All Bills - Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1470
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes the Small Housing Provider Grant Program under Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide grants to eligible property owners of multi-family buildings for renovations, repairs, and addressing hazardous and unsafe living conditions. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1471
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Imposes an additional fee for a certificate of registration for motor vehicles, to be deposited into the Safe Routes to School Program Special Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1472
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requires a provider of broadband internet access services to be transparent with network management practices, performance, and commercial terms of its broadband internet access services. Prohibits a provider of broadband internet access services from blocking lawful websites, impairing or degrading lawful internet traffic, engaging in paid prioritization or application-specific differential pricing, or interfering with or disadvantaging users of broadband internet access services. Requires an applicant of a broadband-related permit seeking a state-granted or county-granted right to attach small cell or other broadband wireless communication devices to utility poles to comply with certain practices.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1473
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requires certain landlords to provide a specified notice to a tenant regarding the tenant's potential right to purchase the property, under certain conditions. Allows tenants, families, local governments, affordable housing nonprofits, and community land trusts forty-five days to match or beat the best bona fide offer to buy an eligible affordable housing property. Establishes conveyance tax rates for the sale of eligible affordable housing properties.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1474
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes the Insurance Affordability Assistance Pilot Program within the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to assist eligible homeowners with sudden increases in property insurance premiums. Sunsets 6/30/2028.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1475
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-seventh representative district.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1476
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requires an environmental impact statement and consultation with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for actions that propose any launch of a spacecraft from or reeintry into state waters or the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1477
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Increase the domiciliary care rates for certain providers and clarifies that the needs allowance and the domiciliary care rates are included in the State supplemental payment ceiling amounts. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1478
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishes new requirements for identifying certain top contributors for election campaign purposes. Prohibits structuring, assisting in structuring, or attempting to structure or assist in structuring any solicitation, contribution, expenditure, disbursement, or other transactions. Establishes additional penalties regarding campaign finance violations. Adds and amends various definitions for purposes of campaign finances. Amends reporting requirements for schedules filed for noncandidate committee reports. Repeals certain required information for noncandidate committees making only independent expenditures for late contribution reports. Expands information required for a noncandidate committee that makes independent expenditures of more than $500. Increases the aggregate amount that triggers when a person is required to file a statement of information. Repeals an authorization for a nonprofit organization operating as a noncandidate committee to use a donation for certain expenditures. Requires certain noncandidate committees to maintain transfer records. Requires certain information to be reported to a noncandidate committee. Repeals the requirement to identify certain top contributors.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1479
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requires the use of current audible reverse warning systems (back-up beepers) on state and county-owned vehicles purchased on or after 1/1/2028, with more effective broadband reversing alarms by 1/1/2028.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB148
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Protects individuals who make claims of sexual misconduct from defamation lawsuits unless the claims were proven to be made with malice.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1480
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requires housing projects developed pursuant to section 201H-38, HRS, to be located within county-designated transit-oriented zones.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1481
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requires any funeral establishment, mortuary, cemetery, crematory, or hydrolysis facility to dispose of the remains of a dead human body no later than sixty days from the date a burial-transit permit has been issued or from the date of an affidavit for amendment of the permit has been submitted. Specifies that the Department of Health is not required to include specific disposition dates on the permit.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1482
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
Refer
3/21/25
Refer
3/24/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Refer
4/14/25
Requires the Department of Health to establish and maintain a registry of all manufactured hemp product distributors and manufactured hemp product retailers doing business in the State. Exempts hemp processors, hemp product distributors, or hemp product retailers with a valid permit under chapter 328G, HRS, or the USDA and retailers or distributors selling tinctures or topicals from the registry. Beginning 1/1/2026, prohibits the sale of manufactured hemp products without a certificate of registration. Establishes the offense of unlawful hemp retailing or distribution for recklessly failing to register as required. Authorizes DOH and the Attorney General to inspect any entity engaged in the distribution or sale of any product containing or derived from hemp to verify compliance with chapter 328G, HRS. Authorizes DOH, Attorney General, Department of Law Enforcement, and county police departments to seize and confiscate any product containing or derived from hemp that is possessed, kept, stored, retained, held, owned, received, acquired, distributed, sold, or offered for sale in violation of chapter 328G, HRS. Establishes that the offense of unlawful hemp retailing or distribution shall be subject to nuisance abatement proceedings. Establishes that a violation of chapter 328G, HRS, constitutes an unfair or deceptive act or practice and unfair method of competition subject to a civil penalty. Allows moneys in the Hawaii Hemp Processing Special Fund to be used by DOH for the registry. Authorizes the Office of Medical Cannabis Control and Regulation to administer the hemp processors program. Establishes that every building, premises, or place used for the purpose of violating chapter 328G, HRS, is a nuisance subject to abatement. Appropriates funds. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD3)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB1483
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Amends multiple definitions and penalties for fireworks offenses, including heightened penalties if another person suffers substantial bodily injury, serious bodily injury, or death as a result of the fireworks offenses. Establishes various criminal offenses and penalties related to fireworks or articles pyrotechnics. Adds fireworks infractions to the existing adjudications of infractions process for traffic and emergency period infractions. Appropriates funds. (SD1)