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Legislator > Kim Iwamoto
State Representative
Kim Iwamoto
(D) - Hawaii
Hawaii House District 25
In Office - Started: 11/05/2024
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State Capitol
415 S. Beretania St.
Honolulu, HI 96813
415 S. Beretania St.
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone: 808-586-8485
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB1377 | Relating To Early Learning Cooperatives. | Requires the Executive Office on Early Learning to establish parent-staff early learning collectives to combine professional early-learning services with structured parental involvement. Establishes an Early Learning Cooperative Advisory Council. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB1220 | Relating To Invasive Species. | Appropriates funds to support the efforts of the Division of Aquatic Resources of the Department of Land and Natural Resources in the removal of the majano anemone from Kaneohe Bay. (CD1) | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB750 | Relating To The Environment. | Requires the Department of Health to conduct a statewide needs assessment to determine what will be needed to reduce waste generation, increase reuse, improve recycling collection services, and expand local processing of materials through an extended producer responsibility program for packaging materials and paper products. Establishes an advisory council to review the draft needs assessment and propose recommendations throughout the assessment process. Requires the Department of Health to hold a public hearing on the draft needs assessment and complete and submit the needs assessment to the Legislature by 12/31/2027. Appropriates funds. (CD1) | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1376 | Relating To Correctional Facilities. | Requires the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reduce the number of individuals incarcerated in private, out-of-state correctional institutions. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective July 1, 3000. (HD2) | In Committee |
| HB871 | Relating To The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act. | Clarifies that Act 130, SLH 2024, which amended the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, takes effect on the earlier of the date of the Secretary of the Interior's notification letter that Act 130 does not require congressional approval, or on the date that the United States Congress approval becomes law. (SD1) | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB622 | Relating To The Department Of Education. | Changes the due date of the Department of Education's annual computer science legislative report from June 30 to October 31. (SD1) | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1477 | Relating To Social Services. | Increases the domiciliary care rates for certain providers and clarifies that the needs allowance and domiciliary care rates are included in the state supplemental payment ceiling amounts. Effective 10/1/2025. (CD1) | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1293 | Relating To Department Of Education Procurement. | Exempts Department of Education purchases of local edible produce and packaged food products less than $250,000 from the electronic procurement system requirement. Requires at least three written quotes for Department of Education purchases of local edible produce and packaged food products of less than $250,000. Sunsets 6/30/2028. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB934 | Relating To The Hawaii Broadband And Digital Equity Office. | Transfers the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Department of Accounting and General Services. Renames the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office to Broadband Office. Repeals broadband duties assigned to the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Repeals the Broadband Assistance Advisory Council. Transfers the duty of collecting and posting certain broadband infrastructure notices to the Broadband Office. Establishes the Broadband Revolving Fund. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB943 | Relating To Homelessness. | Expands existing crisis intervention programs by requiring, and appropriating funds for, the Department of Health to establish a Homeless Triage and Treatment Center Program within its Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division to serve homeless individuals and individuals at risk of homelessness with substance abuse issues or mental illness. Requires the Crisis Intervention and Diversion Services Program to redirect certain homeless persons to the appropriate health care system and services. Authorizes the program to include intensive mobile outreach services. Requires appropriations for the program to be used only for services contracted directly between the Department of Health and the service provider. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB736 | Relating To Wastewater Systems. | Establishes and appropriates funds for fiscal year 2025-2026 for a three-year new wastewater system and individual wastewater system technology testing pilot program within the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center. Requires interim and final reports to the Legislature. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB700 | Relating To Cognitive Assessments. | Establishes, with certain exceptions, standardized cognitive assessments for qualified Medicare beneficiaries. Establishes a two-year Dementia Data Pilot Program within the Executive Office on Aging to collect and analyze cognitive assessment data. Requires the Executive Office on Aging to report de-identified aggregated data to the Legislature. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB806 | Relating To Fireworks. | Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct fireworks sting operations and establish an explosives and firearms laboratory. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB713 | Relating To A Rate Study For Home Health Services. | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to conduct a rate study for Medicaid home health services in Hawaii. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB705 | Relating To The Executive Office On Aging. | Establishes a Medi-Medi Project within the Executive Office on Aging to assist older adults, Medicare beneficiaries, individuals with disabilities, and other underserved populations who may qualify for various low-income subsidy programs to gain access to their benefits. Requires the Executive Office on Aging to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for staff and operating expenses. Requires and appropriates funds for the Executive Office on Aging to develop a one-year pilot project to provide the Medi-Medi Project to kupuna and families living in a disadvantaged community, specifically the Kalihi Valley catchment areas. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB727 | Relating To The Women's Court. | Permanently establishes the Women's Court Program in the First Circuit. Establishes a temporary two-year Women's Court Pilot Program within the Kona division of the Third Circuit. Requires reports. Establishes a temporary position. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2027. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB703 | Relating To Kupuna Housing. | Extends the sunset date for the State Rent Supplement Program for Kupuna to 6/30/2028. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB879 | Relating To Cesspool Conversions. | Appropriates funds to establish a position within the Department of Health to assist with the upgrade and conversion of cesspools and perform any other related responsibilities as designated by the Wastewater Branch of the Department of Health. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB860 | Relating To Liability. | Specifies for a county with a population of more than two hundred thousand but less than five hundred thousand, that the State or county may repair or maintain any street of which the ownership or jurisdiction is in dispute between the State and county. Specifies that the State or county that repaired or maintained the street may only be held liable for acts or omissions arising out of the repair or maintenance of that street that the State or county performed at any time. Deems that repair or maintenance of a street shall not confer ownership or jurisdiction over such street if the ownership or jurisdiction over the street is in dispute between the State and the county. Sunsets 7/1/2030. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB613 | Relating To Homeless Youth. | 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 organizations to provide shelters for homeless youth or young adults. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB505 | Relating To Red Hill. | Establishes a WAI Policy Coordinator for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB712 | Relating To Health. | Prohibits drug manufacturers from denying, restricting, or prohibiting the acquisition, shipping, or delivery of a 340B drug to pharmacies contracted with 340B covered entities under the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program. Authorizes 340B covered entities and the Attorney General to bring a civil action for enforcement within four years of a violation. Beginning 7/1/2026, requires each 340B covered entity in the State to report certain information annually to the hospital trade association operating in the State and requires the hospital trade association to prepare and publicly post an aggregate report of reports submitted by each 340B covered entity. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB250 | Relating To Health. | 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 Working Group within the State Health Planning and Development Agency and requires the working group to submit annual reports to the Legislature. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB431 | Relating To Housing. | Part I: Establishes requirements for kauhale projects, including reporting requirements by the Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions (OHHS). Requires the Auditor to conduct a management and performance audit of the kauhale initiative. Appropriates funds for the continued operation of the kauhale initiative. Part II: Establishes the Ohana Zones Program as a permanent program within OHHS. Appropriates funds to DHS for the continued implementation of the Ohana Zones Pilot Program. Part III: Requires OHHS to submit a report every four months to the Legislature detailing the expenditure of funds appropriated toward the kauhale and ohana zones initiatives and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment. Part IV: Changes references to the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness to "Coordinator on Homelessness". Specifies that the Coordinator on Homelessness shall report directly to the Director of Human Services. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB430 | Relating To Internships. | 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. Establishes a state internship and workforce development program. Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to collaborate with the Department of Human Resources Development for placement of interns in state executive branch departments, agencies, and programs. Provides that the State shall be the responsible employer for purposes of workers' compensation coverage for students or recent graduates in the on-the-job-training work experience program, subject to certain limitations. Appropriates funds. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB474 | Relating To Fall Prevention. | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to fund the current Fall Prevention Campaign. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB692 | Relating To The Preschool Open Doors Program. | Expands the Preschool Open Doors Program's eligibility criteria. Repeals the requirement that Preschool Open Doors Program providers be accredited. Effective 1/1/2026. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB550 | Relating To Fireworks. | Allows recordings made by law enforcement agencies who are using, controlling, or operating unmanned aerial vehicles to establish probable cause for arrests under the Fireworks Control Law if the unmanned aerial vehicle is recording directly above public property and the act leading to the arrest is committed on public property. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB103 | Relating To Sentencing. | Prohibits sentencing persons who were under the age of twenty-one at the time of the offense to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB134 | Relating To Elections. | Requires the Chief Election Officer to provide a system for the electronic filing of nomination papers. Requires that the system for the electronic filing of nomination papers be provided at no additional cost to the filer. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/2028. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB126 | Relating To Property Forfeiture. | Increases transparency and accountability surrounding property forfeiture. Clarifies which property is subject to forfeiture. Amends the authorized disposition of forfeited property and the proceeds thereof. Requires the Attorney General to adopt rules necessary to carry out the purpose of the Hawaii Omnibus Criminal Forfeiture Act. Repeals language that requires the Hawaii Omnibus Criminal Forfeiture Act to be construed liberally. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB242 | Relating To Electric Vehicle Batteries. | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii State Energy Office to examine how to maximize the recycling and reuse of electric vehicle batteries and recommend electric vehicle battery management practices. Requires a report to the Legislature. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB280 | Relating To The Community Outreach Court. | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement, Office of the Public Defender, and City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB329 | Relating To The School Facilities Authority. | Clarifies that the School Facilities Authority is responsible for projects for facilities for prekindergarten, preschool, child care, and early learning programs; workforce housing; and any public school development, planning, and construction assigned by the Legislature, Governor, or Board of Education. Allows the School Facilities Authority to use the Department of Education for certain recruitment and hiring responsibilities. Allows the School Facilities Authority to partner with public and private development agencies to develop prekindergarten, preschool, child care, and early learning program facilities. Appropriates funds. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB427 | Relating To Biosecurity. | Part I: Renames the Department of Agriculture as the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity (Department) and the Board of Agriculture as the Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity. Part II: Establishes a Deputy Chairperson for Biosecurity. Part III: Authorizes and specifies conditions under which the Department may declare a biosecurity emergency, during which the Department and Governor may take certain actions to prevent the establishment or spread of pests and prohibited or restricted organisms. Broadens the objectives and general actions of the Biosecurity Program. Part IV: Authorizes the Department to establish transitional facilities. Requires the Department to certify and train biosecurity compliance auditors to inspect imported plants and animals. Requires inspection of various items transported interisland. Increases penalties for illegally transporting plants, animals, and microorganisms. Part V: Authorizes the Department to enter into governmentindustry agreements for readiness and response to unwanted organisms in the State. Authorizes biosecurity and pest management plans to address, contain, or eradicate pests. Requires the Department to establish a pest dashboard by 12/1/2025. Part VI: Authorizes the Department to adopt rules to establish and enforce the Plant Care Component Program. Authorizes the Department to assess administrative penalties for the enforcement of the Plant Care Component Program. Part VII: Transfers the Hawaii Invasive Species Council from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Department. Part VIII: Appropriates funds. (CD1) | Passed |
