Hawaii 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 34)

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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1640

Introduced
1/21/26  
Requires financial institutions to establish policies for identifying financial exploitation and the training of employees. Establishes procedures for reporting suspected financial exploitation. Requires financial institutions to delay transactions, and allows freezes on assets, when there is suspected financial exploitation. Provides immunity from liability for financial institutions for any action, determination, omission, or practice related to this Act.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1651

Introduced
1/21/26  
Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to contract with a third-party consultant to develop a Climate Protection Plan for delivery to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2029. Establishes a Climate Protection Advisory Committee to assist the third-party consultant. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1669

Introduced
1/21/26  
Requires the Department of Health to develop by 12/31/2026, standardized educational materials relating to lung cancer screening and language on lung cancer screening information to be included in signage and written notices to be used by retailers of tobacco products. Beginning 1/1/2027, requires retailers engaged in the retail sale of tobacco products to display signage on lung cancer screening at each point of sale and provide written notice on lung cancer screening to each buyer of a tobacco product.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1688

Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Report Pass
2/17/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Report Pass
3/6/26  
Engrossed
3/10/26  
Refer
3/12/26  
Report Pass
3/30/26  
Refer
3/30/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Report Pass
4/29/26  
Report Pass
4/29/26  
Enrolled
5/6/26  
Chaptered
5/19/26  
Provides a general excise tax exemption for the sale of material, parts, or tools used for aircraft service and maintenance or for the construction of an aircraft service and maintenance facility. Effective 1/1/2027. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1697

Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Report Pass
3/5/26  
Engrossed
3/10/26  
Requires natural hair braiders to be registered, rather than licensed, under the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology. By 11/1/2026, requires the Board to adopt rules prescribing the approved courses or programs on sanitation, health, and safety. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1672

Introduced
1/21/26  
Requires the Department of Education to give reasonable consideration to making all or portions of the facilities of a public school available to housing development for certain employees of the Department when closing the public school. Requires the Department of Education to identify unused public school facilities that may be appropriate for employee housing and inventory suitable grounds available upon public school closure for potential development of employee housing.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1711

Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Report Pass
2/19/26  
Refer
2/19/26  
Report Pass
3/5/26  
Engrossed
3/5/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Report Pass
3/30/26  
Refer
3/30/26  
Report Pass
4/10/26  
Report Pass
5/1/26  
Report Pass
5/1/26  
Amends, for purposes of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's Rent-to-Own Program, the period during which the sales price of a dwelling unit is required to remain fixed from 5 years to a period of up to 10 years. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1671

Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Report Pass
2/18/26  
Refer
2/18/26  
Report Pass
3/6/26  
Engrossed
3/10/26  
Allows a licensed dental hygienist to place interim therapeutic restorations in public health settings under the general supervision of licensed dentist. 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1736

Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Report Pass
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
2/20/26  
Refer
2/20/26  
Report Pass
3/6/26  
Engrossed
3/6/26  
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 cats over five months of age to be surgically sterilized unless covered by an intact cat declaration, and conditions the importation of intact cats on state and county declaration requirements, with certain exceptions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB2416

Introduced
1/21/26  
Repeals requirement for Auditor to audit the Deposit Beverage Container Program and requires that an independent auditor conduct the audits instead. Establishes the Bag Drop Pilot Program to allow redeemers of deposit beverage containers to drop bags of empty deposit beverage containers at participating redemption sites and be paid later.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1677

Introduced
1/21/26  
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-first representative district.
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1730

Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Refer
1/30/26  
Report Pass
2/4/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Report Pass
3/6/26  
Engrossed
3/10/26  
Refer
3/12/26  
Report Pass
3/30/26  
Establishes a Cesspool Conversion Implementation Working Group to assist the Department of Health in a review of the Department's administrative rules and practices regarding wastewater systems and cesspools and in the development of proposed changes to make cesspool conversions more affordable. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for positions and hiring of a consultant to assist the Cesspool Conversion Implementation Working Group. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1723

Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Report Pass
2/19/26  
Specifies the conditions upon which the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation may transfer moneys from within the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to a subaccount and between subaccounts of the revolving fund. Authorizes the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to be used to provide any and all forms of financing. Expands the funding priorities of, and appropriates funds into and out of, the Mixed-Income Subaccount. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1656

Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Report Pass
2/17/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Report Pass
3/5/26  
Engrossed
3/5/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Report Pass
3/23/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Amends the amount that a disbursing officer may deduct from an employee's salary, wage, or compensation based on the employee's gross income. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1659

Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Report Pass
2/17/26  
Repeals the prohibition placed on certain employees exempt from Civil Service Law from grieving a suspension or discharge. Allows any employee who is a member of an appropriate bargaining unit to grieve any disciplinary action, unless the collective bargaining agreement specifically provides otherwise. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)