| HI | SB2977 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the imposition of a penalty for unlicensed individuals performing certain work that requires a contractor license, including the offering or performing of repairs or improvements to existing structures and property and tearing down or rebu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB3361 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes oilseed cover crops in the Cover Crop Reimbursement Pilot Program established by Act 312, SLH 2022. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB2511 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to consider the short-term and long-term retention and creation of local jobs in its review of electric utility performance. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB541 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates January 17 of each year as Reconciliation Day. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB3006 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts the Convention Center from certain requirements regarding concessions on public property. Authorizes the Hawaii Tourism Authority to sell or lease naming rights of the Hawaii Convention Center Facility. Facilitates advertising and marketing i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB2683 | Engross
Sine Die | Protects individuals who make claims of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or sex discrimination from defamation lawsuits unless the claims were made with malice. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB3363 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a living beneficiary's place on the Department of Hawaiian Home Land's waiting list for any residential, agricultural or pastoral tract may be designated for transfer to a successor if the living beneficiary dies before receiving an off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB2959 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a refundable income tax credit for medically-related travel expenses not covered or compensated by insurance or otherwise. Effective 12/31/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB2112 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "installment lender" to clarify that the law is not intended to eliminate the ability of lenders to make low interest rate loans under the interest and usury law. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB2072 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Health to require the Department of Education to report coronavirus disease 2019 potential outbreaks or other public health emergencies and related information in a manner most appropriate to public health and safety, as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB2406 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires contracts entered into by the Hawaii Tourism Authority for management of the Hawaii Convention Center facility to include marketing for all uses of the facility. Amends the frequency with which the Hawaii Tourism Authority is required to sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB3383 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to contract for a statewide needs assessment of the needs of the long-term care workforce for providers of home- and community-based services. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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| HI | HCR123 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Each County To Stop Levying Minimum Real Property Taxes Upon Property That Would Be Greater Than The Real Property Tax Levied Under The County's Standard Tax Rate For The Property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
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| HI | HR103 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Each County To Stop Levying Minimum Real Property Taxes Upon Property That Would Be Greater Than The Real Property Tax Levied Under The County's Standard Tax Rate For The Property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
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| HI | HCR110 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The President Of The United States And United States Congress To Return The United States Monetary System To The Gold Standard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
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| HI | HR91 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The President Of The United States And United States Congress To Return The United States Monetary System To The Gold Standard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
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| HI | SB2280 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the State. Requires funding to be through a publicprivate partnership that meets certain requirements. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | SB2890 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to develop or license cloud-based software for use by each state department or agency to track the status of its capital improvement projects and provide training for the software. Requires e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | SB3173 | Engross
Sine Die | Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | HB2806 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii opioid litigation proceeds special fund. Establishes the Hawaii opioid litigation proceeds council to oversee the Hawaii opioid settlement advisory committee's expenditure of opioid litigation proceeds. Establishes standards fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
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| HI | HB2781 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a surcharge on general excise and use taxes. Effective 1/1/2031.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
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| HI | HB2778 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a surcharge on the transient accommodations tax for transient vacation rental located outside a zoned resort area. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
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| HI | HB2682 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the Hawaiian language college revolving fund may include moneys from any revenue source. Provides that the fund and the Hawaiian early learning trust fund shall support the Imiloa astronomy center. Establishes a cap on individual deposi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
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| HI | HB1572 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the exclusion from gross income to pensions received for past services provided in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
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| HI | HB1804 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that income tax credits established or renewed after 12/31/2024 include a five-year sunset or an annual one-third reduction, beginning with the sixth year of the credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
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| HI | HB2391 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the Public Utilities Commission under the Universal Service Program may provide, and may use funds from the Universal Service Fund to provide, free telecommunications access to certain individuals with a print disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
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| HI | HB2187 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a non-refundable income tax credit for residential landlords who lease a unit to a tenant with a pet for at least six months.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
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| HI | HB2754 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Plant-Based Building Materials Working Group to report on how best to grow plants and develop plant-based building materials in Hawaii and provide economic development and green jobs while sequestering greenhouse gases to help achieve t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2613 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the criminal offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes a $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false-labeling of Hawaii-grown roasted coffee. Makes an appropriation for 1.0 FTE enforcement positio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2138 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to establish an agriculture education coordinator position. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for the sustainable food systems working group and positions within the Department of Agriculture. Requires report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2429 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Human Services to provide temporary emergency public assistance, case management, and other recovery services following the period covered by an emergency proclamation and establishes an emergency management program withi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2629 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Homeless Services Special Fund. Allows counties to apply for matching funds from the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund for certain housing projects. Increases the conveyance tax rates for certain properties. Establishes conveyan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2182 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to administer a three-year rural community health worker pilot program that enables community health workers to provide outreach, education, training, and navigation to individuals residing in rural communities in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2326 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to purchase, staff, and operate two mobile clinics to serve homeless persons residing in ohana zones. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2137 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii farm to food bank program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2335 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces and sets fixed interest rates for loans under the Agricultural Loan Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2630 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes, and establishes a regulatory framework for, the administration of psilocybin for therapeutic use. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2617 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Aquaculture Advisory Committee within the Department of Agriculture. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2176 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Artificial Intelligence Working Group to develop acceptable use policies and guidelines for the regulation, development, deployment, and use of artificial technologies in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB1788 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a cap for the amount of tax credits for research activities that an eligible taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities may receive per taxable year. Consolidates the survey and certification requirements for tax credits for research activitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB1525 | Intro
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] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2392 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends various provisions of the Insurance Code to update and improve existing provisions. Defines "dormant captive insurance company" and sets out a procedure to apply for the certificate of dormancy. Adds the term "doing business as" to "trade name...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2324 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for prefabricated, modular, or kauhale-type housing for homeless individuals and low-income households. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB1852 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Emergency Services Department of the City and County of Honolulu to expand Community Outreach Response and Engagement Program services outside of urban Honolulu. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2028 | Intro
Sine Die | Merges the Made in Hawaii with Aloha branding program with the Hawaii Made program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Specifies that the Department of the Attorney General shall be responsible for enforcement of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2378 | Intro
Sine Die | Moves the Hurricane Reserve Trust Fund into the state treasury. Repeals the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund's authority to arrange the manner in which funds are held, invested, and reinvested. Makes a housekeeping amendment to the fund. Effective 7/1/30...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2665 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines for state facility systems, infrastructure, transit projects, and other areas in the Hawaii State Planning Act to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2719 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a pilot program to offer tuition waivers for certain community college students starting in fall 2025. Requires the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to submit a report. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2757 | Intro
Sine Die | By 1/1/2027, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2028, requires the Department to start ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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