Hse Referral sheet template, revision no. 00002

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		REFERRAL
HB816	RELATING TO EMERGENCY RESPONSE. Authorizes emergency medical technicians in the State to administer buprenorphine after the administration of an opioid antagonist during an opioid-related drug overdose response. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules, allocate resources for EMT training, and coordinate with emergency medical services providers in the State, to incorporate the administration of buprenorphine after the administration of an opioid antagonist as a standard component of emergency medical services' protocols during an opioid-related drug overdose response.	HLT, FIN
HB817	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Authorizes physicians to practice at organized ambulatory health care facilities even if the physician does not have hospital privileges at a licensed hospital in the same geographic location as the ambulatory facility. Provides that a written transfer agreement is not required to transfer a patient from an organized ambulatory health care facility to a licensed hospital.	HLT, CPC
HB818	RELATING TO THE WAIAKEA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT. Establishes the Waiakea Peninsula Community Development District. Provides for the transfer of land and leases within the Waiakea Peninsula Community Development District from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Hawaii Community Development Authority.	WAL, CPC, FIN
HB819	RELATING TO DISABILITY HEALTH DISPARITY. Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to collect data and submit to the Legislature a report focused on the health disparities experienced by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities in the State prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2027. Appropriates funds.	HLT, FIN
HB820	RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires all health insurers in the State, including Medicaid managed care programs, to cover the cost of continuous glucose monitors and related supplies under certain conditions. Applies to insurance policies, contracts, plans, or agreements issued or renewed in the State after 12/31/2025.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB821	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires the City and County of Honolulu to transfer to the State the City and County of Honolulu's authority to construct a Makakilo Drive extension. Appropriates moneys.	TRN, FIN
HB822	RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Requires certain employers in the State to offer reproductive loss leave for employees.	LAB, CPC, FIN
HB823	RELATING TO EMERGENCY EVACUATION ROUTES. Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the City and County of Honolulu, to assess and develop an improvement plan for emergency evacuation routes along the Waianae coast. Authorizes the Department to request input and assistance from the United States Navy. Requires a report to the Legislature.	TRN/PBS, WAL, FIN
HB824	RELATING TO GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY. Appropriate funds to the legislative reference bureau to procure artificial intelligence software and analytic services to streamline state law and regulations. Requires a report to the legislature.	LMG, FIN
HB825	RELATING TO NUISANCE ABATEMENT. Offers rights and protections to citizens who bring civil nuisance abatement suits related to illegal gambling. Imposes a mandatory fine of $5,0000 for violating nuisance abatement laws related to gambling offenses.	JHA
HB826	RELATING TO HOUSING. Authorizes a county planning commission, by special permit, to permit land uses exclusively providing residential housing for long-term rental or affordable fee simple ownership in an agricultural district, under certain conditions. Repeals 6/30/2035.	HSG, JHA
HB827	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION MEDICAL BENEFITS. Expands workers' compensation medical benefits for firefighters to include coverage for adenocarcinoma or mesothelioma of the respiratory system; cancer of the buccal cavity, colon, pharynx, and thyroid; and malignant melanoma. Specifies that an employer may prove that the cancer or disease was not associated with the firefighting duties to deny medical benefits under workers' compensation law.	LAB, FIN
HB828	RELATING TO PLANT-BASED FOOD AND DRINKS. Requires state agencies to establish a Plant-Based-By-Default Program for food and drinks offered at state-operated prisons, state-licensed hospitals, and government-sponsored events. Requires the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Comptroller, and Director of Health to submit annual reports to the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission. Effective 7/1/2026.	LAB, HLT, FIN
HB829	RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR. Provides that leaders of nonprofit organizations shall be exempt from county liquor commission criminal history check requirements for license applicants.	JHA
HB830	RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEWS. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract its review of proposed state projects, projects on privately owned historic property, and projects affecting historic properties to third-party consultants if the Department is unable to complete its review within sixty days.	HSG, WAL, FIN
HB831	RELATING TO ANTITRUST. Prohibits the use of algorithmic price-setting in Hawaii's rental market. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to develop and undertake a public education program regarding the prohibition.	CPC, JHA, FIN
HB832	RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY LEASES. Prohibits the resetting of lease rents for long-term commercial leases above a level that is economic for the lessee's actual use of the property. Requires that a lessee whose long-term commercial lease has been terminated be compensated for the value of buildings, infrastructure, and businesses created by the lessee that will be retained by the lessor. Allows a lessee the right to purchase the property at fair market value.	CPC, JHA
HB833	RELATING TO COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTS. Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to establish a five-year community land trust equity pilot program to provide community land trusts with a line of credit to fund the acquisition, rehabilitation, renovation, or construction of housing for certain households and report to the Legislature regarding the pilot program. Appropriates moneys from the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund for establishment of the pilot program.	HSG, FIN
HB834	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Categorizes electric bicycles into three classes based on speed and operation. Requires electric bicycle manufacturers and distributors to apply a label to each electric bicycle. Imposes a requirement that counties inform individuals of the applicable traffic code, safety information, and penalties for violations at the time of registering a bicycle.	TRN, CPC, JHA
HB835	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Imposes a less deferential standard of negligence on officers and directors of condominium associations incorporated under HRS 414D. Ensures that officers and directors of condominium associations are held accountable by imposing a reasonable person standard of negligence.	CPC, JHA
HB836	RELATING TO PENALTIES. Mandates courts to impose an enhanced sentence for theft and burglary offenses over a certain property value threshold. Increases penalties for habitual property crime perpetrators. Targets fencing operations and imposes enhanced sentencing to those who knowingly receive stolen property or resell such property.	JHA
HB837	RELATING TO HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATIONS. Establishes an ombudsman's office for homeowner associations within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes an ombudsman's office special fund. Requires board members of condominium associations, cooperative housing corporations, and planned community associations to meet certain educational requirements through classes offered by the ombudsman. Updates statutes relating to condominium associations, cooperative housing corporations, and planned community associations to integrate the role and functions of the ombudsman's office for homeowner associations. Appropriates funds for establishment of the ombudsman's office. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.	CPC, JHA, FIN
HB838	RELATING TO TEACHERS. Increases the bonus for teachers who achieve and maintain a current national board certification from $5,000 to $10,000. Appropriates funds.	EDN, FIN
HB839	RELATING TO THE PSYCHOLOGY INTERJURISDICTIONAL COMPACT. Adopts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact to allow a person authorized to practice psychology in a compact state in which the person is not licensed.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB840	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII ATHLETICS. Appropriates moneys to athletics departments of the University of Hawaii.	HED, FIN
HB841	RELATING TO RETIRED TEACHERS. Requires retirants rehired as teachers or administrators in teacher shortage areas or in difficult-to-fill positions to be paid at least the minimum salary for their experience and qualifications. Prohibits rehired retirants from receiving additional employment benefits. Directs the Department of Education to adopt rules to identify teacher shortage areas and difficult-to-fill positions.	EDN, LAB, FIN
HB842	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to establish three additional permanent mental health practitioner positions within the Division of Student Success' Counseling and Student Development Center.	HED, FIN
HB843	RELATING TO THE COLLEGE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN RESILIENCE. Appropriates funds for critical repairs, maintenance, demolition, design, and construction for facilities of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Establishes and appropriates funds for positions within the University of Hawaii for the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience.	HED, FIN
HB844	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Amend the State's regulation of sun screening devices on motor vehicles by lowering the allowable amount of light transmittance for vehicle windows from 35%, plus or minus 6%, to 25%, plus or minus 5%.	TRN, CPC, JHA
HB845	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Prohibits certain foreign parties from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in agricultural lands. Establishes an Office of Agricultural Intelligence within the Department of Agriculture to investigate claims that land is unlawfully owned by a prohibited foreign party. Requires the Attorney General to undertake enforcement activities. Appropriates moneys.	AGR, JHA, FIN
HB846	RELATING TO CONTRACTORS. Raises the threshold exemption under the contractor licensing law's handyman exemption from $1,500 to $2,500.	CPC
HB847	RELATING TO HAWAII RETIREMENT SAVINGS ACT. Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out. Repeals the limit on the total fees and expenses that can be spent for the Program each year. Appropriates funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for the development and operation of the Program.	LAB, FIN
HB848	RELATING TO EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND CONTRIBUTIONS. Sets the amount of the employer contribution to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund as a fixed percentage of the health benefits plan or life insurance plan premium cost. Makes conforming amendments.	LAB, FIN
HB849	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Clarifies that the terms of a loan must first be sent to unit owners and approved by a majority of unit owners' consent to the loan. Requires a majority of unit owners to vote in favor of or provide written consent to maintenance fee increases before they take effect. Requires a forensic audit of an association's financial records no less frequently than once every three years, with the first forensic audit to be completed by 6/30/2026.	CPC, JHA
HB850	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Clarifies an association board's authority with respect to calling electronic meetings, electronic voting, and mail voting. Clarifies that, in condominium elections, cumulative voting rights apply to all candidates regardless of whether they are nominated. Clarifies that individual votes are used in cumulative voting.	CPC
HB851	RELATING TO SELF DEFENSE. Clarifies that a person who uses deadly force in self-defense does not have a duty to retreat if they are in their dwelling or on their property unless they are the initial aggressor. Repeals statutory language that permits a person to use deadly force at their place of work.	JHA
HB852	RELATING TO SERVICE CHARGES. Prohibits restaurants from imposing a mandatory gratuity service charge for the sale of food or beverage services unless the party includes ten or more customers, the service charge does not exceed eighteen per cent, and the customer is notified of the service charge.	CPC
HB853	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a refundable Family Caregiver Tax Credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the department of taxation to report to the legislature before the convening of each regular session.	HSH, ECD, FIN
HB854	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OF COMMITTED PERSONS. Appropriates $500,000, for each year of the fiscal biennium to the department of corrections and rehabilitation to procure a new software for electronic record keeping of medical records. Requires a report to the legislature.	PBS, FIN
HB855	RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Provides that a living beneficiary's place on the Department of Hawaiian Home Land's waitlist for any residential, agricultural or pastoral tract may be designated for transfer to a successor if the living beneficiary dies before receiving an offer for a tract; provided that the successor shall be at least twenty-five per cent native Hawaiian.	HSG, JHA, FIN
HB856	RELATING TO THE COLLEGE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN RESOURCES. Appropriates funds for eight full-time agricultural technician, and four full-time coordinator positions at University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.	HED, FIN
HB857	RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires all accident and health or sickness insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations operating in the State to adopt policies, procedures, and criteria for approving or denying requests for prior authorization that are the equivalent to the guidelines for prior authorization established by Medicare.	HLT, CPC
