Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 32)

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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1039

Introduced
1/17/25  
Authorizes the Department of Health to adopt, by rule, any federal regulations as they existed on 1/1/2025, relating to the protection, preservation, care, and improvement of the physical and mental health of the people of the State that it deems to be in the public interest.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB706

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/21/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Requires all skateboard users under the age of sixteen to wear a helmet while operating a skateboard. Takes effect 1/1/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB500

Introduced
1/21/25  
Appropriates funds to establish a permanent Educational Support Associate position within the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources' Kona Cooperative Extension.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB873

Introduced
1/17/25  
Prohibits physicians and surgeons from performing certain procedures on individuals born with variations in their physical sex characteristics who are under one year of age, unless the procedure is a surgery required to address an immediate risk of physical harm.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB686

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Defines community outreach board to mean a board established to serve in a community advisory capacity under a county department. Includes community outreach boards in existing provisions of the Sunshine Law relating to neighborhood boards. Authorizes neighborhood board and community outreach board members to attend meetings or presentations related to official board business statewide. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB673

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Amends chapter 127A, HRS, to clarify state and county authority. Prohibits the Governor or a mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital specifics during a state of emergency. Adds definition of the term "severe warning". Allows the Legislature and county councils to terminate a state of emergency, in whole or in part, issued by the Governor or a mayor, respectively. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB914

Introduced
1/17/25  
Relating To Housing. Short form bill.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB960

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Refer
2/10/25  
Report Pass
2/28/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/19/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Report Pass
4/4/25  
Report Pass
4/25/25  
Report Pass
4/25/25  
Enrolled
5/1/25  
Chaptered
7/1/25  
Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to enhance access to and participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, including establishing additional positions. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB523

Introduced
1/21/25  
Provides that a person who commits theft of property or services the value of which does not exceed $750, commits theft in the second degree if the person was convicted two or more times for any theft offenses in the five years prior to the current offense.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB862

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires retail sellers of firearms to provide purchasers with notice regarding the law on firearms storage. Expands the requirements for the secure storage of firearms. Clarifies the offense of criminally negligent storage of a firearm.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB654

Introduced
1/21/25  
Amends the definition of "special management area minor permit", in section 205A-22, HRS, to mean an action by the applicable authority authorizing: (1) Development, the valuation of which does not exceed $1,000,000, and that has no substantial adverse environmental or ecological effect, taking into account potential cumulative effects; or (2) Construction or reconstruction of single-family residential use that is less than 7,500 square feet of floor area in aggregate; is situated on a shoreline parcel or a parcel that is impacted by waves, storm surges, high tide, or shoreline erosion; and is not part of a larger development.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB653

Introduced
1/21/25  
Closes or reclassifies certain non-general funds of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, pursuant to certain recommendations made by the Auditor in Auditor's Report No. 2408.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB994

Introduced
1/17/25  
Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Program within the Department of Human Services to assist qualifying households in paying their energy bills. Requires the Public Utilities Commission Public Benefits Fee Administrator to provide certain assistants to recipients of the program. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB854

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Establishes a Universal Representation in Immigration Proceedings Program within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Office of Community Services to provide access to legal representation, under certain conditions. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB903

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/23/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/27/25  
Engrossed
3/4/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Amends the membership and responsibilities of the Public Land Trust Working Group established under Act 226, SLH 2022. Requires the Working Group to submit four reports to the Legislature: by 8/1/2026, a first interim report regarding the public land trust inventory; by 12/1/2026, a second interim report regarding Act 178, SLH 2006, financial reporting and accounting; by 6/1/2027, a preliminary draft settlement of the income and proceeds from OHA's pro rata portion of the public land trust; and by 10/1/2027, a final report that includes a final draft settlement. Requires the State, OHA, and other applicable parties to begin preliminary negotiations regarding the final draft settlement by 10/1/2027. Appropriates funds for the Legislative Reference Bureau to retain independent third-party professionals for the Working Group and requires matching funds from OHA. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)