| HB1777 | Engross
50% | Authorizes dental hygienists who are under the general supervision of a licensed dentist to perform preventive dental sealant screenings and apply dental sealants on certain individuals in a school-based oral health program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1592 | Engross
50% | Increases the maximum amount of conveyance tax revenues allocated to the land conservation fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB2222 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Education to convene a staggered school start times task force to study and evaluate the issues and implications of instituting a staggered school start times program, including effects on school bus schedules. Requires a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1638 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the counties to require employers to disclose information regarding its employees' wages, benefits, hours, and employment status and deny, revoke, or suspend a building permit application for violating laws relating to wages, benefits, hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB2780 | Engross
50% | Incrementally amends income tax rates for every other taxable year beginning after 12/31/2026. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| 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). |
| HB1960 | Engross
50% | Establishes and appropriates funds for temporary positions within OPSD to support the activities of a district organization for a statewide economic development district. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB1907 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of land and natural resources to establish and implement a two-year Manoa stream maintenance reimbursement pilot program to reimburse homeowners adjacent to Manoa stream for clearing debris in Manoa stream. Appropriates funds ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1566 | Engross
50% | Establishes requirements, including additional disclosures and consumer consent, regarding the collection, use, and sharing of consumer health data information. Establishes rights for consumers regarding their health data, including the right to have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB2403 | Engross
50% | Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of Education for charter schools. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2091 | Engross
50% | Exempts from the school impact fees the development of certain housing developments with income restrictions and additional or accessory dwelling units. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB2498 | Engross
50% | Requires the tuition residency rules for the University of Hawaii to grant the resident tuition fee for enrollment at any University of Hawaii campus to individuals who have graduated from a Hawaii high school and are enrolling in an undergraduate de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB1682 | Engross
50% | Requires retail pet stores to maintain and provide certain records relating to the source and medical history of each pet animal obtained by the store. Authorizes retail pet stores to showcase dogs and cats owned by a nonprofit animal welfare organiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB2514 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Teacher Home Assistance Program to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers. Appropriates funds out of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB2661 | Engross
50% | Enacts the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact to reduce barriers to teacher license portability and employment. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1812 | Engross
50% | Restricts the use of solitary confinement in state-operated and state-contracted correctional facilities, with certain specified exceptions. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop written policies and procedures regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB2217 | Engross
50% | Requires the Departments of Health, Human Services, and Education to research and make recommendations on any rules, policies, and amendments to the Medicaid State Plan or Medicaid 1915(c) Waiver that are necessary to ensure provision of clinically a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB2578 | Engross
50% | Exempts prekindergarten-only public charter schools from certain provisions affecting charter schools relating to funding and finance, the use of the weighted student formula, athletics, enrollment, computer science courses and content, and enrollmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2806 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii opioid litigation proceeds special fund. Establishes the Hawaii opioid litigation proceeds council to oversee the Hawaii opioid settlement advisory committee's expenditure of opioid litigation proceeds. Establishes standards fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1601 | Intro
25% | Requires law enforcement officers to issue citations in lieu of arrest for certain offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2800 | Intro
25% | Beginning 7/1/2024, and occurring every ten years thereafter, requires the Department of the Attorney General to convene an Advisory Committee on Mental Health Code Review. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2525 | Intro
25% | Provides that the Liquor Commission or other licensing agency of each county shall deny the renewal of certain current liquor licenses upon receipt of sufficient protests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2781 | Intro
25% | Establishes a surcharge on general excise and use taxes. Effective 1/1/2031.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2773 | Intro
25% | Establishes certain standards for agricultural products labeled as being Hawaiian or from Hawaii. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2049 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Property Insurance Association to post information about its board members and an annual report on its website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2466 | Intro
25% | Abolishes the Task Force on Beach and Water Safety and the Risk Assessment Working Group. Requires the design and placement of warning signs, devices, and systems to be approved by the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources for state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2778 | Intro
25% | Establishes a surcharge on the transient accommodations tax for transient vacation rental located outside a zoned resort area. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2682 | Intro
25% | Provides that the Hawaiian language college revolving fund may include moneys from any revenue source. Provides that the fund and the Hawaiian early learning trust fund shall support the Imiloa astronomy center. Establishes a cap on individual deposi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1562 | Intro
25% | Adds forfeiture of a vehicle as a maximum penalty on a third conviction for operating a motor vehicle without a license within a five-year period. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1603 | Intro
25% | Amends various provisions related to pretrial release.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1572 | Intro
25% | Limits the exclusion from gross income to pensions received for past services provided in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2531 | Intro
25% | Allows a person who employs or contracts with a health care worker who suffers an act of violence to report the event to law enforcement and petition for a temporary restraining order and injunction under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1804 | Intro
25% | Requires that income tax credits established or renewed after 12/31/2024 include a five-year sunset or an annual one-third reduction, beginning with the sixth year of the credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1689 | Intro
25% | Amends conservation and resources law to prohibit: (1) Commercial sales of parrotfish that have been caught by spearing; and (2) The spearing of parrotfish in state waters after sunset or before sunrise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2391 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Public Utilities Commission under the Universal Service Program may provide, and may use funds from the Universal Service Fund to provide, free telecommunications access to certain individuals with a print disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2187 | Intro
25% | Establishes a non-refundable income tax credit for residential landlords who lease a unit to a tenant with a pet for at least six months.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2100 | Intro
25% | Provides rebates for eligible electric vehicle-ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB2754 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Plant-Based Building Materials Working Group to report on how best to grow plants and develop plant-based building materials in Hawaii and provide economic development and green jobs while sequestering greenhouse gases to help achieve t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2613 | Intro
25% | Expands the criminal offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes a $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false-labeling of Hawaii-grown roasted coffee. Makes an appropriation for 1.0 FTE enforcement positio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2138 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to establish an agriculture education coordinator position. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2130 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for the sustainable food systems working group and positions within the Department of Agriculture. Requires report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2429 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Human Services to provide temporary emergency public assistance, case management, and other recovery services following the period covered by an emergency proclamation and establishes an emergency management program withi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2629 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Homeless Services Special Fund. Allows counties to apply for matching funds from the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund for certain housing projects. Increases the conveyance tax rates for certain properties. Establishes conveyan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2182 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to administer a three-year rural community health worker pilot program that enables community health workers to provide outreach, education, training, and navigation to individuals residing in rural communities in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2326 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to purchase, staff, and operate two mobile clinics to serve homeless persons residing in ohana zones. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2137 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii farm to food bank program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2335 | Intro
25% | Reduces and sets fixed interest rates for loans under the Agricultural Loan Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2630 | Intro
25% | Authorizes, and establishes a regulatory framework for, the administration of psilocybin for therapeutic use. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1629 | Intro
25% | Requires contested cases, environmental assessment cases, or environmental impact statement cases involving large-scale renewable energy projects over twenty megawatts in size to be appealed from an agency's decision directly to the Hawaii Supreme Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2617 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Aquaculture Advisory Committee within the Department of Agriculture. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
