| HI | HB1846 | Enroll | Requires and establishes deadlines for all state facilities with an area of 10,000 square feet and over, except facilities at Aloha Stadium, to implement all cost-effective energy efficiency measures. Provides that certain agencies that perform energ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-31
Notice of Intent to veto dated 08-31-20 (Gov. Msg. No. 1119) |
| HI | HB1346 | Enroll | Prohibits the suspension or expulsion of children participating in the Executive Office on Early Learning's Public Prekindergarten Program, except under limited circumstances. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB917 | Engross | Requires the attorney general of the State of Hawaii, on behalf of the Department of Education, to institute proceedings to acquire certain land owned by the Mililani Town Association by voluntary action or condemnation. Effective upon approval. (SD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Deferred one day. |
| HI | HB1902 | Engross | Prohibits the manufacture, possession, sale, barter, trade, gift, transfer, or acquisition of detachable ammunition magazines with a capacity in excess of ten rounds, regardless of the type of firearm with which the magazine is compatible. Allows pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Deferred one day. |
| HI | HB1978 | Enroll | Specifies that the family court has jurisdiction in proceedings concerning the custody or guardianship of an immigrant child pursuant to a motion for Special Immigrant Juvenile factual findings requesting a determination that the child was abused, ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB1942 | Enroll | Adds members of the clergy, commercial computer technicians, and commercial film, and photographic print or image processors to the categories of persons who are required to report child abuse and neglect to DHS or police. Provides a "safe harbor" th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2043 | Enroll | Allows an unlicensed mental health professional, working under the supervision of a licensed mental health professional, to provide mental health treatment or counseling services to minors without parental or legal guardian consent, knowledge, or par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2060 | Enroll | Provides that family courts may withhold from public inspection any record of a denied temporary restraining order or denied protective order; provided that these records shall remain accessible to law enforcement without a court order. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2054 | Enroll | Prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to enter into a nondisclosure agreement pertaining to sexual harassment or sexual assault. Prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee for disclosing or discussing sexual harassment or s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2148 | Enroll | Extends Hawaii family leave to include care for employees' grandchildren. Defines "sibling". Takes effect on 7/1/2020. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2183 | Enroll | Increases the Hula Mae Multifamily Revenue Bond authorization ceiling amount to continue financing affordable rental housing statewide. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2543 | Enroll | Requires parents or guardians of public school and charter school kindergarten students to disclose information on the student's prior child care program or prekindergarten attendance, if any, for the purpose of determining areas having the highest n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB1701 | Engross | Conforms statutory prohibitions against wage discrimination with other prohibitions on employment discrimination. Clarifies allowable justifications for compensation differentials and remedies for pay disparity. Requires employers to disclose wage ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HI | HB2061 | Engross | Requires the AG and DHS to convene a study group to examine the impacts, costs, and impediments of allowing child support payments to pass through to TANF recipients and submit a report to the legislature prior to the 2022 Regular Session. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HI | HB2457 | Engross | Bans the sale of flavored tobacco products. Prohibits mislabeling of e-liquid products containing nicotine. Establishes fines and penalties for violations. Authorizes a court to impose, as a penalty on a person eighteen to twenty-one years of age who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HI | HB2502 | Engross | Authorizes the Director of Health, upon consultation with and authorization from the Governor, to screen, test, and monitor travelers. Provides for penalties for noncompliance. Amends and adds definitions and procedural and administrative provisions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HI | HB2573 | Engross | Includes coercion as a means of committing the offense of sex trafficking. Removes the criminal statute of limitations for sex trafficking. Specifies that sex trafficking of a minor is a strict liability offense. Repeals the offense of solicitation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HI | HB2610 | Engross | Allows a narrow hearsay exception for non-testimonial statements made by domestic violence victims to certain government officials within 24 hours of an incident of domestic violence and prior to the arrest of the defendant, as long as the statement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HI | HB2709 | Engross | Requires a personal representative of a decedent appointed under the Uniform Probate Code to notify the police department of the appropriate county of any and all firearms in an estate. Requires the police department to certify that all registered fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HI | HB2177 | Engross | Amends statutory limitations on the time period in which a survivor of childhood sexual abuse may file a civil suit. Allows punitive damages. Permits the court to order restorative justice measures, if deemed appropriate. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-06
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 384). |
| HI | HB1529 | Engross | Allows student journalists at public schools to exercise freedom of speech and freedom of the press in school-sponsored media. Takes effect on 7/1/2055. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2091 | Engross | Allows the University of Hawaii to conduct criminal history record checks on current or prospective employees, and contractors and their employees, whose duties include ensuring security of campus facilities and persons. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1901 | Engross | Includes any count department of the prosecuting attorney in the definition of "law enforcement officer". Requires the law enforcement standards board to review and recommend policies regarding the use of force and receive and investigate complaints ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2257 | Engross | 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] | 2020-06-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1874 | Engross | Lowers the age at which enhanced penalties apply for crimes against seniors from sixty-two years of age to an unspecified age. Makes commission of certain criminal offenses against a senior's person or property applicable regardless of the perpetrato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
