HI Legislation | 2021 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB726	Engross Sine Die	Requires officers serving a warrant to declare the officer's office and business and wait thirty seconds before entry into a house, store, or other building, subject to certain circumstances. Requires officers serving a warrant issued by a district c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-27 Recommitted to Conference Committee with Senators Acasio, Chang, Rhoads and San Buenaventura voting "No".
HB224	Engross Sine Die	Authorizes the department of health to perform the duties required of the state health planning and development agency. Requires the state health planning and development agency or department of health to update the state health services and faciliti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-27 Recommitted to Conference Committee.
SB142	Engross Sine Die	Exempts from school impact fee requirements, certain affordable housing units, additions to existing dwelling units, accessory dwelling units, ohana dwelling units, affordable housing units in projects or property developed by the Hawaii public housi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-23 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 630).
HB325	Engross Sine Die	Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (1) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representativ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-23 Received from Governor re: Request for Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 7).
HB333	Engross Sine Die	Authorizes peer-to-peer car-sharing and establishes regulations thereof. Establishes the peertopeer car-sharing surcharge tax on the operator of the peer-to-peer program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-23 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-23-21 at 2:30PM in Conference Room CR 329.
SB246	Engross Sine Die	Establishes a state government realignment commission to periodically review the state executive branch's departments, divisions, and agencies, including functions and services, and submit its findings and recommendations to the legislature. Appropri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-23 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 627).
HB712	Engross Sine Die	Authorizes and appropriates funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (2) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments and Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs negotia... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-23 Received from Governor re: Request for Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 9).
SB350	Engross Sine Die	Requires the clean water branch to perform water quality testing during brown water advisories as practicable and inform the public of health risks associated with water runoff during brown water advisories. Requires the department of health to consi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-23 Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-21 5:16 PM; CR 325.
SB39	Engross Sine Die	Clarifies that the eligibility for the general excise tax exemption includes the nonreceipt of financing from the Hawaii Finance and Development Corporation. Allows certain affordable rental housing projects to receive a waiver of various development... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-23 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 630).
SB659	Engross Sine Die	Allows the low-income housing tax credit to be allocated among the partners or members of the partnership or limited liability company earning the credit in any manner agreed to by the partners or members. Requires Internal Revenue Service Form 8609 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-23 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 630).
SB167	Engross Sine Die	Establishes green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines for state facility systems, infrastructure, and transit projects in the Hawaii State Planning Act to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. Adds definitio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-23 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 629).
SB179	Engross Sine Die	Transfers operational authority over portions of the east Kauai irrigation system operated and maintained by the east Kauai water users' cooperative before 12/15/20 to the Department of Agriculture. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-23 Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-21 5:15PM; CR 325.
SB1401	Engross Sine Die	Requires the department of transportation to report on the complete streets policy and principles. Requires the department of transportation to establish standards relating to safe travel along state roadways and a complete streets checklist. Require... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-23 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-23-21 at 2:30PM in Conference Room CR 329.
HB921	Engross Sine Die	Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (7) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-23 Received from Governor re: Request for Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 8).
SB1004	Engross Sine Die	Beginning with the 2022-2023 school year, requires the department of education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the personal/transition plan requirement for each student. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-23 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-23-21 at 5:00 PM in CR 309.
HB550	Engross Sine Die	Requires and establishes deadlines for state facilities, except smaller facilities and facilities within the stadium development district, to implement cost-effective energy efficiency measures. Allows the department of accounting and general service... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-22 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-23-21 10:00AM in conference room CR 325.
SB1353	Engross Sine Die	Expands the duties of the Hawaii State Energy Office. Transfers certain duties relating to energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy resilience, and clean transportation related incentives, programs, and goals from the Chief Energy Officer to the H... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-22 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-23-21 10:00AM in conference room CR 325.
SB768	Engross Sine Die	Establishes the rental car modernization task force to develop a plan to determine the feasibility of installing electric vehicle charging infrastructure to support a one hundred per cent zeroemission rental motor vehicle fleet by 2035. Requires the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-22 Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-22-21 11:30 AM; CR 329.
HB133	Engross Sine Die	Increases the capital gains tax threshold from 7.25% to 9%. Increases the alternative capital gains tax for corporations from 4 to 5%. Applies for tax years beginning after 12/31/2020. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-22 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-23-21 11:30AM in conference room CR 325.
HB608	Engross Sine Die	Requires the board of education to hold no less than six community forums annually, with at least one forum in each county. Requires the board to include an open forum for public comments on non-agenda items. Requires a report to the legislature on i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-22 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Thursday, 04-22-21 at 5:00 PM in CR 309.
SB1021	Engross Sine Die	Includes the use of traditional Native Hawaiian burial practices in the treatment and disposal of human remains, including the use of alkaline hydrolysis. Requires the department of health to adopt rules. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD3) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-22-21 3:00PM; CR 329.
SB1342	Engross Sine Die	Includes under the offense of promoting gambling in the first degree the act of engaging in activities in which a persons receives or entertains other persons as guests with the intent of advancing gambling activity on real property. Effective 1/1/20... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-22-21 3:46PM; CR 325.
SB838	Engross Sine Die	Allows the executive office of aging to relax the thirty-hour employment requirement for qualified caregivers under the kupuna caregivers program during a governor-declared state of emergency. Allows the kupuna caregivers program to be delivered thro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-22-21 2:30PM; CR 329.
SB1101	Engross Sine Die	Establishes the safe home program to provide matching and nonmatching grants for installation of wind resistive devices to single-family, owner-occupied, residential properties in certain circumstances. Allocates a portion of the moneys earned throug... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-22-21 1:30PM; CR 229.
