Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 208)

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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB533

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/18/25  
Engrossed
2/27/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support public schools impacted by a local investorowned electric utility's planned public safety power shutoff program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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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 SB524

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to exercise its power of eminent domain to acquire certain parcels. Appropriates funds for the acquisition of those parcels.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB558

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
2/27/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
3/21/25  
Establishes a Food and Product Innovation Network within the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Appropriates funds for the development of Food and Product Innovation Network facilities. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB547

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Incentivizes the installation and use of gray water recycling systems and atmospheric water generators in the State by establishing an income tax credit to be administered by the Department of Taxation. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish a rebate program. Requires the State Building Code Council to adopt certain standards on gray water recycling systems and atmospheric water generators in the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB488

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires certain water suppliers in the State to adjust the fluoride level in their public water systems to the applicable United States Department of Health and Human Services standards for optimal water fluoridation levels. Exempts federal water suppliers. Requires water suppliers to test water systems for fluoride levels at intervals established by the Department of Health. Requires the Department of Health to provide training to water suppliers for the implementation of water fluoridation. Requires the Department of Health to submit annual reports to the Legislature.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB560

Introduced
1/17/25  
Raises the minimum age requirement to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Removes the parental consent and written approval by the family court requirements for a minor to marry. Removes spousal cohabitation after the parties attain legal age as an exception for an annulment based on nonage. Makes conforming amendments.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB499

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires the Agribusiness Development Corporation to develop a succession planning education program to educate and assist farmers and ranchers in the process of transitioning agricultural businesses to new owners. Requires the program to connect individuals interested in entering farming or ranching, or existing farmers or ranchers interested in expanding their business, with farmers and ranchers who have not yet identified a successor owner. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB542

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires certain priority level 1 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2035. Requires priority level 2 and other cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2040, rather than before 1/1/2050, with certain exemptions. Authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB537

Introduced
1/17/25  
Establishes statewide goals for solid waste reduction and organic waste diversion. Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to reduce all organic waste produced within the county by facilities generating more than a specified amount of organic waste per year in alignment with established state benchmarks. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB550

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Establishes the Landfill Advisory Committee within the Department of Health. Requires the DOH, in consultation with the Department of Land and Natural Resources and each county's department of board or water supply to create maps of the State's drinking water aquifers. Prohibits the siting, construction, modification, or expansion of any waste or disposal facility for hazardous or solid waste on land that is near or above an aquifer as determined by the DOH in consultation with the affected county's department or board of water supply. Expands buffer zones from one-half mile to one mile around a waste or disposal facility. Establishes penalties. Expands the definition of buffer zone to include aquifers, hotel or tourist accommodations, and businesses.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB528

Introduced
1/17/25  
Raises the minimum age to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Repeals the authority of parents and the family court to consent to a minor's marriage. Repeals spousal cohabitation after the parties attain legal age as an exception for an annulment based on nonage. Makes conforming amendments.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB520

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Requires the Department of Health to amend its administrative rules to: (1) Authorize not more than five dwellings and dwelling units connected to a single individual wastewater system; and (2) Provide that not more than five bedrooms may be connected to a single individual wastewater system. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB505

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism's Research and Economic Analysis Division to conduct a comprehensive study to assess the impacts of minimum wage increases on small businesses and the overall economic health of the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB495

Introduced
1/17/25  
Appropriates funds for the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop, construct, and support facilities that can accommodate shock aging processes for meat products. Appropriates funds into and out of the Hawaii Agricultural Development Revolving Fund for programmatic funding relating to facilities using shock aging processes for meat products. Authorizes the Agribusiness Development Corporation to contract with existing and future slaughterhouses in the State.