| HI | HB1800 | Pass | Adjusts and requests appropriations for fiscal biennium 2023-2025 funding requirements for operations and capital improvement projects of Executive Branch agencies and programs. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 230, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1335). |
| HI | HB1911 | Pass | Appropriates funds for the Judiciary Supplemental Budget for the 2023-2025 biennium. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 233, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1338). |
| HI | HB2352 | Pass | Exempts the administrator of the Law Enforcement Standards Board from civil service laws. Clarifies membership and certain powers and duties of the Law Enforcement Standards Board and establishes new deadlines for the completion of board responsibili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 247, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1352). |
| HI | HB2359 | Veto | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Vetoed on 07-09-24 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1359). |
| HI | HB2657 | Pass | Establishes judicial procedures to prevent and remedy abusive litigation. Takes effect 1/1/2025. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 252, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1357). |
| HI | HB1842 | Pass | Increases the maximum fine for violations of the fire protection laws. Specifies that each day a violation exists or continues to exist shall constitute a distinct and separate offense. Raises the criminal penalty for the offense of arson in the four...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 201, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1302). |
| HI | HB2471 | Pass | Establishes a statutory framework for inspections by the Department of Land and Natural Resources of public land subject to certain leases or licenses, including inspections of structures or buildings by third-party inspectors contracted by the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 220, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1321). |
| HI | HB2475 | Pass | Provides that advertisements or offers of unpermitted commercial ocean use activities or commercial ocean recreational equipment are prima facie evidence that the owner disseminated or directed dissemination of such advertisements or offers and the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 227, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1328). |
| HI | HB2467 | Pass | Repeals the sunset provision of Act 222, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, to permanently allow the Board of Land and Natural Resources to approve rent credits for demolition and infrastructure costs for public land leases. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 219, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1320). |
| HI | HB2453 | Pass | Authorizes the Governor, or a state official with authorization from the Governor, to transfer federal capitalization grant funds between the Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund and the Drinking Water Treatment Revolving Loan Fund, in accordance w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 218, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1319). |
| HI | HB2478 | Pass | Authorizes the Governor to execute a compact on behalf of the State to cooperate in the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. Establishes procedures for selection and succession of commissioners from the State of Hawaii. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 216, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1317). |
| HI | HB2526 | Pass | Increases the penalty for a third or subsequent offense involving the unauthorized driving or operation of motor vehicles to a class C felony. Authorizes the court, as part of the person's sentencing for the third or subsequent offense, to order that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 212, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1313). |
| HI | HB1832 | Pass | Authorizes a state department, division, or agency, rather than the Department of Human Resources Development, to conduct a minimum qualification review of applicants for vacant positions within the department, division, or agency. Requires the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 186, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1287). |
| HI | HB1916 | Pass | Prohibits, upon written request from certain public servants or their representative, any government agency, person, or organization from making certain personal information publicly available on the Internet. Effective 10/1/2024. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 187, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1288). |
| HI | HB1869 | Pass | Establishes the felony offenses of misuse of uncrewed aircraft in the first, second, and third degrees. Requires uncrewed aircraft to be operated by a human operator at all times. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 161, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1262). |
| HI | HB2070 | Pass | Requires cash or protest bonds paid or filed by parties initiating an administrative appeal for protests of solicitations or award of contracts under the Hawaii Public Procurement Code to be returned to the initiating parties, minus administrative co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 162, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1263). |
| HI | HB2071 | Pass | Provides that any photo red light imaging detector system's clear and unobstructed recorded image of a motor vehicle license plate shall be prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle to which the license plate is attached is the motor vehicle for wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 163, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1264). |
| HI | HB2337 | Pass | Replaces representatives from the sugar and pineapple industries with representatives of the coffee and diversified agriculture industries on the Advisory Committee on Pesticides. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 183, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1284). |
| HI | HB2343 | Pass | Expedites the enforcement of orders of wage payment violations by allowing the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to file certified copies of the final orders in any court of competent jurisdiction. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 164, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1265). |
| HI | HB2501 | Pass | Repeals the reporting requirement to identify the cost impacts to the State of providing workers' compensation coverage for University of Hawaii students. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 167, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1268). |
| HI | HB2399 | Pass | Exempts an additional administrative assistant position in the Hawaii State Public Library System from civil service. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 165, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1266). |
| HI | HB2482 | Pass | Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor or the appropriate county clerk's office to ensure access to paper or electronic copies of all meeting notices and removes the requirement to post notices in a central location in a public building. (CD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 166, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1267). |
| HI | HB2425 | Pass | Clarifies that a confirmed report of child abuse or neglect, harm, or threatened harm will result in the perpetrator's name being maintained in the central registry. Clarifies when a person's name may be expunged from the central registry and establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 147, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1248). |
| HI | HB2480 | Pass | Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to set a fee for the issuance of an apostille or a non-apostille certification by administrative rules. Establishes the Apostilles and Certifications Special Fund. Appropriates funds into and out of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 133, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1234). |
