Bills & Legislation

RELATING TO MEDIA LITERACY.

Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in their standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech.

Karl RhoadsDemocrat

RELATING TO STATE LICENSED CARE FACILITIES.

Requires the Department of Health to post on its website an easily understandable, searchable, and sortable list of all state-licensed care facilities including information on their licenses and inspections. Requires that the list be updated within five days of any change in its information.

Karl RhoadsDemocrat

RELATING TO THE DEFENSE OF STATE EMPLOYEES.

Requires the State to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions or proceedings, under certain circumstances. Clarifies that the employee may employ their own attorney at the employee's own expense. Establishes a process for the Attorney General to transfer or withdraw representation if the Attorney General declines to defend the employee.

Karl RhoadsDemocrat

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires Medicaid and private insurance coverage of ambulance services and community paramedicine services rendered statewide by emergency medical technicians or paramedics. Appropriates funds.

Karl RhoadsDemocrat

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO SCHOOLS.

Requires the Department of Education to establish a food waste composting pilot project at Nanakuli High and Intermediate School. Appropriates moneys.

Samantha DeCorteRepublican

RELATING TO FOOD DYES.

Prohibits certain food dye additives from being served in school meals of the Department of Education and charter schools.

Samantha DeCorteRepublican

RELATING TO HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATIONS.

Requires condominiums and planned community associations to issue monthly damage and repair reports, have a reserve study done every 3 years, have a fully funded reserve, and only spend reserve funds to maintain the property.

Samantha DeCorteRepublican

RELATING TO AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR.

Provides access by owners of motor vehicles and independent repair facilities to motor vehicle manufacturer diagnostic and repair information and diagnostic repair tools otherwise made available to dealers.

Karl RhoadsDemocrat

RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Requires housing projects developed pursuant to section 201H-38, HRS, to be located within county-designated transit-oriented zones.

Carol FukunagaDemocrat

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Expands the time period within which a county legislative body must approve, approve with modifications, or disapprove housing projects the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation develops or assists under a government assistance program from forty-five days to ninety days.

Carol FukunagaDemocrat

RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE.

Allows tenants who prevail in a lawsuit for a violation of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to be awarded damages, reasonable attorney's fees, and costs of the suit.

Troy N. HashimotoDemocrat

RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Requires the Insurance Commissioner to develop comprehensive standards and requirements for condominium associations and developers to obtain property insurance through self-insurance and mutual insurance, and examine and evaluate the feasibility of implementing guaranteed buyback programs and investment-based protection funds.

Stanley ChangDemocrat

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Establishes the Kupuna Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Program under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.

Stanley ChangDemocrat

RELATING TO MEDIA LITERACY.

Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in their standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech.

Stanley ChangDemocrat

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION.

Classifies certain former military vehicles as special interest vehicles. Enables owners of former military vehicles to apply for registration. Effective 1/1/2026.

Stanley ChangDemocrat

RELATING TO PSYCHOLOGISTS.

Allows qualified psychologists limited authority to prescribe psychotropic medications to patients under the care of the psychologist in certain circumstances.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO PAID FAMILY LEAVE.

By 1/1/2028, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2029, requires the Department to start receiving claims and paying benefits under the program. Specifies eligibility requirements and employee protections under the program.

AQUINO

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. Requires the employee to agree to subsequently work for the employer for at least 12 weeks upon return to service except under certain conditions.

AQUINO

RELATING TO SHOPLIFTING.

Increases penalties for the offense of theft by means of shoplifting.

AQUINO

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Requires retail sellers of firearms to provide purchasers with notice regarding the law on firearms storage. Expands the requirements for the secure storage of firearms. Clarifies the offense of criminally negligent storage of a firearm.

Karl RhoadsDemocrat

RELATING TO FEES FOR PUBLIC RECORDS UNDER CHAPTER 92F.

Imposes a cap on charges for searching for, reviewing, and segregating government records under the Uniform Information Practices Act. Provides for a waiver of fees in certain circumstances when the public interest is served by a government record's disclosure.

Karl RhoadsDemocrat

RELATING TO STUDENT TRANSPORTATION.

Establishes and appropriates funds for student transportation coordinators positions within the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services across the State.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO VETERINARY MEDICINE.

Requires veterinarians to provide a written prescription, upon the request of a client, for any animal patient of a client with whom the veterinarian has established an existing veterinarianclient-patient relationship. Allows pharmacies licensed in the State to dispense medications prescribed by veterinarians. Authorizes the Hawaii Board of Veterinary Medicine to establish penalties, which may include fines or suspension or revocation of a license.

Carol FukunagaDemocrat

RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX REDUCTIONS.

Reduces the general excise tax rate on the gross proceeds or income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) or special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC), regardless of the means of purchase and the program eligibility of the purchaser. Reduces the general excise tax rate on the gross proceeds or income from the sale of nonprescription drugs. Requires DBEDT to conduct an economic cost-benefit analysis on the GET reductions.

Carol FukunagaDemocrat

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires the Department of Education to establish a Korean Language Program. Appropriates funds.

Carol FukunagaDemocrat

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Appropriates funds to increase the funding for Medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds.

Sharon Y. MoriwakiDemocrat

RELATING TO PROPERTY.

Prohibits certain foreign parties from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in lands located with 10 miles of a military installation or land within the State. Establishes an Office of Intelligence within the Department of Defense to investigate claims that land is unlawfully owned by a prohibited foreign party. Requires the Attorney General to undertake enforcement activities. Appropriates moneys.

Brenton AwaRepublican

RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires and appropriates funds to pay salary differentials to English language educators as an incentive to attract and retain these educators. Appropriates funds.

Brandon J.C. ElefanteDemocrat

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat

RELATING TO STATE FUNDS.

Short form bill.

Dru Mamo KanuhaDemocrat