| HI | HB1897 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB2082 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB1969 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB2043 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB2217 | Engross
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | HB2661 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB2736 | Engross
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | HB1267 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of land and natural resources to develop and implement a management system for Kaena point state park, Makua, and Keawaula regions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB605 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a dam and reservoir working group to ensure and enhance the continued availability and operation of dams and reservoirs in the State and consider their role in drought mitigation and the maintenance of a dependable water supply. Appropria... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB551 | Engross
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | HB1303 | Engross
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | HB209 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of agriculture to include a statement on desecration laws in the plant and animal declaration form. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB1204 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB542 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows bidders to clarify or correct immaterial or technical information required as part of a bid submission for up to twenty-four hours after the bid submission deadline. Requires that bids for construction be opened no sooner than twenty-four hour... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB572 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB493 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the adjusted gross income brackets and credit amounts of the refundable food/excise tax credit. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB877 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hookaulike: A Criminal Legal System Institute for Restoration and Healing, at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson school of law. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1319 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows operators of bicycles, motorcycles, and mopeds to proceed through an intersection on a steady red signal during certain hours if the traffic signal is controlled by a vehicle detection device that is inoperative due to the size or composition ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | HB582 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse may be initiated, including an otherwise timebarred action. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on traumainformed response. Effective... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB540 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, requires the department of education and public charter schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1233 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the School of Travel Industry Management of the University of Hawaii to conduct a study that assesses the tourism social carrying capacity for each of the islands of Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, Lanai, and Molokai. Requires the School of Trave... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB573 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes from the definition of "drug paraphernalia", testing products utilized in determining whether a controlled substance contains chemicals, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds in quantities that can cause physical harm or death, including ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | HB952 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to address the impacts of climate change in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB55 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to establish grant programs to provide funds for the planning and implementation of community schools. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1405 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the commission on water resource management and division of aquatic resources of the department of land and natural resources, in partnership with the University of Hawaii and department of health, to conduct research on limu to understand t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB896 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to assess its facilities and provide the legislature with a list of priority facilities in each county at which the installation of renewable energy systems on school facilities would provide the most benefit, pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB905 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii, in consultation with the commission on water resource management, to develop a scope of work and cost analysis to complete a flexible groundwater model that proposes methods for determining the needs of traditional ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1384 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates an income tax credit to incentivize the food manufacturing industry in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB244 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB248 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to fully implement the farm to school program and farm to school meals program by the 20242025 school year. Provides that complex area superintendents have the authority to implement the farm to school and farm to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1223 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of department of education schools. Allows the loan to be forgiven after five years of teaching in a hard-to-fill position. Establishes a similar... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB586 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Judiciary to develop and implement an automated court appearance reminder system that generates text message and electronic mail notifications for upcoming court appearances in certain types of cases. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1406 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a two-year study on the maximized use of recycled asphalt across the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB739 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of transportation to amend its administrative rules to allow motor vehicle owners whose motor vehicle registration and safety check are both expired to register their motor vehicle without first obtaining a certificate of insp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB249 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii child nutrition programs agency in the department of human services. Establishes a grant program to support the funding of certain initiatives for the State's public schools. Establishes three permanent full-time equivalent pos... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB828 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to establish a student bus fare rate system to include free bus passes for students whose household qualifies the student for free or reduced price lunch under the free and reduced price lunch program. Appropriate... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB54 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB261 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Child Care Accreditation Program to assist licensed and registered child care providers in obtaining accreditation. Authorizes the use of the Child Care Grant Program Special Fund for Child Car... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1505 | Engross
Sine Die | Encourages the EUTF to consider investment opportunities in industries that will sustain Hawaii's natural environment or produce economic opportunities for its residents, including renewable energy businesses and businesses that use investment capita... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB1383 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to identify the top ten fruits or vegetables that are imported into the State but may be commercially grown in the State. Creates an income tax credit to incentivize the production of those fruits or vegetables to obviate the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1150 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support the Hawaii ant lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB491 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to conduct an actuarial study on a leave grant pilot program to help small businesses offer their employees paid family leave and paid sick leave. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB875 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for the Hawaii teacher apprenticeship program to support, recruit, develop, and retain teachers for Hawaii public schools. Establishes the Hawaii teacher apprenticeship program special fund. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB949 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for a solar energy storage system loan program to provide asset limited, income constrained, employed households with low-interest loans to purchase and install solar energy storage systems. Establishes and appropri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | HB652 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a Workforce Development and Support Center. Requires the Center to develop a Workforce Pilot Project. Requires the Workforce Pilot Project to terminate on 6/30/2026. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |