| Expands workers compensation medical benefits for firefighters to include coverage for adenocarcinoma or mesothelioma of the respiratory system; cancer of the buccal cavity, colon, pharynx, and thyroid; and malignant melanoma; specifies that an employer may prove that the cancer or disease was not associated with the firefighting duties to deny medical benefits under workers compensation law. | Senate | 4/16/2025 | SB 828 | In Conference Committee | 2025 |
| Clarifies the process for selecting a certified provider of rehabilitation services; requires providers to automatically approve vocational rehabilitation services for an injured employee if those services will likely be required for suitable gainful employment; requires providers to file an employee's vocational plan no later than ninety days after submitting an initial evaluation report, with certain exceptions. | House | 4/15/2025 | HB 423 | In Conference Committee | 2025 |
| Authorizes the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to enter into contracts with eligible employers or registered apprenticeship programs in the private sector to provide on-the-job training to eligible interns; establishes a state internship and workforce development program; requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to collaborate with the Department of Human Resources Development for placement of interns in state executive branch departments, agencies, and programs; provides that the State shall be the responsible employer for purposes of workers compensation coverage for students or recent graduates in the on-the-job-training work experience program, subject to certain limitations; requires annual reports to the Legislature. | House | 4/15/2025 | HB 430 | In Conference Committee | 2025 |
| Authorizes an attending physician to request a functional capacity examination and refer an injured employee for the examination without first obtaining permission from the employee's employer; allows licensed occupational and physical therapists to be deemed qualified to perform functional capacity exams. | House | 4/15/2025 | HB 480 | In Conference Committee | 2025 |
| Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in Department of Education-sponsored work-based learning programs. | House | 3/7/2025 | HB 864 | In Senate Committee | 2025 |
| In part, provides that the State shall be the responsible employer for purposes of workers compensation coverage for students or recent graduates in the on-the-job-training work experience program, subject to certain limitations. | Senate | 3/5/2025 | SB 327 | In House Committee | 2025 |
| Establishes rate transparency requirements for insurance companies operating in the State; establishes and appropriates moneys for an Office of Insurance Consumer Affairs within the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer affairs to provide oversight, information, and consumer advocacy. | Senate | 1/29/2025 | SB 1563 | In Senate Committee | 2025 |
| Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in work-based learning programs established and regulated by the Department of Education. | Senate | 1/28/2025 | SB 1387 | In Senate Committee | 2025 |
| Establishes a Portable Benefits Program under the administration of a board of trustees to provide portable benefits to gig workers; expands the Hawaiʻi Retirement Savings Program to gig workers; appropriates funds. | House | 1/28/2025 | HB 1290 | In House Committee | 2025 |
| Requires the independent medical examination and permanent impairment rating examination of an injured employee under the Workers Compensation Law to be conducted by a qualified physician selected by the mutual agreement of the parties and paid for by the employer; in absence of a mutual agreement, requires the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to appoint a duly qualified impartial physician to be paid by the employer. | Senate | 1/24/2025 | SB 720 | In Senate Committee | 2025 |
| Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in Department of Education-sponsored work-based learning programs. | Senate | 1/24/2025 | SB 872 | In Senate Committee | 2025 |
| Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in Department of Education-sponsored work-based learning programs. | Senate | 1/24/2025 | SB 1063 | In Senate Committee | 2025 |
| Expands workers compensation medical benefits for firefighters to include coverage for adenocarcinoma or mesothelioma of the respiratory system; cancer of the buccal cavity, colon, pharynx, and thyroid; and malignant melanoma; specifies that an employer may prove that the cancer or disease was not associated with the firefighting duties to deny medical benefits under workers compensation law. | House | 1/24/2025 | HB 827 | In House Committee | 2025 |
| Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in work-based learning programs established and regulated by the Department of Education. | House | 1/24/2025 | HB 1068 | In House Committee | 2025 |
