Bills Pending Hawaii House Labor & Public Employment Committee

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HIHB1368Intro
25%
Amends the composition of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund board of trustees. Clarifies vacancy procedures. Amends quorum requirements and voting powers.
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2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 9:00 am]
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB478Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "employer" in state law that governs payment of wages and other compensation to include the State and counties when a provision in that law has no comparable provision in state law that governs public officers and employees.
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2025-02-11
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1202Intro
25%
Recognizes prior teaching experience at an equal salary rating for teachers entering or reentering into the service of the Department of Education. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2025-02-06
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB461Intro
25%
Requires the Director of Human Resources Development, in consultation with the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, Hawaii State Energy Office, and Department of Accounting and General Services, to develop and implement a compr...
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2025-02-06
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB358Intro
25%
Requires all public buildings, including public school buildings, constructed after January 1, 2026, to be designed to withstand category five hurricanes and be used as shelters in the event of an emergency. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2025-02-06
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1346Intro
25%
Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement negotiated for Bargaining Unit (5) and subject to the availability of funds, provides annual salary step increases for public school teachers who have completed a year's satisfactory service and comply wi...
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2025-02-05
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1302Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Human Resources Development, in collaboration with various state and county agencies, to establish a Transportation Demand Management Program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2025-02-04
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1083Intro
25%
Clarifies and expands the exemptions of certain vessels from the requirements for the securing of mooring lines in state commercial harbors. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2025-02-04
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB160Intro
25%
Allows impasses and disputes relating to the amounts of State and county contributions to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to be resolved by arbitration. Repeals the prohibition against strikes by members of bargaining units on th...
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2025-02-04
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB848Intro
25%
Sets the amount of the employer contribution to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund as a fixed percentage of the health benefits plan or life insurance plan premium cost. Makes conforming amendments.
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2025-02-04
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB425Intro
25%
Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. Req...
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2025-01-30
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB956Intro
25%
Prohibits any person from disassembling, dismantling, or demolishing iron projects unless the person has completed an apprenticeship program for ironworkers approved and registered with the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations. Establishes pena...
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2025-01-30
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB50Intro
25%
Authorizes boards and commissions to make employment decisions related to its officers and employees without the approval of the head of the department to which the board or commission is administratively attached.
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2025-01-28
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB69Intro
25%
Establishes a Compensatory Time Cash-Out Pilot Program for eligible employees of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation who work in any state correctional facility. Appropriates funds.
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2025-01-28
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB378Intro
25%
Establishes a deferred retirement option program to allow qualified officers who are eligible for retirement to continue working.
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2025-01-28
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1479Intro
25%
Requires the use of current audible reverse warning systems (back-up beepers) on state and county-owned vehicles purchased on or after 1/1/2028, with more effective broadband reversing alarms by 1/1/2028.
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2025-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1290Intro
25%
Establishes a Portable Benefits Program under the administration of a board of trustees to provide portable benefits to gig workers. Expands the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program to gig workers. Appropriates funds.
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2025-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1454Intro
25%
Requires employers to reimburse employees for vehicle mileage expenses incurred when using their personal vehicle to carry out employee duties or at the direction of the employer.
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2025-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1211Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of Human Resources Development the state internship and workforce development program.
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2025-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1469Intro
25%
Establishes clear criteria for unpaid student internship programs under the state wage laws.
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2025-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1241Intro
25%
Requires state agencies to offer individuals who resigned or were dismissed from employment for not complying with vaccination or testing requirements the option to be reinstated, with back pay, to the position that person held prior to their termina...
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2025-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1227Intro
25%
Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to twelve weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition.
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2025-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1268Intro
25%
Allows family leave to also apply to an employee's domestic partner or the child of an employee's domestic partner.
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2025-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB931Intro
25%
Expands the types of employees protected by the Hawaii Employment Relations Act to include independent contractors and all individuals subject to the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Act.
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2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1135Intro
25%
Authorizes the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to issue an order of wage payment violation to the employer found to be in violation of wage and hour provisions. Establishes penalties, enforcement, and appeal procedures. Amends the defini...
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2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB822Intro
25%
Requires certain employers in the State to offer reproductive loss leave for employees.
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2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1136Intro
25%
Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the covered employee chooses to opt out. Ef...
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2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB971Intro
25%
Establishes the Office of the State Architect within the Department of Accounting and General Services to be headed by the State Architect. Authorizes the State Architect to organize, manage, and oversee the design review of all state construction pr...
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2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1082Intro
25%
Reduces the minimum number of years of credited service qualified Tier 2 Employees' Retirement System members must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes from ten years to five years. Increases employe...
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2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1068Intro
25%
Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers' compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in work-based learning programs established and regulated by the Department of ...
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2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB828Intro
25%
Requires state agencies to establish a Plant-Based-By-Default Program for food and drinks offered at state-operated prisons, state-licensed hospitals, and government-sponsored events. Requires the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Comptroll...
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2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB1134Intro
25%
Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as an investigator in a position identified by the Department of the Attorne...
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2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB282Intro
25%
Provides an income tax deduction for tips received by tipped employees.
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB51Intro
25%
No later than January 1, 2026, requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to install and maintain automated external defibrillators in all state buildings, including all public schools. Requires DAGS to establish a Cardiac Emergency R...
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB524Intro
25%
Caps the minimum wage at $15 per hour. Adjusts the schedule for the tip credit increase.
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB618Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for a one-time hazard pay bonus to state officers and employees in bargaining units 5, 6, and 7, and their excluded counterparts under certain conditions.
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB695Intro
25%
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 ...
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB84Intro
25%
Reduces the minimum wage increase beginning 1/1/2026, to $15.00 per hour and repeals certain minimum wage and tip credit increases after 1/1/2026.
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB167Intro
25%
Authorizes differentials in pay for state and county employees who are exposed temporarily to unusually hazard working conditions, under certain conditions.
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB567Intro
25%
Provides an income tax deduction for tips received by tipped employees.
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB168Intro
25%
Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. Req...
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB684Intro
25%
Implements a phased elimination of the tip credit.
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB479Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/2026, increases the tip credit to be twenty per cent of the minimum wage and requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to annually calculate an adjusted tip credit amount.
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB170Intro
25%
Short form bill relating to labor.
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB173Intro
25%
Short form bill relating to collective bargaining.
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB520Intro
25%
Excludes from state income taxes the gross income, adjusted gross income, and taxable income derived from tips received by employees.
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB723Intro
25%
Mandates state agencies to prioritize purchasing from local vendors whenever feasible. Allows state agencies to split contracts across multiple local vendors to enhance participation and competitiveness. Specifies when contracts may be awarded to mul...
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB13Intro
25%
Establishes notice requirements for employers under Hawaii's Workers' Compensation Law. Requires employers who deny the compensability of an employee's injury to submit a written report supporting the denial to the Director of Labor and Industrial Re...
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB171Intro
25%
Short form bill relating to labor.
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HIHB545Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Resources Development for the establishment of three permanent full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) positions and the development and implementation of a leadership training module for manager level positions.
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2025-01-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
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