| HI | SB66 | Pass | Establishes procedures and requirements for single-family and multi-family housing project applicants to apply for an expedited permit, including requirements for completeness of expedited permit applications, duties of licensed professionals and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Act 295, on 07/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1398). |
| HI | SB38 | Pass | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide counties with an opportunity to comment on certain housing development projects. Prohibits the legislative body of a county from imposing stricter conditions than the Hawaii H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Act 294, on 07/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1397). |
| HI | SB583 | Veto | Allows the naming rights of the Stadium Facility and Convention Center Facility to be leased to any public or private entity. Requires any revenues derived from advertising or marketing in or on the Stadium Facility or Convention Center Facility to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Vetoed (Gov. Msg. No. 1405). |
| HI | SB1102 | Veto | Specifies the appointment processes and terms for the Fire Chief of the Hawaii State Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting Unit of the Airports Division of the Department of Transportation. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Vetoed (Gov. Msg. No. 1406). |
| HI | SB1252 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to establish positions within the University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine's Department of Geriatric Medicine to coordinate and incorporate training on Alzheimer's disease and other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-03
Act 283, on 07/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1386). |
| HI | SB739 | Pass | Allows the Governor to negotiate land exchanges, subject to approval by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, to acquire lands that are suitable for long-term diversified agricultural production in exchange for land for private affordable, workfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Act 279, on 07/02/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1382). |
| HI | SB825 | Pass | Beginning 2/5/2026, extends the period for a notice of termination of a rental agreement from five business days to ten calendar days; requires landlords, or their agents, and tenants to engage in mediation and requires landlords and their agents to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-02
Act 278, on 07/02/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1381). |
| HI | SB119 | Pass | Appropriates funds to establish a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program at the University of Hawaii Maui College. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01
Act 265, on 07/01/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1368). |
| HI | SB224 | Pass | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to assist inmates with obtaining civil identification cards and other identification documents within a certain time. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01
Act 263, on 07/01/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1366). |
| HI | SB292 | Pass | Establishes safe harbor protections for survivors of sexual exploitation who seek medical or law enforcement assistance. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01
Act 261, on 07/01/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1364). |
| HI | SB222 | Pass | Extends the sunset date of the Illegal Fireworks Task Force from 6/30/2025 to 6/30/2030 and extends the annual reporting requirements to the Legislature. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-30
Act 246, on 06/30/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1349). |
| HI | SB140 | Pass | Prohibits the importation of firewood into the State unless the firewood is certified as heat-treated and labeled accordingly or the importation is authorized and permitted by the Department of Agriculture before importation. Requires persons who imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-27
Act 240, on 06/27/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1342). |
| HI | SB326 | Pass | Requires the Legislature, in establishing or reviewing a revolving fund, to ensure the revolving fund is financially self-sustainable by either annual projections that show that the revolving fund will be sustainable without appropriations of general...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-25
Act 223, on 06/25/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1325). |
| HI | SB423 | Pass | Requires one voting member of the Early Learning Board to have experience as a local provider of early childhood education and development services. Adds the Director of the Hawaii Head Start State Collaboration Office as an ex officio, nonvoting mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-24
Act 205, on 06/24/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1306). |
| HI | SB88 | Pass | 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. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Act 181, on 06/06/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1281). |
| HI | SB65 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Act 182, on 06/06/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1282). |
| HI | SB330 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to enforce federal quarantines. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Act 190, on 06/06/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1290). |
| HI | SB693 | Pass | Appropriates funds for the continued implementation of the Food Hub Pilot Program, including the awarding of grant moneys to qualifying food hubs. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Act 185, on 06/06/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1285). |
| HI | SB1567 | Pass | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to complete a comprehensive review of the classification and compensation systems for all civil service positions under its jurisdiction by 10/31/2026. Allows the Department to contract with a th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-06
Act 180, on 06/06/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1280). |
| HI | SB97 | Pass | Part I: Increases the penalty for a third or subsequent offense within five years of excessive speeding to a misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum jail sentence of thirty days. Part II: Clarifying when a summons or citation is sent under an automated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-03
Act 170, on 06/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1270). |
| HI | SB385 | Pass | Requires condominium associations to provide electronic copies of their governing documents, as amended or restated, to unit owners or their authorized agents, upon request, at no cost. Repeals the authority of condominium associations to charge a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-03
Act 161, on 06/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1261). |
| HI | SB662 | Pass | Authorizes county police officers to enforce the Statewide Traffic Code on all public streets, roadways, or highways within the State. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-03
Act 164, on 06/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1264). |
| HI | SB576 | Pass | Amends the required contents of legislative reports to be submitted by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and Hawaii Public Housing Authority. Amends the scope of moneys to be deposited into and the allowable uses of moneys expend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-06-03
Act 155, on 06/03/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1255). |
| HI | SB532 | Pass | Authorizes school staff and agents trained by a health care professional to volunteer to administer medication to students at Department of Education public schools under certain conditions. Clarifies who may prescribe medication to be administered t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-30
Act 136, on 05/30/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1236). |
| HI | SB597 | Pass | Extends the deadline in which the Administrative Driver's License Revocation Office is required to issue a written review decision of a notice of administrative revocation of a person's license to operate a vehicle. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-30
