Hawaii 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 45)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB865
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in kindergarten through grade twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete a one-half credit in financial literacy before graduation. Requires the Board of Education to provide professional development to teachers who are teaching financial literacy courses.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB904
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
4/1/25
Requires the State Public Charter School Commission to submit an annual report on public charter schools before the opening day of each Regular Session of the Legislature. Requires the Board of Education to review and approve the annual report before the report is issued to the Governor, Legislature, and the public. Takes effect 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1205
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Requires state executive branch departments, offices, and other agencies to comply with directive number 19-02, Hawaii Administrative Directives, as extended by directive number 23-01, Hawaii Administrative Directives. Requires reports to the Legislature. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB156
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt ordinances that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices that do not conflict with and are more stringent than the state law that govern smoking.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB653
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires the court to impose a mandatory fine per violation for nuisance abatement laws related to gambling offenses. Allows citizens who bring civil nuisance abatement suits against places used for illegal gambling the same rights and protections as those afforded to victims and witnesses in criminal proceedings.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1171
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish rules allowing the sale and distribution of fine mesh nets in the State to protect plants from invasive species. Requires DOA to establish a program to provide certain monofilament netting free of charge to the public to slow the growth and spread of coconut rhinoceros beetles in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1076
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Establishes the Climate Mitigation and Resiliency Special Fund. Mandates the allocation of all earned interest from the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund to the newly established special fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1217
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine for faculty positions in the fields of cardiovascular biology, tropical medicine, and quantitative health biostatistics, and an environmental health and safety officer staff position. Effective 7/31/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB251
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with the Department of Human Services, to develop and establish a social work training program to assist nonviolent incarcerated individuals in the area of social work. Requires progress reports on the program to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB881
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes and implements the Catastrophic Wildfire Securitization Act, to allow public utilities to securitize rates in order to raise capital that can be used to pay for costs and expenses arising out of catastrophic wildfires.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB228
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Prohibits excited delirium from being recognized as a valid medical diagnosis or cause of death in the State. Prohibits a medical examiner, coroner, or health care provider from stating on a certificate of death or in any report that the cause of death was excited delirium. Prohibits law enforcement officers from using the term excited delirium to describe an individual in an incident report. Establishes a new Hawaii Rule of Evidence that deems evidence that a person experienced or suffered an excited delirium inadmissible in a civil action. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB536
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires the Department of Health to construct, establish, and operate an environmental toxins testing laboratory to test samples submitted by the public for diseases; water, air, and soil quality; and complex testing. Requires a report to the Legislature. Authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB737
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes a temporary working group in the Office of the Governor to investigate the existence and environmental dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and related chemicals. Requires reports to the Legislature.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1089
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Confirms that Act 130, Session Laws of Hawaii 2024, shall take effect on either the date of the Secretary of the Interior's notification letter to the Congressional Committee Chairpersons that this Act meets none of the criteria in title 43 Code of Federal Regulations section 48.20, or on the date that the United States Congress approval becomes law.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1117
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Repeals section 328J-11.5, HRS.