Hawaii 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 142)

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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB2525

Introduced
1/28/26  
Establishes a refundable income tax credit for the retention and housing of certain police officers.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB2490

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Report Pass
2/9/26  
Refer
2/10/26  
Report Pass
2/19/26  
Refer
2/19/26  
Report Pass
3/6/26  
Engrossed
3/6/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Establishes a five-year Coastal Resilience Pilot Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the preservation of Mantokuji Bay. Allows the pilot program to be exempt from certain regulatory requirements. Requires the State Historic Preservation Division to conduct a streamlined historic preservation review. Establishes certain procedures for the discovery of Native Hawaiian skeletal remains. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Sunsets 6/30/2031. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB2539

Introduced
1/28/26  
Establishes the right of a person to record law enforcement activities. Establishes a private right of action for any violation of the right to record law enforcement activities.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB2612

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Report Pass
2/20/26  
Clarifies that a mortgage does not exist independent of the debt it secures and shall not be independently enforceable from the debt. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB3296

Introduced
1/30/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Report Pass
2/20/26  
Establishes the Conservation and Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Pilot Program within the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Repeals 6/30/28. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB3301

Introduced
1/30/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Report Pass
2/19/26  
Clarifies and adds procedural safeguards to section 40-35, HRS, which relates to payments to the State under protest. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB2579

Introduced
1/28/26  
Requires the Department of Human Services to record any child welfare interview conducted by the Department when administering certain child welfare services. Requires the Department to store the recordings for a minimum of five years and under certain conditions. Prohibits the sharing of the recordings unless certain conditions are met. Establishes criminal penalties for violating prohibitions against sharing of the recordings.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB2592

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Refer
2/3/26  
Report Pass
2/18/26  
Refer
2/18/26  
Report Pass
3/6/26  
Engrossed
3/10/26  
Refer
3/12/26  
Refer
3/16/26  
Report Pass
3/30/26  
Refer
3/30/26  
Report Pass
4/10/26  
Refer
4/20/26  
Refer
4/21/26  
Report Pass
5/1/26  
Report Pass
5/1/26  
Part II: Clarifies the powers of the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority so that it may carry out its intended duties regarding land use on Mauna Kea. Adds reversion dates of 6/30/2028 and 12/31/2029 if the deadline to adopt a management plan or to submit proposed administrative rules to the Governor is not met; extends the transition period to 12/1/2029; clarifies that the oversight and interest of MKSOA in the Mauna Kea lands shall be no more than what is expressly granted in chapter 195H, HRS; and clarifies that title to Mauna Kea lands shall remain with the State. Part III: Provides that the existing plans and administrative rules adopted or developed by UH under which Mauna Kea is currently governed remain in effect until plans and administrative rules adopted by MKSOA take effect. Part IV: Clarifies that MKSOA has state sovereign immunity. Part V: Authorizes MKSOA to extend leases and subleases before the transfer, for up to an additional ten-year term. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB3312

Introduced
1/30/26  
Establishes a program and income tax credit to incentivize the conversion of commercial properties into residential properties. Appropriates moneys.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB3278

Introduced
1/30/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Report Pass
2/17/26  
Requires tax expenditure disclosure to, and evaluation by, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for certain income tax credits and general excise and use tax exemptions. Requires the Department of Taxation to share certain information with DBEDT upon request. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB2485

Introduced
1/28/26  
Requires cardiovascular screening for students, including student athletes. Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health, to distribute educational and informational materials regarding sudden cardiac arrest. Requires the Department of Health to implement policies, programs, training, and continuing education that increase health care provider knowledge of cardiovascular screening guidelines.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB2493

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Report Pass
2/12/26  
Refer
2/12/26  
Report Pass
2/20/26  
Establishes the procedure that a circuit court shall follow upon the reversal or vacation of an individual's judgment of conviction on grounds consistent with innocence, and where the charges were dismissed. Requires the State to pay advance compensation to any petitioner who was convicted in a court of the State, imprisoned for at least one year, and whose judgment of conviction was reversed or vacated, or was pardoned, on grounds consistent with innocence. Requires the Comptroller to issue a warrant for payment of advance compensation to a petitioner. Requires the Department of Human Services, in collaboration with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to contract with a community-based agency to assign a case manager to a petitioner upon the petitioner's release. Requires the State to provide medical coverage to a person for a certain duration upon the reversal or vacation of the person's judgment of conviction on grounds consistent with innocence and where the charges were dismissed. Provides that the Judiciary and Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall retain jurisdiction over the person for the purposes of effectuating this process. Authorizes the State to seek reimbursement from the applicable county for any losses incurred by the State pursuant to this process. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to submit an annual report to the Legislature. Clarifies eligibility to seek compensation for individuals whose judgment of conviction was reversed or vacated, or who were pardoned, on grounds consistent with innocence, and where the charges were dismissed. Shifts the burden of proof to the State to prove by a preponderance of evidence that the reversal or vacation of the judgment of conviction for a petitioner, or the pardoning of the petitioner, was inconsistent with innocence. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB2491

Introduced
1/28/26  
Exempts commercial measuring devices utilized in taxicabs from the requirement that the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity Measurement Standards Branch inspect and test all measurement standards and measuring devices.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB2488

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Report Pass
2/18/26  
Refer
2/18/26  
Report Pass
3/6/26  
Engrossed
3/10/26  
Refer
3/12/26  
Report Pass
3/30/26  
Requires the Disability and Communication Access Board to study the health care communication needs of patients who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, or deaf-blind. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB2566

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Report Pass
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
2/19/26  
Authorizes the issuance of special number plates for members of the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)