Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 30)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1201
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Establishes the Wildfire Recovery Fund. Allows securitization for electric utilities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB797
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Exempts the shipment of large cigars in fulfillment of a sale by mail order from the offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB496
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/3/25
Refer
2/3/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Report Pass
4/25/25
Report Pass
4/25/25
Enrolled
5/1/25
Chaptered
6/27/25
Passed
6/27/25
Prohibits the use of certain words and misleading Hawaiian imagery, place names, and motifs on the label of a consumer package that contains or includes tea or dried leaves from the plant Pipturus albidus, unless 100 per cent of the tea or dried leaves were cultivated, harvested, and dried in the State. Appropriates funds for a Measurement Standards Inspector position. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB840
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract or form a partnership with private parties to assist with the maintenance and management of sunscreen dispensers at all state beaches, as well as publicize that the mineral-based sunscreen in these dispensers is more protective of the coral reefs of the State. Appropriates funds for the installation, maintenance, management, and operation of non-chemical sunscreen dispensers on all state beaches.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB835
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Authorizes individuals who possess a commercial driver's license with a passenger "P" endorsement to provide pupil transportation student services without also possessing a school bus "S" endorsement in certain circumstances.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB806
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires housing projects developed pursuant to section 201H-38, HRS, to be located within county-designated transit-oriented zones.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB737
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes a temporary working group in the Office of the Governor to investigate the existence and environmental dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and related chemicals. Requires reports to the Legislature.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB803
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
Requires insurers to provide automatic, advance written premium change notices to common interest community policyholders and the Insurance Commissioner, with reasonable explanations and primary factors, disclosing the causes of any premium increase if, upon renewal, premiums are scheduled to increase more than an unspecified per cent. Requires insurers to automatically issue a loss run report to the policyholder at the end of each policy year. Requires insurers that renewed property insurance policies between 2022 and 2024 for policyholders that were condominium associations, planned community associations, or cooperative housing corporations in the State to provide an explanation for certain premium increases during this period. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to submit a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB433
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Refer
3/18/25
Report Pass
4/1/25
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to submit an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for reentry services to connect offenders with community-based services. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB798
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes a Child Welfare Services Branch (CWS) Oversight Commission within the Department of the Attorney General to review and assess case management procedures, training, staffing levels and other support given to CWS and address issues identified in the 2024 Auditor's Report on CWS and make recommendations on actions to reduce child harm and death and for legislation, funding, and other needs for CWS to support the goals of the Commission. Requires annual status reports to the Legislature. Dissolves the Commission on 6/30/2028. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB786
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Refer
1/28/25
Beginning 1/1/2027, requires all government records required to be open to public inspection under the Uniform Information Practices Act to be made available in a disability-accessible format upon request. Requires the Governor, Chief Justice, and Mayor of each county to designate at least one agency within their respective government unit as a converting agency responsible for converting government records into a disability-accessible format. Establishes the process by which government records shall be converted into disability-accessible format upon request. Allows the converting agencies to consult with the Disability Communications Access Board. Requires the Office of Information Practices, Judiciary, and each county to adopt rules, regulations, or ordinances, including a provision that extends the time within which an agency must respond to requests for government records by 5 business days for records in disability-accessible formats, with exceptions for records pertaining to board meetings. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB435
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Establishes additional regulations for the registration and use of electric bicycles. Amends the definition of electric bicycles subject to various state laws and classifies electric bicycles by top assisted speed. Defines "electric micro mobility device" and requires the same regulations as electric foot scooters to apply to electric micro mobility devices. Prohibits anyone under fifteen from operating a class 3 electric bicycle. Increasing the age for those required to wear a helmet when operating a bicycle. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB764
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes a 1-year Physician Licensing Subsidy Pilot Program within the Professional and Vocational Licensing Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to provide subsidized licensing fees for eligible medical school graduates and out-of-state physicians applying for initial licensure in the State. Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to collaborate with the Department of Health, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, and other stakeholders to promote the pilot program; adopt rules; and submit a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2026.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB760
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Authorizes rodeos on lands that are zoned for agricultural use.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB736
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a recognition program to incentivize schools to submit to the Department a plan for the school to reach the local farm to school meal goal of thirty per cent of food served in the school to consist of locally sourced products by 2030. Requires public high schools under the Department of Education to provide plantbased meals as an option under the school meals program.