| HI | HB1359 | Pass | Repeals redundant regulations on hemp production to reduce costs for the State and Hawaii farmers. Amends the hemp law in a manner that recognizes the unique constraints of Hawaii farmers, while protecting human health. Allows licensed hemp producers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-12
Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 263, 07/11/2023, (Gov. Msg. No. 1377). |
| HI | HB834 | Pass | Recognizes American Sign Language as a fully developed, autonomous, natural language with its own grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and cultural heritage. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-07
Act 246, 07/07/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1349). |
| HI | HB870 | Pass | Requires the department of human services to establish a neighbor islands blind and visually impaired service pilot program that supplements existing statewide services by providing training and other services to neighbor island residents who are bli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-07
Act 253, 07/07/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1356). |
| HI | HB819 | Pass | Designates limu kala (Sargassum echinocarpum) as the official Hawaii state limu. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-06
Act 230, 07/06/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1333). |
| HI | HB615 | Pass | Clarifies that any provision in a private agreement contained in a conveyance of land recorded on or before 7/8/2003 that have since expired but have not been renewed and recorded in the bureau of conveyances are prohibited from restricting bona fide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-05
Act 219, 07/05/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1322). |
| HI | HB848 | Pass | Appropriates funds for the establishment of three support staff positions for the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-05
Act 181, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1284). |
| HI | HB953 | Pass | Requires DLNR to develop and publish a website and mobile application that includes the application processes, including a means of collecting any fees, for a permit, license, or reservation needed to conduct recreational and commercial activities in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-05
Act 182, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1285). |
| HI | HB1184 | Pass | Allows agencies to rank fewer than three persons for professional services when fewer than three qualified persons respond to the solicitation or request to use alternative procurement procedures when no qualified person responds to the solicitation....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-05
Act 188, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1291). |
| HI | HB503 | Pass | Requires the Board of Education to work with the Department of Education to conduct an analysis on the necessary timeline and appropriate process for making computer science a graduation requirement by no later than the 2030-2031 school year. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-03
Act 174, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1277). |
| HI | HB961 | Pass | Expands the types of entities from which a Preschool Open Doors service provider may obtain accreditation. Beginning 1/1/2024, expands the Preschool Open Doors Program application process to eligible 3year-old children. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-03
Act 171, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1274). |
| HI | HB960 | Pass | Explicitly includes prekindergarten facilities within the scope of authority of the School Facilities Authority. Transfers $200,000,000 of general funds previously appropriated to the School Facilities Authority of the Department of Education to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-03
Act 175, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1278). |
| HI | HB68 | Pass | Requires that ongoing staff support for the centralized statewide criminal pretrial justice data reporting and collection system be conducted by the Criminal Justice Research Institute's staff and not be contracted to another entity. Requires the Cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Act 147, 06/29/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1250). |
| HI | HB954 | Pass | Increases the household and dependent care services tax credit for five years. Increases the refundable earned income tax credit for five years. Increases the income thresholds and credit amounts of the refundable food/excise tax credit for five year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Act 163, 06/30/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1266). |
| HI | HB950 | Pass | Authorizes psychiatrists or advanced practice registered nurses, after examination of a person for assisted community treatment indication, to request assistance from the attorney general to file an assisted community treatment petition. Authorizes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Act 153, 06/29/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1256). |
| HI | HB884 | Pass | Exempts from state physician licensure requirements out-of-state traveling team physicians who accompany a sports team to Hawaii, under certain conditions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Act 106, 06/22/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1207). |
| HI | HB1397 | Pass | Establishes a supportive housing pilot program in the Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions. Appropriates funds. Declares that appropriations exceed general fund expenditure ceiling. Effective 7/1/2023. Sunsets 6/30/2025. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-21
Act 095, 06/21/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1196). |
| HI | HB580 | Pass | Expands the victim-counselor privilege under the Hawaii Rules of Evidence to include confidential advocates employed by the University of Hawaii. Increases the minimum number of hours of training a domestic violence victims' counselor must complete t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Act 084, 06/14/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1185). |
| HI | HB579 | Pass | Establishes the statewide human trafficking prevention program within the department of the attorney general to provide services and assistance to victims of human trafficking and victims of the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Requires re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Act 083, 06/14/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1184). |
| HI | HB581 | Pass | Requires certain individuals attempting to serve as child custody evaluators to complete a training course on the dynamics of domestic violence every three years. Requires individuals to submit a letter or certificate of completion to the family cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Act 085, 06/14/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1186). |
| HI | HB948 | Pass | Establishes a two-year child and adolescent crisis mobile outreach team pilot program on Oahu and one neighbor island site to expand existing crisis response services. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 12/31/2025. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Act 089, 06/14/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1190). |
| HI | HB1183 | Pass | Exempts parking lot operations at state parks and the operation of concessions at certain state parks from the bidding requirements for concessions operating on public property. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-08
Act 072, 06/08/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1172). |
| HI | HB494 | Pass | Subjects organizations that receive motor vehicles as charitable donations to the rights, responsibilities, and liabilities of transferees of the motor vehicle title or interest. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-05