| Establishes notice requirements for employers under Hawaiʻi's Workers Compensation Law; requires employers who deny the compensability of an employee's injury to submit a written report supporting the denial to the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations within a specified period; requires employers to furnish to the injured employee up to $10,000 for medical care, services, and supplies for the period immediately following the injury and so long as reasonably needed or until the employer files a written report with the Director denying the compensability of the injury, whichever is earlier; clarifies that failure to give an employer notice of an employee's injury does not bar a claim for compensation if any person having authority in the interest of the employer had knowledge of the injury. | House | 1/22/2025 | HB 13 | In House Committee | 2025 |
| Relates to disability benefits; death benefits; notice by employer; medical benefits; knowledge of injury. | Senate | 1/22/2025 | SB 402 | In Senate Committee | 2025 |
| Establishes a payment rate of cost plus forty per cent for nonprescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, or nonlegend drugs for workers compensation purposes, subject to certain conditions. | House | 1/22/2025 | HB 205 | In House Committee | 2025 |
| Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in Department of Education-sponsored work-based learning programs. | Senate | 1/22/2025 | SB 420 | In Senate Committee | 2025 |
| Requires claims of post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by first responders to be compensable under workers compensation under certain conditions if the post-traumatic stress disorder resulted from the first responder acting within the course and scope of the first responder's employment; defines "first responder"; exempts injuries caused by post-traumatic stress disorder from certain time limitations applicable to workers compensation claims. | Senate | 1/22/2025 | SB 554 | In Senate Committee | 2025 |
| Creates a presumption for workers compensation purposes that diseases of the heart in firefighters and law enforcement officers were proximately caused by and resulted from the nature of the person's employment if certain conditions are met; exempts injuries caused by disease of the heart from certain time limitations applicable to workers compensation claims; establishes a process for regular physical examinations of firefighters and law enforcement officers to reduce heart disease risks. | Senate | 1/22/2025 | SB 555 | In Senate Committee | 2025 |
| Authorizes wages of other employees in comparable employment to be considered when computing the average weekly wages of an injured public board member, reserve police officer, police chaplain, reserve public safety law enforcement officer, sheriffs' chaplain, volunteer firefighter, volunteer boating enforcement officer, or volunteer conservation and resources enforcement officer. Clarifies computation of average weekly wages of an injured volunteer firefighter for workers compensation benefits purposes. | House | 8/16/2024 | HB 57 | Failed | 2023 |
| Establishes deadlines for paying or contesting provider bills related to workers compensation injury treatment. | House | 8/16/2024 | HB 83 | Failed | 2023 |
| Establishes notice requirements for employers. Requires employers who deny the compensability of an employee's injury to submit a written report supporting the denial to the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations within a specified period. Requires employers to furnish to the injured employee up to $10,000 for medical care, services, and supplies for the period immediately following the injury and so long as reasonably needed or until the employer files a written report with the Director denying the compensability of the injury, whichever is earlier. Clarifies that failure to give an employer notice of an employee's injury does not bar a claim for compensation if any person having authority in the interest of the employer had knowledge of the injury. | House | 8/16/2024 | HB 283 | Failed | 2023 |
| Establishes notice requirements for employers. Requires employers who deny the compensability of an employee's injury to submit a written report supporting the denial to the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations within a specified period. Requires employers to furnish to the injured employee up to $10,000 for medical care, services, and supplies for the period immediately following the injury and so long as reasonably needed or until the employer files a written report with the Director denying the compensability of the injury, whichever is earlier. Clarifies that failure to give an employer notice of an employee's injury does not bar a claim for compensation if any person having authority in the interest of the employer had knowledge of the injury. | House | 8/16/2024 | SB 918 | Failed | 2023 |
| Requires the independent medical examination and permanent impairment rating examination of an injured employee to be conducted by a qualified chiropractor or physician selected by the mutual agreement of the parties and paid for by the employer. In absence of a mutual agreement, requires the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to appoint a duly qualified impartial chiropractor or physician to be paid by the employer. | Senate | 8/16/2024 | SB 919 | Failed | 2023 |
