| HB1182 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture for the preparation of an environmental impact statement for lessees to drill non-potable water wells on individual parcels at Panaewa agricultural park. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1260 | Engross
50% | Changes the governmental entity responsible for the administration of the address confidentiality program from the office of the lieutenant governor to the department of the law enforcement. Authorizes the department of law enforcement to contract th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB970 | Engross
50% | Makes technical changes to the statutory definitions of "agricultural enterprise lands" and "non-agricultural park lands" for clarification and consistency purposes. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB838 | Engross
50% | Reestablishes the Long-Term Care Commission within the University of Hawaii College of Social Sciences' Social Science Research Institute to identify further needed reforms of Hawaii's long-term care system. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/2050. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB877 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hookaulike: A Criminal Legal System Institute for Restoration and Healing, at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson school of law. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB1047 | Engross
50% | Changes the department of education's quarterly report on autism spectrum disorder to a semiannual report. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB491 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to conduct an actuarial study on a leave grant pilot program to help small businesses offer their employees paid family leave and paid sick leave. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB95 | Engross
50% | Increases the amount of partial public financing available for all offices. Adjusts the minimum amount of qualifying contributions certain candidates must receive to participate in the program. Increases the matching fund payments for excess qualifyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB248 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of education to fully implement the farm to school program and farm to school meals program by the 20242025 school year. Provides that complex area superintendents have the authority to implement the farm to school and farm to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB107 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the renewal of driver's licenses online by electronic or digital means. Effective 7/1/2025. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB1241 | Engross
50% | Authorizes professional land surveyors and their assistants to enter private property to perform land surveying, subject to certain provisions. Shields land surveyors and their assistants from prosecution under criminal trespass laws when performing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB25 | Engross
50% | Converts the refundable food/excise tax credit to a tax rebate to be issued to qualifying taxpayers annually. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2022. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1233 | Engross
50% | Requires the School of Travel Industry Management of the University of Hawaii to conduct a study that assesses the tourism social carrying capacity for each of the islands of Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, Lanai, and Molokai. Requires the School of Trave...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB88 | Engross
50% | Establishes and appropriates funds for a two-year program at the University of Hawaii to study sand movement patterns and coastal erosion along the coast between Sunset Beach Park and Ehukai Beach Park on the North Shore of Oahu, including the impact...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1086 | Engross
50% | Amends chapter 202, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to be consistent with the General Appropriations Act of 2021, Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021. Renames "Workforce Development Council" "Hawaii Workforce Development Board" and "county workforce develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB57 | Engross
50% | Authorizes wages of other employees in comparable employment to be considered when computing the average weekly wages of an injured public board member, reserve police officer, police chaplain, reserve public safety law enforcement officer, sheriffs'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB167 | Engross
50% | Makes general contractors entering into or under contracts in the State for work on buildings, structures, or other private construction works liable for debt incurred by subcontractors for wages due to claimants for performance of labor in the contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB132 | Engross
50% | Establishes definitions for purposes of electronic voting. Specifies additional requirements and procedures with which the chief election officer must comply when using an electronic voting system, including procedures for conducting the post-electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HB892 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds out of the Boating Special Fund for full-time equivalent positions under the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide security at small boat harbors statewide. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB880 | Engross
50% | Requires each county police department to collect, report, and publicly publish certain data regarding police stops, arrests, uses of force, and trends. Effective 12/1/23. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1336 | Engross
50% | Part I: Expands the authorized issuance of citations in lieu of arrests. Authorizes a grace period after a missed initial court appearance. Part II: Amends various provisions related to pretrial release. Part III: Allows the court to order substance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB913 | Engross
50% | Amends the statutory duties of the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority. Requires the authority to conduct certain activities in a culturally sensitive and environmentally appropriate manner and to engage in community outreach and education....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB38 | Engross
50% | Reclassifies the human resources development special fund as a revolving fund pursuant to the recommendation made by the auditor in auditor's report no. 22-12. Effective 6/30/3000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1330 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for school bus services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB723 | Engross
50% | Expands application of the State's sunshine law to legislatively appointed bodies, including task forces, working groups, commissions, special committees, and select committees. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB562 | Engross
50% | Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, or School Facilities Authority. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1201 | Engross
50% | Establishes a private right of action for any person aggrieved by a violation of the Federal Aviation Act and existing federal laws to bring a civil action against the owner or operator of the helicopter in violation and collect damages and litigatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HB573 | Engross
50% | Excludes from the definition of "drug paraphernalia", testing products utilized in determining whether a controlled substance contains chemicals, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds in quantities that can cause physical harm or death, including ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HB100 | Engross
50% | Establishes a criminal justice data sharing working group to make recommendations for a statewide criminal justice data repository. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB984 | Engross
50% | Prohibits firearms in certain locations and premises and provides for enhanced sentencing. Requires possession and disclosure of a license to carry. Prohibits leaving an unsecured firearm in a vehicle unattended. Prohibits consuming or being under th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HB187 | Engross
50% | Establishes labor requirements for the construction of renewable energy projects with a capacity rating of ten megawatts or greater. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB258 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to issue revenue bonds for the acquisition of the Saint Francis School campus located at 2707 Pamoa Road in Honolulu. Appropriates moneys to the University of Hawaii for the acquisition of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB413 | Engross
50% | Appropriates matching funds for the Department of Human Resources Development to retain the services of an online employment marketplace or networking platform to assist in recruiting employees for the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB262 | Engross
50% | Provides a process for school placement for a child whose parent has transferred or is pending transfer from another state to a military installation in Hawaii while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order. Effective 6/30/3000....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1073 | Engross
50% | Increases the marriage license fee from $60 to $100. Increases the compensation for a marriage license agent from $9 to $15 per license. Authorizes deposits of marriage license fees into the Vital Statistics Improvement Special Fund. Adjusts the dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB368 | Engross
50% | Requires any reporting requirement established by the public utilities commission through an order and not by statute to expire one year after the issuance of the order. Allows continuation of the reporting requirement if a new order is issued and ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1074 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the definitions of "caregiver support services", "kupuna care services", and "respite care" for the Executive Office on Aging's Kupuna Care Program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB441 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the development of a database and data portal from data sources detailed in the May 2022 report on social vulnerability to climate change in Hawaii, under certain conditions. Appropriates funds for the maintenance and updating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB381 | Engross
50% | Repeals the cutoff date of Act 196, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, that allowed the use of funds in the condominium education trust fund initially dedicated to support voluntary binding arbitration to be used for other educational purposes. Effective 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB261 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Child Care Accreditation Program to assist licensed and registered child care providers in obtaining accreditation. Authorizes the use of the Child Care Grant Program Special Fund for Child Car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB538 | Engross
50% | Establishes penalties for failure to remediate violations, including fines and, under circumstances, foreclosure. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB352 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the family courts to allow petitioners to attend TRO hearings remotely upon request. Requires the courts to consider certain factors. Requires the courts to allow petitioners who allege domestic abuse to attend TRO hearings remotely. Effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB670 | Engross
50% | Specifies that a simple majority of affirmative votes of the members of the Land Use Commission present at a meeting and qualified to vote is required for any boundary amendment. Reduces the number of days within which the Land Use Commission must ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB367 | Engross
50% | Requires the public utilities commission to issue a decision within six months from the date that a public utility or water carrier has filed a financial application request for commission authorization to issue stocks and stock certificates, bonds, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB914 | Engross
50% | Repeals existing law that requires the Department of Health to conduct unannounced visits and inspections, including inspections for relicensing or recertification, of state-licensed special treatment facilities. Requires the Department of Health to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB896 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Education to assess its facilities and provide the legislature with a list of priority facilities in each county at which the installation of renewable energy systems on school facilities would provide the most benefit, pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB85 | Engross
50% | Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal care products in small plastic containers within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping room accommodations, or bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB920 | Engross
50% | Allows the counties to adopt a county building code for single-family dwellings, additional dwellings, duplexes, and non-commercial structures that has an unspecified amount of square feet of living area and is distinct from the Hawaii state building...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB1089 | Engross
50% | Establishes a state boating facility lease pilot program within the department of land and natural resources. Clarifies that a private partner under lease or contract with the department may assist with development, management, and maintenance of a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB975 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the requirements for participation under the cover crop reimbursement pilot program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
