| HI | HB1629 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires contested cases, environmental assessment cases, or environmental impact statement cases involving large-scale renewable energy projects over twenty megawatts in size to be appealed from an agency's decision directly to the Hawaii Supreme Co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2028 | Intro
Sine Die | Merges the Made in Hawaii with Aloha branding program with the Hawaii Made program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Specifies that the Department of the Attorney General shall be responsible for enforcement of the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1518 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a member of the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Tourism Authority shall hold office as a holdover until a successor is appointed by the Governor and repeals the successor's requirement for Senate confirmation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2001 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture's Aquaculture Development Program to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for restorative aquaculture activities. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2132 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Ant Lab to share data collected related to invasive ant surveys with the Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Ant Lab to support little fire ant mitigation and e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1613 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a nonrefundable water catchment income tax credit for a homeowner who installs and places into service a water catchment system meeting certain requirements on residential property in the State owned by the homeowner. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1981 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a portion of the revenues collected from traffic violations shall be disbursed to the county that enforced the violation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1656 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to assist individuals in obtaining a commercial driver's license for the purpose of becoming school bus drivers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1594 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any person convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant or habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant from purchasing or publicly consuming alcohol for a certain period. Effective 7/1/3000. ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1890 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits retailers from selling or offering for sale certain combustion engine-powered mopeds beginning 1/1/2026. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2256 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to students enrolled in a public school who meet certain requirements. Appropriates funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2562 | Intro
Sine Die | Effective 1/1/2025, prohibits the retail sale or offer for retail sale of single-use plastic bottles designed to hold less than two liters of bottled water for oral consumption, with certain exceptions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2737 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in consultation with other state agencies, to conduct a feasibility study and submit a report to the Legislature on the impact of roadside stands displaying and selling value-added products and the establishmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1813 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a property owner of agricultural land to obtain a special permit from the respective county prior to conducting public and private open area types of recreational use. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2572 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB2087 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB2194 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB2032 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a shopping carts task force, to be chaired by the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness, to develop a system of regulatory controls for shopping carts. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1517 | Intro
Sine Die | Reestablishes the tourism special fund to be expended by the Hawaii Tourism Authority and allocates revenues from the transient accommodations tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB1519 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the deposit of general obligation bond funding into the convention center enterprise fund. Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority board of directors to approve the use of any general obligation bond proceeds prior to expenditure. Clarifies ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB1647 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires boards of directors of condominium associations to deposit at least ten per cent of all revenues for each fiscal year, except for estimated replacement reserve assessments, into the total replacement reserves fund of the association. Require... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1816 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Tour Guide Licensing Program within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Requires tour guides to complete the Professional Standards Tour Certification program by the University of Hawaii or another program approved by the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2575 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB2102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to convene workshops to aid electric utilities in the development and implementation of best practices regarding wildfires. Requires electric utilities to design and operate in compliance with a risk-based wil... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2244 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the court to elevate the offense of criminal trespass in the first degree from a misdemeanor to a class C felony if the court deems the trespassing to be egregious or repeated. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2262 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits certain octopus aquaculture. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2245 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for an artificial intelligence government services pilot program to provide certain government services to the public through an internet portal that uses artificial intelligence technologies. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB2247 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the date after which primary caregivers will no longer be authorized to cultivate cannabis for a qualifying patient to 12/31/2026. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2561 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a person who uses deadly force in self-defense does not have a duty to retreat if they are in their dwelling or on their property unless they are the initial aggressor. Repeals statutory language that permits a person to use deadly for... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1528 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment that guarantees individuals the right to a clean and healthy environment; the control of pollution; and the conservation, protection, and enhancement of the natural, native, cultural, scenic, and healthful qualitie... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1669 | Intro
Sine Die | Except under certain circumstances, makes it unlawful for a person to possess, purchase, deliver, sell, or intend to sell an encapsulating machine or tabulating machine when the person knows, or reasonably should know, that the machine will be used t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1905 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to allow any resident of a public housing project or state low-income housing project to keep 1 or more pet animals in the resident's unit, subject to applicable state laws, county ordinances, and any reas... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB2076 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the appropriation of Act 279, SLH 2022, to conform its lapsing provision by 1 year, to conform to constitutional limitations. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for fiscal year 2024-2025 to give practical effect to th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2075 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to further reduce its homestead program applicant waitlist. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1982 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "low alcohol by volume spirits beverage". Establishes a tax on low alcohol by volume spirits beverages at a rate of $1.98 per wine gallon. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2034 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts any development of homestead lots or housing for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise and use taxes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2030 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the exemption from school impact fees of housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2031 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the continued exploration and identification of geothermal resources on Hawaiian Home Lands. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2077 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes rights for watershed ecosystems to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve, in conjunction with native Hawaiian traditional and customary beliefs, practice, and values, for the benefit of present and future generations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2120 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides Hawaii residents with the option of paying for the registration of their motor vehicles and associated taxes and fees on a biannual basis. Restricts the amount of delinquency tax due to the current tax due plus one year. Removes language all... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB550 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to offer training for teachers, educational officers, and school-based behavioral health specialists on sex trafficking prevention and response. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB822 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that motorcycles receive safety inspections once every 2 years instead of once every 12 months. Requires the director of transportation to adopt rules to increase to $25 the inspection fee for motorcycles. Establishes a 2-year moratorium on ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB86 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a person who uses deadly force in self-defense does not have a duty to retreat if they are in their dwelling or on their property, unless they are the initial aggressor. Repeals statutory language that permits a person to use deadly fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB266 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that in calculating whether a product labeled "Made in Hawaii" has met the requirement that at least fifty-one per cent of the wholesale value of the product is added by manufacture, processing, or production within the State, operating and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB831 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the legislature to a maximum of sixteen years in the house of representatives or senate, or both, for terms beginning after the general election of 2024. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a five-year pilot program in the department of health to expand existing county programs that make one or more mental health professionals available to assist county first responders in responding to mental health crises in areas in the u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB871 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that a written disclaimer be provided by sellers or providers of emotional support animals or certificates or identification tags for emotional support animals that the animal is not a service animal or the item does not qualify as an item f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB338 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Carissa Kainani Moore. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for staff positions and various services to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB853 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a new chapter to the HRS to establish a system of regulatory controls for shopping carts and similar devices to prevent unauthorized removal from business establishments; provide for prompt retrieval when lost, stolen, or abandoned; require busi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Economic Development Committee |