| HI | 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 |
| HI | 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 |
| HI | 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 |
| HI | HB2297 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii state energy office to adopt rules governing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | 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 |
| HI | 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 |
| HI | HB1954 | Intro
25% | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2132 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Ant Lab to share data collected related to invasive ant surveys with the Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Ant Lab to support little fire ant mitigation and e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2127 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with other state agencies, to develop and implement a plan to expand the meat processing capacity in the State to allow for meat from axis deer and other wild game to be processed for distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2142 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for its meat inspection program, including positions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2191 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the City and County of Honolulu for the expansion of the feral chicken project and the Vector Control Branch of the Department of Health for a statewide education campaign for the feeding of feral animals. Effective 7/1/3000. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2618 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for an aquaculture park that promotes commercial aquaculture expansion. Requires a report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2623 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization to establish an aquatic safety education program for elementary school students and to establish one full-time equivalent position (1.0 FTE) to admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2672 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support the Hawaii ant lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2116 | Intro
25% | Requires the examiner of drivers of a county to conduct the testing of an applicant for a driver's license to demonstrate the ability to exercise ordinary and reasonable control in the operation of a motor vehicle in English or in certain other langu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2129 | Intro
25% | Includes single-ingredient products as a purchasing option for certain state departments and entities to fulfill their local food purchasing requirements. Defines "single-ingredient product".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2123 | Intro
25% | Requires the owner or operator of each waste combustion facility or municipal solid waste landfill to develop a plan to implement continuous monitoring and sampling technologies for the purposes of collecting data regarding emissions. Requires a publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2271 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2025, requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to administer a workforce development incentive rebate program that incentivizes local independent film and television productions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB2232 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of the Attorney General to publish annual reports regarding certain protective and restraining orders, firearms, and electric guns. Authorizes persons subject to certain protective and restraining orders to possess or control ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2122 | Intro
25% | Establishes a private roads task force to identify and facilitate the repair and transfer of certain private or disputed roads to the appropriate government agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB2199 | Intro
25% | Amends the Hawaii Workforce Development Council law to be consistent with the General Appropriations Act of 2021. Renames "Hawaii Workforce Development Council" to "Hawaii Workforce Development Board". Requires the Hawaii Workforce Development Board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2537 | Intro
25% | Imposes a penalty for knowingly selling invasive plants or plants containing invasive species.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB966 | Intro
25% | Beginning on 1/1/2024, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2219 | Intro
25% | Increases the number of Commission on Water Resource Management members from 7 to 8, with only 5 of the 8 members required to have substantial experience in water resource management. Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, or the Chai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2580 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the removal of a manufacturer- or factory-installed speed limiting device from an electric bicycle. Prohibits the operation of an electric bicycle, in which the manufacturer- or factory-installed speed limiting device was removed from the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB2750 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to ensure there is equitable distribution of clean and sober homes throughout a county. Requires an applicant to obtain written approval from the appropriate county showing compliance with all land use and zoning ord...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| HI | HB2296 | Intro
25% | Establishes a tax credit for the import of renewable fuel. Updates the renewable fuels production tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2575 | Intro
25% | Establishes a construction trades workforce development program in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to develop, establish, and implement a construction trades career pathway program for high school students in the State. Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| 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
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2249 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that violation of part I of chapter 200, HRS, relating to ocean recreation and coastal areas, or any rules adopted thereunder shall be subject to criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2245 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for an artificial intelligence government services pilot program to provide certain government services to the public through an internet portal that uses artificial intelligence technologies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| 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
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| 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
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2252 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of habitual violent misdemeanor crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2272 | Intro
25% | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of a state lottery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB2511 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| 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
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2545 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for various agricultural infrastructure projects throughout the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2540 | Intro
25% | Requires each public high school in the State to require students to complete and pass 2 full years of Hawaiian language courses as a condition of graduation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2507 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to: (1) conduct a remote work study; (2) review any recent remote work studies done by the counties; (3) develop and administer a remote work program; and (4) submit the study to the Legislature ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| 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
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2608 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "burial site".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2752 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-fifth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2751 | Intro
25% | Establishes the misdemeanor offense of criminal littering in the first degree for the improper disposal of household hazardous waste on public or private property or in public or private waters. Amends existing criminal littering offense to be the of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