SB421	Engross Sine Die	Requires vacancies in the offices of United States Senator, United States Representative, State Senator, and State Representative to be filled by special election. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-22-21 3:00PM; CR 325.
HB765	Engross Sine Die	Appropriates funds for the Hawaii emergency management agency to acquire mobile communications, water, and power service capabilities that can be deployed to each county as needed. Effective 7/1/2051. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-23-21 9:15AM in conference room CR 229.
HB502	Engross Sine Die	Authorizes the counties to adopt ordinances that allow up to one dwelling per quarter-acre in rural districts. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Thursday 04-22-21 3:50PM in conference room CR 329.
HB321	Engross Sine Die	Repeals the distribution of transit accommodations tax revenues to the counties. Authorizes each county to impose a surcharge on transient accommodations tax. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Thursday 04-22-21 11:30AM in conference room CR 325.
HB570	Engross Sine Die	Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse may be initiated. Extends the period during which a victim of childhood sexual abuse may bring an otherwise time-barred action against the victim's abuser or a legal entity ha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Thursday 04-22-21 2:45PM in conference room CR 329.
SB513	Engross Sine Die	Establishes an expeditious adjudication system for the processing of fireworks infractions. Increases the fireworks display permit fee and the fine for certain fireworks violations. Clarifies what constitutes a separate violation. Increases the penal... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-21 10:00AM; CR 229.
SB496	Engross Sine Die	Requires the department of agriculture, in cooperation with the office of the governor, to identify the top ten fruit and vegetable imports to the State that may be commercially grown by farmers in Hawaii and recommend ways to increase their producti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 849).
HB434	Engross Sine Die	Requires the Director of Transportation to adopt rules to require tour aircraft operators to have commercial general liability insurance coverage of at least $10,000,000 and to report details of each flight taken by the tour aircraft operation in ord... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-22-21 10:00AM; CR 329.
SB280	Engross Sine Die	Codifies the administrative rule definition of "assistance animal". Clarifies the type of verification an individual may provide to substantiate a reasonable accommodation request for a specific assistance animal. Specifies that possession of a vest ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-22-21 2:30PM; CR 329.
HB1324	Engross Sine Die	Establishes a commercial rent relief grant program to be administered by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Requires that the commercial rent relief grants be given priority for moneys received through federal funding. App... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-23-21 9:50AM in conference room CR 229.
SB1137	Engross Sine Die	Amends the spouse and child abuse special fund to allow up to an unspecified amount of federal reimbursements received from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, in the year following the fiscal y... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-22-21 3:25PM; CR 329.
SB375	Engross Sine Die	Appropriates funds for the department of transportation to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of repairing or renovating the Kalaeloa airport air traffic control tower. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-21 Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-22-21 10:00AM; CR 329.
SCR103	Engross Sine Die	Requesting The United States Military To Return Unused Land That Becomes Available At Bellows Air Force Station To The State Of Hawaii. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-20 Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 839).
SB1260	Engross Sine Die	Eliminates the use of monetary bail and requires defendants to be released on their own recognizance for traffic offenses; violations; and nonviolent petty misdemeanor, misdemeanor, and class C felony offenses, with certain exceptions. Effective 7/1/... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-20 Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-21-21 3:00PM; CR 325.
HB902	Engross Sine Die	Exempts land set aside by the governor to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and lands leased to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation from other state departments or agencies from classification as public lands s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-20 Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 843).
HB1280	Engross Sine Die	Transfers to the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority operational authority over the makai research pier located at the southeast corner of Oahu. Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds for the natural energy lab... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-20 Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 843).
HB525	Engross Sine Die	Clarifies that DOE, in partnership with the Hawaii public housing authority, Hawaii housing finance and development corporation, and the school facilities agency, may construct housing for teachers on a public school campus. Requires that housing uni... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-20 Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-21-21 4:05PM; CR 309.
HB558	Engross Sine Die	Creates the clean energy and energy efficiency revolving loan fund in the Hawaii green infrastructure special fund to be administered by the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority. Amends the purpose of the revolving sub-fund to expand financing for s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-20 Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 842).
HB1130	Engross Sine Die	Requires the Office of Planning to hire a contractor to, among other things, identify and assess alternative financing, project delivery, and cost recovery mechanisms to recapture the State's upfront investment in transit-oriented development infrast... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-20 Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 842).
HB835	Engross Sine Die	Appropriates funds to support the ongoing operations of the Hawaii national guard youth challenge program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-20 Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-21-21 10:15AM; CR 229.
HB722	Engross Sine Die	Establishes a statewide coordinator and program overseen by the department of the attorney general to provide services and assistance to commercially sexually exploited children and victims of human trafficking. Requires the attorney general to submi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-20 Bill scheduled for Conference Committee Meeting on Wednesday, 04-21-21 2:40PM in conference room CR 329.
HB775	Engross Sine Die	Renames Kahului Airport Access Road on Maui as the Mayor Elmer F. Cravalho Way. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-19 Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 560).
HB1326	Engross Sine Die	Allows a narrow hearsay exception for statements made by domestic violence victims during the course of the first interaction with the responding law enforcement officers and before the arrest of the defendant, as long as the statement bears sufficie... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-19 Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 560).
SB560	Engross Sine Die	Establishes ranked-choice voting for special federal elections and special elections of vacant county council seats. Effective 7/1/2112. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-19 Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 559).
HB381	Engross Sine Die	Codifies the administrative rule definition of "assistance animal". Permits an owner or person engaged in a real estate transaction to request verification if the disability-related need for an assistance animal is not readily apparent. Specifies tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-19 Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 560).
HB882	Engross Sine Die	Requires purchasing agencies to make a written determination that the amount of a contracting action for purchases of health and human services is fair and reasonable. Amends the selection process and composition of the procurement policy board. Amen... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2021-04-19 Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 560).