All Bills - Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB360
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Establishes bag limits for kala, nenue, and uhu fish around the island of Oahu. Requires the Division of Aquatic Resources to conduct population assessments of these fishes and report to the Legislature. Sunsets on 6/30/2035.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB361
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to: (1) Adopt the National Incident Management System as the standard for all incident management and emergency response operations; (2) Complete an after-action review for all significant emergency incidents or exercises; (3) Develop and manage position task books; (4) require the use of standardized Incident Command System forms; (5) Maintain accreditation through the Emergency Management Accreditation Program; and (6) Define specific roles and responsibilities for all Incident Command System and emergency operations center positions. Expands training and education qualifications and responsibilities for the Administrator of Emergency Management and county-level administrators or directors of emergency management. Amends the contents of the state comprehensive emergency management plan.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB362
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires the conveyance of a certain parcel of land from the Department of Education to the County of Kauai. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB363
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Establishes cat owner liability for harm to property or native birds. Prohibits the care of predators on state lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Establishes administrative fines.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB364
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Establishes the Spay and Neuter Special Fund to reduce pet overpopulation, including the free-roaming cat population, and authorizes an income tax designation to provide revenues into the special fund. Requires that female cats over the age of three months and male cats over the age of five months be surgically sterilized, with certain exceptions. Authorizes county animal control authorities to establish and enforce a permit program to allow the responsible breeding of cats. Establishes minimum requirements for breeding permits and penalties. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. Applies to taxable years after 12/31/2025. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB365
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Prohibits certain octopus aquaculture. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB366
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Requires contested cases, environmental assessment cases, or environmental impact statement cases involving renewable energy projects over twenty megawatts in size, except cases that involve any form of incineration, to be appealed from an agency's decision directly to the Hawaii Supreme Court for final decision. Requires the cases to be prioritized and decided expeditiously. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB367
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Allows for county permit exemptions for certain kinds of activities, including maintenance activities, installing group U structures, and certain interior remodeling work, when located outside a special management area. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB368
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Exempts from restrictions on light transmittance percentages, up to a certain percent, of certain motor vehicle sun screening devices for persons having light sensitivity of the eyes due to a medical condition. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB369
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Refer
3/18/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Refer
4/17/25
Amends section 11-364, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide that an excess contribution of more than $100 in cash, in the aggregate, from a single person during an election period to a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee shall escheat to the Hawaii election campaign fund if not returned to the contributor within 30 days. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB37
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Short form bill relating to natural resources.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB370
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Increases the amount of partial public campaign financing available for all elective offices. Adjusts the minimum amount of qualifying contributions certain candidates must receive to participate in the program. Increases the matching fund payments for excess qualifying contributions. Appropriates funds for the program and staff. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB371
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Refer
4/22/25
Prohibits state or county grantees and officers and immediate family members of state or county contractors or grantees from contributing to candidate or noncandidate committees, candidates, or any person for any political purpose for the duration of the contract. Requires any unlawful contribution to be returned to the contributor or it will escheat to the Hawaii Election Campaign Fund. Requires disclosures of the names of any officers and immediate adult family members of a state or county contractor or grantee for contracts exceeding a certain amount. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB372
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Prohibits state legislators from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the Legislature, including any extension of any regular session or special session or any legislative recess day, holiday, or weekend. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB373
Introduced
1/17/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Repeals the sunset provision in Act 45, SLH 2024, related to the counties' authorization to develop, construct, finance, refinance, or otherwise provide mixed-use developments. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)