All Bills - Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB773
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires the Department of Health to post on its website an easily understandable, searchable, and sortable list of all state-licensed care facilities including information on their licenses and inspections. Requires that the list be updated within five days of any change in its information.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB774
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes the Office of Gun Violence Prevention to conduct community outreach on gun violence prevention, develop and administer a grant program for gun violence prevention, and develop and administer a gun violence resource bank. Establishes the Gun Violence Prevention Special Fund and appropriates funds into and out of the special fund. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB775
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Prohibits state and local law enforcement agencies to collaborate with the federal government for immigration purposes except for in limited, specific circumstances.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB776
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Allows qualified adults, including adults with a disability, mentally ill adults, and adults sixty-five years of age or older, to enter into supported decision-making agreements with one or members of a supportive community. Specifies the terms of a supported decision-making agreement, including access to personal information and agreement requirements.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB777
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Amends covered offender registration laws to include offenders who, while acting in a professional capacity, commit the offense of sexual assault in the fourth degree against a minor who is at least sixteen years old. Provides that the exception to public access requirements does not apply when the covered offense was committed against a minor.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB778
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Prohibits emerging adult defendants from being sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB779
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires the State to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions or proceedings, under certain circumstances. Clarifies that the employee may employ their own attorney at the employee's own expense. Establishes a process for the Attorney General to transfer or withdraw representation if the Attorney General declines to defend the employee.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB78
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/16/25
Makes an application for voter registration part of certain state agency application processes. Requires the sharing of certain information among certain state agencies, election personnel, and online voter registration system.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB780
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Refer
1/29/25
Report Pass
2/18/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Refer
2/28/25
Specifies that election ballots issued by the Chief Election Officer or county clerk shall exclude any candidate who is disqualified by a constitutional or statutory provision. Provides for a process for challenging an inclusion or exclusion of a candidate from a ballot. Includes a candidate's disqualification as grounds for an election contest complaint. Specifies that electors of presidential and vice presidential candidates shall not be individuals who are disqualified by a constitutional or statutory provision.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB781
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Appropriates funds to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB782
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires the State's youth and adult correctional facilities to provide free and accessible voice communication services for incarcerated persons in state correctional facilities. Prohibits any state agency from deriving revenue or financial benefit from the provision of communication services to persons confined in state correctional facilities. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish service quality standards and rules for the free voice communication services. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB783
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requires Medicaid and private insurance coverage of ambulance services and community paramedicine services rendered statewide by emergency medical technicians or paramedics. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB784
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishes a procedure for immediately removing an unlawful occupant of a dwelling or premises with assistance from law enforcement. Provides that an unlawful occupant of a dwelling or premises is civilly liable for unpaid utility bills. Provides that a person who trespasses in or upon a dwelling or premises and intentionally or knowingly damages property in an amount exceeding $999 commits a felony of criminal property damage in the second degree. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to develop, publish, and make available a complaint form to remove unlawful occupants of residential dwellings.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB785
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Prohibits retailers from using dynamic pricing in the sale of food that is sold, or qualifies to be sold, as part of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Foods Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Establishes fines.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB786
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/23/25
Refer
1/28/25
Beginning 1/1/2027, requires all government records required to be open to public inspection under the Uniform Information Practices Act to be made available in a disability-accessible format upon request. Requires the Governor, Chief Justice, and Mayor of each county to designate at least one agency within their respective government unit as a converting agency responsible for converting government records into a disability-accessible format. Establishes the process by which government records shall be converted into disability-accessible format upon request. Allows the converting agencies to consult with the Disability Communications Access Board. Requires the Office of Information Practices, Judiciary, and each county to adopt rules, regulations, or ordinances, including a provision that extends the time within which an agency must respond to requests for government records by 5 business days for records in disability-accessible formats, with exceptions for records pertaining to board meetings. Appropriates funds.