HB858	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. Establishes the agricultural statistics program in statute. Appropriates funds for the program.	AGR, FIN
HB859	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes an agricultural crime prevention program within the Department of Agriculture to provide grants, education, administrative enforcement, and other services for the benefit of the State's agricultural industry. Clarifies, creates, and strengthens laws regarding crimes and violations related to agriculture or agricultural lands and hunting on private agricultural lands. Establishes clear distinctions between administrative and criminal penalties. Appropriates funds.	AGR, JHA, FIN
HB860	RELATING TO LIABILITY. Specifies that the State or a county that repairs or maintains a street of which the ownership or jurisdiction is in dispute between the State and county, shall be immune from liability for personal injuries or property damage arising out of the repair or maintenance of that street. Deems that maintenance of a street shall not confer ownership or jurisdiction over such street if the ownership or jurisdiction over the street is in dispute between the State and the county.	TRN, JHA
HB861	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Designates student transportation as critical infrastructure and a critical service for Hawaii's public education system. Requires all school bus contracts between the State and the contractor to include certain standards, performance metrics, and accountability requirements to prevent service disruptions.	EDN, FIN
HB862	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. Authorizes the use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans for school bus services if certain conditions are met.	EDN, FIN
HB863	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for teacher-requested classroom supplies.	EDN, FIN
HB864	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers' compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in Department of Education-sponsored work-based learning programs.	LAB, EDN, FIN
HB865	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in kindergarten through grade twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete a one-half credit in financial literacy before graduation. Requires the Board of Education to provide professional development to teachers who are teaching financial literacy courses.	EDN, FIN
HB866	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Directs the Department of Health to purchase and store a 1 year supply of mifepristone by working with 1 or more pharmacies in the State. Appropriates moneys.	HLT, FIN
HB867	RELATING TO RECREATIONAL FACILITIES. Requires all playgrounds located in state parks and on public school grounds to include special needs recreational playground equipment as part of the recreational apparatuses by 6/30/2027, including at a minimum a wheelchair accessible swing set. Establishes the Special Needs Recreational Playground Equipment Special Fund. Appropriates funds.	WAL, EDN, FIN
HB868	RELATING TO DISABILITIES. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to evaluate its facilities for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and compile a list of non-compliant facilities. Requires report to the Legislature.	WAL, FIN
HB869	RELATING TO ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION. Expands eligibility for scholarships under the Hawaii Community College Promise Program to all qualified students. Appropriates funds.	HED, FIN
HB870	RELATING TO MEDICAID. Directs the Department of Human Services to adopt rules to expand Medicaid eligibility to all children in the State from birth to age 5 years without regard to household income. Appropriates moneys.	HSH, FIN
HB871	RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT. Clarifies that Act 130, SLH 2024, which amended the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, takes effect on either the date of the Secretary of the Interior's notification letter that Act 130 does not require congressional approval, or on the date that the United States Congress approval becomes law.	JHA, FIN
HB872	RELATING TO HEALTH. Authorizes health care practitioners to make undesignated prescriptions of epinephrine for the purpose of stocking a supply at various types of businesses and state and county government offices, including public schools.	HLT, CPC
HB873	RELATING TO PESTICIDE BUFFER ZONES. Increases the buffer zone for restricted use pesticides around schools to one-half mile. Allows the use of restricted use pesticides within the buffer zone as part of invasive species control conducted by the Department of Agriculture or invasive species committees organized under the University of Hawaii Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit.	AGR, CPC
HB874	RELATING TO CHILD PERFORMERS. Requires a parent or legal guardian of a minor in theatrical employment to establish a trust account for the minor. Requires the employer of a minor in theatrical employment to deposit a portion of the minor's earnings into the trust account until the child becomes an adult. Clarifies that theatrical employment, as used in the State's child labor law, includes gainful occupation as a social media influencer.	HSH, LAB, CPC
HB875	RELATING TO TOURISM. Appropriates funds for a State Capitol tour guide position within the Public Access Room.	LMG, FIN
HB876	RELATING TO HEALTHCARE PRECEPTORS. Adds psychology, physician assistant, marriage and family therapist, mental health counselor, clinical social worker, rehabilitation counselor, and school counselor students to the definition of "eligible student" under the qualifications for the healthcare preceptor tax credit. Amends the definition of "preceptor" by adding psychologists, physician assistants, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, clinical social workers, rehabilitation counselors, and school counselors to the list of preceptors eligible to receive the tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2025.	HLT, ECD, FIN
HB877	RELATING TO ENCAMPMENTS. Prohibits the erection, placement, construction, or maintenance of an encampment within one hundred feet from the property line of a K-12 public or private school or school facility.	HSH, EDN, JHA
HB878	RELATING TO LANDFILLS. Extends the landfill buffer zone from one-half mile to one mile. Requires the landfill buffer zone to apply to lands in the state conservation district and lands designated as national conservation areas.	WAL, JHA
HB879	RELATING TO CESSPOOL CONVERSIONS. Increases the maximum grant amount for the Cesspool Compliance Pilot Grant Project from $20,000 to $30,000. Establishes positions within the Department of Health for the Cesspool Compliance Pilot Grant Project. Appropriates funds.	EEP, WAL, FIN
HB880	RELATING TO EARLY CHILD INTERVENTION. Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to reclassify certain early intervention specialist positions within the Early Childhood Services Unit in the Department of Health. Appropriates funds for the reclassification of certain positions and establishment of new positions within the early childhood services unit.	HSH, LAB, FIN
HB881	RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES. Establishes and implements the Catastrophic Wildfire Securitization Act, to allow public utilities to securitize rates in order to raise capital that can be used to pay for costs and expenses arising out of catastrophic wildfires.	EEP/PBS, CPC/JHA, FIN
HB882	RELATING TO INCOME TAX CREDITS. Amends the amount of total income tax credits available. Increases the annual per production and aggregate caps. Provides the State with alternative marketing opportunities in lieu of a shared-card, end-title screen credit.	ECD, FIN
HB883	RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. Requires the Hawaii emergency management agency to inventory all designated emergency shelters and their ability to withstand a category one hurricane or higher. Requires Hawaii emergency management agency to publish a publicly available list of shelters and their respective hurricane ratings. Appropriates funds for a hurricane shelter retrofit program and director.	PBS, LAB, FIN
HB884	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Prohibits certain foreign parties or their agents, trustees, and fiduciaries from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in agricultural lands. Establishes an Office of Agricultural Intelligence within the Department of Agriculture to investigate claims that land is unlawfully owned by a prohibited foreign party. Requires the Attorney General to undertake enforcement activities. Appropriates moneys.	AGR, JHA, FIN
HB885	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Establishes a program that requires property insurers to offer discounts to condominium associations that make certain upgrades or take other specific actions to increase the building's resilience or reduce the association's risk profile. Requires the insurance commissioner to adopt rules to implement the program.	CPC, FIN
HB886	RELATING TO TRAFFIC. Provides that if a law enforcement officer lawfully stops a motor vehicle and the operator is cited for driving without a valid license, the officer shall not permit the operator to resume the use of the motor vehicle. Requires the motor vehicle to be moved by a licensed driver or towed at the owner's expense. Provides that the cited operator is responsible for arranging the operator's transportation from the scene of the stop.	TRN, JHA
HB887	RELATING TO PREVAILING WAGES. Requires prevailing wages for human services providers.	HSH/LAB, JHA, FIN
HB888	RELATING TO CARE CENTERS. Requires that new and newly renovated state buildings with a budget of $5,000,000 or more include dedicated space for a child care center or an adult day care center.	HSH, LAB, FIN
HB889	RELATING TO THE TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. Provides Hawaii taxpayers with a refundable transient accommodations tax credit.	TOU, ECD, FIN
HB890	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATIONS. Establishes the Ombudsman's Office for Condominium Associations within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Updates the Condominium Property Act to integrate the role and functions of the ombudsman's office for condominium associations. Appropriates funds for establishment of the Ombudsman's Office for Condominium Associations.	CPC, JHA, FIN
HB891	RELATING TO MARIJUANA. Decriminalizes the possession of drug paraphernalia relating to marijuana; possession of a certain amount of marijuana concentrate; and the possession of a certain amount of marijuana and smoking of marijuana in a public place. Lowers the criminal penalty for the possession of a certain amount of marijuana concentrate from a misdemeanor to a petty misdemeanor.	JHA, FIN
HB892	RELATING TO GEOGRAPHICAL RESTRICTIONS. Establishes limitations on geographical restrictions provided as a condition of probation.	JHA
HB893	RELATING TO FIREARMS. Establishes prohibitions on assault rifles, assault shotguns, and .50 caliber rifles. Expands the ban on high-capacity detachable magazines. Establishes exceptions.	JHA
HB894	RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Prohibits state contractors, prospective state contractors, holders of procurement prequalification certificates, or principals of these groups from making contributions to, or soliciting contributions from their employees or from subcontractors or principals of subcontractors on behalf of, certain candidate committees, noncandidate committees, and political party committees. Requires the Procurement Policy Board to adopt rules to issue prequalification certificates to prospective contractors for public buildings or other public works. Amends the contribution limits for certain individuals and noncandidate committees. Prohibits lobbyists and certain persons related to lobbyists from soliciting contributions from client lobbyists. Increases the administrative fines.	JHA, FIN
HB895	RELATING TO THE ENFORCEMENT OF FIREWORKS LAWS. Appropriates moneys to the county police departments to enforce applicable fireworks laws, subject to certain conditions.	JHA, FIN
HB896	RELATING TO SEXUAL OFFENSES. Provides for a sentence of death or life imprisonment without possibility of parole upon a conviction for sex trafficking. Requires a separate sentencing proceeding by a jury, except if waived by the defendant, for a conviction for sex trafficking. Makes commercial sexual exploitation a class A felony. Makes conforming amendments.	JHA
HB897	RELATING TO THE NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT. Authorizes the Governor to enter the State into a multistate Nurse Licensure Compact that will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multistate licensure privilege in each party state. Beginning 7/1/20 , requires each person who holds a multistate nurse license issued by another state and is employed by a health care facility to complete annual demographic data surveys. Authorizes the State Board of Nursing to charge different fees for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses who hold a multistate license issued by the State. Provides that the Nurse Licensure Compact shall become effective and binding in the State two years after the Act takes effect.	HLT/LAB, CPC, FIN
HB898	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.	TRN, PBS, JHA
HB899	RELATING TO GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN SEXUALITY HEALTH EDUCATION CURRICULUM. Requires that student health and sexuality health education programs include discussion of fetal growth and development. Outlines specific content to be included.	EDN/HLT, JHA, FIN
HB900	RELATING TO CHILD WELFARE SERVICES. Establishes a working group for legal services for youth in the child welfare system within the judiciary. Appropriates funds for the working group.	HSH, JHA, FIN
HB901	RELATING TO PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS. Authorizes public charters schools to appeal directly to the Board of Education on matters regarding the schools' operations, governance, or funding, with certain exceptions.	EDN, JHA
HB902	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to conduct a study on methods to support department schools that may be impacted by the Hawaiian Electric Company's Planned Public Safety Power Shutoff program.	EDN, FIN
HB903	RELATING TO STUDENT HEALTH. Authorizes a school to maintain a stock supply of bronchodilators to be administered under certain conditions. Authorizes certain employees of a school and department personnel to administer certain medication in emergency situations, under certain conditions. Amends prescription drug labeling requirements to include certain information related to a school, if applicable.	EDN, HLT, FIN
HB904	RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Repeals the requirement for the Board of Education to annually report to the Legislature, Governor, and the public on public charter schools.	EDN, FIN
