| HB1801 | Pass | Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds. Makes findings required by Article VII, Section 13, of the Hawaii State Constitution to declare that the issuance of authorized bonds will not cause the debt limit to be exceeded. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-10
Act 253, 07/10/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1365). |
| HB2619 | Pass | Requires the Department of Agriculture to lead and coordinate the State's invasive pest control and eradication biosecurity efforts. Establishes certain reporting requirements. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for programs and posi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 231, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1336). |
| HB1611 | Pass | Requires law enforcement agencies and the Law Enforcement Standards Board to consult the National Decertification Index and report certain information related to a law enforcement officer's certification status to the Index. Takes effect 7/1/2026. (S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 246, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1351). |
| HB1800 | Pass | Adjusts and requests appropriations for fiscal biennium 2023-2025 funding requirements for operations and capital improvement projects of Executive Branch agencies and programs. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 230, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1335). |
| HB1911 | Pass | Appropriates funds for the Judiciary Supplemental Budget for the 2023-2025 biennium. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 233, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1338). |
| HB1953 | Pass | Requires the Judicial Council to conduct a comprehensive review of the Hawaii Penal Code and to recommend proposed changes. Requires the Judicial Council to appoint an advisory committee to assist in the review, and allows the Judicial Council to als...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 245, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1350). |
| HB2657 | Pass | Establishes judicial procedures to prevent and remedy abusive litigation. Takes effect 1/1/2025. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 252, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1357). |
| HB2231 | Pass | Establishes as a goal of the State the increased representation of female law enforcement officers in the State by 2030 and nonbinary law enforcement officers in the State. Requires each law enforcement agency to recruit law enforcement officers from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 251, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1356). |
| HB1640 | Pass | Requires the employer to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit within thirty days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate. Establishes that the employer's failure to initiate the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 234, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1339). |
| HB2352 | Pass | Exempts the administrator of the Law Enforcement Standards Board from civil service laws. Clarifies membership and certain powers and duties of the Law Enforcement Standards Board and establishes new deadlines for the completion of board responsibili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 247, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1352). |
| HB1763 | Pass | Prohibits the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation from forgiving any loan made from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund unless the Corporation forecloses on the project. Amends the permitted uses of and priority for which moneys in the R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 235, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1340). |
| HB40 | Pass | Appropriates funds to be deposited into the emergency and budget reserve fund and pension accumulation fund pursuant to article VII, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution. (CD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 229, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1334). |
| HB2581 | Pass | Removes the ability of the Governor or a mayor to suspend electronic media transmission during a state of emergency or local state of emergency, respectively. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 237, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1342). |
| HB1936 | Pass | Mandates that the Department of Transportation require the securing of mooring lines from vessels to commercial docks, wharves, piers, quays, and landings to be performed by labor subject to collective bargaining. Sunsets 7/1/2028. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 236, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1341). |
| HB1633 | Veto | Repeals the leasing restriction on owner-builders who obtain an owner-builder exemption to act as their own contractor and who build or improve residential or farm buildings or structures on property they own or lease and do not offer the buildings o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Vetoed on 07-09-24 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1358). |
| HB2359 | Veto | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Vetoed on 07-09-24 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1359). |
| HB2526 | Pass | Increases the penalty for a third or subsequent offense involving the unauthorized driving or operation of motor vehicles to a class C felony. Authorizes the court, as part of the person's sentencing for the third or subsequent offense, to order that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 212, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1313). |
| HB2193 | Pass | Authorizes law enforcement and fire officers to enter and inspect any licensee's or permittee's premises, under certain conditions, to verify compliance with the State's Fireworks Control Law. Establishes procedures for the Department of Law Enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 208, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1309). |
| HB2743 | Pass | Requires the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center and the Sea Grant College Program to develop an overlay with the Hawaii Cesspool Prioritization Tool to identify specific priority areas in which the county sewer system or other centr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 217, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1318). |
| HB2248 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to develop a North Shore Beach Management Plan for the North Shore of Oahu from Sunset Point to the Kapoo (Sharks Cove) area. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 226, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1327). |
| HB2467 | Pass | Repeals the sunset provision of Act 222, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, to permanently allow the Board of Land and Natural Resources to approve rent credits for demolition and infrastructure costs for public land leases. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 219, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1320). |
| HB2471 | Pass | Establishes a statutory framework for inspections by the Department of Land and Natural Resources of public land subject to certain leases or licenses, including inspections of structures or buildings by third-party inspectors contracted by the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 220, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1321). |
| HB2742 | Pass | Establishes a pre-litigation mediation procedure for tenancies that are subject to the eviction moratorium issued under the Governor's emergency proclamations relating to wildfires once the eviction moratorium expires. Restricts when landlord remedie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 202, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1303). |
| HB1902 | Pass | Clarifies that the Governor's and mayors' emergency management powers shall 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 te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 206, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1307). |
| HB2453 | Pass | Authorizes the Governor, or a state official with authorization from the Governor, to transfer federal capitalization grant funds between the Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund and the Drinking Water Treatment Revolving Loan Fund, in accordance w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 218, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1319). |
