Appropriation
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-757]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students enrolled in department schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Relating To Health. [HB-756]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Prohibits the sale of flavored nicotine products and nicotine product flavor enhancers and the mislabeling of e-liquids as nicotine free. Establishes penalties for violations. Authorizes the Department of Health to appoint, commission, or contract for services of inspectors. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Environment. [HB-750]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
Requires the Department of Health to conduct a statewide needs assessment to determine what will be needed to reduce waste generation, increase reuse, improve recycling collection services, and expand local processing of materials through an extended producer responsibility program for packaging materials and paper products. Establishes an advisory council to review the draft needs assessment and propose recommendations throughout the assessment process. Requires the Department of Health to hold a public hearing on the draft needs assessment and
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Taxation. [HB-701]
[Taxes ]
[Healthcare ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Establishes a family caregiver tax credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to submit annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys to the Executive Office on Aging. The tax credit applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2026. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Sustainable Food Systems. [SB-1186]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Establishes the Statewide Interagency Food Systems Coordination Team and the Interagency Food Systems Working Group within the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Energy. [SB-897]
[Energy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Insurance ]
[Funding ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Allows electric cooperatives to recover wildfire mitigation, repair, and restoration costs through an automatic rate adjustment or other mechanism. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to initiate a proceeding for the adoption of rules, subject to the Governor's approval, to determine an aggregate limit for liability for economic damages from a covered catastrophic wildfire. Authorizes securitization of certain costs for electric utilities. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to conduct studies on whether the framework established in the
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Fireworks. [HB-550]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Drones ]
Allows recordings made by law enforcement agencies who are using, controlling, or operating unmanned aerial vehicles to establish probable cause for arrests under the Fireworks Control Law if the unmanned aerial vehicle is recording directly above public property and the act leading to the arrest is committed on public property. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The University Of Hawaii's Space Science And Engineering Initiative. [HB-563]
[Education ]
[Science ]
[Aerospace ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Appropriates funds for salaries and fringe benefits of positions for the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy's Space Science and Engineering Initiative Workforce Development Program, Maunakea Scholars Program, and Internship Program. Appropriates funds for office equipment and supplies, operational costs, and stipends for high school and college students. Effective 7/31/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Homeless Youth. [HB-613]
[Housing ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Safety ]
[Poverty ]
Makes the Safe Spaces for Youth Pilot Program permanent within the Office of Youth Services. Requires the program to collaborate with certain state and county departments. Authorizes the Office of Youth Services to contract with nonprofit organizations to provide shelters for homeless youth or young adults. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Freshwater Waterways. [HB-536]
[Water ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Prohibits residing in, on, or within fifty feet of a freshwater waterway. Authorizes state and local law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program and county police, to enforce the prohibition.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-637]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requires the Department of Education to implement dyslexia-sensitive universal screenings and evidence-based interventions, offer professional development on structured literacy and evidenced-based interventions, and support pre-teacher programs in training candidates in structured literary instruction. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Transportation. [HB-670]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Energy ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Renames the Electric Bicycle and Electric Moped Rebate Program to the Electric Mobility Device Rebate Program. Expands eligibility and amends the maximum rebate amount. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Commuting. [HB-461]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Energy ]
[Climate Change ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Requires the Director of Human Resources Development, in consultation with the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, Hawaii State Energy Office, and Department of Accounting and General Services, to develop and implement a comprehensive Commuting Choice Benefit Program for all state employees regardless of mode of transportation. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Small Business Loans. [HB-455]
[Small Business ]
[Economic Development ]
[Finance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Appropriates moneys to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the contracting of services for start-up business financing and support. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Department Of Business, Economic Development, And Tourism. [HB-450]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Tourism ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
Transfers the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission from the Department of Accounting and General Services to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the authority held by the Comptroller over the Works of Art Special Fund to the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Appropriates funds for positions within the Administrative Services Office of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the State Foundation on Culture and the
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Mmaki Tea. [HB-496]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Food ]
[Funding ]
[Small Business ]
Prohibits the use of certain words and misleading Hawaiian imagery, place names, and motifs on the label of a consumer package that contains or includes tea or dried leaves from the plant Pipturus albidus, unless 100 per cent of the tea or dried leaves were cultivated, harvested, and dried in the State. Appropriates funds for a Measurement Standards Inspector position. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Making An Appropriation For The Victim Witness Assistance Program. [HB-394]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the Victim Witness Assistance Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Electric Utilities. [HB-339]
[Energy ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
Part I: Requires the Public Utilities Commission to impose certain conditions of approval on any order approving, in whole or in part, an application for the proposed acquisition, merger, or consolidation of an electric utility company by an acquiring entity. Establishes a process to ensure that when an electric utility is subject to an application for a proposed acquisition, merger, or consolidation by a potential acquiring entity that is an investor-owned utility and seeks approval of the application from the Public Utilities Commission, it must
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Environmental Stewardship Fees. [SB-673]
[Environmental ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Taxes ]
[Tourism ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Recreation ]
Effective 7/1/2027, establishes the Environmental Stewardship Fee Program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources, through which the Department will collect a fee from visitors for a license to visit a state park, forest, hiking trail, or other state natural area. Establishes the Environmental Stewardship Fee Special Fund effective 7/1/2025. Allocates a certain amount of transient accommodations tax revenues to the special fund. Requires report to the Legislature on strategic plan and timetable for objectives and implementation of the
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To A Climate Adaptation And Resilience Implementation Plan. [SB-677]
[Climate Change ]
[Environmental ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop and publish a Hawaii climate adaptation and resilience implementation plan. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)