| Increases the percentage rate of weekly workers compensation benefits for partially dependent parents of a deceased child from 25% to 50%. | Senate | 8/16/2024 | SB 1115 | Failed | 2023 |
| Increases the percentage rate of weekly workers compensation benefits for partially dependent parents of a deceased child from 25% to 50%. | House | 8/16/2024 | HB 922 | Failed | 2023 |
| Requires compensation benefits for volunteer firefighters who are injured or killed in the line of duty to be determined based on equivalent firefighter pay based on years of service and rank, rather than on a rate of $18 per week. | House | 8/16/2024 | HB 58 | Failed | 2023 |
| Requires compensation benefits for volunteer firefighters who are injured or killed in the line of duty to be determined based on equivalent firefighter pay based on years of service and rank, rather than on a rate of $18 per week. | Senate | 8/16/2024 | SB 697 | Failed | 2023 |
| Requests the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to provide and produce updated actuarial studies regarding the lifespan probabilities of surviving dependent beneficiaries. | House | 8/16/2024 | HCR 82 | Failed | 2023 |
| Requests the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to continue to recognize and accept the right of a provider of service to assign the right to participate in a workers compensation billing dispute to a billing company. | House | 8/16/2024 | HCR 157 | Failed | 2023 |
| Requests the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to analyze the available data on Hawaii workers compensation cases relating to death benefits for the past ten years and obtain any additional data from the Hawaii Insurers Council or any other state or federal source to recommend any updates to the workers compensation law. | Senate | 8/16/2024 | SCR 208 | Failed | 2023 |
| Clarifies that with controverted claims, an injured employee's private health care plan must by default pay or provide medical care, services, and supplies pending acceptance of the claim or determination of compensability and may seek reimbursement from the employer if accepted or compensable; establishes a penalty. | House | 8/16/2024 | HB 1637 | Failed | 2024 |
| Requires employers to be liable for medical care, services, and supplies when a workers compensation claim filed by a solid waste worker suffering from cancer is accepted. | House | 8/16/2024 | HB 1673 | Failed | 2024 |
| Expands workers compensation medical benefits for firefighters to include coverage for breast cancer and cancer of the female reproductive organs. | Senate | 8/16/2024 | SB 2231 | Failed | 2024 |
| In part, requires the Department of Human Resources Development to collaborate with the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for certain portions of the on-the-job-training work experience program. Provides that the State shall be the responsible employer for purposes of workers compensation coverage for students or recent graduates in the on-the-job-training work experience program, subject to certain limitations. | Senate | 8/16/2024 | SB 2286 | Failed | 2024 |
| Transfers the rights, powers, functions, duties, resources, and individual budget of the Department of Education relating to workers compensation for its employees from the Department of Education to the Department of Human Resources Development. | House | 8/16/2024 | HB 2258 | Failed | 2024 |
| Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in Department of Education sponsored work-based learning programs. | House | 8/16/2024 | HB 2401 | Failed | 2024 |
| Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in Department of Education sponsored work-based learning programs. | Senate | 8/16/2024 | SB 3090 | Failed | 2024 |
| Requests the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to convene an underground economy interagency task force to combat the underground economy and employee misclassification in the construction industry. | House | 8/16/2024 | HCR 68 | Failed | 2024 |
| Expands workers compensation medical benefits for firefighters to include coverage for breast cancer and cancer of the female reproductive organs. | House | 7/1/2024 | HB 1889 | Enacted | 2024 |
| Authorizes certain types of radiographical coverage and specialist consultations without a treatment plan within the context of workers compensation coverage for employees with cervical and lumbar spinal injuries, or suspected cervical and lumbar spinal injuries. | House | 7/1/2024 | HB 1944 | Enacted | 2024 |
| Requests the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to convene an interagency task force to combat the underground economy and employee misclassification in the state's construction industry. | Senate | 4/23/2024 | SCR 33 | Enacted | 2024 |
| Requests the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to amend Title 12, Chapter 15, Hawaii Administrative Rules, to clarify that compensation for advanced practice registered nurses under the state's workers compensation law is distinct from compensation for registered nurses and shall be one hundred percent of the fees authorized under the medicare fee schedule. | House | 4/23/2024 | HCR 81 | Enacted | 2024 |
| Requests the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to convene an interagency task force to combat the underground economy and employee misclassification in the state's construction industry. | Senate | 4/5/2024 | SR 22 | Enacted | 2024 |
| Requests the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to convene an underground economy interagency task force to combat the underground economy and employee misclassification in the construction industry. | House | 4/5/2024 | HR 53 | Enacted | 2024 |
| Requests the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to amend Title 12, Chapter 15, Hawaii Administrative Rules, to clarify that compensation for advanced practice registered nurses under the state's workers compensation law is distinct from compensation for registered nurses and shall be one hundred percent of the fees authorized under the medicare fee schedule. | House | 4/5/2024 | HR 66 | Enacted | 2024 |
| Authorizes wages of other employees in comparable employment to be considered when computing the average weekly wages of an injured public board member, reserve police officer, police chaplain, reserve public safety law enforcement officer, sheriffs' chaplain, volunteer firefighter, volunteer boating enforcement officer, or volunteer conservation and resources enforcement officer. Clarifies computation of average weekly wages of an injured volunteer firefighter for workers compensation benefits purposes. | Senate | 7/6/2023 | SB 696 | Enacted | 2023 |
| Requests the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to continue to recognize and accept the right of a provider of service to assign the right to participate in a workers compensation billing dispute to a billing company; review the workers compensation law for proposed amendments to ensure that service providers may assign the right to negotiate a bill dispute to a billing company; and include the proposed amendments in a report to the legislature. | Senate | 4/18/2023 | SCR 134 | Enacted | 2023 |
| Requests the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to provide and produce updated actuarial studies regarding the lifespan probabilities of surviving dependent beneficiaries. | House | 4/6/2023 | HR 87 | Enacted | 2023 |
| Requests the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to analyze the available data on Hawaii workers compensation cases relating to death benefits for the past ten years and obtain any additional data from the Hawaii Insurers Council or any other state or federal source to recommend any updates to the workers compensation law. | Senate | 4/6/2023 | SR 148 | Enacted | 2023 |
| Requests the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to continue to recognize and accept the right of a provider of service to assign the right to participate in a workers compensation billing dispute to a billing company. | House | 4/4/2023 | HR 158 | Enacted | 2023 |
| Creates an exception to the exclusive right to compensation under workers compensation law where COVID-19 is contracted by an employee whose employer failed to maintain adequate workplace protections against exposure to the novel coronavirus; creates a presumption that COVID-19 has been proximately caused by an employer's failure to maintain adequate workplace protections against exposure to the novel coronavirus. | House | 8/8/2022 | HB 1224 | Failed | 2021 |
| Creates an exception to the exclusive right to compensation under workers compensation law where COVID-19 is contracted by an employee whose employer failed to maintain adequate workplace protections against exposure to the novel coronavirus; creates a presumption that COVID-19 has been proximately caused by an employer's failure to maintain adequate workplace protections against exposure to the novel coronavirus. | Senate | 8/8/2022 | SB 1415 | Failed | 2021 |
| Adds reserve public safety law enforcement officers, to include reserve public safety law enforcement officers to the list of volunteer occupations covered under the workers compensation law; allows reserve public safety law enforcement officers who are injured under specific conditions, to receive workers compensation; adds reserve public safety law enforcement officers to the list of volunteers who are covered under the conditions for computing average weekly wages. | House | 8/8/2022 | HB 2174 | Failed | 2022 |
| Adds reserve public safety law enforcement officers, to include reserve public safety law enforcement officers to the list of volunteer occupations covered under the workers compensation law; allows reserve public safety law enforcement officers who are injured under specific conditions to receive workers compensation; adds reserve public safety law enforcement officers to the list of volunteers who are covered under the conditions for computing average weekly wages. | Senate | 6/21/2022 | SB 3142 | Enacted | 2022 |
