Hawaii 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 325)

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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1174

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/27/25  
Appropriates moneys for one temporary full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) archaeologist position within the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB331

Introduced
1/15/25  
Expands the required contents of a notice of claim of construction defect served on a contractor. Requires the claimant to provide actual evidence of the nature and cause of the construction defect and extent of necessary repairs along with the notice of claim to the extent the claimant has evidence. Amends the process and time frame for a claimant to accept a contractor's proposal to inspect and authorize the contractor to proceed with repairs. Limits the amount a claimant can recover if the claimant unreasonably rejects a contractor's proposal to inspect or an offer to remedy.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB369

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/27/25  
Engrossed
2/28/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Report Pass
4/4/25  
Amends section 11-364, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide that an excess contribution of more than $100 in cash, in the aggregate, from a single person during an election period to a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee shall escheat to the Hawaii election campaign fund if not returned to the contributor within 30 days. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB485

Introduced
1/21/25  
Establishes a Department of Education statewide policy for cell phone use in all department schools to ensure clear and enforceable guidelines and foster an environment conducive to learning.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB295

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/6/25  
Amends the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended, to authorize the transfer of a living beneficiary's place on the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands' waitlist for any residential, agricultural, or pastoral tract to a qualified application successor who is at least one-fourth Hawaiian, if the beneficiary dies. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB358

Introduced
1/15/25  
Requires employers to provide employees with written notice of the employee's shift schedule at least ten calendar days before the employee is scheduled to work, under certain circumstances. Requires certain employers to pay their employees twice as much as their regular rate of pay for time worked when their shift schedule was not timely given.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1661

Introduced
1/23/25  
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 6th senatorial district.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1361

Introduced
1/23/25  
Establishes and appropriates funds for a small business fee waiver program within the Business Registration Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to waive certain fees for applicants registering a new small business in the State for the first time.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB452

Introduced
1/16/25  
Prohibits employers from requiring employees to work for more than five consecutive hours without a meal break unless otherwise provided in collective bargaining agreements. Establishes penalties.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB651

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires laws that enact, modify, or extend the availability of a tax expenditure to contain specific information, revenue estimates, and analyses before becoming law. Allows the disclosure of certain tax credit information.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB715

Introduced
1/17/25  
Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to achieve full funding status, including estimated payment increases, of Medicaid home- and community-based services.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1612

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  
Report Pass
3/14/25  
Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in partnership with the Department of Health, to establish and implement a five-year Fitness to Proceed Pilot Program in one county of the State. Requires an interim report and final report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB374

Introduced
1/15/25  
Requires counties to commission a comprehensive economic impact analysis before issuing tax increment bonds and make the analysis publicly available. Requires counties issuing tax increment bonds to conduct publicly available biennial independent audits and report to the Legislature. Requires counties issuing tax increment bonds to establish a review board to oversee tax increment bond projects. Restricts the amount of total outstanding tax increment bonds that may be excluded from the calculation of a county's debt limits from exceeding twenty per cent. Conforms county debt limit statements law to exclude tax increment bonds from the debt limit of the counties if a constitutional amendment authorizing the use of tax increment bonds and excluding tax increment bonds from determinations of the counties' funded debt is ratified.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1375

Introduced
1/23/25  
Establishes the Strengthen Hawaii Homes Program to encourage single-family homeowners to retrofit their homes to resist damage by providing for grants to help offset the cost of retrofits. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1144

Introduced
1/17/25  
Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to offer, list, advertise, or display a transient accommodations rental rate that includes all resort fees required for the furnishing of transient accommodations. Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to include all applicable taxes and fees imposed by a government on the stay in the total price to be paid before the consumer reserves the furnishing of transient accommodations. Establishes penalties. Effective 1/1/2026.