| HI | HB2536 | Intro
25% | Prohibits businesses where food or beverages are packaged and sold on the business' premises for individual consumption from using, selling, or distributing certain disposable or single-use food ware and beverage service items after 1/1/2025. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2572 | Intro
25% | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-staff positions of Department of Education schools. Allows a loan to be forgiven for teachers who become, or have become, a licensed teacher in Hawaii or for te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1663 | Intro
25% | Expands eligibility for, and automates, the expungement of conviction records if certain criteria are met. Beginning 12/1/2026, requires the Attorney General to issue automatic expungement orders and the Judiciary to seal or remove information from p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1661 | Intro
25% | Expands eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to include any individual or household whose monthly income is equal to or less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2087 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year elder access pilot program in the Executive Office on Aging, to improve access to essential services and reduce wait times for seniors seeking public services through state and county government offices. Authorizes the Executiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2180 | Intro
25% | Prohibits development in special management areas unless the development is first found to not be located in a sea level rise exposure area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2197 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out. Effective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2539 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1593 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Elections to print and mail a physical copy of the digital voter information guide to any voter upon request. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1687 | Intro
25% | Requires full retail crediting for energy exports enrolled in grid services programs, whereby energy exported to the electrical grid past a participating customer-generator's point of common coupling from photovoltaic solar systems paired with batter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1970 | Intro
25% | Requires solar conduit- and electrical panel-readiness for new residential construction offered for sale at fair market value and electric vehicle-readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1555 | Intro
25% | Designates the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice of every year as the Lunar New Year. Effective date 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1966 | Intro
25% | Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans under the Hawaii Em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2158 | Intro
25% | Adopts the nurse licensure compact. Beginning 01/01/2026, requires nurses who hold multistate licenses issued by a state other than Hawaii to complete demographic data surveys. Authorizes the Board of Nursing to assess different fees for registered n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2194 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a health insurer from requiring an insured diagnosed with stage two through stage five cancer to undergo step therapy prior to covering the insured for certain drugs prescribed by the insured's health care provider, under certain conditions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2634 | Intro
25% | Amends the duties and sunset date of the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2591 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Human Services for the Preschool Open Doors program. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the general fund expenditure ceiling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2746 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriate moneys for the provision of free voice communication services in the State's youth and adult correctional facilities. Amends sources of funding for and imposes a limit on moneys retained in the victim information and notifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1965 | Intro
25% | Establishes a court's authority to issue an order restricting abusive litigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2250 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to coordinate crisis intervention training for state and county law enforcement agencies and crisis intervention officers. Requires the Department of Health to certify crisis intervention officers. Defines "...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2571 | Intro
25% | Establishes the multifamily housing accessibility modifications grant program to facilitate the installation of accessibility modifications in certain properties. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB183 | Intro
25% | Requires all private schools to develop and implement comprehensive action plans for the management of anaphylaxis in their respective schools, including administration of auto-injectable epinephrine. Establishes certain immunity from liability for d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1605 | Intro
25% | Requires that each vote cast for a question on a ballot for the ratification of a constitutional amendment be counted in the negative only if the ballot properly indicates that the vote is in the negative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1678 | Intro
25% | Designates all University of Hawaii system campuses as voter registration agencies as defined in the National Voter Registration Act. Requires the Chief Election Officer to use data concerning voter registration and election participation to study vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2198 | Intro
25% | Allows public employee organizations to negotiate retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2575 | Intro
25% | Establishes a construction trades workforce development program in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to develop, establish, and implement a construction trades career pathway program for high school students in the State. Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2201 | Intro
25% | Generally prohibits the removal of minerals from the seabed in all state marine waters. Prohibits the issuance of permits for the mooring, docking, or operation of any vessel designed or intended for removal of minerals from the seabed. Provides for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2290 | Intro
25% | Prohibits planned community associations from planting yellow oleander or causing or allowing yellow oleander to be planted on their real property. Effective 7/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2291 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii sustainable aviation fuel program within the State Energy Office to work with the Department of Transportation and fuel suppliers in order to establish a sustainable fuel portfolio standard for the use of sustainable aviation f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2289 | Intro
25% | Imposes new security requirements for voting systems. Deems as election fraud certain acts relating to the provision of valuable consideration, including gifts and loans, for the purpose of bribery; election tampering; and security breaches. Appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2233 | Intro
25% | Prohibits private and state workforce development programs from rejecting an applicant who is 18 years of age or younger based solely on the applicant's active sentence of probation; provided that the applicant is in full compliance with any court-or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2288 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to develop tax incentives, rebates, grants, and loan programs to incentivize and provide financing for agrivoltaic farms and solar energy systems on certain agricultural land. Requires a report to the legislatur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2511 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2507 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to: (1) conduct a remote work study; (2) review any recent remote work studies done by the counties; (3) develop and administer a remote work program; and (4) submit the study to the Legislature ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2557 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to develop and, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, implement a financial literacy curriculum for grades kindergarten through twelfth grade.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2584 | Intro
25% | Requires all places of public accommodation constructed after 12/31/2024 to provide universal changing accommodations in public restrooms. Where feasible and cost effective, requires all bids for state building construction, projects submitted after ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2600 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis Authority and Cannabis Control Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning January 1, 2026, legalizes the personal adult use of cannabis. Establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2632 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each have one vote if they have employees in a particular bargaining unit for the purposes of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. Repeals staf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HI | HB2636 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Coastal Commission and the Shoreline Buyback Program, which permits the Commission to purchase eligible shoreline properties and make those properties available for affordable rental housing. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2574 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2605 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish a teacher loan forgiveness program to assist in the payment of loans for teachers who commit to teaching in the Hawaii public school system. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2637 | Intro
25% | Requires all public buildings constructed after January 1, 2025, to be designed to withstand category five hurricanes and be used as shelters in the event of an emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2635 | Intro
25% | Establishes a continuous Legislature. Requires the Legislature to convene at least once a month. Removes language regarding special sessions, adjournment, and recesses. Creates a two-year deadline for a bill to be submitted for gubernatorial consider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2711 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the Department of Land a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2786 | Intro
25% | Eliminates biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of "renewable energy".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2783 | Intro
25% | Establishes the PFAS Testing Grant Program within the Department of Health to provide funding to assist communities, businesses, and residents throughout the State in obtaining testing services and biological sampling to identify and detect perfluoro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2784 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to construct, establish, and operate an environmental toxins testing laboratory to test samples submitted by the public for diseases; water, air, and soil quality; and complex testing. Allows the Director of Finance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2782 | Intro
25% | Requires that the presence of little fire ants be disclosed as part of the mandatory seller disclosures in real estate transactions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2785 | Intro
25% | Requires a wastewater treatment plant to test sewage sludge and any other residual material for the presence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Requires the Department of Health to adopt administrative rules for the safe disposal and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1586 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of a wastewater treatment works project in Waialua, Oahu. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