| HB2058 | Pass | Establishes the offense of negligent failure to control a dangerous dog. Beginning 7/1/2025, establishes provisions regarding the designation of dangerous dogs, requirements for owners of dangerous dogs, and impoundment of dangerous dogs. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 224, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1325). |
| HB1554 | Pass | Expands the Department of Land and Natural Resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule to impose restrictions or requirements deemed necessary to protect certain aquatic life. Expands the Board of Land and Natural Resources' authority to temp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 222, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1323). |
| HB2478 | Pass | Authorizes the Governor to execute a compact on behalf of the State to cooperate in the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. Establishes procedures for selection and succession of commissioners from the State of Hawaii. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 216, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1317). |
| HB1922 | Pass | Expands the department of land and natural resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule deemed necessary to protect certain wildlife. Expands the board of land and natural resources' authority to timely adopt, amend, or repeal certain rules if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 223, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1324). |
| HB1842 | Pass | Increases the maximum fine for violations of the fire protection laws. Specifies that each day a violation exists or continues to exist shall constitute a distinct and separate offense. Raises the criminal penalty for the offense of arson in the four...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 201, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1302). |
| HB2107 | Pass | Appropriates funds to establish a Limited English Proficiency Language Access Coordinator position and for programming support for LEP community projects within the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 210, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1311). |
| HB1527 | Pass | Prohibits animal owners and their employees from performing any surgical procedures on the owner's pet animal or pet animals. Provides that a violation of the prohibition is a misdemeanor. Clarifies that the offense of cruelty to animals in the first...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 221, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1322). |
| HB2475 | Pass | Provides that advertisements or offers of unpermitted commercial ocean use activities or commercial ocean recreational equipment are prima facie evidence that the owner disseminated or directed dissemination of such advertisements or offers and the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 227, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1328). |
| HB2298 | Pass | Beginning 7/1/2027, requires roasted coffee, instant coffee, and ready-to-drink coffee beverages that contain Hawaii-grown and Hawaii-processed coffee blended with coffee of another regional origin to contain no less than fifty-one per cent coffee by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 198, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1299). |
| HB2144 | Pass | Requires the Department of Health to amend the definition of "homemade food products" in its administrative rules on food safety and adopt certain rules regarding the sale and delivery of homemade food products. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 195, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1296). |
| HB2278 | Pass | Clarifies labeling requirements for macadamia nuts to require a disclosure indicating that a product may contain macadamia nuts not grown in Hawaii if the consumer package contains macadamia nuts grown outside the State. Exempts from the labeling req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 199, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1300). |
| HB1916 | Pass | Prohibits, upon written request from certain public servants or their representative, any government agency, person, or organization from making certain personal information publicly available on the Internet. Effective 10/1/2024. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 187, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1288). |
| HB1832 | Pass | Authorizes a state department, division, or agency, rather than the Department of Human Resources Development, to conduct a minimum qualification review of applicants for vacant positions within the department, division, or agency. Requires the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 186, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1287). |
| HB2192 | Pass | Authorizes the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to appoint an organization as the limited owner of a cemetery, under certain circumstances, for the purposes of filing complaints and engaging in certain security and perpetual care activities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 193, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1294). |
| HB1597 | Pass | Clarifies that members of the public may sue a board or alleged board after receiving an adverse Office of Information Practices decision, and that the decision will be reviewed de novo. Establishes a two-year statute of limitations to bring the laws...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 160, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1261). |
| HB1869 | Pass | Establishes the felony offenses of misuse of uncrewed aircraft in the first, second, and third degrees. Requires uncrewed aircraft to be operated by a human operator at all times. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 161, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1262). |
| HB2501 | Pass | Repeals the reporting requirement to identify the cost impacts to the State of providing workers' compensation coverage for University of Hawaii students. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 167, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1268). |
| HB2513 | Pass | Expands expungement eligibility to persons whose convictions for consuming a measurable amount of alcohol while under the age of twenty-one or first-time property offenses predated current expungement provisions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 168, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1269). |
| HB1923 | Pass | Authorizes overnight camps in operation prior to January 1, 1961, to be regulated via the special permit process. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 182, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1283). |
| HB2337 | Pass | Replaces representatives from the sugar and pineapple industries with representatives of the coffee and diversified agriculture industries on the Advisory Committee on Pesticides. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 183, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1284). |
| HB2546 | Pass | Allows for the use of fine meshed nets for the protection of plants against invasive species, under certain conditions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 184, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1285). |
| HB2070 | Pass | Requires cash or protest bonds paid or filed by parties initiating an administrative appeal for protests of solicitations or award of contracts under the Hawaii Public Procurement Code to be returned to the initiating parties, minus administrative co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 162, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1263). |
| HB2071 | Pass | Provides that any photo red light imaging detector system's clear and unobstructed recorded image of a motor vehicle license plate shall be prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle to which the license plate is attached is the motor vehicle for wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 163, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1264). |
| HB2399 | Pass | Exempts an additional administrative assistant position in the Hawaii State Public Library System from civil service. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 165, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1266). |
| HB2343 | Pass | Expedites the enforcement of orders of wage payment violations by allowing the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to file certified copies of the final orders in any court of competent jurisdiction. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 164, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1265). |
