| HB2404 | Pass | Incrementally increases standard deduction amounts and widens income tax brackets for specific taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Act 046, 06/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1146). |
| SB1035 | Pass | Exempts from the general excise tax those medical and dental services provided by health care providers to patients who receive Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE benefits. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Act 047, 06/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1147). |
| HB2315 | Pass | Repeals provisions governing the use of electronic voting devices at condominium association meetings. Clarifies the procedure for electronic meetings, electronic voting, and mail voting. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Act 042, 05/30/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1142). |
| HB2801 | Pass | Repeals the authority of counties to administer commercial property assessed financing programs and delegates all existing administrative responsibilities of the counties under the commercial property assessed financing program to the Hawaii Green In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Act 041, 05/30/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1141). |
| SB2337 | Pass | Expands the counties' authorization to exercise the same powers as the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for purposes of developing, constructing, financing, refinancing, or providing mixed-use developments. Applies to bond proceeds ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Act 045, 05/30/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1145). |
| HB2685 | Pass | Establishes the solar hui program to allow multi-family residential property owners to invest in a solar hui investment fund, which will provide repayment of income derived from energy services agreements to low- and moderate-income households to ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Act 040, 05/30/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1140). |
| SB2600 | Pass | Authorizes the use of electronic mail to deliver certain documents when purchasing a condominium. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Act 044, 05/30/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1144). |
| SB2726 | Pass | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on how certain other states approach the following subjects as they relate to condominiums: an ombudsman, licenses for management, alternative dispute resolution, governmental regulation, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Act 043, 05/30/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1143). |
| SB3202 | Pass | Part I: Requires the counties, no later than 12/31/2026, to adopt or amend an ordinance to allow at least two accessory dwelling units, subject to certain restrictions, on all residentially zoned lots. Prohibits private covenants for residentially zo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 039, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1139). |
| SB2834 | Pass | Amends the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to provide for a process to dispose of the tenant's personal property and surrender the dwelling unit to a landlord when there is a death of a tenant. Takes effect 11/1/2024. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 033, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1133). |
| SB2133 | Pass | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to issue bonds for housing project infrastructure and finance the development of regional state infrastructure projects. Exempts bonds issued by HHFDC for improvements by assessments, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 034, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1134). |
| SB2132 | Pass | Amends the deadline related to the repair of conditions that constitute health or safety violations. Increases the amount deducted from a tenant's rent for the tenant's actual expenditures to correct health or safety violations and defective conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 032, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1132). |
| SB1170 | Pass | Requires the counties to issue affordable housing credits for affordable housing units that are constructed under the various programs of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Sunsets 7/1/2031. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 031, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1131). |
| HB2365 | Pass | Replaces the Director of Law Enforcement with the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation on the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 028, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1128). |
| HB1760 | Pass | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, subject to legislative approval, to secure a line of credit or other instrument of indebtedness for the bond volume cap recycling program. Authorizes the Corporation or a county to es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 035, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1135). |
| HB1925 | Pass | Establishes the Hawaii State Planning Act Phase II Task Force within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development. Makes an appropriation. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 036, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1136). |
| SB2066 | Pass | Establishes another means for a housing project to seek an exemption from laws and rules of the State that are developed under various programs of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 038, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1138). |
| SB1099 | Pass | Clarifies the authority of the counties to use county surcharge on state tax revenues for housing infrastructure costs for county-appropriated housing infrastructure costs. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 030, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1130). |
| HB2090 | Pass | Beginning 1/1/2025, allows residential uses in areas zoned for commercial use to be considered permitted under certain circumstances. Requires, no later than 1/1/2025, each county to adopt or amend its ordinances to allow for adaptive reuse of existi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 037, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1137). |
| HB2790 | Pass | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to submit a report analyzing the feasibility of continuing to fund the operations of the housing loan and mortgage program. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 029, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1129). |
| HB2377 | Pass | Adjust funding for Department of Public Safety programs for anticipated operating shortfalls due to the limited ability for departments to transfer funds between programs. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Act 026, 05/23/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1126). |
| SB2333 | Pass | Allows the Chief Election Officer to use accurate copies of paper ballots, rather than the originals, when conducting a precinct audit of an electronic voting system's tally. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-24
Act 027, 05/23/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1127). |
| SB2841 | Pass | Designates May 15 of each year as Water Safety Day. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Act 024, 05/15/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1124). |