| HB1259 | Relating To Transportation. | Specifies that an engineering study is not required to be considered when reducing the maximum speed limit within ten miles per hour of the current speed limit for that road. Requires the Department of Transportation or a county, to the extent practicable, to consider National Association of City Transportation Officials guidance when setting a maximum speed limit for sections of highways with residential or commercial areas or schools immediately on a highway. (CD1) | Passed |
| HCR200 | Urging The State Department Of Agriculture And The Department Of Agriculture Of The County Of Maui To Take Further Meaningful Action To Address The Axis Deer Overpopulation. | RESOLUTION URGING THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OF THE COUNTY OF MAUI TO TAKE FURTHER MEANINGFUL ACTION TO ADDRESS THE AXIS DEER OVERPOPULATION. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1348 | Relating To Public Lands. | Requires the Board of Land and Natural Resources to lease public lands for recreation-residence use by public lottery under certain conditions and restrict participation in the public lottery to residents of the county in which the leased land is located under certain conditions. (CD1) | Passed |
| HCR174 | Requesting The Department Of Human Services' Office Of Youth Services And Juvenile Justice State Advisory Council To Continue The Use Of Aina-based Learning Programs Offered To Youth In The Juvenile Legal System. | RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES' OFFICE OF YOUTH SERVICES AND JUVENILE JUSTICE STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL TO CONTINUE THE USE OF AINA-BASED LEARNING PROGRAMS OFFERED TO YOUTH IN THE JUVENILE LEGAL SYSTEM. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB432 | Relating To The Rental Housing Revolving Fund. | Establishes the Mixed-Income Subaccount within the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to prioritize development of workforce rental and for-sale housing projects for qualified residents. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to adopt administrative rules. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2) | Crossed Over |
| HB348 | Relating To Single-use Plastics. | Beginning 7/1/2026 for lodging establishments with more than fifty sleeping room accommodations, and beginning 1/1/2028 for lodging establishments with fifty or fewer sleeping room accommodations, prohibits the provision of personal care products in small plastic containers within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping room accommodations, or bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalties. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB212 | Relating To Homelessness. | Requires the Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions to establish a permanent Return-to-Home Program to return homeless individuals in the State to families and relatives in their home states. Requires the Office to report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB86 | Relating To The Department Of Land And Natural Resources. | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the establishment of full-time equivalent permanent Makai Watch Coordinator positions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB244 | Relating To The Department Of Human Services. | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to collaborate with contracted community-based organizations to address the need for social services in the State. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB472 | Relating To Digital Identification. | Allows digitized identification cards 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 beginning 7/1/2027. Effective 7/1/2077. (SD2) | Crossed Over |
| HB1320 | Relating To Education. | Requires the University of Hawaii System to collect, analyze, and publicly report certain graduate outcome data. Requires and appropriates funds for the development and maintenance of a graduate outcomes dashboard. Appropriates funds for positions within the University of Hawaii's Office of the Vice President of Academic Strategy. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/31/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB127 | Relating To Pretrial Release. | Requires bail to be set in an amount that the defendant can afford based on certain factors. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB125 | Relating To Firearms. | Requires retail sellers or transferers of firearms to provide purchasers with notice regarding the law on firearms storage. Expands the requirements for the secure storage of firearms. Clarifies the offense of criminally negligent storage of a firearm. (HD1) | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB701 | Relating To Taxation. | Establishes a family caregiver tax credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to submit annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys to the Executive Office on Aging. The tax credit applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2026. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2) | Crossed Over |
| HB428 | Relating To Farm To Families. | Establishes the Hawaii Farm to Families Program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Requires reports to the Legislature before the Regular Sessions of 2026 and 2027. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB455 | Relating To Small Business Loans. | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the contracting of services for start-up business financing and support. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD2) | Crossed Over |
| HB309 | Relating To Fishponds. | Establishes a fishpond inventory working group within the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to create an inventory and map of all fishponds on state land and conduct a literature review. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB306 | Relating To State Water Code Penalties. | Adds a minimum penalty and maximum penalty per violation of the State Water Code and authorizes the Commission on Water Resource Management to consider each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offense. Establishes factors the CWRM must consider when determining the amount of the penalty. Increases maximum fines every five years from 2030 to 2045. Effective 7/1/2040. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB714 | Relating To Health Care Workforce Development. | Appropriates funds to support educational training programs to expand the State's health care workforce, including funding to support health care certification programs offered in public high schools and education programs that support certified nurse assistants in becoming licensed practical nurses. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB1325 | Relating To Housing. | Requires developers developing an affordable housing project under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to assist certain tenants who are subject to displacement or eviction by the proposed project by: granting those tenants the right of first refusal of a comparable unit in the housing project or establishing a fund to provide relocation benefits and offer assistance; providing information, either directly or through a contracted service, on how to obtain assistance and exercise the right of first refusal; and establishing procedures to track and maintain communication with those tenants. Establishes consequences for a developer's noncompliance. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB433 | Relating To Public Safety. | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to submit an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for reentry services to connect offenders with community-based services. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB643 | Relating To The Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Program. | Establishes short-term management initiatives for the coconut rhinoceros beetle response program. Appropriates funds for activities and positions related to coconut rhinoceros beetle infestation control. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HR199 | Urging The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Conduct A Comprehensive Economic Analysis Of All Military-leased Lands. | RESOLUTION URGING the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a comprehensive economic analysis of all military-leased lands. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR177 | Encouraging The City And County Of Honolulu To Initiate A Summer Streets Pilot Program. | RESOLUTION ENCOURAGING THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO INITIATE A SUMMER STREETS PILOT PROGRAM. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR37 | Requesting The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency To Collaborate With Relevant Agencies To Develop Initiatives And Outreach Programs To Inform Kupuna About Emergency Preparedness. | RESOLUTION requesting the hawaii emergency management agency to collaborate with relevant agencies to develop initiatives and outreach programs to inform kupuna about emergency preparedness. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR153 | Requesting The Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation To Incrementally And Systematically Reduce The Number Of Inmates Incarcerated In Private, Out-of-state Correctional Facilities. | RESOLUTION Requesting the dEPARTMENT of corrections and rehabilitation to incrementally AND SYSTEMATICALLY reduce the number of inmates incarcerated in private, out-of-state correctional facilities. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB716 | Relating To Health. | Establishes the Health Information Technology Infrastructure Grant Program within the Department of Health, to be administered by the State Health Planning and Development Agency, to support health information technology infrastructure and the implementation of interoperable health information technologies in federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program centers, and Native Hawaiian health centers. Appropriates funds for the grant program. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB833 | Relating To Community Land Trusts. | 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 construction of housing for certain households. Requires reports to the Legislature regarding the pilot program. Appropriates funds from the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund for establishment of the pilot program. Sunsets the pilot program on 6/30/2030. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB904 | Relating To Charter Schools. | Requires the State Public Charter School Commission to submit an annual report on public charter schools before the opening day of each Regular Session of the Legislature. Requires the Board of Education to review and approve the annual report before the report is issued to the Governor, Legislature, and the public. Takes effect 7/1/3000. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB429 | Relating To Early Learning. | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB596 | Relating To Emergency Management. | Clarifies the types of events that constitute disasters and emergencies for the purposes of emergency management. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB132 | Relating To Expungement. | Amends the Department of the Attorney General pilot project for a state-initiated expungement process of arrest records concerning promoting a detrimental drug in the third degree to include the possession of any schedule V substance in any amount. (HD1) | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB145 | Relating To Expungement. | Authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to transmit all expungement orders to the Judiciary to effectuate the purposes of Act 159, SLH 2023. (HD1) | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR190 | Requesting The Department Of Health To Convene A Demolition Waste Reduction Working Group. | RESOLUTION requesting the department of health to convene a demolition waste reduction working group. | Crossed Over |
| HCR199 | Urging The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Prioritize The Restoration And Protection Of Additional Wetlands And Anchialine Pools. | RESOLUTION URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO PRIORITIZE THE RESTORATION AND PROTECTION OF ADDITIONAL WETLANDS AND ANCHIALINE POOLS. | In Committee |
| HCR208 | Urging The United States Department Of Defense To Make Recreational Facilities On Military Installations In Hawaii Accessible To All Hawaii Residents. | RESOLUTION URGING THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO MAKE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN HAWAII ACCESSIBLE TO ALL HAWAII RESIDENTS. | In Committee |
| HCR188 | Declaring A Public Health Emergency Relating To Climate Change And Requesting Statewide Coordination To Identify, Plan For, And Create Cross-sector Solutions To Strengthen Hawaii's Public Health Response To The Climate Crisis. | RESOLUTION Declaring a public health emergency relating to climate change and requesting statewide coordination to identify, plan for, and create cross-sector solutions to strengthen hawaii's public health response to the climate crisis. | In Committee |
| HR170 | Requesting The Department Of Human Services' Office Of Youth Services And Juvenile Justice State Advisory Council To Examine The Availability And Utilization Of Aina-based Learning Programs Offered To Youth In The Juvenile Legal System. | RESOLUTION requesting the department of human services' office of youth services and juvenile justice state advisory council to examine the availability and utilization of aina-based learning programs offered to youth in the juvenile legal system. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR182 | Declaring A Public Health Emergency Relating To Climate Change And Requesting Statewide Coordination To Identify, Plan For, And Create Cross-sector Solutions To Strengthen Hawaii's Public Health Response To The Climate Crisis. | RESOLUTION Declaring a public health emergency relating to climate change and requesting statewide coordination to identify, plan for, and create cross-sector solutions to strengthen hawaii's public health response to the climate crisis. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR148 | Requesting The Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation To Incrementally And Systematically Reduce The Number Of Inmates Incarcerated In Private, Out-of-state Correctional Facilities. | RESOLUTION Requesting the dEPARTMENT of corrections and rehabilitation to incrementally AND SYSTEMATICALLY reduce the number of inmates incarcerated in private, out-of-state correctional facilities. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR192 | Maui Axis Deer Control And Venison Initiative. | RESOLUTION Maui axis deer control and venison initiative. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR191 | Urging The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Prioritize The Restoration And Protection Of Additional Wetlands And Anchialine Pools. | RESOLUTION URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO PRIORITIZE THE RESTORATION AND PROTECTION OF ADDITIONAL WETLANDS AND ANCHIALINE POOLS. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR200 | Urging The United States Department Of Defense To Make Recreational Facilities On Military Installations In Hawaii Accessible To All Hawaii Residents. | RESOLUTION URGING THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO MAKE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN HAWAII ACCESSIBLE TO ALL HAWAII RESIDENTS. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB239 | Relating To Child Abuse. | Amends the definition of "child abuse or neglect" to clarify that the failure to provide certain needs to a child shall not constitute child abuse or neglect if the sole reason the person responsible for the care of the child is unable to adequately provide for the child's care is lack of financial resources; and evidence of parental request for support shall not be deemed as evidence of child abuse and neglect. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HCR136 | Urging The City And County Of Honolulu To Encourage Pedestrians To Wear Reflective Gear Between The Hours Of Dusk And Dawn. | RESOLUTION URGING THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO ENCOURAGE PEDESTRIANS TO WEAR REFLECTIVE GEAR BETWEEN THE HOURS OF DUSK AND DAWN. | Crossed Over |
| HR203 | Relating To Economic Development And Technology. | RESOLUTION relating to economic development and technology. | In Committee |
| HCR211 | Relating To Economic Development And Technology. | RESOLUTION relating to economic development and technology. | In Committee |
| HR173 | Encouraging The City And County Of Honolulu To Initiate A Summer Streets Pilot Program. | RESOLUTION ENCOURAGING THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO INITIATE A SUMMER STREETS PILOT PROGRAM. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR130 | Urging The City And County Of Honolulu To Encourage Pedestrians To Wear Reflective Gear Between The Hours Of Dusk And Dawn. | RESOLUTION URGING THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO ENCOURAGE PEDESTRIANS TO WEAR REFLECTIVE GEAR BETWEEN THE HOURS OF DUSK AND DAWN. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR184 | Requesting The Department Of Health To Convene A Demolition Waste Reduction Working Group. | RESOLUTION requesting the department of health to convene a demolition waste reduction working group. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR149 | Requesting The Auditor To Perform A Comprehensive Performance, Management, And Financial Audit Of The Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation And Department Of Accounting And General Services Regarding Spending Related To The Planning, Design, Financing, Construction, And Maintenance Of A New Jail To Replace The Oahu Community Correctional Center. | RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO PERFORM A COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE, MANAGEMENT, AND FINANCIAL AUDIT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION AND DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES REGARDING SPENDING RELATED TO THE PLANNING, DESIGN, FINANCING, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE OF A NEW JAIL TO REPLACE THE OAHU COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HR180 | Urging The Governor To Determine A Course Of Action For The State, Should The Federal Government Cut Funding For Medicaid. | RESOLUTION urging the governor to determine a course of action for the state, should the federal government cut funding for medicaid. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR207 | Urging The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Conduct A Comprehensive Economic Analysis Of All Military-leased Lands. | RESOLUTION URGING the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a comprehensive economic analysis of all military-leased lands. | In Committee |
| HR103 | Requesting The Hawaii State Commission On The Status Of Women To Convene A Working Group To Develop Measures To Strengthen Protections Under Title Ix. | RESOLUTION requesting the hawaii state commission on the status of women to convene a working group to develop measures to strengthen Protections under title ix. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR92 | Requesting The Governor's Coordinator On Homelessness And The City And County Of Honolulu To Establish A Two-year Homelessness Sanctuary Pilot Program To Provide A Safe Location On Public Land For Homeless Individuals And Families To Reside And Access Services. | RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR'S COORDINATOR ON HOMELESSNESS AND THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO ESTABLISH A TWO-YEAR HOMELESSNESS SANCTUARY PILOT PROGRAM TO PROVIDE A SAFE LOCATION ON PUBLIC LAND FOR HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES TO RESIDE AND ACCESS SERVICES. | In Committee |
| HR93 | Urging The University Of Hawaii To Implement A Homeless Student Stability And Housing Resource Program To Address The Issue Of Housing Instability. | RESOLUTION urging the university of hawaii to implement a homeless STUDENT stability and housing resource program to address the issue of housing instability. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR97 | Urging The University Of Hawaii To Implement A Homeless Student Stability And Housing Resource Program To Address The Issue Of Housing Instability. | RESOLUTION urging the university of hawaii to implement a homeless STUDENT stability and housing resource program to address the issue of housing instability. | In Committee |
| HCR107 | Requesting The Hawaii State Commission On The Status Of Women To Convene A Working Group To Develop Measures To Strengthen Protections Under Title Ix. | RESOLUTION requesting the hawaii state commission on the status of women to convene a working group to develop measures to strengthen Protections under title ix. | In Committee |
| HR88 | Requesting The Governor's Coordinator On Homelessness And The City And County Of Honolulu To Establish A Two-year Homelessness Sanctuary Pilot Program To Provide A Safe Location On Public Land For Homeless Individuals And Families To Reside And Access Services. | RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR'S COORDINATOR ON HOMELESSNESS AND THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO ESTABLISH A TWO-YEAR HOMELESSNESS SANCTUARY PILOT PROGRAM TO PROVIDE A SAFE LOCATION ON PUBLIC LAND FOR HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES TO RESIDE AND ACCESS SERVICES. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HCR187 | Urging The Governor To Determine A Course Of Action For The State, Should The Federal Government Cut Funding For Medicaid. | RESOLUTION urging the governor to determine a course of action for the state, should the federal government cut funding for medicaid. | In Committee |
| HCR154 | Requesting The Auditor To Perform A Comprehensive Performance, Management, And Financial Audit Of The Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation And Department Of Accounting And General Services Regarding Spending Related To The Planning, Design, Financing, Construction, And Maintenance Of A New Jail To Replace The Oahu Community Correctional Center. | RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO PERFORM A COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE, MANAGEMENT, AND FINANCIAL AUDIT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION AND DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES REGARDING SPENDING RELATED TO THE PLANNING, DESIGN, FINANCING, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE OF A NEW JAIL TO REPLACE THE OAHU COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER. | In Committee |
| HCR151 | Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Submit A Detailed Report On Its Lease Enforcement Process And Procedures. | RESOLUTION requesting the Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit a detailed report on its lease enforcement process and procedures. | In Committee |
| HR145 | Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Submit A Detailed Report On Its Lease Enforcement Process And Procedures. | RESOLUTION requesting the Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit a detailed report on its lease enforcement process and procedures. | In Committee |
| HCR201 | Requesting The Department Of Transportation And Department Of Transportation Of The County Of Maui To Collaborate With The Kihei Community Association In The Planning And Implementation Of The Kihei Mauka Road Project. | RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND department of transportation of the county of maui TO COLLABORATE WITH THE KIHEI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION IN THE PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE KIHEI MAUKA ROAD PROJECT. | In Committee |
| HR193 | Requesting The Department Of Transportation And Department Of Transportation Of The County Of Maui To Collaborate With The Kihei Community Association In The Planning And Implementation Of The Kihei Mauka Road Project. | RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND department of transportation of the county of maui TO COLLABORATE WITH THE KIHEI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION IN THE PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE KIHEI MAUKA ROAD PROJECT. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB299 | Relating To The Hawaii Invasive Species Council. | Appropriates funds for the Native Resources and Fire Protection Program and Hawaii Invasive Species Council to ensure their long-term viability and continue to control and eradicate invasive species in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB307 | Relating To Special Number Plates. | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to recognize the island of Kahoolawe. Specifies the decal size for all special number organizational plates. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HR183 | Urging The Department Of Health And University Of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center To Take All Action Necessary To Incentivize Wastewater Treatment Plants To Test Sewage Sludge, Reclaimed Water, And Any Other Residual Material For The Presence Of Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances. | RESOLUTION URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH and University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center TO TAKE ALL ACTION NECESSARY to incentivize WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTs TO TEST SEWAGE SLUDGE, reclaimed water, AND ANY OTHER RESIDUAL MATERIAL FOR THE PRESENCE OF PERFLUOROALKYL AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES. | In Committee |
| HCR210 | Urging The State To Reject Energy Sources Found To Be Harmful Or Destabilizing To Our Climate System And Environment And To Commit To Renewable Energy And The Values Of Hawaii's Residents. | RESOLUTION Urging the State to reject energy sources found to be harmful or destabilizing to our climate system and environment and to commit to renewable energy and the values of Hawaii's residents. | In Committee |
| HR202 | Urging The State To Reject Energy Sources Found To Be Harmful Or Destabilizing To Our Climate System And Environment And To Commit To Renewable Energy And The Values Of Hawaii's Residents. | RESOLUTION Urging the State to reject energy sources found to be harmful or destabilizing to our climate system and environment and to commit to renewable energy and the values of Hawaii's residents. | In Committee |
| HCR189 | Urging The Department Of Health And University Of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center To Take All Action Necessary To Incentivize Wastewater Treatment Plants To Test Sewage Sludge, Reclaimed Water, And Any Other Residual Material For The Presence Of Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances. | RESOLUTION URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH and University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center TO TAKE ALL ACTION NECESSARY to incentivize WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTs TO TEST SEWAGE SLUDGE, reclaimed water, AND ANY OTHER RESIDUAL MATERIAL FOR THE PRESENCE OF PERFLUOROALKYL AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES. | In Committee |
| HCR85 | Requesting The Insurance Commissioner To Conduct A Study Of Alternative Insurance Models That May Provide Viable Solutions For Condominium Associations And Condominium Unit Owners In The State. | RESOLUTION requesting the insurance commissioner to conduct a study of alternative insurance models that may provide viable solutions for condominium associations and condominium unit owners in the State. | In Committee |
| HR79 | Requesting The Insurance Commissioner To Conduct A Study Of Alternative Insurance Models That May Provide Viable Solutions For Condominium Associations And Condominium Unit Owners In The State. | RESOLUTION requesting the insurance commissioner to conduct a study of alternative insurance models that may provide viable solutions for condominium associations and condominium unit owners in the State. | In Committee |
| HR39 | Requesting The Department Of Education To Make Available Recreational Facilities To The Public During Non-peak Hours And Non-school Days. | RESOLUTION Requesting the department of education to make available RECREATIONAL FACILITIES to the public during non-peak HOURS and non-school days. | In Committee |
| HCR46 | Requesting The Department Of Education To Make Available Recreational Facilities To The Public During Non-peak Hours And Non-school Days. | RESOLUTION Requesting the department of education to make available RECREATIONAL FACILITIES to the public during non-peak HOURS and non-school days. | In Committee |
| HB1467 | Relating To Housing Resiliency. | Establishes the Strengthen Hawaii Homes Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to administer grants to retrofit residential properties to enhance resilience against disaster impacts and reduce potential insurance liabilities. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | Crossed Over |
| HB560 | Relating To The Judiciary. | Appropriates funds to the Judiciary to support services contracted with community-based organizations that deliver essential services, streamline judicial processes, and support the judiciary's capacity to effectively meet the needs of vulnerable households. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB966 | Relating To Agricultural Tourism. | Establishes statewide, uniform standards to promote agricultural tourism activities in the State for all counties that have adopted an agricultural tourism ordinance. Requires agricultural tourism activities to be registered by the county planning department. Requires agricultural tourism activities to coexist with an agricultural activity on a farming operation and requires termination of the agricultural tourism activities upon cessation of the agricultural activity, except under certain circumstances. Makes conforming amendments. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | Crossed Over |
| HB1237 | Relating To Biosecurity. | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for agricultural biosecurity and the prevention, detection, and control of invasive species in Maui County. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB1408 | Relating To The Department Of Hawaiian Home Lands. | Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to utilize the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund as collateral when the Department acts as an eligible borrower for a loan agreement under section 184A of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, as amended. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB751 | Relating To Organic Waste. | 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 alignment with established state benchmarks. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB131 | Relating To Research. | Allows agencies to disclose government records to researchers for certain research purposes. | Crossed Over |
| HB858 | Relating To Agricultural Statistics. | Requires the Department of Agriculture to revitalize and enhance the Agricultural Statistics Program to collect data on local agricultural interests. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1) | Crossed Over |
| HR44 | Encouraging Future Legislatures To Pass A Proposed Constitutional Amendment, And The Electorate To Ratify The Proposed Amendment, Guaranteeing All Individuals The Right To A Clean And Healthy Environment And A Stable Climate. | RESOLUTION ENCOURAGING FUTURE LEGISLATURES TO PASS A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, AND THE ELECTORATE TO RATIFY THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT, GUARANTEEING ALL INDIVIDUALS THE RIGHT TO A CLEAN AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT AND A STABLE CLIMATE. | In Committee |
| HCR48 | Encouraging Future Legislatures To Pass A Proposed Constitutional Amendment, And The Electorate To Ratify The Proposed Amendment, Guaranteeing All Individuals The Right To A Clean And Healthy Environment And A Stable Climate. | RESOLUTION ENCOURAGING FUTURE LEGISLATURES TO PASS A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, AND THE ELECTORATE TO RATIFY THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT, GUARANTEEING ALL INDIVIDUALS THE RIGHT TO A CLEAN AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT AND A STABLE CLIMATE. | In Committee |
| HR12 | Urging The United States Environmental Protection Agency To Provide Federal Assistance For The City And County Of Honolulu's Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure Improvements. | RESOLUTION urging the united states environmental protection agency to provide federal assistance for the city and county of honolulu's wastewater treatment infrastructure improvements. | In Committee |
| HCR12 | Urging The United States Environmental Protection Agency To Provide Federal Assistance For The City And County Of Honolulu's Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure Improvements. | RESOLUTION urging the united states environmental protection agency to provide federal assistance for the city and county of honolulu's wastewater treatment infrastructure improvements. | In Committee |
| HR33 | Requesting The Tax Review Commission To Identify Possible Means By Which The Hawaii Long-term Care Financing Program Can Be Implemented. | RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE TAX REVIEW COMMISSION TO IDENTIFY POSSIBLE MEANS BY WHICH THE HAWAII LONG-TERM CARE FINANCING PROGRAM CAN BE IMPLEMENTED. | In Committee |
