Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 254)

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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB405

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/31/25  
Report Pass
4/24/25  
Report Pass
4/24/25  
Enrolled
5/1/25  
Chaptered
5/19/25  
Allows neighborhood boards to discuss and receive information on matters raised by third-party reports from any government official not included in a publicly noticed agenda. Requires neighborhood boards to make decisions on matters raised by third-party reports from any government official at a later meeting where the agenda gives notice of decision-making on the matter. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB368

Introduced
1/15/25  
Requires health care providers to provide patients with copies of billing records within ten working days of a request from the patient and provide written notice to patients if there is a credit on the patient's account. Clarifies that health care providers must respond to medical record requests from patients in a timely manner pursuant to federal regulations, with exceptions. Establishes penalties for violations.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB198

Introduced
1/16/25  
Increases the mandatory minimum jail sentence for a first conviction of knowingly or intentionally violating a temporary restraining order from forty-eight to seventy-two hours. Requires mandatory mental health counseling for a first conviction of knowingly or intentionally violating a temporary restraining order.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB372

Introduced
1/15/25  
Establishes an Advisory Commission in the Department of Accounting and General Services to propose names or a change of names for state buildings, parks, facilities, and events.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB166

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Requires the State to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions or proceedings, under certain circumstances. Clarifies that the employee may employ their own attorney at the employee's own expense. Establishes a process for the Attorney General to transfer or withdraw representation if the Attorney General declines to defend the employee. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB177

Introduced
1/16/25  
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
3/21/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Makes the issuance or renewal of a civil identification card free of charge. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB356

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
2/27/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Requires defendants convicted of causing the death or disability of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant to make restitution in the form of financial support to each child of the victim. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB369

Introduced
1/15/25  
Establishes the Food and Beverage Supply Chain Resiliency Income Tax Credit to be administered by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and Department of Taxation. Requires DBEDT to establish expedited permitting processes for food and beverage supply chain activities.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB379

Introduced
1/15/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Requires that Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing projects include a restrictive covenant that states that the units designated as affordable housing, as described in the submitted project application, shall remain as affordable housing in perpetuity. Prohibits development of affordable housing in a special flood hazard area.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB184

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Prohibits a person under the age of fifteen from operating a class 3 electric bicycle. Prohibits a person sixteen years of age or older from operating a class 3 electric bicycle unless the person satisfies certain requirements. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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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 SB365

Introduced
1/15/25  
Beginning 1/1/2027, prohibits the sale or offer for sale of gasoline-powered leaf blowers. Repeals the exemption on leaf blower restrictions for government agencies.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB402

Introduced
1/15/25  
Establishes notice requirements for employers under Hawaii's Workers' Compensation Law. Requires employers who deny the compensability of an employee's injury to submit a written report supporting the denial to the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations within a specified period. Requires employers to furnish to the injured employee up to $10,000 for medical care, services, and supplies for the period immediately following the injury and so long as reasonably needed or until the employer files a written report with the Director denying the compensability of the injury, whichever is earlier. Clarifies that failure to give an employer notice of an employee's injury does not bar a claim for compensation if any person having authority in the interest of the employer had knowledge of the injury.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB400

Introduced
1/15/25  
Prohibits a person from lending a firearm to a person who does not have a firearm permit or does not have a registered firearm. Requires an adult who is borrowing a firearm to have either a firearm permit or a registered firearm, and not be prohibited to own or possess a firearm. Specifies that an adult who is twenty-one years of age or older may be lent a rifle or shotgun for a period not to exceed twelve hours. Repeals the authorization to use a rifle or shotgun outside of the State for up to seventy-five days. Repeals the authorization to lend a rifle or shotgun without a permit.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB187

Introduced
1/16/25  
Increases fines that may be assessed against certain fireworksrelated violations. Effective 7/1/2025.