| HI | HB1148 | Enroll
75% | Appropriates funds for temporary positions to support the expansion of the University of Hawaii Windward Community College's mental health-related programs. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB1836 | Enroll
75% | Allows registered pharmacists during declared states of emergency to refill prescriptions for persons directly impacted by the emergency for up to a thirty-day supply if the practitioner is unavailable or cannot be contacted to authorize the refill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB1902 | Enroll
75% | Clarifies that the Governor's and mayors' emergency management powers shall be consistent with the state constitution. Clarifies the scope of the comprehensive emergency management plan. Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to extend or te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2090 | Enroll
75% | Beginning 1/1/2025, allows residential uses in areas zoned for commercial use to be considered permitted under certain circumstances. Requires, no later than 1/1/2025, each county to adopt or amend its ordinances to allow for adaptive reuse of existi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2193 | Enroll
75% | Authorizes law enforcement and fire officers to enter and inspect any licensee's or permittee's premises, under certain conditions, to verify compliance with the State's Fireworks Control Law. Establishes procedures for the Department of Law Enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2790 | Enroll
75% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to submit a report analyzing the feasibility of continuing to fund the operations of the housing loan and mortgage program. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2241 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for civilian auxiliary aviation services performed by the Civil Air Patrol. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025. Effective 7/1/2042. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-24 4:00PM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | HB1980 | Engross
50% | Establishes the separate offense and applicable penalties relating to the fighting of birds in the first and second degrees. Takes effect 4/14/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Failed to pass Third Reading. Ayes, 9; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 16 (Senator(s) Aquino, Awa, Chang, DeCoite, Fevella, Hashimoto, Inouye, Kanuha, Keohokalole, Kidani, Kim, Kouchi, McKelvey, Richards, San Buenaventura, Shimabukuro). Excused, 0 (none). |
| HI | HB1968 | Engross
50% | Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse committed on or after July 1, 2024, may be initiated. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on trauma-informed response. Effective 7/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1248 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the continued administration of the Hawaii healthy food incentive program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB1300 | Engross
50% | Establishes provisional or associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Requires psychologist license applican...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB1675 | Engross
50% | Exempts from the general excise tax amounts received by a hospital, infirmary, medical clinic, health care facility, pharmacy, or a medical practitioner for health care related goods and services purchased under Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE. Takes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1839 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for long-term monitoring of air quality for certain communities impacted by the August 2023 Maui wildfire, as well as support for research efforts to better understand the environmental concerns linked t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1837 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Education to create emergency access plans for each Department school. Requires each Department school to have a comprehensive school evacuation communication plan for use during emergencies. Requires the Department of Educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1900 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to improve the State's water resource management and hydrologic data collection. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1967 | Engross
50% | Changes the administration of the Human Trafficking Victim Services Fund from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to the Department of the Attorney General. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1652 | Engross
50% | Establishes a state income tax credit for qualified expenses incurred by certain individuals employed by the Department of Education, a public charter school, the Hawaii State Public Library System, or as part of a head start program in a school. Eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1776 | Engross
50% | Amends income tax brackets. Temporarily amends the applicable percentage of the employment-related expenses for which the child and dependent care income tax credit may be claimed and permanently provides for a disallowance period when there is a fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1250 | Engross
50% | Imposes labeling requirements for mamaki tea grown in the State. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to administer the mamaki tea labeling requirements. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | HB1651 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Education and public charter schools to take certain steps to report incidents of harassment and implement procedures for handling harassment of educational workers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1841 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to DLNR for operating expenses, equipment, the establishment of positions, and capital improvement projects to support wildfire emergency response. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1840 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to support long-term water quality monitoring and pollution source detection. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1843 | Engross
50% | Establishes the State Fire Marshal within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to direct fire protection efforts statewide. Appropriates funds. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1653 | Engross
50% | Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement negotiated for Bargaining Unit (5), provides annual salary step increases for public school teachers and educational officers who have completed a year's satisfactory service and comply with specified req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB2787 | Engross
50% | Increases the maximum amount of deductible contributions for individual housing accounts. Requires the Department of Taxation to create and implement a public awareness campaign about individual housing accounts. Appropriates funds. Applies to taxabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1655 | Engross
50% | Requires the DOE to work with the BOE to create a public digital platform by the 2027-2028 school year that shows how schools are adopting high-quality instructional materials for K-12 English language arts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1664 | Engross
50% | Increases the penalties for bribery offenses under certain circumstances by establishing new offenses for bribery in the first and second degrees. Defines "bribery" for the purposes of these offenses. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1657 | Engross
50% | Requires all public schools to implement universal screenings for students in kindergarten through third grade to identify and support students who are at risk of dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1767 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans for school bus services if certain conditions are met. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB1835 | Engross
50% | Establishes the distribution management advisory board to develop and advise on the statewide distribution management plan. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1735 | Engross
50% | Expands programming and training for the comprehensive offender reentry program under the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reduce the rate of recidivism and increase inmate marketability and work-force-readiness. Appropriates funds. Ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1904 | Engross
50% | Provides a process for school placement for a child whose parent or guardian has transferred or is pending transfer from another state to a military installation in Hawaii while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order. Effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB2661 | Engross
50% | Enacts the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact to reduce barriers to teacher license portability and employment. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB2537 | Intro
25% | Imposes a penalty for knowingly selling invasive plants or plants containing invasive species.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2267 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program. Authorizes the state or counties to administer the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program. Requires fines collected beginning 1/1/2025 for violations on a county highway to be expended...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2085 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a landlord or the landlord's agent from charging an application fee for a criminal background check or credit report if an applicant provides a certified copy of a criminal background check or credit report. Requires a landlord or the landl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1971 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1722 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the imposition of cost-sharing requirements for certain diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1707 | Intro
25% | Amends the amount of total income tax credits available. Provides the State with alternative marketing opportunities in lieu of a shared-card, end-title screen credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1728 | Intro
25% | Establishes tax credits for insurers providing full property coverage to owners and associations of condominiums in the amount equal to twenty per cent of the insurance premium. Provides additional ten per cent tax credits to insurers incorporated in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1715 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Ohana Bill of Rights for parents and legal guardians of minor children to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of their minor child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2205 | Intro
25% | Proposes to amend the Constitution of the State of Hawaii by: (1) Providing that the Department of Law Enforcement shall be headed by an elected Sheriff; (2) Applying to the Sheriff the same constitutional impeachment and removal provisions that appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2202 | Intro
25% | Takes effect only upon ratification of constitutional amendment requiring the election of the Sheriff as the single executive of the Department of Law Enforcement. Effective 1/1/2025, amends elections law to accommodate the election of the Sheriff. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2289 | Intro
25% | Imposes new security requirements for voting systems. Deems as election fraud certain acts relating to the provision of valuable consideration, including gifts and loans, for the purpose of bribery; election tampering; and security breaches. Appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2288 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to develop tax incentives, rebates, grants, and loan programs to incentivize and provide financing for agrivoltaic farms and solar energy systems on certain agricultural land. Requires a report to the legislatur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2586 | Intro
25% | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to twelve weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2585 | Intro
25% | Creates the offense of organized retail theft. Provides penalties for organized retail theft. Creates an organized retail theft task force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| 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
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2592 | Intro
25% | Allows the counties to impose, by ordinance, enhanced penalties for graffiti in certain designated zones and supersede graffiti sentencing requirements under the Penal Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2587 | Intro
25% | Eliminates the income tax for single and heads-of-household filers making less than $20,000 a year or $40,000 a year for joint filers and scale low- and middle-income tax rates more slowly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
