| HI | HB917 | Engross | Requires the attorney general of the State of Hawaii, on behalf of the Department of Education, to institute proceedings to acquire certain land owned by the Mililani Town Association by voluntary action or condemnation. Effective upon approval. (SD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Deferred one day. |
| HI | HB1698 | Enroll | Amends bargaining unit (14). Retains state law enforcement officers under bargaining unit (14). Creates a separate bargaining unit (15) for state and county ocean safety and water safety officers. Takes effect upon approval. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB1846 | Enroll | Requires and establishes deadlines for all state facilities with an area of 10,000 square feet and over, except facilities at Aloha Stadium, to implement all cost-effective energy efficiency measures. Provides that certain agencies that perform energ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB1978 | Enroll | Specifies that the family court has jurisdiction in proceedings concerning the custody or guardianship of an immigrant child pursuant to a motion for Special Immigrant Juvenile factual findings requesting a determination that the child was abused, ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB1912 | Enroll | Establishes the Pacific international space center for exploration systems within the department of business, economic development, and tourism for administrative purposes. Amends the composition of the board of directors of the Pacific international...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2054 | Enroll | Prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to enter into a nondisclosure agreement pertaining to sexual harassment or sexual assault. Prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee for disclosing or discussing sexual harassment or s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2125 | Enroll | Makes various amendments to the State Ethics Code. Repeals exemption from certain financial disclosure requirements granted to members of the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2124 | Enroll | Prohibits certain former State employees from representing certain interests in a legislative or administrative action before the State for twelve months after the termination of their employment. Effective 1/1/2021. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2148 | Enroll | Extends Hawaii family leave to include care for employees' grandchildren. Defines "sibling". Takes effect on 7/1/2020. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2183 | Enroll | Increases the Hula Mae Multifamily Revenue Bond authorization ceiling amount to continue financing affordable rental housing statewide. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2543 | Enroll | Requires parents or guardians of public school and charter school kindergarten students to disclose information on the student's prior child care program or prekindergarten attendance, if any, for the purpose of determining areas having the highest n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2744 | Enroll | Establishes the gun violence and violent crimes commission. Requires reports to the Legislature. Makes it a class C felony to purchase, manufacture, or otherwise obtain firearm parts for the purpose of assembling a firearm having no serial number. Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB1701 | Engross | Conforms statutory prohibitions against wage discrimination with other prohibitions on employment discrimination. Clarifies allowable justifications for compensation differentials and remedies for pay disparity. Requires employers to disclose wage ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HI | HB2573 | Engross | Includes coercion as a means of committing the offense of sex trafficking. Removes the criminal statute of limitations for sex trafficking. Specifies that sex trafficking of a minor is a strict liability offense. Repeals the offense of solicitation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HI | HB2610 | Engross | Allows a narrow hearsay exception for non-testimonial statements made by domestic violence victims to certain government officials within 24 hours of an incident of domestic violence and prior to the arrest of the defendant, as long as the statement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HI | HB2738 | Engross | Prohibits foreign nationals and foreign corporations from making independent expenditures. Requires every corporation that contributes or expends funds in a state election to file a statement of certification regarding its limited foreign influence. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HI | HB2709 | Engross | Requires a personal representative of a decedent appointed under the Uniform Probate Code to notify the police department of the appropriate county of any and all firearms in an estate. Requires the police department to certify that all registered fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HI | HB1469 | Engross | Establishes a state income tax deduction for eligible contributions made to any college savings program under section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2273 | Engross | Increases the penalty for violation of wages and hours laws to a class C felony. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2739 | Engross | Transfers lands to DLNR and establishes that land and adjacent, state-owned land as the Ka Iwi coast state park. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1874 | Engross | Lowers the age at which enhanced penalties apply for crimes against seniors from sixty-two years of age to an unspecified age. Makes commission of certain criminal offenses against a senior's person or property applicable regardless of the perpetrato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
The committee on JDC deferred the measure. |
| HI | HB2699 | Engross | Establishes clean ground transportation goals for state agencies on a staggered basis until achieving a 100 per cent light-duty motor vehicle clean fleet by 12/31/2035. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1844 | Engross | Creates the clean energy and energy efficiency revolving loan fund under the administration of the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority. Repeals the building energy efficiency revolving loan fund. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB912 | Engross | Requires an employer to pay for all medical services related to an employee's compensable injury and the employee's rehabilitation within 60 days of receipt of the bill for services. Establishes a process for employers to dispute the payment of an em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB476 | Engross | Prohibits advertising of public housing units and housing subject to an owner or renter occupancy requirement under chapters 201H, 206E, and 356D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for rental purposes and requires county police departments to enforce the proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB1191 | Engross | Provides an income tax credit for qualifying small businesses to offset the increase in the minimum hourly wage that employers must pay employees. Increases the minimum wage to $12.00 per hour beginning 1/1/2020 and $15.00 per hour beginning 1/1/2023...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB1188 | Engross | Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2019-2020 to the State Procurement Office to advance the Small Business Assistance Initiative established by Act 42, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017. Effective 1/1/2061. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB1541 | Engross | Establishes the Hawaii Gun Violence Prevention Center within the University of Hawaii to research strategies to prevent gun violence. Creates a special fund to support the Center. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB889 | Engross | Establishes the publicprivate partnership working group and requires an annual report to be submitted to the legislature. Adds public-private partnership project delivery methods and related conditions and requirements to the Hawaii Public Procuremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB842 | Engross | Establishes a Hawaii State Planning Act Review Commission to review and make recommendations to the Legislature to update the Hawaii State Planning Act. Removes reference to achieving the viability of Hawaii's sugar and pineapple industries from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB615 | Engross | Requires the Board of Education to invite the exclusive representative for Bargaining Unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the Department of Education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative to the Board. Effective 7/1/2050....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB558 | Engross | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for employing lifeguards and purchasing life-saving equipment at Kua Bay in Kekaha Kai State Park on the island of Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB1193 | Engross | Amends the income tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment by changing the taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses that constitutes the tax credit and cap amount. Effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| HI | HB1192 | Engross | Conforms statutory prohibitions against wage discrimination with other prohibitions on employment discrimination. Clarifies allowable justifications for compensation differentials and remedies for pay disparity. Requires employers to disclose wage ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| HI | HB158 | Engross | Specifies requirements for contractor or subcontractor payment to all mechanics and laborers employed on a government service contract job site. Permits governmental contracting agencies to withhold accrued payments as necessary to pay mechanics and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB838 | Engross | Exempts an eleemosynary organization that meets certain conditions and intends to engage in a public works project or operation involving the installation or maintenance of a mooring system for vessels under one hundred gross tons from licensure and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB713 | Engross | Establishes a three-year Homeless Employment Grant Program that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Human Services to submit a report to the Legislature prior to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB533 | Engross | Establishes the Hawaii Broadband Office within HTDC. Establishes the position of State Broadband Strategy Officer. Renames the Broadband Assistance Advisory Council as the Broadband Advisory Council and amends its purpose and membership. Requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB1274 | Engross | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii. Effective 1/1/2051. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| HI | HB1343 | Engross | Provides grandparents with 1 week of family leave to care for a grandchild with a serious health condition. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB532 | Engross | Establishes a Chief Data Officer and Data Task Force in the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to develop, implement, and manage statewide data set policies, procedures, and standards. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB1187 | Engross | Authorizes from other funds of the Employees' Retirement System Pension Trust (BUF141) for fiscal biennium 2019-2021, the additional sum of $ for fiscal year 2019-2020, and the additional sum of $ for fiscal year 2020-2021 for various ERS operating c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| HI | HB1532 | Engross | Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to admit and consider hearsay evidence in unfair labor practices proceedings. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB1468 | Engross | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Health to provide the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center with funding for an advanced practice registered nurse position and various infrastructure improvements for its school-based health center at Nan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB393 | Engross | Creates a fiduciary duty on Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund trustees. Prohibits transactions where the trustee has a conflict of interest. Establishes liabilities for breach of fiduciary duty. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB1910 | Engross | Establishes the sustainable aviation fuel program to provide matching grants to any small business in Hawaii that is developing products related to sustainable aviation fuel or commercial aviation operations greenhouse gas reduction. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1996 | Engross | Requires the BOE to include evaluation of the most current strategic plan indicators as a component of the superintendent of education's annual performance evaluation. Requires improvements in at least one-half of those indicators for any salary incr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2094 | Engross | Establishes an early childhood educator stipend program to be administered by the executive office on early learning to address the shortage of qualified early childhood educators in Hawaii. Appropriates funds. Takes effect on 7/1/2055. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2215 | Engross | Establishes a workforce development coordinator position within the department of education. Specifies the duties of the coordinator and P-20 agriculture education working group. Appropriates funds. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2188 | Engross | Establishes a setback of one foot for every foot of height of a wind turbine from the nearest existing farm dwelling or residential dwelling unit for certain wind energy facilities in agricultural districts. Requires a study on the effects of noise p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
