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HB273Introduced
2026 Regular Session
Establishes a School Choice Scholarship program which allows parents to exercise more financial freedom to send their children to nonpublic schools with the assistance of a $10,000 grant for eligible students.
HB274Introduced
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.
HB275Introduced
2026 Regular Session
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriated funds for capital improvement projects in the 41st representative district.
HB278Introduced
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
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
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.
HB282Introduced
2026 Regular Session
Provides an income tax deduction for tips received by tipped employees.
HB283Introduced
2026 Regular Session
Eliminates the state individual income tax.
HB284Introduced
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
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.
HB287Introduced
2026 Regular Session
Proposes a constitutional amendment that would establish local school boards throughout the State to be elected by the voters and to serve no more than twelve years as a member.
HB288Introduced
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
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.
HB290Introduced
2026 Regular Session
Establishes strict liability for crimes against elders with respect to the attendant circumstance that the victim was sixty years of age or older.
HB291Introduced
2026 Regular Session
Clarifies when the use of deadly force is not justified. Removes the requirement to retreat or surrender possessions prior to using deadly force.
HB292Introduced
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.
HB293Introduced
2026 Regular Session
Requires that all moneys in the pro rata portion of the Public Land Trust be transferred to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
HB294Introduced
2026 Regular Session
Requires leases used in the conveyance of available lands as defined by section 203 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, as amended, to conform to the requirements for securitization by federally insured lending programs.
HB295Introduced
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
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
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.
HB298Introduced
2026 Regular Session
Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the legislature to a maximum of twelve years in the house of representatives or senate, or both, for terms beginning on or after the general election of 2026.
HB301Introduced
2026 Regular Session
Makes a second or subsequent conviction for violation of a domestic abuse protective order a class C felony. Increases the sentencing requirements for second or subsequent convictions.
HB304Introduced
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)