Act 146, on 05/30/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1246). |
| HI | SB295 | Pass | Increases the penalties imposed on individuals convicted for violations of temporary restraining orders and orders for protection. Clarifies that the court shall not sentence a defendant to pay a fine for violating a domestic abuse protective order i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
Act 121, on 05/29/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1221). |
| HI | SB752 | Pass | Beginning 1/1/2026, amends the notice period for a property insurer to notify a policyholder of a cancellation, including cancellation due to nonpayment, or nonrenewal of a policy of property insurance. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
Act 110, on 05/29/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1210). |
| HI | SB1009 | Pass | Establishes a state reserved parking space enforcement fine for the unauthorized use of parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities or electric vehicles. Deposits fifty percent of all fines into the general fund and fifty percent of all fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
Act 112, on 05/29/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1212). |
| HI | SB1008 | Pass | Authorizes the counties to adopt ordinances to enforce the accessible parking space requirements for parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities and electric vehicles. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
Act 111, on 05/29/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1211). |
| HI | SB1048 | Pass | Amends Act 205, SLH 2024, to clarify standards and safeguards in online crowdfunding, including creating separate registration, reporting, and fee requirements that are specific to platform charities and charitable fundraising platforms. Extends the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-29
Act 108, on 05/29/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1208). |
| HI | SB321 | Pass | Provides that in any county with a population of less than 250,000, 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 a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-27
Act 088, on 05/27/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1188). |
| HI | SB849 | Pass | Prohibits and imposes penalties for the intentional taking, harming, or killing of Io (Hawaiian hawk). Increases penalties and fees for taking and killing indigenous species of aquatic life, wildlife, and land plants that are native to the State. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-27
Act 098, on 05/27/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1198). |
| HI | SB102 | Pass | Prohibits third-party restaurant reservation services from advertising, listing, promoting, facilitating, enabling, or selling restaurant reservations without first obtaining a written agreement from the applicable restaurant authorizing the action. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-19
Act 077, on 05/19/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1177). |
| HI | SB946 | Pass | Clarifies that the prohibition against discharging wastewater or raw sewage into state waters after 12/31/2026 includes treatment plants. Repeals the exemption from the prohibition for treatment plants that utilize sewage to produce clean energy. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-16
Act 060, on 05/16/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1160). |
| HI | SB79 | Enroll
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to determine the effect of any proposed state or county housing projects that may affect a historical property, an aviation artifact, or a burial site within ninety days of a request for determina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB223 | Enroll
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish an independent program relating to the prevention, control, and extinguishment of wildland fires within forest reserves. Authorizes the Administrator of Forestry and Wildlife to estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB572 | Enroll
Sine Die | Adds loan funds administered by certified Nonprofit Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) for certain for-sale affordable housing projects to the list of loan priorities for the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund. Expands the use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1044 | Enroll
Sine Die | Expands the powers of the Hawaii Property Insurance Association and reactivates the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to help stabilize the property insurance market in the State. Establishes the Condominium Loan Program and the Condominium Loan Revolving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1170 | Enroll
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of a county planning department to issue a special management area use permit to redevelop permanent affordable multi-family rental housing that has been substantially destroyed as result of certain natural disasters, with cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SCR60 | Pass | Urging The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Develop A Plan To Produce Sufficient Housing To Meet The State's Demand.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Received notice of Adoption (Sen. Com. No. 890). |
| HI | SCR123 | Pass | Requesting The Judiciary To Convene A Working Group To Review The Residential Landlord-tenant Code To Determine If Any Amendments Or Updates Are Necessary To Improve Landlord-tenant Interactions And Address Other Housing Issues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-02
Received notice of Adoption (Sen. Com. No. 890). |
| HI | SB26 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Affordable Housing Land Inventory Task Force to conduct a study, subject to legislative appropriation, to assess the viability of housing development in transit-oriented development zones or other areas on state or county lands. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Received notice of change in Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 880). |
| HI | SB177 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-04-25
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-25-25 2:40 PM; Conference Room 411. |
| HI | SB717 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 7/1/3000. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-25 4:30 PM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB828 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-04-25
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-25 4:30 PM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB944 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that a partner or member that is a partnership or limited liability company that has been allocated a low-income housing tax credit may either further allocate the credit or transfer, sell, or assign all or a portion of the credit to any ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-25 4:30 PM; Conference Room 225. |
| HI | SB1120 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a feasibility study on implementing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State. Requires, no later than 1/1/2028, the Department of Transportation to adopt rules governing a clean fue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-25 5:15 PM; Conference Room 225. |
| HI | SB1229 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Pilot Program to 6/30/2030. Gives preference to for-sale housing development projects developed under governmental assistance programs approved by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Received notice of change in Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 880). |
| HI | SCR54 | Pass | Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Convene And Provide Administrative Assistance To A Desalination Planning Task Force To Determine Whether The Use Of Desalination For Large-scale Water Consumption In The State Is Feasible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Received notice of Adoption (Sen. Com. No. 877). |
| HI | SCR53 | Pass | Requesting The Comptroller To Cooperate With The Hawaii State Public Library System, Office Of Planning And Sustainable Development, And Hawaii Broadband And Digital Equity Office To Identify Rural And Underserved Communities In The State With A Need...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-25
Received notice of Adoption (Sen. Com. No. 877). |
