| HI | HB2359 | Veto | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09 Vetoed on 07-09-24 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1359). |
| HI | HB2369 | Pass | Increases the maximum interest rate on Community-Based Economic Development loans to ten per cent. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24 Act 068, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1169). |
| HI | HB1408 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the digital equity grant program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for the sustainable food systems working group and positions within the Department of Agriculture. Requires report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2414 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Sustainable Food Systems Working Group. Requires a report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2025. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Establishes an unspecified number of positions within the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2789 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits film production on lands that are zoned for agricultural use. Establishes the Agricultural Film Production Land Use Oversight Committee to monitor and enforce compliance with regulations on film permit activities on agricultural zoned lands. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3048 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2044 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Establishes the Broadband and Digital Equity Special Fund. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2314 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Director of Transportation to establish and implement a Digital Identification Pilot Program. In coordination with the counties and various agencies, requires the Director of Transportation to submit a report to the Legislature. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB1516 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a nuclear energy commission within the department of business, economic development, and tourism to study the feasibility, risks, and benefits of developing nuclear energy generation facilities in Hawaii. Requires report to the legislatur... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3248 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Establishes the Broadband and Digital Equity Special Fund. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3058 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 210D-10, HRS, to increase the maximum interest rate on Community-Based Economic Development loans to ten percent. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB706 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Hawaii Start-Up Business Loan Program to be administered by the Business Development and Support Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, in coordination with the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB837 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to acquire and hold title to or contract to acquire by grant or purchase real, personal, or mixed property; to clear, improve, and rehabilitate and to sell, assign, exchange, tr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 201-13.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to collect and analyze employer information and data. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB1231 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Appropriates funds. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB987 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires employers to maintain specified records. Allows the department of business, economic development, and tourism to collect and analyze employer information and data. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Aquaculture Development Branch within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the rights, powers, functions, duties, employees, and other capital of the Aquaculture and Livestock Services Branch of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB592 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the existing plant and animal declaration form to also require in-bound travelers to the State to acknowledge federal and state laws, and individual responsibility to protect the environment and agriculture of the State. Requires all other d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | SB501 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Appropriates funds. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB288 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers the Culinary Institute of the Pacific from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as an administratively attached agency. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the existing plant and animal declaration form to also require in-bound travelers to the State to acknowledge state laws, federal laws, and individual responsibility to protect the environment and agriculture of the State. Requires all other... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB515 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Hawaii Small Business Innovation Research Program. Beginning with fiscal year 2025-2026, and each fiscal year thereafter, requires the Department of Business, Economic Develo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB1376 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an Office of Tourism and Destination Management within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism that encompasses regenerative tourism and best practice destination management. Transfers the functions, duties, appropri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB418 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Hydrogen Energy Industry Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Requires the Hawaii Hydrogen Energy Industry Program to design, implement, and administer activities to further the State's ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB394 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the Commission on the Thirteenth Festival of Pacific Arts to plan for the Festival of Pacific Arts to be held in Honolulu from June 6 to June 16, 2024. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB780 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of the Auditor to conduct a comprehensive management and financial audit of the Hawaii Tourism Authority and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, specifically relating to the Request for Proposals regardi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |