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2026 Regular Session
Authorizes digital asset banking in the State. Requires the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to adopt and enforce regulations for digital asset banking. Effective 9/1/2026.
2026 Regular Session
Requires operators of digital asset kiosks to have requisite licenses or registrations; make annual reports to the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; limit transaction amounts for new consumers; provide disclosures, receipts, and customer service contact information to all consumers; and cooperate with the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and applicable law enforcement agencies in the investigation of fraudulent transactions. Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to investigate and take enforcement actions against operators. Extends joint liability to businesses or establishments wherein digital asset kiosks are located that are determined to have processed a fraudulent transaction or a transaction for which an operator is found to be liable.
2026 Regular Session
Requires certain employers to provide unpaid and paid leave of absence for victims of workplace violence or threat of workplace violence. Expands the type of certification an employee may provide to an employer if the leave exceeds five days per calendar year.
2026 Regular Session
Appropriates moneys to the State Public Charter School Commission for prekindergarten-only public charter schools.
2026 Regular Session
Requires individuals to obtain a license to transport fireworks. Prohibits the transportation or production of fireworks without a valid license. Establishes a minimum fine of $10,000 for the importation, storage, transport, distribution, or production of fireworks without a valid license. Clarifies that certain assets are subject to forfeiture for violations of section 132D14(a)(1), HRS. Requires any person who reports information leading directly to a forfeiture for violations of section 132D14(a)(1), HRS, to receive fifty per cent of the total value of the assets subject to forfeiture.
2026 Regular Session
Establishes the Department of Water Safety and Drowning Prevention. Establishes the position of Director of Water Safety and Drowning Prevention. Establishes the position of Deputy Director of Water Safety and Drowning Prevention. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2525. (SD1)
2026 Regular Session
Authorizes the waiver of certain healthcare worker licensure requirements during emergencies. Requires the Department of Health to submit an annual report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
2026 Regular Session
Requires home schooled students to participate in certain annual in person tests at the public school that the student would otherwise be required to attend.
2026 Regular Session
Expands the statewide curfew to apply to minors under 18 years of age, instead of under 16. Amends the exceptions to, and penalties for, violations of the statewide curfew. Restricts a county's authority to enact curfew ordinances to only those ordinances that are more stringent than the statewide curfew.
2026 Regular Session
Requires the Department of Human Services to provide Medicaid and Medicare part D prescription drug program recipients with coverage of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) drugs for weight loss. Appropriates funds.
2026 Regular Session
Establishes a Labor Day tax credit for employers of construction workers. Requires any employer of a construction worker to pay the construction worker at a rate that is twice the worker's regular rate of pay for any work performed on Labor Day.
2026 Regular Session
Exempts the sale of groceries and nonprescription drugs from the general excise tax. 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.
2026 Regular Session
Establishes a regulatory framework for continuing care retirement communities and continuing care at home programs. Establishes the Continuing Care Advisory Committee.
2026 Regular Session
Establishes Immigrants Day as a state holiday that is held annually on October 28. Changes Statehood Day from a state holiday to a day of recognition.
2026 Regular Session
Increases from 70% to 90% the taxation rate on electronic smoking devices and e-liquid sold, used, or possessed by a wholesaler or dealer after 12/31/2026. Provides for the deposit of the additional tax revenue into the Hawaii cancer research special fund.
2026 Regular Session
Allows any hemp processor with a permit from the Department of Health to sell certain manufactured hemp products that contain a tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than five milligrams per serving. Prohibits the sale of certain manufactured hemp products to any person less than twenty-one years of age. Includes processed floral materials as "manufactured hemp products". Increases the maximum tetrahydrocannabinol concentration for tinctures to five milligrams per serving.
2026 Regular Session
Authorizes applicants, operators, and third-party employers, rather than the Department of Health, to conduct background checks of employees and adult volunteers at healthcare facilities. Effective 1/30/2050. (SD1)
2026 Regular Session
Requires release on recognizance for defendants charged with violations, traffic offenses, nonviolent petty misdemeanors, nonviolent misdemeanors, and nonviolent class C felonies, subject to conditions. Establishes exclusions for specified offenses, threats to public safety, and wilful flight. Requires findings when bail or detention is imposed, ongoing review of continued detention or conditions, and a prompt hearing if bail cannot be posted. Requires prosecutors to notify victims of pretrial decisions.
2026 Regular Session
Removes references to countdown timers as it relates to pedestrian-control signals, including the requirement that pedestrians must begin crossing a roadway before a countdown timer begins.
2026 Regular Session
Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine to purchase, or to contract with a third party or third parties in the private sector to purchase and operate, a single-room proton therapy system; provided that the system shall be available to all residents of the State.
2026 Regular Session
Clarifies that the value of property or services is a grading factor for theft offenses that does not require proof of a culpable mental state. Increases theft threshold amounts.
2026 Regular Session
Prohibits the use of a detachable ammunition magazine with over a fifty-round capacity with any firearm other than a pistol with exceptions.
2026 Regular Session
Restores the provision that makes references to the Internal Revenue Code's base-amount requirement inapplicable to the Research Activities Tax Credit, allowing all qualified research expenses to be claimed without regard to prior-year expenses. Increases the annual cap for the Research Activities Tax Credit.
2026 Regular Session
Exempts county elected officials, county candidates, and county candidate committees from the prohibition on receiving contributions from a lobbyist during a state legislative session.