| HCR38 | Requesting The Tax Review Commission To Identify Possible Means By Which The Hawaii Long-term Care Financing Program Can Be Implemented. | RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE TAX REVIEW COMMISSION TO IDENTIFY POSSIBLE MEANS BY WHICH THE HAWAII LONG-TERM CARE FINANCING PROGRAM CAN BE IMPLEMENTED. | In Committee |
| HR83 | Requesting The Auditor To Research Implementing A Law To Require Legislator Salaries To Be Tied To Median Teacher Salaries. | RESOLUTION requesting the Auditor to research implementing a law to require legislator salaries to be tied to median teacher salaries. | In Committee |
| HCR80 | Requesting The Auditor To Research Implementing A Law To Require Legislator Salaries To Be Tied To Median Teacher Salaries. | RESOLUTION requesting the Auditor to research implementing a law to require legislator salaries to be tied to median teacher salaries. | In Committee |
| HR82 | Requesting The Chairperson Of The Board Of Directors Of The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Establish A Task Force To Study The Feasibility Of An Equity Conversion Mortgage Program For Kupuna Homeowners. | RESOLUTION Requesting the chairperson of the board of directors of the hawaii housing finance and development corporation to establish a task force to study the feasibility of an equity conversion mortgage program for kupuna homeowners. | In Committee |
| HCR88 | Requesting The Chairperson Of The Board Of Directors Of The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Establish A Task Force To Study The Feasibility Of An Equity Conversion Mortgage Program For Kupuna Homeowners. | RESOLUTION Requesting the chairperson of the board of directors of the hawaii housing finance and development corporation to establish a task force to study the feasibility of an equity conversion mortgage program for kupuna homeowners. | In Committee |
| HCR150 | Requesting The Department Of Taxation To Establish A Vacant Homes Surcharge Task Force To Research And Report On The Impacts And Implementations Of A General Excise Tax Surcharge On Vacant Homes. | RESOLUTION requesting the department of taxation to establish a vacant homes surcharge task force to research and report on the impacts and implementations of a general excise tax surcharge on vacant homes. | In Committee |
| HR194 | Strongly Supporting And Recommending The Implementation Of The Revised 2025 Hawaii Patient Bill Of Rights. | RESOLUTION strongly supporting and recommending the implementation of the revised 2025 hawaii patient bill of rights. | In Committee |
| HCR175 | Urging The Attorney General To Investigate The Extent To Which Algorithmic Price-setting And Price-fixing Practices Are Being Used In The State's Rental Housing Market. | RESOLUTION urging the attorney general to investigate the extent to which algorithmic price-setting and price-fixing practices are being used in the state's rental housing market. | In Committee |
| HR176 | Requesting That The Hawaii State Office Of Elections Convene A Working Group On Automatic Voter Registration. | RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT THE HAWAII STATE OFFICE OF ELECTIONS CONVENE A WORKING GROUP ON AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION. | In Committee |
| HCR202 | Strongly Supporting And Recommending The Implementation Of The Revised 2025 Hawaii Patient Bill Of Rights. | RESOLUTION strongly supporting and recommending the implementation of the revised 2025 hawaii patient bill of rights. | In Committee |
| HR171 | Urging The Attorney General To Investigate The Extent To Which Algorithmic Price-setting And Price-fixing Practices Are Being Used In The State's Rental Housing Market. | RESOLUTION urging the attorney general to investigate the extent to which algorithmic price-setting and price-fixing practices are being used in the state's rental housing market. | In Committee |
| HCR138 | Requesting The Legislative Reference Bureau To Conduct A Study To Understand The Implementation Process And Projected Financial Impact Of Adopting Fiscal Notes Into The State's Legislative Procedure. | RESOLUTION Requesting the legislative reference bureau to conduct a study to understand the implementation process and projected financial impact of adopting fiscal notes into the state's legislative PROCEDURE. | In Committee |
| HR144 | Requesting The Department Of Taxation To Establish A Vacant Homes Surcharge Task Force To Research And Report On The Impacts And Implementations Of A General Excise Tax Surcharge On Vacant Homes. | RESOLUTION requesting the department of taxation to establish a vacant homes surcharge task force to research and report on the impacts and implementations of a general excise tax surcharge on vacant homes. | In Committee |
| HR132 | Requesting The Legislative Reference Bureau To Conduct A Study To Understand The Implementation Process And Projected Financial Impact Of Adopting Fiscal Notes Into The State's Legislative Procedure. | RESOLUTION Requesting the legislative reference bureau to conduct a study to understand the implementation process and projected financial impact of adopting fiscal notes into the state's legislative PROCEDURE. | In Committee |
| HCR181 | Requesting That The Hawaii State Office Of Elections Convene A Working Group On Automatic Voter Registration. | RESOLUTION requesting THAT THE HAWAII STATE OFFICE OF ELECTIONS CONVENE A WORKING GROUP ON AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION. | In Committee |
| HB754 | Relating To Community Schools. | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for community schools and a program manager position. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | Crossed Over |
| HB128 | Relating To Criminal Justice Reform. | Establishes factors under which officers may, without warrant, arrest and detain persons for petty misdemeanors and violations. Requires officers to record the factors that justified the warrantless arrest. (HD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB1185 | Relating To Agriculture. | Establishes a Plant-based Building Materials Working Group to study and report on how best to grow plants and develop plant-based building materials in Hawaii. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | Crossed Over |
| HB867 | Relating To Recreational Facilities. | Beginning on 6/30/2030, requires all new playgrounds constructed on Department of Education school grounds to include accessible recreational playground equipment as part of the recreational apparatuses. Establishes the Accessible Recreational Playground Equipment Special Fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | Crossed Over |
| HB864 | Relating To Education. | Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers' compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in Department of Education-sponsored work-based learning programs. Requires an annual report. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | Crossed Over |
| HB141 | Relating To The Elections Commission. | Makes the members of the Elections Commission subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. Clarifies that a majority of all members to which the Elections Commission is entitled shall constitute a quorum to do business. (HD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB89 | Relating To Teacher Housing. | Establishes the Teacher Home Assistance Program to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers. Appropriates funds out of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3) | Crossed Over |
| HB729 | Relating To Marriage Of Minors. | Raises the minimum age to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Repeals the authority of parents and the family court to consent to a minor's marriage. Repeals spousal cohabitation after the parties attain legal age as an exception for an annulment based on nonage. Repeals exemptions for sexual assault of a minor if the perpetrator is married to the minor. Makes conforming amendments. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | Crossed Over |
| HB640 | Relating To Child Welfare. | Requires the Office of the Ombudsman to publish an annual report on its website that identifies the number and nature of complaints that it receives regarding the Child Welfare Services Branch of the Department of Human Services. Requires the Child Welfare Services Branch to provide notification to certain parties that complaints can also be filed with the Office of the Ombudsman. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3) | Crossed Over |
| HB1410 | Relating To Housing. | Establishes the Supportive Housing Special Fund. Restructures the conveyance tax to a marginal rate system and adjusts the tax for multifamily properties to reflect value on a per-unit basis. Allocates revenues from conveyance tax collections to the Supportive Housing Special Fund. Allocates a portion of conveyance tax collections to the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund to fund infrastructure programs in county-designated transit-oriented development areas that meet minimum standards of transit-supportive density. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | Crossed Over |
| HB637 | Relating To Education. | 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 training candidates in structured literary instruction. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB88 | Relating To Student Athletes. | Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer a three-year student athlete travel pilot program to provide funding for intra-county travel expenses for student athletes of counties with a population of less than 500,000. Appropriates funds. Repeals 6/30/28. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB749 | Relating To Cesspools. | Establishes a Cesspool Conversion Section within the Department of Health's Wastewater Branch, which shall be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for positions within the Cesspool Conversion Section. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB702 | Relating To Human Services. | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for Medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB1382 | Relating To Child Welfare Services. | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to contract with a non-profit specializing in domestic violence to provide training and staff to be housed on-site in Child Welfare Services Branch offices to support all aspects of screening for and addressing domestic violence within a case. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | Crossed Over |
| HB900 | Relating To Child Welfare Services. | Establishes a working group for legal services for youth in the child welfare system within the Judiciary. Appropriates funds for the working group. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | In Committee |
| HB150 | Relating To Firearms. | Prohibits a person from lending a firearm to a person who does not have a firearm permit or does not have a registered firearm. Requires an adult who is borrowing a firearm to have either a firearm permit or a registered firearm, and not be prohibited to own or possess a firearm. Specifies that an adult who is twenty-one years of age or older may be lent a rifle or shotgun for a period not to exceed twelve hours. Repeals the authorization to use a rifle or shotgun outside of the State for up to seventy-five days. Repeals the authorization to lend a rifle or shotgun without a permit. | In Committee |
| HB322 | Relating To Voter Registration. | Authorizes state agencies to implement automatic voter registration if designated by the Office of Elections. Requires eligible applicants for instruction permits, provisional licenses, driver's licenses, and identification cards to be automatically registered or preregistered to vote unless the applicant opts out. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB332 | Relating To Recycling. | Establishes a lithium-ion battery recycling working group within the Department of Health to assess recycling methods for small and medium format lithium-ion batteries. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB498 | Relating To Agricultural Crimes. | Establishes the Hawaii Agricultural Crimes Council. Expands the duties of the Department of Agriculture to collaborate with and support the Council. Establishes the Agricultural Enforcement Special Fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | In Committee |
| HB547 | Relating To The Spaying And Neutering Of Animals. | Establishes the Spay and Neuter Special Fund to reduce pet overpopulation and the reproduction of free-roaming cats. Establishes various revenue and fundraising sources for the special fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | In Committee |
| HB677 | Relating To Identification. | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with various agencies and upon request of the inmates, to assist inmates in obtaining the inmates' civil identification card, birth certificate, social security card, and other relevant identification necessary for successful reentry into society, as soon as practicable. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to initiate the process of obtaining identifying documents for inmates released to work furlough, extended furlough, or community placement programs, by providing the forms necessary for the inmate to obtain civil identification cards and other identifying documents to the inmate as soon as practicable. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB610 | Relating To Cold Case Investigations. | Establishes and appropriates funds for a Cold Case Investigation Unit within the Department of the Attorney General. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB594 | Relating To Hotels. | Requires hotelkeepers to provide adequate notice of service disruptions to guests and third-party vendors under certain conditions. Allows for recovery of damages by injured consumers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | In Committee |
| HB490 | Relating To Insurance. | Requires the Insurance Commissioner to study the feasibility of the mutual insurance model for condominium associations and submit a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB743 | Relating To Fiscal Sustainability. | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop a model that assesses the fiscal impacts of land use development projects and regional infrastructure investments. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB1247 | Relating To Criminal Proceedings. | Allows a party aggrieved by the judgment of a circuit court on a minimum term order to appeal to the Intermediate Appellate Court. Requires prisoners to continue to be represented by counsel in any petition challenging minimum term proceedings. Requires the Supreme Court to establish rules. Establishes grounds for challenging a minimum term order. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB1444 | Relating To Motor Vehicles. | Requires motor vehicle safety inspections to be conducted every two years rather than annually. | In Committee |
| HB903 | Relating To Student Health. | Authorizes a school to maintain a stock supply of bronchodilators to be administered under certain conditions. Authorizes certain employees of a school and department personnel to administer certain medication in emergency situations, under certain conditions. Amends prescription drug labeling requirements to include certain information related to a school, if applicable. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB711 | Related To Driving Under The Influence. | Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make restitution in the form of financial support to each surviving child of the victim. | In Committee |
| HB841 | Relating To Retired Teachers. | Amends the break in service requirement for retirants to six months before they can be rehired as teachers or administrators in teacher shortage areas or in hard-to-fill positions. Prohibits rehired retirants from receiving additional employment benefits. Directs the Department of Education to adopt rules to identify teacher shortage areas and hard-to-fill positions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | In Committee |
| HB868 | Relating To Disabilities. | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to evaluate its facilities for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and compile a list of non-compliant facilities. Requires report to the Legislature. | In Committee |
