New Hawaii laws taking effect January 1, 2026

7 laws take effect January 1, 2026.

Of the 563 bills enacted since 2025, 559 have an effective date and 4 don't yet (listed below). A law here takes effect that day by its main provisions; parts of a staggered act may take effect on other dates.

Updated Nov 4, 2026 at 8:25 p.m. EST.

Finance (2)

Taxes (2)

  • HB 1370 · 2025 Regular SessionStated

    Beer; Draft Beer; Definition; Liquor Tax

    How we got this date
    This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB 1396 · 2025 Regular SessionStated

    Transient Accommodations Tax; Increase; Natural Resources; Climate Change Mitigation; Special Land and Development Fund; Cruise Fares; Mass Transit Special Fund

    How we got this date
    This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2026

    Parts of this act take effect on other dates.

    How effective dates are worked out

Civil Rights (1)

Education (1)

Traffic (1)

  • SB 1195 · 2025 Regular SessionStated

    DOT; Street Parking; Restrictions; Pedestrian Safety; Exemptions; Fines; Safe Routes to School Program Special Fund

    How we got this date
    This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

Enacted, but not yet dated (4)

These laws' texts tie their dates to something outside the legislative record (Contingent), or not enough is recorded yet to give one (Unresolved). They may take effect January 1, 2026 too; the record doesn't say.

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  • HB 2309ContingentHHCA; Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Eligible Transferees and Successors to Homestead LeasesEarlier of the date of the U.S. Secretary of the Interior's notification letter to Congressional Committee Chairpersons that the Act meets none of the criteria in 43 CFR 48.20, or the date congressional approval becomes law
  • HB 800ContingentReal Property; Public Lands; Transfer; City and County of Honolulu; DLNR; DAGS; HHFDC; AppropriationsLater of July 1, 2025 or the day after final approval by the city and county of Honolulu of the terms of the transfer of the fee simple interest in land under part II
  • SB 1441UnresolvedHHSC; DOH; Oahu Regional Health Care System; Transfer; Repeal; Agreement; Reporttwo clauses set different dates for the same provision
  • SB 3218ContingentResilient Infrastructure for Shelter and Equity Bonds; Counties; County Debt Limit Statements; Transit-Oriented Development ZoneUpon approval and upon ratification of a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to allow counties to issue resilient infrastructure for shelter and equity bonds and excluding them from county funded debt determinations