| HB1697 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DOE to provide comprehensive training for teachers and educational officers on sexual health topics that include positive and accurate representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1931 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the establishment of one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) program specialist position related to mosquito control in the department of land and natural resources. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1784 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires periodic inspections of certain walls and appurtenances of buildings five or more stories in height. Requires the state building code council to review the periodic inspection reports. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1994 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the shade and fruit tree program in the department of education to support educational activities and encourage propagation of native shade trees and fruit trees for planting in department schools. Appropriates funds for the program and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1462 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies applicable reimbursement to the State or a defendant for expert witness fees, as it pertains to testimony, preparation, and in-court attendance in state court criminal proceedings. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1979 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires any person, before engaging in an activity with a high likelihood of resulting in an incidental take of a threatened or endangered species, to enter into a planning process with DLNR for the purpose of preparing and implementing a habitat co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB2148 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds, amends, and reorganizes sections in chapter 342D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to consolidate water quality certification requirements and include wetlands in the definition of "state waters". Clarifies the director of health's responsibility as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Health Committee |
| HB2247 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires proof of compliance with ignition interlock laws to be eligible for a driver's license following the license revocation period. Amends the driver's license revocation period for first time offenders convicted of operating a vehicle under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB1490 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a civil penalty for failure to respond to an inquiry or request for information during a state tax examination or investigation. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1866 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the procedures under which a blood, urine, or breath test is administered in the event of certain vehicular collisions. Prohibits state courts from vacating any conviction for a crime that was committed before 12/5/2016, if the only basis for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2494 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the expansion of civic education in the public schools and for one full-time equivalent permanent civic education resource teacher position. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2278 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a refundable income tax credit to mitigate the effect of a carbon emissions tax on taxpayers. Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to address carbon emissions. Effective 7/1/2100. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2015 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the hookaulike: a criminal legal system institute for restoration and healing, at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson school of law. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB1184 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts the sale of precious metal bullion from the general excise tax. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2277 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to DOE to promote surfing as an interscholastic sport. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1659 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to: (1) Amend and extend existing pasture leases for up to sixty-five years; (2) Issue new pasture leases by negotiation, if doing so furthers public purposes and the lands are already under pastoral...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1598 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii board of veterinary medicine to grant temporary courtesy permits and relief permits for out-of-state veterinarians. Permits licensed veterinarians to practice veterinarian telemedicine. Allows for international veterinary school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB2440 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes penalty on both the person and firm upon finding of certain violations of state law governing wages and hours of employees on public works. Defines "person" for these purposes. Effective 12/25/2040. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB1553 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the ceiling and lapsing provision for the office of health care assurance special fund. Authorizes the moneys in the special fund to be used in any fiscal year for certain purposes. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Health Committee |
| HB2155 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the marriage license statute to support the Hawaii birth defects program, modernization of the vital statistics system, operating costs of marriage license agents, and spouse and child abuse programs of the department of human services and of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Health Committee |
| HB2413 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of land and natural resources to conduct a feasibility study on a revenue-generating and management system of user fees for Hawaii's state parks and to submit a report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1986 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that at least one at-large member of the board of education be a Hawaiian immersion expert selected from a list of three nominees submitted by the president of the senate, speaker of the house of representatives, and office of Hawaiian affai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1822 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the renewal period from two years to four years for licensees who are seventy-two years of age or older but younger than eighty years of age. Effective 1/1/2222. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB2185 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the University of Hawaii to issue an unspecified amount in revenue bonds for the purpose of financing the construction, maintenance, and modernization of qualifying capital improvement projects. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB1839 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes camper vans a type of transient accommodation, the rental of which is subject to the transient accommodations tax. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB1448 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes each county to establish a county highway enforcement program; designate sections of each county as subject to a surcharge; and establish a fund for the deposit of the surcharge and related penalties. Requires annual reports on the status ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB2146 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a fee for all licenses to solemnize a marriage. Allows DOH to increase the fee, subject to certain requirements. Requires DOH to account for the collection and deposit of the fee. Repeals the expiration of and fees specific to civil licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To Senate Health Committee |
| HB1580 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies under the Hawaii Rules of Evidence that a court may order that the testimony of witnesses be taken through a live two-way video connection in certain circumstances. Effective 1/1/2222. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2102 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes medicare income related monthly adjustment amounts reimbursement by the State and counties for retired employees hired after June 30, 2022, and their spouses. Effective 12/25/2040. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB315 | Engross
Sine Die | Raises from $3,000,000 to $6,000,000 the cap on the amount the University of Hawaii System can expend from the University of Hawaii tuition and fees special fund for the University of Hawaii Foundation. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB1731 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain eligibility criteria. Makes an appropriation for the Hawaii Promise Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB1525 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides additional guidance and updates the reporting obligations for state departments, including the department of education, pursuant to Acts 175 and 176 (SLH 2021), which established programmatic goals for the purchase and procurement of locally...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB2464 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies when the use of deadly force is not justified. Effective 1/1/2222. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1671 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporarily establishes the land study bureau classifications and ratings review subcommittee within the land use commission to review and amend land study bureau classifications and ratings of agricultural lands. Repeals on 12/31/ . Effective 7/1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB2103 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes medicare part B premium reimbursement by the State and counties for the spouses of retired employees hired after June 30, 2022. Effective 12/25/2040. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB2304 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the DOE to secure additional resources to help implement the Hawaii farm to school program, specifically to implement internal systems and controls to meet the State's local food goals in school meals. Requires the DOE to submit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2105 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the Employees' Retirement System's eligibility requirement definitions for service-connected disability and accidental death benefits. Effective 12/25/2040. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB2303 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the legislature's intent regarding internal deliberative and pre-decisional materials of government agencies. Specifies that certain deliberative and pre-decisional materials that are a direct part of a government agency's internal decision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2442 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates the cost valuations of work on buildings for the work to qualify for an exemption from the requirement that plans and specifications for construction projects be prepared by a licensed engineer or architect. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-02
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1817 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires shopping centers having 15 or more retail tenants to have no less than 1 publicly available restroom. Effective 1/1/2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-01
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2182 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the membership of the State Highway Safety Council appointed by the Governor from twenty to ten. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-01
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1933 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes rules of ethics applicable to persons who are contracted, subcontracted, assigned, delegated, ordered, appointed, or in any other act allowed by a state agency to work with children and establish additional procedures for persons, includi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-01
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1493 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of moneys maintained in the tax administration special fund. Amends the purpose of the fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1495 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a production from qualifying for the motion picture, digital media, and film production tax credit if the production hires or compensates an employee of the State or county whose official capacity is related to issuing film permits or facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1660 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that agricultural multi-use lands under the management of DLNR are not subject to transfer to and management by HDOA. Requires BLNR to revise its land classifications to include agricultural multi-use lands. Establishes and appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1884 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any person whose driver's license has been administratively revoked or who has been convicted for offenses involving operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant from being eligible for a driver's license without providing proof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-25
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1766 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds out of the state parks special fund to raise the expenditure ceiling of the special fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-25
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2380 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of the Attorney General to develop and implement a state program to allow active and retired law enforcement officers to carry a concealed firearm in the State pursuant to the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-25
The committees on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The recommendation was not adopted. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Nakashima, Matayoshi, Ichiyama, Tokioka, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; 5 Noes: Representative(s) D. Kobayashi, LoPresti, Lowen, McKelvey, Takumi; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Nakamura. |
| HB1826 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the long-term rental assistance pilot program for kupuna to be administered by the Hawaii public housing authority for individuals who are sixty-two years of age or older and are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1773 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage to 12 months following the end of pregnancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
