Hawaii House Blog

Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, Room 309, 9:15 a.m. HB2664 RELATING TO DISASTER RELIEF . Clarifies the use of the govern...

L to R: Rep. Kirk Caldwell, Susan Kobayashi, Bert A. Kobayashi, Rep. Ken Ito Today, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honori...

Members from the Committee on Higher Education visited the site in Kunia yesterday, where the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Reso...

The Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Task Force unveiled their Sustainability Plan yesterday at a well attended press conference. The Advertiser...

Committee on Health/Committee on Human Services & Housing, Room 329, 8:00 a.m. HB2867 RELATING TO STATE HEALTH PLANNING. Repeals certif...

Committee on Human Services & Housing, Room 329, 8:34 a.m. HB3236 RELATING TO COUNTY ZONING. Requires a prior public informational hear...

Are you concerned about the auction of more than an acre of land next to the Kawaihae Canoe Club on the The Big Island? Do you want to be p...

Today is the birthday of Rep. Josh Green from Kona and Rep. Roland Sagum from Waimea. We wish them both a great day and successful year.

Committee on Transportation, Room 309, 9:00 a.m. HB2951 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires Department of Transportation to implement tra...

Although Rep. Josh Green (D-North Kona) sympathized with supporters who have been affected by the artificial sweetener aspartame, he was...

Today was Day 16 of the 60-day session. House Majority Package: All bills in the House Majority package are moving forward. Joint House/Sen...

 A decision on a medical marijuana bill that we blogged about in a previous post was supposed to be made today, but the health committee ch...

HB2063 , a bill establishing a two-year pilot project to equip paramedics to transmit ECG data from ambulances, was passed out of Health tod...

Passed out of Health Prohibiting dentists from working in big box stores ( HB2301 ) Testimony in support of the bill claimed that practices...

Oahu Community Correctional Center - 2199 Kamehameha Highway The Oahu Community Correctional Center is the state's largest jail, situat...

For some inmates, prison is the only home they know. Freedom may be the sweet nectar they all envy, but rejoining the community is most like...

Happy Chinese New Year from the House Majority. On the floor today, members received a gift of steamed gau wrapped in red paper for good luc...

Every year, the Women's Legislative Caucus organizes an Easter basket project for the clients of the Institute for Human Services. Tod...

Committee on Health/ Committee on Human Services & Housing, Room 329, 8:00 a.m. HB2680 RELATING TO FOOD. Bans the use of the artificial...

Thursday, February 7th is an internal House deadline for triple referral bills. Those are bills that have been referred to be reviewed by th...