New Hawaii laws taking effect July 1, 2028
1 law takes effect July 1, 2028.
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.
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SB 3245 · 2026 Regular SessionStated
DHS; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Minimum Certification Periods; Elderly Simplified Application Project; Reports
How we got this date
This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2028.
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 July 1, 2028 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