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signed · Hawaii · House Jul 2, 2025

HB 422: RELATING TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES.

Repeals the construction cost component of school impact fees. Exempts government housing developments, affordable housing units and projects, and Hawaiian home lands housing from school impact fees. Requires the School Facilities Authority to adopt rules governing fee collection. Increases the minimum number of units in a development to trigger land dedication provisions of the land component impact fee. Requires a report to the Legislature on program efficacy. Sunsets 7/1/2029. (CD1)
Topics ✗ EducationOpposes EducationBill repeals construction cost component of school impact fees and exempts affordable housing, reducing potential school funding streams from development fees.85% confidence ✓ HousingSupports HousingExempts affordable housing units from school impact fees, reducing development costs and promoting affordability.95% confidence
Cory Chun (D) Adrian Tam (D) Daniel Holt (D) Luke Evslin (D) Rachele Lamosao (D)
signed · Hawaii · Senate Jul 2, 2025

SB 850: RELATING TO DISABILITY HEALTH DISPARITY.

Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to collect data and submit to the Legislature a report focused on the health disparities experienced by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities in the State prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2027. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareBill appropriates funds to address health disparities for disabled individuals via data collection/reporting, directly supporting health equity (Subjects: Health Disparities, Health Equity).92% confidence
Karl Rhoads (D) Angus McKelvey (D) Stanley Chang (D) Lynn DeCoite (D) Dru Kanuha (D) · 1 co-sponsor
signed · Hawaii · House Jul 2, 2025

HB 1051: RELATING TO ENERGY-EFFICIENCY PORTFOLIO STANDARDS.

Requires energy-efficiency portfolio standards to be designed to achieve 6,000 gigawatt hours of electricity use reductions statewide by 2045. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish additional interim standards for electricity use reduction to be achieved by 2035 and 2040. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to adjust the 2030 and 2045 standards and any interim standards. (CD1)
Topics ✓ EnergySupports EnergyBill mandates specific electricity use reduction targets (6,000 GWh by 2045) through energy-efficiency standards, directly advancing energy efficiency goals and reducing overall consumption.95% confidence ✓ EnvironmentSupports EnvironmentMandates 6,000 GWh electricity reduction by 2045 via efficiency standards, directly reducing emissions and advancing climate goals through enforceable targets.95% confidence
Nadine Nakamura (D)
signed · Hawaii · Senate Jul 2, 2025

SB 825: RELATING TO EVICTION MEDIATION.

Beginning 2/5/2026, extends the period for a notice of termination of a rental agreement from five business days to ten calendar days; requires landlords, or their agents, and tenants to engage in mediation and requires landlords and their agents to delay filing an action for summary possession if a tenant schedules mediation; requires landlords or their agents to provide specific information in the ten-calendar-day notice to tenants; and requires mediation to take place within thirty days from the date that a mediation center makes contact with both the landlord, or the landlord's agent, and tenant. Requires the Judiciary to submit a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 2/4/2028 but preserves the extension of the period for a notice of termination of a rental agreement from five business days to ten calendar days. (CD1)
Topics ✓ HousingSupports HousingExtends eviction notice period, mandates mediation before eviction filing, strengthening tenant protections per bill's requirements.90% confidence
Troy Hashimoto (D) Angus McKelvey (D) Stanley Chang (D)
signed · Hawaii · Senate Jul 2, 2025

SB 589: RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish an installation goal for customer-sited distributed energy resources in the State. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish tariffs to achieve the installation goal and for grid services programs, microgrids, and community-based renewable energy. Ensures that certain levels of compensation are provided for solar and energy storage exports from customer-sited distributed energy resources as part of grid service programs and requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish grid service compensation values. Clarifies when a person who constructs, maintains, or operates a new microgrid is not considered a public utility. Authorizes wheeling of renewable energy and requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish policies and procedures to implement wheeling and microgrid service tariffs. (CD1)
Topics ✓ EnergySupports EnergyMandates PUC to set renewable energy installation goals, establish supportive tariffs, and ensure compensation for solar/storage exports, directly advancing renewable energy adoption.95% confidence ✓ EnvironmentSupports EnvironmentBill mandates PUC to set renewable energy installation goals, establish supportive tariffs, and ensure compensation for solar/storage exports, directly promoting clean energy adoption and reducing fossil fuel dependence.95% confidence
Glenn Wakai (D) Sharon Moriwaki (D) Mike Gabbard (D) Joy San Buenaventura (D) Angus McKelvey (D)
signed · Hawaii · Senate Jul 2, 2025

SB 739: RELATING TO LAND EXCHANGE.

Allows the Governor to negotiate land exchanges, subject to approval by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, to acquire lands that are suitable for long-term diversified agricultural production in exchange for land for private affordable, workforce, or other housing development. Requires a report to the Legislature. (CD1)
Topics ✓ HousingSupports HousingBill enables land exchanges to acquire agricultural land for private affordable/workforce housing development, explicitly targeting housing advancement.95% confidence
Donovan Dela Cruz (D) Troy Hashimoto (D) Michelle Kidani (D) Henry Aquino (D) Joy San Buenaventura (D) · 1 co-sponsor
signed · Hawaii · Senate Jul 2, 2025

SB 1511: RELATING TO HANALEI BAY.

SB 1511 prohibits vessels over 75 feet in length from entering Hanalei Bay, primarily affecting larger commercial and recreational boats. The bill exempts vessels operated by federal, state, or county government agencies. This regulation directly limits access for non-governmental vessels exceeding the size threshold. The key provision is a size-based access restriction designed to manage vessel traffic in the bay, with specific exemptions for public agency operations.
Topics ✗ TransportationOpposes TransportationRestricts non-government vessel access in Hanalei Bay, directly limiting water transportation use per size-based regulation.95% confidence
Ron Kouchi (D)
signed · Hawaii · House Jul 1, 2025

HB 1422: RELATING TO MOTOR CARRIERS.

Exempts community-based organizations engaged in community-based economic development providing transportation services from the Motor Carrier Law under certain circumstances. (CD1)
Topics ✓ TransportationSupports TransportationExempts community organizations from motor carrier regulations, enabling expanded transportation services without regulatory burden, supporting community access to transit.85% confidence
Luke Evslin (D) Dee Morikawa (D) Nadine Nakamura (D)
signed · Hawaii · House Jul 1, 2025

HB 529: RELATING TO STATE FINANCES.

Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to utilize revenue bonds when obtaining a line of credit or other instrument of indebtedness for the Bond Volume Cap Recycling Program. (CD1)
Topics ✓ HousingSupports HousingAuthorizes HHFDC to use revenue bonds for housing finance program, enabling funding for housing development under Bond Volume Cap Recycling Program.85% confidence
Rachele Lamosao (D) Tyson Miyake (D)
signed · Hawaii · House Jul 1, 2025

HB 1007: RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.

Authorizes the Hawaii Community Development Authority to cooperate with or assist public and private sector entities to engage in projects that improve the State. Amends the membership of the HCDA board of directors. Establishes the Transit-oriented Development Infrastructure Improvement Program under HCDA. Repeals the Transit-oriented Development Infrastructure Improvement District Board. Authorizes HCDA to issue bonds to finance the development of infrastructure outside of HCDA's community development districts. (CD1)
Topics ✓ TransportationSupports TransportationEstablishes Transit-oriented Development Infrastructure Improvement Program to fund transit-related infrastructure projects, directly advancing transportation infrastructure priorities.90% confidence
Nadine Nakamura (D)
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