| HI | HB1782 | Engross
50% | Makes a conforming amendment to allow the Department of Health, or its designee, to conduct criminal history record checks on applicants for hemp processor permits. Sunsets 7/1/2027. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services 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 | HB1766 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the distribution of synthetic media messages in advertisements before an election that a person knows or should have known are deceptive and fraudulent deepfakes of a candidate. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Judiciary 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 | HB1897 | Engross
50% | Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal care products in small plastic containers within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping room accommodations, or bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB1904 | Engross
50% | 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
50% | 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
50% | 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
50% | 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 | HB2113 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy Special Fund to support pharmacist workforce assessment and planning efforts. Establishes the pharmacist workforce assessment fee. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[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 | HB2005 | Engross
50% | Requires taxpayers be given notice of and an opportunity to cure any failure to meet the requirements for the tax credit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2079 | Engross
50% | Relaxes the requirements for prescribing certain controlled substances as part of gender-affirming health care services. Expands the protections established under Act 2, SLH 2023, to include gender-affirming health care services. Clarifies jurisdicti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2043 | Engross
50% | Establishes a harm to students registry for all early learning programs or schools and K-12 educational institutions within the State that contains information on school employees, contractors, or volunteers for whom, as result of an investigation, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education 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 | HB2217 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB2196 | Engross
50% | Removes requirement of a college degree for any state position, unless the degree is relevant to licensing or certification as it relates to the duties and responsibilities of the position or when the position requires specialized knowledge, skills, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Labor and Technology 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 | HB2642 | Engross
50% | Beginning 11/1/2024: extends the period for a notice of termination of a rental agreement; requires tenants and landlords to engage in mediation; delays filing an action for summary possession if a tenant schedules or attempts to schedule mediation; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2661 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB2710 | Engross
50% | Requires, as a condition for the issuance of a broadband-related permit, a wireless telecommunications carrier to maintain emergency backup power under certain circumstances. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism 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 | HB2806 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii opioid litigation proceeds special fund. Establishes the Hawaii opioid litigation proceeds council to oversee the Hawaii opioid settlement advisory committee's expenditure of opioid litigation proceeds. Establishes standards fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1603 | Intro
25% | Amends various provisions related to pretrial release.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1572 | Intro
25% | Limits the exclusion from gross income to pensions received for past services provided in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2531 | Intro
25% | Allows a person who employs or contracts with a health care worker who suffers an act of violence to report the event to law enforcement and petition for a temporary restraining order and injunction under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2187 | Intro
25% | Establishes a non-refundable income tax credit for residential landlords who lease a unit to a tenant with a pet for at least six months.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1585 | Intro
25% | Prohibits state agencies from purchasing or using polystyrene food-service containers. Prohibits vendors contracted through a state agency from selling, offering for sale, providing, or using polystyrene food-service containers at any site owned or l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2028 | Intro
25% | Merges the Made in Hawaii with Aloha branding program with the Hawaii Made program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Specifies that the Department of the Attorney General shall be responsible for enforcement of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2138 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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 | HB2176 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Artificial Intelligence Working Group to develop acceptable use policies and guidelines for the regulation, development, deployment, and use of artificial technologies in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2297 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB2629 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Homeless Services Special Fund. Allows counties to apply for matching funds from the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund for certain housing projects. Increases the conveyance tax rates for certain properties. Establishes conveyan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2630 | Intro
25% | Authorizes, and establishes a regulatory framework for, the administration of psilocybin for therapeutic use. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2665 | Intro
25% | Establishes green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines for state facility systems, infrastructure, transit projects, and other areas in the Hawaii State Planning Act to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2719 | Intro
25% | Establishes a pilot program to offer tuition waivers for certain community college students starting in fall 2025. Requires the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to submit a report. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2757 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB2754 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Plant-Based Building Materials Working Group to report on how best to grow plants and develop plant-based building materials in Hawaii and provide economic development and green jobs while sequestering greenhouse gases to help achieve t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1778 | Intro
25% | Beginning 7/1/2026, amends existing law regarding preemption of local ordinances and regulations regulating the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices as a matter of statewide concern to clarify that the State's preempti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1933 | Intro
25% | Establishes a sobriety checkpoint special fund to provide funding to county law enforcement agencies for staffing for sobriety checks and processing of persons arrested at sobriety checkpoints. Increases the state vehicle registration fee and establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1952 | Intro
25% | Specifically authorizes a medical cannabis dispensary to purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from another dispensary. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules regarding medical cannabis products within a certain time. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1954 | Intro
25% | 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 |
