Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 102)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB729
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" for enterprise zone program purposes to include retail sales of tangible personal property manufactured and sold in the enterprise zone that is to be used or consumed by the purchaser and not for resale, the processing of value-added agricultural products grown within an enterprise zone, and the provision of professional services by health care professionals in health care related sectors.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB730
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Adds definitions for certain Department of Law Enforcement employees. Establishes guidance for the computation of retirement benefits for the Director of Law Enforcement, Deputy Director of the Department of Law Enforcement, Sheriff Division Investigator, Sheriff, and Department of Law Enforcement Investigator.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB731
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Allows a retirant employed as an investigator identified by the Department of Law Enforcement or Department of the Attorney General as a labor shortage or difficult-to-fill position to be rehired without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without a loss or interruption of retirement benefits, subject to certain conditions. Requires annual reports to the Legislature to include details on the employment of retirants as investigators.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB44
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Authorizes the counties to prohibit discrimination against a renter based on the renter's source of income.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB48
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Requires the State Building Code Council to assess the financial impact of the adoption of a code or standard on single-family and multi-family homes. Requires the State Building Code Council to also include amortized utility costs when adopting codes or standards. Amends annual reporting requirements for the State Building Code Council to include assessment of costs and determinations of benefits for residents.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB64
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, requires each public school in the State, including charter schools, to employ, or retain under contract, at least 1 mental health professional for every 250 students enrolled, subject to certain conditions. Requires the Department of Education to submit a progress report to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2026. Appropriates moneys for the Department of Education to contract for mental health professionals and to establish an unspecified number of fulltime equivalent mental health professional positions within the Department of Education. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB67
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale or rent in perpetuity to buyers or renters who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants or renters, and do not own any other real property. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB68
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Establishes the Department of Housing. Places the Hawaii Community Development Authority, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, and Hawaii Public Housing Authority within the Department of Housing for administrative purposes. Replaces the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism with the Director of Housing on the Hawaii Community Development Authority. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB70
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/3/25
Refer
2/3/25
Requires eligible applicants of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to be either governmental agencies or organizations that are required to use all financial surplus, excluding fees, to develop additional housing in the State. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB71
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Refer
3/18/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Establishes the Mixed-Income Subaccount within the Rental Housing Revolving Fund that targets workforce rental housing projects for persons and families with incomes at or below one hundred forty per cent of the area median income. Authorizes the Director of Finance to transfer funds from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund into the Mixed-Income Subaccount. Appropriates funds into and out of the Mixed-Income Subaccount of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB72
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) to consider as a preference under chapter 201H, HRS, the proximity between the housing location and the applicant's place of employment; whether the applicant is a state or county employee; and whether the applicant is a returning resident that left the State to attend a university, college, or trade school and has graduated within the past two years. Requires, for any project developed or administered by the HHFDC under chapter 201, HRS, the HHFDC to set aside as a matter of preference an undetermined per cent of available units for state or county employees, when feasible. Requires HHFDC to determine the order of preferences and rank applicants accordingly, select applicants based on application date within the pool of similarly ranked applicants, and validate the preference status of applicants before occupancy of a unit. Authorizes HHFDC to adopt rules to establish additional eligibility criteria.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB73
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Requires county permitting agencies to establish and fill positions exclusively to process permit applications submitted for state projects. Appropriates funds. Effective 5/13/2040. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB74
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Refer
1/28/25
Establishes the Office of the State Architect within the Department of Accounting and General Services to be headed by the State Architect. Authorizes the State Architect to organize, manage, and oversee the design review of all state construction projects and issue design approvals. Establishes the Design Review Special Fund. Requires the State Architect to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature. Authorizes DAGS to provide centralized design review services for state construction projects and issue design approvals through the State Architect. Exempts state construction projects from county building permit, inspection, and certificate of occupancy requirements, subject to certain conditions. Makes appropriations.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB75
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Establishes a working group to revise the State's Qualified Allocation Plan, the prioritization of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund, and the terms of loans made from the RHRF. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB76
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Clarifies that the dwelling units eligible for the Rent-to-Own Program shall be units that are for sale in fee simple or leasehold on state or county land under a lease with an initial term of not less than ninety-nine years. Increases the time period that the sales price of dwelling units under the Rent-to-Own Program shall remain fixed from five years to ten years after the rental agreement is executed. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)