All Bills - Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB167
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
1/29/25
Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of any state department or agency, under certain conditions. Clarifies that contracts for the construction, renovation, or repair of facilities under the control of the department of education, university of Hawaii, or school facilities authority shall be exempt from county permitting requirements that related off-site improvements be made by the contracting government agency as a condition to the issuance of any permit.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB168
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Places oversight of the School Impact Fee Program under the School Facilities Authority Board. Allows the School Facilities Authority Board to dissolve a school impact district without a public hearing.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB169
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide written notice to certain persons regarding the ability to file a claim for redress under applicable wrongful conviction law. Requires the liberal construction of that law. Changes the standard for a claim for compensation for wrongful imprisonment from actual innocence to grounds consistent with innocence. Provides for advance compensation for petitioners under certain circumstances. Requires the State to prove, for claims for compensation for wrongful imprisonment, that the reversal or vacating of the petitioner's conviction or pardoning of the petitioner was inconsistent with innocence. Requires reports to Legislature from the Department of the Attorney General. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB17
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Establishes the Wildfire Mitigation Working Group. Requires a report to the Legislature. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to provide administrative support to the working group. Makes appropriations.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB170
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Proposes to amend the Hawaii State Constitution by establishing the right of each person to own and have an exclusive property right in the data they generate on the Internet.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB171
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Expands eligibility for scholarships under the Hawaii Community College Promise Program to all qualified students. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB172
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Requires Liquor Commissions or Boards to deny any renewal for a liquor license if the applicant for renewal has violated any provision of the Intoxicating Liquor Law under chapter 281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, on three separate occasions during the twelve-month period preceding the renewal application date.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB173
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Requires the Judiciary to establish a three-year pilot program to provide free child care services to minor children of parties and witnesses who are attending court hearings in the first circuit. Requires the Judiciary to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB174
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Requires the licensing of sellers of ammunition, and for the identification and proper permitting of purchasers or possessors of ammunition. Regulates ammunition in the same manner that firearms are regulated.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB175
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from seventy to seventy-five years of age. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB176
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Report Pass
4/24/25
Report Pass
4/24/25
Enrolled
5/1/25
Allows for ballots designated by the county clerks for inclusion to be included in the initial tabulation for purposes of initial recounts. Prohibits ballots that the county clerks initially determine are deficient or need additional time to be corrected or verified from being included in the initial tabulation. Increases the minimum threshold required to trigger an automatic recount. (CD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB177
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Authorizes the Division of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture to adopt, amend, and repeal rules to develop an assessment and approval process to import and move aquatic livestock in the State. Requires the Aquaculture Program to develop a biological aquatic risk-based framework and biocontainment standards for the aquatic livestock assessment and approval process. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB178
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support the establishment of surfing as an interscholastic sport.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB179
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/17/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Clarifies the applicability of the statute of repose for actions arising from construction defects. Clarifies the required contents of a notice of claim of construction defect served on a contractor. Amends the process and time frame for a claimant to accept a contractor's offer to settle or inspect and authorize the contractor to proceed with repairs. Limits the amount a claimant can recover if the claimant rejects a contractor's reasonable proposal for inspection or a reasonable offer to remedy. Clarifies the consequences of rejecting an offer of settlement. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB18
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Appropriate funds into and out of the Hawaii Historic Preservation Special Fund for the State Historic Preservation Division to inventory historic properties and burial sites in the State, collect data on burial site locations, and conduct an archaeological survey necessary to compile the inventory. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)