| 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 | HB2124 | Enroll | Prohibits certain former State employees from representing certain interests in a legislative or administrative action before the State for twelve months after the termination of their employment. Effective 1/1/2021. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-08-31
Notice of Intent to veto dated 08-31-20 (Gov. Msg. No. 1119) |
| HI | HB1854 | Enroll | Authorizes DOA, in conjunction with the Hawaii Ant Lab, to identify best practices for the treatment of little fire ants. Requires DOA to post those best practices on its website. Adds any application that may defeat the best practices for the treatm...
[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 | HB2125 | Enroll | Makes various amendments to the State Ethics Code. Repeals exemption from certain financial disclosure requirements granted to members of the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB2097 | Enroll | Authorizes the Department of Health to consider processes that may allow cannabis or manufactured cannabis products that fail testing to be remediated. Allows the Department of Health to allow licensed dispensaries to provide educational and scientif...
[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 | HB2425 | Enroll | Amends the definition of "domestic abuse" under Hawaii's insurance laws and laws relating to domestic abuse protective orders to include coercive control between family or household members. Defines "coercive control". (SD1)
[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 | 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 | HB2035 | Engross | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to transfer to the Department of Agriculture certain non-agricultural park lands by a specified date. Requires lessees, permittees, and other occupants to develop and implement a watershed partner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HI | HB2253 | Engross | Amends the statewide traffic code to allow for the chairperson of the BLNR and county chiefs of police to designate state or county employees or contractors to issue citations for traffic violations. Effective upon approval. (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 | 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 | HB2738 | Engross | Prohibits foreign nationals and foreign corporations from making independent expenditures. Requires every corporation that contributes or expends funds in a state election to file a statement of certification regarding its limited foreign influence. ...
[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 | 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 | HR146 | Intro | Recognizing The Unique Language And Contributions To Hawaiian Culture Of The Niihau Community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HCR167 | Intro | Recognizing The Unique Language And Contributions To Hawaiian Culture Of The Niihau Community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2036 | Engross | Establishes a pilot project to plan and design an expansion of the Hawaii Coral Restoration Nursery, including improvements to the sea urchin hatchery. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2591 | Engross | Appropriates funds to provide DLNR with necessary resources associated with the marine 30x30 initiative, including funds for team and staff travel, strategic communication and outreach, professional facilitation, and management plan development. Effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2739 | Engross | Transfers lands to DLNR and establishes that land and adjacent, state-owned land as the Ka Iwi coast state park. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1794 | Engross | Extends the lapse date of the appropriations made by Act 12, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, to June 30, 2023, for flooding disaster relief for Kauai and other areas of the State. Effective 6/29/2020. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
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 | HB1994 | Engross | Establishes, and appropriates funds for, a network improvement community task force to develop a K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics teacher education degree for the University of Hawaii. Appropriates funds for the office of intern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-23
The committee on HRE deferred the measure. |
| 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 | HB159 | Engross | Increases criminal penalties for anyone who knowingly keeps or maintains any structure or place for the purpose of using controlled substances or which is used for keeping or selling them in violation of controlled substance laws. Increases certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB627 | Engross | Requires noncandidate committees and other persons who make independent expenditures supporting or opposing a candidate to report expenditures in support or opposition. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to post independent expenditure informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| 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 | HB1394 | Engross | Authorizes any county with a population equal to or less than 500,000 that adopts a county surcharge on state tax ordinance to use the surcharges received from the State for infrastructure and public safety. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[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 | HB713 | Engross | Establishes a three-year Homeless Employment Grant Program that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Human Services to submit a report to the Legislature prior to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB618 | Engross | Establishes the repair and maintenance special fund for the repair and maintenance of state department facilities. Prohibits fund moneys from funding employee salaries and costs or from being considered as part of the employer's ability to pay those ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB402 | Engross | Requires that all grants and contracts awarded by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs shall be subject to be individually approved by the board of trustees. Reduces the University of Hawaii's portion of receipts from the use, sale, lease, or other disposi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| 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 | 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). |
| HI | HB2094 | Engross | Establishes an early childhood educator stipend program to be administered by the executive office on early learning to address the shortage of qualified early childhood educators in Hawaii. Appropriates funds. Takes effect on 7/1/2055. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2088 | Engross | Establishes a working group to create a state plan to make FAFSA completion a statewide graduation requirement and an opt-out waiver for FAFSA completion by the 2022-2023 school year. Appropriates funds. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2215 | Engross | Establishes a workforce development coordinator position within the department of education. Specifies the duties of the coordinator and P-20 agriculture education working group. Appropriates funds. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2412 | Engross | Requires DOE to establish a threeyear pilot program for the development and implementation of a traumainformed education program in the Castle, Kailua, and Kalaheo complex areas, based on the NanakuliWaianae complex area traumainformed education prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2411 | Engross | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for rent subsidy payments, which sums shall be added to the Authority's base budget, and additional staff. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2526 | Engross | Appropriates funds for the operating budget of the department of human services for fiscal year 2020-2021. Takes effect on December 31, 2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2687 | Engross | Establishes a downpayment loan loss reserve program to address downpayment loan defaults under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's downpayment loan assistance program. Establishes one downpayment loan loss reserve administrator p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2181 | Engross | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to establish a foreign agriculture small equipment pilot program. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2020. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2718 | Engross | Establishes and appropriates funds for a climate change and human health adaptation coordinator within the department of health and related operating expenses. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1861 | Engross | Extends the sunset date for the Coffee Berry Borer Pesticide Subsidy Program until June 30, 2025, for the purchase of pesticides containing Beauveria bassiana to combat the coffee berry borer. Extends the program manager position to June 30, 2026. Ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2004 | Engross | Amends requirements for child passengers. Requires rear facing child safety seats for children under two years of age. Raises certain fines for violations. Effective upon approval. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2151 | Engross | Establishes a cesspool compliance pilot grant project to assist low- and moderate-income property owners with the costs of upgrading or converting a cesspool. Applies to cesspools identified as failing by the Department of Health. Appropriates funds....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
