| HI | HB2562 | Intro
25% | Effective 1/1/2025, prohibits the retail sale or offer for retail sale of single-use plastic bottles designed to hold less than two liters of bottled water for oral consumption, with certain exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2728 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hui Hoomana task force to identify actionable priorities and financial resources to offer the State's residents universal access to affordable, high-quality healthcare and health insurance. Requires reports to the Legislature. Dissolv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2740 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii zero waste initiative to manage the State's transition to a zero solid waste economy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection 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 | HB1563 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1610 | Intro
25% | Imposes a cap on costs charged to reproduce certain government records. Waives reproduction costs charged for the first one hundred pages if disclosure serves the public interest. Waives costs charged to duplicate certain government records in an ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1616 | Intro
25% | Requires the DOE to submit an annual report to the legislature on the installation, repair, and maintenance of fire alarm systems in Hawaii's public schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1668 | Intro
25% | Establishes provisions allowing for consumers to request data brokers that maintain their personal information to delete any personal information related to the consumer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB1786 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sharing of personal information of clerks, election officials, and election workers for the purposes of intimidation, threats, harassment, or abuse. Amends the offense of assault in the second degree to include causing bodily injury to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1971 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2003 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide menstrual products at no cost in specified restrooms in public buildings maintained by the department. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to post signage in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2330 | Intro
25% | No later than January 1, 2025, requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to install and maintain automated external defibrillators in certain state buildings. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide trai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2240 | Intro
25% | Opens eligibility under the Hawaii Educator Loan Program for students and teachers who agree to teach as a full-time teacher in a public charter school. Decreases the service requirement for total loan forgiveness to five years and increases the perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2234 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates funds for the Judiciary to develop a three-year civil legal services pilot program to provide civil legal services at no cost to eligible parties. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2538 | Intro
25% | Provides that each lease that the Department of Agriculture enters into, renews, or extends after the effective date of this Act shall authorize the Department to: (1) Enter the leased premises at any time to identity, investigate, control, or eradic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2536 | Intro
25% | Prohibits businesses where food or beverages are packaged and sold on the business' premises for individual consumption from using, selling, or distributing certain disposable or single-use food ware and beverage service items after 1/1/2025. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2572 | Intro
25% | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-staff positions of Department of Education schools. Allows a loan to be forgiven for teachers who become, or have become, a licensed teacher in Hawaii or for te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2628 | Intro
25% | Requires the Judiciary, in consultation with other stakeholders, to submit monthly and annual reports to the Legislature on the effectiveness of agreements for post-booking jail diversion programs in the first circuit. Amends the criminal justice div...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1573 | Intro
25% | Caps the primary and secondary ticket seller service charges that may be added on to event ticket prices. Requires website operators to guarantee refunds in certain circumstances and disclose that the website is not the primary ticket seller. Prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1663 | Intro
25% | Expands eligibility for, and automates, the expungement of conviction records if certain criteria are met. Beginning 12/1/2026, requires the Attorney General to issue automatic expungement orders and the Judiciary to seal or remove information from p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1661 | Intro
25% | Expands eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to include any individual or household whose monthly income is equal to or less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1947 | Intro
25% | Reduces the minimum number of years of credited service from ten years to five years qualified Tier 2 employee's retirement system members must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes. Appropriates fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1958 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a three-year child care pilot grant program to provide grants to employers to assist in offering child care or caregiving support for their employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2087 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year elder access pilot program in the Executive Office on Aging, to improve access to essential services and reduce wait times for seniors seeking public services through state and county government offices. Authorizes the Executiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2166 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii environmental protection agency within the department of land and natural resources. Transfers jurisdiction of certain functions and employees of the department of agriculture and department of health to the Hawaii environmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2180 | Intro
25% | Prohibits development in special management areas unless the development is first found to not be located in a sea level rise exposure area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2197 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out. Effective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2286 | Intro
25% | Requires fees for attorneys retained by a condominium association to be paid from the association's funds or reserves, except in matters involving the collection of delinquent assessments. Prohibits associations from assessing, demanding, or seeking ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2254 | Intro
25% | Allows state departments to participate in temporary employee interchanges with private sector organizations, including nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Limits the term for a temporary employee interchange with a private sector organization to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2539 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2643 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Transportation to select multiple certified vendors to install ignition interlock devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB2691 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Red Hill remediation authority. Creates the Red Hill remediation special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1593 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Elections to print and mail a physical copy of the digital voter information guide to any voter upon request. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1609 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of Elections to apply to be a member of the Electronic Registration Information Center, Inc. (ERIC), by 6/30/2025. Requires the Office of Elections and counties to use information and services made available by ERIC to verify thei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1649 | Intro
25% | Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1687 | Intro
25% | Requires full retail crediting for energy exports enrolled in grid services programs, whereby energy exported to the electrical grid past a participating customer-generator's point of common coupling from photovoltaic solar systems paired with batter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1970 | Intro
25% | Requires solar conduit- and electrical panel-readiness for new residential construction offered for sale at fair market value and electric vehicle-readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1324 | Intro
25% | Requires all health insurers in the state, including medicaid managed care programs, to cover annual mental health wellness examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1555 | Intro
25% | Designates the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice of every year as the Lunar New Year. Effective date 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1966 | Intro
25% | Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans under the Hawaii Em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2044 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB2158 | Intro
25% | Adopts the nurse licensure compact. Beginning 01/01/2026, requires nurses who hold multistate licenses issued by a state other than Hawaii to complete demographic data surveys. Authorizes the Board of Nursing to assess different fees for registered n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2194 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a health insurer from requiring an insured diagnosed with stage two through stage five cancer to undergo step therapy prior to covering the insured for certain drugs prescribed by the insured's health care provider, under certain conditions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2634 | Intro
25% | Amends the duties and sunset date of the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2793 | Intro
25% | Requires the transfer of the Maui State Veterans Home to the Oahu Regional Health Care System and then to the Department of Health, as part of the Oahu Regional Health Care System transfer pursuant to Act 212, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1622 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to each county to mitigate flood risks on privately owned roads. Provides that the appropriation or expenditure of moneys shall not be construed to establish a duty of care or grounds for liability for the State or counties. Decla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB2035 | Intro
25% | Codifies program modification requirements for demonstration projects established by child care facilities that are licensed by the Department of Human Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2591 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Human Services for the Preschool Open Doors program. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the general fund expenditure ceiling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2746 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriate moneys for the provision of free voice communication services in the State's youth and adult correctional facilities. Amends sources of funding for and imposes a limit on moneys retained in the victim information and notifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB846 | Intro
25% | Enacts the interstate teacher mobility compact to reduce the barriers to teacher license portability and employment. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
