| HI | HB606 | Intro
25% | Extends the Act 279 Special Fund to 6/30/2028. Deposits funds into and appropriates funds out of the Act 279 Special Fund to eliminate its waitlist. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to submit a strategic plan detailing the anticipated u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB364 | Intro
25% | Establishes a State Boating Facility Lease Program within the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to be administered by DOBOR. Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural to lease Ala Wai Small Boat H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:06 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 11:00 am]
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 11:00 am]
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HI | SB741 | Intro
25% | Establishes an External Audit Committee within the University of Hawaii to audit the University of Hawaii System and the Board of Regents. Requires annual reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:15 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB802 | Intro
25% | Requires insurers to provide advance written notice to policyholders and the Insurance Commissioner, with reasonable explanations and primary factors, of any policy cancellation, non-renewal, or proposed premium increase, if, upon renewal, premiums a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB747 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Audit Office within the Board of Education to audit operations and expenditures of the Department of Education. Exempts positions within the Audit Office from civil service law. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Establishes s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on EDU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EDU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Kidani, Kim, Hashimoto, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Kanuha. |
| HI | SB788 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year pilot program in the Probate Court and Family Court of the First Circuit to fund certain guardianship and conservatorship related court resources in situations where the respondent does not have sufficient funds to pay for one ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa. |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
The committee on HED recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Garrett, Amato, Evslin, Kapela, Kila, La Chica, Olds, Sayama, Woodson, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB646 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to automatically enroll, or authorize the Social Security Administration to automatically enroll, in the State's Medicaid program any individual in the State who receives federal Supplemental Security Income ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:30 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | SB868 | Intro
25% | Establishes a one-year School Bus Driver Certification Subsidy Pilot Program within the Department of Education for the 20252026 school year. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1200 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Workforce Housing Regulatory Sandbox Program within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Establishes an Advisory Council within the Workforce Housing Regulatory Sandbox Program to advise on environmental and cultura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | HB705 | Intro
25% | Establishes a temporary Medi-Medi Project within the Hawaii State Health Insurance Assistance Program administered by the Executive Office on Aging to assist older adults, Medicare beneficiaries, individuals with disabilities, and other underserved p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | SB1186 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Statewide Interagency Food Systems Coordination Team and the Interagency Food Systems Working Group within the Department of Agriculture. Requires reports to the Legislature. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:02 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1169 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to establish a five-year community land trust equity pilot program to provide community land trusts with a line of credit to fund the acquisition, rehabilitation, renovation, or constr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | HB960 | Intro
25% | Increases the maximum value of capital advancement contracts that may be executed by the Department of Transportation without legislative approval. Repeals the requirement for the Department of Transportation to obtain legislative approval through co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 10:00 am]
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | SB1242 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates moneys for the establishment of a 5-year nurse recertification pilot program to be administered by the Department of Health. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys for the Department of Health to award scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1283 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Emergency Home Loan Assistance Revolving Fund to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Establishes terms for loans issued from the Revolving Fund. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB1255 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that government records subject to disclosure requirements under the Uniform Information Practices Act include information that is created, received, maintained, or used by private contractors in performance of a government function outsour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:05 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1232 | Intro
25% | Establishes a three-year New Wastewater Technology Testing Pilot Program within the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center to test and evaluate new wastewater technology systems in coordination with University of Hawaii Sea Grant Colleg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:06 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:45 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB1250 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 3 @ 1:02 pm]
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1543 | Intro
25% | Requires each purchasing agency to provide justification for hiring external consultants. Caps the amount each agency can spend on external consultants. Requires each agency to seek approval from the Legislature for consulting contracts exceeding a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:05 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1588 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Nuclear Energy Task Force within the Hawaii State Energy Office. Requires reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:02 pm]
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1601 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority the Condominium Loan Program to provide qualified condominium associations with low-cost financing or refinancing on previously obtained loans for maintenance or repair projects. Establishe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 9:45 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1612 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with the Department of Health, to establish and implement a 5-year fitness to proceed pilot program. Requires an interim report and final report t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 3:10 pm]
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1669 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Transit Oriented Community Improvement Partnership within the Department of Transportation. Establishes the Community Improvement Revolving Fund. Authorizes the Hawaii Community Development Authority to assist the mission of the Partn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB225 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Department of the Attorney General to study the issue of squatting in Hawaii and provide recommendations. Requires reports to the legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB418 | Intro
