HI | HB613 | Pass | Makes the Safe Spaces for Youth Pilot Program permanent within the Office of Youth Services. Requires the program to collaborate with certain state and county departments. Authorizes the Office of Youth Services to contract with nonprofit organizatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-07 Act 297, on 07/07/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1408). |
HI | SB897 | Pass | Allows electric cooperatives to recover wildfire mitigation, repair, and restoration costs through an automatic rate adjustment or other mechanism. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to initiate a proceeding for the adoption of rules, subject t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-07-01 Act 258, on 07/01/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1361). |
HI | SB71 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-04-16 Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 809). |
HI | SB327 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-03-21 To House Finance Committee |
HI | SB533 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support public schools impacted by a local investorowned electric utility's planned public safety power shutoff program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
HI | SB1456 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "beach restoration" to include activities undertaken to maintain and improve eroded beaches and degraded dune systems through the management of sand and native vegetation, place sand on an eroded beach, and remove abandoned r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 To House Water & Land Committee |
HI | HB756 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of flavored nicotine products and nicotine product flavor enhancers and the mislabeling of e-liquids as nicotine free. Establishes penalties for violations. Authorizes the Department of Health to appoint, commission, or contract fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
HI | HB637 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to implement dyslexia-sensitive universal screenings and evidence-based interventions, offer professional development on structured literacy and evidenced-based interventions, and support pre-teacher programs in t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04 To Senate Education Committee |
HI | HB394 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the Victim Witness Assistance Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14 To House Finance Committee |
HI | HB339 | Intro
Sine Die | Part I: Requires the Public Utilities Commission 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 acquirin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14 To House Finance Committee |
HI | HB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students enrolled in department schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13 To House Finance Committee |
HI | HB1233 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties to adopt ordinances for the regulation of retention and detention ponds. Requires the counties to conduct a survey of existing retention and detention ponds and make a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds as a grant-in-... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13 To House Finance Committee |
HI | HB838 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the bonus for teachers who achieve and maintain a current national board certification from $5,000 to $10,000. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 To House Finance Committee |
HI | HB1407 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish a Chamber of Commerce Competitive Grant Program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 To House Finance Committee |
HI | HB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Renames the Electric Bicycle and Electric Moped Rebate Program to the Electric Mobility Device Rebate Program. Expands eligibility and amends the maximum rebate amount. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11 To House Finance Committee |
HI | SB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Victim Witness Assistance Program. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
HI | HB1384 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council. Requires an action plan and reports to the Governor and Legislature by certain dates. Establishes positions. Authorizes the hiring of consultants to assist the advisory council. Appropr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To House Finance Committee |
HI | HB461 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Director of Human Resources Development, in consultation with the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, Hawaii State Energy Office, and Department of Accounting and General Services, to develop and implement a compr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
HI | HB1263 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Rehabilitation and Re-entry Services Task Force. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
HI | HB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii emergency management agency to inventory all designated emergency shelters and their ability to withstand a category one hurricane or higher. Requires Hawaii emergency management agency to publish a publicly available list of shel... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31 To House Public Safety Committee |
HI | SB1485 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds out of the State Highway Fund for deposit into the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program Special Fund and apporitates funds out of the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program Special Fund for fiscal year 2025-2026. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
HI | SB1375 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Strengthen Hawaii Homes Program to encourage single-family homeowners to retrofit their homes to resist damage by providing for grants to help offset the cost of retrofits. Appropriates funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
HI | SB1458 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources the environmental stewardship fee program to collect a fee from visitors through an environmental stewardship license and allocate the revenue to protect, restore, and manage natural and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
HI | SB673 | Intro
Sine Die | Effective 7/1/2027, establishes the Environmental Stewardship Fee Program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources, through which the Department will collect a fee from visitors for a license to visit a state park, forest, hiking trail, or... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
HI | SB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes statewide goals for solid waste reduction and organic waste diversion. Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to divert certain organic waste generated within the county in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
HI | HB536 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits residing in, on, or within fifty feet of a freshwater waterway. Authorizes state and local law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program and county police, t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21 To House Water & Land Committee |