| HI | HB2561 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that a person who uses deadly force in self-defense does not have a duty to retreat if they are in their dwelling or on their property unless they are the initial aggressor. Repeals statutory language that permits a person to use deadly for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2347 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "profits from prostitution" to include money or property received regardless of expenditures or if it was a reimbursement or repayment of a debt. Amends the sex trafficking and promoting prostitution criminal offense statu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2763 | Intro
25% | Allows the Hawaiian Homes Commission to retain independent legal counsel. Authorizes the Hawaiian Homes Commission to use the services of the Attorney General as needed. Provides that funds owed to independent legal counsel shall be paid by the Hawai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2205 | Intro
25% | Proposes to amend the Constitution of the State of Hawaii by: (1) Providing that the Department of Law Enforcement shall be headed by an elected Sheriff; (2) Applying to the Sheriff the same constitutional impeachment and removal provisions that appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2600 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis Authority and Cannabis Control Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning January 1, 2026, legalizes the personal adult use of cannabis. Establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2300 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Search and Rescue Division within the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct search or rescue operations. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2202 | Intro
25% | Takes effect only upon ratification of constitutional amendment requiring the election of the Sheriff as the single executive of the Department of Law Enforcement. Effective 1/1/2025, amends elections law to accommodate the election of the Sheriff. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2601 | Intro
25% | Creates the offense of urinating or defecating in public. Provides penalties for public urination or defecation. Requires mental health evaluation and supportive services for a homeless person arrested for urinating or defecating in public places.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2244 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the court to elevate the offense of criminal trespass in the first degree from a misdemeanor to a class C felony if the court deems the trespassing to be egregious or repeated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2625 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that a contested case hearing is not required when an identical or substantially similar administrative matter has been finally adjudicated. Includes administrative contested case proceedings within the scope of the vexatious litigant statu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2305 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2028, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties to be enforced by the Department of Health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2592 | Intro
25% | Allows the counties to impose, by ordinance, enhanced penalties for graffiti in certain designated zones and supersede graffiti sentencing requirements under the Penal Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2669 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to constitutional matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2322 | Intro
25% | Allows a letter of attestation to the Director of Finance to act as an endorsed certificate for motor vehicle transfer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2320 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain personal information of public servants from government records that are subject to disclosure under the State's Uniform Information Practices Act. Establishes within the State's Address Confidentiality Program protection for public s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2348 | Intro
25% | Allows the prosecution of persons who provide pornographic materials to undercover law enforcement officers who represent themselves as minors for purposes of undercover operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2306 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, or operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers. Increases the amounts of fines for offenses against leaf blower restrictions and provides for the forfeiture of gasoline-powered leaf blowers on a third violation. Rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2551 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of unlawful assembly or disassembly of a bicycle or moped on public property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2283 | Intro
25% | Establishes heightened penalties for the assault and terroristic threatening of health care workers. Clarifies the definition of "terroristic threatening" to include the methods of contact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2510 | Intro
25% | Excludes from the definition of "laws" in section 127A-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, county charter provisions pertaining to executive, legislative, and administrative structure and organization are excluded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2699 | Intro
25% | Requires the State to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions when the employee was acting within the scope of their employment and was not grossly negligent or wanton, or failing to cooperate. Clarifies that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2289 | Intro
25% | Imposes new security requirements for voting systems. Deems as election fraud certain acts relating to the provision of valuable consideration, including gifts and loans, for the purpose of bribery; election tampering; and security breaches. Appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2660 | Intro
25% | Amends or repeals various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes or the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, or deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2656 | Intro
25% | Provides that a maximum time period to grant or deny a business or development-related permit, license, or approval shall only apply if a request for a contested case has not been filed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2344 | Intro
25% | Amends the criminal offense statute for tampering with physical evidence to adopt the wording of the Model Penal Code for the same offense. The class of offense is unchanged.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2564 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition and declaration of interests of beneficiaries of land trusts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2697 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2666 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to civil rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2269 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to conduct a study on the potential impacts of permitting the sale of aerial devices in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2273 | Intro
25% | Requires special sentencing of habitual violent felons. Requires the Department of Law enforcement, in collaboration with the Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions, to work with Weed & Seed Hawaii, Inc., to expand Weed & Seed Hawaii,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2247 | Intro
25% | Extends the date after which primary caregivers will no longer be authorized to cultivate cannabis for a qualifying patient to 12/31/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2252 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of habitual violent misdemeanor crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2667 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2706 | Intro
25% | Establishes fines for any person who sets off fireworks without a valid permit and while a red flag warning is in effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2345 | Intro
25% | Explicitly categorizes defenses based on intoxication that is pathological or not self-induced as affirmative defenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2321 | Intro
25% | Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State of Hawaii, to begin with the 2028 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2668 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to incarceration alternatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2707 | Intro
25% | Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to require the chair of a committee of the Legislature to set for public hearing every bill assigned to the committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2635 | Intro
25% | Establishes a continuous Legislature. Requires the Legislature to convene at least once a month. Removes language regarding special sessions, adjournment, and recesses. Creates a two-year deadline for a bill to be submitted for gubernatorial consider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2528 | Intro
25% | Provides that a person who violates aquatic life conservation law in a manner that harasses aquatic life, if convicted, shall be imprisoned for no fewer than 48 hours for the violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2704 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to ethics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2716 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of involuntary manslaughter. Renames the existing offense of manslaughter as voluntary manslaughter. Amends various statutory provisions to accommodate the 2 forms of manslaughter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB2585 | Intro
25% | Creates the offense of organized retail theft. Provides penalties for organized retail theft. Creates an organized retail theft task force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | HB1710 | Intro
25% | Requires leases used in the conveyance of available lands as
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB2023 | Intro
25% | Limits the required payment of certain unpaid motor vehicle taxes and fees and accompanying financial penalties to those incurred during the first 5 consecutive years of delinquency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1873 | Intro
25% | Increases the criminal penalty for the offense of indecent exposure from a petty misdemeanor to a misdemeanor if the victim is less than 16 years of age. Provides that the state of mind requirement is not applicable to the fact that the victim is les...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1754 | Intro
25% | Requires that post-election pre-certification audits rely on physical ballots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1671 | Intro
25% | Prohibits intentionally leaving or confining pet animals in a vehicle under conditions that endanger their health, safety, or well-being. Permits law enforcement officers, animal control officers, and firefighters to enter an unattended vehicle to pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB1731 | Intro
25% | Provides that within lands under Department of Hawaiian Home Lands jurisdiction, no down payment shall be required for any mortgage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | HB2014 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a person from using a location tracker to harass, stalk, or perpetuate a crime against another person without their knowledge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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