HB905	RELATING TO AMBULANCES. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to purchase of one advanced life support ambulance and related equipment to be based in central Maui, fund pay-related personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical services personnel, and increase the predictability and stability of available air ambulance services for all islands in the State.	HLT, FIN
HB906	RELATING TO RECYCLING. Allows manufacturers to coordinate activities directly related to the recycling of covered electronic devices. Expands the scope of covered electronic devices to include electronic device peripherals and certain legacy devices. Requires manufacturers to provide free collection service locations and collection events.	EEP, CPC
HB907	RELATING TO HOUSING. Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units.	HSG, FIN
HB908	RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING. Establishes a three-year pilot program within the early learning system to administer a home-based early learning program. Serves three and four-year-old children. Provides individualized software instruction in reading, mathematics, and science. Appropriates funds.	HSH, EDN, FIN
HB909	RELATING TO SCHOOL BUS SERVICES. Authorizes the Department of Education to use alternative vehicles for student transportation under certain conditions and appropriates funds for the purchase of alternative vehicles and individuals to obtain CDL licensure. Allows Department schools to initiate staggered start times. Appropriates funds.	EDN, FIN
HB910	RELATING TO RARE DISEASES. Establishes the rare disease advisory council to increase awareness and effective medical intervention for rare diseases. Establishes the rare disease advisory council special fund. Requires DOH and DOE to incorporate the importance of annual physical examinations for children in programs and literature. Amends the insurance code to include coverage for individuals with velocardiofacial syndrome and other genetic disorders. Exempts from cost sharing. Appropriates funds.	HLT/EDN, CPC, FIN
HB911	RELATING TO OFFENDER REENTRY PROGRAMS. Expands programming and training for the comprehensive offender reentry program under the department of corrections and rehabilitation to reduce the rate of recidivism and increase inmate marketability. Appropriates funds.	PBS, JHA, FIN
HB912	RELATING TO THE AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Appropriates funds to offset the debt for the Waiahole Water System.	AGR, WAL, FIN
HB913	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Appropriates funds to establish positions within the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Aquatic Resources.	WAL, FIN
HB914	RELATING TO WATER CARRIERS. Establishes a Water Carrier Inflationary Cost Index Mechanism. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to grant exemptions to any water carrier from any requirement under the Hawaii Water Carrier Act. Defines "automatic adjustment mechanism".	TRN, CPC, FIN
HB915	RELATING TO WATER USE. Authorizes the Commission on Water Resource Management, as a condition for issuing permits, to require the use of dual line water supply systems in new residential and mixed-use developments located in designated water management areas. Authorizes those residential and mixed-use developments to be included in irrigation projects, as defined in chapter 167, HRS. Authorizes the Board of Agriculture to investigate and survey the availability of nonpotable water. Requires the Department of Health, Board of Agriculture, and the counties to update their rules, ordinances, to allow dual line water supply systems in residential and mixed-use developments.	WAL/HSG, AGR, JHA
HB916	RELATING TO THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT. Allows tax credits claimed under the state low-income housing tax credit program to be used to offset taxes imposed by the state transient accommodations tax law. Specifies that tax credit amounts applied to state transient accommodations taxes be limited to state transient accommodations taxes imposed in the same county in which the qualified low-income building is located.	HSG, TOU/ECD, FIN
HB917	RELATING TO SENTENCING. Establishes a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for persons convicted of offenses based on the possession of methamphetamine and fentanyl.	JHA
HB918	RELATING TO LABELING. Establishes labeling requirements for certain premoistened nonwoven disposable wipes. Establishes civil penalties.	CPC, JHA
HB919	RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chairperson's designee to the Commission on Water Resource Management. Clarifies that only the five, non-ex-officio members appointed by the Governor are required to have substantial experience in water resource management.	WAL, JHA
HB920	RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chairperson's designee to the Hawaii Community Development Authority. Considers the Chairperson in determining quorum and majority and makes the Chairperson eligible to vote on matters affecting the Kalaeloa Community Development District.	WAL, JHA
HB921	RELATING TO THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, or the Chairperson's designee, to the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.	HSG, JHA
HB922	RELATING TO CULTURE. Short form bill relating to culture.	CAA
HB923	RELATING TO CULTURE. Short form bill relating to culture.	CAA
HB924	RELATING TO CULTURE. Short form bill relating to culture.	CAA
HB925	RELATING TO THE ARTS. Short form bill relating to the arts.	CAA
HB926	RELATING TO THE ARTS. Short form bill relating to the arts.	CAA
HB927	RELATING TO FREESTANDING BIRTHING FACILITIES. Establishes licensure requirements for freestanding birthing facilities.	HLT, JHA, CPC
HB928	RELATING TO INCOME TAX. Increases the income tax rate on the highest income earners in the State by establishing a new tax bracket for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2029.	FIN
HB929	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LAND CONVEYANCE TAX. Establishes a surcharge on the conveyance tax upon the net capital gain from the transfer or conveyance of agricultural land.	WAL, AGR, FIN
HB930	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 1, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO REQUIRE THAT THE STATEWIDE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM BE THOROUGH AND EFFICIENT. Proposes an amendment to article X, section 1, of the Hawaii State Constitution to require that the statewide public school system be thorough and efficient.	EDN, JHA, FIN
HB931	RELATING TO PRIVATE SECTOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RIGHTS. Expands the types of employees protected by the Hawaii Employment Relations Act to include independent contractors and all individuals subject to the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Act.	LAB, JHA
HB932	RELATING TO GREEN BONDS. Establishes a Green Bonds Working Group within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.	EEP, ECD, FIN
HB933	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.	HSH, ECD, FIN
HB934	RELATING TO THE HAWAII BROADBAND AND DIGITAL EQUITY OFFICE. Transfers the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Office of Enterprise Technology Services in the Department of Accounting and General Services. Establishes the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Special Fund. Appropriates funds.	ECD, FIN
HB935	RELATING TO DIGITAL EQUITY. Establishes and appropriates funds for a digital navigator pilot program to offer technical assistance with computers and electronic devices to residents.	ECD, FIN
HB936	RELATING TO FINANCIAL LITERACY. Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a statewide financial literacy curricula plan for public high schools. Requires all public high schools to offer instruction in financial literacy as a requirement for graduation. Requires the Department of Education to provide professional development to teachers on financial literacy. Requires the Board of Education to adopt administrative rules to implement the financial literacy education curriculum.	EDN, FIN
HB937	RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Establishes that any grants received from the federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) by an eligible business pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 shall not be subject to state general excise tax. Requires any state general excise tax paid by eligible businesses for RRF grants to be refunded to the tax payer. Applicable to taxable years beginning after 3/11/2021.	ECD, FIN
HB938	RELATING TO THE MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY LICENSING ACT. Authorizes manufacturers and distributors to sell directly to consumers items activated or installed through remote electronic transmission. Clarifies the applicability of the Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Act to common entities. Amends the grounds for denying, suspending, revoking, or otherwise taking adverse action on a licensee. Prohibits a manufacturer or distributor from requiring a dealer to purchase or lease any electric vehicle charging station at the dealer's expenses unless provided notice of intent to sell the manufacturer's or distributor's electric vehicles. Clarifies the conditions for the transfer of a franchise. Clarifies the requirements for reimbursing a dealer for parts and labor.	TRN, CPC, JHA
HB939	RELATING TO ALCOHOL. Defines "low alcohol by volume spirits beverage". Establishes a tax on low alcohol by volume spirits beverages at a rate of $0.85 per wine gallon.	CPC, FIN
HB940	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO. Appropriates funds for the rat lungworm lab at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.	HED, FIN
HB941	RELATING TO PEDESTRIANS. Authorizes pedestrians to cross roadways in a manner contrary to the statewide traffic code under certain circumstances.	TRN, JHA
HB942	RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for health care services contracted with community-based organizations.	HLT, FIN
HB943	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Health to establish a homeless triage and treatment center program to serve homeless individuals and individuals at risk of homelessness with substance abuse issues or mental illness.	HSH, FIN
HB944	RELATING TO NEIGHBORHOOD BOARDS. Authorizes neighborhood boards to solicit suggestions for capital improvement projects and operating budget priorities from residents. Requires each county mayor to consider and respond in writing to the suggestions for capital improvement projects and operating budget priorities submitted by each neighborhood board. Requires each county council to consider the neighborhood boards' recommendations, the mayor's responses, and county fiscal health in determining the final budget.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB945	RELATING TO HOTELS. Requires a hotel to provide notification of a service disruption, or that a service disruption may occur, to all third-party vendors and prospective and current guests. Prohibits a hotel from imposing any fee, penalty, or other charge, or retaining any deposit: if before check-in, a guest cancels a reservation due to a service disruption, unless the hotel provided prior notice; or if the service disruption arises after check-in, regardless of whether the hotel provided prior notification.	TOU, JHA, CPC
HB946	RELATING TO CARBON DISPLACEMENT. Establishes a carbon displacement tax credit for taxpayers of locally produced goods. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to certify tax credit amounts.	EEP, ECD, FIN
HB947	RELATING TO TAXATION OF REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS. Disallows the dividends paid deduction for real estate investment trusts. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2025.	ECD, CPC, FIN
HB948	RELATING TO HARBORS. Requires the Department of Transportation to construct, maintain, and operate customs and security facilities at commercial harbors.	TRN, CPC, FIN
HB949	RELATING TO THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT. Clarifies that a partner or member that is a partnership or limited liability company that has been allocated a low-income housing tax credit may either further allocate the credit or transfer, sell, or assign all or a portion of the credit to any taxpayer. Extends the sunset date of Act 129, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016, relating to the low-income housing tax credit, from 12/31/2027 to 12/31/2032.	HSG, ECD, FIN
HB950	RELATING TO BI-LEVEL LIGHTING SYSTEMS. Requires all newly constructed state buildings and facilities to use only bi-level lighting systems beginning 1/1/2026.	EEP, FIN
HB951	RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. Allows a patient seen in-person by another health care provider in the same medical group as the prescribing physician to be prescribed an opiate prescription for a three-day supply or less via telehealth.	HLT, CPC
HB952	RELATING TO PARKINSON'S DISEASE RESEARCH. Establishes the Parkinson's Disease Research Collection Database to be administered by the Department of Health, to house a collection of data on the incidence of Parkinson's disease in the State. Establishes the Parkinson's Disease Research Collection Database Advisory Committee. Requires the Department to create a Parkinson's disease research collection database webpage by 1/1/2026, and submit annual reports to the Legislature.	HLT, FIN
HB953	RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Prohibits persons from operating a medical cannabis dispensary or producing, manufacturing, or selling cannabis products without a license from the Department of Health. Prohibits individuals from providing certain services to individuals engaging in unlicensed cannabis operations. Requires the Department of Health to send a cease and desist notice to violators. Establishes criminal penalties.	HLT, CPC, JHA
HB954	RELATING TO PRIOR AUTHORIZATION. Establishes a comprehensive regulatory framework for prior authorization process in the State, including disclosure and notice requirements for utilization review entities regarding their prior authorization requirements and restrictions; qualifications and criteria for prior authorization review and appeals personnel; prior authorization process for non-urgent and urgent health care services, including the time frame by which utilization review entities must render a decision; adverse determination and appeal processes; prohibition of prior authorization for emergency health care services and medication for opioid use disorder; payments to health care providers; length and duration of prior authorizations; and exemptions for certain health care providers. Requires health insurers to utilize NCPDP SCRIPT Standard electronic prior authorization transactions by 1/1/2026. Requires utilization review entities to submit annual reports to the Insurance Commissioner each year. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to submit annual reports to the Legislature. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to adopt rules by 1/1/2026.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB955	RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Exempts from the general excise tax amounts received by a nurse entrepreneur for health care-related goods and services purchased under Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE.	HLT, FIN
