| HI | HB2102 | Engross | Establishes a hemp processor registry for hemp-derived products that consists of labeling and independent laboratory testing to ensure products do not contain contaminants unfit for human consumption. Prohibits hemp processors, distributors, and reta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1820 | Engross | Amends the nominating authority of the representatives of the Heeia community development district, Kalaeloa community development district, and Kakaako community development district that serve on the Hawaii community development authority. Provides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-25
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB537 | Engross | Transitions from lump sum deferred deposit transactions to installment-based small dollar loan transactions. Specifies various consumer protection requirements for small dollar loans. Beginning 1/1/2020, requires licensure for small dollar lenders th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 535). |
| HI | HB1146 | Engross | Requires procurement officers to complete past performance evaluations of contractors. Requires past performance to be considered in all sole source procurement and any competitive contracts that exceeds the small purchase threshold. Establishes an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | HB1541 | Engross | Establishes the Hawaii Gun Violence Prevention Center within the University of Hawaii to research strategies to prevent gun violence. Creates a special fund to support the Center. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | SB856 | Engross | Requires the Auditor to perform an operational audit of the academic and financial plans of the Department of Education. Requires the Department of Education to contract with a third-party consultant that specializes in school finance to study the ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-22
Received notice of discharge of all House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 363). |
| HI | SB2587 | Engross | Establishes regulatory framework for small dollar lenders in article 9 of chapter 412, HRS. Specifies various consumer protection requirements for small dollar loans. Beginning 1/1/2022, requires licensure for small dollar lenders that offer small do...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2429 | Engross | Extends the state-funded medical assistance provided to pregnant women for up to twelve months post-pregnancy in certain circumstances. Allows additional medicaid insurance coverage to women and their newborn children for health-related issues becaus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2955 | Engross | Includes Hawaii-grown green coffee, cherry coffee, and parchment coffee in the coffee labeling requirements. Requires coffee blend labels to disclose geographic origins and regional origins and per cent by weight of the blended coffees. Prohibits usi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2117 | Engross | Establishes 1 additional district court judgeship in the District Court of the Second Circuit. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3061 | Engross | Amends the nominating authority of the representatives of the Heeia community development district, Kalaeloa community development district, and Kakaako community development district on the Hawaii Community Development Authority. Provides that the H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2578 | Engross | Authorizes the designation of areas or regions of public lands classified as commercial, industrial, resort and hotel, and the establishment and implementation of guidelines for the redevelopment of the areas or regions. Designates the public lands o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1946 | Engross | Amends the amount of transient accommodations tax revenues allocated to the counties from a specified sum to capped reimbursements to the county for expenditures related to specified county public services. Appropriates funds to the department of bud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2561 | Intro | Establishes the prescription affordability commission within the department of commerce and consumer affairs to review prescription drug costs and establish levels of reimbursement. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2944 | Intro | Establishes the research and technology grant program within the high technology development corporation to provide grants to qualified research and technology companies in Hawaii for eligible projects. Establishes program guidelines and eligibility ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2048 | Intro | Appropriates funds for selected public middle school teachers to attend an evidence-informed or evidence-based and culturally relevant bullying intervention training session and for those selected public middle school teachers to provide training on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2698 | Intro | Requires the Department of Health to convene a construction waste reuse and recycling working group to determine how to implement a requirement for the reuse, recycling, or donation of construction waste. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2219 | Intro | Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends period of family leave to sixteen weeks for businesses that employs one or more employees who meet the hourly qualifications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB2696 | Intro | Appropriates funds to DOE for an experimental modernization project to address pay compression issues amongst teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-03
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB2519 | Intro | Appropriates funds to provide access to state land for lifeguards at Puu Kekaa on the island of Maui, an area under the jurisdiction of Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2592 | Intro | Appropriate funds for staff positions in the Department of the Attorney General's organized crime unit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2596 | Intro | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Department of Transportation to take certain actions necessary to create a Laniakea state wayside park on the north shore of Oahu. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1883 | Intro | Transitions from lump sum deferred deposit transactions to installment-based small dollar loan transactions. Specifies various consumer protection requirements for small dollar loans. Beginning 1/1/2022, requires licensure for small dollar lenders th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-23
