Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 228)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB22
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Exempts actions involving the operation and management of fisheries in the State from environmental review requirements.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB52
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Requires the Department of Transportation to assist and enable a person to voluntarily purchase a verified carbon offset for carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the person's air travel to or from an airport in the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Prohibits certain foreign parties 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.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Amends responsibilities of the State Building Code Council.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB36
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Requires the Land Use Commission to reclassify lands that are designated for urban growth under a county general plan or county development plan as being in the urban district at the request of the county.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB34
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Requires the Department of Education to identify an absence due to the mental health of a student as an excused absence. Defines the term "excused absence". Exempts an absence due to the mental health of a student from the enforcement of penalties relating to compulsory attendance at school. Limits the number of excused absences that may be taken by a student due to mental health reasons.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB24
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Establishes an organizational, tax, and regulatory framework for limited-profit housing associations. Establishes the Limited-Profit Housing Council to oversee limited-profit housing associations. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB114
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Beginning 6/1/2026, establishes presidential preference primary elections for the 2028 election cycle. Appropriates funds. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB72
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) to consider as a preference under chapter 201H, HRS, the proximity between the housing location and the applicant's place of employment; whether the applicant is a state or county employee; and whether the applicant is a returning resident that left the State to attend a university, college, or trade school and has graduated within the past two years. Requires, for any project developed or administered by the HHFDC under chapter 201, HRS, the HHFDC to set aside as a matter of preference an undetermined per cent of available units for state or county employees, when feasible. Requires HHFDC to determine the order of preferences and rank applicants accordingly, select applicants based on application date within the pool of similarly ranked applicants, and validate the preference status of applicants before occupancy of a unit. Authorizes HHFDC to adopt rules to establish additional eligibility criteria.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB9
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the establishment and administration of the Plant-Based Building Materials Working Group to study how best to develop the plant-based building materials industry in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB78
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Makes an application for voter registration part of certain state agency application processes. Requires the sharing of certain information among certain state agencies, election personnel, and online voter registration system.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB81
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Requires the Department of Human Services' Med-QUEST division to automatically transmit applicants' voter registration information to the Office of Elections and clerk of the county of the applicant's residence, subject to certain conditions. Authorizes the Office of Elections to designate state agencies for automatic voter registration if the agency collects, processes, or stores certain information. Updates methods for automatic voter registration conducted by the Examiner of Drivers. Makes conforming amendments. Effective 1/30/2026.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB49
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Authorizes manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products that are pending approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration to make the drugs or products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB117
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Protects individuals who make claims of sexual misconduct from defamation lawsuits unless the claims were proven to be made with malice. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB97
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Report Pass
4/24/25
Report Pass
4/24/25
Enrolled
5/2/25
Chaptered
6/3/25
Passed
6/3/25
Part I: Increases the penalty for a third or subsequent offense within five years of excessive speeding to a misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum jail sentence of thirty days. Part II: Clarifying when a summons or citation is sent under an automated speed enforcement system. (CD2)