HB956	RELATING TO IRONWORKERS. Prohibits any person from disassembling, dismantling, or demolishing iron projects unless the person has completed an apprenticeship program for ironworkers approved and registered with the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations. Establishes penalties. Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to adopt rules.	LAB, CPC, JHA
HB957	RELATING TO LAULAU DAY. Designates May 1 of each year as "Laulau Day" in the State.	CAA, JHA
HB958	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires all bicycles equipped with motors to be operated only with all wheels on the ground at all times, with certain exceptions. Prohibits certain actions while operating a bicycle equipped with a motor. Defines "electric bicycle" in place of "low-speed electric bicycle". Defines "electric micro mobility device" and requires the same regulations as electric foot scooters to apply to electric micro mobility devices. Authorizes a person to ride an electric bicycle on a sidewalk at a speed not exceeding ten miles per hour. Prohibits a person from operating a bicycle or electric foot scooter under the age of eighteen without a helmet. Repeals the requirement that moped drivers use bicycle lanes. Substitutes the word "motor drive cycle" with the word "motor scooter". Appropriates funds for a coordinated education campaign on electric mobility devices.	TRN, JHA, FIN
HB959	RELATING TO TAXATION. Exempts the sale of groceries and nonprescription drugs from the general excise tax. Incrementally increases the general excise tax over four years, with the increased proceeds during certain fiscal years to be deposited into the general fund. Removes the state income tax on unemployment compensation benefits. Doubles the standard deduction for individuals earning less than $100,000 and joint returns earning less than $200,000. Repeals the incremental increases on standard income tax deduction amounts. Increases the minimum income threshold and exemption amount for the low-income household renters' income tax credit. Removes the tax liability for the first $100,000 of individual income earned. Establishes the Maui Recovery Special Fund to be used for recovery programs related to the 2023 Maui wildfires. Appropriates funds. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024.	ECD, FIN
HB960	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Increases the maximum value of capital advancement contracts that may be executed by the Department of Transportation without legislative approval. Repeals the requirement for the Department of Transportation to obtain legislative approval through concurrent resolution for capital advancement contracts greater than $2,000,000. Increases the total aggregate value of capital advancement contracts that the Department of Transportation may enter into in a fiscal year. Establishes certain reporting requirements related to capital advancement contracts.	TRN, FIN
HB961	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes and appropriates funds for a two-year librarian pilot program to serve one school complex on Oahu and one school complex on a neighbor island.	EDN, FIN
HB962	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer a two-year school librarian pilot program to provide funding for qualifying schools to hire librarians. Appropriates funds.	EDN, FIN
HB963	RELATING TO CRIMES AGAINST ELDERS. Establishes strict liability for crimes against elders with respect to the attendant circumstance that the victim was sixty years of age or older.	HSH, JHA
HB964	RELATING TO TRESPASSING. Prohibits loitering or camping near state-owned streambanks. Authorizes law enforcement or authorized personnel to remove individuals after notice. Appropriates funds to support enforcement, public education, and environmental restoration efforts.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB965	RELATING TO MICROPLASTICS. Establishes a microplastic filtration rebate program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources.	EEP, FIN
HB966	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL TOURISM. Establishes statewide, uniform standards to promote agricultural tourism activities in the State by establishing state agricultural tourism activity requirements that are applicable to all counties that have adopted an agricultural tourism ordinance. Requires agricultural tourism activities to be registered by the county planning commission. Requires agricultural tourism activities to coexist with an agricultural activity on a farming operation and requires termination of the agricultural tourism activities upon cessation of the agricultural activity. Makes conforming amendments.	AGR/TOU, WAL, JHA
HB967	RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS. Establishes the Statewide Interagency Food Systems Coordination Team and the Interagency Food Systems Working Group within the Department of Agriculture. Requires reports to the Legislature. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds.	AGR, FIN
HB968	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.	AGR, FIN
HB969	RELATING TO WASTE OR DISPOSAL FACILITIES. Prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of any waste or disposal facility on land that is near or above a significant aquifer as determined by the Department of Health.	EEP, WAL, JHA
HB970	RELATING TO CHIROPRACTIC. Allows chiropractic students to engage in clinical practice as part of their college instruction if directly supervised by a licensed chiropractor.	HED, CPC
HB971	RELATING TO STATE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. Establishes the Office of the State Architect within the Department of Accounting and General Services to be headed by the State Architect. Authorizes the State Architect to organize, manage, and oversee the design review of all state construction projects and issue design approvals. Establishes the Design Review Special Fund. Requires the State Architect to submit a report to the Governor and Legislature. Authorizes DAGS to provide centralized design review services for state construction projects and issue design approvals through the State Architect. Exempts state construction projects from county building permit, inspection, and certificate of occupancy requirements, subject to certain conditions. Makes appropriations.	LAB, HSG, FIN
HB972	RELATING TO IMPACT FEES. Authorizes condominium associations and planned community associations located in a zoning district that allows for transient vacation rentals to impose an impact fee on owners who use their units as transient vacation rentals.	TOU, CPC
HB973	RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS. Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to offer, list, advertise, or display a transient accommodations rental rate that includes all resort fees required for the furnishing of transient accommodations. Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to include all applicable taxes and fees imposed by a government on the stay in the total price to be paid before the consumer reserves the furnishing of transient accommodations. Establishes penalties. Effective 1/1/2026.	TOU, CPC, FIN
HB974	RELATING TO ENERGY. Allows the State to enter into step-in agreements for payment obligations arising under certain power purchase agreements. Establishes the Power Purchasing Costs Trust Fund. Establishes that revenues from on-bill charges for power purchase agreements and accompanying reserves shall be held in trust by the State, and that independent power producers shall hold a beneficial interest in the revenue and reserve to the extent of the amounts owed under the covered power purchase agreements. Appoints, authorizes, and empowers an electric utility to serve as the billing, collection, payment, and managing agent of the Department of Budget and Finance in the service of performing step-in agreements.	EEP, FIN
HB975	RELATING TO CARBON SEQUESTRATION INCENTIVES. Codifies and makes permanent the Hawaii Carbon Smart Land Management Assistance Program under the Department of Land and Natural Resources.	EEP, FIN
HB976	RELATING TO RENEWABLE FUEL. Establishes the sustainable aviation fuel import tax credit. Increases the renewable fuels production tax credit amount. Repeals the: (1) cap amount of claimable renewable fuels production tax credit; (2) requirement that the tax credit be claimed for fuels with lifecycle emissions below fossil fuels; and (3) prohibition on claiming other tax credits for the cost incurred to produce renewable fuels. Specifies that the renewable fuels production tax credit can only be claimed for fuels that meet the certain thresholds. Adds an additional tax credit value. Clarifies that a taxpayer who previously claimed a renewable fuels production tax credit may claim another one for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024. Clarifies and expands required information in the certified statement for the tax credit. Repeals the requirement that the Hawaii State Energy Office provide the taxpayer with a determination of whether the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions for each type of qualified fuel produced is lower than that of fossil fuels.	EEP, ECD, FIN
HB977	RELATING TO ENERGY FINANCING. Authorizes the Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund to be used to provide financial assistance to underserved ratepayers, in addition to other eligible borrowers. Appropriates funds into and out of the Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund.	EEP, FIN
HB978	RELATING TO ELECTRIC UTILITIES. Provides the Public Utilities Commission with the authority to appoint a receiver to take temporary action necessary to assure continued adequate electric services from regulated investor-owned electric utilities. Appropriates funds out of the Public Utilities Commission Special Fund.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB979	RELATED TO SUMMARY POSSESSION. Requires that a current GET license number for any rental income be filed with the complaint to the court for summary possession proceedings. Requires the judiciary to submit an annual list of certain information regarding summary possession cases to the department of taxation.	CPC, JHA
HB980	RELATING TO ANIMALS. Amends the law authorizing the killing of mongoose by clarifying the circumstances under which mongoose may be killed and authorizing feral chickens to be killed under certain circumstances.	JHA
HB981	RELATING TO ATTORNEYS' FEES. Limits the attorneys' fees in settlement agreements relating to, or actions brought as a result of, construction defects to ensure that plaintiffs receive an amount that is at least ninety per cent of the repair cost for the construction defect.	CPC, JHA
HB982	RELATING TO WILDFIRES. Establishes the Wildfire Recovery Fund. Allows securitization for electric utilities.	EEP/PBS, CPC/JHA, FIN
HB983	RELATING TO CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS. Clarifies the education and professional experience requirements for certified public accountant license applicants to establish alternative pathways to licensure.	CPC
HB984	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LOANS. Updates the agricultural loan program by lowering interest rates, increasing and standardizing loan limits, and reducing the number of credit denials. Authorizes the agricultural loan program to issue lines of credit. Creates a new class of loans to encourage large scale agriculture of import replacement crops grown for the farm to state program. Appropriates funds.	AGR, FIN
HB985	RELATING TO PESTICIDE DRIFT MONITORING. Appropriates funding to the department of agriculture to continue the statewide pesticide drift monitoring study.	AGR, FIN
HB986	RELATING TO THE PESTICIDE USE REVOLVING FUND. Increases the ceiling of the pesticide use revolving fund. Effective July 1, 2025.	AGR, FIN
HB987	RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Establishes a procurement automation system special fund and aligns section 103D-203(b), HRS, with section 302A-1702, HRS, which added the Executive Director of the School Facilities Authority as a chief procurement officer.	EDN, FIN
HB988	RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Prohibits a procurement officer from disclosing a competing offeror's proposal or evaluation score, except the summary of scores, during a debriefing requested by a non-selected offeror. Authorizes the disclosure of a competing offeror's proposal or evaluation score after a protest is resolved and the contract is executed.	FIN
HB989	RELATING TO PLANS. Removes outdated requirements for plans filed with the registrar's office; updates the statutory fee schedule to reflect those adopted in chapter 40 of title 3, HAR; grants additional discretion to the Department of Accounting and General Services to approve the format of plans; and updates permissible drawing scales used in plans.	LAB, FIN
HB990	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE, ITS OFFICERS, OR ITS EMPLOYEES. Makes appropriations and approves payments for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees.	JHA, FIN
HB991	RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS. Deletes the term "agent of the contractor" in sections 28-17 and 846-2.7, HRS, to comply with requirements of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation deemed the term overly broad for purposes of accessing its criminal history background information. Clarifies that "contractor's employees" who have access to federal tax information held by the Department of the Attorney General may be subject to fingerprint-based background checks.	JHA
HB992	RELATING TO SOLICITATION OF FUNDS FROM THE PUBLIC. Revises registration, fee, reporting, and enforcement requirements for charitable fundraising platforms and platform charities with chapter 467B, HRS, requirements. Removes duplication of registration, fee, and reporting requirements for charitable fundraising platforms and platform charities.	JHA, FIN
HB993	RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH AND MORALS. Clarifies that the definition of "profits from prostitution" includes any money or property accepted or received from the proceeds of prostitution activity even if it is accepted or received as the reimbursement or repayment of a debt. Restructures provisions that define terms or establish exemptions for part I of chapter 712, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to enhance readability. Makes technical amendments to update statutory references to part I of chapter 712, Hawaii Revised Statutes.	JHA
