| HI | HB1601 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires law enforcement officers to issue citations in lieu of arrest for certain offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| 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
To House Finance Committee |
| 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
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1603 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends various provisions related to pretrial release.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2531 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a person who employs or contracts with a health care worker who suffers an act of violence to report the event to law enforcement and petition for a temporary restraining order and injunction under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1629 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires contested cases, environmental assessment cases, or environmental impact statement cases involving large-scale renewable energy projects over twenty megawatts in size to be appealed from an agency's decision directly to the Hawaii Supreme Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| 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
To House Finance Committee |
| 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
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2297 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii state energy office to adopt rules governing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| 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
To House Finance Committee |
| 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
To House Finance Committee |
| 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
To House Finance Committee |
| 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
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1933 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a sobriety checkpoint special fund to provide funding to county law enforcement agencies for staffing for sobriety checks and processing of persons arrested at sobriety checkpoints. Increases the state vehicle registration fee and establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1778 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning 7/1/2026, amends existing law regarding preemption of local ordinances and regulations regulating the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices as a matter of statewide concern to clarify that the State's preempti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1952 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifically authorizes a medical cannabis dispensary to purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from another dispensary. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules regarding medical cannabis products within a certain time. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1954 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2001 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture's Aquaculture Development Program to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for restorative aquaculture activities. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2127 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with other state agencies, to develop and implement a plan to expand the meat processing capacity in the State to allow for meat from axis deer and other wild game to be processed for distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2143 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a grant-in-aid to the County of Hawaii to hire an engineering firm to study, plan, assist, and conduct preliminary design and concept work for a two-phase project to restore the Kahaluu Beach Park in the County of Hawaii. Condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2191 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the City and County of Honolulu for the expansion of the feral chicken project and the Vector Control Branch of the Department of Health for a statewide education campaign for the feeding of feral animals. Effective 7/1/3000. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2618 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for an aquaculture park that promotes commercial aquaculture expansion. Requires a report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2623 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization to establish an aquatic safety education program for elementary school students and to establish one full-time equivalent position (1.0 FTE) to admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2672 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support the Hawaii ant lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1537 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the Hawaii State Constitution to repeal the counties exclusive power to tax real property and authorize the Legislature to establish a state surcharge on real property taxation levied by the counties on certain residential inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1615 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all existing University of Hawaii employees to be provided training on federal laws and University of Hawaii policies regarding sex discrimination and sexual misconduct by December 31, 2024. Clarifies that amnesty provisions are applicable t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1795 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group within the University of Hawaii to evaluate possibilities for making community college free for Hawaii residents. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1931 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for salaries and fringe benefits of positions for the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy's Space Sciences Workforce Development Program, Maunakea Scholars Program, and Akamai Internship Program. Appropriates funds for off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB1955 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of special land and development fund moneys to eradicate or mitigate invasive species and install and maintain safety improvements on improved lands that provide lease revenue to the Department of Land and Natural Resources and tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2129 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes single-ingredient products as a purchasing option for certain state departments and entities to fulfill their local food purchasing requirements. Defines "single-ingredient product".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2105 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a statewide environmental assessment for, and subsequently administer, a slim-hole resource characterization program under the direction of the Hawaii Groundwater and Geothermal Resources Center at t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2186 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to develop a safe parking program allowing unsheltered persons who sleep in their vehicles to park overnight on state lands. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriations funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1656 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to assist individuals in obtaining a commercial driver's license for the purpose of becoming school bus drivers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1648 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a School Psychologists Working Group to recommend actionable steps or propose legislation for an immediate pathway to licensure for school psychologists that can be acted upon in 2025. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1893 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 153, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to increase the cesspool compliance pilot grant project grant amount and update a reference. Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2024-2025 and to establish positions to implement the pilot grant project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1921 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for mobile vaccination services for populations with reduced access to vaccines. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1894 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and appropriates funds to the Department of Health to retain qualified consultants as necessary to identify necessary public outreach and education resources and tools and develop a comprehensive public outreach strategy and website to edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1596 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the class B felony offense of delivering drug paraphernalia to persons under eighteen years of age applicable to offenders who are at least twenty-one years old. Exempts drug paraphernalia for marijuana from certain penalties under the Uniform ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1594 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any person convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant or habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant from purchasing or publicly consuming alcohol for a certain period. Effective 7/1/3000. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2181 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipient advisory committee to assist the Department of Human Services in strengthening the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for working families. Effective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2739 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii home energy assistance program within the Department of Human Services to assist households in paying their energy bills. Establishes the Hawaii home energy assistance special fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1540 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires eligible schools to participate in the federal Community Eligibility Provision, which provides federal funds to help schools offer free meals to all students. Appropriates moneys for any difference between federal funds amounts and costs of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB966 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning on 1/1/2024, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1797 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services for Hawaii's public school system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2256 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to students enrolled in a public school who meet certain requirements. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2284 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals language that gives the Director of Finance discretion to use moneys in the Hawaii ABLE Savings Program Trust Fund if the Director elects to accept deposits from contributors instead of sending deposits directly to the ABLE program manager. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2549 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the Interagency Council for Maui Housing Recovery to coordinate and facilitate Maui's permanent housing recovery and facilitate consultation and collaboration between st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2740 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii zero waste initiative to manage the State's transition to a zero solid waste economy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1563 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1610 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a cap on costs charged to reproduce certain government records. Waives reproduction costs charged for the first one hundred pages if disclosure serves the public interest. Waives costs charged to duplicate certain government records in an ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
