| HB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of youth services to establish a pilot program to offer mentorship services to Pacific Islander students in high school and college. Establishes 1 FTE position for a youth pilot program coordinator. Requires a report to the legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| HB1224 | Intro
Sine Die | 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. Create...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Committee |
| HB1386 | Intro
Sine Die | Until 7/1/2026, allows restaurants to apply a restaurant service surcharge for the sale of food or beverage services, the revenues of which shall be used exclusively by the restaurants for economic recovery from COVID-19 impacts. Authorizes establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Committee |
| HB1306 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Erin's law task force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, report recommendations for the establishment of a program to educate public scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Education Committee |
| HB1219 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-first representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1205 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a public investment fund to develop, publish, and implement socially responsible investment policies applicable to the management of all public funds under the public investment fund's control and submit an annual report to the legislature o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1269 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows cost of living expenses, as determined by the self-sufficiency standard for Hawaii, to be included in the calculation when determining disposable earnings as it relates to wage garnishment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| HB1235 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes health care providers, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and faith-based organizations to distribute supplemental nutrition assistance program applications to prospective applicants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| HB1154 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires towing companies to release vehicles, without a fee, to an authorized driver if the authorized driver appears at the scene of the towing. Defines "authorized driver."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1300 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the chairperson of the public utilities commission to appoint an administrative assistant, a research assistant, and legal counsel to assist each member of the public utilities commission with commission duties. Prohibits the chairperson fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1383 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the auditor to conduct a comprehensive management audit of the department of commerce and consumer affairs' division of consumer advocacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1272 | Intro
Sine Die | By 1/1/2023, requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2024, requires the department to start ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| HB1128 | Intro
Sine Die | During a state of emergency or local state of emergency, provides parameters for delegation of powers and scope and duration of suspension of laws. Provides an advise and consent process for an emergency proclamation to extend beyond one hundred twen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Committee |
| HB1242 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the criminal offense of sexual assault of an animal. Provides for impoundment and forfeiture of a sexually assaulted animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1380 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the governor to ensure the continued operation of medical facilities during times of health or pandemic emergencies. Authorizes hospitals to suspend elective surgeries in order to address bed capacity during the period of emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Committee |
| HB1241 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the important agricultural land qualified agricultural cost tax credit by repealing the cap amount of the tax credit. Extends by nine years the time period that the department of agriculture may certify important agricultural lands qualified a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1315 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the sixth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1098 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets the employer contribution rate for small business employers for calendar years 2021 and 2022 at an unspecified schedule. Defines "small business employer". Applies retroactively to 01/01/21.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| HB1168 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to the economy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1302 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates the laws on agricultural cooperative associations and consumer cooperative associations including operations as resale agents and conversions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1084 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the harvesting of aquatic life for commercial aquarium purposes, regardless of the method of collection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1231 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a qualified applicant to change their sex designation on their own birth certificate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| HB1068 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadens the scope of the Conference Center Revolving Fund for the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HB1134 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for audits of pharmacies conducted by a health care provider, insurance company, third-party payor, sickness insurance provider, mutual benefit society, dental service corporation, health maintenance organization, or any entity...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| HB1395 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the department of public safety for programs and services for children of incarcerated parents and to assist with family reunification. Requires parental parity in divorce actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HB1156 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the cap on the amount that may be claimed per qualified production. Removes the limit for the total amount of tax credits allowed per year for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1254 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a special number plate for veterans with service-connected disabilities that are rated at one hundred per cent by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HB1353 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a process for landowners whose real property is at risk of reasonably foreseeable flooding or whose real property has experienced a flood due to man-made alterations or natural conditions on state lands to petition the department of land ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1166 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the prosecuting attorney to initiate forfeiture proceedings against real property used in promoting gambling in the first degree when any owner of the real property has been convicted of 3 or more separate incidents of promoting gambling in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an implementation board to review, investigate, and study the feasibility of establishing a state-owned bank. Requires a report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1162 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of Hawaiian home lands to sell tracts of Hawaiian home lands to native Hawaiians in fee simple. Provides the department with the first right of purchase if a subsequent purchaser of the land is not native Hawaiian. Effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1335 | Intro
Sine Die | Affixes a seal of career technical education to a student's high school diploma and transcript upon completion of a career technical education program approved by the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Education Committee |
| HB1173 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the cap amounts of the renewable energy technologies income tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB1153 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a GET exemption for businesses investing more than $500,000 over a 10-year period and creating a minimum of 50 job positions for the purpose of business development at Barbers Point in the Kalaeloa opportunity zone. Establishes a tax credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1178 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a refundable income tax credit equal to twenty per cent of the federal child tax credit allowed and properly claimed on a taxpayer's federal tax return. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| HB1101 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the meaning of "program or activity receiving state financial assistance". Includes eligible student with disabilities complaints within the scope of the Hawaii civil rights commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| HB1304 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits biologically born males from competing in any athletic program offered by a public high school that is designated for women or girls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Education Committee |
| HB1201 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of taxation to share information with the department of labor and industrial relations for the purposes of enforcing the tip credit. Requires the department of taxation to provide an online tool or program to employers to dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| HB1364 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces from 500 feet to 100 feet the buffer zones for commercial hemp production and processing. Authorizes hemp to be grown at a residential property under the control of a person licensed under federal law to produce hemp. Repeals authorization fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Hawaii emergency food assistance program special fund to be administered by the department of agriculture and appropriates moneys into the fund to feed Hawaii's needy population when a state of emergency has been declared.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Committee |
| HB1091 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of theft of catalytic converter as a class C felony. Defines "catalytic converter." Requires scrap dealers to follow the same requirements regarding a written statement for the purchase of palladium, platinum, rhodium, and a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1198 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the Director of Human Services with the Administrator of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Department of Human Services, as an ex officio, voting member on the Workforce Development Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| HB1347 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides development guidance policies for the stadium authority. Tasks the authority with seeking to promote the safety and reliability of harbor infrastructure by identifying and developing appropriate areas within the stadium development district,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1320 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the abandoned and derelict vehicles task force to make recommendations to ensure the proper identification and disposal of abandoned and derelict vehicles left on the State's highways. Appropriates moneys for the administration and operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the assessment of the state fuel tax from a specified cents per gallon to the greater of a specified cents per gallon or a specified percentage of the wholesale price per gallon to the retailer, subject to a minimum monetary amount of tax bas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1229 | Intro
Sine Die | Caps the service credit for unused sick leave for employees who become members of the employees' retirement system on or after 7/1/2021 at a maximum credit of ninety days. Specifies that any unused sick leave in excess of ninety days shall be forfeit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| HB1076 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies the documentation needed for a military spouse to receive a temporary licensure by endorsement. Requires issuance of the license within 30 days of the application and supporting documents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HB1157 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of business, economic development, and tourism to maintain airfields. Requires the department of transportation to transfer the lease of Kawaihapai Airfield to the department of business, economic development, and tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1230 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the Hawaiian version of a law be held binding if the law in question was originally drafted in Hawaiian and then translated into English.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1307 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the commission on fiscal responsibility within the department of taxation to review and make recommendations on expenditures, revenue enhancements, and tax policy. Requires a report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Economic Development Committee |