HB994	RELATING TO THE OFFENSE OF PROMOTING PORNOGRAPHY FOR MINORS. Authorizes the offense of Promoting Pornography for Minors to be instituted by written information.	JHA
HB995	RELATING TO FIREARMS REPORTING. Amends the annual reporting requirements imposed on the Department of the Attorney General and the chief of police of each county regarding licenses to carry firearms.	JHA
HB996	RELATING TO ABOLITION OF JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY FOR GOVERNMENT ENTITIES IN HIGHWAY-RELATED CIVIL ACTIONS. Amends sections 663-10.5 and 663-10.9, HRS, to abolish joint and several liability for government entities in claims and cases relating to the maintenance and design of highways under chapter 663, HRS, so that government entities would be liable only for the percentage share of the damages actually attributable to them.	TRN, JHA
HB997	RELATING TO COURT-ORDERED PAYMENTS. Requires the Judiciary to contract with a collection agency or licensed attorney to collect delinquent court-ordered fees, fines, sanctions, and court costs. Repeals the authority of the Judiciary to contract with a collection agency or licensed attorney to collect delinquent restitution. Expressly allows courts to specify a period of time or installments for payment of fees and restitution. Requires courts to hold payment compliance hearings once per year or as soon as practicable, until all fees, fines, and restitution are fully paid, and requires a defendant to appear and show cause if the defendant fails to pay in full within a time specified by the court or fails to pay three consecutive installments. Makes corresponding amendments to related statutes.	JHA
HB998	RELATING TO CONTENTS OF CITATIONS. Clarifies that the omission of certain information or any error in a citation does not constitute ground for dismissal of a charge or for reversal of a conviction, if the omission or error did not prejudice the defendant.	JHA
HB999	RELATING TO WATER POLLUTION. Amends section 200-14, HRS, to clarify that enforcement of criminal water pollution offenses remains under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health, rather than the Department of Land and Natural Resources.	EEP/WAL, FIN
HB1000	RELATING TO IDENTIFICATION PROCESSING. Requires that the Attorney General's identification system include criminal cases initiated via citations that resulted in conviction, deferred acceptance of guilty or nolo contendere plea, or conditional discharge, and that a court order identification processing in such cases.	JHA, FIN
HB1001	RELATING TO SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS RELATED TO THE MAUI WILDFIRES. Makes general fund appropriations for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 to fund the settlement of claims related to the Maui wildfires. Establishes the Maui Wildfires Settlement Trust Fund to be administered by the Attorney General.	JHA, FIN
HB1002	RELATING TO THE HAWAII CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM OVERSIGHT COMMISSION. Beginning July 1, 2025, extends the term of the oversight coordinator for the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission. Clarifies that the oversight coordinator has the general authority to inspect agencies and correctional facilities without notice.	PBS, JHA, FIN
HB1003	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Clarifies and expands the circumstances and procedures available for emergency transportation, examination, and hospitalization under chapter 334. Provides limits on liability for state and local governments and professionals during mental health emergency procedures while performing their duties in the course of employment. Expands the notice requirements for an emergency hospitalization to include an individual's health-care surrogate and clarifies when notice to family members can be waived. Removes the authority of the family court to appoint a legal guardian in a proceeding for involuntary hospitalization. Removes the requirement that psychiatric facilities wait for a response on a notice of intent to discharge an involuntary hospitalization patient prior to discharge. Clarifies the circumstances under which a subject of an order for assisted community treatment can be administered medication over the subject's objection. Provides limits on liability for an assisted community treatment provider. Modifies the administrative authorization of medical treatment over the patient's objection to be reviewed by a single decision-maker who is a psychiatrist.	HLT, JHA
HB1004	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Adopts the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act (2023) with amendments to replace chapters 327E and 327G, HRS. Effective 1/1/2026.	HLT, JHA
HB1005	RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Amends multiple definitions and penalties for fireworks offenses, including heightened penalties if another person suffers substantial bodily injury, serious bodily injury, or death as a result of the fireworks offenses. Establishes criminal offenses of general fireworks or articles pyrotechnic prohibitions in the first and second degree; sending or receiving fireworks or articles pyrotechnic by air delivery; distributing fireworks or articles pyrotechnic to non-permit holder; removal or extraction of pyrotechnic contents; consumer fireworks prohibitions; refusal to provide identification; and violating requirements of carrier. Establishes an adjudication system and procedures to process fireworks infractions; makes an appropriation.	JHA, FIN
HB1006	RELATING TO THE AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Includes agricultural tourism in the definition of "enterprise" to authorize the Agribusiness Development Corporation to financially support farming businesses engaged in agricultural tourism.	AGR, TOU, JHA
HB1007	RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Authorizes the Hawaii Community Development Authority to cooperate with or assist public and private sector entities to engage in projects that improve the State. Establishes the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement program. Repeals the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement district and board, under chapter 206E, part X, HRS. Makes additional consistent revisions to chapter 206E.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB1008	RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEWS OF STATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to determine the effect of any proposed State affordable housing project within ninety days of a request for determination. Sets forth the historic review requirements based on the project area's known historic, cultural, and archaeological resources.	HSG, WAL, JHA
HB1009	RELATING TO THE DWELLING UNIT REVOLVING FUND. Makes the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Pilot Program permanent. Allows partial or full repayment of Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund interim loans in the form of unit equity through the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund Equity Program.	HSG, FIN
HB1010	RELATING TO THE RENTAL HOUSING REVOLVING FUND. Creates a mixed-income rental housing subaccount under the Rental Housing Revolving Fund which shall make loans to mixed-income rental projects or units in a mixed-income rental project. Authorizes the transfer of moneys from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to the Rental Housing Revolving Fund Mixed-Income Subaccount.	HSG, FIN
HB1011	RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Increases the cap for awards to assist businesses applying for the Small Business Innovation Research Grant Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Grant Program of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Adds purchasing of renewable energy systems as an eligible expense and clarifies that training on both new and existing manufacturing equipment is an eligible expense for the Manufacturing Development Grant Program. Clarifies that no tax credit is available for renewable energy systems purchased with a grant received under the Manufacturing Development Grant Program.	ECD, FIN
HB1012	RELATING TO THE LAND STUDY BUREAU SOIL RATING SYSTEM. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, in coordination with other agencies, to update the soil data used in the land study bureau soil rating system and create a mechanism for regular soil data updates. Appropriates funds.	WAL, FIN
HB1013	RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Repeals the provision authorizing farm dwellings and farm employee housing on important agricultural lands, amends the provision for priority permit processing to include farm cluster housing, and adopts a new provision establishing farm cluster housing to incentivize the designation of lands as important agricultural lands pursuant to chapter 205, HRS.	HSG, AGR, FIN
HB1014	RELATING TO TAXATION. Authorizes the use of county surcharge revenues for transportation and housing infrastructure in counties having a population of 500,000 or less. Authorizes counties that have previously adopted a surcharge on state tax ordinance after July 1, 2015, to amend the uses of the surcharge. Extends the period within which a county with a population of 500,000 or less may collect a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, to 12/31/2047. Authorizes cost-sharing with private or other public developers for housing infrastructure projects funded by surcharge revenues.	WAL, FIN
HB1015	RELATING TO LAND USE. Authorizes county petition process for review and approval of land use district boundary amendments based on adopted county general plans or county development plans.	WAL, JHA
HB1016	RELATING TO INTEGRATED LAND USE. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct an integrated land use study for the use of lands within the agricultural districts. Establishes one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) planner position, exempt from chapter 76.	WAL, FIN
HB1017	RELATING TO THE GREENHOUSE GAS SEQUESTRATION TASK FORCE. Repeals the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force.	EEP, FIN
HB1018	RELATING TO THE STADIUM AUTHORITY. Clarifies requirements to establish a quorum to do business and validate acts of the Stadium Authority.	JHA
HB1019	RELATING TO LONG DURATION CLEAN ENERGY STORAGE. Requires high quality resource characterization of pumped storage hydropower locations, or other long duration clean energy storage technologies, and promotes their development.	EEP, FIN
HB1020	RELATING TO A PROGRAM TO CHARACTERIZE CARBON SEQUESTRATION POTENTIAL AND UNDERGROUND WATER RESOURCES STATEWIDE. Establishes a statewide underground water and carbon sequestration resource characterization program via slim hole bores and a related statewide environmental assessment.	EEP, FIN
HB1021	RELATING TO THE ZERO EMISSIONS CLEAN ECONOMY TARGET. Provides needed clarifications on the applicability and scope of section 225P-5, HRS. Clarifies current emissions reduction goals and defines critical terms used in climate mitigation. Establishes a total or gross emissions target as well as sector-specific targets to reinforce action in the relevant emitting sectors further strengthening the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy.	EEP, FIN
HB1022	RELATING TO ENERGY INDUSTRY INFORMATION REPORTING. Adds the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security to the list of agencies that may examine the energy industry information statements submitted pursuant to section 486J-3, HRS. Adds the promotion of emergency management and critical infrastructure protection as relevant purposes of the Energy Data Collection Program.	EEP, JHA
HB1023	RELATING TO RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARDS. Modifies and improves the effectiveness of the renewable portfolio standards law, which stipulates the central role of Hawaii's electric utility companies in complying with the State's renewable energy and climate goals to address emerging trends.	EEP, CPC
HB1024	RELATING TO THE SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY REVIEW BOARD. Amends the quorum requirements to do business and validate acts of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board.	ECD, JHA
HB1025	RELATING TO THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST, INC. Designates the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, Inc., as the State of Hawaii Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, Inc. Authorizes General Fund appropriations exempt from the requirements of chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the State of Hawaii Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, Inc.	CAA, FIN
HB1026	MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Makes emergency appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Units (2), (3), (4), (8), (9), (13), and (14) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal year 2024-2025.	LAB, FIN
HB1027	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (1) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.	LAB, FIN
HB1028	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (2) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.	LAB, FIN
HB1029	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (3) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.	LAB, FIN
HB1030	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (4) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.	LAB, FIN
HB1031	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (5) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.	LAB, FIN
HB1032	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (6) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.	LAB, FIN
HB1033	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (7) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.	LAB, FIN
HB1034	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (8) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.	LAB, FIN
HB1035	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (9) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.	LAB, FIN
HB1036	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (10) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.	LAB, FIN
HB1037	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (11) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.	LAB, FIN
HB1038	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (13) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.	LAB, FIN
HB1039	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (14) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.	LAB, FIN
