| HI | HB572 | Engross
50% | Requires that prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of an administrative rule, electronic notice of the proposed rulemaking be provided to all persons who have made a timely written request to, and provided a valid working email address to, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB493 | Engross
50% | Amends the adjusted gross income brackets and credit amounts of the refundable food/excise tax credit. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB877 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hookaulike: A Criminal Legal System Institute for Restoration and Healing, at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson school of law. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1319 | Engross
50% | Allows operators of bicycles, motorcycles, and mopeds to proceed through an intersection on a steady red signal during certain hours if the traffic signal is controlled by a vehicle detection device that is inoperative due to the size or composition ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | HB582 | Engross
50% | Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse may be initiated, including an otherwise timebarred action. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on traumainformed response. Effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB540 | Engross
50% | Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, requires the department of education and public charter schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1327 | Engross
50% | Establishes a state income tax credit for qualified expenses incurred by certain individuals employed by the Department of Education, Hawaii state public library system, or as part of a head start program in a school. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | HB1398 | Engross
50% | Allows telecommunications and emergency dispatchers and employees who perform similar functions employed by the State and counties to collectively bargain. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB1233 | Engross
50% | Requires the School of Travel Industry Management of the University of Hawaii to conduct a study that assesses the tourism social carrying capacity for each of the islands of Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, Lanai, and Molokai. Requires the School of Trave...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB573 | Engross
50% | Excludes from the definition of "drug paraphernalia", testing products utilized in determining whether a controlled substance contains chemicals, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds in quantities that can cause physical harm or death, including ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | HB567 | Engross
50% | Exempts certain projects for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise taxes. Makes permanent the exemption of certain housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from school impact fee requirements. Ensures that the $6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB952 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to address the impacts of climate change in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB260 | Engross
50% | Requires DOE to develop and implement safety training for all cafeteria student helpers and ensure the student helpers receive the training prior to them volunteering. Requires DOE to provide personal protective equipment for all cafeteria student he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1405 | Engross
50% | Requires the commission on water resource management and division of aquatic resources of the department of land and natural resources, in partnership with the University of Hawaii and department of health, to conduct research on limu to understand t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB896 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Education to assess its facilities and provide the legislature with a list of priority facilities in each county at which the installation of renewable energy systems on school facilities would provide the most benefit, pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB905 | Engross
50% | Requires the University of Hawaii, in consultation with the commission on water resource management, to develop a scope of work and cost analysis to complete a flexible groundwater model that proposes methods for determining the needs of traditional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1368 | Engross
50% | Makes various updates to the hospital sustainability program, including amending the definition of "private hospital"; clarifying the uses of the hospital sustainability program special fund; increasing various hospital sustainability fee caps; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1121 | Engross
50% | Excludes from taxation one hundred per cent of the gain realized by a fee simple owner from the sale of a leased fee interest in units within a condominium project, cooperative project, or planned unit development to the association of apartment owne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1206 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of accounting and general services to establish a state permit pilot program to process building and infrastructure permits for construction of state-owned buildings, state roads and highways, and other construction on state l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB248 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of education to fully implement the farm to school program and farm to school meals program by the 20242025 school year. Provides that complex area superintendents have the authority to implement the farm to school and farm to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1336 | Engross
50% | Part I: Expands the authorized issuance of citations in lieu of arrests. Authorizes a grace period after a missed initial court appearance. Part II: Amends various provisions related to pretrial release. Part III: Allows the court to order substance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1223 | Engross
50% | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of department of education schools. Allows the loan to be forgiven after five years of teaching in a hard-to-fill position. Establishes a similar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB586 | Engross
50% | Requires the Judiciary to develop and implement an automated court appearance reminder system that generates text message and electronic mail notifications for upcoming court appearances in certain types of cases. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1406 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a two-year study on the maximized use of recycled asphalt across the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB739 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of transportation to amend its administrative rules to allow motor vehicle owners whose motor vehicle registration and safety check are both expired to register their motor vehicle without first obtaining a certificate of insp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB249 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii child nutrition programs agency in the department of human services. Establishes a grant program to support the funding of certain initiatives for the State's public schools. Establishes three permanent full-time equivalent pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB828 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of education to establish a student bus fare rate system to include free bus passes for students whose household qualifies the student for free or reduced price lunch under the free and reduced price lunch program. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB261 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Child Care Accreditation Program to assist licensed and registered child care providers in obtaining accreditation. Authorizes the use of the Child Care Grant Program Special Fund for Child Car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | HB1150 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to support the Hawaii ant lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB1261 | Engross
50% | Beginning 1/1/2024, establishes a program for the licensure, regulation, and oversight of special purpose digital currency companies. Extends operations of companies in the digital currency innovation lab under certain circumstances. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB618 | Engross
50% | Establishes an exemption from mediation in paternity proceedings where there are allegations of domestic abuse if the party alleging domestic abuse does not wish to participate. Prohibits a mediator from engaging in mediation where there are allegati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services 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 | HB875 | Engross
50% | Establishes and appropriates funds for the Hawaii teacher apprenticeship program to support, recruit, develop, and retain teachers for Hawaii public schools. Establishes the Hawaii teacher apprenticeship program special fund. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB537 | Engross
50% | Includes electronic smoking devices and e-liquids under the definition of "tobacco products" for purposes of cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Repeals the electronic smoking device retailer registration unit under the department of the attorney gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection 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 | HB942 | Engross
50% | Requires each department of education school and public charter school to establish a critical emergency response team. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education 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 | 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 | HB1192 | Engross
50% | Requires the public access room to establish and maintain an outreach and engagement program for primary, secondary, post-secondary, and community education. Requires the department of education and university of Hawaii to assign appropriate staff to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB654 | Engross
50% | Requires state agencies to process the aggregated energy and water data of certain properties through the federal ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager and submit the benchmarking data to the Hawaii state energy office. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/300...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1415 | Engross
50% | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to design and administer an Electric Vehicle Charging System Loan Program to provide loans to certain applicants who install eligible electric vehicle charging systems. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB892 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds out of the Boating Special Fund for full-time equivalent positions under the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide security at small boat harbors statewide. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1330 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for school bus services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB262 | Engross
50% | Provides a process for school placement for a child whose parent has transferred or is pending transfer from another state to a military installation in Hawaii while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order. Effective 6/30/3000....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB914 | Engross
50% | Repeals existing law that requires the Department of Health to conduct unannounced visits and inspections, including inspections for relicensing or recertification, of state-licensed special treatment facilities. Requires the Department of Health to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1348 | Engross
50% | Clarifies labeling requirements for macadamia nuts. Requires country of origin to be included on the principal display panel of a consumer package of raw or processed macadamia nuts. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1203 | Engross
50% | Establishes an employer child care tax credit for employers who provide or sponsor approved child care. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB1235 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for purchasing digital cameras for all adult correctional officer control rooms at state correctional facilities and body cameras for adult correctional officers to wear while on duty at state correctional facilities. Effective 6/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB883 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the department of health to operate mobile clinics providing medication-assisted treatment throughout the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
