| HI | SB2504 | Engross
50% | Repeals Part II of Act 66, SLH 2023, which requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to work with the University of Hawaii on workforce development activities that support the development of the Hawaii Pacific Hydrogen Hu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 25 @ 10:30 am]
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Thursday 04-25-24 10:30AM in conference room 325. |
| HI | SB2974 | Engross
50% | Establishes a Business Revitalization Task Force within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to identify methods to improve Hawaii's general economic competitiveness and business climate, including the mitigation of regulator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-24 9:35AM; Conference Room 325. |
| HI | SB458 | Engross
50% | Establishes the geothermal energy resources development special fund. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Redistributes geothermal royalties to the counties for specific purposes, geothermal energy resources development special fund, departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 702). |
| HI | SB2836 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the Interagency Council for Maui Housing Recovery to coordinate and facilitate Maui's permanent housing recovery and facilitate consultation and collaboration between st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678). |
| HI | HB1375 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB1296 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Economic Development District Planning Organization and governing board within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Designates the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to organize the Hawaii ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB1520 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to work with the University of Hawaii on workforce development activities that support the development of the Hawaii Pacific Hydrogen Hub and other related aspects of the State's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB989 | Engross
50% | Makes an appropriation to authorize general funds for the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for expenses related to building renovations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB449 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the department of business, economic development, and tourism for the governor to plan and coordinate the festival of pacific arts and culture to be held in Honolulu from 6/6/2024 to 6/16/2024. Requires the department of busines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB2081 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Aerospace and Aeronautics Development Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Appropriates funds to establish a position within the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to assist the Corporat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3265 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Film Advisory Council. Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit to: (1) Clarify and amend the requirement for an independent third-party certification; (2) Expand the definition of "qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1522 | Engross
50% | Establishes an Office of Destination Management within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Requires the Office of Destination Management to implement certain county destination management action plans. Repeals the Hawaii To...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | HB1373 | Engross
50% | Beginning 1/1/2024, requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to administer a Workforce Development Incentive Rebate Program that incentivizes local independent film and television productions. Establishes a new Film Stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | HB1193 | Engross
50% | Adds a cap for the amount of tax credits for research activities that an eligible taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities may receive per taxable year. Consolidates the survey and certification requirements for tax credits for research activitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | HB1959 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Aerospace and Aeronautics Development Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2764 | Engross
50% | Transfers the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Requires the Governor to select the Executive Director of the State Foundation on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3282 | Engross
50% | Renames the Hawaii State Energy Office as the Energy Division and makes it a division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Renames the Chief Energy Officer as the Chief Energy Administrator. Clarifies the duties of the En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1788 | Intro
25% | Adds a cap for the amount of tax credits for research activities that an eligible taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities may receive per taxable year. Consolidates the survey and certification requirements for tax credits for research activitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2028 | Intro
25% | Merges the Made in Hawaii with Aloha branding program with the Hawaii Made program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Specifies that the Department of the Attorney General shall be responsible for enforcement of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2082 | Intro
25% | Merges the Made in Hawaii with Aloha branding program with the Hawaii Made program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Specifies that the Department of the Attorney General shall be responsible for enforcement of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2271 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2025, requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to administer a workforce development incentive rebate program that incentivizes local independent film and television productions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB2747 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Filmmakers Special Fund for the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to award grants for film, media, and creative industries intellectual property development projects in Hawaii. Repeals the Hawaii Film and Creative Industries De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB2549 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the Interagency Council for Maui Housing Recovery to coordinate and facilitate Maui's permanent housing recovery and facilitate consultation and collaboration between st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2801 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to identify sites throughout the State that are suitable for the development of slaughterhouses. Requires the Agribusiness Development Corporation to plan, design, construct, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2818 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to conduct a study on the effect on businesses of increasing the minimum wage. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2765 | Intro
25% | Transfers oversight of the Hawaii Convention Center and the Hawaii Convention Center Enterprise Special Fund from the Hawaii Tourism Authority to the Department of Accounting and General Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2535 | Intro
25% | Removes the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism from membership on the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3366 | Intro
25% | Adds the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Director of Labor and Industrial Relations; and the President of the University of Hawaii to the Board of Education of the Department of Education. Adds the Director of Business, Econo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3023 | Intro
25% | Adds a cap for the amount of tax credits for research activities that an eligible taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities may receive per taxable year. Consolidates the survey and certification requirements for tax credits for research activitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2982 | Intro
25% | Establishes the regenerative tourism program with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to increase regenerative tourism. Establishes a grant program. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2565 | Intro
25% | Transfers the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Repeals the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Commission. Requires the Gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3049 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Hawai`i Film Advisory Council within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Provides exemption for certified development of film studio facilities from taxes imposed under chapter 237, HRS. Amends the Motion Pict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2360 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Hawai`i Film Advisory Council within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Provides exemption for certified development of film studio facilities from taxes imposed under chapter 237, HRS. Amends the Motion Pict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1738 | Intro
25% | Directs the Department of Taxation, in consultation with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to study the feasibility of replacing the income and general excise taxes with a new retail sales tax or other tax. Requires the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB2114 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of gambling to exclude digital sports betting on a platform licensed pursuant to state law. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to develop a pilot program to license businesses in the State to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB2164 | Intro
25% | Establishes the regenerative tourism program with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to increase regenerative tourism. Establishes a grant program. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2875 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Office of Streaming within the Creative Industries Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to help content creators increase the scale of their respective productions. Appropriates moneys. Declares th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2674 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to establish a two-year Hawaii Office of Naval Research Grant Program to provide 50% matching grants to Hawaii awardees of alternative energy research grants from the United States Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2110 | Intro
25% | Adds a cap for the amount of tax credits for research activities that an eligible taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities may receive per taxable year. Requires a qualified high technology business to be registered to do business in the State an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB1237 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Film Commission in the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Amends the administration and extends the sunset date of the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit to 1/1/2038. Es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB604 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop a program to provide grants to match funds for hotel employees to buy hotels and establish employee-owned hotel cooperatives. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB917 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Sports Task Force within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to plan and coordinate efforts to secure and maintain Hawaii as a host location for major sporting and sports entertainment events at Aloha ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1436 | Intro
25% | Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit by requiring the department of business, economic development, and tourism to publish on its website the names of the qualified productions and the amount of the tax cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1379 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to establish and maintain a statewide data hub to collect employer and employee data. Authorizes the department of business, economic development, and tourism to determine the typ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | SB113 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that calculations to determine whether a non-perishable good labeled "Hawaii Made" has met the requirement that at least 51% of the wholesale value of the product is added by production within the State include operating and overhead expens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB1616 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2024, requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to administer a workforce development incentive rebate program that incentivizes local independent film and television productions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB512 | Intro
25% | Establishes an entrepreneurship grant program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to assist entrepreneurs with new businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1361 | Intro
25% | Transfers powers, duties, and functions of stadium authority to DBEDT. Repeals stadium authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1567 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the State Board for Career and Technical Education to cooperate with the Legislature to advise on provisions of all nonfederal funds received that are earmarked for career and technical education. Requires the State Board for Career and Te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB269 | Intro
25% | Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit by requiring the department of business, economic development, and tourism to publish on its website the names of the qualified productions and the amount of the tax cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
