Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 129)

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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB686

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Establishes short-term management initiatives for the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Response Program. Establishes standards for the usage of grants awarded pursuant to the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Response Program. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for activities and positions related to coconut rhinoceros beetle infestation control. Effective 7/31/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB687

Introduced
1/17/25  
Prohibits the sale, offer, possession with intent to sell, display, distribution, or trade of fur products in the State, with certain exceptions. Establishes civil penalties for violations. Effective 6/30/2025.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB688

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Appropriates funds to establish grant specialist positions within the Department of Agriculture. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB689

Introduced
1/17/25  
Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the continued administration of the Hawaii Healthy Food Incentive Program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB690

Introduced
1/17/25  
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects per the agricultural infrastructure of the State, a food and product innovation network, and outstanding debt on the Waiahole water system.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB692

Introduced
1/17/25  
Regulates the retail and wholesale sales of spray paint. Designates the Department of Law Enforcement with jurisdiction.
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Hawaii Senate Bill SB695

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires the Department of Health to require each ground ambulance to be equipped with front- and rear-facing cameras. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii Senate Bill SB696

Introduced
1/17/25  
Appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor, in collaboration with the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, to: (1) plan and administer income tax credits relating to emergency management or disaster preparedness and grants for low-income taxpayers to fortify their residential real property; (2) oversee the development of emergency shelters; and (3) hire necessary personnel.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB491

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Establishes the Accessory Dwelling Unit Financing and Deed Restriction Program to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to allocate funds to the counties for the purchase of equity for eligible homeowners or homebuyers to finance construction costs, development costs, and non-reoccurring closing costs associated with the construction of an accessory dwelling unit and purchase deed restrictions on such property. Exempts the conveyance tax for certain properties for taxable years beginning on 1/1/2026. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB492

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Authorizes each county that has established a surcharge on state tax before 7/1/2015 to extend the surcharge until 12/31/2045, at the same rates, if the county does so before 1/1/2028. Provides that no county surcharge on state tax authorized for a county that has not established a surcharge on state tax before 7/1/2015, shall be levied before 1/1/2019, or after 12/31/2045. Repeals certain conditions on the use of surcharges for housing infrastructure costs. Effective 5/13/2040. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB581

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Establishes the Aerospace and Aeronautics Development Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1144

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to offer, list, advertise, or display a transient accommodations rental rate that includes all resort fees required for the furnishing of transient accommodations. Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to include all applicable taxes and fees imposed by a government on the stay in the total price to be paid before the consumer reserves the furnishing of transient accommodations. Establishes penalties. Effective 1/1/2026.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1495

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Exempts from the general excise tax, gross receipts received by a hospital, infirmary, medical clinic, health care facility, pharmacy, or a practitioner licensed to administer drugs to an individual, from the sale of hearing aids. Effective 12/31/2050. Sunsets 1/1/2027. (SD1)
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Hawaii Senate Bill SB732

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Requires counties to waive permitting fees for certain film activity. Exempts entertainment payroll companies from the GET. Repeals an income tax exemption for persons engaged in the business of motion picture and television film production for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Amends the Motion Picture, Digital Media, and Film Production Income Tax Credit by providing an additional credit to qualified productions with a workforce of at least eighty percent local hires; requiring productions to contact all local labor unions servicing Hawaii's film industry to qualify for the credit; requiring qualified production costs of a taxpayer that exceed $1,000,000 to be certified by a CPA, rather than via tax opinion; increasing the aggregate cap amount on credits allowed in any given year, ramped down by one-sixth over five years beginning on 1/1/2028; and including broadcast and streaming platform productions under the credit. Applies the GET rate for manufacturers to productions. Exempts from the GET amounts received by a motion picture project employer from a client equal to amounts that are disbursed by the motion picture project employer for employee wages, salaries, payroll taxes, insurance premiums, and employment benefits and payments to loan-out companies. Repeals certain tax exemptions and the Motion Picture, Digital Media, and Film Production Income Tax Credit on 1/1/2033. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB983

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Establishes the Hawaii Start-Up Business Loan Program within the Business Development and Support Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Establishes the Hawaii Start-Up Business Loan Program Special Fund. Requires DBEDT to submit annual reports to the Legislature. Establishes one full-time equivalent business loan officer position. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)