Relating To Bribery.
2026 Regular Session
Establishes heightened penalties for the offense of bribery, under certain circumstances. (SD1)
Examine this bill →Feb 27, 2025
Decisions that shape your community
Examine the legislation.
Read the public record, follow a measure’s history, see recorded votes, and save your own position.
Browse proposed constitutional and county charter questions in ballot measures. Their public election results are recorded separately from legislative votes.
24 measures shown
Relating To The General Fund.
2026 Regular Session
Provides a tax credit to taxpayers and makes deposits to the emergency and budget reserve fund and other post-employment benefits trust fund pursuant to article VII, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Examine this bill →Feb 27, 2025
Relating To Internships.
2026 Regular Session
Permits the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to enter into contracts with eligible employers or registered apprenticeship programs in the private sector to provide on-the-job training to eligible interns. Provides that the State shall be the responsible employer for purposes of workers' compensation coverage for students or recent graduates in the on-the-job-training work experience program, subject to certain limitations. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Examine this bill →Feb 27, 2025
Relating To Taxation.
2026 Regular Session
Requires the Department of Taxation to provide refunds to taxpayers at the same interest rate as the federal government. Effective 7/1/2025. (SD1)
Examine this bill →Feb 27, 2025
Relating To Education.
2026 Regular Session
Establishes the Future Career and Technical Education Teacher Scholarship Program to be administered by the Department of Education to facilitate the recruitment and retention of career and technical education teachers in Hawaii public schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Examine this bill →Feb 27, 2025
Relating To Education.
2026 Regular Session
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support public schools impacted by a local investorowned electric utility's planned public safety power shutoff program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Examine this bill →Feb 27, 2025
Relating To The Estate Tax.
2026 Regular Session
Amends the exclusion amount of Hawaii's estate tax. Repeals exemption for tax imposed on transfer of taxable estate located in Hawaii for nonresidents and nonresidents who are not citizens. Applicable to decedents dying or taxable transfers occurring after 12/31/2024. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Examine this bill →Feb 27, 2025
Relating To Nepotism.
2026 Regular Session
Repeals language in the State's Code of Ethics that exempts the legislative and judicial branches from prohibitions against nepotism in public employment. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Examine this bill →Feb 19, 2025
Relating To Nuclear Energy.
2026 Regular Session
Establishes the Nuclear Energy Task Force within the Hawaii State Energy Office. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Examine this bill →Feb 19, 2025
Relating To Education.
2026 Regular Session
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for its Hoakea Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Examine this bill →Feb 19, 2025
Relating To Agriculture.
2026 Regular Session
Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Examine this bill →Feb 19, 2025
Relating To Elections.
2026 Regular Session
Specifies that election ballots issued by the Chief Election Officer or county clerk shall exclude any candidate who is disqualified by a constitutional or statutory provision. Provides for a process for challenging an inclusion or exclusion of a candidate from a ballot. Includes a candidate's disqualification as grounds for an election contest complaint. Specifies that electors of presidential and vice presidential candidates shall not be individuals who are disqualified by a constitutional or statutory provision.
Examine this bill →Feb 19, 2025
Relating To Pass-through Entity Taxation.
2026 Regular Session
For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024, 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. Effective July 1, 3000. (HD1)
Examine this bill →Feb 18, 2025
Relating To Identification Processing.
2026 Regular Session
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.
Examine this bill →Jan 23, 2025
Relating To Mental Health.
2026 Regular Session
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.
Examine this bill →Jan 23, 2025
Relating To Health Care.
2026 Regular Session
Adopts the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act (2023), as modified, to replace chapters 327E and 327G, HRS. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Examine this bill →Jan 23, 2025
Relating To Fireworks.
2026 Regular Session
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.
Examine this bill →Jan 23, 2025
Relating To The Rental Housing Revolving Fund.
2026 Regular Session
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.
Examine this bill →Jan 23, 2025
Relating To The Hawaii Technology Development Corporation.
2026 Regular Session
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.
Examine this bill →Jan 23, 2025
Relating To The Land Study Bureau Soil Rating System.
2026 Regular Session
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.
Examine this bill →Jan 23, 2025
Relating To Important Agricultural Lands.
2026 Regular Session
Establishes an important agricultural lands incentive to provide alternative means to develop housing for farmers and farm employees. Authorizes a landowner or lessee of important agricultural lands to apply to a county for a permit allowing the landowner or lessee to develop, construct, and maintain farm cluster housing. Requires each county to enact ordinances to allow farm cluster housing on important agricultural lands. Establishes requirements for farm cluster housing. Repeals existing requirements for farm dwellings and employee housing on important agricultural lands. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Examine this bill →Jan 23, 2025
Relating To Taxation.
2026 Regular Session
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.
Examine this bill →Jan 23, 2025
Relating To Land Use.
2026 Regular Session
Authorizes county petition process for review and approval of land use district boundary amendments based on adopted county general plans or county development plans.
Examine this bill →Jan 23, 2025
Relating To Integrated Land Use.
2026 Regular Session
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.
Examine this bill →Jan 23, 2025