All Bills - Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB395
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/21/25
Refer
1/31/25
Beginning 1/1/2026, requires physicians to perform or order lead screening tests for minor patients at certain intervals as recommended by the Department of Health and make an entry of the lead screening test in the minor patient's record. Requires the Department of Health to adopt recommendations for lead screening tests. Requires the Department of Health to report to the Legislature if it adjusts the recommendations.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB396
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Requires the Director of Human Resources Development, in consultation with the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, State Energy Office, and Department of Accounting and General Services, to develop and implement a comprehensive Commuting Choice Benefit Program for all state employees regardless of mode of transportation. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB397
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/21/25
Removes the exemption of the State, its political subdivisions, and the United States from the Child Labor Law.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB398
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Prohibits the charging of a fee for a lessee's spouse by a lessor under certain conditions. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB399
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/21/25
Directs the Hawaii State Energy Office, in conjunction with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, to conduct a feasibility study for the construction of an atmospheric carbon capture plant in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB4
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to transfer the stewardship of the Royal Mausoleum, Mauna Ala, to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB40
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
1/29/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Refer
3/18/25
Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to utilize revenue bonds when securing a line of credit or other instrument of indebtedness for the Bond Volume Cap Recycling Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB400
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/21/25
Prohibits a person from lending a firearm to a person who does not have a firearm permit or does not have a registered firearm. Requires an adult who is borrowing a firearm to have either a firearm permit or a registered firearm, and not be prohibited to own or possess a firearm. Specifies that an adult who is twenty-one years of age or older may be lent a rifle or shotgun for a period not to exceed twelve hours. Repeals the authorization to use a rifle or shotgun outside of the State for up to seventy-five days. Repeals the authorization to lend a rifle or shotgun without a permit.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB401
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Report Pass
4/24/25
Report Pass
4/24/25
Establishes prohibitions on assault rifles, assault shotguns, and .50 caliber firearms. Expands the ban on high-capacity detachable magazines. Allows possession of an assault rifle, assault shotgun, or detachable magazine with a capacity greater than ten rounds when certain conditions are met. Effective 1/1/2026. (CD2)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB402
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/21/25
Establishes notice requirements for employers under Hawaii's Workers' Compensation Law. Requires employers who deny the compensability of an employee's injury to submit a written report supporting the denial to the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations within a specified period. Requires employers to furnish to the injured employee up to $10,000 for medical care, services, and supplies for the period immediately following the injury and so long as reasonably needed or until the employer files a written report with the Director denying the compensability of the injury, whichever is earlier. Clarifies that failure to give an employer notice of an employee's injury does not bar a claim for compensation if any person having authority in the interest of the employer had knowledge of the injury.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB403
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/21/25
Limits public funding of beach replenishment projects in resort zoned areas to twenty per cent of the total cost.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB404
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires sellers or providers of emotional support animals or of certificates, identifications, tags, vests, leashes, and harnesses that identify an animal as an emotional support animal to provide certain disclaimers to the buyer or recipient. Establishes penalties.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB405
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Report Pass
4/24/25
Report Pass
4/24/25
Enrolled
5/1/25
Allows neighborhood boards to discuss and receive information on matters raised by third-party reports from any government official not included in a publicly noticed agenda. Requires neighborhood boards to make decisions on matters raised by third-party reports from any government official at a later meeting where the agenda gives notice of decision-making on the matter. (CD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB406
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
Prohibits the cost of reproducing government records in a digital format from exceeding 5 cents per digital record that has already been digitized. Effective 1/1/2525. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB407
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/21/25
Expands the State's temporary disability insurance coverage to, and exempts from TDI benefit eligibility requirements that are employment-related, employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the employee's childbirth or provision of kangaroo care to, or expression of breast milk for, the employee's child who is required to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit. Extends under certain conditions the temporary disability benefit payment period and family leave period for employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to a preterm birth of a child who is required to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or birth of a child who is required to stay in a NICU for more than eight weeks. Defines "kangaroo care" and "preterm birth". Requires the Department of Health to amend its rules to include neonatal care as related condition where the phrase "pregnancy, childbirth, or other related condition" is used.