| HI | SB2202 | Engross
50% | Increases the minimum amount for purchases constituting small purchase procurements from $25,000 to $50,000. Sets a small purchase procurement minimum amount of $75,000 for federally declared disaster areas; provided that the procurements are reporte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB2501 | Engross
50% | Requires the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to prioritize the protection of exceptional trees from invasive species. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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| HI | SB2759 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the State from leasing any public lands, or extending the lease of any public lands, to any individual, corporation, or federal agency that is in arrears in the payment of certain moneys to the State, noncompliant with a consent decree or m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| HI | SB2227 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Governor to suspend the mortgage foreclosure provisions of chapter 667, HRS, for properties having substantial damage resulting from a Governordeclared state of emergency. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | SB2617 | Engross
50% | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study and report on the forty-one states in the country that have enacted laws limiting the sale of real property to foreign individuals or entities, and how those laws and related constitutional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | SB3381 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Lele Community District and Board to facilitate rebuilding in Lahaina. Establishes the Lele Community Special Fund. Makes appropriations. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | SB2904 | Engross
50% | Amends emergency management law to protect tenants, mortgagors, consumers, and residents for certain periods of time after the issuance of a gubernatorial or mayoral emergency proclamation. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | SB2129 | Engross
50% | Expands the definition of "historic property" for purposes of the Historic Preservation Program. Takes effect 4/14/2112. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | SB3060 | Engross
50% | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop and publish a statewide climate adaptation and resilience implementation plan. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | SB3050 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Hawaii Community Development Authority to render services to and assist state and county agencies upon request. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | SB2029 | Engross
50% | Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale or rent in perpetuity to buyers or renters who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants or renters, and do not own a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | HB1628 | Intro
25% | Imposes conveyance tax on the transfer of a controlling interest of an entity with an interest in real property. Stipulates that the imposition of the conveyance tax on transfers of entity ownership shall not apply to any transfer of interest or acqu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| HI | HB2472 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to issue temporary threatened species licenses and draft administrative rules for the conservation of threatened species.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| HI | HB1929 | Intro
25% | Defines "isolated wetlands" and "wetlands". Clarifies the definition of "state waters" to include wetlands and isolated wetlands. Requires the Director of Health to determine all wetlands in the State, including whether a wetland is an isolated wetla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| HI | HB2219 | Intro
25% | Increases the number of Commission on Water Resource Management members from 7 to 8, with only 5 of the 8 members required to have substantial experience in water resource management. Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, or the Chai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| HI | HB2422 | Intro
25% | Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chairperson's designee as a nonvoting member to the Hawaii Community Development Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
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| HI | HB1552 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expend the moneys from the State Parks Special Fund for programs aimed at environmental protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| HI | HB1809 | Intro
25% | Requires that any newly established ocean recreation management area include the same or greater number of commercial use permits as the number of permits applicable to the area before the establishment of the ocean recreation management area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| HI | HB2691 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Red Hill remediation authority. Creates the Red Hill remediation special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| HI | HB2095 | Intro
25% | Specifies some of the measures the Director of Health may take in response to emergency circumstances affecting the availability of safe drinking water or the discovery of contamination in a public water source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| HI | HB2180 | Intro
25% | Prohibits development in special management areas unless the development is first found to not be located in a sea level rise exposure area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| HI | HB2693 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Cultural Corridor Authority to develop plans to redevelop areas affected by disaster while maintaining historic and cultural preservation. Establishes an income tax credit to incentivize the voluntary relinquishment of real property l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| HI | HB2214 | Intro
25% | Provides a new source of interim financing for affordable housing projects using housing programs developed under a Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing program. Sunsets 7/1/2029. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| HI | HB2469 | Intro
25% | Requires that lease extensions approved by the Board of Land and Natural Resources (Board) be drafted on forms that reflect contemporary leasing practices and policies of the Board, and which shall control over conflicting or inconsistent provisions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| HI | HB2468 | Intro
25% | Authorizes disposition of public land leases for agricultural, commercial, industrial, hotel, and resort purposes through direct negotiation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| HI | HB2474 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to issue interim administrative rules to quickly regulate the use of ocean recreation equipment, especially new and emerging ocean recreation technologies, in state ocean waters until long-term admin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| HI | HB1948 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from establishing restrictions on the type of gear used for subsistence fishing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
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| HI | HB1928 | Intro
25% | Requires the state historic preservation division to approve or make a determination within forty-five days on a properly completed and submitted application for public and private work. Deems the application to be approved if state historic preserva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
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| HI | HB2265 | Intro
25% | Establishes and implements the Catastrophic Wildfire Securitization Act, to allow public utilities to securitize rates in order to raise capital that can be used to pay for costs and expenses arising out of catastrophic wildfires.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | HB1549 | Intro
25% | Requires the Insurance Commissioner to conduct a study on wildfire risk and insurance and submit a report regarding the study to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | HB2210 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that powers granted for emergency purposes shall not be inconsistent with the state constitution. Clarifies that emergency powers shall not be used to address issues arising out of existing economic pressures. Provides for greater clarity a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2599 | Intro
25% | Exempts actions involving the operation and management of fisheries in the State from environmental review requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2594 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain persons affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party from acquiring real property or any interest in real property in the State, except a de minimus indirect interest. Establishes exceptions. Requires a person affiliated with the Chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2679 | Intro
25% | Prohibits parking of motor vehicles on the grounds of Iolani Palace. Requires DAGS to remove the blacktop, parking area, and paid parking adjacent to Iolani Palace. Requires DLNR to develop and maintain a pedestrian area adjacent to Iolani Palace. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2530 | Intro
25% | Requires all publicly or privately owned or operated transfer stations in the State to be open to the public for at least two days a week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2418 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to assume historic preservation review of the effect of any proposed project for lands under its jurisdiction except for projects affecting properties listed or nominated for inclusion in the Hawaii regist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2607 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to compile a list of approved archaeologists to ensure the quality and integrity of archaeological services contracted by developers. Specifies informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2729 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to establish a Central Oahu Wildfire Prevention Plan, in consultation with the Department of Land and Natural Resources, community stakeholders, and n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2409 | Intro
25% | Reestablishes the State Fire Marshal's Office within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2755 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalty for the desecration of Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian burial sites from a misdemeanor to a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2608 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "burial site".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2687 | Intro
25% | 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
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| HI | HB2636 | Intro
25% | 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
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| HI | HB2287 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for prefabricated, modular, or kauhale-type housing for individuals impacted by the Lahaina wildfire.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2651 | Intro
25% | 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
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| HI | HB2541 | Intro
25% | 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
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| HI | HB2533 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that persons or minors that enter private property with or without charge by a landowner for recreational purposes have no cause of action, unless exempted under law. Requires a court to award attorneys' fees and costs to landowners if plai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2371 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop and publish a statewide climate adaptation and resilience implementation plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2753 | Intro
25% | Before the transfer of non-agricultural park lands, authorizes the Department of Agriculture to request information from the Department of Land and Natural Resources related to the establishment of necessary and reasonable easements upon the lands. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2637 | Intro
25% | Requires all public buildings constructed after January 1, 2025, to be designed to withstand category five hurricanes and be used as shelters in the event of an emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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