Act 060, 06/05/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1160). |
| HI | HB1329 | Pass | Requires the Department of Education to work with certain organizations to develop and implement an active shooter training program in all public and charter schools. Allows public and charter school students to decline to participate in active shoot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-02
Act 053, 06/02/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1153). |
| HI | HB650 | Pass | Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to practice medical-aid-in-dying. Authorizes licensed advanced practice registered nurses and clinical nurse specialists with psychiatric or mental health training and licensed marriage and family therap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-01
Act 043, 06/01/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1143). |
| HI | HCR16 | Pass | Affirming Support And Solidarity With The Free And Independent People Of Ukraine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Received notice of Agreement and Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 898). |
| HI | HCR116 | Pass | Urging The Committee On Weights To Recommend, And The Board Of Education To Adopt, A Weighted Student Formula That Gives Equal Consideration To Small And Remote Schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
Received notice of Agreement and Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 898). |
| HI | HB610 | Engross
50% | Establishes the farm workforce retention tax credit for farm employers or owners of farm employers who employ eligible farm employees. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HI | HB609 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for costs for its meat inspection program, including the establishment of 1 full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) inspector program supervisor position and 3 full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) inspector positi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HI | HB606 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with other state agencies, to develop and implement a plan by 7/1/2025 to expand the meat processing capacity in the State to allow for meat from axis deer and other wild game to be processed f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HI | HB617 | Engross
50% | Establishes an oral health task force to review the status of oral health in the State and make recommendations to improve the State's oral health infrastructure. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050 and 7/1/205...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HI | HB837 | Engross
50% | 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. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HI | HB872 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging of the Department of Health for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HI | HB1132 | Engross
50% | Requires members of the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. Extends the term of the Oversight Coordinator for the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission. Requires the Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HI | HB1148 | Engross
50% | Appropriates moneys to the Office of the Governor to establish 1 temporary full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) mental health technician certificate of competence program coordinator position. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HI | HB1131 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission to study all programming offered to persons incarcerated at correctional facilities and convene a group of incarcerated women for the purpose of identifying gaps in the program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HI | HB1263 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HI | HB1301 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-28-23 at 4:30pm in Conference Room 309. |
| HI | HB1442 | Engross
50% | Amends the Criminal Justice Diversion Program including allowing examination of defendants via telehealth. Requires the Judiciary, in consultation with other stakeholders, to submit monthly and annual reports to the Legislature on the effectiveness o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HI | HB1396 | Engross
50% | Part I: Establishes and appropriates funds for a county cesspool pilot program in the Department of Health to work with each county to identify a priority area to expand the county sewage system or other centralized treatment system to connect indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-28-23 at 4:30pm in Conference Room 309. |
| HI | HCR94 | Pass | Urging The Department Of Health To Continue To Prioritize Testing Of Fecal Indicator Bacteria Levels In The Waters Of Pokai Bay And Requesting The City And County Of Honolulu Department Of Parks And Recreation To Prioritize Renovations Of The Restroo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Received notice of Agreement and Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 891). |
| HI | HB522 | Engross
50% | Removes the ability of the governor or a mayor to suspend electronic media transmission during a state of emergency. Effective 3/22/2075. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 983). |
| HI | HB951 | Engross
50% | Deposits funds into the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to be used to provide grants or loans to mixed-income rental projects or units qualifying individuals and families. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 839). |
| HI | HCR87 | Pass | Requesting The Office Of Elections To Prepare And Submit A Proposal To The Legislature On The Cost And Personnel Required To Prepare And Distribute A Voter Information Guide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR88 | Pass | Requesting The Judiciary To Prepare A Master Development Plan, Including A Capitol Improvement Project Request, To Upgrade The South Kohala District Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR160 | Pass | Urging The Mayors And Councils Of The City And County Of Honolulu, County Of Maui, County Of Hawaii, And County Of Kauai To Establish Business Improvement Districts As Special Improvement Districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-21
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR7 | Pass | Requesting The Department Of Human Services Med-quest Division, In Collaboration With The Department Of Commerce And Consumer Affairs, To Expand The Types Of Qualified Providers Allowed To Provide Lactation Consultant Services For The Medicaid Popula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-20
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HB899 | Pass | Designates the month of September as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month to promote public awareness of the risks of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-20
Act 012, 04/19/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1112). |
| HI | HCR28 | Pass | Designating The Month Of March As Hawaii Kidney Awareness Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-20
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR103 | Pass | Urging All Branches Of The United States Military Operating In Hawaii To Implement Changes In Their Policies To Reduce, To The Extent Possible, The Use Of Products Containing Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-20
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HB1327 | Engross
50% | Establishes a state income tax credit for qualified expenses incurred by certain individuals employed by the Department of Education, Hawaii state public library system, or as part of a head start program in a school. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-14
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 800). |
