Judiciary
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Child Welfare Services. [SB-1228]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Establishes a working group for legal services for youth in the child welfare system within the Judiciary. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the working group. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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Gettr Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Related To Summary Possession. [HB-979]
[Real Estate ]
[Taxes ]
[Housing ]
[Property Tax ]
Requires that a current general excise tax 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Procurement. [SB-1227]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Inflation ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Community Development ]
[Healthcare ]
Beginning 1/1/2026, requires contracts for services awarded to community-based organizations by the Department of Health, Department of Human Services, or Judiciary in support of fulfilling their statutory mandates to individuals, families, and communities in the State to include certain protections against inflation. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health, Department of Human Services, and Judiciary to increase the contract price in existing contracts for certain services provided by community-based organizations in support of fulfilling
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Child Welfare Services. [HB-900]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Establishes a working group for legal services for youth in the child welfare system within the Judiciary. Appropriates funds for the working group. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
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Relating To The Women's Court. [HB-727]
[Crime ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Services ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Healthcare ]
Permanently establishes the Women's Court Program in the First Circuit. Establishes a temporary two-year Women's Court Pilot Program within the Kona division of the Third Circuit. Requires reports. Establishes a temporary position. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2027. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Judiciary. [HB-584]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Short form bill relating to the Judiciary.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Land Court. [SB-949]
[Real Estate ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establishes a working group to reform or eliminate the land court in Hawaii.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Judiciary. [HB-560]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Community Development ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Appropriates funds to the Judiciary to support services contracted with community-based organizations that deliver essential services, streamline judicial processes, and support the judiciary's capacity to effectively meet the needs of vulnerable households. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Fitness To Proceed. [SB-955]
[Mental Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Clarifies who may serve as a qualified examiner in a fitness-to-proceed examination. Clarifies the term of commitment for a defendant being held at a hospital or mental health facility for a fitness-to-proceed examination. Reduces the number of qualified examiners required for a fitness-to-proceed examination in a felony case from 3 to 1. Establishes a reduced penalty, except in certain circumstances, for a person who commits the offense of escape in the second degree while in the custody of the Director of Health. Sunsets the amendments related
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
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Relating To Guardianship And Conservatorship Services. [HB-648]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establishes a two-year pilot program in the Probate Court and Family Court of the First Circuit to fund certain guardianship- and conservatorshiprelated court resources in situations where the respondent does not have sufficient funds to pay for one or more of the resources and the court has deemed the resource or resources beneficial. Requires the Judiciary to submit reports to the Governor and Legislature. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
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Relating To The State Budget. [SB-933]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Community Development ]
Appropriates moneys to the Office of Community Services of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for the award of grants for fiscal year 2025-2026. Establishes an evaluation and selection committee to oversee the awarding of grants. Authorizes the Office of Community Services to contract the services of Aloha United Way to assist with the administration and distribution of grant awards. Appropriates moneys to the Office of Community Services for positions, office equipment, and furniture. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Judiciary. [SB-916]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Relating To The Judiciary. Short form bill.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Expungement. [SB-861]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to transmit all expungement orders to the Judiciary to effectuate the purposes of Act 159, SLH 2023.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Due Process Protections. [SB-816]
[Immigration ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
[Human Rights ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Establishes the Due Process in Immigration Proceedings Program to provide legal representation to individuals in immigration-related proceedings in immigration court. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
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Relating To Eviction Mediation. [SB-825]
[Housing ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Beginning 2/5/2026, extends the period for a notice of termination of a rental agreement from five business days to ten calendar days; requires landlords, or their agents, and tenants to engage in mediation and requires landlords and their agents to delay filing an action for summary possession if a tenant schedules mediation; requires landlords or their agents to provide specific information in the ten-calendar-day notice to tenants; and requires mediation to take place within thirty days from the date that a mediation center makes contact with
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Due Process Protections. [HB-438]
[Immigration ]
[Funding ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Human Rights ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Establishes the Due Process in Immigration Proceedings Program within the Judiciary to provide legal representation to individuals in immigration-related proceedings. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Landlord Tenant Code. [SB-822]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Establishes a three-year Residential Landlord-Tenant Code Working Group within the Judiciary. Requires an initial report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2026 and a final report no later than 7/1/2028. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Guardianship And Conservatorship Services. [SB-788]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Disabilities ]
[Healthcare ]
Establishes a two-year pilot program in the Probate Court and Family Court of the First Circuit to fund certain guardianship and conservatorship related court resources in situations where the respondent does not have sufficient funds to pay for one or more of the resources and the court has deemed the resource or resources beneficial. Requires the Judiciary to submit reports to the Governor and Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 4/23/2057. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Government Records. [SB-786]
[Disabilities ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Human Services ]
Beginning 1/1/2027, requires all government records required to be open to public inspection under the Uniform Information Practices Act to be made available in a disability-accessible format upon request. Requires the Governor, Chief Justice, and Mayor of each county to designate at least one agency within their respective government unit as a converting agency responsible for converting government records into a disability-accessible format. Establishes the process by which government records shall be converted into disability-accessible format
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Eviction Records. [HB-463]
[Housing ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requires the Judiciary to conduct a study to determine the ability, best approaches, various issues, and potential impacts of requiring courts to disassociate a residential tenant from an eviction proceeding brought by a landlord in certain circumstances. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)