| HI | HB1844 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the establishment of temporary adjunct faculty positions at the University of Hawaii Maui College. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1900 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to improve the State's water resource management and hydrologic data collection. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2029 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to assume historic preservation review of any proposed project for lands under its jurisdiction except for projects affecting properties listed or nominated for inclusion in the Hawaii register of historic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2175 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for and requires the involvement of community members and organizations in the development of a community-based, long-range transportation plan for the Kaaawa, Punaluu, and Hauula communities. Requires a report to the Legislature. ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1834 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to increase the base budget of the Department of Human Services' Homeless Programs Office. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1530 | Engross
Sine Die | Notwithstanding a collective bargaining agreement or executive policy in effect on and after 7/1/2028, requires that an employer of firefighters maintains its fire staffing service at a level of not less than four on-duty firefighters in each company... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB852 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" to include the processing of value-added agricultural products grown within an enterprise zone and the development or production of renewable energy. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | HB1841 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to DLNR for operating expenses, equipment, the establishment of positions, and capital improvement projects to support wildfire emergency response. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1840 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to support long-term water quality monitoring and pollution source detection. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1843 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the State Fire Marshal within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to direct fire protection efforts statewide. Appropriates funds. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1815 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes agritourism in the definition of "enterprise" to authorize the Agribusiness Development Corporation to financially support businesses engaged in agritourism. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2246 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfers the awarding and administration of certain cultural grants from the Hawaii Tourism Authority to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and establishes a standing selection committee within the Foundation to review and award the cultur... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 The recommendation was not adopted. |
| HI | HB2735 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the exemption of the Hawaii Tourism Authority from administrative supervision of boards and commissions. Transfers certain functions relating to cultural grants from the Hawaii Tourism Authority to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 The recommendation was not adopted. |
| HI | HB1662 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a refundable child tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2230 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Law Enforcement Standards Board to develop, and each department employing law enforcement officers to implement, a structured health intervention program to support law enforcement officers' physical and mental health. Takes effect 7/1/2... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1833 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds into and out of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to provide loans or grants for mixed-income rental projects or units in mixed-income rental projects for qualifying individuals and families. Appropriates funds for an unspecified n... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2084 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a vacated homeless encampment clean up task force to identify parcels of land that require intergovernmental coordination to clean up vacated homeless encampments located on lands managed by government agencies, including but not limited ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1956 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a business revitalization task force to identify methods to improve Hawaii's general economic competitiveness and business climate, including by mitigating regulatory and tax burdens. Requires a report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/30... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HCR20 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Honolulu Police Department To Dispatch Two Bicycle Patrol Officers In Haleiwa. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HR10 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Honolulu Police Department To Dispatch Two Bicycle Patrol Officers In Haleiwa. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HCR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Honolulu Police Department To Increase Police Presence In Haleiwa To Match Police Presence In Waikiki. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HR20 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Honolulu Police Department To Increase Police Presence In Haleiwa To Match Police Presence In Waikiki. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1592 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the maximum amount of conveyance tax revenues allocated to the land conservation fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1775 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students enrolled in department schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1766 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the distribution of synthetic media messages in advertisements before an election that a person knows or should have known are deceptive and fraudulent deepfakes of a candidate. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1835 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the distribution management advisory board to develop and advise on the statewide distribution management plan. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1897 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal care products in small plastic containers within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping room accommodations, or bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalt... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2081 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes a per-day penalty for nonpayment of TAT. Amends the transient accommodation tax rate. Requires a $20 transient accommodation tax to be levied per night for each furnishing of transient accommodations in exchange for points, miles, or other am... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2043 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a harm to students registry for all early learning programs or schools and K-12 educational institutions within the State that contains information on school employees, contractors, or volunteers for whom, as result of an investigation, a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB2736 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts, establishes, and designates the shaka as the official gesture of the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| 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 |