| HI | HB2231 | Pass | Establishes as a goal of the State the increased representation of female law enforcement officers in the State by 2030 and nonbinary law enforcement officers in the State. Requires each law enforcement agency to recruit law enforcement officers from... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09 Act 251, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1356). |
| HI | HB2619 | Pass | Requires the Department of Agriculture to lead and coordinate the State's invasive pest control and eradication biosecurity efforts. Establishes certain reporting requirements. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for programs and posi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09 Act 231, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1336). |
| HI | HB2581 | Pass | Removes the ability of the Governor or a mayor to suspend electronic media transmission during a state of emergency or local state of emergency, respectively. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09 Act 237, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1342). |
| HI | HB1554 | Pass | Expands the Department of Land and Natural Resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule to impose restrictions or requirements deemed necessary to protect certain aquatic life. Expands the Board of Land and Natural Resources' authority to temp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08 Act 222, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1323). |
| HI | HB1842 | Pass | Increases the maximum fine for violations of the fire protection laws. Specifies that each day a violation exists or continues to exist shall constitute a distinct and separate offense. Raises the criminal penalty for the offense of arson in the four... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08 Act 201, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1302). |
| HI | HB1922 | Pass | Expands the department of land and natural resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule deemed necessary to protect certain wildlife. Expands the board of land and natural resources' authority to timely adopt, amend, or repeal certain rules if... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08 Act 223, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1324). |
| HI | HB1902 | Pass | Clarifies that the Governor's and mayors' emergency management powers shall be consistent with the state constitution. Clarifies the scope of the comprehensive emergency management plan. Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to extend or te... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08 Act 206, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1307). |
| HI | HB2743 | Pass | Requires the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center and the Sea Grant College Program to develop an overlay with the Hawaii Cesspool Prioritization Tool to identify specific priority areas in which the county sewer system or other centr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08 Act 217, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1318). |
| HI | HB1832 | Pass | Authorizes a state department, division, or agency, rather than the Department of Human Resources Development, to conduct a minimum qualification review of applicants for vacant positions within the department, division, or agency. Requires the Depar... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05 Act 186, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1287). |
| HI | HB2298 | Pass | Beginning 7/1/2027, requires roasted coffee, instant coffee, and ready-to-drink coffee beverages that contain Hawaii-grown and Hawaii-processed coffee blended with coffee of another regional origin to contain no less than fifty-one per cent coffee by... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05 Act 198, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1299). |
| HI | HB2513 | Pass | Expands expungement eligibility to persons whose convictions for consuming a measurable amount of alcohol while under the age of twenty-one or first-time property offenses predated current expungement provisions. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03 Act 168, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1269). |
| HI | HB2224 | Pass | Requires the Executive Office on Aging, in coordination with the State Health Planning and Development Agency, to create a comprehensive long-term care plan to accomplish certain long-term care policy goals that ensure the availability of a full cont... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02 Act 159, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1260). |
| HI | HB1529 | Pass | Allows any burial council member whose term has expired to continue in office as a holdover member until the member's reappointment to a second term is confirmed or a successor is nominated and appointed. Prohibits holdover members from holding offic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01 Act 123, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1224). |
| HI | HB2074 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for Kaiapuni programs and the establishment of three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) Kaiapuni education curriculum specialist II positions and ten full-time equivalent (10.0 FTE) Kaiapuni classroom tea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01 Act 126, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1227). |
| HI | HB2218 | Pass | Amends the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended, to increase the loan limit for direct loans provided by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from fifty percent to seventy-five percent of the maximum single residence loan amount allowed... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01 Act 130, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1231). |
| HI | HB2626 | Pass | Specifies certain findings the Board of Land and Natural Resources must make for a lease of a government-owned Hawaiian fishpond. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01 Act 124, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1225). |
| HI | HB1148 | Pass | Appropriates funds for temporary positions to support the expansion of the University of Hawaii Windward Community College's mental health-related programs. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28 Act 107, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1208). |
| HI | HB1836 | Pass | Allows registered pharmacists during declared states of emergency to refill prescriptions for persons directly impacted by the emergency for up to a thirty-day supply if the practitioner is unavailable or cannot be contacted to authorize the refill a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28 Act 100, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1201). |
| HI | HB1830 | Pass | Beginning 7/1/2026, establishes provisional or associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances; authorizes psychol... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28 Act 093, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1194). |
| HI | HB1827 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Department of Education to support health care workforce development programs, specifically the public high school health care workforce certificate program and glidepath prog... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28 Act 089, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1190). |
| HI | HB1944 | Pass | Authorizes certain types of radiographical coverage and specialist consultations without a treatment plan within the context of workers' compensation coverage for employees with cervical and lumbar spinal injuries, or suspected cervical and lumbar sp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28 Act 094, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1195). |
| HI | HB2042 | Pass | Appropriates funds for the Department of Health to contract for the provision of youth mental health and wellness services to address the mental health and wellness needs of youth in the State. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28 Act 102, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1203). |
| HI | HB2553 | Pass | Authorizes pharmacists to administer vaccines to persons three years of age or older. Authorizes pharmacy interns and pharmacy technicians under the direct supervision of a pharmacist to administer vaccinations to persons three years of age or older,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28 Act 104, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1205). |
| HI | HB1595 | Pass | Creates a pilot project, to be administered by the Department of the Attorney General, for a state-initiated expungement process of arrest records concerning certain marijuana offenses under section 712-1249, HRS. Requires the Hawai?i Criminal Justic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24 Act 062, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1163). |
| HI | HB2685 | Pass | Establishes the solar hui program to allow multi-family residential property owners to invest in a solar hui investment fund, which will provide repayment of income derived from energy services agreements to low- and moderate-income households to ins... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31 Act 040, 05/30/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1140). |
| HI | HB1925 | Pass | Establishes the Hawaii State Planning Act Phase II Task Force within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development. Makes an appropriation. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29 Act 036, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1136). |
| HI | HB2790 | Pass | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to submit a report analyzing the feasibility of continuing to fund the operations of the housing loan and mortgage program. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29 Act 029, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1129). |
| HI | HB2216 | Pass | Increases the state supplemental payment ceilings for type I adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, certified adult foster homes, and type II adult residential care hom... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Act 020, 05/13/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1120). |
| HI | HB1974 | Pass | Increases the monthly needs allowance for individuals living in certain long-term care facilities from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal Supplemental Security Income Pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13 Act 018, 05/13/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1118). |
| HI | HB1599 | Pass | Requires public meeting notices to inform members of the public how to provide remote oral testimony in a manner that allows the testifier, upon request, to be visible to board members and other meeting participants. Recognizes a board's authority to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 Act 012, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1112). |
| HI | HB1600 | Pass | Requires boards to schedule a meeting for deliberation and decision-making on a report by an investigative group at least six business days after the board meeting in which the investigative group presented the findings and recommendations of its inv... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03 Act 013, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1113). |
| HI | HB1950 | Pass | Designates November 22 of each year as "Kimchi Day" in the State. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22 Act 008, 04/19/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1108). |
| HI | HB1541 | Pass | Amends Act 36, SLH 2019, to change the effective date from 7/1/2050 to 7/1/2024. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18 Act 005, 04/18/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1105). |
| HI | HB1899 | Pass | Designates certain snail species as official state snails. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12 Act 004, 04/12/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1104). |