All Bills - Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB333
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high school classes to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB334
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Establishes that intentional destruction or damage to a traffic camera is a class C felony. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB335
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Establishes a two-year pilot program that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free school lunch to all students enrolled at a department school. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Repeals on 6/30/2027.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB336
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires condominium associations to repair defective conditions of common elements that constitute health or safety violations. Allows unit owners to make the repairs at the association's expense.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB337
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires and appropriates moneys for the Public Utilities Commission to establish standards requiring each electric utility company to remove from the rate base a commensurate amount of costs related to fossil fuel resources when adding new or converted renewable electrical energy and renewable energy resources.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB338
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Specifies that adjustments required to compensate for certain unavoidable increases in financing costs, if proven by a producer of nonfossil fuel generated electricity by clear and convincing evidence, are mechanisms for reasonable and appropriate incremental adjustments that the Public Utilities Commission may include in the rate payable to the producer. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB339
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Part I: Requires the Public Utilities Commission to impose certain conditions of approval on any order approving, in whole or in part, an application for the proposed acquisition, merger, or consolidation of an electric utility company by an acquiring entity. Establishes a process to ensure that when an electric utility is subject to an application for a proposed acquisition, merger, or consolidation by a potential acquiring entity that is an investor-owned utility and seeks approval of the application from the Public Utilities Commission, it must demonstrate that it solicited bids from potential acquiring entities that operate under a non-investor-owned utility ownership model. Requires the electric utility to submit those acceptable bids concurrently with an application by a potential acquiring entity that is an investor-owned utility. Part II: Authorizes the issuance of reimbursable GO bonds for acquiring Hawaiian Electric Industries and converting it to a publicly owned utility. Authorizes the establishment of a non-bypassable electric utility conversion charge, to be deposited into the new Electric Utility Conversion Special Fund. Appropriates Funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB34
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Short form bill relating to health.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB340
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a streamlined grid-ready homes interconnection process. Authorizes the use of the Hawaii electricity reliability surcharge for cost recovery of certain expenses of the Hawaii electricity reliability administrator associated with the grid-ready homes interconnection process. Requires report to the Legislature on the grid-ready homes interconnection process.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB341
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Refer
3/19/25
Report Pass
4/1/25
Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hawaii Island Community Health Center to purchase or lease land on the island of Hawaii and develop primary care health care facilities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB342
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Requires gas utilities to file a proposed initial renewable gas tariff or tariffs with the Public Utilities Commission by August 31, 2025. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to approve or modify a renewable gas tariff within six months of receiving a proposed renewable gas tariff. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB343
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Defines "isolated wetlands" and "wetlands". Clarifies the definition of "state waters" to include wetlands and isolated wetlands. Requires the Director of Health to determine all wetlands in the State, including whether a wetland is an isolated wetland or is included in the waters of the United States. Prohibit persons from discharging any water pollutant into or at any location that enters state waters.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB344
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Refer
1/28/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/10/25
Report Pass
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Requires the design of all new state building construction where parking is to be included to provide that a number of the parking stalls, as determined by the Department of Accounting and General Services, shall be electric vehicle charger-ready. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, in consultation with the Department of Accounting and General Services and Department of Transportation, to conduct a survey and identify certain high-priority state facilities. Establishes a goal of the State to retrofit state facilities to be electric vehicle charger-ready. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD2)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB345
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Establishes the opae ula as the state shrimp to protect anchialine pool ecosystems throughout Hawaii. Effective 6/6/2944. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB346
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Provides rebates for the installation of eligible electric vehicle-ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)