| HI | HB201 | Pass | Clarifies that a state department that is a member of the invasive species council, counties, and its employees and authorized agents, have authority to enter private property to control and eradicate invasive species when there is a reasonable suspi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 197, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1299). |
| HI | HB437 | Pass | Authorizes crime victim compensation for mental health services for survivors in cases involving a death and for children who witness domestic violence. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 237, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1339). |
| HI | HB808 | Pass | Expands the existing prohibition on knowingly capturing or killing a manta ray in state marine waters to apply to all rays and to also include knowingly taking, possessing, abusing, or entangling a ray. Provides certain exemptions. (HB808 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 252, 07/05/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1354). |
| HI | HB1586 | Pass | Establishes the Stadium Development District comprising all state land under the Stadium Authority's jurisdiction. Authorizes HCDA to facilitate the development of all state property within the District. Requires a memorandum of agreement for matters...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 268, 07/08/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1370). |
| HI | HB452 | Pass | Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish preferential electricity rates for agricultural activities that utilize protected agriculture to produce fruits or vegetables for distribution. (HB452 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 203, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1305). |
| HI | HB330 | Pass | Appropriates moneys for youth suicide early intervention, prevention, and education initiatives. (HB330 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-05
Act 180, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1282). |
| HI | HB483 | Pass | Effective 1/1/2020, incorporates federal law regarding social groups and youth services organizations, same-sex living facilities, and sex-restricted scholarships and other forms of financial assistance into Act 110, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018. Exte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-05
Act 177, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1279). |
| HI | HB1272 | Pass | Authorizes pharmacies to accept the return of any prescription drug for disposal via collection receptacles or mail-back programs; prohibits pharmacies from redispensing returned prescription drugs or accepting returned prescription drugs in exchange...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-05
Act 183, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1285). |
| HI | HB1552 | Pass | Part I: Establishes the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission. Creates a position for an Oversight Coordinator for the Commission. Extends the sunset date of the Reentry Commission to 1/1/2020. Repeals the Reentry Commission and Corrections...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-05
Act 179, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1281). |
| HI | HB551 | Pass | Extends various reporting deadlines and the sunset date of the cesspool conversion working group established pursuant to Act 132, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018. Extends the lapse date on appropriations for the comprehensive statewide study of sewage co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-03
Act 170, 06/27/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1272). |
| HI | HB843 | Pass | Appropriates funds for one Applied Technical Education position at Hawaii Community College. (HB843 CD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-03
Act 168, 06/27/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1270). |
| HI | HB560 | Pass | Requires UH community colleges to establish energy systems and technology training courses for county officers and employees responsible for permitting, inspecting, licensing, and approving construction projects and an advisory committee of industry ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 145, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1247). |
| HI | HB556 | Pass | Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to adopt minimum appliance efficiency standards for certain products sold or installed in the State that are substantially equivalent to existing appliance efficiency standards es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 141, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1243). |
| HI | HB1548 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to study and combat rapid ohia death. (HB1548 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 147, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1249). |
| HI | HB1585 | Pass | Establishes a rebate program for installation of eligible new or upgraded multi-user electric vehicle charging systems. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to contract for third-party administration of the rebate program. Appropriates funds. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 142, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1244). |
| HI | HB471 | Pass | Establishes quorum requirements for the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs. (HB471 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 125, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1227). |
| HI | HB465 | Pass | Makes an appropriation to the department of health to provide funding for the kupuna care program. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 123, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1225). |
| HI | HB1453 | Pass | Authorizes the DOH to establish fees for ground transportation to medical facilities and for provision of emergency medical services that do not include transport. Authorizes transportation by ambulance to medical facilities other than hospital emerg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 140, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1242). |
| HI | HB468 | Pass | Appropriates funds for the healthy aging partnership program to further the program's role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii's kupuna. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 124, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1226). |
| HI | HB297 | Pass | Directs DOA to review the Aedes aegypti mosquito with Wolbachia bacteria, including Aedes aegypti mosquitoes originating from Hawaii stock that could be imported for landscape scale mosquito control, and render a determination to place it on the appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 106, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1208). |
| HI | HB903 | Pass | Requires the Judiciary to establish a financial hardship task force. (HB903 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 112, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1214). |
| HI | HB852 | Pass | Establishes the Hawaii State Energy Office and Chief Energy Officer position in Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT). Repeals Director of DBEDT's function as Energy Resources Coordinator and Renewable Energy Facilitator. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 122, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1224). |
| HI | HB1157 | Pass | Exempts students in post-secondary education programs from immunization requirements if they attend classes exclusively online or through distance learning, under certain conditions. (HB1157 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 101, 06/20/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1203). |
