All Bills - Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1255
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes specific deadlines within the facilitated application process and requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish certain resources and processes to help streamline permit applications. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1256
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fourth representative district.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1257
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to establish a two-year Hawaii Office of Naval Research Grant Program to provide fifty per cent matching grants to Hawaii awardees of alternative energy research grants from the United States Department of Defense Office of Naval Research. Establishes and appropriates funds into and out of the Alternative Energy Research and Development Revolving Fund. Sunsets the grant program on 6/30/2027.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1258
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requires owners or operators of waste combustion facilities to develop a plan to implement continuous monitoring and sampling technologies at each combustion unit to monitor and sample for certain air contaminants. Requires a publicly available website hosted by the Department of Health to track and display the data collected on the air contaminants. Requires the Department of Health to adjust permit limits for air contaminants based on the data collected. Requires annual reports to the Legislature.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1259
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Specifies that an engineering study is not required to be considered when reducing the maximum speed limit within ten miles per hour of the current speed limit for that road. Requires the Department of Transportation to use National Association of City Transportation Officials guidance when setting a maximum speed limit for sections of highways with residential or commercial areas or schools immediately on a highway. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB126
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
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
Increases transparency and accountability surrounding property forfeiture. Restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a felony offense where the property owner has been convicted of an underlying felony offense. Requires the Attorney General to adopt rules necessary to carry out the purpose of the Hawaii Omnibus Criminal Forfeiture Act. Limits the transfer of certain forfeiture property to federal agencies. Establishes records requirements. Repeals language that requires the Hawaii Omnibus Criminal Forfeiture Act to be construed liberally. Effective 7/1/2050 (SD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1260
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Report Pass
4/1/25
Requires each county, in collaboration with the Department of Transportation, to establish a Summer Streets Pilot Program that closes vehicular traffic and repurposes roads for pedestrian and cyclist use, outdoor events, and other community-driven activities. Requires each county to submit an initial proposal to the Director of Transportation. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Repeals on 6/30/2027. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1261
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes a tax credit for landlords who charge below-market rent and assesses an additional privilege tax on landowners who charge above-market rent, under certain conditions. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to determine median market rent for rental units by geographic area for the purposes of the below-market rent tax credit and above-market rent tax.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1262
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Adds, as an allowable use of the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund, economic payments to certain residents who have incurred losses in a disaster for which the Governor has declared a state of emergency.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1263
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Establishes a Rehabilitation and Re-entry Services Task Force. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1264
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes an Extended Producer Responsibility Program. Requires certain producers of fast-moving consumer goods to register with the Department of Health and pay an annual fee based on the amount of packaging volume the covered producer places on the market each calendar year. Provides for the deposit of fees into an Extended Producer Responsibility Special Fund. Provides for the expenditure of moneys from the Extended Producer Responsibility Special Fund for the creation of a countywide needs assessment of resources needed to reduce the volume of packaging waste sent to landfills or power plants that burn municipal solid waste as a fuel by fifty per cent and eighty per cent by a date to be determined by rule. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 7/1/2032.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1265
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes a Recycled or Waste Inputs Tax Credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/25.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1266
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes the Hawaii Community Housing and Rental Oversight Agency within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to establish and oversee a process for receiving and addressing complaints relating to short-term vacation rentals, in coordination with the county planning departments. Establishes penalties for noncompliance. Prohibits persons with interests in short-term vacation rentals from serving on governing boards of planned communities and condominiums. Appropriates moneys.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1267
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requires the Department of Taxation to establish a pilot program that would grant participating landlords a certain general excise tax exemption for each unit they rent to a long-term tenant with a pet. Requires the Department of Taxation to submit reports to the Legislature.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1268
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Allows family leave to also apply to an employee's domestic partner or the child of an employee's domestic partner.