| HB1429 | Intro
Sine Die | Gradually reduces the general excise tax rate imposed on the retail sale of groceries and nonprescription medication over a period of four years until eliminated in calendar year 2027. Preserves the county surcharge on tax and the general excise tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1507 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensures that the $600,000,000 appropriated to the department of Hawaiian home lands in Act 279, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, is available for expenditure until June 30, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1066 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores the second deputy director position for the Department of Human Services; authorizes a private secretary position for the second deputy; appropriate funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB1214 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirteenth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1293 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning no later than 1/1/2025: requires farm owners or operators to confine egg-laying hens in accordance with certain standards, with exceptions; prohibits a business owner or operator from selling shell eggs or egg products that are produced by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1469 | Intro
Sine Die | Lowers the threshold blood alcohol concentration for the offense of operating a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB623 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts foods and medical services products from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1251 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides protections to individuals involved in the sex trade from the consequences under criminal law of disclosing their engagement or being identified as engaging in prostitution while in the course of seeking medical or law enforcement assistance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1427 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a covered entity from disclosing communication or information relating to reproductive health care services. Prohibits the issuance of a subpoena in connection with an out-of-state proceeding relating to reproductive health care services le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HB1500 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes boards to borrow money for extraordinary expenses in the condominium event of an emergency situation and promptly disclose to owners the amount and purpose. Requires certain information to be included in budget summaries regarding estimate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB771 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases shoreline setback requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB699 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the proposed drilling, construction, or use of a well and well appurtenances on lands leased from the Department of Agriculture from the requirements of the environmental impact statements law, provided that the land is being used to support ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1044 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjusts the Department of Education's small purchase threshold to require no less than three quotes for purchases of goods, services, and construction between $5,000 to less than $15,000, and to require no less than three written quotes for purchases...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB182 | Intro
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] | 2023-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB1257 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fourteenth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1141 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the individual income tax for single filers and heads of households making less than $20,000 or joint filers making less than $40,000 and increases the income tax rate more slowly for low- and medium-income filers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB903 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for operational expenses of the Hawaii Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a prospective juror is disqualified to serve as a juror if they have been convicted of a felony and have not been finally discharged, in addition to not being pardoned.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB898 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a three-year surcharge on the liquor tax. Repeals 06/30/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1166 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires firearms owners to obtain firearms insurance. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1172 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the court to release a defendant in custody on unsecured bail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1484 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a landlord from increasing a tenant's rent more than five per cent plus the percentage change in the cost of living during the previous twelve months. Prohibits a landlord from increasing a tenant's rent more than once over a twelve-month p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Housing Committee |
| HB1425 | Intro
Sine Die | Legalizes, regulates, and taxes cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for adult use. Establishes the Hawaii cannabis commission to oversee the regulation of adult use cannabis manufacturers and retailers. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1347 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Director of Transportation to exempt certain ground transportation facility projects from historic preservation review, the environmental impact statement law, and the Hawaii public procurement code under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1465 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits bans on dwelling unit rentals having a term between one and five months for inter-island relocations and temporary workers. Authorizes county councils to adopt any ordinances necessary to implement the prohibition by 6/30/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB687 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts food products from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1324 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all health insurers in the state, including medicaid managed care programs, to cover annual mental health wellness examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HB1280 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts the use of solitary confinement in state-operated and state-contracted correctional facilities, with certain specified exceptions. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to use appropriate alternatives to solitary confine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HB1473 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study to determine an appropriate increase to the homestead exemption in bankruptcy proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Housing Committee |
| HB684 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends chapter 127A, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to clarify State and local authority, ensure effective and adaptable emergency response, and further the goals of transparency and democratic accountability. Clarifies that powers granted for emerge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1393 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes certain parental rights. Prohibits the State and counties from enacting any rules, regulations, or laws that infringe upon these parental rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1445 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of "renewable energy".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB466 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish a grant program to assist persons who use albizia trees to create usable commercial products or are developing ways to use albizia trees to create usable products. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1031 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates definitions related to the education and training requirements of psychologists; amends the screening process for applicants educated at a foreign institution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HB1435 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to transfer the Ewa Beach Public and School Library from the State Public Library System to James Campbell High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| HB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation into and from a newly established special fund to authorize funds for the Department of Transportation Highways Division's Electric Bicycle and Electric Moped Rebate Program. Authorizes the Department of Transportatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1468 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes statewide electronic citation program under the Judiciary. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment that would: (1) establish county school boards throughout the State to be elected as provided by law; and (2) create an educational standards and accountability commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| HB1443 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the composition of the fuel tank advisory committee. Adds requirements for the committee as it carries out its duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1216 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii cannabis regulatory authority, which shall have oversight over the personal use of cannabis. Legalizes and regulates the personal use of small amounts of cannabis. Regulates the cultivation and sale of small amounts of cannabis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1024 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for temporary permits to be issued to registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, and revises the exemptions for license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HB1452 | Intro
Sine Die | For policies, contracts, plans, agreements, and plan contracts issued or renewed after 12/31/2023, requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HB759 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish limited entry commercial fisheries where appropriate or necessary to ensure certain commercial fisheries throughout the State remain healthy and sustainable while balancing the impo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1392 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that individuals who first begin employment as a judge, elected official, or legislative officer after 6/30/2023, be subject to the same Employees' Retirement System benefits as other state or county employees who began their employment afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB779 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1504 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to modernize Hale Poai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Housing Committee |
| HB832 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the chief election officer to develop and distribute a voter information guide for all candidates running for state office, including candidates running for any trustee position of the office of Hawaiian affairs. Requires the office of elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB969 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Governor to ensure continued operation of medical facilities upon declaration of a state of emergency and during times of health or pandemic emergencies. Allows hospitals to suspend elective surgeries during the period of emergency to ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Health Committee |
| HB1173 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds new sections to the Hawaii Constitution. Allows for amendments by initiative to prevail and reserves the powers of initiative and referendum to the people. Specifies a procedure for vote recalls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1139 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a compliance and enforcement program within the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to investigate complaints, conduct investigations, and cooperate with enforcement authorities to ensure compliance with all state laws and rules and county ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
