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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Electric Vehicle Batteries. [HB-788]
Establishes a working group within the Hawaii State Energy Office to make recommendations for the reuse and recycling of electric vehicle batteries and requires a report to the Legislature.
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Relating To Agriculture. [HB-782]
Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a working group to review and make recommendations on amending or repealing unnecessary or obsolete laws pertaining to agriculture. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Agriculture. [SB-1185]
Establishes within the Department of Agriculture a working group to review and make recommendations on amending or repealing unnecessary or obsolete laws pertaining to agriculture. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Insurance. [SB-1129]
Requires the Insurance Commissioner to convene a working group to identify, assess, and recommend certain risk transfer market mechanisms. Requires annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Energy. [SB-897]
Allows electric cooperatives to recover wildfire mitigation, repaid, and restoration costs through an automatic rate adjustment or other mechanism. Establishes an aggregate limit for liability for economic damages from covered catastrophic wildfires. Authorizes securitization of certain costs for electric utilities. Establishes a working group to examine the establishment and implementation of a wildfire recovery fund and report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Economic Development. [SB-891]
Establishes a Tourism and Gaming Working Group within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Hawaii First Responders Memorial. [SB-998]
Appropriates funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services to hire a consultant to evaluate potential locations and designs for the Hawaii First Responders Memorial.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Land Court. [SB-949]
Establishes a working group to reform or eliminate the land court in Hawaii.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Hawaii First Responders Memorial. [HB-503]
Appropriates funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services to hire a consultant to evaluate potential locations and designs for the Hawaii First Responders Memorial. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To School Psychologists. [HB-624]
Creates a School Psychologists Working Group within the Department of Education to recommend actionable steps or propose legislation for an immediate pathway to licensure for school psychologists that can be acted upon in 2026. Requires a report to the Legislature. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Affordable Housing. [SB-867]
Establishes a working group within the Office of the Governor for administrative purposes to ascertain the State's available water resources and water system source capacity and to streamline well permit approval processes to further plan for the development of affordable housing. Requires the working group to inventory all available water resources statewide and identify sources of aquifer replenishment in relation to affordable housing development. Requires an interim and final report to the Legislature. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Wind Energy. [HB-514]
Creates an offshore wind energy working group to generate a roadmap to define standards to consider in the developmental process for offshore wind energy. Requires the working group to submit a report to the legislature prior to the 2027 regular session.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Environmental Stewardship. [HB-504]
Amends the transient accommodations tax rate beginning on 1/1/2027. Beginning 1/1/2027, requires collection of a monthly tax of $20 per passenger per port entry or any commercial passenger vessel at any port facility under the jurisdiction of the department of taxation. Establishes a Transient Accommodation Tax Enforcement Working Group. Requires the transfer of all agricultural leases under the jurisdiction of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Department of Agriculture. Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Landlord Tenant Code. [SB-822]
Establishes a three-year Residential Landlord-Tenant Code Working Group within the Department of the Attorney General. 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. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Related To Toxic Chemicals. [SB-737]
Establishes a temporary working group in the Office of the Governor to investigate the existence and environmental dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and related chemicals. Requires reports to the Legislature.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Housing. [HB-418]
Establishes a working group to revise the State's Qualified Allocation Plan, the prioritization of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund, and the terms of loans made from the RHRF. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Fishponds. [HB-309]
Establishes a fishpond inventory working group within the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to create an inventory and map of all fishponds on state land and conduct a literature review. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Electric Vehicle Batteries. [HB-242]
Establishes a working group within the Hawaii State Energy Office to examine how to maximize the recycling and reuse of electric vehicle batteries and recommend electric vehicle battery management practices. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Squatting. [HB-225]
Establishes a working group within the Department of the Attorney General to study the issue of squatting in Hawaii and provide recommendations. Requires reports to the legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Infrastructure. [SB-564]
Establishes a working group within the Department of Transportation to conduct a comprehensive study to assess the State's port and harbor system and the potential viability of each location in that system to support current and future agricultural product transportation methods and needs. Requires a report. Appropriates moneys.