| HB467 | Relating To Foreclosures. | Prohibits sellers of foreclosed homes from bundling properties at a public sale and requires each foreclosed home to be sold separately. Specifies that the sale of a foreclosed property is not final until either fifteen days after the public sale or forty-five days if an eligible bidder submits a subsequent bid or written notice of intent to submit a subsequent bid. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB278 | Relating To Policing. | Requires county police departments and police oversight agencies to collect and report certain data regarding police stops, uses of force, and complaints to the Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance Division of the Department of the Attorney General. Requires the Division to collect and publish incident-level information and an annual report on the data collected. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB243 | Relating To Energy. | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a streamlined grid-ready home interconnection process. Requires the Hawaii Electricity Reliability Administrator to report to the Legislature on the streamlined grid-ready home interconnection process. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | In Committee |
| HB241 | Relating To Child Care. | Establishes a child care classroom contracts pilot program to require the Department of Human Services to contract directly with child care center providers in licensed infant and toddler child care centers and group child care centers that meet certain criteria. Requires reports to the Legislature. Sunsets the pilot program on 6/30/2028. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB304 | Relating To The Hawaiian Language. | Requires that the Hawaiian version of a law be held binding if the law in question was originally drafted in Hawaiian and then translated into English and the law has not been later amended, codified, recodified, or reenacted in English. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB245 | Relating To Student Heat Exposure Safety. | Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health and State Public Charter School Commission, to conduct a study on the current practices of managing heat exposure in state public and charter schools to protect students' health during outdoor activities and to develop a plan if the current practices are insufficient in managing heat exposure. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB85 | Relating To The Land Conservation Fund. | Sets the amount of conveyance tax revenues to be paid into the Land Conservation Fund to a certain per cent or monetary cap, whichever is less, of conveyance taxes collected each fiscal year. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB129 | Relating To Youth Fees And Fines. | Prohibits the assessment of any fees, fines, or court costs against a person who was adjudicated for an offense committed during the person's minority, or against the person's parent or guardian, and discharges all related debt obligations assessed before the effective date of the Act. Limits court-ordered community service for a minor to no more than seventy-two hours. Repeals certain penalties imposed on parents, guardians, or other persons associated with unaccompanied children in streets and unmarried minors in dance halls. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | In Committee |
| HB1476 | Relating To Environmental Assessments. | Requires an environmental impact statement and consultation with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for actions that propose any launch of a spacecraft from or reeintry into state waters or the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. | In Committee |
| HB323 | Relating To Teacher Housing. | Establishes the Teacher Housing Assistance Program to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers. Appropriates funds out of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB537 | Relating To Two-wheeled Motorized Vehicles. | Repeals the exception for when a person is not required to wear a safety helmet when operating a moped or motor scooter leased from a rental company. Requires operators and passengers of motorcycles to wear safety helmets with securely fastened chin straps while operating two-wheeled motorized vehicles on highways, streets, roadways, or any other public property in the State. Requires all renters or lessees of an electric foot scooter to wear a safety helmet regardless of their age. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB838 | Relating To Teachers. | 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) | In Committee |
| HB872 | Relating To Health. | Authorizes health care practitioners to make undesignated prescriptions of single-use epinephrine for the purpose of stocking a supply at various types of businesses and state and county government offices, including public schools. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB866 | Relating To Health Care. | Requires the Department of Health to coordinate the stockpiling of no less than a one-year supply of mifepristone. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB730 | Relating To Education. | Establishes, and appropriates funds for, five full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) positions within the Civil Rights Compliance Branch of the Department of Education. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB1262 | Relating To The Emergency And Budget Reserve Fund. | Adds, as an allowable use of the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund, economic payments to certain residents who have incurred losses in a disaster for which the Governor has declared a state of emergency. | In Committee |
| HB863 | Relating To Education. | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for teacher-requested classroom supplies. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB967 | Relating To Sustainable Food Systems. | 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. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB843 | Relating To The College Of Tropical Agriculture And Human Resilience. | Appropriates funds for critical repairs, maintenance, demolition, design, and construction for facilities of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Establishes and appropriates funds for positions within the University of Hawaii for the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB968 | Relating To Agriculture. | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB621 | Relating To Education. | Requires and appropriates funds to pay salary differentials to English language educators as an incentive to attract and retain these educators. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB553 | Relating To Insurance. | Beginning 1/1/2026, requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, health maintenance organizations, and health plans under the State's Medicaid managed care program to provide coverage for biomarker testing. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB497 | Relating To The Hawaii Child Nutrition Programs. | 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 initiatives for the State's public schools. Appropriates funds for grants. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | In Committee |
| HB331 | Relating To Permits. | Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of any state department or agency, under certain conditions. Clarifies that, except for projects in special flood hazard areas, contracts for the construction, renovation, or repair of facilities under the control of the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, or School Facilities Authority shall be exempt from county permitting requirements that related off-site improvements be made by the contracting government agency as a condition to the issuance of any permit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) | In Committee |
| HB328 | Relating To School Meals. | Requires the Department of Education to authorize and facilitate complex areas or individual public 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 served in the school to consist of locally sourced products by 2030. Allows the Department of Education to establish a plant-based meal program no later than the 2026-2027 school year. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB98 | Relating To Authentic Assessments. | Authorizes public school complexes to use authentic assessments as part of classroom-based performance assessments. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB102 | Relating To Transportation. | Prohibits the issuance of a certificate of inspection for a moped or motor vehicle that has been altered, installed, or otherwise modified in any way which will noticeably increase the noise emitted by the motor vehicle or moped above that emitted by the motor vehicle or moped as equipped from the factory, except for motorcycles and mopeds that do not exceed certain federal regulations. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB249 | Relating To Early Learning. | Appropriates funds for the Executive Office on Early Learning to contract with third-party providers of family-child interaction learning programs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB146 | Relating To The Judiciary's lelo Hawaii Initiatives. | Appropriates funds to the Judiciary to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB646 | Relating To Supplemental Security Income. | 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 benefits. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB1239 | Relating To Independent Legal Counsel. | Authorizes the Hawaiian Homes Commission to retain independent legal counsel, with any legal fees owed to be paid by the State, and also use the services of the Attorney General as needed. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB1328 | Relating To Midwives. | 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 related to home births. Dissolves the task force on 6/30/2026. Requires reports to the Legislature. | In Committee |
| HB1344 | Relating To Education. | Requires the Department of Education's existing Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) working group to create a state plan to make completion of the FAFSA or an opt-out waiver a statewide graduation requirement by the 2027-2028 school year. Requires a report to the 2026 legislature. | In Committee |
| HB1246 | Relating To Cannabis. | Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis and Hemp Office within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning 1/1/2026, legalizes the personal adult use of cannabis. Establishes taxes on the retail sale of adult-use cannabis and the sale of medical cannabis. Adds new traffic offenses relating to the consumption or possession of marijuana or marijuana concentrate. Makes conforming amendments related to the legalization of personal adult use of cannabis. Beginning 1/1/2026, decriminalizes certain drug offenses related to marijuana and marijuana concentrate. Transfers the personnel and assets of the Department of Health and assets of the Department of Agriculture relating to cannabis to the Hawaii Cannabis and Hemp Office. Establishes various positions within state entities to regulate the personal adult use of cannabis. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB1324 | Relating To Landlord-tenant Disputes. | Requires the Judiciary to contract for legal services for residential tenants in actions or proceedings for possession under certain circumstances. Authorizes attorneys, paralegals, and law students to provide legal services to residential tenants. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB1263 | Relating To Corrections. | Establishes a Rehabilitation and Re-entry Services Task Force. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB1202 | Relating To Teacher Compensation. | Recognizes prior teaching experience at an equal salary rating for teachers entering or reentering into the service of the Department of Education. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB737 | Relating To Historic Preservation. | Redefines "historic property" with respect to the State Historic Preservation Program. Deletes the requirement for an application for a proposed project on an existing privately-owned single-family detached dwelling unit to have a historic preservation review if the unit or townhouse is over fifty years old. | In Committee |
| HB464 | Relating To Housing. | 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 agreement. Requires 90 day's notice for a landlord or tenant to terminate tenancies of three years or more and 60 days' notice to terminate tenancies of less than three years, with certain exceptions. Increases the amount of notice required to terminate tenancies that are less than month-to-month. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB358 | Relating To Disaster Preparedness. | Requires all public buildings, including public school buildings, constructed after January 1, 2026, to be designed to withstand category five hurricanes and be used as shelters in the event of an emergency. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB466 | Relating To Evictions. | Prohibits landlords from terminating certain tenancies without cause. Establishes criteria under which landlords can undertake a no-fault eviction. Requires landlords, when proceeding with a no-fault eviction, to offer relocation assistance to the tenant or waiver of the final month's rent. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB461 | Relating To Commuting. | 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 comprehensive Commuting Choice Benefit Program for all state employees regardless of mode of transportation. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB189 | Relating To Agricultural Tourism. | Requires the counties to adopt ordinances setting forth procedures and requirements for the review and permitting of agricultural tourism uses and activities as secondary uses, in addition to accessory uses, on a working farm or farming operation. Requires the counties' ordinances to include requirements that: the principal agricultural use on a working farm or farming operation preexists the issuance of any land use permit or building permit for any accessory and secondary use and agricultural tourism be allowed only on land on which productive agricultural use is occurring. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB491 | Relating To Land Leases. | Prohibits the State from leasing any public lands, or extending the lease of any public lands, to any individual, corporation, or federal agency that is in arrears in the payment of certain moneys to the State, is noncompliant with a consent decree or memoranda of agreement with the State that requires environmental maintenance or remediation with regard to the subject public lands, or has been found to be in violation of federal or state laws aimed at protecting the environment. Requires certification by the Office of the Governor before the issuance or extension of any federal lease that the individual, corporation, or federal agency is in good standing with the State. Provides that, if any existing lessee of public lands is found not to be in good standing with the State as of the effective date of this Act, the lessee shall have three years, or until the end of the lease term, whichever is sooner, to correct the violation or the lease shall be terminated. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB279 | Relating To Firearms. | 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 or firearm parts other than at or between specific locations and in an enclosed container. | In Committee |
| HB1502 | Relating To Insurance. | Establishes requirements for property and casualty insurers and policies for pre- and post-disaster protections. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB1459 | Relating To Sustainable Aviation Fuel. | Requires commercial airlines operating intrastate flights in the State to utilize at least ten per cent sustainable aviation fuel in intrastate airline flights beginning 1/1/2030. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB246 | Relating To State Licensed Care Facilities. | Requires the Department of Health to post on its website an easily understandable, searchable, and sortable list of all state-licensed care facilities including information on their licenses and inspections. Requires that the list be updated within five days of any change in its information. | In Committee |
