| HI | HB1929 | Engross | Extends the deadline for the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to exercise its power of eminent domain to acquire the Front Street Apartments affordable housing project on Maui unless the ground lease is renegotiated or a new ground ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2183 | Engross | Increases the Hula Mae Multifamily Revenue Bond authorization ceiling amount to continue financing affordable rental housing statewide. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2411 | Engross | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for rent subsidy payments, which sums shall be added to the Authority's base budget, and additional staff. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2448 | Engross | Provides that an exemption from the general excise tax established by section 201H-36, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that has been approved by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation shall be provided once the qualified person or firm has f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2449 | Engross | Authorizes cash payments made by developers in lieu of providing the required reserved housing units in the development of residential projects for the Hawaii community development authority to be deposited into the rental housing revolving fund. Eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2447 | Engross | Temporarily exempts affordable housing projects from specific state and county fees and exactions related to discretionary approval or ministerial permitting, except application fees; provided that the units are affordable for households with incomes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2527 | Engross | Specifies that certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code related to at-risk rules and deductions and passive activity loss do not apply to the state low-income housing tax credit allocations after 12/31/2019. Extends the time period in which to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2054 | Engross | Prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to enter into a nondisclosure agreement pertaining to sexual harassment or sexual assault. Prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee for disclosing or discussing sexual harassment or s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2148 | Engross | Extends Hawaii family leave to include care for employees' grandchildren. Defines "sibling". Takes effect on 7/1/2020. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2744 | Engross | Establishes the gun violence and violent crimes commission. Requires reports to the Legislature. Makes it a class C felony to purchase, manufacture, or otherwise obtain firearm parts for the purpose of assembling a firearm having no serial number. Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2753 | Engross | Establishes the state YouthBuild Program to assist non-profit and public entities in applying and qualifying for federal YouthBuild Program grants. Authorizes DLIR to award grants to eligible non-profit or public entities to meet the matching funds r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2420 | Engross | Clarifies the meaning of "program or activity receiving state financial assistance". Excludes cases within the scope of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act from the jurisdiction of the Hawaii civil rights commission. Effective 12/31/2059....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2454 | Engross | Establishes the offense of criminal trespass on critical electrical infrastructure. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2457 | Engross | Bans the sale of flavored tobacco products. Prohibits mislabeling of e-liquid products containing nicotine. Establishes fines and penalties for violations. Authorizes a court to impose, as a penalty on a person eighteen to twenty-one years of age who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2718 | Engross | Establishes and appropriates funds for a climate change and human health adaptation coordinator within the department of health and related operating expenses. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1861 | Engross | Extends the sunset date for the Coffee Berry Borer Pesticide Subsidy Program until June 30, 2025, for the purchase of pesticides containing Beauveria bassiana to combat the coffee berry borer. Extends the program manager position to June 30, 2026. Ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2004 | Engross | Amends requirements for child passengers. Requires rear facing child safety seats for children under two years of age. Raises certain fines for violations. Effective upon approval. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2151 | Engross | Establishes a cesspool compliance pilot grant project to assist low- and moderate-income property owners with the costs of upgrading or converting a cesspool. Applies to cesspools identified as failing by the Department of Health. Appropriates funds....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2253 | Engross | Amends the statewide traffic code to allow for the chairperson of the BLNR and county chiefs of police to designate state or county employees or contractors to issue citations for traffic violations. Effective upon approval. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2541 | Engross | Makes the state earned income tax credit refundable and permanent. Increases and amends the refundable food/excise tax credit by basing the amount of the credit on a taxpayer's Hawaii earned income and federal adjusted gross income. Increases minimum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2590 | Engross | Establishes within DOT an autonomous vehicles testing pilot program. Requires report to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HI | HB2565 | Engross | Establishes the Pesticide Disposal Collection Program within the Department of Agriculture to provide a one-time, affordable, and environmentally accessible means for the disposal of restricted and nonrestricted use pesticides from a bona fide agricu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HCR47 | Intro | Requesting The Criminal Justice Research Institute To Conduct A Study On The Effects Of Felony Disenfranchisement, Particularly The Effects On Minority Groups.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HR32 | Intro | Requesting The Criminal Justice Research Institute To Conduct A Study On The Effects Of Felony Disenfranchisement, Particularly The Effects On Minority Groups.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1651 | Engross | Codifies certain certification, renewal, and violation processes of vehicle inspectors who conduct vehicle safety inspections under the DOT. Repeals section 286-85, HRS, which requires reconstructed vehicles to obtain a special inspection and certifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB1817 | Engross | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for deposit into the rental housing revolving fund for its authorized purposes. Takes effect on 7/1/2025. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB1844 | Engross | Creates the clean energy and energy efficiency revolving loan fund under the administration of the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority. Repeals the building energy efficiency revolving loan fund. Allocates a portion of the barrel tax to the clean e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB1859 | Engross | Establishes a 3-year pilot project by the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center to demonstrate new toilet and sewage treatment technologies and to expedite demonstration projects. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. Repeals on 6/30...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB1874 | Engross | Lowers the age at which enhanced penalties apply for crimes against seniors from sixty-two years of age to an unspecified age. Makes commission of certain criminal offenses against a senior's person or property applicable regardless of the perpetrato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB1922 | Engross | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for efforts to substantially reduce and eradicate certain invasive species in the county of Maui. Effective 7/1/2150. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB2020 | Engross | Requires the state procurement office to establish a past performance database. Requires that the determination of certain contract awards through the procurement process consider a contractor's past performance. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/205...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB1957 | Engross | Adjusts the amount of the income tax credit for low-income household renters based on adjusted gross income and taxpayer filing status and provides for automatic adjustments to the tax credit based on the consumer price index. Effective 7/1/2025. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB1955 | Engross | Establishes a framework for the regulation of electric foot scooters by the State and counties. Amends definitions of "moped" to exclude electric foot scooters. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB1978 | Engross | Specifies that the family court has jurisdiction in proceedings concerning the custody or guardianship of an immigrant child pursuant to a motion for Special Immigrant Juvenile factual findings requesting a determination that the child was abused, ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB1930 | Engross | Changes the amount of the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax from $5 to an unspecified amount. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB1928 | Engross | Establishes the Pulehunui community development authority on the island of Maui as an autonomous community development authority under the Hawaii Community Development Authority for the purposes of developing the Pulehunui community development distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB1994 | Engross | Establishes, and appropriates funds for, a network improvement community task force to develop a K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics teacher education degree for the University of Hawaii. Appropriates funds for the office of intern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB1901 | Engross | Clarifies that the comprehensive offender reentry system provides programs and services that result in the timely release of inmates on parole when the minimum term, rather than the maximum term, has been served by the inmate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB2047 | Engross | Establishes a task force within the Department of Health to identify therapies and home- and community-based care services that may benefit persons having fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, including therapies and treatments that may benefit them as a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB2060 | Engross | Provides that family courts may withhold from public inspection any record of a denied temporary restraining order or denied protective order; provided that these records shall remain accessible to law enforcement without a court order. Takes effect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HR11 | Intro | Requesting The Department Of Education To Submit A Report To The Legislature On The Implementation Of The Amended Chapters 19 And 89 Of Title 8, Hawaii Administrative Rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB2091 | Engross | Allows the University of Hawaii to conduct criminal history record checks on current or prospective employees, and contractors and their employees, whose duties include ensuring security of campus facilities and persons. Takes effect on July 1, 2050....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HCR13 | Intro | Requesting The Department Of Education To Submit A Report To The Legislature On The Implementation Of The Amended Chapters 19 And 89 Of Title 8, Hawaii Administrative Rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HCR15 | Intro | Convening A Task Force To Address Implementation Of Hawaii's State Law Corollary To Title Ix In Light Of Anticipated Changes To Federal Title Ix Regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB2061 | Engross | Requires the AG and DHS to convene a study group to examine the impacts, costs, and impediments of allowing child support payments to pass through to TANF recipients and submit a report to the legislature prior to the 2021 Regular Session. Effective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB2062 | Engross | Establishes a statewide coordinator and program within DHS to address the needs of sexually exploited children. Establishes the commercial sexual exploitation of children steering committee. Requires the steering committees to submit reports to the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HR13 | Intro | Convening A Task Force To Address Implementation Of Hawaii's State Law Corollary To Title Ix In Light Of Anticipated Changes To Federal Title Ix Regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB2250 | Engross | Establishes the University of Hawaii promise program plus to provide scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students enrolled in bachelor's degree programs in teaching, health care, social work, or engineering at the University of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB2380 | Engross | Makes an appropriation to the judiciary to contract with nonprofit organizations to provide legal assistance and legal counsel to immigrants in determining legal status and citizenship, provide diversion to existing services, and otherwise provide co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
The hearing on this measure has been cancelled until further notice. |
| HI | HB2421 | Engross | Creates a board of trustees for the Hawaii school for the deaf and blind to establish an independent governance structure for the school. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
