| HI | HB666 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact to create a comprehensive process that complements the existing licensing and regulatory authority of state medical boards and provides a streamlined process that allows physicians to become licensed in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1270 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to gather data and information and make recommendations to the legislature on strategies and actions to support a vibrant hemp industry, agriculture, and rural economic development. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1404 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the community court outreach project permanent. Amends the project to address homeless defendants and expand the opportunities for eligible defendants to participate. Appropriates funds for additional personnel and enhanced security services. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1211 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the conveyance tax rate for certain properties. Exempts conveyances of certain real property from the conveyance tax. Establishes the homeless services fund. Eliminates the cap on the amount of conveyance tax collections allocated to the la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1116 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes licensure requirements for school psychologists to be administered by the board of psychology. Requires all school psychologists to be licensed by 7/1/2025. Increases the composition of the board of psychology to include two school psycho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1342 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates grant funding to the YMCA of Honolulu for its Youth Wellness Program for Mental Health to address the statewide declining mental health outcomes of youths related to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates moneys for a Maui campus housing pilot program, to be administered by the school facilities authority which shall make on-campus housing available to employees at Lahainaluna and Kulanihakoi high schools on the island of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB390 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain eligibility criteria. Makes an appropriation for the Hawaii promise program. Effective 6/30/3000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB831 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the legislature to a maximum of sixteen years in the house of representatives or senate, or both, for terms beginning after the general election of 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1198 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the prevent suicide Hawaii taskforce within the Department of Health. Requires the task force to make annual recommendations to the Legislature on ways to reduce suicide rates in the State by 25% by 2025. Dissolves the task force on 1/1/2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB640 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the required coverage for shared cars that are made available through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program. Clarifies when the requirements for motor vehicle insurance coverage are satisfied. Provides that the counties may adopt ordinances to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1204 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to provide students who are residents of the State with school tuition in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB871 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that a written disclaimer be provided by sellers or providers of emotional support animals or certificates or identification tags for emotional support animals that the animal is not a service animal or the item does not qualify as an item f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1428 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the State from denying or interfering with a patient's right to choose to obtain an abortion or to terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the patient. Repeals a criminal penalty for violations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB410 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to homelessness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB429 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires individuals to complete a firearms skills assessment, safety course, and education course prior to being granted a license to carry a pistol or revolver.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB572 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of an administrative rule, electronic notice of the proposed rulemaking be provided to all persons who have made a timely written request to, and provided a valid working email address to, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB639 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies when the termination of peer-to-peer car-sharing occurs for purposes of motor vehicle insurance. Clarifies the application of the peer-to-peer car-sharing insurance laws as to other entities that make available rental vehicles under state l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB917 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Sports Task Force within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to plan and coordinate efforts to secure and maintain Hawaii as a host location for major sporting and sports entertainment events at Aloha ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1448 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of education to stock bronchodilators for emergency use during respiratory distress and authorize department employees to volunteer to administer bronchodilators. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1387 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the appointment and removal of the chief executive officer of the Hawaii health systems corporation requires a majority vote by the voting members of the corporation board, rather than by the entire membership of the board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB1202 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees and supplemental paid sick leave to employees under certain public health emergency conditions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB845 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Education to hold not less than six community forums annually, with at least one community forum in each county. Requires the Board to include an open forum for public comments on non-agenda items. Requires a report to the Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB736 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Resources to contract for a study on the gender pay gap within the government of the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB582 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse may be initiated, including an otherwise timebarred action. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on traumainformed response. Effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1188 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of human services to establish a state corollary to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for certain higher education students. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1117 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes HHFDC to assist DOE in developing housing projects for teachers and other school employees and contract or sponsor an experimental or demonstration housing project with any state department or agency. Appropriates funds for deposit into th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB583 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish within the Department of Human Services' Child Care Assistance Program, a Child Care Accreditation Program to support licensed or registered child care providers to obtain accreditation from a national early learning accrediting organizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB611 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that "customary and traditional subsistence farming", which is customary and traditional subsistence farming conducted by a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner in certain situations, is included as a protected activity under the Hawaii ri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB431 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the prohibited acts related to drug paraphernalia under the uniform controlled substances act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1276 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of transportation to authorize state and county traffic projects to make changes, as necessary, to traffic flow and mitigation efforts. Prohibits contractors from charging additional fees to amend traffic flow and safety or mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB740 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an additional minimum supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefit of $250 per month per person for SNAP-eligible households whose income is below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level, as established by the United...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1327 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | HB1398 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows telecommunications and emergency dispatchers and employees who perform similar functions employed by the State and counties to collectively bargain. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB1233 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the School of Travel Industry Management of the University of Hawaii to conduct a study that assesses the tourism social carrying capacity for each of the islands of Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, Lanai, and Molokai. Requires the School of Trave...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1433 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Adult Mental Health Division of the Department of Health to support increased behavioral health crisis stabilization beds. Creates a working group to get county input on possible sites for these crisis stabilization beds. Ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1201 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a private right of action for any person aggrieved by a violation of the Federal Aviation Act and existing federal laws to bring a civil action against the owner or operator of the helicopter in violation and collect damages and litigatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | HB663 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the categories of women required to be covered for mammogram screenings. Requires the existing health insurance mandate for coverage of low-dose mammography to include digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis. Defines "digital b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1278 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes green infrastructure objectives and policies for transportation systems, infrastructure, and projects. Establishes the green transportation infrastructure task force to examine, evaluate, and develop policies for the design, implementatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1216 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii cannabis regulatory authority, which shall have oversight over the personal use of cannabis. Legalizes and regulates the personal use of small amounts of cannabis. Regulates the cultivation and sale of small amounts of cannabis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1218 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the dispensary program licensing fee structure. Adds or clarifies signage, manufactured cannabis product, packaging, escort, and background check requirements for the medical cannabis dispensary program. Establishes annual reporting requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB658 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows students who experienced educational disruption to graduate high school through enrollment in an accepted alternative education program and participation in certain activities approved by the department of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1122 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain patients subject to emergency hospitalization to be assessed to determine whether a surrogate or guardian is needed to make appropriate health care decisions for the patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB790 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a program for the licensure, regulation, and oversight of digital currency companies. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB651 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1238 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the counties to adopt an ordinance regulating the operation of hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodations operators. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multi-state Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multi-state licensure privilege in each party state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB967 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State of Hawaii, to begin with the 2024 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB881 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any person from presetting commercial beach equipment on any public beach under the jurisdiction of the department of land and natural resources, unless the customer is physically present. Requires commercial vendors to expeditiously remove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to homelessness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
