HI Legislation | 2024 | Regular Session

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HB2501Enroll
75%
Repeals the reporting requirement to identify the cost impacts to the State of providing workers' compensation coverage for University of Hawaii students. (SD2)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2467Enroll
75%
Repeals the sunset provision of Act 222, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, to permanently allow the Board of Land and Natural Resources to approve rent credits for demolition and infrastructure costs for public land leases. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
SB3070Enroll
75%
Lowers the Employees' Retirement System's funding period to amortize the System's total unfunded accrued liability. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor.
HB2499Enroll
75%
Designates the Chief Financial Officer of the University of Hawaii to act as the University of Hawaii's chief procurement officer until 6/30/2028. Effective 6/29/2024. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB1640Enroll
75%
Requires the employer to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit within thirty days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate. Establishes that the employer's failure to initiate the ...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB1836Enroll
75%
Allows registered pharmacists during declared states of emergency to refill prescriptions for persons directly impacted by the emergency for up to a thirty-day supply if the practitioner is unavailable or cannot be contacted to authorize the refill a...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB1830Enroll
75%
Beginning 7/1/2026, establishes provisional or associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances; authorizes psychol...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2298Enroll
75%
Beginning 7/1/2027, requires roasted coffee, instant coffee, and ready-to-drink coffee beverages that contain Hawaii-grown and Hawaii-processed coffee blended with coffee of another regional origin to contain no less than fifty-one per cent coffee by...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2340Enroll
75%
Makes appropriations and approves payments for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
SB572Enroll
75%
Authorizes and specifies conditions under which the Department of Agriculture may declare a biosecurity emergency, during which the Department and Governor may take certain actions to prevent the establishment or spread of pests and prohibited or res...
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2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor.
HB2641Enroll
75%
Reestablishes the Appraisal Management Company Registration Program within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, to begin September 1, 2024. Appropriates funds from the Compliance Resolution Fund for the Program. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB1827Enroll
75%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Department of Education to support health care workforce development programs, specifically the public high school health care workforce certificate program and glidepath prog...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2227Enroll
75%
Expands the existing exemption from state law governing child care for United States Department of Defense-certified child care providers on federal property to those operating off federal property. (SD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB1148Enroll
75%
Appropriates funds for temporary positions to support the expansion of the University of Hawaii Windward Community College's mental health-related programs. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
SB3290Enroll
75%
Requires the Disability and Communication Access Board to convene a working group to study the state of American Sign Language interpretation services in Hawaii. Requires a report to the Legislature, with the assistance of the Department of Health. (...
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2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor.
SB2439Enroll
75%
Extends the statute of limitations for civil actions brought by persons subjected to sexual offenses as an adult against the person who committed the act. Allows a claim to be brought against legal entities during the two-year window period if there ...
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2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor.
HB1763Enroll
75%
Prohibits the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation from forgiving any loan made from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund unless the Corporation forecloses on the project. Amends the permitted uses of and priority for which moneys in the R...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
SB2526Enroll
75%
Requires the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group to assist the Office of Enterprise Technology Services in working with certain state agencies to inventory and categorize the business criticality of each major state information technology...
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2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor.
