| HI | HB280 | Intro
25% | Prohibits nonresident aliens and businesses and trusts that are significantly controlled by nonresident aliens from acquiring certain residential property in the State, except as otherwise provided by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB649 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for three program specialist positions within the Executive Office on Aging for Hawaii's State Health Insurance Assistance Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1135 | Intro
25% | Reduces, then later exempts, the tax collected on the sale of groceries that are eligible under the supplemental nutrition assistance program or special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, regardless of the means of purch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1372 | Intro
25% | Beginning January 1, 2024, increases the tip credit to be twenty per cent of the minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB1264 | Intro
25% | Requires state participation in the multistate Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multistate licensure privilege in each party state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB818 | Intro
25% | Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued on or after 01/01/2024 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. Effective 01/01/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1505 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB782 | Intro
25% | Authorizes health care providers, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and faith-based organizations to distribute supplemental nutrition assistance program applications to anyone interested in applying for program benefits. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1383 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB322 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Alzheimer's working group to create a public health campaign for awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB495 | Intro
25% | Increases fines that may be assessed against certain fireworks-related violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB539 | Intro
25% | Requires issuers of Medigap insurance in the State to accept an eligible individual's application for coverage at any time throughout the year and prohibits issuers from denying the applicant a Medigap policy or certificate or make any premium rate d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB489 | Intro
25% | Requires the animal industry division of the department of agriculture to administer an assessment and approval process to import and move aquatic livestock in the State. Allows the animal industry division to issue permits for such purposes. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB825 | Intro
25% | Excludes income received from deferred compensation retirement plans from the state income tax for taxpayers who meet certain income requirements. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB653 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of transportation to perform routine inspections of highways in the state highway system that are at risk of rockslides every five years and after major rainfall events. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB491 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB965 | Intro
25% | Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for medication used for the treatment of obesity or weight loss management for a covered individual who is overweight and has one or more rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1225 | Intro
25% | Establishes a landlord low-income tenant tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB932 | Intro
25% | Changes the total amount of motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credits allowed per year from $50,000,000 to an unspecified amount. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB784 | Intro
25% | Establishes a task force to review and recommend specific actions to ensure that Hawaii's food imports are sourced, transported, stored, and distributed in compliance with the federal Food Safety Modernization Act, and develop specific recommendation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB302 | Engross
50% | Establishes the state YouthBuild program to assist nonprofit and public entities in applying and qualifying for federal YouthBuild program grants. Authorizes the department of labor and industrial relations to award grants to eligible nonprofit or pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB319 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Red Hill water contamination health impacts program within the Department of Health to track the long-term impacts of the 2021 petroleum release from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB331 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of possession of a loaded firearm while intoxicated as a petty misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB949 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB673 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to reclassify lands fifteen to one hundred acres in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts in which at least fifty per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for persons and fam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB399 | Intro
25% | Allows employers to obtain a tax credit for offering positions to qualified interns in work-based learning programs that have been approved by the department of education or University of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB395 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the small business innovation research program under the Hawaii technology development corporation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB652 | Engross
50% | 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 |
| HI | HB467 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of public safety, or its successor agency, in collaboration with the department of human services, to develop and establish a social work training program to assist nonviolent incarcerated individuals in the area of social wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1268 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii sea grant college program to contract with an independent consultant for the development of a statewide strategic five-year plan for aquaculture. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB936 | Engross
50% | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the department of education to include financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student. Appropriates funds for the establishment of a position dedicated to financial l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB490 | Intro
25% | Provides employed individuals with up to 8 weeks of paid family leave during the 1st year after birth of the individual's child, adoption of a child by the individual, or placement of a child with the individual through foster care, and 8 weeks of pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB1292 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to enter into a publicprivate partnership to develop a waste-to-energy generating facility on land under the jurisdiction of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1354 | Intro
25% | Requires certain job listings to include an hourly rate or salary range. Takes effect 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB513 | Intro
25% | Establishes a telework tax credit for small business employers who allow telework for at least 30% of their employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB464 | Engross
50% | Establishes a five-year magnet school pilot program at Waiahole and Kaaawa elementary schools. Establishes eight full-time equivalent (8.0 FTE) positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1266 | Engross
50% | Allows wild game to be donated as food. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB595 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "electronic device" to clarify the scope of devices covered under the Electronic Device Recycling and Recovery Act. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1295 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to provide grants to qualified chicken and egg farmers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB821 | Intro
25% | Prohibits pet dealers and retail pet stores in the State from selling, offering to sell, leasing, offering to lease, bartering, auctioning, or otherwise transferring ownership of any dog, cat, or rabbit. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB275 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to provide grants to assist taro farmers in meeting the costs of cultivating taro for consumption. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB608 | Engross
50% | Establishes an organic foods production tax credit applicable to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Sunsets 12/31/2033. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1185 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for statewide planning and coordination for transit-oriented development projects identified in the state strategic plan for transit-oriented development. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB648 | Intro
25% | Temporarily expands the state rent supplement program to specifically target qualified individuals who are sixty-two years of age or older and are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Requires HPHA to submit annual reports to the legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB400 | Engross
50% | Establishes an employer-provided or employer-sponsored child care income tax credit for employers that pay for certain available child care services to their employees. Establishes an employer child care property income tax credit for the cost of chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB1388 | Intro
25% | Establishes the natural resource management commission and special fund. Repeals the allocation of transient accommodations tax revenues to the special land and development fund. Allocates transient accommodations tax revenues to the natural resource...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1236 | Intro
25% | Allows a bank to invest, in aggregate, up to two per cent of the bank's total assets in limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations formed to invest in affordable housing residential properties....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB969 | Intro
25% | Requires the Governor to ensure continued operation of medical facilities upon declaration of a state of emergency and during times of health or pandemic emergencies. Allows hospitals to suspend elective surgeries during the period of emergency to ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB597 | Intro
25% | Authorizes psychiatrists and advanced practice registered nurses to file a petition to initiate the administrative authorization process in cases where the patient objects to treatment and is not in the custody of the director or involuntarily commit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB387 | Intro
25% | Provides police officers who become members of the ERS after 6/30/2023 with retirement benefits similar to those provided for members of the ERS who became members before 7/1/2012, including but not limited to calculation of retirement allowance, min...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
