| HB80 | Engross
50% | Authorizes public school complexes to develop rigorous classroom-based performance assessments, including the use of authentic assessments as part of classroom-based performance assessments. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB792 | Engross
50% | Grants a circuit court, when sentencing a minor for a criminal offense or adult convicted of a felony criminal offense that was committed before reaching the age of majority, the discretion to impose a sentence that includes a period of incarceration...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1110 | Engross
50% | Creates a mileage-based road usage charge to replace state motor fuel taxes, beginning on 7/1/2025, for electric vehicles. Eliminates the $50 annual state vehicle registration surcharge for electric vehicles. Allows electric vehicles a choice of payi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB797 | Engross
50% | Establishes procedures and eligibility criteria for a privilege to practice public accountancy in this State for public accountants and certified public accountants licensed in another state with comparable education, examination, and experience requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB572 | Engross
50% | Requires that prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of an administrative rule, electronic notice of the proposed rulemaking be provided to all persons who have made a timely written request to, and provided a valid working email address to, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB450 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of human services, when determining income eligibility for child care subsidies, to consider special circumstances, such as the retroactive payment of workers' compensation or temporary disability insurance benefits, that caus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB225 | Engross
50% | Amends Act 317, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to grant the Department of Human Services flexibility in developing a comprehensive child welfare information system and extend the appropriation lapse date. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB370 | Engross
50% | Requires the public utilities commission to complete its review and issue a decision within nine months from the date that a public utility, other than an investor-owned electric utility company, files its completed application seeking approval for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1266 | Engross
50% | Allows wild game to be donated as food. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1129 | Engross
50% | Requires the McKinley Community School for Adults to work with Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice to provide counseling services for incarcerated women participating in the education and reentry program for incarcerated women that is developed and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB302 | Engross
50% | Establishes the state YouthBuild program to assist nonprofit and public entities in applying and qualifying for federal YouthBuild program grants. Authorizes the department of labor and industrial relations to award grants to eligible nonprofit or pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB386 | Engross
50% | Prohibits, in certain circumstances, the publication of the personal information of federal and state judges and other judicial staff whose duties put them at risk for acts of violence or threats. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HB1223 | Engross
50% | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of department of education schools. Allows the loan to be forgiven after five years of teaching in a hard-to-fill position. Establishes a similar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB143 | Engross
50% | Provides for additional use of the moneys in the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program special fund to support the state fire council and its programs and activities. Adds to the jurisdiction of the state fire council those functions that are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB714 | Engross
50% | Requires that the securing of mooring lines from vessels requiring tug assistance to commercial docks, wharves, piers, quays, and landings be performed by a stevedoring company. Defines "stevedoring company". Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HB905 | Engross
50% | Requires the University of Hawaii, in consultation with the commission on water resource management, to develop a scope of work and cost analysis to complete a flexible groundwater model that proposes methods for determining the needs of traditional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB654 | Engross
50% | Requires state agencies to process the aggregated energy and water data of certain properties through the federal ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager and submit the benchmarking data to the Hawaii state energy office. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/300...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB371 | Engross
50% | Repeals chapter 440J, HRS, relating to telecommunications and cable industry information reporting requirements for broadband service providers. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB1128 | Engross
50% | Provides that, in any island with a population of five hundred or less, Hawaiian language shall be recognized as the sole indigenous language of the Hawaiian islands; public schools may offer a course in Hawaiian language; and every effort shall be m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1319 | Engross
50% | Allows operators of bicycles, motorcycles, and mopeds to proceed through an intersection on a steady red signal during certain hours if the traffic signal is controlled by a vehicle detection device that is inoperative due to the size or composition ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HB582 | Engross
50% | Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse may be initiated, including an otherwise timebarred action. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on traumainformed response. Effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB1505 | Engross
50% | Encourages the EUTF to consider investment opportunities in industries that will sustain Hawaii's natural environment or produce economic opportunities for its residents, including renewable energy businesses and businesses that use investment capita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB1426 | Engross
50% | Establishes a food and product innovation network within the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Appropriates funds for food and product innovation facilities on the islands of Molokai, Oahu, and Hawaii. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HB1383 | Engross