| HB238 | Relating To Early Child Care. | 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 centers, and group child care homes and bonuses to registered family child care homes. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB251 | Relating To Social Work. | 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. Requires progress reports on the program to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB468 | Relating To Transportation. | Requires the Civil Rights Commission to receive and investigate complaints related to acts of discrimination committed by transportation network company drivers against riders with service animals and report the results of its investigation to the Department of Transportation, which shall issue penalties to transportation network companies. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB638 | Relating To The Residential Landlord-tenant Code. | 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 landlord's agent from charging an application fee if a comprehensive reusable tenant screening report is available. Requires a landlord or the landlord's agent to provide, upon request, a certified copy of an applicant's criminal background check or credit report. | In Committee |
| HB639 | Relating To Artificial Intelligence. | 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 capable of mimicking human behaviors, with certain exemptions. Requires developers that sell, offer for sale, advertise, or make available artificial intelligence chatbots to disclose that their chatbots use artificial intelligence. Authorizes private rights of action. Establishes statutory penalties. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB935 | Relating To Digital Equity. | Establishes and appropriates funds for a digital navigator pilot program to offer technical assistance with computers and electronic devices to residents. | In Committee |
| HB894 | Relating To Government. | Prohibits state contractors, prospective state contractors, holders of procurement prequalification certificates, or principals of these groups from making contributions to, or soliciting contributions from their employees or from subcontractors or principals of subcontractors on behalf of, certain candidate committees, noncandidate committees, and political party committees. Requires the Procurement Policy Board to adopt rules to issue prequalification certificates to prospective contractors for public buildings or other public works. Amends the contribution limits for certain individuals and noncandidate committees. Prohibits lobbyists and certain persons related to lobbyists from soliciting contributions from client lobbyists. Increases the administrative fines. | In Committee |
| HB859 | Relating To Agriculture. | Establishes an agricultural crime prevention program within the Department of Agriculture to provide grants, education, administrative enforcement, and other services for the benefit of the State's agricultural industry. Clarifies, creates, and strengthens laws regarding crimes and violations related to agriculture or agricultural lands and hunting on private agricultural lands. Establishes clear distinctions between administrative and criminal penalties. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB1346 | Relating To Education. | Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement negotiated for Bargaining Unit (5) and subject to the availability of funds, provides annual salary step increases for public school teachers who have completed a year's satisfactory service and comply with specified requirements. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB786 | Relating To Deposit Beverage Container Recycling. | Allows the Department of Health to use money in the Deposit Beverage Container Deposit Special Fund to deploy reverse vending machines. Repeals certain exemptions for beverage dealers from the requirement to operate redemption centers. Allows for the establishment of regional centers for the redemption of refillable beverage containers but not as substitutes for dealers' means to receive deposit beverage containers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB556 | Relating To Colorectal Cancer. | Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to develop and implement a public assistance program offering state-funded colorectal screenings for certain persons. Requires coverage for all colorectal cancer screenings in the State to be consistent with the Affordable Care Act Implementation Frequently Asked Questions published by the United States Department of Labor, United States Department of Health and Human Services, and United States Department of the Treasury. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB357 | Relating To Hurricane Shelters. | Appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor, in collaboration with the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to strengthen existing hurricane shelters and develop new hurricane shelters to withstand category five hurricanes. | In Committee |
| HB752 | Relating To Environmental Stewardship Fees. | 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 other state natural area. Establishes the Environmental Stewardship Fee Special Fund effective 7/1/2025. Allocates a certain amount of transient accommodations tax revenues to the special fund. Requires report to the Legislature on strategic plan and timetable for objectives and implementation of the environmental stewardship fee program. Appropriates funds for the environmental stewardship fee strategic plan and positions for the Environmental Stewardship Fee Program. | In Committee |
| HB883 | Relating To Emergency Management. | 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 shelters and their respective hurricane ratings. Appropriates funds for a hurricane shelter retrofit program and director. | In Committee |
| HB731 | Relating To Minors. | Authorizes a licensed health care provider properly trained in the medical forensic care of a patient who has experienced sexual assault or abuse, upon consultation with a minor patient who indicates that the minor was the victim of a sexual offense, with the consent of the minor patient, to perform customary and necessary examinations to obtain evidence of the sexual offense and may prescribe for and treat the patient for any immediate condition caused by the sexual offense. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) | In Committee |
| HB929 | Relating To Agricultural Land Conveyance Tax. | Establishes a surcharge on the conveyance tax upon the net capital gain from the transfer or conveyance of agricultural land. | In Committee |
| HB1329 | Relating To Communities. | Requires any state or county department pursuing any major plan or work effort that is likely to significantly affect members of any community to: (1) Conduct a public hearing on the issue, and post notices on the department's website; and (2) Send direct notices of the public hearing to state and county elected officials who have constituents in the community. | In Committee |
| HB151 | Relating To Redress For Wrongful Conviction And Imprisonment. | Requires the State to provide written notice to certain persons regarding the ability to file a claim for redress under applicable wrongful conviction law. Requires the liberal construction of that law. Provides for advance compensation for petitioners under certain circumstances. Requires reports to Legislature from the Department of the Attorney General. | In Committee |
| HB471 | Relating To Education. | Requires the Board of Education to establish a Korean language program. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB149 | Relating To Corporations. | Requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of independent expenditures and political contributions. | In Committee |
| HB305 | Relating To Land Restoration. | 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. | In Committee |
| HB193 | Relating To The Right To Farm. | Amends the definition of "farming operation" by including customary and traditional subsistence farming conducted by native Hawaiian cultural practitioners and excluding concentrated animal feeding operations and business entities with unclear or non-transparent ownership or beneficiary structures. Establishes additional criteria for farming operations to meet in order to be protected against nuisance claims. Clarifies the purpose and intent of the Hawaii Right to Farm Act. | In Committee |
| HB130 | Relating To Fees For Public Records Under Chapter 92f. | Imposes a cap on charges for searching for, reviewing, and segregating government records under the Uniform Information Practices Act. Provides for a waiver of fees in certain circumstances when the public interest is served by a government record's disclosure. | In Committee |
| HB1327 | Relating To Fees. | Provides that any Hawaii-born or Native Hawaiian individual shall qualify for resident fees at state parks, regardless of where the individual currently resides; provided that the individual first presents to the Department of Land and Natural Resources certain documentation. | In Committee |
| HB1268 | Relating To Family Leave. | Allows family leave to also apply to an employee's domestic partner or the child of an employee's domestic partner. | In Committee |
| HB1313 | Relating To Board Members. | Requires board members of a condominium association to certify the receipt and review of certain documents and complete a board training and education course approved by an accredited third party organization, to be selected by the Real Estate Commission. | In Committee |
| HB1273 | Relating To Taxation Of Real Estate Investment Trusts. | Disallows the dividends-paid deduction for real estate investment trusts. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2025. | In Committee |
| HB1336 | Relating To Campaign Contributions. | Amends the prohibition against contributions to a candidate committee or noncandidate committee by state and county contractors to include state and county grantees and the owners, officers, consultants, and joint account holders of a state or county contractor or state or county grantee. | In Committee |
| HB1381 | Relating To Child Welfare Services. | Establishes a working group for legal services for youth in the child welfare system within the judiciary. Appropriates funds for the working group. | In Committee |
| HB1357 | Relating To Missing Persons. | Establishes and appropriates moneys for a Missing Indigenous Person Alert program to help locate indigenous persons who are missing and thought to be in danger. | In Committee |
| HB1311 | Relating To Condominium Proxy Voting. | Removes from the standard condominium proxy form the option of giving a proxy vote to the board of directors of a condominium association as a whole or to those directors present at an association meeting. | In Committee |
| HB1446 | Relating To Public Safety. | Requires the Office of the Auditor to perform a comprehensive forensic audit of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Department of Accounting and General Services related to the planning, design, financing, construction, and maintenance of a new jail to replace the Oahu Community Correctional Center. Requires a report. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB1473 | Relating To Housing. | Requires certain landlords to provide a specified notice to a tenant regarding the tenant's potential right to purchase the property, under certain conditions. Allows tenants, families, local governments, affordable housing nonprofits, and community land trusts forty-five days to match or beat the best bona fide offer to buy an eligible affordable housing property. Establishes conveyance tax rates for the sale of eligible affordable housing properties. | In Committee |
| HB1491 | Relating To Education. | Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a climate education, environmental sustainability, and indigenous knowledge into the K-12 curriculum and climate education and environmental sustainability teacher training and professional development programs. Requires the University of Hawaii to develop and implement a series of courses on climate education and environmental sustainability, to be completed by every student prior to the student's graduation, and establish sustainability practices across all university campuses to promote sustainability. Requires the Department of Education and University of Hawaii to conduct annual sustainability audits across their respective campuses to assess the progress of each campus in integrating sustainability into their curriculum and operations. | In Committee |
| HB1468 | Relating To The Right To Garden. | Authorizes the cultivation of vegetable gardens on properties within planned community associations and condominiums. Prohibits planned community associations and condominiums from prohibiting or restricting the cultivation of vegetable gardens via their association documents. | In Committee |
| HB1447 | Relating To Condominiums. | Requires individual managing agents and employees of entity managing agents to be licensed and imposes certain duties on these individuals. | In Committee |
| HB1474 | Relating To The Insurance Affordability Assistance Pilot Program. | Establishes the Insurance Affordability Assistance Pilot Program within the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to assist eligible homeowners with sudden increases in property insurance premiums. Sunsets 6/30/2028. | In Committee |
| HB1490 | Relating To Health Care. | Requires the Hawaii Health Authority to develop a comprehensive plan for the establishment of a universal, single payer health care system to replace all other health care coverage in the State, including Medicare, Medicaid, and the Prepaid Health Care Act. Establishes a universal, single payer health care system to be known as the Hawaii Care program under the Hawaii Health Authority to take effect one hundred eighty days after the approval of waivers from certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the State's Medicaid plan. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB1339 | Relating To General Excise Tax. | Exempts food and groceries from the general excise tax. Expands a 2024 session law exempting certain medical and dental services to include all medical and dental services. | In Committee |
| HB1342 | Relating To Offender Reentry Programs. | Expands programming and training for the comprehensive offender re-entry program under the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reduce the rate of recidivism and increase inmate marketability and workforce readiness. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB1452 | Relating To Birth Certificates. | Expands the types of health care providers who can submit an affidavit for a new certificate of birth for certain birth registrants. | In Committee |
| HB1335 | Relating To Taxation. | Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the manufacture, production, packaging, and sale of diapers. Establishes a surcharge on the general excise tax and use tax for the sale or use of luxury cars. | In Committee |
| HB1501 | Relating To Trees. | Establishes base selection criteria for exceptional trees. Establishes the significant tree designation, selection criteria, and related processes. Establishes the State Arborist Advisory Committee within the Department of Land and Natural Resources for administrative purposes. Requires County Arborist Advisory Committees to have at least six members, adopt new exceptional tree selection criteria, and designate significant trees. Directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the University of Hawaii to cooperate with State and County Arborist Advisory Committees to carry out the Exceptional Trees Program. | In Committee |
| HB1470 | Relating To Housing. | Establishes the Small Housing Provider Grant Program under Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide grants to eligible property owners of multi-family buildings for renovations, repairs, and addressing hazardous and unsafe living conditions. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB1236 | Relating To Legislative Employees. | Repeals staff of the legislative branch of the State from the list of individuals not included in any appropriate bargaining unit. Specifies that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each have one vote if they have employees in a particular bargaining unit for the purposes of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. | In Committee |
| HB1208 | Relating To The Conveyance Tax. | Establishes the Homeless Services Special Fund. Allows counties to apply for matching funds from the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund for certain housing projects. Increases the conveyance tax rates for certain properties. Establishes conveyance tax rates for multifamily residential properties. Establishes new exemptions to the conveyance tax. Allocates collected conveyance taxes to the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund, Homeless Services Fund, and Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund. Amends allocations to the Land Conservation Fund and Rental Housing Revolving Fund. Effective 7/1/2026. | In Committee |
| HB1207 | Relating To Capital Improvement Projects For The Benefit Of The Twenty-fifth Representative District. | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-fifth representative district. | In Committee |
