from charging an application fee for a criminal background check or credit report if an applicant provides a certified copy of a criminal background check or credit report. Prohibits a landlord or the land...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB639 | Intro
25% | Requires corporations, organizations, or individuals engaging to commercial transactions or trade practices to clearly and conspicuously notify consumers when the consumer is interacting with an artificial intelligence chatbot or other technology cap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB806 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Honolulu Police Department and Department of Law Enforcement to conduct sting operations on Oahu to enforce fireworks ordinances or laws. Authorizes a court to order the forfeiture of one-half of any pension of an Employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB730 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB702 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for Medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB749 | Intro
25% | Creates within the Department of Health's Wastewater Branch a Cesspool Conversion Section, which shall be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for positions within the Cesspool ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB789 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Program within the Department of Human Services to assist households in paying their energy bills. Requires the Public Utilities Commission's Public Benefits Fee Administrator to provide information and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB755 | Intro
25% | By 1/1/2028, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2029, requires the Department to start ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
Introduced and Pass First Reading. |
| HI | HB704 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Food Security Special Fund to restore Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit levels to those provided in federal fiscal year 2023. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