50% | Establishes a task force to identify the top ten fruits or vegetables that are imported into the State but may be commercially grown in the State. Creates an income tax credit to incentivize the production of those fruits or vegetables to obviate the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB419 | Engross
50% | Requires the counties to exempt from county permitting requirements the installation of off-grid residential photovoltaic energy generating systems on the rooftops of residential properties, under certain circumstances. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1150 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to support the Hawaii ant lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB993 | Engross
50% | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, in cooperation with each state agency having operational responsibilities over state facilities, to develop a standardized process to conduct vulnerability assessments for facilities at ris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB418 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for repairing warning sirens statewide. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1348 | Engross
50% | Clarifies labeling requirements for macadamia nuts. Requires country of origin to be included on the principal display panel of a consumer package of raw or processed macadamia nuts. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB981 | Engross
50% | Authorizes a fingerprint-based criminal history record check by the county police departments of applicants for licenses to sell, offer to sell, distribute, or otherwise transfer electric guns or cartridges. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1267 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of land and natural resources to develop and implement a management system for Kaena point state park, Makua, and Keawaula regions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB752 | Engross
50% | Expands the jurisdiction for a petition for a domestic abuse protective order to be in the family court in which the nonresident is located; the respondent resides; the subject of a petition that is a minor, incapacitated person, or person who is phy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB275 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to provide grants to assist taro farmers in meeting the costs of cultivating taro for consumption. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1362 | Engross
50% | Authorizes certain entities to elect to pay Hawaii income tax at the entity level through pass-through entities. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB642 | Engross
50% | Requires check cashers to report suspected financial exploitation of elders and vulnerable adults in relation to check cashing. Authorizes a check casher to refuse to cash a check in situations of suspected financial exploitation. Provides immunity f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1039 | Engross
50% | Amends Act 278, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to modify the transfer of the personnel and functions of the department of the attorney general to the department of law enforcement, clarify that Act 278 does not amend or abrogate the attorney general's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB586 | Engross
50% | Requires the Judiciary to develop and implement an automated court appearance reminder system that generates text message and electronic mail notifications for upcoming court appearances in certain types of cases. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB756 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of land and natural resources to prepare plans and a program to facilitate voluntary relocation of residential development away from areas at risk of sea level rise. Establishes the sea level rise relocation special fund. Allo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1406 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a two-year study on the maximized use of recycled asphalt across the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1303 | Engross
50% | Appropriates moneys to the City and County of Honolulu Board of Water Supply to create a pilot program that incentivizes residential homeowners in certain dry areas to replace landscaping and irrigation with alternatives that reduce water use. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB605 | Engross
50% | Establishes a dam and reservoir working group to ensure and enhance the continued availability and operation of dams and reservoirs in the State and consider their role in drought mitigation and the maintenance of a dependable water supply. Appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1145 | Engross
50% | Requires all places of public accommodation constructed after 12/31/23 to provide universal changing accommodations in public restrooms. Where feasible and cost effective, requires all bids for state building construction, projects submitted after 6/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB305 | Engross
50% | Updates the Hawaii State Planning Act's economic agricultural objectives and policies and priority guidelines by removing references to the sugar and pineapple industries. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB537 | Engross
50% | Includes electronic smoking devices and e-liquids under the definition of "tobacco products" for purposes of cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Repeals the electronic smoking device retailer registration unit under the department of the attorney gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1350 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to establish and implement a GroupGAP food safety training and certification program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB619 | Engross
50% | Establishes an income tax credit for qualified farms that donate eligible food products or prepared food to food banks or food pantries located in the State. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2026. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1014 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the employees' retirement system's eligibility requirement definitions for service-connected disability and accidental death benefits. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB351 | Engross
50% | Establishes a nonrefundable income tax credit for owners of condominium units whose condominium association is increasing maintenance fees or imposing a special assessment to comply with a county ordinance requiring an automatic fire sprinkler system...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB843 | Engross
50% | Authorizes supplemental categorical funding for remote schools. Defines "remote school". Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1159 | Engross
50% | Requires the Hawaii community development authority to consider the impacts of climate change, sea level rise, and climate-resilient development in the design and siting of buildings in the Kakaako and Kalaeloa community development districts. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