The committee on JDC deferred the measure. |
| HI | HB1844 | Engross | Creates the clean energy and energy efficiency revolving loan fund under the administration of the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority. Repeals the building energy efficiency revolving loan fund. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2562 | Engross | Specifies the manner in which a member of a board of a planned community association or condominium association may resign. Limits a planned community association board's ability to fill a vacancy. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2015 | Engross | Establishes a pilot program within the Aina Mauna legacy program of DHHL to remove and harvest gorse from Mauna Kea and develop it as a marketable product to expand economic opportunities for native Hawaiians. Requires reports to the legislature. App...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2256 | Engross | Extends the sunset provision in Act 38, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, for certain exemptions from the Ethics Code as related to UH technology transfer from 6/30/2022 to 6/30/2025. Takes effect on July 1, 2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
The committee on HRE deferred the measure. |
| HI | HB760 | Engross | Requires a full-service franchise restaurant to disclose its non-participation in national advertising campaigns that offer a promotion or discount with a sign at the entrance or storefront of the restaurant. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| HI | HB1191 | Engross | Provides an income tax credit for qualifying small businesses to offset the increase in the minimum hourly wage that employers must pay employees. Increases the minimum wage to $12.00 per hour beginning 1/1/2020 and $15.00 per hour beginning 1/1/2023...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB1541 | Engross | Establishes the Hawaii Gun Violence Prevention Center within the University of Hawaii to research strategies to prevent gun violence. Creates a special fund to support the Center. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB272 | Engross | Caps annual utility rate increases without PUC approval for counties with a population of less than 500,000. Provides telecommunications service providers with flexibility from certain regulatory oversight requirements, including issuance of securiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| HI | HB889 | Engross | Establishes the publicprivate partnership working group and requires an annual report to be submitted to the legislature. Adds public-private partnership project delivery methods and related conditions and requirements to the Hawaii Public Procuremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB842 | Engross | Establishes a Hawaii State Planning Act Review Commission to review and make recommendations to the Legislature to update the Hawaii State Planning Act. Removes reference to achieving the viability of Hawaii's sugar and pineapple industries from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB761 | Engross | Specifies that retailers may provide proof of purchase in electronic form to a member of a frequent shopper program. Requires retailers who offer electronic proof of purchase to have reasonable safeguards to protect members' personal information. (SD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| HI | HB558 | Engross | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for employing lifeguards and purchasing life-saving equipment at Kua Bay in Kekaha Kai State Park on the island of Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB1193 | Engross | Amends the income tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment by changing the taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses that constitutes the tax credit and cap amount. Effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| HI | HB469 | Engross | Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued after 12/31/19 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of $1,500 per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months in their base plans. Exempts mandator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| HI | HB1192 | Engross | Conforms statutory prohibitions against wage discrimination with other prohibitions on employment discrimination. Clarifies allowable justifications for compensation differentials and remedies for pay disparity. Requires employers to disclose wage ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| HI | HB467 | Engross | Changes the kupuna caregivers program allocation cap from $70 per day to $350 per week. Appropriates funds for the continued implementation of the kupuna caregivers program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| HI | HB1360 | Engross | Appropriates funds for the fiscal biennium 2019-2021 operating budget of certain Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs programs. Effective 7/1/2051. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB838 | Engross | Exempts an eleemosynary organization that meets certain conditions and intends to engage in a public works project or operation involving the installation or maintenance of a mooring system for vessels under one hundred gross tons from licensure and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB533 | Engross | Establishes the Hawaii Broadband Office within HTDC. Establishes the position of State Broadband Strategy Officer. Renames the Broadband Assistance Advisory Council as the Broadband Advisory Council and amends its purpose and membership. Requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB1274 | Engross | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii. Effective 1/1/2051. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| HI | HB1343 | Engross | Provides grandparents with 1 week of family leave to care for a grandchild with a serious health condition. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB532 | Engross | Establishes a Chief Data Officer and Data Task Force in the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to develop, implement, and manage statewide data set policies, procedures, and standards. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB486 | Engross | Permits persons convicted of certain prostitution offenses to file a motion to vacate the conviction if the defendant is not convicted of another offense under the Penal Code within three years of the prostitution offense. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB1485 | Engross | Establishes a process, beginning on January 1, 2020, for automatically preregistering or registering public school- and charter school-enrolled students who are at least 16 years old to vote. Effective 7/1/2030. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB295 | Engross | Amends the definition of domestic abuse under Hawaii's insurance laws and domestic abuse protective order statutes to include emotional abuse between family or household members. Defines emotional abuse. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