| HB1209 | Relating To Condominium Associations. | Requires that the fees for attorneys retained by a condominium association be paid from an association's funds or reserves, except for collection of delinquent common dues payments from owners. Limits the total and final legal fees to twenty-five per cent of the original debt amount. Requires attorneys retained by a condominium association to confine their communications to the condominium board, except when the attorneys must request and require materials and responses directly from owners for each matter. Prohibits attorneys retained by a condominium association from billing unit owners directly. Specifies the contents of an attorney's billing statement. Requires that a notice of default and intention to foreclose served on a unit owner affords the unit owner the opportunity to respond within thirty days after service of the notice. | In Committee |
| HB1190 | Relating To Campaign Finance. | Repeals the authority for campaign funds to carry over to subsequent elections. Requires, at the latest, for campaign funds not expended to escheat to the State after a certain period. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to make reasonable efforts to return escheated funds to contributors with any remaining balance to fund partially publicly financed campaigns. | In Committee |
| HB1189 | Related To Law Enforcement. | Requires law enforcement to post notice that a warranted or warrantless search has been conducted on a property. Requires a law enforcement officer to secure any entrance used by an officer in the search. | In Committee |
| HB1272 | Relating To A Hawaii Teacher Registered Apprenticeship Program. | Establishes the Hawaii Registered Teacher Apprenticeship Program, to be administered by the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB1312 | Relating To Association Managers. | Creates regulation requirements for association managers who oversee the daily operations of a condominium unit owners' association. Beginning 7/1/2027, requires licensure of association managers by the Real Estate Commission. | In Committee |
| HB1242 | Relating To Hawaiian Language Immersion Education. | Requires the Department of Education to implement a plan for a Hawaiian language immersion school in Kapolei that shall be ready to educate students in grades kindergarten through 12 by the 2028-2029 school year. Appropriates moneys. | In Committee |
| HB1238 | Relating To Manele Small Boat Harbor. | Appropriates moneys for a structural engineering analysis; the planning, design, and construction of repairs and improvements to the water line system; and the reopening of a roadway related to Manele Small Boat Harbor. | In Committee |
| HB1305 | Relating To Fireworks. | Requires the Department Education, in coordination with the Department of Health, to develop a fireworks education and marketing program for implementation in public schools, including charter schools, and distribution to private schools. | In Committee |
| HB1274 | Relating To The State Auditor. | Requires the State Auditor to conduct management and financial audits of Medicaid health care insurance contractors at least once every two years, with the first audit report to be submitted no later than twenty days prior to the Regular Session of 2027. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB1229 | Relating To Foster Care. | Prohibits the Department of Human Services from using any social security income payments, including supplemental income payments it receives on behalf of a child under foster custody of the Department to cover the cost of foster care services. Requires the Department of Human Services to deposit all social security income payments received on behalf of a child under foster custody of the Department into a savings account that shall be made accessible to the child when the child leaves foster care custody. | In Committee |
| HB1306 | Relating To Housing. | Establishes the Kupuna Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Program under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. | In Committee |
| HB1235 | Relating To A Wealth Asset Tax. | Establishes a wealth asset tax of one per cent of the state net worth of each individual taxpayer who holds $20,000,000 or more in assets in the State. | In Committee |
| HB1228 | Relating To Solid Waste. | Prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of waste or disposal facilities that are near or above a significant aquifer. Allows counties to apply for exemptions to state siting standards if they meet certain criteria. | In Committee |
| HB1199 | Relating To Office Of Legislative Analyst. | Requires the office of legislative analyst to produce fiscal notes on all fiscal bills. Prohibits a committee from making a decision on a fiscal bill without a fiscal note. Mandates that fiscal notes be made available to the public. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB1269 | Relating To Trail Accessibility. | Establishes the Accessible Wilderness and State Parks Trails Program within the Division of State Parks of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Establishes the Accessible Wilderness and State Parks Trails Program Special Fund. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB1230 | Relating To Underground Storage Tanks. | Clarifies the level of environmental restoration that owners and operators of underground storage tanks or tank systems must satisfy in the event of a confirmed release of jet fuel. Specifies the restoration condition and quality acceptable by the Department of Health shall include the complete removal of all jet fuel, including jet fuel additives and all compounds resulting from the degradation of jet fuel or jet fuel additives, or the reaction of jet fuel or jet fuel additives with water or other chemicals. Establishes a rebuttable presumption that any detection of these contaminants in the vicinity of an underground storage tank or a tank system after a confirmed release is a result of the confirmed release. | In Committee |
| HB1472 | Relating To Broadband Service. | Requires a provider of broadband internet access services to be transparent with network management practices, performance, and commercial terms of its broadband internet access services. Prohibits a provider of broadband internet access services from blocking lawful websites, impairing or degrading lawful internet traffic, engaging in paid prioritization or application-specific differential pricing, or interfering with or disadvantaging users of broadband internet access services. Requires an applicant of a broadband-related permit seeking a state-granted or county-granted right to attach small cell or other broadband wireless communication devices to utility poles to comply with certain practices. | In Committee |
| HB1418 | Relating To Telecommunications. | Requires a wireless telecommunications carrier, as a condition for any permit under section 206N-6 or certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 269-7.5, to maintain emergency backup power for a minimum of twelve hours. | In Committee |
| HB1192 | Relating To Missing Persons. | Establishes and appropriates moneys for a Charli Alert program to help locate persons who are 18 to 64 years old, missing, and thought to be in danger. | In Committee |
| HB1419 | Relating To Fire Protection. | Defines stages of wildfire suppression efforts. | In Committee |
| HB1465 | Relating To The Legislature. | Establishes a basic housing allowance for legislators whose legal residence is on an island other than the island of Oahu during session. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB832 | Relating To Real Property Leases. | Prohibits the resetting of lease rents for long-term commercial leases above a level that is economic for the lessee's actual use of the property. Requires that a lessee whose long-term commercial lease has been terminated be compensated for the value of buildings, infrastructure, and businesses created by the lessee that will be retained by the lessor. Allows a lessee the right to purchase the property at fair market value. | In Committee |
| HB907 | Relating To Housing. | Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units. | In Committee |
| HB911 | Relating To Offender Reentry Programs. | Expands programming and training for the comprehensive offender reentry program under the department of corrections and rehabilitation to reduce the rate of recidivism and increase inmate marketability. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB955 | Relating To The General Excise Tax. | Exempts from the general excise tax amounts received by a nurse entrepreneur for health care-related goods and services purchased under Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE. | In Committee |
| HB944 | Relating To Neighborhood Boards. | Authorizes neighborhood boards to solicit suggestions for capital improvement projects and operating budget priorities from residents. Requires each county mayor to consider and respond in writing to the suggestions for capital improvement projects and operating budget priorities submitted by each neighborhood board. Requires each county council to consider the neighborhood boards' recommendations, the mayor's responses, and county fiscal health in determining the final budget. | In Committee |
| HB888 | Relating To Care Centers. | Requires that new and newly renovated state buildings with a budget of $5,000,000 or more include dedicated space for a child care center or an adult day care center. | In Committee |
| HB942 | Relating To Health. | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for health care services contracted with community-based organizations. | In Committee |
| HB886 | Relating To Traffic. | Provides that if a law enforcement officer lawfully stops a motor vehicle and the operator is cited for driving without a valid license, the officer shall not permit the operator to resume the use of the motor vehicle. Requires the motor vehicle to be moved by a licensed driver or towed at the owner's expense. Provides that the cited operator is responsible for arranging the operator's transportation from the scene of the stop. | In Committee |
| HB889 | Relating To The Transient Accommodations Tax. | Provides Hawaii taxpayers with a refundable transient accommodations tax credit. | In Committee |
| HB906 | Relating To Recycling. | Allows manufacturers to coordinate activities directly related to the recycling of covered electronic devices. Expands the scope of covered electronic devices to include electronic device peripherals and certain legacy devices. Requires manufacturers to provide free collection service locations and collection events. | In Committee |
| HB887 | Relating To Prevailing Wages. | Requires prevailing wages for human services providers. | In Committee |
| HB946 | Relating To Carbon Displacement. | Establishes a carbon displacement tax credit for taxpayers of locally produced goods. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to certify tax credit amounts. | In Committee |
| HB928 | Relating To Income Tax. | Increases the income tax rate on the highest income earners in the State by establishing a new tax bracket for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2029. | In Committee |
| HB931 | Relating To Private Sector Collective Bargaining Rights. | Expands the types of employees protected by the Hawaii Employment Relations Act to include independent contractors and all individuals subject to the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Act. | In Committee |
| HB947 | Relating To Taxation Of Real Estate Investment Trusts. | Disallows the dividends paid deduction for real estate investment trusts. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2025. | In Committee |
| HB890 | Relating To Condominium Associations. | Establishes the Ombudsman's Office for Condominium Associations within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Updates the Condominium Property Act to integrate the role and functions of the ombudsman's office for condominium associations. Appropriates funds for establishment of the Ombudsman's Office for Condominium Associations. | In Committee |
| HB857 | Relating To Health Insurance. | Requires all accident and health or sickness insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations operating in the State to adopt policies, procedures, and criteria for approving or denying requests for prior authorization that are the equivalent to the guidelines for prior authorization established by Medicare. | In Committee |
| HB823 | Relating To Emergency Evacuation Routes. | Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the City and County of Honolulu, to assess and develop an improvement plan for emergency evacuation routes along the Waianae coast. Authorizes the Department to request input and assistance from the United States Navy. Requires a report to the Legislature. | In Committee |
| HB870 | Relating To Medicaid. | Directs the Department of Human Services to adopt rules to expand Medicaid eligibility to all children in the State from birth to age 5 years without regard to household income. Appropriates moneys. | In Committee |
| HB819 | Relating To Disability Health Disparity. | Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to collect data and submit to the Legislature a report focused on the health disparities experienced by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities in the State prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2027. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB825 | Relating To Nuisance Abatement. | Offers rights and protections to citizens who bring civil nuisance abatement suits related to illegal gambling. Imposes a mandatory fine of $5,0000 for violating nuisance abatement laws related to gambling offenses. | In Committee |
| HB820 | Relating To Health Insurance. | Requires all health insurers in the State, including Medicaid managed care programs, to cover the cost of continuous glucose monitors and related supplies under certain conditions. Applies to insurance policies, contracts, plans, or agreements issued or renewed in the State after 12/31/2025. | In Committee |
| HB876 | Relating To Healthcare Preceptors. | Adds psychology, physician assistant, marriage and family therapist, mental health counselor, clinical social worker, rehabilitation counselor, and school counselor students to the definition of "eligible student" under the qualifications for the healthcare preceptor tax credit. Amends the definition of "preceptor" by adding psychologists, physician assistants, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, clinical social workers, rehabilitation counselors, and school counselors to the list of preceptors eligible to receive the tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2025. | In Committee |
| HB856 | Relating To The College Of Tropical Agriculture And Human Resources. | Appropriates funds for eight full-time agricultural technician, and four full-time coordinator positions at University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. | In Committee |
| HB822 | Relating To Employment. | Requires certain employers in the State to offer reproductive loss leave for employees. | In Committee |
| HB869 | Relating To Access To Higher Education. | Expands eligibility for scholarships under the Hawaii Community College Promise Program to all qualified students. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB873 | Relating To Pesticide Buffer Zones. | Increases the buffer zone for restricted use pesticides around schools to one-half mile. Allows the use of restricted use pesticides within the buffer zone as part of invasive species control conducted by the Department of Agriculture or invasive species committees organized under the University of Hawaii Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit. | In Committee |
| HB831 | Relating To Antitrust. | Prohibits the use of algorithmic price-setting in Hawaii's rental market. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to develop and undertake a public education program regarding the prohibition. | In Committee |
| HB853 | Relating To Taxation. | Establishes a refundable Family Caregiver Tax Credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the department of taxation to report to the legislature before the convening of each regular session. | In Committee |
| HB854 | Relating To Mental Health Issues Of Committed Persons. | Appropriates $500,000, for each year of the fiscal biennium to the department of corrections and rehabilitation to procure a new software for electronic record keeping of medical records. Requires a report to the legislature. | In Committee |