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB942 | Intro | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to procure, install, and operate a machine or system to clean trash out of the Ala Wai canal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1481 | Intro | Authorizes the publishing of a candidate information pamphlet in one or more legislative districts selected by the chief elections officer in consultation with the elections commission to be funded by a percentage of new donations to candidate and no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB666 | Engross | Establishes a comprehensive healthcare task force to study and report on specified major issues relating to healthcare. Appropriates funds for the purposes of the task force. (HB666 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HI | SB655 | Intro | Provides funding, as a grant-in-aid to the counties, for forensic testing for the Hawaii police department, Maui police department, and Kauai police department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1564 | Intro | Establishes the Hawaii Beach Preservation Revolving Fund within the State Treasury. Establishes a low-interest Contingent Mortgage Financing Pilot Program to encourage certain shoreline property owners to relocate mauka of expected sea level rise and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB573 | Intro | Appropriates funds to provide scholarships for qualified students who are spouses or children of deceased members of the United States military and who qualify for a gold star lapel button. (HB573 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB880 | Intro | Appropriates moneys for statewide drug and alcohol treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HI | HB1594 | Intro | Appropriates funds to increase the number of residential beds available for those experiencing mental health crisis. Gives the department of health the funds to expand these programs to all counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB609 | Intro | Appropriates moneys to the graduate medical education program for physician residency programs in Hawaii; provided that the funds are matched dollar-for-dollar by private sector medical hospitals and institutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB729 | Intro | Allows charter schools to use appropriated funds for facilities improvement, rental, and construction and other infrastructure improvements. Appropriates funds for facilities and infrastructure improvement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1158 | Intro | Requires that any county-owned street along which are six or more homes include one or more sidewalks. Provides grants-in-aid to the counties for the purpose of building sidewalks along existing county-owned streets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1277 | Engross | Provides scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain eligibility criteria. Makes an appropriation for the Hawaii Promise Program. (HB1277 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB235 | Intro | Appropriates funding for drug treatment in Hawaii. Requires the DOH to pursue non-state funding sources for drug treatment programs prior to expending general revenue funds appropriated. Requires DOH to exhaust all public and private insurance option...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1597 | Intro | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for the assessment, planning, and design, of a long-term care facility that admits and treats non-forensic mental health patients for in-patient or out-patient temporary case management. (HB1597 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB653 | Engross | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to provide rebates to persons who install a new electric vehicle charging system or upgrade an existing electric vehicle charging system. Creates, and appropriates moneys out of, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1511 | Intro | Requires the Community-Based Economic Development Advisory Council to retain and oversee professional research and analysis services for the evaluation of the means for or barriers to private for-profit start-up agricultural businesses to acquire fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB530 | Engross | Establishes linked investments to provide loan funds for agriculture and authorizes the State to invest in linked investments. Appropriates funds to the Department of Budget and Finance to hire one position to administer the linked investment program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
Carried over to 2020 Regular Session. |
| HI | HB1457 | Engross | Appropriates funds to the Office of Planning for the planning and development of the Wailuku-Kahului Transit Corridor Master Plan in the county of Maui. Effective 7/1/2100. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB302 | Intro | Requires the Auditor to conduct a study, including a cost analysis, on the necessity and feasibility of establishing an agency within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate homeowners associations, and to submit a report of its p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB749 | Intro | Extends the nursing facility sustainability fee program to 2021. Allows the nursing facility sustainability fee to be used to enhance capitated rates for the purpose of paying quality incentives. Increases the nursing facility sustainability fee limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HI | HB594 | Engross | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the Board of Water Supply to offset the design and construction costs for one of four exploratory wells proposed by the Board of Water Supply for the proposed Kunia wells IV pump ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB912 | Intro | Allows charter schools to use appropriated funds for facilities improvement, rental, and construction and other infrastructure improvements. Appropriates funds for facilities and infrastructure improvement. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB276 | Engross | Appropriates funds and authorizes staff positions for the Women's Community Correctional Center Hookipa Makai Cottage. Appropriates funds for additional housing and transportation costs of certain inmates sent to Saguaro Correctional Center in Arizon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB713 | Intro | Establishes a 1-time amnesty program for certain delinquent transient accommodations and general excise tax obligations. Allows transient accommodations brokers to register as a tax collection agent for its operators and plan managers. Requires regis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1385 | Engross | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide administrative support to the Kaneohe Bay regional council. Requires that the chairperson be selected by the members on an annual and rotating basis. Requires the council to meet quarte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB246 | Engross | Provides funding for rental or lease of facilities under legislative appropriations and bond authorizations to the State Public Charter School Commission for the design, planning, construction, repair, and maintenance of public charter school improve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1445 | Intro | Requires Executive Office on Aging to include details on outcomes of the Kupuna Caregivers Program in its annual report. Requires Office on Aging to create a plan to maximize number of participants in the program and offer core services, requires pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-01
To House Health Committee |
