Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 96)

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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB996

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/3/25  
Clarifies that adjustments linked to premium interest rates for high yield credit are just and reasonable. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to include these incremental adjustments to the rate for electricity generated from nonfossil fuels. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB955

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/14/25  
Clarifies who may serve as a qualified examiner in a fitness-to-proceed examination. Clarifies the term of commitment for a defendant being held at a hospital or mental health facility for a fitness-to-proceed examination. Reduces the number of qualified examiners required for a fitness-to-proceed examination in a felony case from 3 to 1. Establishes a reduced penalty, except in certain circumstances, for a person who commits the offense of escape in the second degree while in the custody of the Director of Health. Sunsets the amendments related to fitness-to-proceed examinations on 12/31/26. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB956

Introduced
1/17/25  
Allows a patient seen in-person by another health care provider in the same medical group as the prescribing physician to be prescribed an opiate prescription for a three-day supply or less via telehealth.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB969

Introduced
1/17/25  
Beginning 1/1/2026, requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, health maintenance organizations, and health plans under the State's Medicaid managed care program to provide coverage for biomarker testing.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB941

Introduced
1/17/25  
Establishes a Green Bonds Working Group within the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, to determine the feasibility of a green bond financing program for the State.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB942

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Prohibits a landlord from rejecting a rental application solely due to an applicant's inability to provide a recent paycheck. Authorizes the landlord to require the applicant to provide evidence dated within ninety days of the application demonstrating the applicant has sufficient unearned income or liquid assets to cover the rental costs. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB943

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires the Department of Health to adopt by rules, a mandate that the primary caregiver caring for two or three clients in community care foster family homes to be a certified nurse aide or licensed nurse who has completed a state-approved training program and other training as required by the Department and holds a current certified nurse aid certificate or nursing license.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB945

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires any person providing doula services for compensation or representing or advertising themselves as a certified doula to register with the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes certain rights for certified doulas, including being present during delivery and in any recovery rooms, if requested by the client. Requires the Director to maintain a link to the registry on the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs' website. Effective 1/1/2026.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB947

Introduced
1/17/25  
Expands the types of health care providers who can submit an affidavit for a new certificate of birth for certain birth registrants.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB948

Introduced
1/17/25  
Makes the members of the Elections Commission subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB436

Introduced
1/21/25  
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 House Bill HB437

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
2/28/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
3/20/25  
Refer
3/20/25  
Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish an out-of-state office in the Republic of the Philippines. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB438

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Establishes the Due Process in Immigration Proceedings Program within the Judiciary to provide legal representation to individuals in immigration-related proceedings. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB439

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Requires the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to establish an international teacher license for certain visa holders and the requirements to obtain the international teacher license. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB440

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Prohibits certain covered educational entities and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation facilities from collecting information regarding citizenship or immigration status or allowing officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter certain facilities, except under specific circumstances.