| HI | HB1842 | Intro | Diverts non-violent petty misdemeanants living with mental illness from the criminal justice system to the appropriate community treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 10:00 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1846 | Intro | Requires an energy audit for all state facilities by July 1, 2021, and begin to address the audit results by January 1, 2022. Requires a report of the results of the audit to the legislature. Beginning July 1, 2020, requires the design of new state b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 8:30 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1867 | Intro | Amends the total amount of hours per week an individual must be employed to be a qualified caregiver under the kupuna caregivers program from thirty to twenty. Appropriates funds for the proper implementation of the kupuna caregivers program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:30 am]
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 8:30 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1866 | Intro | Appropriates funds for the healthy aging partnership program to further the program's role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii's kupuna.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 9:30 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1872 | Intro | Appropriates funds to the office of the long-term care ombudsman for six full-time (6.0 FTE) ombudsman specialist positions; two each on Oahu and Hawaii and one each on Kauai and Maui.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 8:30 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB2024 | Intro | Expands the circumstances where a minor may consent to no cost emergency shelter and related services to include cases where the provider is coordinating with child welfare services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 8:30 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB2070 | Intro | Requires counties to develop procedures to accept donations of private land that is damaged or likely to be damaged by natural disasters or climate change. Authorizes taxpayers to receive a nonrefundable, charitable income tax deduction for the donat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2068 | Intro | Limits DOH commitment to 180-days for those defendants charged with a non-violent class C felony and found to be unfit to proceed under chapter 704, HRS. Limits to 180-days the period of conditional release granted to defendants charged with a non-vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2069 | Intro | Prohibits civil asset forfeiture unless the covered offense is a felony for which the property owner has been convicted. Excludes the forfeiture proceedings for an animal pending criminal charges. Requires the Attorney General to deposit the net proc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2146 | Intro | Establishes limits on class sizes for public elementary and secondary schools, excluding charter schools and classes for instruction in band, choir, orchestra, or theater.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1871 | Intro | Requires the executive office on Aging to report the assessment of progress toward the reported goals and state recommendations going forward; appropriate funds for one fiscal year to the executive office on aging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 8:30 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB1869 | Intro | Amends the definitions of "certificate of disability" and "person with a disability" to allow a person with a disability that does not limit or impair the ability to walk and needs special accommodations to enter and exit their vehicle to be issued a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 8:30 am]
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB2243 | Intro | Expands the certification incentive program to include speech pathologists. Clarifies school eligibility requirements. Adds an additional temporary bonus for teachers and speech pathologists who continue to be employed at a school that has transition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB2236 | Intro | Requires and appropriates funds for the department of health to conduct comprehensive workforce and cost analysis reviews with federal partners to improve efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness. Appropriates funds for collective bargaining incre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2182 | Intro | Allows the HHFDC to enter into public private partnerships with private sector entities to build affordable housing and reserves a portion of the housing units for the exclusive use of the employees of the private sector entity partner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB2183 | Intro | Increases the Hula Mae Multifamily Revenue Bond authorization ceiling amount to continue financing affordable rental housing statewide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB2235 | Intro | Establishes a tax credit for qualified physicians who accept patients who receive Medicaid or Medicare benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2186 | Intro | Eliminates the requirement for a public utility to seek PUC approval for the underground construction of high-voltage electric transmission lines if certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 8:30 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2234 | Intro | Clarifies and expands exceptions for good-faith food donations to needy persons. Allows for the donation of expired food when the donor makes a good-faith judgment that the food is unspoiled. Requires DOH to provide educational materials about food d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2237 | Intro | Establishes the Drug Disposal Program, administered by the Department of the Attorney General, to dispose of prescription and over-the-counter drugs in a safe, secure, and environmentally friendly manner. Establishes the Drug Disposal Special Fund an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2245 | Intro | Establishes a sidewalk installation grant program to be administered by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Office of Community Services. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB2244 | Intro | Reactivates the individual development account contribution income tax credit for the five-year period from 2021 through 2025. Amends provisions regarding state-funded individual development accounts. Appropriates funds to the department of human ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB2246 | Intro | Requires each tax return preparer to have a valid preparer tax identification number issued by the Internal Revenue Service and to furnish the preparer's tax identification number on any return or claim for refund if required by DOTAX. Establishes pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2188 | Intro | Establishes a one-mile setback from the nearest existing farm dwelling or residential dwelling unit for wind energy facilities in agricultural districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2232 | Intro | Prohibits certain individuals who, as a minor, were diagnosed with behavioral, emotional, or mental disorders or adjudicated by the family court to have committed a certain number of crimes of violence from owning firearms unless the person has been ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2184 | Intro | Amends the threshold for when a building, structure, object, district, area, or site, including heiau and underwater site, is considered historic property from over fifty years old to seventy-five years or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2256 | Intro | Removes the sunset provision in Act 38, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, by making permanent certain exemptions from the Ethics Code as related to UH technology transfer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB2242 | Intro | Establishes a nonrefundable state child tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2259 | Intro | Exempts workforce development projects from paying school impact fees for the development of workforce housing if at least 90% of the residential units that are set aside for purchase or rent for residents in the low-income or moderate-income ranges ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB2254 | Intro | Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2020-2021 for the Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program administered through the John A. Burns School of Medicine of the University of Hawaii at Manoa; provided that the funds are matched on a dollar-to-dollar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2255 | Intro | Expands the Hawaii community college promise program to provide scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students at any fouryear University of Hawaii campus who meet certain eligibility criteria. Appropriates funds for the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB2257 | Intro | Expands the scope of the University of Hawaii at Hilo conference center revolving fund to all programs conducted by the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Requires an annual report to the Legislature regarding the fund. Gives the chancellor of the Univers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB2258 | Intro | Prohibits the expulsion and establishes limitations for suspension of children participating in the Executive Office on Early Learning Public Prekindergarten Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB2418 | Intro | Requires the house and senate to permit remote testimony, via telephone, at public hearings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HI | HB2420 | Intro | Clarifies the meaning of "program or activity receiving state financial assistance". Excludes cases within the scope of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act from the jurisdiction of the Hawaii civil rights commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB2407 | Intro | Requires DOH to periodically update its co-composting rules. Requires DOH to establish a multi-tiered registration and permitting system for composting facilities. Allows composting and co-composting in agricultural districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2417 | Intro | Requires DHS to establish a neighbor islands blind and visually impaired service pilot program to provide services and training for blind and visually impaired neighbor island residents. Appropriates funds. Repeals 06/30/2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB2421 | Intro | Creates a Board of Trustees for the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind to establish an independent governance structure for the school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB2419 | Intro | Establishes Employment First as a state policy for persons with disabilities. Requires state and county agencies to implement Employment First in hiring and in all programs and services administered or funded by the State or counties. Applies Employm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB2408 | Intro | Improves the State's preparedness and response to disasters. Requires statewide inventories of hospitals, dialysis centers, and medical facilities; satellite phones; and generators to provide backup power. Appropriates funds for positions related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2404 | Intro | Requires the office of solid waste management to establish a recycling facility grant program to incentivize recycling in the State. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 8:30 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2492 | Intro | Preserves preexisting federal regulations on the use of hydrofluorocarbons in state law. Phases out hydrofluorocarbons in favor of alternatives with lower global warming potential. Establishes a preference for products that do not contain hydrofluoro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 8:30 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2451 | Intro | Explicitly authorizes advanced practice registered nurses, in addition to physicians, to practice medical aid in dying in accordance with their scope of practice and prescribing authority. Reduces the mandatory waiting period between oral requests ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2454 | Intro | Establishes the offense of criminal trespass on critical electrical infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2456 | Intro | Establishes the offense of unlawful shipment of e-liquid products. Includes e-liquid and electronic smoking devices containing e-liquid within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Allocates a portion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2425 | Intro | Amends the definition of domestic abuse under Hawaii's insurance laws and domestic abuse protective order statutes to include coercive control between family or household members. Defines coercive control.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2453 | Intro | Provides veterinarians who provide emergency care to an animal immunity from civil liability in the absence of gross negligence. Provides veterinarians who render emergency treatment when there is no veterinarian-client-patient relationship, immunity...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2452 | Intro | Appropriates funds for the state health insurance assistance program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2465 | Intro | Authorizes county police chiefs to issue permits to acquire firearms to U.S. nationals who otherwise meet all of the applicable criteria under section 134-2, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2457 | Intro | Bans the sale of flavored tobacco products. Prohibits mislabeling of e-liquid products containing nicotine. Establishes fines and penalties for violations. Requires the Department of Education to establish a safe harbor program by which persons under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Health Committee |
