| HB2333 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the accessory dwelling unit housing development program with the Hawaii Community Development Authority to award subsidies to individuals who build accessory dwelling units. Exempts those accessory dwelling units from general excise tax f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Housing Committee |
| HB2362 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the legislature may authorize political subdivisions, such as counties, to issue tax increment bonds and to exclude tax increment bonds in calculating the debt l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2648 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include neonicotinoid pesticides.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2244 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the court to elevate the offense of criminal trespass in the first degree from a misdemeanor to a class C felony if the court deems the trespassing to be egregious or repeated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2749 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "imminent harm" in the Child Protective Act. Clarifies the due process required for child removals, including removals by a police officer without a court order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB2625 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a contested case hearing is not required when an identical or substantially similar administrative matter has been finally adjudicated. Includes administrative contested case proceedings within the scope of the vexatious litigant statu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2745 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to legislative management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HB2709 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates moneys for capital improvement projects in the 39th representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2305 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning 1/1/2028, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties to be enforced by the Department of Health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2799 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state agencies that monitor environmental toxins and pollutants to establish environmental action levels (EALs) to ensure the preservation of a safe environment. Prohibits modifications to EALs unless certain procedural requirements are met....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB2421 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chairperson's designee to the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation as an ex officio nonvoting member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Housing Committee |
| HB2559 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fortieth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2608 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "burial site".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2592 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the counties to impose, by ordinance, enhanced penalties for graffiti in certain designated zones and supersede graffiti sentencing requirements under the Penal Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2669 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to constitutional matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2797 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to investigate the existence and environmental dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and related chemicals. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB2603 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends provisions relating to criteria in family court determinations regarding custody and visitation rights. Clarifies that no court shall consider a parent's affirmation of their child's gender identity or expression in a custody determination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB2687 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the resilience hub and network grant program and a special fund in the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. Increases the environmental response, energy, and food security tax and deposits a portion of the tax into the resilience hub and n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2803 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HB2636 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Coastal Commission and the Shoreline Buyback Program, which permits the Commission to purchase eligible shoreline properties and make those properties available for affordable rental housing. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2301 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the Rental Motor Vehicle Surcharge from $2 to $7. Includes the operation and maintenance costs of the Lahaina Bypass North as a permissible use of the State Highway Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2615 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the PUC to solicit competitive offers from an entity operating under a non-investor-owned utilities ownership model before approving the sale of a public utility, in whole or in part, to a private entity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2497 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends sections 286-102 and 286-181, HRS, to allow the exemptions to include use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans for the school bus services, which may not meet school bus regulations but which shall otherwise meet vehicle requirements and qua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HB2587 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the income tax for single and heads-of-household filers making less than $20,000 a year or $40,000 a year for joint filers and scale low- and middle-income tax rates more slowly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2574 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HB2287 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for prefabricated, modular, or kauhale-type housing for individuals impacted by the Lahaina wildfire.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2659 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-fifth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2322 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a letter of attestation to the Director of Finance to act as an endorsed certificate for motor vehicle transfer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2791 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units without regard to civil service law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Housing Committee |
| HB2320 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts certain personal information of public servants from government records that are subject to disclosure under the State's Uniform Information Practices Act. Establishes within the State's Address Confidentiality Program protection for public s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2605 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to establish a teacher loan forgiveness program to assist in the payment of loans for teachers who commit to teaching in the Hawaii public school system. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HB2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "patient's provider" in state law governing Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment by removing language that requires the provider to examine the patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HB2776 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates moneys for capital improvement projects in the 1st Representative District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2569 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for geothermal energy exploration. Requires surface and subsurface exploration and community outreach. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure cei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB2714 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the temporary assignment of permanent legislative staff during the interim to executive or judicial branch agencies. Establishes that while on temporary assignment, the temporarily assigned employee is still considered an employee of the L...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HB2348 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the prosecution of persons who provide pornographic materials to undercover law enforcement officers who represent themselves as minors for purposes of undercover operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2794 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires electronic smoking device of e-liquid manufacturers to submit certifications with the Department of Taxation annually, stating that products comply with federal regulations. Requires the Department of Taxation to maintain a directory. Impose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2251 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a separate prohibition on driving motor vehicles having noisy mufflers on public highways in high-density areas. Authorizes police officers to conduct examinations and inspections of motor vehicle mufflers in high-density areas. Establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2651 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the right to enter private property and remove or stabilize natural hazards that are at risk of harming the public or other properties to the county in which the private property is located and that county's respective mayor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2262 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits certain octopus aquaculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2303 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits health maintenance organizations from discriminating against certain health care providers that meet the terms and conditions for participation established by the health maintenance organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HB2424 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the allowable loan term for direct loans provided by DHHL to be forty years, instead of thirty years, as currently outlined in section 215 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Housing Committee |
| HB2306 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, or operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers. Increases the amounts of fines for offenses against leaf blower restrictions and provides for the forfeiture of gasoline-powered leaf blowers on a third violation. Rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2551 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of unlawful assembly or disassembly of a bicycle or moped on public property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2593 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Department of Education faculty and staff to provide time and space each day for students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HB2678 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an exemption to overtime compensation for employees on public works projects working on a Saturday, Sunday, or state holiday under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB2283 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes heightened penalties for the assault and terroristic threatening of health care workers. Clarifies the definition of "terroristic threatening" to include the methods of contact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2541 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits certain foreign parties from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in agricultural lands. Establishes an Office of Agricultural Intelligence within the Department of Agriculture to investigate claims that land is unlawfully owned by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2308 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the State or any of its branches, political subdivisions, or agencies from requiring a bachelor's degree as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in state employment. Establishes exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB2510 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from the definition of "laws" in section 127A-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, county charter provisions pertaining to executive, legislative, and administrative structure and organization are excluded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
