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HB274Introduced

Relating To Subcontractors.

2026 Regular Session

Requires a contractor to pay a subcontractor within 30 days of receiving an invoice for services rendered. Provides penalties for delayed or withheld payments.

HB278Introduced

Relating To Policing.

2026 Regular Session

Requires county police departments and police oversight agencies to collect and report certain data regarding police stops, uses of force, and complaints to the Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance Division of the Department of the Attorney General. Requires the Division to collect and publish incident-level information and an annual report on the data collected. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

HB279Introduced

Relating To Firearms.

2026 Regular Session

Allows the carrying or possessing of firearm parts only at or between certain locations and in an enclosed container. Defines firearm parts and prohibited persons. Establishes and increases penalties for the carrying or possessing of certain firearms or firearm parts other than at or between specific locations and in an enclosed container.

HB281Introduced

Relating To General Excise Tax.

2026 Regular Session

Exempts food and groceries from the general excise tax. Expands a 2024 session law exempting certain medical and dental services to include all medical and dental services.

HB284Introduced

Relating To Housing.

2026 Regular Session

Requires counties to grant building permits within sixty days if the application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other certain conditions are met.

HB285Introduced

Relating To Insurance.

2026 Regular Session

Establishes tax credits for insurers providing full property coverage to owners and associations of condominiums in the amount equal to twenty per cent of the insurance premium. Provides additional ten per cent tax credits to insurers incorporated in the State.

HB288Introduced

Relating To School Bus Services.

2026 Regular Session

Authorizes the Department of Education to use alternative vehicles for student transportation under certain conditions. Allows the Department of Education to institute a staggered school hours program in public schools. Appropriates funds for the purchase of alternative vehicles and individuals to obtain CDL licensure. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

HB289Introduced

Relating To Education.

2026 Regular Session

Requires the department of education to prohibit cell phone use during the instructional day, prohibit student access to social media through the school's internet, and implement a social media education campaign. Creates exemptions for students requiring accommodations, emergency situations, and teacher authorizations.

HB292Introduced

Relating To Transportation.

2026 Regular Session

Categorizes electric bicycles into three classes based on speed and operation. Requires electric bicycle manufacturers and distributors to apply a label to each electric bicycle. Authorizes county police to confiscate bicycles for certain offenses. Increases penalty fee paid upon redemption. Imposes a requirement that counties inform individuals of the applicable traffic code, safety information, and penalties for violations at the time of registering a bicycle.

HB295Introduced

Relating To Hawaiian Home Lands.

2026 Regular Session

Amends the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended, to authorize the transfer of a living beneficiary's place on the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands' waitlist for any residential, agricultural, or pastoral tract to a qualified application successor who is at least one-fourth Hawaiian, if the beneficiary dies. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

HB296Introduced

Relating To Office Of Legislative Analyst.

2026 Regular Session

Requires the office of legislative analyst to produce fiscal notes on all fiscal bills. Prohibits a committee from making a decision on a fiscal bill without a fiscal note. Mandates that fiscal notes be made available to the public. Appropriates funds.

HB297Introduced

Relating To Elections.

2026 Regular Session

Requires that each county council district feature at least one voter service center for elections. Provides further, that each county council district must have one voter service center open on election day.

HB304Introduced

Relating To The Hawaiian Language.

2026 Regular Session

Requires that the Hawaiian version of a law be held binding if the law in question was originally drafted in Hawaiian and then translated into English and the law has not been later amended, codified, recodified, or reenacted in English. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)