| HB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to article X, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution to modify the appointment process for the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii. Repeals the requirement that the governor shall only appoint from pools of candida...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows government agencies to publish public notices on their official websites as an alternative to publishing them in the newspaper.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB536 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the competitive sealed bidding process for construction projects to require joint contractors and subcontractors to submit their bids to a bid depository established under DCCA. Authorizes joint contractors and subcontractors to submit differe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to inventory historic properties and burial sites in the State, collect data on burial site locations, and conduct an archaeological surface survey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1196 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state auditor to conduct a performance and management audit of the ten agriculture parks operated by the agricultural resource management division of the department of agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1476 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Elections to prepare a digital voter information guide. Requires the Office of Elections to post the guide on its website in compliance with certain accessibility standards. Requires the Office of Elections to mail each ballot ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB689 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduce to the cost living to Hawaii taxpayers through a one per cent reduction in the general excise tax. The general excise tax savings would only be applicable to the value of the entire retail product or service sold.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1080 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarify the group of professionals who are prohibited from knowingly referring or transferring patients to an uncertified or unlicensed care facility, and repeal the landlord exclusion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HB1207 | Intro
Sine Die | Simplifies the tax structure to four brackets and reduces the tax rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB693 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies reimbursement for services provided through telehealth via an interactive telecommunications system. Defines "interactive telecommunications system". Clarifies that, for services furnished for purposes of diagnosis, evaluation, or treatment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HB918 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a 10-year license for 1 poker and sportsbook gaming facility in a special district designated for tourism in a county with over 500,000 residents that is not in a hotel. Allows admission for individuals 21 years of age or older who registe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1158 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that certain deliberative and pre-decisional government inter-agency or intra-agency records concerning an agency decision about a government action are not subject to disclosure until a decision on the action has been made or abandoned. Cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1298 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of proxies in condominium association voting. Requires associations to allow members to vote by mail and attend and cast votes in association meetings through internet, teleconference, or other electronic transmission technology. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1481 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows up to one dwelling per quarter-acre in rural districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Housing Committee |
| HB1310 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fortieth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1464 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires compliance with the federal Military Selective Service Act for an individual to enroll in a state-supported post-secondary educational institution, qualify for state financial assistance for post-secondary education, or be eligible for emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HB845 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Education to hold not less than six community forums annually, with at least one community forum in each county. Requires the Board to include an open forum for public comments on non-agenda items. Requires a report to the Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| HB683 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a penalty of child support costs for motorists who operate a motor vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant and in the process kill the parent of a minor child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1085 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Unemployment Insurance Technology Special Fund that will be funded by an additional assessment of .01 per cent to Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund contributions to support the information technology operating and maintenance expenses ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB1411 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends certain publication procedures to require the publication of information to be on the appropriate state or county department's website, rather than in a newspaper.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1479 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the period in which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions. Authorizes the use of the surcharge revenues for affordable and workforce housing infrastructure. Allows the counties to use surcharge revenues for hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB859 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the renewable energy standards timeline and reduces the percentage goal to allow for firm energy production as a part of a resilient statewide system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB988 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases options to build affordable housing in Hawaii Community Development Authority districts by increasing the permissible lease term to ninety-nine years. Prohibits the Hawaii Community Development Authority from encumbering lands that were cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1190 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a wealth asset tax of one per cent of the state net worth of each individual taxpayer who holds $20,000,000 or more in assets in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB685 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the abortion of a fetus that contains a fetal heartbeat. Provides certain exceptions. Establishes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HB1174 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires leases used in the conveyance of available lands as defined by section 203 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, as amended, to conform to the requirements for securitization by federally insured lending programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1474 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires nominees for the position of Deputy Director, First Deputy, or Deputy Chair, as the case may be, of principal departments to be subject to advice and consent of the Senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1063 | Intro
Sine Die | Making the nursing facility sustainability program and exemptions from the special fund assessments permanent. Make changes to strengthen the nursing facility sustainability program and other nonsubstantive changes for consistency and clarify. Approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HB1389 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires professional and vocational licensing boards to consider relevant military education, training, and service as part of the evaluation process toward the qualifications of a license. Requires the licensing administrator of the professional an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HB1242 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes provisional or associate level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Allows psychologist license applicants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HB686 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes Department of Public Safety to inspect shipping containers for illegal fireworks and explosives. Establishes a shipping container inspection program using X-ray scanning portals and associated special fund. Authorizes Department of Transpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB815 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the counties from imposing inclusionary zoning requirements. Requires the counties to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB998 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Economic Development District Planning Organization and board. Designates the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to organize the Hawaii Economic Development District Planning Organization. Establishes two full-time ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1311 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary office of senior citizen affairs in the office of the lieutenant governor. Establishes the kupuna benefits program, to be administered by the office of senior citizen affairs. Establishes a kupuna benefits program tax credit f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB911 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the seventh representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Finance Committee |
| HB944 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a job creation income tax credit for employers who increase the number of full-time employees in the State and make certain capital investment expenditures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1262 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement for broadband service providers to submit census-block level reports to the department of commerce and consumer affairs, for consistency with new Federal Communications Commission requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HB1457 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the Legislature may authorize the Counties to issue tax increment bonds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB902 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State to pay, without delay, military personnel called to active duty at the same rate as their active duty counterparts; provide basic housing allowance; provide service credit for time on active duty; and allow state and county employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HB1060 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent Act 197, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, which excludes housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from school impact fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| HB1198 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the prevent suicide Hawaii taskforce within the Department of Health. Requires the task force to make annual recommendations to the Legislature on ways to reduce suicide rates in the State by 25% by 2025. Dissolves the task force on 1/1/2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HB1467 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Office of Information Practices to resolve open meeting and open record complaints through either a legal determination on whether a violation occurred or written guidance on the relevant legal requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB915 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain commercial agricultural entities to issue annual public reports regarding their pesticide use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1346 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the eighth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1106 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Transportation Airports Division (DOTA) to be reimbursed from any airport contractor, tenant, or user for the entire amount of fines and penalties levied for the violation of federal, state, or county laws related to environm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1016 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 87A-23, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to exclude medicare reimbursement by the State and counties for the spouses of retired employees hired after June 30, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB1284 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination by employers based on political affiliation. Prohibits unfair discriminatory practices that deny, or attempt to deny, a person the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB1180 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HB1288 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the authority of employers to pay tipped employees less than the minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB1304 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the nineteenth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Finance Committee |
