All Bills - Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB610
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes the rounding up for teachers' salaries special fund, to be administered by the Department of Education. Requires electric utilities and county boards of water supply to provide an option for customers to voluntarily round up their bill to the nearest dollar or provide a specific contribution amount. Deposits the proceeds into the rounding up for teachers' salaries special fund. Appropriates moneys.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB611
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Prohibits the sale, importation, personal use, and commercial use of all fireworks, except consumer fireworks. Removes permitting requirements for consumer fireworks.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB612
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to conduct a study on rent-to-build equity for existing and future state-financed housing. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB613
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires that each Department of Education public school student earn 2 credits in Hawaiian language for a high school diploma. Establishes a 2-year pilot program for Hawaiian language instruction at Noelani Elementary School and Nanakuli High and Intermediate School. Appropriates moneys.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB614
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Refer
3/13/25
Establishes the twenty-eighth day of November of each year as "La Kuokoa", Hawaiian Independence Day, as a state holiday, rather than a day of observance. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB615
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires that any procurement change order that increases the contract cost by more than fifty per cent or substantially increases the scope of work be considered a new contract for procurement purposes.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB616
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires the immediate towing of any parked motor vehicle that is not properly registered, does not display a valid safety inspection sticker, or is parked in violation of any state traffic law.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB617
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Requires, for each draft environmental impact statement, a public hearing in the community directly affected by the underlying proposed action. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB618
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit by requiring the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to publish on its website the names of the qualified productions and the amount of the tax credits certified per qualified production per filing year.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB619
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Implements a 4-phase plan for the Department of Health to address contamination of Ulehawa Stream. Requires the University of Hawaii to provide assistance. Appropriates moneys.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB62
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Restricts the sale of liquor under temporary liquor licenses to confined and demarcated spaces not located on public streets, roads, sidewalks, or pedestrian walkways. Applies restrictions to temporary liquor licenses granted to nonprofit organizations.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB620
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires the Department of Health to construct, operate, and maintain a hemp manufacturing facility. Requires permitted hemp processors to provide certain updated information to the Department of Health no later than 60 days after a relevant event. Explicitly prohibits any person from selling to consumers any hemp biomass, regardless of whether the biomass consists of hemp leaves or hemp floral material, or both. Imposes requirements relating to the form of certain orally consumable manufactured hemp products. Imposes certain labeling requirements. Appropriates moneys.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB621
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires that all lease extensions for public lands be subject to public auction.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB622
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires landfills to have dust monitoring stations.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB623
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires the State Council on Mental Health to include an unspecified number of members with demonstrated knowledge of or work experience involving native Hawaiian health practices. Requires council members to receive annual training on topics related to native Hawaiian healing and health.