Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 48)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB845
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
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.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB871
Introduced
1/23/25
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
Refer
3/10/25
Report Pass
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Enrolled
4/22/25
Chaptered
5/19/25
Passed
5/19/25
Clarifies that Act 130, SLH 2024, which amended the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, takes effect on the earlier of the date of the Secretary of the Interior's notification letter that Act 130 does not require congressional approval, or on the date that the United States Congress approval becomes law. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB844
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Amend the State's regulation of sun screening devices on motor vehicles by lowering the allowable amount of light transmittance for vehicle windows from 35%, plus or minus 6%, to 25%, plus or minus 5%.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB854
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Appropriates $500,000, for each year of the fiscal biennium to the department of corrections and rehabilitation to procure a new software for electronic record keeping of medical records. Requires a report to the legislature.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1211
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes a state breast milk bank under the Department of Health. Establishes the breast milk bank special fund. Appropriates moneys.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1214
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes a Vacant Homes Special Fund under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for rental assistance programs. Establishes a general excise tax surcharge on an owner that allows a residential real property to remain vacant for 180 days or more a year. Requires persons who own residential real property, but do not live there, to obtain a general excise tax license. Requires the counties to disclose to the Department of Taxation a list of properties classified as not being occupied by an owner of that property. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to calculate average annual rental value for the basis for the surcharge amount.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB836
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Mandates courts to impose an enhanced sentence for theft and burglary offenses over a certain property value threshold. Increases penalties for habitual property crime perpetrators. Targets fencing operations and imposes enhanced sentencing to those who knowingly receive stolen property or resell such property.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB849
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Clarifies that the terms of a loan must first be sent to unit owners and approved by a majority of unit owners' consent to the loan. Requires a majority of unit owners to vote in favor of or provide written consent to maintenance fee increases before they take effect. Requires a forensic audit of an association's financial records no less frequently than once every three years, with the first forensic audit to be completed by 6/30/2026.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1215
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes the Malama Aina Visitor Impact Tax Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to allocate funds to state agencies to improve the quality of visitor experience to sustain the economic benefits contributed by the visitor industry and protect, restore, and manage the State's natural and cultural resources. Establishes the Malama Aina Visitor Impact Tax Special Fund to fund the program. Increases the transient accommodations tax by one per cent from 1/1/2026 to 12/31/2030 and requires the additional tax revenues to be deposited into the Special Fund. Requires the Department to submit annual reports to the Legislature. Repeals 12/31/2030.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB824
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Appropriate funds to the legislative reference bureau to procure artificial intelligence software and analytic services to streamline state law and regulations. Requires a report to the legislature.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB821
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires the City and County of Honolulu to transfer to the State the City and County of Honolulu's authority to construct a Makakilo Drive extension. Appropriates moneys.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB840
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Appropriates funds to athletics departments of the University of Hawaii. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB894
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Prohibits state contractors, prospective state contractors, holders of procurement prequalification certificates, or principals of these groups from making contributions to, or soliciting contributions from their employees or from subcontractors or principals of subcontractors on behalf of, certain candidate committees, noncandidate committees, and political party committees. Requires the Procurement Policy Board to adopt rules to issue prequalification certificates to prospective contractors for public buildings or other public works. Amends the contribution limits for certain individuals and noncandidate committees. Prohibits lobbyists and certain persons related to lobbyists from soliciting contributions from client lobbyists. Increases the administrative fines.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB828
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires state agencies to establish a Plant-Based-By-Default Program for food and drinks offered at state-operated prisons, state-licensed hospitals, and government-sponsored events. Requires the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Comptroller, and Director of Health to submit annual reports to the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission. Effective 7/1/2026.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB878
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
Extends the landfill buffer zone from one-half mile to one mile. Requires the landfill buffer zone to apply to lands in the state conservation district and lands designated as national conservation areas. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)