| HI | HB1417 | Pass | Requires the Department of Human Services to use an integrated and multigenerational approach to delivering human services to reduce the incidence of intergenerational poverty and dependence on public benefits. (HB1417 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 082, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1183). |
| HI | HCR55 | Pass | Requesting The Governor To Convene A Working Group To Make Recommendations On The Consolidation Of State Environmental Functions And The Establishment Of A Department Of The Environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR168 | Pass | Urging The Convening Of A Task Force To Evaluate And Identify Potential Sources And Means Of Funding Available To Provide Support For And Help Maintain The Hawaii Wildlife Center Facility And Hawaii's Endangered Wildlife.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR193 | Pass | Requesting The Auditor To Conduct A Follow-up Study To Its 2015 Study Of Departmental Engineering Sections That Manage Capital Improvement Projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HB613 | Engross | Establishes the state youthBuild Program to assist non-profit and public entities in applying and qualifying for federal YouthBuild Program grants. Authorizes the department of labor and industrial relations to award grants eligible non-profit or pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-26-19 at 2:00PM in Conference Room 423. |
| HI | HB1191 | Engross | Provides an income tax credit for qualifying small businesses to offset the increase in the minimum hourly wage that employers must pay employees. Increases the minimum wage to $12.00 per hour beginning 1/1/2020 and $15.00 per hour beginning 1/1/2023...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-26-19 at 3:00PM in Conference Room 423. |
| HI | HB1219 | Engross | Authorizes the designation of areas or regions of public lands classified as commercial, industrial, resort and hotel, and the establishment and implementation of guidelines for the redevelopment of the areas or regions that will: (1) modernize the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-26-19 at 5:55PM in Conference Room 312. |
| HI | HB1583 | Engross | Authorizes the Department of Education to evaluate the feasibility and cost-benefit of establishing and implementing a pilot microgrid to provide backup power in the event of a natural disaster or other similar emergency. Authorizes the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-25
Bill scheduled for Conference Committee Meeting on Friday, 04-26-19 1:30PM in conference room 224. |
| HI | HB316 | Engross | Requires, as a prerequisite for a vehicle to be deemed derelict, that the removal of a part must render the vehicle inoperable. Includes vehicles valued at less than $1,000 in the list of derelict vehicles that may be removed by a county or Hawaii Pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-24
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-19 3:15PM in conference room 325. |
| HI | HB615 | Engross | Requires the Board of Education to invite the exclusive representative for Bargaining Unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the Department of Education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative to the Board. Effective 7/1/2050....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-24
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 958). |
| HI | HB558 | Engross | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for employing lifeguards and purchasing life-saving equipment at Kua Bay in Kekaha Kai State Park on the island of Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-24
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Thursday 04-25-19 10:30AM in conference room 312. |
| HI | HB1193 | Engross | Amends the income tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment by changing the taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses that constitutes the tax credit and cap amount. Effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-23
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 953). |
| HI | HB765 | Engross | Requires incorporation of sea level rise projections in all new plans and updates to existing state plans generated under the Hawaii State Planning Act and the plans of the Public Utilities Commission. Appropriates funds for the facilitation of stake...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 948). |
| HI | HB1192 | Engross | Conforms statutory prohibitions against wage discrimination with other prohibitions on employment discrimination. Clarifies allowable justifications for compensation differentials and remedies for pay disparity. Requires employers to disclose wage ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 948). |
| HI | HB1274 | Engross | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii. Effective 1/1/2051. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 948). |
| HI | HB1416 | Engross | Establishes a Suicide Prevention Commission to develop a strategic plan to reduce suicides within Hawaii's correctional system. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Health to develop a centralized assessment and treatment program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 948). |
| HI | HB1487 | Engross | Establishes the Honolulu shoreline climate protection pilot project to develop a plan to protect urban Honolulu from the impacts of sea level rise, floodwater, storms, and other impacts of a rapidly changing climate. Appropriates funds to the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 948). |
| HI | HCR36 | Pass | Urging The Governor's Coordinator On Homelessness And The City And County Of Honolulu To Come Together And Prioritize Their Homelessness Efforts In The Area Surrounding The Hawaii Children's Discovery Center By Convening A Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR89 | Pass | Requesting The United States Congress To Enact Legislation Removing Cannabis From The Federal Controlled Substances Act And Facilitate The Full Spectrum Of Private Banking Services For Cannabis-related Business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HR136 | Pass | Requesting The United States Postal Service To Issue A Commemorative Postage Stamp In Honor Of Alfred Aholo Apaka.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR155 | Pass | Urging The Establishment Of A Native Hawaiian Intellectual Property Task Force To Develop A Sui Generis Legal System To Recognize And Protect Native Hawaiian Cultural Intellectual Property, Traditional Cultural Expressions, And Genetic Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 939) in amended form (SD 1). |
| HI | HCR232 | Pass | Approving The Selection Of George Ryoichi Ariyoshi To Be Inducted Into The Aloha Order Of Merit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| 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] | 2019-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 917). |
| HI | HB200 | Engross | Prohibits specified trolleys, pulleys, cables, or running lines designed to attach a dog to two stationary objects in a configuration that endangers the dog, including by depriving the dog of sustenance. Prohibits tethering or restraining a dog under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 909). |
| 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] | 2019-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 909). |
| HI | HB1180 | Pass | Appropriates funds for disaster relief, recovery, mitigation, and remediation activities for the County of Hawaii. Requires reporting of monthly expenditures to the Department of Budget and Finance. (HB1180 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-16
Act 009, 04/16/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1110). |
| HI | HB1190 | Engross | Changes income tax rates for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2018. Effective 7/1/2035. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-12
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 804). |
