All Bills - Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB185
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Prohibits the licensing of an adult residential care home, expanded adult residential care home, or developmental disabilities domiciliary home that is financed, managed, operated, supervised, directed, or owned in whole or in part by a person convicted of a gambling offense.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB186
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Makes harassment by stalking a class C felony.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB187
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Increases fines that may be assessed against certain fireworksrelated violations. Effective 7/1/2025.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB188
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-second representative district.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB189
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Requires the counties to adopt ordinances setting forth procedures and requirements for the review and permitting of agricultural tourism uses and activities as secondary uses, in addition to accessory uses, on a working farm or farming operation. Requires the counties' ordinances to include requirements that: the principal agricultural use on a working farm or farming operation preexists the issuance of any land use permit or building permit for any accessory and secondary use and agricultural tourism be allowed only on land on which productive agricultural use is occurring. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB19
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Replaces the Hawaii Tourism Authority with the Corporation for the Stewardship of Hawaii Tourism, a nonprofit entity to guide Hawaii's visitor economy in collaboration with public, private, nonprofit, and community stakeholders in achieving beneficial outcomes from tourism based on the principles of destination stewardship and regenerative tourism.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB190
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Provides that complex area superintendents have the authority to implement the farm to school and farm to school meals programs. Requires certain school cafeteria supervisors to report directly to complex area superintendents. Establishes school cafeteria supervisor positions. Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to conduct a compensation review of school cafeteria supervisor positions. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB191
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires the Department of Education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally raised food products.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB192
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Prohibits foreign entities from owning, leasing, or holding a controlling interest in more than an unspecified number of acres of agricultural land. Limits the lease term for agricultural land by foreign entities. Requires foreign entities that own or lease interest in agricultural lands to file an annual report with the Department of Agriculture. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB193
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Refer
1/27/25
Amends the definition of "farming operation" by including customary and traditional subsistence farming conducted by native Hawaiian cultural practitioners and excluding concentrated animal feeding operations and business entities with unclear or non-transparent ownership or beneficiary structures. Establishes additional criteria for farming operations to meet in order to be protected against nuisance claims. Clarifies the purpose and intent of the Hawaii Right to Farm Act.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB194
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Designates May 22 of each year as Maritime Day. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB195
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to identify and preserve historically significant areas within state harbors and place educational displays at the areas for public awareness.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB196
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Establishes the Port Worker Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the Department of Transportation regarding management of state-owned and state-managed ports. Requires the Department to conduct meetings to solicit input from port workers on methods to improve ports and problems faced by port workers.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB197
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Establishes the Hawaii Space Commission within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to promote innovation in the fields of space exploration and commercial aerospace. Appropriates moneys.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB198
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Increases the mandatory minimum jail sentence for a first conviction of knowingly or intentionally violating a temporary restraining order from forty-eight to seventy-two hours. Requires mandatory mental health counseling for a first conviction of knowingly or intentionally violating a temporary restraining order.