HB1040	RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND BASE COMPOSITE MONTHLY CONTRIBUTION. Effective 1/1/2026, increases the employer base composite monthly contribution to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund by 5.2 percent of the 2025 employer base composite monthly contribution. Effective 1/1/2027, requires that the employer base composite monthly contribution be calculated based on the change in Medicare Part B premiums from 2025 to 2026 and at a two-year lag thereafter.	LAB, FIN
HB1041	RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Amends chapter 88, HRS, to conform to updated required beginning dates and automatic cashout requirements in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.	LAB, FIN
HB1042	RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM'S EMPLOYER REPORTING REVIEW. Adds a year between the review period and the billing due date and changes reporting of review results from the current fiscal year to the previous fiscal year.	LAB, FIN
HB1043	RELATING TO FUNDING ADJUSTMENTS FOR STATE PROGRAMS. Makes emergency appropriations and commensurate reductions to pay for anticipated operating shortfalls due to the limited ability to transfer funds between programs.	FIN
HB1044	RELATING TO FUNDING ADJUSTMENTS FOR STATE PROGRAMS. Makes emergency appropriations and commensurate reductions to pay for anticipated operating shortfalls in the fourth quarter due to the limited ability to transfer funds between programs.	FIN
HB1045	MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL COSTS. Makes emergency appropriations for fiscal year 2024-2025 to the Department of Accounting and General Services and the Judiciary for payroll and fringe benefits of affected Department of Law Enforcement personnel.	JHA, FIN
HB1046	RELATING TO THE INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT. Authorizes the Hawaii Medical Board as the State of Principal License to investigate and request criminal history records of qualified physicians seeking licensing through the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. Appropriates funds. Effective 07/01/2025.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB1047	RELATING TO INTEREST ON INSURANCE PROCEEDS RELATED TO A MORTGAGE LOAN. Supports mortgagors during disasters and other instances of damage to property by requiring licensed mortgage servicers and financial institutions to pay interest on insurance proceeds held for the benefit of consumers. Provides that a fee shall not be charged to the borrower in connection with the maintenance or disbursement of insurance proceeds received by the financial institution. Provides that the minimum interest rate paid on insurance proceeds be based on the national rate for money market accounts, as determined according to title 12 C.F.R. section 337.7 and will be credited to the borrower monthly.	CPC, FIN
HB1048	RELATING TO INSTALLMENT LOANS. Clarifies the intended scope of chapter 480J, HRS, which is the regulation of installment lenders, and that the law does not intend to eliminate the ability of lenders to make low-interest rate loans under existing interest and usury laws. Replaces the term "consumer loan" with the defined term "installment loan" for consistency throughout the statutes. Requires loan maintenance fees to be prorated daily to prevent consumers from incurring fees once the loan is paid off. Allows lenders to charge a convenience fee of up to five dollars for debit card payments, providing consumer more options for repayment. Streamlines the loan repayment process by requiring paper receipts only for in-person or cash payments and increases consumer privacy by removing consumer names from receipts. Repeals the requirement for lenders to wait three days after a consumer fully repays a loan before issuing a new installment loan.	CPC, FIN
HB1049	RELATING TO THE MONEY TRANSMITTERS MODERNIZATION ACT. Aligns the State's Money Transmitters Modernization Act with the Model Money Transmitters Modernization Act, thereby enabling Hawaii to work within a network of states to license, supervise, and examine transglobal money transmission companies as a multistate system; adopts nationwide standards that provide clarity and consistency in calculating the tangible net worth of licensees; ensures that licensees have sufficient financial resources to conduct their business in a safe and sound manner; and promotes efficiency throughout the licensing process.	CPC, FIN
HB1050	RELATING TO TITLE 24, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Provides amendments to net solvency report filing requirements for mutual benefit societies, dental insurers, and health maintenance organizations. Effective 10/1/2025.	CPC
HB1051	RELATING TO ENERGY-EFFICIENCY PORTFOLIO STANDARDS. Extends the State's deadline to achieve its energy-efficiency portfolio standards target from 2030 to 2045 and updates the standards. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish interim goals for electricity use reduction to be achieved by 2025, 2035, and 2040. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to adjust the 2030 and 2045 standard and interim standards.	EEP, CPC
HB1052	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSAL SERVICE PROGRAM. Clarifies that the Public Utilities Commission under the Universal Service Program may provide, and may use funds from the Universal Service Fund to provide, free telecommunications access to certain individuals with a print disability.	CPC, FIN
HB1053	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION'S OPERATING BUDGET. Permits condominium associations to borrow from or reallocate their reserve funds provided the loan is repaid within one year. Effective upon approval.	CPC, FIN
HB1054	RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE LICENSURE ACTIONS AGAINST SEX OFFENDERS. Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and certain licensing boards to automatically revoke and refuse to renew, restore, or reinstate the professional licenses of registered sex offenders.	CPC, JHA
HB1055	MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Makes an emergency appropriation out of the Public Utilities Commission Special Fund for the Public Utilities Commission to procure services by consultants with technical expertise in the efforts to strengthen the resilience and reliability of electric utility services in the State.	CPC, FIN
HB1056	RELATING TO THE STRENGTHEN HAWAII HOMES PROGRAM. Establishes the Strengthen Hawaii Homes Program to encourage single-family homeowners to retrofit their homes to resist damage by providing for grants to help offset the cost of retrofits. Appropriates funds.	HSG, CPC, FIN
HB1057	RELATING TO THE STABILIZATION OF PROPERTY INSURANCE. Expands the powers of the Hawaii Property Insurance Association and Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to help to stabilize the property insurance market in the State. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to conduct a study. Appropriates moneys.	CPC, FIN
HB1058	RELATING TO VETERANS CEMETERIES. Establishes the Veterans Cemeteries Board within the Office of Veterans Services of the Department of Defense to provide veterans cemeteries in the State with guidance, education, technical assistance, and other support to ensure compliance with standards set by the National Cemetery Administration of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.	PBS, FIN
HB1059	RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY. Converts the Emergency Management Specialist series positions at level V and higher in the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency from civil service status to exempt status.	PBS, LAB, FIN
HB1060	RELATING TO EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. Establishes the Community Readiness Centers Program to be implemented and administered by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. Establishes the Community Readiness Centers Special Fund to fund the Community Readiness Centers Program. Renames the Environmental Response, Energy, and Food Security Tax to the Environmental Response, Energy, Food Security, and Resilience Tax and directs a portion of the tax into the Community Readiness Centers Special Fund. Effective 7/1/2025.	PBS, FIN
HB1061	RELATING TO THE HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD. Authorizes the payment of allowances for TRICARE Reserve Select, TRICARE Dental Program, and vision coverage to all officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel of the Hawaii National Guard ordered to active duty for more than 30 days in the service of the State.	PBS, FIN
HB1062	RELATING TO THE HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD. Allows the commander of the Hawaii Air National Guard to hold the rank authorized by the Department of the Air Force. Provides the Adjutant General with the flexibility to assign either the Chief of Staff or the Assistant Adjutant General to lead the Hawaii Air National Guard. Authorizes the pay and allowances for the Chief of Staff of the Hawaii Air National Guard to be determined according to the pay tables of the Regular Air Force of the United States. Effective 7/1/2025.	PBS, FIN
HB1063	RELATING TO THE NATIONAL GUARD. Specifies that intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to a national guard member in the performance of duty is a class C felony.	JHA
HB1064	RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION. Amends the laws concerning the Office of the State Fire Marshal to best effectuate the recommendations of the "Phase 3" Forward-Looking Report by Fire Safety Research Institute on the August 2023 Maui wildfires.	PBS, JHA, FIN
HB1065	RELATING TO THE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR SPECIAL FUND. Amends section 302L-9(e), HRS, to require stipend funds repaid by a stipend recipient pursuant to section 302L 9(d), HRS, to be deposited into the early learning special fund established pursuant to section 302L-5, HRS. Repeals section 302L-10, HRS.	EDN, FIN
HB1066	RELATING TO THE EARLY LEARNING BOARD. Amends section 302L-1.6(b), HRS, to add the head start state collaboration office director as an ex officio, non-voting member of the early learning board, and to require the board to invite the president of the Head Start Association of Hawaii, or the president's designee, to serve as an ex officio, non-voting member of the board.	EDN, JHA
HB1067	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a program to award a high school diploma to qualified persons who did not receive a high school diploma as a result of compulsorily or voluntarily induction into the armed services of the United States and to persons whose high school education was interrupted due to wartime practices.	EDN, PBS, FIN
HB1068	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers' compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in work-based learning programs established and regulated by the Department of Education.	LAB, EDN, FIN
HB1069	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Adds two voting members that represent the Department of Education or the Board of Education to the School Facilities Authority Board.	EDN, JHA
HB1070	RELATING TO THERAPY SERVICES. Expands the scopes of practice for occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech pathologists to allow those professionals working for or contracted by the Department of Education to diagnose medical conditions that can be treated with their respective services.	HLT, EDN, CPC
HB1071	RELATING TO COMPUTER SCIENCE LEGISLATIVE REPORT. Changes the due date of the Department of Education's computer science legislative report from June 30 to twenty days prior to the start of the legislative regular session.	EDN
HB1072	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for teacher-requested classroom supplies for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027.	EDN, FIN
HB1073	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education to implement dyslexia-sensitive universal screenings, provide evidence-based interventions, and offer professional development on dyslexia and structured literacy.	EDN, FIN
HB1074	RELATING TO THE USE OF PUBLIC LANDS. Requires the School Facilities Authority to consult with the Department of Education and other impacted departments or agencies prior to the conveyance of ownership rights or lease of lands to the School Facilities Authority.	EDN, WAL, JHA
HB1075	RELATING TO SCHOOL MEALS. Amends the law to reduce the amount the Department of Education is required to charge for school meals to all students enrolled in department schools.	EDN, FIN
HB1076	RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Establishes the Climate Mitigation and Resiliency Special Fund. Mandates the allocation of all earned interest from the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund to the newly established special fund. Appropriates funds.	EEP, FIN
HB1077	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the Climate Mitigation and Resiliency Special Fund and the Economic Development and Revitalization Special Fund. Beginning January 1, 2026, increases the Transient Accommodations Tax. Allocates funds generated by the increase to the newly established funds.	EEP, ECD/TOU, FIN
HB1078	RELATING TO STATE LEGISLATIVE VACANCIES. Provides the Governor with discretion to not fill a vacant legislative position if the vacancy occurs one hundred twenty days or less from an upcoming primary election until after the results of the primary election are certified.	JHA
HB1079	RELATING TO TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE. Directs the Office of Wellness and Resilience to collaborate with the Department of Human Services to, either directly or by contract, design, administer, and implement a program for trauma-informed organizational assessments and a training curriculum for the Department of Human Services child welfare services branch staff, and appropriates funds for the program.	HSH, FIN
HB1080	RELATING TO FAMILY RESILIENCE PILOT PROGRAM. Establishes the Family Resilience Pilot Program within the Office of Wellness and Resilience and appropriates funds to execute the program, including the contracting of services.	HSH, FIN
HB1081	RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF WELLNESS AND RESILIENCE. Transfers the Office of Wellness and Resilience to the Department of Human Resources Development on June 29, 2025. Creates a wellness and resilience advisory board. Updates the Office of Wellness and Resilience functions.	HSH, FIN
HB1082	RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Reduces the minimum number of years of credited service qualified Tier 2 Employees' Retirement System members must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes from ten years to five years. Increases employer contributions to offset the resulting liability.	LAB, FIN
HB1083	RELATING TO VESSELS IN STATE COMMERCIAL HARBORS. Clarifies that the requirements for the securing of mooring lines in state commercial harbors shall not apply to certain vessels.	TRN, LAB, CPC
