| HI | HB2003 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide menstrual products at no cost in specified restrooms in public buildings maintained by the department. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to post signage in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2149 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the death care industry board to regulate the practices of funeral directing and cemetery sales. Establishes the death care industry board special fund. Requires funeral directors and cemetery salespersons to be licensed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2234 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires and appropriates funds for the Judiciary to develop a three-year civil legal services pilot program to provide civil legal services at no cost to eligible parties. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2572 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-staff positions of Department of Education schools. Allows a loan to be forgiven for teachers who become, or have become, a licensed teacher in Hawaii or for te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1661 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to include any individual or household whose monthly income is equal to or less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1947 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the minimum number of years of credited service from ten years to five years qualified Tier 2 employee's retirement system members must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes. Appropriates fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2087 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a two-year elder access pilot program in the Executive Office on Aging, to improve access to essential services and reduce wait times for seniors seeking public services through state and county government offices. Authorizes the Executiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2166 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii environmental protection agency within the department of land and natural resources. Transfers jurisdiction of certain functions and employees of the department of agriculture and department of health to the Hawaii environmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2180 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits development in special management areas unless the development is first found to not be located in a sea level rise exposure area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2197 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out. Effective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2539 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1593 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Elections to print and mail a physical copy of the digital voter information guide to any voter upon request. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1614 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the bonus for teachers who achieve and maintain a current national board certification from $5,000 to $15,000. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1609 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Elections to apply to be a member of the Electronic Registration Information Center, Inc. (ERIC), by 6/30/2025. Requires the Office of Elections and counties to use information and services made available by ERIC to verify thei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1649 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1687 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires full retail crediting for energy exports enrolled in grid services programs, whereby energy exported to the electrical grid past a participating customer-generator's point of common coupling from photovoltaic solar systems paired with batter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1970 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires solar conduit- and electrical panel-readiness for new residential construction offered for sale at fair market value and electric vehicle-readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1966 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans under the Hawaii Em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2044 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Establishes the Broadband and Digital Equity Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB2194 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a health insurer from requiring an insured diagnosed with stage two through stage five cancer to undergo step therapy prior to covering the insured for certain drugs prescribed by the insured's health care provider, under certain conditions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1965 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a court's authority to issue an order restricting abusive litigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2165 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a landlord from renting or leasing, or offering to rent or lease, a dwelling unit in the district described in section 4-1(2)(D), HRS, at a rate that exceeds the rate for which that dwelling unit was rented or leased or offered for rent or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2571 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the multifamily housing accessibility modifications grant program to facilitate the installation of accessibility modifications in certain properties. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB183 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all private schools to develop and implement comprehensive action plans for the management of anaphylaxis in their respective schools, including administration of auto-injectable epinephrine. Establishes certain immunity from liability for d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1678 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates all University of Hawaii system campuses as voter registration agencies as defined in the National Voter Registration Act. Requires the Chief Election Officer to use data concerning voter registration and election participation to study vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2296 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax credit for the import of renewable fuel. Updates the renewable fuels production tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2575 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a construction trades workforce development program in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to develop, establish, and implement a construction trades career pathway program for high school students in the State. Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2612 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolishes the boards of registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to convene workshops to aid electric utilities in the development and implementation of best practices regarding wildfires. Requires electric utilities to design and operate in compliance with a risk-based wil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2169 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the construction of overhead high-voltage electric transmission lines. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to submit to the Public Utilities Commission a report identifying the areas of the State having the highest r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2205 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | HB2201 | Intro
Sine Die | Generally prohibits the removal of minerals from the seabed in all state marine waters. Prohibits the issuance of permits for the mooring, docking, or operation of any vessel designed or intended for removal of minerals from the seabed. Provides for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2300 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Search and Rescue Division within the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct search or rescue operations. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2290 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits planned community associations from planting yellow oleander or causing or allowing yellow oleander to be planted on their real property. Effective 7/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2294 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the transfer of the Maui State Veterans Home to the Oahu Regional Health Care System and then to the Department of Health, as part of the Oahu Regional Health Care System transfer pursuant to Act 212, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2257 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to provide students who are residents of the State with scholarships in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of Ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB2333 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the accessory dwelling unit housing development program with the Hawaii Community Development Authority to award subsidies to individuals who build accessory dwelling units. Exempts those accessory dwelling units from general excise tax f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB2301 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the Rental Motor Vehicle Surcharge from $2 to $7. Includes the operation and maintenance costs of the Lahaina Bypass North as a permissible use of the State Highway Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB2299 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to use consistent units of measurement in its summary to the public on the amounts of restricted use pesticides used. Effective 1/1/2025, prohibits restricted use pesticides from being applied within one-half mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2245 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for an artificial intelligence government services pilot program to provide certain government services to the public through an internet portal that uses artificial intelligence technologies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB2233 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits private and state workforce development programs from rejecting an applicant who is 18 years of age or younger based solely on the applicant's active sentence of probation; provided that the applicant is in full compliance with any court-or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2511 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2545 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for various agricultural infrastructure projects throughout the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2507 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to: (1) conduct a remote work study; (2) review any recent remote work studies done by the counties; (3) develop and administer a remote work program; and (4) submit the study to the Legislature ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2649 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the State's midwifery law to permit care by extended family, cultural supporters, or others with whom a woman chooses to give birth. Specifies that nothing in the midwifery law shall prohibit or restrict healing practices by traditional hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2645 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation for the Maui Business Bridge Grants Program to assist businesses that have been impacted by the 2023 Maui wildfires.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2584 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all places of public accommodation constructed after 12/31/2024 to provide universal changing accommodations in public restrooms. Where feasible and cost effective, requires all bids for state building construction, projects submitted after ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2647 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include malathion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2646 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires monthly rather than annual reporting of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information, site information, and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
