| HB209 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of agriculture to include a statement on desecration laws in the plant and animal declaration form. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1505 | Engross
Sine Die | Encourages the EUTF to consider investment opportunities in industries that will sustain Hawaii's natural environment or produce economic opportunities for its residents, including renewable energy businesses and businesses that use investment capita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB1267 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of land and natural resources to develop and implement a management system for Kaena point state park, Makua, and Keawaula regions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB70 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale or holding, offering, and distribution of hemp products that contain cannabinoids created through isomerization. Exempts medical cannabis dispensaries from the prohibition. Inserts the alternative name for Delta 6 cis or trans tetr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB132 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes definitions for purposes of electronic voting. Specifies additional requirements and procedures with which the chief election officer must comply when using an electronic voting system, including procedures for conducting the post-electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
The recommendation was not adopted. |
| HB95 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the amount of partial public financing available for all offices. Adjusts the minimum amount of qualifying contributions certain candidates must receive to participate in the program. Increases the matching fund payments for excess qualifyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB202 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of land and natural resources, through the state historic preservation division to contract its review of proposed state projects, projects on privately owned historic property, and projects affecting historic properties to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB80 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes public school complexes to develop rigorous classroom-based performance assessments, including the use of authentic assessments as part of classroom-based performance assessments. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB537 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes electronic smoking devices and e-liquids under the definition of "tobacco products" for purposes of cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Repeals the electronic smoking device retailer registration unit under the department of the attorney gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1150 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support the Hawaii ant lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1350 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to establish and implement a GroupGAP food safety training and certification program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB100 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a criminal justice data sharing working group to make recommendations for a statewide criminal justice data repository. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1159 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii community development authority to consider the impacts of climate change, sea level rise, and climate-resilient development in the design and siting of buildings in the Kakaako and Kalaeloa community development districts. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB249 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii child nutrition programs agency in the department of human services. Establishes a grant program to support the funding of certain initiatives for the State's public schools. Establishes three permanent full-time equivalent pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB367 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the public utilities commission to issue a decision within six months from the date that a public utility or water carrier has filed a financial application request for commission authorization to issue stocks and stock certificates, bonds, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1261 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning 1/1/2024, establishes a program for the licensure, regulation, and oversight of special purpose digital currency companies. Extends operations of companies in the digital currency innovation lab under certain circumstances. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB576 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of land and natural resources, department of agriculture, and counties to collaborate on feral chicken management projects. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB797 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes procedures and eligibility criteria for a privilege to practice public accountancy in this State for public accountants and certified public accountants licensed in another state with comparable education, examination, and experience requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB850 | Engross
Sine Die | Within the department of education formally establishes the trauma-informed education pilot program. Appropriates funds for one twelve-month complex area trauma-informed resource teacher permanent position and one district educational specialist II p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB400 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an employer-provided or employer-sponsored child care income tax credit for employers that pay for certain available child care services to their employees. Establishes an employer child care property income tax credit for the cost of chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB551 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products and the mislabeling of e-liquids as nicotine free. Authorizes the department of health to appoint, commission, or contract for services of inspectors. Establishes two full-time equivalent program specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1154 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Amends the Uniform Probate Code to allow courts to appoint emergency guardians for respondents who reside in psychiatric facilities, hospitals, and homeless shelters. Extends the appointment period. Clarifies that guardians may consent to car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB1235 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for purchasing digital cameras for all adult correctional officer control rooms at state correctional facilities and body cameras for adult correctional officers to wear while on duty at state correctional facilities. Effective 6/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB374 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the definition of "beer" under the liquor regulatory laws to mean any alcoholic beverage containing no less than 0.5 per cent alcohol by volume obtained by fermentation of any infusion or decoction of malt or any substitute, including alcohol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB370 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the public utilities commission to complete its review and issue a decision within nine months from the date that a public utility, other than an investor-owned electric utility company, files its completed application seeking approval for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB368 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires any reporting requirement established by the public utilities commission through an order and not by statute to expire one year after the issuance of the order. Allows continuation of the reporting requirement if a new order is issued and ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB277 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the fines for violating motor vehicle insurance requirements. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB1203 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an employer child care tax credit for employers who provide or sponsor approved child care. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB1336 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Expands the authorized issuance of citations in lieu of arrests. Authorizes a grace period after a missed initial court appearance. Part II: Amends various provisions related to pretrial release. Part III: Allows the court to order substance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB352 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the family courts to allow petitioners to attend TRO hearings remotely upon request. Requires the courts to consider certain factors. Requires the courts to allow petitioners who allege domestic abuse to attend TRO hearings remotely. Effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB905 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii, in consultation with the commission on water resource management, to develop a scope of work and cost analysis to complete a flexible groundwater model that proposes methods for determining the needs of traditional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB942 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each department of education school and public charter school to establish a critical emergency response team. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1241 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes professional land surveyors and their assistants to enter private property to perform land surveying, subject to certain provisions. Shields land surveyors and their assistants from prosecution under criminal trespass laws when performing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB187 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes labor requirements for the construction of renewable energy projects with a capacity rating of ten megawatts or greater. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB1231 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the misdemeanor offense of criminal property damage in the third degree to include intentionally or knowingly damaging the property of another that is used in a business operation, without the other's consent in an amount exceeding $100. Effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB381 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the cutoff date of Act 196, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, that allowed the use of funds in the condominium education trust fund initially dedicated to support voluntary binding arbitration to be used for other educational purposes. Effective 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB244 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB448 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows minors sixteen years of age or older and emancipated minors to petition for domestic abuse protective orders. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB203 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows professional and technical staff of the state historic preservation division to be exempt from civil service laws. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB15 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the State and the counties to place liens on real properties for unpaid civil fines resulting from violations of land use laws. Authorizes the State and counties, subject to adoption of appropriate and particular laws or rules establishing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1398 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows telecommunications and emergency dispatchers and employees who perform similar functions employed by the State and counties to collectively bargain. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB258 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to issue revenue bonds for the acquisition of the Saint Francis School campus located at 2707 Pamoa Road in Honolulu. Appropriates moneys to the University of Hawaii for the acquisition of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB371 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals chapter 440J, HRS, relating to telecommunications and cable industry information reporting requirements for broadband service providers. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB582 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse may be initiated, including an otherwise timebarred action. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on traumainformed response. Effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB493 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the adjusted gross income brackets and credit amounts of the refundable food/excise tax credit. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1362 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes certain entities to elect to pay Hawaii income tax at the entity level through pass-through entities. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB42 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes candidates and their candidate committees to donate residual campaign funds to the general fund of the State or to the real property tax general fund of any county of the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB39 | Engross
Sine Die | Abolishes or reclassifies certain non-general funds of the Department of Taxation pursuant to the recommendations contained in Auditor's Report No. 22-14. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB993 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, in cooperation with each state agency having operational responsibilities over state facilities, to develop a standardized process to conduct vulnerability assessments for facilities at ris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1047 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the department of education's quarterly report on autism spectrum disorder to a semiannual report. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
