| HB943 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Honokaa Land Company, LLC, with acquiring, developing, and renovating agricultural facilities. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
Received from Governor re: Consideration Request (Gov. Msg. No. 3). |
| HB691 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Kohala Mountain Fish Company, LLC, for the establishment of The Village project. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
Received from Governor re: Consideration Request (Gov. Msg. No. 3). |
| HB639 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies when the termination of peer-to-peer car-sharing occurs for purposes of motor vehicle insurance. Clarifies the application of the peer-to-peer car-sharing insurance laws as to other entities that make available rental vehicles under state l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to issue special activity permits for the purpose of recognizing and protecting individuals exercising their Native Hawaiian traditional and customary rights. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a new section to Chapter 801, Hawaii Revised Statutes, establishing circumstances in which the presence of a defendant is required for court proceedings or may be waived.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB846 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts the interstate teacher mobility compact to reduce the barriers to teacher license portability and employment. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB575 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers in any urban land use district. Applies the existing time-of-use restrictions on leaf blowers to non-gasoline-powered leaf blowers. Increases the fines for offenses of leaf blower restrictions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1152 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the period in which the supreme court and intermediate appellate court are in session to June 1 of each year through April 1 of the following year. Specifies that the Hawaii supreme court and intermediate appellate court shall issue decisions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the public utilities commission to use electronic filing processes, including electronic service of documents, under the statutory chapters regulating public utilities, motor carriers, and water carriers. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1353 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for unemployment insurance specialist and unemployment insurance assistant positions within the department of labor and industrial relations to prepare and support the unemployment insurance modernization project. Appropriates fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB395 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the small business innovation research program under the Hawaii technology development corporation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB844 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii Maui college's office of international and regional partnerships for students to study abroad and for study abroad programs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the manufacturing assistance program under the Hawaii technology development corporation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB822 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that motorcycles receive safety inspections once every 2 years instead of once every 12 months. Requires the director of transportation to adopt rules to increase to $25 the inspection fee for motorcycles. Establishes a 2-year moratorium on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB820 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a transient accommodations tax rate of twenty-five per cent for furnishing transient vacation units to transient occupants for less than thirty days. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1440 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act. Repeals the superseded Uniform Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1325 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets forth requirements under which a convicted person may seek review for a criminal conviction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1485 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a date for presidential primaries, as well as signature and fee requirements for a person to be nominated as a presidential primary candidate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB996 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provision for farm dwelling and farm employee housing on Important Agricultural Lands and adopts a new provision for farm cluster housing as an incentive for the designation of lands as Important Agricultural Lands pursuant to chapter 205...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB730 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the amount of cash contributions a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee can accept in the aggregate in an election period to $100. Requires receipts for each contribution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB731 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a person waives the right to a contested case hearing if the person fails to request a contested case hearing within twenty days of receipt of the commission's preliminary determination. Provides that a final order of the commission may...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of the fine for campaign spending law violations that may be assessed against a noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures and that has received at least one contribution of more than $10,000, or spent more than ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB729 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the campaign spending commission to publish on its website the names of candidate committees and noncandidate committees who fail to properly file an organizational report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB946 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Agribusiness Development Corporation to plan, design, construct, and operate a new animal slaughterhouse on the island of Oahu. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB17 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a county liquor commission to allow licensees to sell unopened beer, wine, and prepackaged cocktails with food for pick up, delivery, take out, or other means to be consumed offpremises. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB718 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the campaign spending commission to serve preliminary determinations of probable cause via first-class mail, instead of certified mail. Establishes a presumption of receipt when the preliminary determination is mailed to the address containe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB708 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the information in the statement of expenditures reports that lobbyists and other individuals are required to file with the Hawaii state ethics commission to include the identity, by bill number, resolution number, or other similar identifier,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB715 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits lobbyists from making prohibited gifts to legislators and state employees. Imposes administrative fines for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB722 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "fundraiser" under the election law relating to the notice of intent for fundraisers and fundraising events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB709 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a lobbyist training course to be designed and administered by the state ethics commission. Makes the lobbyist training course mandatory for all lobbyists who are required to register and renew their registration with the state ethics commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB705 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each house of the legislature to post a report of the legislative allowance expenditures for each member of the respective house on the legislature's website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB706 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all members of the legislature to disclose certain relationships with lobbyists or lobbying organizations in their financial disclosures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB721 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the use of campaign funds to purchase up to two tickets for an event or fundraiser held by another candidate or committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1268 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii sea grant college program to contract with an independent consultant for the development of a statewide strategic five-year plan for aquaculture. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB885 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of health to develop and implement statewide media, education, and training activities for policies related to emergency examination and hospitalization and assisted community treatment for those in need of mental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1023 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates general funds to various programs due to anticipated operating shortfalls due to the limited ability for departments to transfer funds between programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB594 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the residential zone restriction on the use of leaf blowers at certain hours includes residential districts, apartment districts, and business mixed use districts. Removes the exemption on leaf blower restrictions for government agenci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1030 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the balance that may be retained in the Public Utilities Commission Special Fund at the end of each fiscal year from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii to develop and implement a two-year native pollinator habitat pilot project to be deployed at the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus and the University of Hawaii at Hilo campus. Appropriates funds for a technician ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of agriculture to establish a healthy soils program, which includes a healthy soil assessment and education program and health soil grants program. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB461 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals Act 86, SLH 2021, which authorized the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Luana Kai A Life Plan Community in the development of a continuing care retirement community in Hawaii Kai. Effective 7/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB181 | Intro
Sine Die | Implements the recommendation of the cesspool conversion working group to accelerate the dates for required upgrades, conversions, or connections of priority level 1 cesspools and priority level 2 cesspools by requiring priority level 1 cesspools to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB487 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the sunset date of trauma-informed care task force established by Act 209, SLH 2021, to 6/30/2025. Beginning 7/1/2025, transfers the office of wellness and resilience from the office of the governor to the department of human services and for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1295 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to provide grants to qualified chicken and egg farmers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1021 | Intro
Sine Die | Reinstates Governor's authority to transfer funds to cope with the effects of natural disasters, for operating purposes, or to supplement the department of land and natural resources' fire fighter's contingency fund. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB520 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Access to Local Food Act to allow cottage food operations to sell cottage food products, under certain conditions, upon receiving a permit from the Department of Health. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB657 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the department of agriculture to hire a consultant to work with hemp farmers to identify the infrastructure needs of hemp farmers and the hemp industry in Hawaii. Requires report to the legislature, governor, and chairperson of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB702 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a study of the carrying capacity of Makena State Park in the County of Maui. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB84 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes explicit the counties' authority to enact ordinances to amortize or phase out permitted, nonconforming, or otherwise allowed short-term rentals in any zoning classification. Includes swapping, bartering, or exchange of a residential dwelling, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds "community health center" to the list of eligible organizations at which those with a community service license may practice. Allows dental hygiene and dental college graduates who have graduated from educational programs recognized by the Ameri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
