Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 137)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB669
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Beginning 1/1/2026, prohibits the issuance of building permits for new single-family dwellings that are part of a development of twenty or more dwellings and do not include a rooftop photovoltaic energy generating system, unless a variance is granted by the Hawaii State Energy Office. Authorizes the Hawaii State Energy Office to adopt administrative rules.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB670
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Prohibits lodging establishments in the State from providing personal care products packaged in small plastic containers in any sleeping room accommodations, space within sleeping room accommodations, and bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalties.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB671
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Prohibits the use of certain dangerous pesticides on state lands and at state facilities, except as needed to respond to emergencies.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB672
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for a capital improvement project for the repair, maintenance, and demolition of buildings at the Waimanalo Research Station.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB673
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
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.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB674
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
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. Requires the Department of Health to complete and submit the needs assessment to the Legislature no later than 12/31/2028. Establishes an advisory council to review the draft needs assessment and propose recommendations throughout the assessment process. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB675
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Establishes within the Department of Health's Wastewater Branch a Cesspool Conversion Section, 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 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1574
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Amends provisions relating to the Motion Picture, Digital Media, and Film Production Income Tax Credit. Increases the percentage of the qualified production costs that can be claimed by a qualified production company in different counties. Clarifies the distribution requirements of the tax credit. Increases the cap amount and aggregate cap amount of the tax credit.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1596
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Requires the State Board of Nursing to identify one facility in each of the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui that has the capability to establish a Pearson VUE Authorized Test Center as a test site to administer a National Council Licensure Examination for nurses; equip each facility identified with the technical and facility requirements necessary for a Pearson VUE Authorized Test Center; and submit an application for each facility to Pearson Education, Inc. to be authorized and contracted as a Pearson VUE Authorized Test Center. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1597
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Increases the valuation threshold of development subject to a special management area minor permit or a special management area use permit from $500,000 to $750,000.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1598
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to develop adaptation pathways plans to modify and relocate development and associated infrastructure away from critically vulnerable areas to locations outside of sea level rise and coastal flooding exposure area. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1599
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requires the Director of Human Resources Development to abolish vacant positions within state departments and agencies under its jurisdiction that have been vacant for more than five years. Requires a list of positions abolished to be included in the Director's annual report to the Legislature. Requires funds for abolished positions to immediately lapse to the credit of the general fund.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1600
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Appropriates funds to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to hire necessary staff, purchase equipment, and retain professional services on behalf of the Public Land Trust Working Group.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1612
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in partnership with the Department of Health, to establish and implement a five-year Fitness to Proceed Pilot Program in one county of the State. Requires an interim report and final report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SR26
Introduced
3/6/25
Refer
3/11/25
Strongly Supporting And Recommending The Implementation Of The Revised 2025 Hawaii Patient Bill Of Rights.