| Relates to updating various assessments and penalties under the jurisdiction of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. | House | 10/5/2020 | HB 2350 HD2 SD1 | Enacted | 2020 |
| Requests that the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to conduct a study to assess the causes of non-compliance with the state's workers compensation system. | House | 3/12/2020 | HCR 137 | In House Committee | 2020 |
| Requests that the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to conduct a study to assess the causes of non-compliance with the state's workers compensation system. | House | 3/12/2020 | HR 120 | In House Committee | 2020 |
| Adjusts the method of calculating average weekly wages for workers compensation claims. | Senate | 3/10/2020 | SB 2641 | In House Committee | 2020 |
| Removes the guidelines for determining attorney's fees for claimants in workers compensations claims. | House | 1/28/2020 | HB 2641 | In House Committee | |
| Updates various assessments and penalties under the jurisdiction of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations by revising the monetary assessments according to changes in the Consumer Price Index. | Senate | 1/28/2020 | SB 2906 | In Senate Committee | 2020 |
| Adjusts the method of calculating average weekly wages for workers compensation claims. | House | 1/14/2020 | HB 1601 | In House Committee | |
| Clarifies the scope and practice of physician assistants in the State. Amends the Hawaii Medical Board membership to include two physician assistants. Expands bases to revoke or suspend a physician or surgeon's license. Makes conforming amendments. | House | 11/18/2019 | HB 935 | Carry-over | |
| Requires that workers registered with the department of health's medical cannabis program be reimbursed for the out of pocket cost of medical cannabis through the workers compensation system in certain circumstances. | House | 11/18/2019 | HB 1534 | Carry-over | |
| Amends requirements for medical examinations in workers compensation claims by requiring that the examining physician be mutually selected by the employer and employee or appointed by the Director of Labor. Provides for document distribution, cost allocation, and physician qualifications. | Senate | 11/18/2019 | SB 207 | Carry-over | |
| Requires a physician or surgeon who performs a medical exam on an employee for workers compensation purposes to be licensed in the State, possess medical malpractice insurance, and owe the same duty and standard of care to the injured employee as owed to a traditional patient. Makes permanent an employee's right to record medical examinations. | Senate | 11/18/2019 | SB 1411 | Carry-over | |
| Requires an employer to pay for all medical services related to an employee's compensable injury. Provides a process for an employer to dispute the payment of a medical bill. | Senate | 11/18/2019 | SB 1412 | Carry-over | |
| Requires that workers registered with the department of health's medical cannabis program be reimbursed for the out of pocket cost of medical cannabis through the workers compensation system in certain circumstances. | Senate | 11/18/2019 | SB 1523 | Carry-over | |
| Amends requirements for medical examinations in workers' compensation claims by requiring that the examining physician be mutually selected by the employer and employee or appointed by the Director of Labor. Provides for document distribution, cost allocation, and physician qualifications. | House | 11/7/2019 | HB 88 | Carry-over | |
| Establishes a rebuttable presumption that any firefighter, emergency medical service personnel, or law enforcement officer diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder incurred that injury while in the course of employment for the purposes of receiving workers' compensation benefits. | House | 11/7/2019 | HB 263 | Carry-over | |
| Requires persons performing an independent medical exam or permanent impairment rating exam for a workers' compensation work injury examine the employee within an unspecified period of time upon receipt of notice. Requires that the employee be provided a copy of the exam. | House | 11/7/2019 | HB 389 HD1 | Carry-over | |
| Requires insurance coverage after December 31, 2019, for the costs of transportation to the continental United States for medically necessary treatment for qualifying patients. | House | 11/7/2019 | HB 789 | Carry-over | |
| Requires a physician or surgeon who performs a medical exam on an employee for workers compensation purposes to be licensed in the State, possess medical malpractice insurance, and owe the same duty and standard of care to the injured employee as owed to a traditional patient. Makes permanent an employee's right to record medical examinations. | House | 11/7/2019 | HB 863 | Carry-over | |
| Requires an employer to pay for all medical services related to an employee's compensable injury and the employee's rehabilitation within 60 days of receipt of the bill for services. Establishes a process for employers to dispute the payment of an employee's medical bill. | House | 11/7/2019 | HB 912 HD1 SD1 | Carry-over | |
