Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 95)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1478
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes new requirements for identifying certain top contributors for election campaign purposes. Prohibits structuring, assisting in structuring, or attempting to structure or assist in structuring any solicitation, contribution, expenditure, disbursement, or other transactions. Establishes additional penalties regarding campaign finance violations. Adds and amends various definitions for purposes of campaign finances. Amends reporting requirements for schedules filed for noncandidate committee reports. Repeals certain required information for noncandidate committees making only independent expenditures for late contribution reports. Expands information required for a noncandidate committee that makes independent expenditures of more than $500. Increases the aggregate amount that triggers when a person is required to file a statement of information. Repeals an authorization for a nonprofit organization operating as a noncandidate committee to use a donation for certain expenditures. Requires certain noncandidate committees to maintain transfer records. Requires certain information to be reported to a noncandidate committee. Repeals the requirement to identify certain top contributors.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1485
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes penalties for property managers and owners of real property on or in which massage parlors or similar prostitution establishments are located. Requires workers to be treated as victims and offered resources. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1484
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Establishes the Transit-Oriented Community Improvement Partnership within the Department of Transportation. Establishes the Community Improvement Revolving Fund. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1451
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Establishes the Affordable Housing Land Inventory Task Force within the Hawaii Community Development Authority to update the Affordable Rental Housing Report and Ten-Year Plan maps, tier tables, and inventories of state lands suitable and available for affordable housing development. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1662
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
Prohibits a landlord or the landlord's agent from charging an application fee for a criminal background check or credit report if an applicant provides a certified copy of a criminal background check or credit report. Prohibits a landlord or the landlord's agent from charging an application fee if a comprehensive reusable tenant screening report is available. Requires a landlord or the landlord's agent to provide, upon request, a certified copy of an applicant's criminal background check or credit report. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1644
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes that development of a fixed guideway system in a county having a population greater than 500,000 is a function of state government. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to develop a fixed guideway system in a county having a population greater than 500,000. Requires the Department of Transportation to transfer the fixed guideway system to the respective county upon completion. Transfers functions of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation to the Department of Transportation.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1655
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Allows any hemp processor with a permit from the Department of Health to: (1) Sell, hold, offer or distribute for sale edible manufactured hemp products in the form of a gummy or beverage; and (2) manufacture, hold, and sell a manufactured hemp product that exceeds the established tetrahydrocannabinol concentration limit with another state or country that allows the manufactured hemp product. Establishes child-proof and child-resistant packaging requirements for manufactured hemp products. Establishes penalties for certain manufactured hemp products and authorizes the Office of Medical Cannabis Control and Regulation to enforce compliance. Effective 1/1/2026.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1471
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Imposes an additional fee for a certificate of registration for motor vehicles, to be deposited into the Safe Routes to School Program Special Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1406
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
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
Report Pass
4/25/25
Report Pass
4/25/25
Enrolled
5/1/25
Chaptered
5/29/25
Passed
5/29/25
Establishes the Simplifying Permitting for Enhanced Economic Development (SPEED) Task Force to identify actions taken, challenges encountered, and legislative measures necessary to facilitate, expedite, and coordinate state and intergovernmental development permit processes. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1645
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Provides that after 12/31/2025, each new or renewed contract between a mutual benefit society and a physician for a fee for service plan shall provide for: (1) The reimbursement of the physician's increased overhead costs, cost of living increases, and increased costs caused by inflation; and (2) An increase of 10% in the reimbursement rate of services after each 5-year period that the physician is in service.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1656
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to finance the planning, designing, and construction of a water pump storage hydroelectric facility in the Kohala Mountains on Hawaii Island. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to conduct a feasibility study and report the results to the Legislature. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to conduct an Environmental Impact Statement and submit an annual progress report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1449
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/11/25
Report Pass
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to adopt rules related to the Plant Care Component Program. Prohibits distributing plant care components that originated outside the State unless it was subjected to treatment before arrival. Establishes administrative penalties to enforce the Plant Care Component Program. Appropriates funds and establishes positions for purposes of the Plant Care Component Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1618
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes a Journalistic Ethics Commission within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes a Journalistic Code of Ethics. Requires news media outlets to provide training in the ethics of journalism to journalists and editors in their employ. Establishes a Journalistic Ethics Review Board to be administratively attached to the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Requires the Journalistic Ethics Review Board to handle complaints and appeals regarding violations of the Journalistic Code of Ethics. Requires the Journalistic Ethics Commission to submit annual reports to the Legislature. Establishes penalties for violations. Requires the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to conduct an analysis of the journalism program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Social Sciences. Requires the Board of Regents to report to the Legislature.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1475
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-seventh representative district.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1425
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
Establishes a temporary working group to study the feasibility of transitioning the Hawaii State Legislature's Regular Session from one that meets for three and a half months from mid-January to early May, to one that meets on a year-round basis. Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to provide administrative support to the working group. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)