| HI | HB2493 | Pass | Creates two new commercial driver's license restrictions relating to operating a commercial motor vehicle in excess of eighteen thousand pounds gross vehicle weight rating and operating a commercial motor vehicle on Lanai and Molokai only. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 137, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1238). |
| HI | HB2491 | Pass | Amends existing state law to adopt federal penalties for commercial driver's license violations. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 135, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1236). |
| HI | HB2481 | Pass | Repeals the Time Share Commissioners of Deeds. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 134, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1235). |
| HI | HB2458 | Pass | Requires the Director of Law Enforcement to investigate alleged violations of the law when directed to do so by the Governor or when the Director determines that an investigation would be in the public interest. Authorizes the Director of Law Enforce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 132, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1233). |
| HI | HB2400 | Pass | Requires a teacher to forfeit their teaching license if the teacher resigns or retires during the pendency of any investigation into allegations of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or other physical abuse of a student. Requires the forfeiture of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 157, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1258). |
| HI | HB2492 | Pass | Amends existing law to meet new federal regulations for commercial driver's licenses when the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse prohibits a driver from operating a commercial vehicle due to drug and alcohol violations. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 136, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1237). |
| HI | HB2457 | Pass | Expands the requirement that the Department of Law Enforcement pursue and obtain accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc., to all divisions and sections within the Department. Establishes five CALEA coordi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 131, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1232). |
| HI | HB2430 | Pass | Establishes the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Program. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 155, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1256). |
| HI | HB2426 | Pass | Clarifies when a relative seeking to be a resource caregiver for a child is entitled to an administrative appeal for the Department of Human Services' denial of a foster home license. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 148, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1249). |
| HI | HB1836 | Pass | Allows registered pharmacists during declared states of emergency to refill prescriptions for persons directly impacted by the emergency for up to a thirty-day supply if the practitioner is unavailable or cannot be contacted to authorize the refill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 100, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1201). |
| HI | HB1889 | Pass | Expands workers' compensation medical benefits for firefighters to include coverage for breast cancer and cancer of the female reproductive organs. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 101, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1202). |
| HI | HB1830 | Pass | Beginning 7/1/2026, establishes provisional or associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances; authorizes psychol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 093, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1194). |
| HI | HB1827 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Department of Education to support health care workforce development programs, specifically the public high school health care workforce certificate program and glidepath prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 089, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1190). |
| HI | HB2444 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Health to conduct criminal history record checks of applicants for permits to operate as a hemp processor. Sunsets 7/1/2027. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 110, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1211). |
| HI | HB2393 | Pass | Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to cover mandated services for mammography at least as favorably as coverage for other radiological examinations. Provides amendments to external review procedur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 103, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1204). |
| HI | HB2499 | Pass | Designates the Chief Financial Officer of the University of Hawaii to act as the University of Hawaii's chief procurement officer until 6/30/2028. Effective 6/29/2024. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 111, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1212). |
| HI | HB982 | Pass | Amends the amount of funds within the tobacco enforcement special fund that may be carried over at the end of each fiscal year. Amends the amount of funds to be deposited to the credit of the tobacco enforcement special fund from the Hawaii tobacco s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 059, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1160). |
| HI | HB1861 | Pass | Requires each number plate issued on or after 1/1/2025 to include an 'okina in the word "Hawai'i". Authorizes the use of all uppercase letters, all lowercase letters, or initial capital letters for the words "Hawai'i" and "Aloha State" in motor vehic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 064, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1165). |
| HI | HB2394 | Pass | Amends various provisions of the Insurance Code to update and improve existing provisions. Defines "dormant captive insurance company", sets out a procedure to apply for a certificate of dormancy, and exempts certified dormant captive insurance compa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 069, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1170). |
| HI | HB2369 | Pass | Increases the maximum interest rate on Community-Based Economic Development loans to ten per cent. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 068, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1169). |
| HI | HB2435 | Pass | Authorizes the Director of Health to permit synchronous online access to apply for marriage and civil union licenses in lieu of in-person applications, as specified in rules adopted by the Department of Health. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 072, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1173). |
| HI | HB2489 | Pass | Exempts senior software developers in the Department of Taxation from civil service. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 079, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1180). |
| HI | HB2483 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to search criminal histories and fingerprint records of current and prospective volunteers and contracted and subcontracted service providers and their employees who are directly involved in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 074, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1175). |
| HI | HB2484 | Pass | Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of 12/31/2023. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 075, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1176). |
| HI | HB2488 | Pass | Amends the minimum qualifications for the Chairperson of the Taxation Board of Review. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 078, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1179). |
| HI | HB2485 | Pass | Repeals an obsolete fee for a certified copy of a tax clearance. Adds a penalty for failure to comply with reporting requirements under the general excise tax law and transient accommodations tax law for collection of rent by a third party. Raises th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 076, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1177). |
