| HI | HB1776 | Engross
50% | Amends income tax brackets. Temporarily amends the applicable percentage of the employment-related expenses for which the child and dependent care income tax credit may be claimed and permanently provides for a disallowance period when there is a fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2552 | Engross
50% | Extends, under certain conditions, the family leave period under state law, for up to eight additional weeks for employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the birth of a child who is required to stay in a neonatal intensive c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB668 | Engross
50% | Conditions the authority of a county whose population is greater than five hundred thousand to exercise state housing powers upon a county's continued compliance with provisions regarding acceptance of the dedication of infrastructure and public high...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | HB1409 | Engross
50% | Extends under certain conditions, the family leave period for up to eight weeks for employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the birth of a child who is required to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit. Requires the Civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | HB1530 | Engross
50% | Notwithstanding a collective bargaining agreement or executive policy in effect on and after 7/1/2028, requires that an employer of firefighters maintains its fire staffing service at a level of not less than four on-duty firefighters in each company...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1250 | Engross
50% | Imposes labeling requirements for mamaki tea grown in the State. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to administer the mamaki tea labeling requirements. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | HB1651 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Education and public charter schools to take certain steps to report incidents of harassment and implement procedures for handling harassment of educational workers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1841 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to DLNR for operating expenses, equipment, the establishment of positions, and capital improvement projects to support wildfire emergency response. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1840 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to support long-term water quality monitoring and pollution source detection. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1843 | Engross
50% | Establishes the State Fire Marshal within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to direct fire protection efforts statewide. Appropriates funds. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2261 | Engross
50% | Amends the definition of "historic property" used in historic preservation laws to only include property listed on the Hawaii or National Register of Historic Places or built before 8/21/1959. Require historic review for proposed projects on existing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB2622 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement for the State's Gun Buyback Program. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 7/1/2042. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1653 | Engross
50% | Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement negotiated for Bargaining Unit (5), provides annual salary step increases for public school teachers and educational officers who have completed a year's satisfactory service and comply with specified req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1771 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1769 | Engross
50% | Establishes a refundable Family Caregiver Tax Credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature before the convening of each Regular Session. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1833 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds into and out of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to provide loans or grants for mixed-income rental projects or units in mixed-income rental projects for qualifying individuals and families. Appropriates funds for an unspecified n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2515 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the types of events that constitute disasters and emergencies for the purposes of emergency management. Takes effect 7/1/2042. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2084 | Engross
50% | Establishes a vacated homeless encampment clean up task force to identify parcels of land that require intergovernmental coordination to clean up vacated homeless encampments located on lands managed by government agencies, including but not limited ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2133 | Engross
50% | Establishes an invasive species grant pilot program to provide grants through DOA to individuals, businesses, and organizations for the eradication of invasive species on property located in Hawaii that is owned by the individual, business, or organi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1534 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Registered Teacher Apprenticeship Program, to be administered by the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1535 | Engross
50% | Provides scholarships for the unmet needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain criteria. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1544 | Engross
50% | Adds a minimum penalty and amends the maximum penalty per violation of the State Water Code, expands the types of potential violations of the State Water Code, and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offense. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1773 | Engross
50% | Requires the law enforcement standards board to develop training materials related to the recognition and signs of Alzheimer's disease and related types of dementia. Requires law enforcement officers to review training materials for at least one hour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1775 | Engross
50% | 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
50% | 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 | HB1780 | Engross
50% | Designates September 21 of each year as World Peace Day. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB1777 | Engross
50% | Authorizes dental hygienists who are under the general supervision of a licensed dentist to perform preventive dental sealant screenings and apply dental sealants on certain individuals in a school-based oral health program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1774 | Engross
50% | 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
50% | 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 | HB1969 | Engross
50% | Establishes the shade tree program in the Department of Education to support educational activities and encourage propagation of native shade trees for planting in department schools. Appropriates funds for the program and to establish arborist posit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB2081 | Engross
50% | Imposes a per-day penalty for nonpayment of TAT. Amends the transient accommodation tax rate. Requires a $20 transient accommodation tax to be levied per night for each furnishing of transient accommodations in exchange for points, miles, or other am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2140 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for statewide research into ornamental ginger pathogens, prevention of the spread of ornamental ginger pathogens, production and distribution of pathogen-free ornamental ginger plants, and outreach to ornamental producers. Effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB2331 | Engross
50% | Establishes a dam and reservoir working group to ensure and enhance the continued availability and safe operation of dams and reservoirs in the State and consider their role in drought mitigation and the maintenance of a dependable water supply. Appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB2514 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB2736 | Engross
50% | Adopts, establishes, and designates the shaka as the official gesture of the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB2759 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB203 | Engross
50% | Allows professional and technical staff of the state historic preservation division to be exempt from civil service laws. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB277 | Engross
50% | Increases the fines for violating motor vehicle insurance requirements. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB497 | Engross
50% | Requires the school facilities authority to conduct a feasibility study for the development of teacher and workforce housing at the Queen Liliuokalani elementary school property. Requires a report to the legislature prior to the 2024 regular session....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB551 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products and the mislabeling of e-liquids as nicotine free. Authorizes the department of health to appoint, commission, or contract for services of inspectors. Establishes two full-time equivalent program specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB390 | Engross
50% | Provides scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain eligibility criteria. Makes an appropriation for the Hawaii promise program. Effective 6/30/3000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB755 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules to prevent and respond to the introduction of aquatic nuisance species from discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel and contemplate the relationship between the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1260 | Engross
50% | Changes the governmental entity responsible for the administration of the address confidentiality program from the office of the lieutenant governor to the department of the law enforcement. Authorizes the department of law enforcement to contract th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB752 | Engross
50% | Expands the jurisdiction for a petition for a domestic abuse protective order to be in the family court in which the nonresident is located; the respondent resides; the subject of a petition that is a minor, incapacitated person, or person who is phy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1303 | Engross
50% | Appropriates moneys to the City and County of Honolulu Board of Water Supply to create a pilot program that incentivizes residential homeowners in certain dry areas to replace landscaping and irrigation with alternatives that reduce water use. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB619 | Engross
50% | Establishes an income tax credit for qualified farms that donate eligible food products or prepared food to food banks or food pantries located in the State. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2026. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1204 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to provide students who are residents of the State with school tuition in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB572 | Engross
50% | Requires that prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of an administrative rule, electronic notice of the proposed rulemaking be provided to all persons who have made a timely written request to, and provided a valid working email address to, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB418 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for repairing warning sirens statewide. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB351 | Engross
50% | Establishes a nonrefundable income tax credit for owners of condominium units whose condominium association is increasing maintenance fees or imposing a special assessment to comply with a county ordinance requiring an automatic fire sprinkler system...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
