State legislature
Official Hawaii measure text, status, plain English summaries, and version notes pulled from the Legislature's own data site.
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2026
This law creates a three-year test program in Kauai and Hawaii counties that lets trained psychologists prescribe certain mental health medicines under doctor supervision.
This law sets safety rules, labeling requirements, and a $30 registration fee for electric bicycles while banning high-speed devices from public roads.
This law requires new passenger vehicles to have warning systems for speeding, creates a state program to install speed-limiting devices in vehicles owned by repeat traffic offenders, and makes tampering with these court-ordered devices a crime.
This law creates a short-term group of experts to study public schools and recommend which ones should close or combine, using a fast approval process.
This law exempts new residential housing projects with fewer than one hundred units from school impact fees to help lower building costs.
This law requires certain social media platforms to let users easily delete their accounts and permanently erase personal information linked to those accounts.
This law lets the Department of Education ask the Governor to remove bus routes from a contract if service stops for five school days in a row, and it allows charging penalties to help pay for new buses.
This law creates an independent advisory commission to study different public and private ways to pay for long-term care services in Hawaii.
This law creates a new program within the Executive Office on Aging to connect people with dementia and their caregivers to specialists, clinics, and support services across Hawaii.
This law requires the Department of Education and state public charter schools to take steps against harassment, investigate reports, help staff get legal protection like restraining orders, and provide paid leave for court appearances.
This law provides annual salary step increases for public school teachers who complete one year of satisfactory service, if the increase is included in a union contract and money is available.
This law requires public schools to screen students for dyslexia, provide specific reading help based on evidence, train teachers on structured literacy methods, and update teacher training programs.
This law requires the Department of Education to provide braille instruction, materials, and support services for eligible students with low vision or blindness.
This law creates a one-year pilot program within the Department of Health to provide in-home health care and support services for eligible individuals who cannot afford them and do not qualify for other government assistance.
This law prohibits harmful uses of realistic artificial intelligence (AI) copies of people, requires clear labels for such content, and allows injured individuals to sue for damages.
This law changes the rule so schools must charge at least one-quarter, instead of one-half, of the cost to prepare each meal.
This law changes the Hawaii Promise scholarship to cover ninety-five percent of a student's unmet direct costs and excludes other grants from that calculation, allowing students to use those funds for living expenses.
This law makes it unfair or deceptive for businesses to sell live-event tickets or short-term lodging without clearly showing the total price before a consumer agrees to pay.
This law sets new rules about how often the state checks certain insurance companies called captive insurers, starting in 2032.
This law stops companies that make smart home security devices from sharing user data with police unless the user agrees, a judge issues a warrant, or there is an emergency danger.
Starting October 1, 2026, this law makes it illegal to own, operate, or manage a machine in Hawaii that lets people trade cash for digital financial assets.
This law allows licensed mental health counselors in Hawaii to be appointed by courts to evaluate child custody cases.
This law requires health insurance plans in Hawaii to cover standard fertility preservation services for people undergoing cancer treatments that may cause infertility.
This law requires the Department of Human Services to create a program that pays for colorectal cancer screenings and follow-up colonoscopies for specific residents who are uninsured or lack full coverage, with no out-of-pocket costs.
This law requires the state health agency to create a plan that improves how Hawaii finds, treats, and supports people with hearing loss.
This law authorizes Hawaii to issue new general obligation bonds and declares that doing so will not exceed the debt limit set in the state constitution.
This law stops certain high-level state employees who need Senate confirmation from organizing, hosting, attending, or asking for money at political fundraisers.
RELATING TO THE CAMPAIGN SPENDING COMMISSION'S ELECTRONIC FILING SYSTEM.
RELATING TO SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE.
RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENTS.
This law creates a new loan fund managed by the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority to give low-interest or forgivable loans to eligible homeowners for upgrading, converting, or connecting their cesspools.
This law requires Hawaii counties to allow rainwater catchment systems for drinking and non-drinking uses on all properties, while giving counties the power to set safety rules.
This law removes some financial checks and land ownership limits for qualified residents buying or renting affordable housing, while adding rules that require most units in certain projects to be sold only to local residents with permanent deed restrictions.
This law treats county requirements for affordable housing as fees and requires counties to prove these rules are fair, necessary, and financially possible before enforcing them on standard homes.
This law allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to create conservation banks that sell credits to help offset harm done to threatened, endangered, candidate, or proposed species.
This law extends the deadline for Hawaii's low-income housing tax credit program until December 31, 2032, and allows partnerships or limited liability companies to sell or transfer these credits to any taxpayer.
This law allows Hawaii's Board of Land and Natural Resources to sign agreements with local non-profit groups to share the management of public lands.
This law changes rules for the state downpayment loan program by removing limits on total loans, allowing more lenders to offer these loans, and lowering how much money buyers must put in themselves.
Starting January 1, 2027, this law allows the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to approve tax breaks for certain affordable rental housing projects developed under county assistance programs.
RELATING TO THE BANYAN DRIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.