HB1084	RELATING TO USE OF INTOXICANTS WHILE OPERATING A VEHICLE. Lowers the blood alcohol content threshold for driving while under the influence of alcohol from .08 to .05 or more grams of alcohol to reduce impaired driving and fatal crashes.	TRN, JHA
HB1085	RELATING TO TAXATION. Increases the tax rates for cigarettes and little cigars beginning 1/1/2026, amends the disposition of tax revenues to certain non-general funds starting from fiscal year 2026-2027, with the excess carrying over to the general fund, and expands the tax disposition of tax revenues to the funds to include all tobacco product taxes. Repeals obsolete historical tax rates.	HLT, FIN
HB1086	RELATING TO HOUSING. Exempts any development of homestead lots or housing for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise and use taxes.	HSG, JHA, FIN
HB1087	RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEWS. Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to assume historic preservation review of the effect of any proposed project for lands under its jurisdiction except for projects affecting properties listed or nominated for inclusion in the Hawaii register of historic places or the national register of historic places.	WAL, JHA
HB1088	RELATING TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. Exempts housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from school impact fees.	EDN, JHA, FIN
HB1089	RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT. Confirms that Act 130, Session Laws of Hawaii 2024, shall take effect on either the date of the Secretary of the Interior's notification letter to the Congressional Committee Chairpersons that this Act meets none of the criteria in title 43 Code of Federal Regulations section 48.20, or on the date that the United States Congress approval becomes law.	JHA, FIN
HB1090	RELATING TO COUNTY USER FEES. Exempts the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from county user fees, in the amount of $100,000 aggregate per year, and ensures county services to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for Hawaiian Home Lands.	JHA, FIN
HB1091	RELATING TO SEWER TRANSMISSION LINES. Requires that all county sewer transmission lines on Hawaiian home lands in compliance or brought into compliance by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, are licensed or dedicated to the respective county within sixty days after the receipt by the appropriate county agency of a completed application for maintenance request.	JHA
HB1092	RELATING TO MEDICAID THIRD PARTY LIABILITY. Amends third party liability provisions for medical assistance program claims for payment as required under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022.	HLT, CPC
HB1093	RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. Clarifies the Hawaii Public Housing Authorityꞌs powers relating to housing projects.	HSG, JHA
HB1094	RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. Allows the Hawaii Public Housing Authority (HPHA) to sell, donate, or dispose of property abandoned or seized in federal public housing projects. Requires the HPHA to notify the known owner of the abandoned or seized property. Creates procedures for persons entitled to the abandoned or seized property.	HSG, JHA
HB1095	RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. Amends section 356D-6.7, HRS, to include all Hawaii Public Housing Authority parcels as areas that may be closed to the public.	HSG, JHA
HB1096	RELATING TO TENANT SELECTION. Repeals the tenant selection preferences for disabled veterans and the spouses of deceased veterans in the State Low-Income Housing Program.	HSG, PBS, JHA
HB1097	RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING EVICTIONS. Reduces the time required to store unclaimed personal effects of an evicted tenant.	HSG, FIN
HB1098	RELATING TO CRIMES AGAINST PROTECTIVE SERVICES WORKERS. Specifies that intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to a protective services worker who is engaged in the performance of the worker's duties is a class C felony. Clarifies that a protective services worker is a public servant for the purposes of section 707-716, HRS, Terroristic Threatening in the First Degree.	HSH, JHA
HB1099	MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES. Provides an emergency appropriation for fifty percent of the penalty assessed by the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. The funds will be reinvested in the continued development of a new eligibility system that will assist in reducing the State's supplemental nutrition assistance program payment error rate, which, if successful, may result in the State's not being required to pay the remaining fifty percent of the penalty.	HSH, FIN
HB1100	RELATING TO ACT 253, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2023. Updates the name of the Neighbor Islands Blind and Visually Impaired Service Pilot Program established by Act 253, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, by replacing the term "visually impaired" with the term "low vision" and clarifies the pilot program's implementation timeframes. Sunsets 6/30/2029.	HSH, FIN
HB1101	RELATING TO SAFE SPACES FOR YOUTH PROGRAM. Makes the Safe Spaces for Youth Pilot Program permanent within the Office of Youth Services. Requires the program to collaborate with all state and county departments that offer services for youth and young adults to coordinate the identification of youth and young adults who are experiencing homelessness and placement of these youth at a shelter for homeless youth or young adults. Authorizes the Office of Youth Services to contract with nonprofit organizations to provide shelters for homeless youth or young adults. Requires the Office of Youth Services to submit a report twenty days prior to the regular session of the Legislature.	HSH, FIN
HB1102	RELATING TO MEDICAL RECORDS. Repeals the requirement for the Department of Health to approve a provider's arrangement for the retention and preservation of patients' medical records prior to ceasing operations. Clarifies that retention and preservation of medical records must be consistent with federal and state regulations.	HLT, JHA
HB1103	RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Repeals the birth defects special fund and deposits a portion of fees for certified copies and marriage licenses into the vital statistics improvement special fund.	HLT, FIN
HB1104	RELATING TO AMENDING SECTION 323D-54, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES, TO EXEMPT THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FROM CERTIFICATE OF NEED REQUIREMENTS. Amends section 323D-54, HRS, to exempt the Department of Health from the State Health Planning and Development Agency's certificate of need requirements.	HLT, CPC
HB1105	RELATING TO CREDENTIALING OF HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS. Authorizes the Department of Health to implement a two-year pilot program that reduces duplicative activities required for the credentialing of health care providers by hospitals, universities, clinics, health plans, and independent practice associations; and establishes an advisory committee. Appropriates funds.	HLT, FIN
HB1106	RELATING TO THE STATE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Amends the quorum requirement for the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee.	HLT, JHA
HB1107	RELATING TO EMERGENCY AEROMEDICAL SERVICES. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to expand access to emergency aeromedical services.	HLT, FIN
HB1108	RELATING TO MANUFACTURED HEMP PRODUCTS. Clarifies that the definition of "manufactured hemp products" in section 328G-1, HRS, includes hemp products specified in rules adopted by the Department of Health pursuant to section 328G-4, HRS.	HLT, CPC
HB1109	RELATING TO MANUFACTURED HEMP PRODUCTS. Establishes a minimum age requirement for the sale of manufactured hemp products.	HLT, JHA
HB1110	RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Retroactively repeals the sunset date of the authorization for primary caregivers to cultivate medical cannabis for their qualifying patients. Clarifies that each location used to cultivate cannabis can be used to cultivate cannabis for no more than five qualifying patients. Effective 1/1/2025.	HLT, CPC, JHA
HB1111	RELATING TO REGISTRATION TO SELL MANUFACTURED HEMP PRODUCTS. Requires manufactured hemp product distributors and manufactured hemp product retailers to register with the Department of Health to sell manufactured hemp products; requires the Department of Health to collect application fees and issue certificates of registration.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB1112	RELATING TO VIRAL HEPATITIS. Establishes and appropriates moneys for a hepatitis prevention program within the Department of Health. Repeals section 325-91, HRS.	HLT, FIN
HB1113	RELATING TO CHANGES TO RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CONCERNING PATIENTS, THE COUNTY OF KALAWAO, AND THE KALAUPAPA SETTLEMENT. Establishes the Kalaupapa State Historical Area. Authorizes the Department of Health to continue providing services statewide to Hansen's disease patients living in the community. Repeals sections of chapter 326, Hawaii Revised Statutes, upon the one-year anniversary of the passing of the last patient resident of Kalaupapa as affirmed in the Governor's proclamation.	HLT, WAL, FIN
HB1114	RELATING TO HARM REDUCTION. Repeals the one-to-one syringe limit for the needle exchange program. Authorizes the Sterile Needle and Syringe Exchange Program to provide needs-based distribution. Authorizes non-injection drug user participation in the Program. Modifies liability for exchange program participants, staff, and law enforcement officers.	HLT, JHA
HB1115	RELATING TO UNIVERSAL IMMUNIZATION FUNDING PROGRAM. Establishes the Universal Immunization Purchase Special Fund into which the fees will be deposited to finance the distribution of immunizations free of charge to qualifying healthcare providers.	HLT, FIN
HB1116	RELATING TO HEALTH. Beginning July 1, 2026, bans the sale of all flavored tobacco products and mislabeled e-liquid products. Establishes positions and appropriates funds to enforce the ban. Repeals section 328J-11.5, HRS. Effective July 1, 2025.	HLT, CPC/JHA, FIN
HB1117	RELATING TO HEALTH. Repeals section 328J-11.5, HRS.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB1118	RELATING TO NON-MEDICAL EXEMPTIONS TO IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS. Repeals the non-medical exemption from immunization requirements.	HLT, JHA
HB1119	RELATING TO HOME CARE AGENCIES. Prohibits home care agencies from providing services outside the scope of their facility license.	HLT, CPC
HB1120	RELATING TO NUISANCES. Clarifies that the Department of Health has the legal authority and obligation to prevent and address nuisances that affect environmental health or public health, or both.	HLT, JHA
HB1121	RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM CIVIL SERVICE FOR CERTAIN POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Exempts certain positions in the Department of Health, including the Hawaii State Hospital, from civil service.	HLT, LAB, FIN
HB1122	RELATING TO THE TRANSITION OF THE OAHU REGIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FROM THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION INTO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Repeals the requirement to transfer the Oahu Regional Health Care System from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to the Department of Health. Repeals certain changes to the Hawaii Revised Statutes that were made by Act 212, SLH 2021. Requires the Oahu Regional Health Care System to enter into an agreement with the Department of Health regarding Oahu Regional Health Care System taking care of low acuity patients in the Department's custody by December 31, 2025.	HLT, FIN
HB1123	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS. Clarifies and updates the responsibilities of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division of the Department of Health to reflect the current mental health systems of care that address the mental health needs of children and adolescents in the State.	HLT/HSH, JHA
HB1124	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Establishes maximum rates of payment for medical care for patients of the Hawaii State Hospital or of another psychiatric facility who are under the custody of the Director of Health. Authorizes the Department of Health to establish long-term care payment rates for patients discharged to a long-term care facility from the Hawaii State Hospital or another psychiatric facility where they were under the custody of the Director of Health. Exempts the Department of Health from chapter 103F, HRS, for the procurement of medical care and long-term care for patients who are or were under the custody of the Director of Health at the Hawaii State Hospital or a psychiatric facility.	HLT, FIN
HB1125	RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Authorizes general excise tax exemptions for residential care services provided by certain licensed health care facilities pursuant to a contract with the Adult Mental Health Division of the Department of Health. Effective 1/1/26.	HLT, FIN
HB1126	RELATING TO YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH. Establishes a two-year digital youth mental health platform pilot project under which the child and adolescent mental health division of the department of health develops and makes publicly available a digital platform providing tools and resources designed to help young people address and manage mental health challenges.	HLT/HSH, FIN
HB1127	RELATING TO PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS. Authorizes each county to enact ordinances to enforce the design and construction requirements for the provision of accessible parking spaces, including the establishment of penalties for failure to comply with the ordinances.	HLT, JHA, FIN
HB1128	RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE ORDERS. Requires any order to cease and desist issued by the Director of Health that is administratively appealed to remain in effect during the appeals process.	HLT, JHA
HB1129	MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR CONSTRUCTION DEFECT REMEDIATION AT THE HAWAII STATE HOSPITAL. Emergency Appropriation of $8,160,000 in general funds to the Department of Health to fund construction defect remediation, including the payment of legal fees and cost of special deputies attorney general, of the Hale Hoʻola Building of the Hawaii State Hospital.	HLT, FIN
HB1130	RELATING TO PRIOR AUTHORIZATION OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES. Requires utilization review entities in the State to submit to the State Health Planning and Development Agency data relating to prior authorization of health care services.	HLT, CPC
