Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 149)

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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB563

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Directs the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Agribusiness Development Corporation and the counties, to conduct a statewide agricultural water infrastructure study. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB564

Introduced
1/17/25  
Establishes a working group within the Department of Transportation to conduct a comprehensive study to assess the State's port and harbor system and the potential viability of each location in that system to support current and future agricultural product transportation methods and needs. Requires a report. Appropriates moneys.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB509

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to identify sites throughout the State that are suitable for the development of slaughterhouses. Requires the Agribusiness Development Corporation to plan, design, construct, and operate certain animal slaughterhouses throughout the State. Makes appropriations.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB525

Introduced
1/17/25  
Beginning 10/1/2025, requires mortuaries, cemeteries, and pre-need funeral authorities that contract to provide cremation services to provide written notice if precious metals are recovered after cremation and to obtain written consent before the sale or recycling of any recovered precious metals. Requires mortuaries, cemeteries, and pre-need funeral authorities that have contracted to provide cremation services to give certain notice of updated terms by 1/1/2026.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB557

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Requires Huli Au Ola to conduct a study on physician and dentist recruitment and retention to serve the island of Molokai. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/31/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB298

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Appropriates funds to be expended by the Department of Human Services to increase funding for Medicaid in-home services. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB299

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/21/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Appropriates funds for the Healthcare Education Loan Repayment Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB341

Introduced
1/15/25  
Requires the State or a county to reimburse an officer or employee within thirty calendar days of a request for reimbursement for travel costs that the officer or employee loaned to the State or a county. Requires the State or a county to pay a percentage of interest on the total amount owed to an officer or employee until the loan is fully reimbursed.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB360

Introduced
1/15/25  
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.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB376

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Establishes a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxpayers who construct or install improvements to their residence that increase the residence's fire safety rating as calculated by the taxpayer's homeowner's insurance policy. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2025. Effective 7/1/2077. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB388

Introduced
1/15/25  
Establishes a teacher loan program revolving fund to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of Department of Education schools. Allows a loan to be forgiven for teachers who become a licensed teacher in Hawaii or for teachers who will commit to teach for seven years at a Hawaii public school or public charter school. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB389

Introduced
1/15/25  
Expands the general excise tax exemption established by Act 47, Session Laws of Hawaii 2024, to include amounts received by optometrists, audiologists, and chiropractors, for healthcare-related goods or services purchased under the Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE programs.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB903

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/27/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Amends the membership and responsibilities of the Public Land Trust Working Group established under Act 226, SLH 2022. Requires the Working Group to submit four reports to the Legislature: by 8/1/2026, a first interim report regarding the public land trust inventory; by 12/1/2026, a second interim report regarding Act 178, SLH 2006, financial reporting and accounting; by 6/1/2027, a preliminary draft settlement of the income and proceeds from OHA's pro rata portion of the public land trust; and by 10/1/2027, a final report that includes a final draft settlement. Requires the State, OHA, and other applicable parties to begin preliminary negotiations regarding the final draft settlement by 10/1/2027. Appropriates funds for the Legislative Reference Bureau to retain independent third-party professionals for the Working Group and requires matching funds from OHA. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB904

Introduced
1/17/25  
Relating To The Department Of Hawaiian Home Lands. Short form bill.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB905

Introduced
1/17/25  
Relating To Agriculture. Short form bill.