| HB704 | Relating To Food Security. | 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. | In Committee |
| HB758 | Relating To Sex-based Discrimination. | Clarifies and strengthens the State's protections against sex-based harassment, sex discrimination, and retaliation that occur in public schools, public charter schools, or at the University of Hawaii, including discrimination based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, and pregnancy-related conditions. Establishes procedures for investigations and decision-making. Requires mandatory reporting by certain employees. | In Committee |
| HB724 | Relating To Open Meetings. | Amends the definition of a "board" under the Sunshine Law to include the Legislature. Clarifies notice period requirements. Repeals the Legislature's exemption from the Sunshine Law. Repeals the exemption for permitted interactions between board members. | In Committee |
| HB721 | Relating To Public Banking. | Establishes a state-owned bank implementation board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to determine the need for, potential costs and benefits of, and prerequisites to establishing a state-owned bank. Requires a report to the legislature. | In Committee |
| HB759 | Relating To Tax Haven Abuse. | Part I: Effective 1/1/2026, requires corporations to include in their income the income of all foreign subsidiaries to the State; applies the State's apportionment formula to determine the share of reported profits subject to the appropriate tax, which shall be deposited into the state general fund; and requires corporations to report all profits, losses, revenues, and inter-company transactions made and all taxes paid in other states. Part II: Establishes within DOTAX a Corporate Tax Law Task Force to annually review the State's corporate tax laws and recommend updates to close tax loopholes. | In Committee |
| HB723 | Relating To Procurement. | Mandates state agencies to prioritize purchasing from local vendors whenever feasible. Allows state agencies to split contracts across multiple local vendors to enhance participation and competitiveness. Specifies when contracts may be awarded to multiple vendors. | In Committee |
| HB788 | Relating To Electric Vehicle Batteries. | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii State Energy Office to make recommendations for the reuse and recycling of electric vehicle batteries and requires a report to the Legislature. | In Committee |
| HB789 | Relating To Energy Assistance. | 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 technical assistance about available energy efficiency programs to recipients of the program. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB99 | Relating To Climate Education. | Requires the Department of Education to establish a climate literacy certificate program to provide students with an advanced understanding of climate change through academic coursework and hands-on learning. | In Committee |
| HB87 | Relating To School Meals. | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires public schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB104 | Relating To Candidates. | Requires objections made by an officer of a political party to candidate nomination papers to be filed with and determined by the Office of Elections. | In Committee |
| HB191 | Relating To Department Of Education Farm To School Procurement. | Requires the Department of Education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally raised food products. | In Committee |
| HB148 | Relating To Defamation. | Protects individuals who make claims of sexual misconduct from defamation lawsuits unless the claims were proven to be made with malice. | In Committee |
| HB240 | Relating To Overdose Prevention. | Establishes and provides criteria for overdose prevention centers, including standards for the Department of Health to designate certain facilities as overdose prevention centers. Establishes an Overdose Prevention Center Oversight Committee. Provides immunity from state criminal prosecution for certain offenses for persons using a designated overdose prevention center and persons operating a designated overdose prevention center. | In Committee |
| HB192 | Relating To Foreign Ownership Of Agricultural Land. | Prohibits foreign entities from owning, leasing, or holding a controlling interest in more than an unspecified number of acres of agricultural land. Limits the lease term for agricultural land by foreign entities. Requires foreign entities that own or lease interest in agricultural lands to file an annual report with the Department of Agriculture. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB190 | Relating To Decentralization Of Department Of Education Farm To School. | Provides that complex area superintendents have the authority to implement the farm to school and farm to school meals programs. Requires certain school cafeteria supervisors to report directly to complex area superintendents. Establishes school cafeteria supervisor positions. Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to conduct a compensation review of school cafeteria supervisor positions. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB100 | Relating To Media Literacy. | Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in their standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech. | In Committee |
| HB206 | Relating To The Hawaiian Language. | Requires each public high school in the State to require students to complete and pass 2 full years of Hawaiian language courses as a condition of graduation. | In Committee |
| HB312 | Relating To The Department Of Human Services. | Requires the department of human services to provide written notice to a parent of the parent's rights when conducting an investigation regarding a child who is or may be subject to imminent harm. | In Committee |
| HB308 | Relating To Partial Public Financing Of Elections. | Increases the matching fund payments to candidates in the partial public financing program for excess qualifying contributions. | In Committee |
| HB311 | Relating To General Excise Tax Exemption. | Establishes general excise tax exemptions for various medical services, including dental services. | In Committee |
| HB326 | Relating To The Household And Dependent Care Services Tax Credit. | Increases a taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses that may be claimed for the household and dependent care services tax credit for five years. Repeals 6/30/2030. | In Committee |
| HB248 | Relating To Medical Records. | 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 penalties. | In Committee |
| HB259 | Relating To Elections. | Requires that each county council district feature at least one voter service center for elections. Prioritizes using public schools as voter service centers. Requires the clerk to advertise for volunteers. Requires each county council district to have one voter service center open on election day. | In Committee |
| HB494 | Relating To Open Meetings. | Repeals the Legislature's exemption under the State's open meetings law. | In Committee |
| HB465 | Relating To Dynamic Pricing. | Prohibits retailers from using dynamic pricing in the sale of food that is sold, or qualifies to be sold, as part of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Foods Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Establishes fines. | In Committee |
| HB495 | Proposing An Amendment To Article Iii, Section 4, Of The Hawaii State Constitution To Establish Legislative Term Limits. | Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the number of years members may serve in the Legislature to a maximum of sixteen years. | In Committee |
| HB335 | Relating To Education. | 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 funds. Repeals on 6/30/2027. | In Committee |
| HB507 | Relating To Cesspools. | Appropriates funds for the cesspool compliance pilot grant project. | In Committee |
| HB462 | Relating To An Interstate Compact To Phase Out Corporate Welfare. | Adopts the Interstate Compact to Phase Out Corporate Welfare. | In Committee |
| HB313 | Relating To Hawaiian Home Lands. | Allows designation of eligible homestead lots as enterprise zones for a period of twenty years. Provides state and local incentives to qualified businesses on homestead lots. | In Committee |
| HB645 | Relating To Homeless Youth. | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to provide emergency shelter and services to unaccompanied homeless youth. | In Committee |
| HB489 | Relating To Vacant Homes. | Establishes a Vacant Homes Special Fund under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for rental assistance programs. Establishes a general excise tax surcharge on an owner that allows a residential real property to remain vacant for 180 days or more a year. Requires persons who own residential real property, but do not live there, to obtain a general excise tax license. Requires the counties to disclose to the Department of Taxation a list of properties classified as not being occupied by an owner of that property. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to calculate average annual rental value for the basis for the surcharge amount. | In Committee |
| HB492 | Relating To Property Forfeiture. | Prohibits civil asset forfeiture unless the covered offense is a felony for which the property owner has been convicted. Excludes the forfeiture proceedings for an animal pending criminal charges. Requires the Attorney General to deposit the net proceeds of the forfeited property to the credit of the state general fund. | In Committee |
| HB469 | Relating To Parking For Disabled Persons. | 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. | In Committee |
| HB473 | Relating To Voter Registration. | 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. | In Committee |
| HB459 | Relating To County Permits. | Requires county permitting agencies to establish and fill positions exclusively to process permit applications submitted for state projects. Appropriates funds. | In Committee |
| HB460 | Relating To The Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund. | Establishes the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Program. Repeals the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Pilot Program. Clarifies that the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation may utilize funds in the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund for the purchase of equity in for-sale housing development projects and interim primary or secondary financing. | In Committee |
| HB493 | Relating To Ethics. | For purposes of the state ethics laws, subjects legislators to all ethics laws applicable to employees by including legislators within the definition of "employees". Repeals references to legislators under the state ethics laws made redundant by the inclusion. | In Committee |
| HB618 | Relating To Hazard Pay Bonus. | Appropriates funds for a one-time hazard pay bonus to state officers and employees in bargaining units 5, 6, and 7, and their excluded counterparts under certain conditions. | In Committee |
| HB691 | Relating To The Campaign Spending Commission. | Appropriates funds to the campaign spending commission for permanent positions. | In Committee |
| HB597 | Proposing An Amendment To Article I Of The Constitution Of The State Of Hawaii To Recognize And Protect The Inherent And Inalienable Right Of The People To Clean Water And Air, A Healthful Environment And Climate, Healthy Native Ecosystems, And Beaches. | Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including present and future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches shall be protected and shall not be infringed. | In Committee |
| HB675 | Relating To Bail. | Requires judges to make certain findings regarding a defendant's ability to afford bail. | In Committee |
| HB644 | Relating To Single-use Plastics. | After 1/1/2026, prohibits businesses where food or beverages are packaged and sold on the business' premises for individual consumption from using, selling, or distributing certain disposable or single-use food ware and beverage service items, including items containing PFAS. | In Committee |
| HB748 | Relating To Waste Or Disposal Facilities. | Prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of any waste or disposal facility on land that is near or above a significant aquifer as determined by the Department of Health. Reduces the required buffer zone around waste or disposal facilities. | In Committee |
| HB575 | Relating To Taxation. | Provides an income tax deduction for tips received by tipped employees. | In Committee |
| HB519 | Proposing An Amendment To Article Ix Of The Constitution Of The State Of Hawaii Relating To Recreational Cannabis. | Proposes a constitutional amendment that would legalize the possession and use of recreational cannabis by adults who are at least 21 years of age, as provided by law. | In Committee |
| HB608 | Relating To Fireworks. | Establishes the shipping container inspection program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Amends the definitions of "aerial devices" and "fireworks" within state fireworks law. Requires reports to the Legislature on implementation of the shipping container inspection program. Appropriates moneys. | In Committee |
| HB518 | Relating To Small Claims Court. | Prohibits licensed attorneys from representing clients in small claims court. | In Committee |
| HB539 | Relating To The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. | 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. | In Committee |
| HB598 | Relating To Health. | Prohibits the imposition of cost-sharing requirements for certain diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations. | In Committee |
| HB672 | Relating To Public Assistance. | Allows the Department of Human Services to administer and provide public assistance to eligible residents of the State during a Governor-Declared State of Emergency. | In Committee |
| HB635 | Relating To The Residential Landlord-tenant Code. | 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. | In Committee |
| HB609 | Relating To Sex Trafficking. | Requires the posting of informational placards on sex trafficking and resources available to victims, in public buildings and at other specified locations. Requires the Department of Human Services to develop and make available a model placard. Requires the Department of Education to train teachers, school administrators, and other school personnel on the dynamics of sex trafficking and strategies for prevention and response. Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of the Attorney General to develop and implement public education and outreach events on the dynamics of sex trafficking and the importance of community involvement in prevention and response efforts. | In Committee |
| HB562 | Relating To Consumer Protection. | Prohibits covered entities in the State from entering into contracts with drug manufacturers that limit the covered entities' use of contract pharmacies. Voids contract provisions for certain drugs if the provisions are based on the maximum allowable cost payment model. Authorizes the attorney general to bring a civil action for violations. | In Committee |
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB1052 | Relating To The Universal Service Program. | House Conference: Passed, With Amendments | 04/25/2025 | Yea |
| SB104 | Relating To Corrections. | House Conference: Passed, With Amendments | 04/24/2025 | Absent |
| HB70 | Relating To Condominium. | House Conference: Passed, With Amendments | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| SB1048 | Relating To Solicitation Of Funds From The Public. | House Conference: Passed, With Amendments | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HB1296 | Relating To The Major Disaster Fund. | House Conference: Passed, With Amendments | 04/24/2025 | Absent |
| SB385 | Relating To Condominiums. | House Conference: Passed, With Amendments | 04/23/2025 | Absent |
| HB511 | Relating To Public Lands. | House Conference: Passed, With Amendments | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| SB951 | Relating To Child Protection. | House Conference: Passed, With Amendments | 04/23/2025 | Absent |
| SB385 | Relating To Condominiums. | House Conference: Passed, With Amendments | 04/22/2025 | Absent |
| SB88 | Relating To The Hawaii National Guard. | House Conference: Passed, With Amendments | 04/21/2025 | Yea |
| SB1377 | Relating To Veterans Cemeteries. | House Conference: Passed, With Amendments | 04/21/2025 | Yea |
| HB1348 | Relating To Public Lands. | House Conference: Passed, With Amendments | 04/21/2025 | Yea |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HI | Hawaii House District 25 | House | Democrat | In Office | 11/05/2024 |