| HI | HB2571 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the multifamily housing accessibility modifications grant program to facilitate the installation of accessibility modifications in certain properties. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1606 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any new contract entered into by the Office of Elections for equipment or services relating to preparing ballots or counting votes include the capability to randomize the names of candidates appearing on the ballot if technologically po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1605 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that each vote cast for a question on a ballot for the ratification of a constitutional amendment be counted in the negative only if the ballot properly indicates that the vote is in the negative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1678 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates all University of Hawaii system campuses as voter registration agencies as defined in the National Voter Registration Act. Requires the Chief Election Officer to use data concerning voter registration and election participation to study vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2198 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows public employee organizations to negotiate retirement benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations 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 | HB2169 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the construction of overhead high-voltage electric transmission lines. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to submit to the Public Utilities Commission a report identifying the areas of the State having the highest r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2201 | Intro
Sine Die | Generally prohibits the removal of minerals from the seabed in all state marine waters. Prohibits the issuance of permits for the mooring, docking, or operation of any vessel designed or intended for removal of minerals from the seabed. Provides for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2294 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the transfer of the Maui State Veterans Home to the Oahu Regional Health Care System and then to the Department of Health, as part of the Oahu Regional Health Care System transfer pursuant to Act 212, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2257 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to provide students who are residents of the State with scholarships in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of Ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB2287 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for prefabricated, modular, or kauhale-type housing for individuals impacted by the Lahaina wildfire.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "patient's provider" in state law governing Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment by removing language that requires the provider to examine the patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2251 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a separate prohibition on driving motor vehicles having noisy mufflers on public highways in high-density areas. Authorizes police officers to conduct examinations and inspections of motor vehicle mufflers in high-density areas. Establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB2283 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes heightened penalties for the assault and terroristic threatening of health care workers. Clarifies the definition of "terroristic threatening" to include the methods of contact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2249 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that violation of part I of chapter 200, HRS, relating to ocean recreation and coastal areas, or any rules adopted thereunder shall be subject to criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land 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 | HB2273 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires special sentencing of habitual violent felons. Requires the Department of Law enforcement, in collaboration with the Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions, to work with Weed & Seed Hawaii, Inc., to expand Weed & Seed Hawaii,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2233 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits private and state workforce development programs from rejecting an applicant who is 18 years of age or younger based solely on the applicant's active sentence of probation; provided that the applicant is in full compliance with any court-or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2272 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of a state lottery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB2510 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from the definition of "laws" in section 127A-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, county charter provisions pertaining to executive, legislative, and administrative structure and organization are excluded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2511 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2512 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a landlord to accept either rental security insurance or security deposit installment payments in lieu of a traditional security deposit, upon a tenant's request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2540 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each public high school in the State to require students to complete and pass 2 full years of Hawaiian language courses as a condition of graduation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2507 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to: (1) conduct a remote work study; (2) review any recent remote work studies done by the counties; (3) develop and administer a remote work program; and (4) submit the study to the Legislature ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2557 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to develop and, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, implement a financial literacy curriculum for grades kindergarten through twelfth grade.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2558 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal Supplemental Security Income program. Requires certain long-term care facility operators to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2649 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the State's midwifery law to permit care by extended family, cultural supporters, or others with whom a woman chooses to give birth. Specifies that nothing in the midwifery law shall prohibit or restrict healing practices by traditional hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2588 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the eleventh representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2573 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires planned community associations to either develop and adopt program rules for a neighborhood security watch program within the association's planned community or allocate a portion of the association's regular assessments to fund a neighborho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2631 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds, including for positions, equipment, and maintenance and operating costs, for mullet production for fishponds and stock enhancement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2584 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all places of public accommodation constructed after 12/31/2024 to provide universal changing accommodations in public restrooms. Where feasible and cost effective, requires all bids for state building construction, projects submitted after ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2589 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a three-year surcharge on the liquor tax. Repeals 06/30/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2627 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts medical and dental services provided by health care providers to patients who receive Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE benefits from the general excise tax. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2647 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include malathion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2607 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to compile a list of approved archaeologists to ensure the quality and integrity of archaeological services contracted by developers. Specifies informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2600 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis Authority and Cannabis Control Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning January 1, 2026, legalizes the personal adult use of cannabis. Establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2632 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each have one vote if they have employees in a particular bargaining unit for the purposes of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. Repeals staf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HI | HB2646 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires monthly rather than annual reporting of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information, site information, and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2648 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include neonicotinoid pesticides.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2608 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "burial site".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2592 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the counties to impose, by ordinance, enhanced penalties for graffiti in certain designated zones and supersede graffiti sentencing requirements under the Penal Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2574 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2605 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to establish a teacher loan forgiveness program to assist in the payment of loans for teachers who commit to teaching in the Hawaii public school system. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2609 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, rather than allows, any person who violates chapter 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to appear before the Board of Land and Natural Resources. Requires, rather than allows, the Board of Land and Natural Resources to impose fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2624 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a substance abuse treatment special fund. Increases liquor tax rates to unspecified amounts. Allocates increased liquor tax revenues to the substance abuse treatment special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2635 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a continuous Legislature. Requires the Legislature to convene at least once a month. Removes language regarding special sessions, adjournment, and recesses. Creates a two-year deadline for a bill to be submitted for gubernatorial consider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2718 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all travel and lodging expenses for legislative members to be reimbursed at federally determined rates. Establishes a basic housing allowance for non-Oahu legislative members. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HI | HB2711 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the Department of Land a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2676 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates and expands the statutory prohibition on the use of tobacco at public schools to include prohibiting the possession and use of electronic smoking devices. Requires the Department of Education to be responsible for educating students, employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2706 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes fines for any person who sets off fireworks without a valid permit and while a red flag warning is in effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