| SB116 | Pass | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Duke Kahanamoku. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Act 025, 05/15/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1125). |
| HB1974 | Pass | Increases the monthly needs allowance for individuals living in certain long-term care facilities from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal Supplemental Security Income Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Act 018, 05/13/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1118). |
| HB2342 | Pass | Prohibits carrying or using a firearm in the commission of a separate misdemeanor offense. Amends and clarifies prohibitions regarding deadly or dangerous weapons, switchblade knives, and butterfly knives. Clarifies hunter education certificates and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Act 021, 05/13/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1121). |
| HB2069 | Pass | Permits Department of Accounting and General Services to employ certain persons within the Comptroller's office who are exempt from state laws governing civil service and collective bargaining for certain purposes, as part of the State's information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Act 019, 05/13/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1119). |
| HB2380 | Pass | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide special funds for disbursements of moneys in the Mass Transit Special Fund. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Act 023, 05/13/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1123). |
| HB2216 | Pass | Increases the state supplemental payment ceilings for type I adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, certified adult foster homes, and type II adult residential care hom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Act 020, 05/13/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1120). |
| HB2376 | Pass | Adjusts funding for Department of Transportation programs to pay for anticipated operating shortfalls due to the limited ability to transfer funds between programs. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Act 022, 05/13/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1122). |
| HB1598 | Pass | Requires boards to make available for public inspection board packets, if created, at the time the board packet is distributed to board members but no later than two business days before the board meeting. Provides that public testimony may be distri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Act 011, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1111). |
| HB1600 | Pass | Requires boards to schedule a meeting for deliberation and decision-making on a report by an investigative group at least six business days after the board meeting in which the investigative group presented the findings and recommendations of its inv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Act 013, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1113). |
| HB1599 | Pass | Requires public meeting notices to inform members of the public how to provide remote oral testimony in a manner that allows the testifier, upon request, to be visible to board members and other meeting participants. Recognizes a board's authority to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Act 012, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1112). |
| HB1879 | Pass | Provides that certain information to be included in any digital voter information guide shall not be released to any requestor in whole or in part before the public release of the entire guide. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Act 014, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1114). |
| SB582 | Pass | Appropriates funds to support the State's response to the August 2023 wildfires that affected the County of Maui. Makes an appropriation to the One Ohana Bank Trust Account to compensate victims of the 2023 Maui wildfires. Temporarily lifts various r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Act 010, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1110). |
| HB1881 | Pass | Updates the maximum administrative fines allowed for violations of chapters relating to standards of conduct and lobbyists. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Act 015, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1115). |
| SB2919 | Pass | Clarifies the counties' authority to regulate the time, place, manner, and duration in which uses of land and structures may take place. Clarifies that uses that include the provision of transient accommodations are not considered residential uses an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Act 017, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1117). |
| HB2072 | Pass | Requires certain solicitations that reference disasters to include a disclosure. Deems violators guilty of a class C felony. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Act 016, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1116). |
| SB2354 | Pass | Expands the definition of "beer" under the intoxicating liquor law to mean any alcoholic beverage containing not less than 0.5% alcohol by volume obtained by fermentation of any infusion or decoction of malt or any substitute, including alcohol seltz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Act 009, 04/19/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1109). |
| HB1950 | Pass | Designates November 22 of each year as "Kimchi Day" in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Act 008, 04/19/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1108). |
| HB1880 | Pass | Reschedules the post-election assembly of presidential electors to the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December next following their election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Act 006, 04/18/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1106). |
| HB1541 | Pass | Amends Act 36, SLH 2019, to change the effective date from 7/1/2050 to 7/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Act 005, 04/18/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1105). |
| HB1915 | Pass | Updates the Uniform Probate Code by reducing the number of required publications of a notice to creditors by a trustee to once a week for two successive weeks, consistent with amendments made by Act 158, SLH 2023, to publication requirements applicab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Act 007, 04/18/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1107). |
| HB1899 | Pass | Designates certain snail species as official state snails.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Act 004, 04/12/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1104). |
| SB2387 | Pass | Corrects erroneous references in chapters 520 and 520A, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Act 003, 04/11/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1103). |
| HB2520 | Pass | Appropriates funds to provide for the expenses of the Legislature, Auditor, Legislative Reference Bureau, Ombudsman, and Ethics Commission. Declares that certain appropriations will further exceed the state general fund expenditure ceiling for fiscal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Act 002, 03/14/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1102). |
| HB129 | Pass | Provides that a mandatory recount shall occur when the difference in votes cast is equal to or less than 100 votes or one-quarter of 1% of the total number of votes cast for the contest, whichever is lesser. Establishes that the filing deadline for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Act 001, 03/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1101). |
