| HB676 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the appropriate county land use decision-making authority to determine district boundary amendments involving land areas over fifteen acres but not over one hundred acres, except lands that are designated as important agricultural land or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Recommitted to Conference Committee. |
| HB732 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to treat a respondent's failure to explain or otherwise respond to a complaint alleging a violation of campaign spending laws as a rebuttable presumption that a violation has occurred. Provides that the respond...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
Postponed Indefinitely with 50 Ayes Representative(s) Aiu, Alcos, Amato, Belatti, Chun, Cochran, Evslin, Ganaden, Garcia, Garrett, Gates, Hashem, Hashimoto, Holt, Hussey-Burdick, Ichiyama, Ilagan, Kahaloa, Kapela, Kila, Kitagawa, Kobayashi, Kong, La Chica, Lamosao, Lowen, Marten, Martinez, Matayoshi, Matsumoto, Mizuno, Morikawa, Nakamura, Nakashima, Nishimoto, Onishi, Perruso, Pierick, Poepoe, Saiki, Sayama, Souza, Takayama, Takenouchi, Tam, Tarnas, Todd, Ward, Woodson, Yamashita; 0 Noes none; and 1 Excused Representative(s) Quinlan. |
| SB781 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distribu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB974 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a program specialist position within the Department of Agriculture and appropriates moneys to fund the position. Requires the grant specialist to prioritize assistance for farmers and ranchers who produce local food, at least some portion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| SB1005 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes presidential preference primary elections. Makes an appropriation. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309. |
| HB1248 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the continued administration of the Hawaii healthy food incentive program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HB872 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging of the Department of Health for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| SB1135 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires cash or protest bonds to be returned to the initiating party, less twice the amount of the administrative costs, except in cases where the appeal was frivolous or made in bad faith. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:00PM; Conference Room 225 |
| HB1430 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the institute of indigenous education, science, and outreach within the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-28-23 at 4:30pm in Conference Room 309. |
| SB384 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes each county to adopt ordinances to enforce the design and construction requirements for the provision of accessible parking spaces, including the establishment of penalties for failure to comply with the ordinance. Authorizes officials app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB1508 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to certain departments to improve Native Hawaiian communities and cultural practice and preservation through various assistance services. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB473 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Creative Workforce Grant program for the awarding of grants to eligible nonprofit arts and culture organizations to support a living wage for creative workers. Effective 7/1/2050. (S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB1408 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the digital equity grant program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB1300 | Engross
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. Requires psychologist license applican...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB719 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes a cap on charges for the reproduction of certain government records. Waives the cost of duplication of government records provided to requestors in an electronic format. Allows agencies to withhold certain deliberative documents before a deci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB606 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with other state agencies, to develop and implement a plan by 7/1/2025 to expand the meat processing capacity in the State to allow for meat from axis deer and other wild game to be processed f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| SB1490 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the attorney general to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions or proceedings, subject to certain circumstances. Establishes certain filing and hearing requirements for when the attorney general refuse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| SB1543 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State, to begin with the 2026 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit a progress a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309. |
| SB1384 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends chapter 202, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to be consistent with the General Appropriations Act of 2021, Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021. Renames "Hawaii workforce development council" to "Hawaii workforce development board". Requires the Hawai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| SB156 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Education to hold no 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 Legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HB694 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support the Aquaculture Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at the Department of Agriculture Animal Industry Division Veterinary Laboratory Services Branch, in partnership with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB1087 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "employee" in Hawaii's wage and hour law by repealing the definition's categorical exclusion of any employee who receives guaranteed compensation totaling $2,000 or more a month. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| SB1332 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that emergency management powers must be consistent with the state constitution. Clarifies the scope of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to extend or terminate a state of emergency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 3:55PM; Conference room 016. |
| HB610 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the farm workforce retention tax credit for farm employers or owners of farm employers who employ eligible farm employees. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HB314 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Office of Community Services to fund the purchase, storage, and transportation of food for distribution to the food banks in the State. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB1131 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission to study all programming offered to persons incarcerated at correctional facilities and convene a group of incarcerated women for the purpose of identifying gaps in the program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HB222 | Engross
Sine Die | Adjusts the method by which the Department of Human Services shall calculate payments to providers of medical care and longterm supports and services. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-28-23 at 04:30pm in Conference Room 309. |
| HB908 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the maximum amount of conveyance tax revenues allocated to the Land Conservation Fund. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 5:00PM in conference room 229. |
| HB617 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an oral health task force to review the status of oral health in the State and make recommendations to improve the State's oral health infrastructure. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050 and 7/1/205...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB1442 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Criminal Justice Diversion Program including allowing examination of defendants via telehealth. Requires the Judiciary, in consultation with other stakeholders, to submit monthly and annual reports to the Legislature on the effectiveness o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB69 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Education's Resources for Enrichment, Athletics/Academics, Culture, and Health program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HB1396 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Establishes and appropriates funds for a county cesspool pilot program in the Department of Health to work with each county to identify a priority area to expand the county sewage system or other centralized treatment system to connect indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-28-23 at 4:30pm in Conference Room 309. |
| SB304 | Engross
Sine Die | Effective 7/1/2025, establishes the visitor impact fee program within the department of land and natural resources, through which the department will collect a fee from visitors for a license to visit a state park, forest, hiking trail, or other stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 5:00PM in conference room 229. |
| HB994 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct a study to refine rural district policies and make recommendations to facilitate the reclassification of lands from the agricultural district to the rural district. Requires repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 5:00PM in conference room 229. |
| HB995 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the decision-making process for the adoption by the Land use Commission of county maps for the designation of important agricultural lands. Repeals the provision for farm dwelling and employee housing on important agricultural lands and ado...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HB1375 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an Office of Tourism and Destination Management within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism that encompasses regenerative tourism and best practice destination management. Transfers the functions, duties, appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 3:00PM in conference room 325. |
| SB500 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to establish additional permanent mental health practitioner positions within the Division of Student Success' Counseling and Student Development Center. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB1149 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for positions and activities related to coconut rhinoceros beetle infestation control. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| SB419 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Hawaii carbon smart land management assistance pilot program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| SB710 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for an education and reentry program for incarcerated women. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HB1357 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning on 7/1/2023, requires that the state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes not exceed $767. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-28-23 at 04:30pm in Conference Room 309. |
| SB782 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for a grant program in the Department of Agriculture to provide grants to taro farmers in meeting the costs of cultivating taro for consumption. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30pm; Conference Room 309. |
| HB564 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to establish an unspecified number of fulltime equivalent information technology specialist positions within the Department of Human Resources Development and upgrade information technology systems within the Department of Human R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| SB971 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education and state public charter school commission to collect certain data on county bus pass usage for public high school and charter high school students. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HB67 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to establish an unspecified number of fulltime equivalent positions for the University of Hawaii Windward Community College's Pu`uhonua Program. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB982 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the amount of funding for the tobacco enforcement special fund administered by the Department of the Attorney General by: amending the amount of funds that the tobacco enforcement special fund can carry over at the end of the fiscal year; incr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| SB397 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to increase medicaid payments to eligible health care providers in the State up to one hundred per cent of the current medicare fee schedule rates. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-28-23 at 04:40pm in Conference Room 329. |
| SB445 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases civil penalties for the violation of various pollution provisions. Establishes and appropriates funds for an environmental health specialist position within the clean water branch of the department of health. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HB612 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit to alleviate the high costs of production for farmers, ranchers, and fishers and incentivize growth in the agricultural sector in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. (S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| SB430 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Farm to Food Bank Program and Hawaii food assistance program special fund to alleviate food shortages in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30pm; Conference Room 309. |
