All Bills - Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB746
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
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Establishes a two-year coconut rhinoceros beetle eradication pilot program in certain areas under the Department of Land and Natural Resources that incentivizes community members to collect and submit the coconut rhinoceros beetle and its larvae for compensation. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB747
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Refer
3/13/25
Report Pass
3/20/25
Refer
3/20/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Establishes an Audit Office within the Board of Education to audit operations and expenditures of the Department of Education. Exempts positions within the Audit Office from civil service law. Requires annual reports to the Governor and Director of Finance. Authorizes the Legislature to request a copy of the annual reports. Establishes positions within the Audit Office. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB748
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Expands the types of water heater systems that may satisfy the relevant requirement for the issuance of a building permit for new single-family dwellings to include ENERGY STAR certified heat pump water heaters.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB749
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
Requires rental housing projects to maintain, in perpetuity, fifty per cent of the project's units for certain low-income tenants to be eligible for assistance under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's rental assistance program.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB75
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Report Pass
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Establishes a working group to revise the State's Qualified Allocation Plan, the prioritization of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund, and the terms of loans made from the RHRF. Requires a report to the Legislature.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB750
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Transfers from the Department of Land and Natural Resources certain state boating facilities on Maui to the County of Maui with the corresponding revenue from those harbors. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB751
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes a procedure for the Board of Land and Natural Resources to lease fast lands and submerged lands that were destroyed by an event triggering a Presidential Disaster Declaration.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB752
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
4/1/25
Report Pass
4/24/25
Report Pass
4/24/25
Enrolled
5/1/25
Beginning 1/1/2026, amends the notice period for a property insurer to notify a policyholder of a cancellation, including cancellation due to nonpayment, or nonrenewal of a policy of property insurance. (CD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB753
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Changes the qualifications and appointment process for members of the School Facilities Authority Board.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB754
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Provides that a tax credit for low-income housing that exceeds the taxpayer's income tax liability for a taxable year may be used as a credit against the taxpayer's income tax liability in subsequent taxable years, but not after the tenth subsequent taxable year.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB755
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Refer
1/28/25
Designates each county as the special management area authority within the county's respective jurisdiction. Makes conforming amendments.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB756
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes the DLNRTip application as the official electronic platform for persons to report natural resource violations to the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement. Creates statutory requirements regarding the design and maintenance of the DLNRTip application. Require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to ensure that all information submitted through the DLNRTip application is continuously monitored to facilitate timely enforcement responses. Requires annual reports. Authorizes 1.0 full-time equivalent position. Appropriates moneys.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB757
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Requires reasonable terms in license agreements for digital literary materials between libraries and publishers. Defines prohibited terms for license agreements between libraries and publishers. Declares offer of a license agreement with a prohibited term an unfair or deceptive act. Makes a license agreement with a prohibited term void and unconscionable. Creates a right of action by libraries, library officers and borrowers. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB758
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes the State Archives Relocation Task Force to make recommendations on a new location for the state archives building.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB759
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Adds the Chairperson of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, or the Chairperson's designee, to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation Board of Directors. Amends quorum requirements for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation Board of Directors.