Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1060
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Increases the state supplemental payment ceilings for type I adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, certified adult foster homes, and type II adult residential care homes.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1106
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for the Adult Mental Health Inpatient Program to secure contracts for the provision of forty psychiatric beds annually for the Hawaii State Hospital. Requires the Department of Health to include line-item funding for the Adult Mental Health Inpatient Program in its annual budget request beginning with fiscal year 2027-2028 to secure contracts for the provision of psychiatric beds for the Hawaii State Hospital.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB823
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
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.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB874
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Report Pass
4/24/25
Report Pass
4/24/25
Enrolled
5/1/25
Chaptered
6/4/25
Passed
6/4/25
Establishes that for a minor in theatrical employment with a gross income of at least $5,000 on a project or $20,000 in a calendar year: a parent or legal guardian of the minor is required to establish a trust account for the minor with an independent third-party trustee; and the employer of the minor is required to deposit a portion of the minor's earnings into the trust account until the minor becomes an adult. Makes misappropriation or fraudulent use of funds within the trust account a breach of fiduciary duty subject to penalties. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB834
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Categorizes electric bicycles into three classes based on speed and operation. Requires electric bicycle manufacturers and distributors to apply a label to each electric bicycle. Imposes a requirement that counties inform individuals of the applicable traffic code, safety information, and penalties for violations at the time of registering a bicycle.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB855
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Provides that a living beneficiary's place on the Department of Hawaiian Home Land's waitlist for any residential, agricultural or pastoral tract may be designated for transfer to a successor if the living beneficiary dies before receiving an offer for a tract; provided that the successor shall be at least twenty-five per cent native Hawaiian.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1063
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
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.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1218
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
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. Repeals the separate conveyance tax rates for the sale of a condominium or single family residence for which the purchaser is ineligible for a county homeowner's exemption on property tax and 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 Special Fund and general fund. Amends allocations to the Land Conservation Fund and Rental Housing Revolving Fund.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB837
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes an ombudsman's office for homeowner associations within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes an ombudsman's office special fund. Requires board members of condominium associations, cooperative housing corporations, and planned community associations to meet certain educational requirements through classes offered by the ombudsman. Updates statutes relating to condominium associations, cooperative housing corporations, and planned community associations to integrate the role and functions of the ombudsman's office for homeowner associations. Appropriates funds for establishment of the ombudsman's office. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1210
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Authorizes the Commission on Water Resource Management, as a condition for issuing permits, to require the use of dual line water supply systems in new residential and mixed-use developments located in designated water management areas. Authorizes those residential and mixed-use developments to be included in irrigation projects, as defined in chapter 167, HRS. Authorizes the Board of Agriculture to investigate and survey the availability of nonpotable water. Requires the Department of Health, Board of Agriculture, and the counties to update their rules, ordinances, to allow dual line water supply systems in residential and mixed-use developments.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB884
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Prohibits certain foreign parties or their agents, trustees, and fiduciaries from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in agricultural lands. Establishes an Office of Agricultural Intelligence within the Department of Agriculture to investigate claims that land is unlawfully owned by a prohibited foreign party. Requires the Attorney General to undertake enforcement activities. Appropriates moneys.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB852
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Prohibits restaurants from imposing a mandatory gratuity service charge for the sale of food or beverage services unless the party includes ten or more customers, the service charge does not exceed eighteen per cent, and the customer is notified of the service charge.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB839
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Adopts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact to allow a person authorized to practice psychology in a compact state in which the person is not licensed.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB881
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes and implements the Catastrophic Wildfire Securitization Act, to allow public utilities to securitize rates in order to raise capital that can be used to pay for costs and expenses arising out of catastrophic wildfires.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB885
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes a program that requires property insurers to offer discounts to condominium associations that make certain upgrades or take other specific actions to increase the building's resilience or reduce the association's risk profile. Requires the insurance commissioner to adopt rules to implement the program.