HB1131	RELATING TO AN INTENSIVE MOBILE TEAM PILOT PROGRAM FOR HOUSELESS INDIVIDUALS SUFFERING FROM SERIOUS BRAIN DISORDERS. Establish a pilot program in the Department of Health to provide intensive mobile treatment-type services, e.g., "street psychiatry," to chronically houseless people suffering from serious brain disorders like schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.	HSH/HLT, FIN
HB1132	RELATING TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. Enhances sharing of critical infrastructure information between infrastructure owners and operators and the state government. Defines and protects "critical infrastructure information" that is crucial for direct support of the security and resilience of the State. Provides homeland security partners with reassurance that their proprietary information provided to the state government will be protected from disclosure.	WAL, PBS, JHA
HB1133	RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE ACT. Updates chapter 329, HRS, to make it consistent with amendments in the Federal Controlled Substances Act as required under section 329-11, HRS.	HLT, JHA
HB1134	RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as an investigator in a position identified by the Department of the Attorney General or the Department of Law Enforcement as a labor shortage or difficult—to-fill position, subject to certain conditions. Requires the director of human resources of the appropriate state jurisdiction or the human resources management chief executive of each county to include in their annual reports to the Legislature, details on the employment of retirants as investigators.	LAB, FIN
HB1135	RELATING TO THE WAGE AND HOUR LAW. Authorizes the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to issue an order of wage payment violation to the employer found to be in violation of wage and hour provisions. Establishes penalties, enforcement, and appeal procedures. Amends the definition of "wage" to include compensation for labor or services rendered by an employee, whether the amount is determined on a time, task, piece, commission, or other basis of calculation.	LAB, JHA
HB1136	RELATING TO HAWAII RETIREMENT SAVINGS ACT. Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the covered employee chooses to opt out. Effective upon approval.	LAB, FIN
HB1137	RELATING TO RESTORATION OF BEACH LANDS. Amends the definition of beach restoration to include activities undertaken to maintain and improve eroded beaches and degraded dune systems through the management of sand and native vegetation, placement of sand, and activities undertaken to remove abandoned and remnant materials that pose a risk to public and ecosystem health.	WAL, JHA
HB1138	RELATING TO OCEAN USER SAFETY. Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to issue interim rules regarding commercial and recreational use of water sports equipment.	WAL, JHA
HB1139	RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP FEES. Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources the environmental stewardship fee program to collect a fee from visitors through an environmental stewardship license and allocate the revenue to protect, restore, and manage natural and cultural resources through grants to nonprofit organizations. Establishes the environmental stewardship fee special fund. Establishes the Environmental Stewardship Commission to make recommendations to the Board of Land and Natural Resources regarding the use of revenues in the special fund. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct rulemaking. Requires a report to the legislature, including an environmental stewardship fee strategic plan. Creates civil or administrative penalties to be imposed after July 1, 2030. Appropriates funds.	TOU, WAL, FIN
HB1140	RELATING TO HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS ON DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES LANDS. Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to cover its work cleaning up after the removal of homeless encampments on state lands under the Department's control.	HSH, WAL, FIN
HB1141	RELATING TO UPDATING PUBLIC LAND LEASES ISSUED PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 171, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Requires that lease extensions approved by the Board of Land and Natural Resources be drafted on forms that reflect contemporary leasing practices and policies of the Board, and which shall control over conflicting or inconsistent provisions in the lease being extended.	WAL, JHA
HB1142	RELATING TO STATE WATER CODE PENALTIES. Adds a minimum penalty and amends the maximum penalty per violation of the State Water Code, expands the types of potential violations of the State Water Code, and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offense. Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to consider certain factors when imposing penalties.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB1143	RELATING TO A STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION INCOME TAX CREDIT. Reenacts the Historic Preservation Income Tax Credit, establishes a cap of the tax credit at $1,000,000, for taxable year 2025 to taxable year 2030, respectively, and repeals the tax credit on December 31, 2030.	WAL, FIN
HB1144	RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT IN THE STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROGRAM. Amend sections 6E-3 and 76-16(b), HRS, to allow the Department of Land and Natural Resources to employ both civil service and non-civil service professional and technical staff in its State Historic Preservation Program.	WAL, LAB, FIN
HB1145	RELATING TO CONFORMITY TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE. Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2024.	FIN
HB1146	RELATING TO PASS-THROUGH ENTITY TAXATION. For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024, requires all qualified members claiming a credit for pass-through entity taxation to adjust their income to include the qualified member's share of taxes paid by an electing pass-through entity.	FIN
HB1147	RELATING TO THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT. Clarifies that nonresidents who claim the refundable earned income tax credit are required to adjust the amount claimed using the ratio of their Hawaii adjusted gross income to federal adjusted gross income. Eliminates the unlimited carryforward on nonrefundable earned income tax credits for tax year 2022.	FIN
HB1148	RELATING TO TAX APPEALS. Clarifies that a notice of appeal relating to an appeal of a county tax is not required to be served on the Director of Taxation.	JHA
HB1149	RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX EXEMPTIONS. Repeals the general excise tax exemption for amounts received by independent sugar cane farmers. Repeals the general excise tax exemption for amounts received by a contractor of the Patient-Centered Community Care program that is established by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs pursuant to title 38 United States Code section 8153. Effective 1/1/2026.	FIN
HB1150	RELATING TO TAX COLLECTIONS. Suspends the statute of limitations on collections during the period an assessment is pending on appeal before the taxation board of review or tax appeal court.	JHA, FIN
HB1151	RELATING TO INCOME TAX WITHHOLDING. For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024, (1) repeals the maximum tax rate that may be considered in determining the amount of income tax that must be withheld and the requirement that a standard deduction allowance be treated as if it was denominated as a withholding exemption, and (2) for the purpose of income tax withholding, permits the Director of Taxation to prescribe a standard deduction allowance in an amount more or less than one whole exemption.	FIN
HB1152	RELATING TO TAX ADMINISTRATION. Permanently exempts the software developer supervisor in the Department of Taxation and the data privacy officer and tax business analysts in the Director's office of the Department from civil service.	LAB, FIN
HB1153	RELATING TO FUNDING ADJUSTMENTS FOR STATE PROGRAMS. Authorizes supplemental allotments and transfer of unrequired balances for capital improvement program projects and establishes a protocol fund for each state principal department. Effective upon approval.	FIN
HB1154	RELATING TO CENTRAL SERVICES ASSESSMENT. Amends the transfer of funds for central service expenses from the State Highway Fund, Airport Revenue Fund, and Harbor Special Fund by: (1) limiting the deduction to five per cent of all receipts and deposits in the fund, or $5,000,000, whichever is less, and (2) creating a process to deduct additional amounts based on the Consumer Price Index.	TRN, FIN
HB1155	RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Exempts from the Hawaii Public Procurement Code contracts by government bodies to procure certain construction projects.	FIN
HB1156	RELATING TO SPECIAL FACILITY REVENUE BONDS. Amends section 266-52, HRS, to increase the total principal amount of special facility revenue bonds that may be issued by the Department of Transportation for harbor improvements.	TRN, FIN
HB1157	RELATING TO CAPITAL ADVANCEMENT CONTRACTS. Amends section 266-19.5(d), HRS, for the purpose of increasing the cap for the contract value of any one capital advancement contract (CAC) and the cap for the total aggregate value of CACs in a fiscal year entered into by the Department of Transportation with private parties for harbor improvements. Adds reporting requirements for the department.	TRN, FIN
HB1158	RELATING TO FIREFIGHTING AT COMMERCIAL HARBORS. Limits civil liability of individuals who render firefighting services at any of the State's commercial harbors or roadsteads, any commercial harbor or waterfront improvement belonging to or controlled by the State, or any vessel within a commercial harbor or roadstead to only damages resulting from an individual's gross negligence or wanton acts or omissions.	TRN, PBS, JHA
HB1159	RELATING TO COMMERCIAL HARBORS. Specifically requires masters or persons in charge of vessels to follow an order by a harbor master to evacuate a commercial harbor in emergencies. Establishes higher penalties for noncompliance. Amends section 266-19(a) to include fines collected for violations of this section as moneys to be paid into the Special Harbor Fund.	TRN, PBS, JHA
HB1160	RELATING TO PUPIL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY. Amends sections 286-102 and 286-181, HRS, to allow exemptions to include use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans, which may not meet school bus regulations for school bus services, but which shall otherwise meet vehicle requirements and qualifications set forth in chapter 19-143, Hawaii Administrative Rules, to the extent required by the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education, when adult staff chaperone escorts of students are provided while students are being transported between designated locations off-campus and designated locations on-campus.	EDN, FIN
HB1161	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Provides authority for a county to impose a mileage-based road usage charge. Provides for disposition of funds of county mileage-based road usage charge. Clarifies the disposition of funds of state mileage-based road usage charge. Repeals the maximum amount a driver will pay in a state mileage-based road usage charge on June 30, 2028. Establishes a default state mileage-based road usage charge rate when missing, incomplete, or incorrect odometer reading information that will prevent the state mileage-based road usage charge from being calculated. Establishes a state mileage-based road usage charge subaccount to allow for the disbursements or reimbursements back to vehicle owners.	TRN, CPC, FIN
HB1162	RELATING TO MOTORCYCLE INSTRUCTION PERMITS. Starting on July 1, 2026, requires all applicants for a motorcycle instruction permit to successfully complete a basic motorcycle rider course approved by the Department of Transportation before becoming eligible for the permit.	TRN, JHA
HB1163	RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVERS LICENSING. Amends section 286-236, HRS, to meet current federal regulations to allow the State to issue a limited-term non-domiciled commercial learner's permit and non-domiciled commercial driver's license for applicants who are unable to provide proof of citizenship or lawful permanent residency.	TRN, FIN
HB1164	RELATING TO HIGHWAY REVENUE BONDS. Restores the revenue bond authorization for the Department of Transportation to issue Highway Revenue Bonds for highway capital improvement projects authorized in Act 164, Session Laws of Hawaii (SLH) 2023, as amended by Act 230, SLH 2024. Effective upon approval.	TRN, FIN
HB1165	RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. Authorizes the counties to sell or dispose of property bordering the ocean when the Department of Transportation requests the acquisition of the property for state highway purposes.	TRN, WAL, JHA
HB1166	RELATING TO AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT SYSTEMS PROGRAM. Appropriates funds out of the State Highway Fund for deposit into the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program Special Fund and apporitates funds out of the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program Special Fund for fiscal year 2025-2026.	TRN, FIN
HB1167	MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. Makes an emergency appropriation out of the State Highway Fund to provide funds for fiscal year 2024-2025 for the Department of Transportation to enforce the Motor Carrier Law.	TRN, FIN
HB1168	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII REVENUE BONDS. Authorizes the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to issue revenue bonds for up to $800,000,000 for the purpose of financing qualifying priority capital improvement projects.	HED, FIN
HB1169	RELATING TO UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CONFERENCE CENTER REVOLVING FUND. Establishes the University of Hawaii Conference Center Revolving Fund and accounts under the fund to facilitate the administration of the revolving fund for conference center programs among various campuses and operating units of the University of Hawaii system. Repeals the Conference Center Revolving Fund, University of Hawaii at Hilo, and the Community College Conference Center Revolving Fund. Transfers all appropriations and encumbrances of the Conference Center Revolving Fund, University of Hawaii at Hilo, and the Community College Conference Center Revolving Fund to the University of Hawaii Conference Center Revolving Fund.	HED, FIN
HB1170	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII RESIDENT TUITION FEE. Requires the University of Hawaii to grant the resident tuition fee for enrollment at any University of Hawaii campus to individuals who have graduated from a Hawaii high school and are enrolling in an undergraduate degree program, under certain conditions.	HED, FIN