| HB702 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally rais...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB467 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the designation of areas or regions of public lands classified as commercial, industrial, resort and hotel, and the establishment and implementation of guidelines for the redevelopment of the areas or regions that will: (1) modernize the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1147 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for fiscal biennium 20212023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB339 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes decisions of the family court appealable to the supreme court instead of the intermediate court of appeals. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1220 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires members of the charter school commission to collectively possess strong experience and expertise in various fields. Allows the authorizer's staff to provide technical support up until the completed charter application is submitted. Clarifies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB328 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows for the installation of certain energy-efficient technologies on any privately owned single-family residential dwelling or townhouse, with limited restrictions. Requires private entities to review, and if necessary, change rules to allow for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB531 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a state contract for the purchase of produce to include an option for the contractor supplying the produce to lease of state agricultural lands. Establishes a process for the college of tropical agriculture and human resources of the univers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB514 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for employers who create onsite group child care centers. Establishes and appropriates funds for 1.0 FTE on-site group child care center coordinator position. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2021. Effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1245 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an expeditious adjudication system for the processing of fireworks infractions. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1064 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the sunset provision in Act 38, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, to make permanent certain provisions relating to technology transfer by the University of Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB1075 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning 11/1/2022, prohibits the lieutenant governor, while holding the office of the lieutenant governor, from maintaining any other employment, maintaining a controlling interest in a business, or receiving any emolument, beginning on the sixty-f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB445 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the exclusion amount of Hawaii's estate tax. Applicable to decedents dying or taxable transfers occurring after 12/31/2020. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1072 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that each University of Hawaii campus prepare an operations plan, to be reviewed by the president and the vice president for budget and finance and the chief financial officer of the University of Hawaii, for each fiscal year....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB760 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the works of art special fund to be used for performing arts, under certain conditions. Includes posting of a recording of performing art as a form of public display. Defines performing arts. Effective 7/1/2065. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB627 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special number motor vehicle license plates to commemorate the Polynesian Voyaging Society. Effective 7/1/2065. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB360 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends or repeals various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes or the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, or deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB901 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the environmental impact statement law to delete reference to discretionary permits in allowing infrastructure improvements within a highway or public right-of-way to be exempt from environmental impact assessment requirements. Effective 7/1/2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1200 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the appointment of state officers and employees to boards and commissions unless otherwise provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1015 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the conditions and manner in which the board of land and natural resources may dispose of water by license. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
To House Finance Committee |
| HB785 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of a loaded firearm while intoxicated as a petty misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that interference with an automated public transit operation is unlawful and is a class C felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB535 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a person commits the offense of manslaughter if the person causes the death of another person by recklessly operating a motor vehicle with .08 or more grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath or .08 or more grams of alcohol per 100 mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Chapter 801K, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide clarification and flexibility in eyewitness identification procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1194 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits drivers from operating vehicles with more than four wheels and high-passenger cars in the left lane, or close to the left-hand curb or left-hand edge, of a state or county roadway. Exempts drivers operating public transportation vehicles in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1278 | Pass | Amends the definitions of benefit year and week. Conforms the manner of filing claims for partial benefits to the same as for total or part-total benefits. Provides relief for certain reimbursable employers. Requires the director of labor and industr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
Act 001, 03/02/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1101). |
| HB1033 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the department of public safety to cover the costs of the personnel services shortfall at all correctional institutions statewide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
Received from Governor re: Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 4). |
| HB1002 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for supplies, personnel, equipment and related effects to implement the COVID-19 vaccination plan. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
Received from Governor re: Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 4). |
| HB973 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation from the general revenues of the State of Hawaii for fiscal year 2020-2021 to address the budget shortfall for the general support for the general assistance program (HMS 204) in the Department of Human Services. Effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
Received from Governor re: Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 4). |
| HB879 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the Stadium Authority for payroll, various repair and maintenance costs, contracts for services, and operating equipment. Effective upon approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
Received from Governor re: Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 4). |
| HB999 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the state comprehensive emergency medical system for expenses related to collective bargaining and other current expenses. Effective upon approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
Received from Governor re: Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 4). |
| HB680 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the use of traditional Hawaiian burial practices in the treatment and disposal of human remains, which includes the use of alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction. Amends procedures for the resolution of disputes regarding the right ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB782 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a person who: is married to an active duty member in the National Guard, military reserves, or armed forces; accompanies his or her spouse on a permanent change of station to Hawaii; and holds a current, unencumbered license in another jurisdi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB307 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes planned community associations and condominium associations to conduct electronic meetings and electronic or machine voting in a state of emergency or local state of emergency, regardless of what a planned community association's documents...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1003 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides emergency appropriations in fiscal year 2020-2021 to the department of health to continue funding for various COVID19 response related programs and activities. Authorizes the governor to transfer funds appropriated to other executive departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Received from Governor re: Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 3). |
| HB239 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, in the case of any multiple-page advertisement, for the required disclosures to be made on the first page of the advertisement or on the cover page of the publication if the advertisement is used as the lead article and displayed on the cov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB568 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a prosecution for sex trafficking to be commenced at any time. Includes coercion as a means of committing the offense of sex trafficking. Makes the solicitation of a minor for sex a strict liability offense of sex trafficking. Repeals the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB534 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies when force, including deadly force, may be used to protect oneself, one's property, or another person. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1040 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides emergency appropriations in fiscal year 2020-2021 to the Department of Public Safety to continue funding for various COVID-19 response related programs and activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Received from Governor Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 2). |
| HB914 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an emergency appropriation in fiscal year 2020-2021 to the Hawaii tourism authority for COVID-19 response related programs and activities. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Received from Governor Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 2). |
| HB963 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an emergency appropriation to the Office of the Governor in fiscal year 2020-2021 to continue funding for various COVID-19 response related programs and activities. Requires that should any project or program paid for by state funds become e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Received from Governor Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 2). |
| HB1274 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the division of aquatic resources of the department of land and natural resources to establish a pilot project to restock the Wahiawa public fishing area with northern largemouth bass, butterfly peacock bass, or both. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it a civil and administrative violation for any person to engage in certain archaeological activities without obtaining the required permission or approval from the department of land and natural resources. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB681 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes linked investments to provide loan funds for agriculture and authorizes the director of finance to commit no more than $5,000,000 in certain available moneys for the creation of linked investments through agreements with eligible lending ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that any equipment, article, instrument, aircraft, vehicle, vessel, business record, or other asset used in fishing, possession, or sale of aquatic life in violation of the aquatic resources law is subject to forfeiture. Authorizes the impo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a program within the Hawaii state fusion center to train, establish, and operate threat assessment teams, including for educational institutions. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB565 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants exclusive original jurisdiction in matters of divorce to the family court of the circuit in which an applicant is domiciled at the time the application is filed. Repeals the requirement that a person be domiciled or physically present in the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1346 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of agriculture, in coordination with the office of planning, to prepare and periodically update the agricultural functional plan to include among other agricultural economic updates, seafood sustainability that expands the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the task force on beach and water safety and risk assessment working group. Requires the design and placement of warning signs, devices, and systems on certain areas of the State to be approved by the chairperson of the board of land and natu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB796 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates reporting requirements by the PSD when inmate and employee deaths occur at correctional facilities and community correctional centers. Requires the report to include the race of the decedent. Requires the report to cite to any authority relie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB450 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines and recognizes rights in trust for children within the Child Protective Act. Requires family court to appoint guardian ad litem in custody cases. Provides that when a child is subject to harm or imminent harm, has been harmed, or may suffer p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