HB2481Enroll
75%
Repeals the Time Share Commissioners of Deeds. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2144Enroll
75%
Requires the Department of Health to amend the definition of "homemade food products" in its administrative rules on food safety and adopt certain rules regarding the sale and delivery of homemade food products. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2278Enroll
75%
Clarifies labeling requirements for macadamia nuts to require a disclosure indicating that a product may contain macadamia nuts not grown in Hawaii if the consumer package contains macadamia nuts grown outside the State. Exempts from the labeling req...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2471Enroll
75%
Establishes a statutory framework for inspections by the Department of Land and Natural Resources of public land subject to certain leases or licenses, including inspections of structures or buildings by third-party inspectors contracted by the Depar...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB1577Enroll
75%
Authorizes tow operators to charge a towing surcharge of no more than $35 if the tow involves overturned vehicles. Increases the statutory caps on certain towing charges. Requires that a towing company that charges fees to tow vehicles left unattende...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB1916Enroll
75%
Prohibits, upon written request from certain public servants or their representative, any government agency, person, or organization from making certain personal information publicly available on the Internet. Effective 10/1/2024. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2458Enroll
75%
Requires the Director of Law Enforcement to investigate alleged violations of the law when directed to do so by the Governor or when the Director determines that an investigation would be in the public interest. Authorizes the Director of Law Enforce...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2742Enroll
75%
Establishes a pre-litigation mediation procedure for tenancies that are subject to the eviction moratorium issued under the Governor's emergency proclamations relating to wildfires once the eviction moratorium expires. Restricts when landlord remedie...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2546Enroll
75%
Allows for the use of fine meshed nets for the protection of plants against invasive species, under certain conditions. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2581Enroll
75%
Removes the ability of the Governor or a mayor to suspend electronic media transmission during a state of emergency or local state of emergency, respectively. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2715Enroll
75%
Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Malama Puuloa. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB1902Enroll
75%
Clarifies that the Governor's and mayors' emergency management powers shall be consistent with the state constitution. Clarifies the scope of the comprehensive emergency management plan. Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to extend or te...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2453Enroll
75%
Authorizes the Governor, or a state official with authorization from the Governor, to transfer federal capitalization grant funds between the Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund and the Drinking Water Treatment Revolving Loan Fund, in accordance w...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB1832Enroll
75%
Authorizes a state department, division, or agency, rather than the Department of Human Resources Development, to conduct a minimum qualification review of applicants for vacant positions within the department, division, or agency. Requires the Depar...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB1801Enroll
75%
Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds. Makes findings required by Article VII, Section 13, of the Hawaii State Constitution to declare that the issuance of authorized bonds will not cause the debt limit to be exceeded. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2058Enroll
75%
Establishes the offense of negligent failure to control a dangerous dog. Beginning 7/1/2025, establishes provisions regarding the designation of dangerous dogs, requirements for owners of dangerous dogs, and impoundment of dangerous dogs. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2224Enroll
75%
Requires the Executive Office on Aging, in coordination with the State Health Planning and Development Agency, to create a comprehensive long-term care plan to accomplish certain long-term care policy goals that ensure the availability of a full cont...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2070Enroll
75%
Requires cash or protest bonds paid or filed by parties initiating an administrative appeal for protests of solicitations or award of contracts under the Hawaii Public Procurement Code to be returned to the initiating parties, minus administrative co...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2484Enroll
75%
Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of 12/31/2023. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
SB2601Enroll
75%
Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse committed on or after July 1, 2024, may be initiated. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on trauma-informed response. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor.
SB3364Enroll
75%
Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to develop destination management action plans for each county and to perform specific actions in each plan. Expands the powers and duties of the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Repeals the exemption of the Hawaii Tour...
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2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor.
HB1944Enroll
75%
Authorizes certain types of radiographical coverage and specialist consultations without a treatment plan within the context of workers' compensation coverage for employees with cervical and lumbar spinal injuries, or suspected cervical and lumbar sp...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2457Enroll
75%
Expands the requirement that the Department of Law Enforcement pursue and obtain accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc., to all divisions and sections within the Department. Establishes five CALEA coordi...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2478Enroll
75%
Authorizes the Governor to execute a compact on behalf of the State to cooperate in the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. Establishes procedures for selection and succession of commissioners from the State of Hawaii. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2480Enroll
75%
Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to set a fee for the issuance of an apostille or a non-apostille certification by administrative rules. Establishes the Apostilles and Certifications Special Fund. Appropriates funds into and out of the ...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB1633Enroll
75%
Repeals the leasing restriction on owner-builders who obtain an owner-builder exemption to act as their own contractor and who build or improve residential or farm buildings or structures on property they own or lease and do not offer the buildings o...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
SB2475Enroll
75%
Establishes a harm to students registry, for all early learning programs or schools and K-12 educational institutions within the State, that contains information on school employees, contractors, or volunteers for whom, as result of an investigation,...
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2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor.
SB2287Enroll
75%
Requires the Information Technology Steering Committee to assist the Chief Information Officer to develop a plan to enhance the mobile application developed to enable the public to access the State's website. Requires the Chief Information Officer's ...
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2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor.
SB2725Enroll
75%
For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023, adds a definition for "qualified member" and repeals the definitions for "direct member" and "indirect member" as used in the State's passthrough entity taxation election law. Amends the passthrough entit...
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2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor.
HB2359Enroll
75%
Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2553Enroll
75%
Authorizes pharmacists to administer vaccines to persons three years of age or older. Authorizes pharmacy interns and pharmacy technicians under the direct supervision of a pharmacist to administer vaccinations to persons three years of age or older,...
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
HB2399Enroll
75%
Exempts an additional administrative assistant position in the Hawaii State Public Library System from civil service. (CD1)
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2024-05-02
Transmitted to Governor.
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