| HB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to article X, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution to modify the appointment process for the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii. Repeals the requirement that the governor shall only appoint from pools of candida...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB208 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of the attorney general to collect data and conduct a study on how to reduce criminal activity in Waikiki.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HB613 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the real property tax exemption special fund and requires that a portion of conveyance tax revenues be deposited into the special fund. Allows the county to use special fund moneys to offset any lost revenue incurred due to property tax e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HB412 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the president of the University of Hawaii system and the superintendent of the department of education, or their designees, voting members of the stadium authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB449 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes definitions of "immediate harm" and "protective custody warrant" for the purpose of the Child Protective Act. Requires a police officer who assumes protective custody of a child who is subject to immediate harm to provide a written report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB713 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to the department of Hawaiian homelands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a vessel from being fumigated on ocean waters. Allows an owner whose vessel is required to be fumigated on ocean waters to apply for an exemption from the division of boating and ocean recreation. Requires any vessel granted an exemption to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB924 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the exemption from the requirement that plans and specifications for construction projects be prepared and construction observed by a licensed engineer, architect, or landscape architect to be determined by floor area of work rather than estim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1254 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to establish homelessness coordinator positions on Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and Hawaii island within the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB481 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii to provide menstrual products free of charge to all students on any University of Hawaii campus, including the community colleges. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1428 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the State from denying or interfering with a patient's right to choose to obtain an abortion or to terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the patient. Repeals a criminal penalty for violations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB22 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to state workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB291 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a new certificate of birth issued by the State shall include a designation of the sex of the person born, based on the genitalia of the person. Authorizes amendments of designations of sex on certificates of birth, provided that the bir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB893 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires condominium associations and planned community associations that have a service agreement with a towing company to maintain and provide to the towing company a "do not tow" list of authorized resident vehicles. Prohibits authorized vehicles ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| 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] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HB72 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a $500 civil fine for the feeding or attempted feeding of any feral chicken. Provides that the department of health shall enforce this prohibition regardless of whether the department determines there is a nuisance that is dangerous or in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB937 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires lessors of rental motor vehicles to incorporate zeroemission vehicles or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, or both, into the lessor's rental motor vehicle fleets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the departments of the attorney general and human services to convene a working group to examine issues related to allowing child support payments to pass through to recipients of temporary assistance for needy families program funds and sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB743 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to establish an electric school bus pilot program to provide certain complex areas with ownership and control of electric school buses. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows departments and agencies time to comply with employees' retirement system reporting standards based on when final specifications are provided by the employees' retirement system. Effective 6/30/3000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1050 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts all gross proceeds derived from the sale of certain groceries, feminine hygiene products, incontinence products, and over-the-counter drugs from the general excise tax. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB372 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes requirement that common water carriers receive permission from the public utilities commission prior to executing a long-term lease of more than three years or a leverage lease.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1449 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 162, SLH 2022, to extend the sunset date for the early lung cancer screening task force and extend the date for the task force to submit reports to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1287 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires manufacturers of digital electronic equipment to make available to owners and independent repair providers, on fair and reasonable terms, the documentation, parts, and tools used to diagnose, maintain, and repair the equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1057 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to issue interim rules that shall be exempt from the public notice, public hearing, and gubernatorial approval requirements of chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, after beneficiary consultation is conduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB288 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public high schools to make available a mandatory life skills curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB772 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies, in the State Water Code, that fire safety use is a beneficial use of fresh water. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to cooperate with the counties and reserv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB938 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for employers who create on-site early childhood facilities. Establishes and appropriates funds for 1.0 FTE on-site early childhood facility coordinator position. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases personal income tax revenues for high earning taxpayers by establishing new income tax brackets and rates that are applied against a broader level of taxable income for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB687 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts food products from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1462 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a School Meal Subsidy Program to provide school lunch subsidies to children whose families do not otherwise qualify for free lunch under the federal Free and Reduced Price Lunch Program, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB477 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate the Honolulu Museum of Art.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| HB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 11-381, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to disallow 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] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB587 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each county to submit to the Legislature a comprehensive integrated wastewater management plan report that addresses and identifies the county's wastewater management needs, including financial needs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB486 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a trauma-informed care task force within the Department of Health. Requires the task force to develop a statewide framework for trauma-informed care and to provide other recommendations on how the State can implement best practices in tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB414 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to allow all Hawaii high school graduates to qualify for resident tuition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HB1461 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows cases within the jurisdiction of the Intermediate Court of Appeals that involve a family court judgment, order, or decree affecting the custody of a child or minor to be transferred to the Supreme Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1425 | Intro
Sine Die | Legalizes, regulates, and taxes cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for adult use. Establishes the Hawaii cannabis commission to oversee the regulation of adult use cannabis manufacturers and retailers. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1165 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for the Department of Transportation to assist and enable a person to voluntarily purchase a verified carbon offset for carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the person's air travel to or from an airport in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB829 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to repeal the exclusive power of the counties to exercise the functions, powers, and duties related to real property taxation, thereby authorizing the State to also exercise those functions, powe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1506 | Engross
Sine Die | Encourages the employees' retirement system, in evaluating venture capital investments, to consider opportunities in industries that will sustain Hawaii's natural environment or produce economic opportunities for its residents, including renewable en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes system access and system integration requirements for the computer software tracking system for medical cannabis dispensaries. Requires the department of health to submit an annual report to the legislature on data captured using the comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB916 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to an unspecified amount. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires certain long-term care fac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1361 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers powers, duties, and functions of stadium authority to DBEDT. Repeals stadium authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB693 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies reimbursement for services provided through telehealth via an interactive telecommunications system. Defines "interactive telecommunications system". Clarifies that, for services furnished for purposes of diagnosis, evaluation, or treatment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB684 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends chapter 127A, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to clarify State and local authority, ensure effective and adaptable emergency response, and further the goals of transparency and democratic accountability. Clarifies that powers granted for emerge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
