Hawaii 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 71)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB877
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/11/26
Refer
2/11/26
Appropriates funds to increase the funding for Medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1419
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Defines stages of wildfire suppression efforts.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1164
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Refer
4/17/26
Restores the revenue bond authorization for the Department of Transportation to issue Highway Revenue Bonds for highway capital improvement projects authorized in Act 164, SLH 2023, as amended by Act 230, SLH 2024. Takes effect 1/1/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB962
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer a two-year school librarian pilot program to provide funding for qualifying schools to hire librarians. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB17
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/26
Report Pass
2/20/26
Refer
2/20/26
Report Pass
3/6/26
Engrossed
3/10/26
Refer
3/12/26
Report Pass
3/24/26
Refer
3/24/26
Report Pass
4/10/26
Establishes the Wildfire Mitigation Working Group. Requires a report to the Legislature. Requires the Office of the State Fire Marshal to provide administrative support to the working group. Appropriates funds. Revises the appropriations made by Act 302, SLH 2025. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1490
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requires the Hawaii Health Authority to develop a comprehensive plan for the establishment of a universal, single payer health care system to replace all other health care coverage in the State, including Medicare, Medicaid, and the Prepaid Health Care Act. Establishes a universal, single payer health care system to be known as the Hawaii Care program under the Hawaii Health Authority to take effect one hundred eighty days after the approval of waivers from certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the State's Medicaid plan. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB811
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Establishes penalties for failure to remediate violations, including fines and, under certain circumstances, foreclosure on the real property.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB719
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Fee Program to be administered by the Department of Health that, beginning 7/1/2026, imposes a fee on the distribution and sale of sugar-sweetened beverages in the State. Establishes the Healthy Ohana Special Fund into which revenues generated from the sugar-sweetened beverage fee are deposited. Establishes the Healthy Ohana Trust Fund in the private sector to receive revenues from the Healthy Ohana Special Fund to support prevention and control of obesity and chronic diseases. Allows the Department to contract with a third party to administer the program. Requires the Auditor to conduct a management and financial audit of the program and submit reports to the Legislature. Establishes the Healthy Ohana Trust Fund Advisory Committee to advise the Department on the administration of the trust fund. Requires the Department to adopt interim rules no later than 6/30/2026, and final rules no later than 12/31/2027. Establishes civil penalties. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB721
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/18/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Amends the exclusion amount of Hawaii's estate tax. Repeals exemption for tax imposed on transfer of taxable estate located in Hawaii for nonresidents and nonresidents who are not citizens. Applicable to decedents dying or taxable transfers occurring after 12/31/2024. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB340
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a streamlined grid-ready homes interconnection process. Authorizes the use of the Hawaii electricity reliability surcharge for cost recovery of certain expenses of the Hawaii electricity reliability administrator associated with the grid-ready homes interconnection process. Requires report to the Legislature on the grid-ready homes interconnection process.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB164
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
Requires disbursing officers to notify employees within sixty days of making a determination that an indebtedness has occurred to the government resulting from salary or wage overpayment. Amends the amount that a disbursing officer may deduct from an employee's salary, wage, or compensation based on the employee's gross income. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB368
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Exempts from restrictions on light transmittance percentages, up to a certain percent, of certain motor vehicle sun screening devices for persons having light sensitivity of the eyes due to a medical condition. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB383
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Reinstates mandatory minimum jail sentences for successive violations of the same order for protection. Removes the distinction between domestic and non-domestic violations of an order for protection. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1405
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Exempts any development of homestead lots or housing for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise and use taxes. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to submit annual reports to the Legislature over a period of five years. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB184
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Increases the deposit and refund value for beverage containers from 5 cents to 10 cents under the deposit beverage container program.