25% | Establishes a regulatory review program overseen by the Department of the Attorney General to evaluate all Hawaii Administrative Rules adopted by state agencies and identify any rules that should be retained, modified or repealed. Requires each state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee(s) on GVO recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in GVO were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) McKelvey, Gabbard, Moriwaki, San Buenaventura; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| 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] | 2025-01-30
The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | SB576 | Intro
25% | Amends the requirements of legislative reports to be submitted by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Amends the scope of moneys to be deposited into and the purposes of the public housing speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Hashimoto, Kanuha, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Aquino. |
| HI | SB700 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to assess the potential and feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each state facility and submit reports to the Legislature detailing the department's findings. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB992 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to establish state goals and implement projects to promote economic diversification through innovation and technology. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to the Small ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee(s) on EDT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EDT were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) DeCoite, Wakai, Kim; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Fukunaga, Awa. |
| HI | HB1188 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Teacher Workforce Housing Stipend Program to support teacher retention at public and charter schools classified as rural and underserved. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Kapela. |
| HI | HB1328 | Intro
25% | Continues a licensing scheme for licensed certified midwives and licensed certified professional midwives, to be overseen by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Reestablishes the home birth task force to provide recommendations on issues...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1484 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Transit Oriented Community Improvement Partnership within the Department of Transportation. Establishes the Community Improvement Revolving Fund. Authorizes the Hawaii Community Development Authority to assist the mission of the Partn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, Miyake, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Muraoka; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, La Chica. |
| HI | SB351 | Intro
25% | Requires quarterly rather than annual reporting of all use of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in AEN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Richards, DeCoite ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB798 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Child Welfare Services Branch (CWS) Oversight Commission within the Department of the Attorney General to review and assess case management procedures, training, staffing levels and other support given to CWS and address issues identifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1317 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Workforce Housing Regulatory Sandbox Program within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Establishes an Advisory Council within the Workforce Housing Regulatory Sandbox Program to advise on environmental and cultura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Kila, Kitagawa, La Chica; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Grandinetti; 2 Noes: Representative(s) Muraoka, Pierick; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | SB123 | Intro
25% | Eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Requires reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HOU were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Chang, Hashimoto, Aquino, Kanuha; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | SB173 | Intro
25% | Requires the Judiciary to establish a three-year pilot program to provide free child care services to minor children of parties and witnesses who are attending court hearings in the first circuit. Requires the Judiciary to submit reports to the Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDC were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB577 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a tax credit for businesses that pay the public transportation costs of employees. Applies to counties having populations of 700,000 or more. Applies for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024 but not beginning after 12/31/2029. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on TRN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Kila, Grandinetti, Evslin, Kitagawa, La Chica, Miyake, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran. |
| HI | HB1495 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to install two monitoring wells in the Keauhou Aquifer System. Establishes the Keauhou Aquifer System Monitoring Program. Requires reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 9:00 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB274 | Intro
25% | Establishes a licensing scheme for licensed certified midwives and licensed certified professional midwives, to be overseen by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Reestablishes the home birth task force to provide recommendations on issu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB370 | Intro
25% | Establishes a licensing scheme for licensed certified midwives and licensed certified professional midwives, to be overseen by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Reestablishes the home birth task force to provide recommendations on issu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB552 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, Richards, DeCoite, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB727 | Intro
25% | Requires suppliers of water in the State to adjust the level of fluoride in its public water system in conformance with a standard published by the Board of Water Supply of each county until the issuance of a proclamation by the Governor declaring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1188 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Advisory Committee convened by the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Health to inventory lands owned by the United States government which may be reasonably transferred back to the State and to make recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1182 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct an integrated land use study for the use of lands within the agricultural districts and submit interim and final reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1215 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Malama Aina Visitor Impact Tax Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to allocate funds to state agencies to improve the quality of visitor experience to sustain the economic benefits contributed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1259 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Land Dedication for Agricultural Education program within the Department of Education. Requires the Department of Education to consult with the Department of Taxation to establish tax incentives for land developers who dedicate land f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1274 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Teacher Workforce Housing Stipend Program to support teacher retention at public and charter schools classified as rural and underserved. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
