| HI | HB1775 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students enrolled in department schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1835 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB1774 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a silver alert program within the Department of Law Enforcement to help locate and safeguard missing persons who are sixty years of age or older, cognitively impaired, or developmentally disabled. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1779 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a three-year summer tuition pilot program to provide funding to UH community colleges to offset the costs aligning the resident tuition rates for the summer semester with the resident tuition rates for the spring and fall semesters at the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1904 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB1960 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for temporary positions within OPSD to support the activities of a district organization for a statewide economic development district. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB1957 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the provision that made references to the base amount in the Internal Revenue Code inapplicable to the research activities tax credit and allowed credits for all qualified research expenses to be taken without regard to previous years expense... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2082 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes comprehensive standards for the department of education related to school bus services to ensure equitable access, timely communication, and accountability. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB2217 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Departments of Health, Human Services, and Education to research and make recommendations on any rules, policies, and amendments to the Medicaid State Plan or Medicaid 1915(c) Waiver that are necessary to ensure provision of clinically a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2514 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Teacher Home Assistance Program to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers. Appropriates funds out of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | HB2578 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts prekindergarten-only public charter schools from certain provisions affecting charter schools relating to funding and finance, the use of the weighted student formula, athletics, enrollment, computer science courses and content, and enrollmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB2661 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB2759 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for health technician positions within the Department of Education for the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB2100 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides rebates for eligible electric vehicle-ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20 To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2138 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to establish an agriculture education coordinator position. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for the sustainable food systems working group and positions within the Department of Agriculture. Requires report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2137 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii farm to food bank program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2297 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii state energy office to adopt rules governing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2757 | Intro
Sine Die | By 1/1/2027, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2028, requires the Department to start ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1954 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1676 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to fulfill the requirements of Act 141, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2129 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes single-ingredient products as a purchasing option for certain state departments and entities to fulfill their local food purchasing requirements. Defines "single-ingredient product". [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2153 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an air and space law program at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB2271 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning 1/1/2025, requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to administer a workforce development incentive rebate program that incentivizes local independent film and television productions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB2722 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the assessment of any fees, fines, or court costs against a person who was adjudicated for an offense committed during the person's minority, or against the person's parent or guardian, and discharges all related debt obligations assessed b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1656 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to assist individuals in obtaining a commercial driver's license for the purpose of becoming school bus drivers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1648 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a School Psychologists Working Group to recommend actionable steps or propose legislation for an immediate pathway to licensure for school psychologists that can be acted upon in 2025. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1893 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 153, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to increase the cesspool compliance pilot grant project grant amount and update a reference. Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2024-2025 and to establish positions to implement the pilot grant project. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1894 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and appropriates funds to the Department of Health to retain qualified consultants as necessary to identify necessary public outreach and education resources and tools and develop a comprehensive public outreach strategy and website to edu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2739 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii home energy assistance program within the Department of Human Services to assist households in paying their energy bills. Establishes the Hawaii home energy assistance special fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1587 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Public Access Room to establish and maintain an outreach and engagement program for primary, secondary, post-secondary, and community education. Requires the Department of Education and University of Hawaii to assign appropriate staff to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1797 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services for Hawaii's public school system. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2256 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to students enrolled in a public school who meet certain requirements. Appropriates funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2728 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hui Hoomana task force to identify actionable priorities and financial resources to offer the State's residents universal access to affordable, high-quality healthcare and health insurance. Requires reports to the Legislature. Dissolv... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2740 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii zero waste initiative to manage the State's transition to a zero solid waste economy. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Energy & Environmental Protection 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 | HB2240 | Intro
Sine Die | Opens eligibility under the Hawaii Educator Loan Program for students and teachers who agree to teach as a full-time teacher in a public charter school. Decreases the service requirement for total loan forgiveness to five years and increases the perc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1573 | Intro
Sine Die | Caps the primary and secondary ticket seller service charges that may be added on to event ticket prices. Requires website operators to guarantee refunds in certain circumstances and disclose that the website is not the primary ticket seller. Prohibi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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 | HB1958 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a three-year child care pilot grant program to provide grants to employers to assist in offering child care or caregiving support for their employees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To House Labor & Government Operations 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2158 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the nurse licensure compact. Beginning 01/01/2026, requires nurses who hold multistate licenses issued by a state other than Hawaii to complete demographic data surveys. Authorizes the Board of Nursing to assess different fees for registered n... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To House Health 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 | HB2035 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies program modification requirements for demonstration projects established by child care facilities that are licensed by the Department of Human Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To House Human Services Committee |
| 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 | HB846 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts the interstate teacher mobility compact to reduce the barriers to teacher license portability and employment. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Education Committee |