Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 261)

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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB445

Introduced
1/16/25  
Requires and appropriates moneys for the Public Utilities Commission to establish standards requiring each electric utility company to remove from the rate base a commensurate amount of costs related to fossil fuel resources when adding new or converted renewable electrical energy and renewable energy resources.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB451

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Medicaid buy-in program for workers with disabilities. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1262

Introduced
1/23/25  
Establishes bag limits for kala, nenue, and uhu fish around the island of Oahu. Requires the Division of Aquatic Resources to conduct population assessments of these fishes and report to the Legislature. Sunsets on 6/30/2035.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1294

Introduced
1/23/25  
Requires all playgrounds located in state and county parks and on public school grounds to include special needs recreational playground equipment as part of the recreational apparatuses by 6/30/2027, including at a minimum a wheelchair accessible swing set. Establishes the Special Needs Recreational Playground Equipment Special Fund. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB921

Introduced
1/23/25  
Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, or the Chairperson's designee, to the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB460

Introduced
1/16/25  
Specifies that any minor who resides in the same household as a victim of domestic abuse may file a petition for and be granted an order of protection or temporary restraining order.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB982

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/21/25  
Establishes a working group within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to conduct a study concerning the creation of a Wildfire Recovery Fund. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1291

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
2/27/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/28/25  
Enrolled
3/31/25  
Chaptered
4/11/25  
Clarifies the education and professional experience requirements for certified public accountant license applicants to establish alternative pathways to licensure. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB971

Introduced
1/23/25  
Establishes the Office of the State Architect within the Department of Accounting and General Services to be headed by the State Architect. Authorizes the State Architect to organize, manage, and oversee the design review of all state construction projects and issue design approvals. Establishes the Design Review Special Fund. Requires the State Architect to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature. Authorizes DAGS to provide centralized design review services for state construction projects and issue design approvals through the State Architect. Exempts state construction projects from county building permit, inspection, and certificate of occupancy requirements, subject to certain conditions. Makes appropriations.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1296

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
3/14/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
3/31/25  
Report Pass
4/23/25  
Report Pass
4/23/25  
Enrolled
4/30/25  
Chaptered
7/8/25  
Exempts reconstruction of any lawfully constructed structure that was damaged or destroyed in a disaster proclaimed by the Governor to constitute a state of emergency or a disaster declared pursuant to federal law from the requirements of a special management area minor permit or a special management area use permit under certain conditions. Sunsets 7/1/2028. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1313

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Authorizes the offense of Promoting Pornography for Minors to be instituted by written information.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1432

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
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  
Establishes the Kalaupapa State Historical Area. Authorizes the Department of Health to continue providing services statewide to Hansen's disease patients living in the community. Repeals sections of Chapter 326, HRS, and makes associated conforming amendments, to take effect upon the oneyear anniversary of the passing of the last patient resident of Kalaupapa, as affirmed in a Governor's proclamation. Requires future planning for the Kalaupapa Settlement to include community organizations, including one selected in consultation with the Molokai community. Effective 12/31/2050. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1491

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
4/3/25  
Report Pass
4/25/25  
Report Pass
4/25/25  
Enrolled
5/1/25  
Chaptered
6/25/25  
Adds the Department of Taxation and Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the list of state agencies required to share data and determine the data to be shared through the Statewide Longitudinal Data System. Requires data shared by the Department of Taxation or Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to be aggregated or anonymized. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1431

Introduced
1/23/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Report Pass
4/4/25  
Report Pass
4/24/25  
Report Pass
4/24/25  
Enrolled
5/1/25  
Chaptered
5/29/25  
Authorizes the Department of Health to establish a Hepatitis Prevention Program. Requires the Department of Health to develop and implement a statewide educational program to inform the public on how to identify and prevent hepatitis and aid in its early diagnosis. Requires the Department of Health to develop a statewide comprehensive hepatitis prevention plan. Repeals outdated provisions related to hepatitis. Appropriates funds and establishes positions for the Hepatitis Prevention Program. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1427

Introduced
1/23/25  
Clarifies that the definition of "manufactured hemp products" in section 328G-1, HRS, includes hemp products specified in rules adopted by the Department of Health pursuant to section 328G-4, HRS.