| HI | HB2591 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Human Services for the Preschool Open Doors program. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the general fund expenditure ceiling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2746 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires and appropriate moneys for the provision of free voice communication services in the State's youth and adult correctional facilities. Amends sources of funding for and imposes a limit on moneys retained in the victim information and notifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Human Services 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 | HB2250 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to coordinate crisis intervention training for state and county law enforcement agencies and crisis intervention officers. Requires the Department of Health to certify crisis intervention officers. Defines "...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1606 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any new contract entered into by the Office of Elections for equipment or services relating to preparing ballots or counting votes include the capability to randomize the names of candidates appearing on the ballot if technologically po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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 | HB1605 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that each vote cast for a question on a ballot for the ratification of a constitutional amendment be counted in the negative only if the ballot properly indicates that the vote is in the negative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2291 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii sustainable aviation fuel program within the State Energy Office to work with the Department of Transportation and fuel suppliers in order to establish a sustainable fuel portfolio standard for the use of sustainable aviation f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2287 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for prefabricated, modular, or kauhale-type housing for individuals impacted by the Lahaina wildfire.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "patient's provider" in state law governing Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment by removing language that requires the provider to examine the patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2251 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a separate prohibition on driving motor vehicles having noisy mufflers on public highways in high-density areas. Authorizes police officers to conduct examinations and inspections of motor vehicle mufflers in high-density areas. Establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Transportation 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 | HB2288 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2557 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to develop and, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, implement a financial literacy curriculum for grades kindergarten through twelfth grade.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education 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 | HB2631 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds, including for positions, equipment, and maintenance and operating costs, for mullet production for fishponds and stock enhancement.
[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 | HB2600 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis Authority and Cannabis Control Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning January 1, 2026, legalizes the personal adult use of cannabis. Establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2632 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each have one vote if they have employees in a particular bargaining unit for the purposes of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. Repeals staf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HI | HB2636 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Coastal Commission and the Shoreline Buyback Program, which permits the Commission to purchase eligible shoreline properties and make those properties available for affordable rental housing. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2574 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2605 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to establish a teacher loan forgiveness program to assist in the payment of loans for teachers who commit to teaching in the Hawaii public school system. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2637 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all public buildings constructed after January 1, 2025, to be designed to withstand category five hurricanes and be used as shelters in the event of an emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2624 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a substance abuse treatment special fund. Increases liquor tax rates to unspecified amounts. Allocates increased liquor tax revenues to the substance abuse treatment special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2635 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a continuous Legislature. Requires the Legislature to convene at least once a month. Removes language regarding special sessions, adjournment, and recesses. Creates a two-year deadline for a bill to be submitted for gubernatorial consider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2711 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the Department of Land a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2786 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of "renewable energy".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2726 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows tenants who prevail in a lawsuit for a violation of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs and threefold damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2756 | Intro
Sine Die | Recategorizes City and County of Honolulu Emergency Medical Services Department employees from bargaining unit (10) into a new bargaining unit (16).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2784 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to construct, establish, and operate an environmental toxins testing laboratory to test samples submitted by the public for diseases; water, air, and soil quality; and complex testing. Allows the Director of Finance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1564 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a statewide firefighting helicopter program, to be administered by the State Fire Marshal. Appropriates funds to obtain helicopters, facilities equipment, and supplies; hire and train staff; and do other things necessary to ensure that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1586 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of a wastewater treatment works project in Waialua, Oahu. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1589 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for student housing capital improvement projects at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB1528 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment that guarantees individuals the right to a clean and healthy environment; the control of pollution; and the conservation, protection, and enhancement of the natural, native, cultural, scenic, and healthful qualitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1584 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a two-year agricultural crime pilot project to examine the effectiveness of prosecuting agricultural crimes, including agricultural theft and agricultural vandalism, in the City and County of Honolu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1583 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the public employee health benefits working group to investigate the feasibility of establishing and offering a fully self-insured health benefits plan with no deductible or monthly premium cost to state and county public employees. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB1607 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits users of algorithmic decision-making from utilizing algorithmic eligibility determinations in a discriminatory manner. Requires users of algorithmic decision-making to send corresponding notices to individuals whose personal information is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB1612 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts unemployment compensation from state personal income tax beginning in the 2023 tax year. Increases the maximum weekly benefit a person may receive in unemployment compensation beginning on 1/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB1590 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for a capital improvement project for the repair, maintenance, and demolition of buildings at the Poamoho Research Station.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB1536 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all school bus contracts to require contractor's vehicles to be propelled by electric power or a non-fossil fuel by January 1, 2035.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1659 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care and supplemental paid sick leave to employees under certain public health eme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB1658 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish and administer a family leave insurance program. Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends the period of family leave to 16 weeks for businesses that employ one or more...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB1693 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to establish and administer an electronic smoking device disposal program for the collection and disposal of electronic smoking devices that contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Requires all retail tobacco sto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
