Hawaii 2025 Regular Session All Bills
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB44
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Short form bill relating to consumer protection.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB440
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Refer
1/27/25
Prohibits certain covered educational entities and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation facilities from collecting information regarding citizenship or immigration status or allowing officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter certain facilities, except under specific circumstances.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB441
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
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
Report Pass
4/25/25
Report Pass
4/25/25
Enrolled
5/1/25
Chaptered
5/27/25
Passed
5/27/25
Beginning 1/1/2026, increases the cigarette tax from 16 cents to 18 cents and amends the disposition of cigarette tax revenues by allocating the increase in the cigarette tax amount to the Hawaii Cancer Research Special Fund, with a portion to be used exclusively for debt service of capital expenditures and building maintenance. Effective 12/31/2025. (CD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB442
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Refer
3/18/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Report Pass
4/25/25
Report Pass
4/25/25
Enrolled
5/1/25
Chaptered
5/27/25
Passed
5/27/25
Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii, West Oahu for the pre-nursing pathway program. (CD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB443
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Refer
2/10/25
Appropriates funds for one retention coordinator position, one internship coordinator position, and student enrollment management initiatives at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB444
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Removes the requirement that a perpetrator of certain crimes knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a person sixty years of age or older.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB445
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to exercise its power of eminent domain to acquire certain parcels. Appropriates funds for the acquisition of those parcels.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB446
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
1/31/25
Refer
1/31/25
Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority and School of Travel Industry Management at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to jointly perform a study regarding the design, construction or purchase, and operations and management of a state hotel. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB447
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Amends the types of occurrences for which the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board of Directors may request the Governor to declare a tourism emergency. Reduces the minimum balance to be maintained in the Tourism Emergency Special Fund through an allocation of transient accommodations tax revenues.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB448
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to assist small businesses, including those related to the tourism sector, with technology enablement. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB449
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Refer
1/27/25
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
Requires the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to prioritize funding for certain Hawaii-based businesses. Appropriates funds to assist in the development and promotion of Hawaii-manufactured products through the INNOVATE Hawaii program. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB45
Introduced
1/16/25
Refer
1/21/25
Short form bill relating to insurance.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB450
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Report Pass
2/28/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Transfers the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission from the Department of Accounting and General Services to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the authority held by the Comptroller over the Works of Art Special Fund to the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Appropriates funds for positions within the Administrative Services Office of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB451
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Establishes the Aerospace and Aeronautics Development Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB452
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
2/3/25
Refer
2/3/25
Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop and implement a grant program to expand the meat processing capacity in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)