| HI | HB1903 | Engross 50% | Expands access of early learning programs to other state properties and public lands besides public school campuses. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2183 | Engross 50% | Establishes safe harbor protections for survivors of sexual exploitation who seek medical or law enforcement assistance. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2683 | Engross 50% | Makes permanent the exemption of laboratory school programs of the Hawaiian language college at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from state English-medium standards, assessments, performance ratings, staff qualifications, and staff training requireme... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1653 | Engross 50% | Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement negotiated for Bargaining Unit (5), provides annual salary step increases for public school teachers and educational officers who have completed a year's satisfactory service and comply with specified req... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1662 | Engross 50% | Establishes a refundable child tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1651 | Engross 50% | Requires the Department of Education and public charter schools to take certain steps to report incidents of harassment and implement procedures for handling harassment of educational workers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 3:02 pm] To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1652 | Engross 50% | Establishes a state income tax credit for qualified expenses incurred by certain individuals employed by the Department of Education, a public charter school, the Hawaii state public library system, or as part of a head start program in a school. Eff... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 The committee(s) on EDU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EDU were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Kidani, Kim, Hashimoto, Richards, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB1936 | Engross 50% | Requires the Department of Transportation to require that the securing of mooring lines from vessels to commercial docks, wharves, piers, quays, and landings be performed by labor subject to collective bargaining. Sunsets 7/1/2028. Effective 7/1/3000... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 3:00 pm] To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB2083 | Engross 50% | Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a recognition program to incentivize schools to submit to the Department a plan for the school to reach the local farm to school meal goal of thirty per cent of food served in the school to consist ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB2216 | Engross 50% | Increases the cap on state supplemental payments for type l adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, certified adult foster homes, and type II adult residential care home... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB2224 | Engross 50% | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to create a comprehensive long-term care master plan to accomplish long-term care policy goals that, when implemented, ensure the availability of a full continuum of institutional and community-based services. E... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HHS were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB2253 | Engross 50% | Authorizes the Department of Health to require all restaurants and hotel establishments to maintain an inventory of an opioid antagonist. Expressly permits law enforcement officers to carry an opioid antagonist while on-duty. Requires funds for the p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2552 | Engross 50% | Extends, under certain conditions, the family leave period for up to eight additional weeks for employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the birth of a child who is required to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit. Require... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 The committee(s) on LBT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in LBT were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Aquino, Moriwaki, Ihara, Lee; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella. |
| HI | HB2535 | Engross 50% | Establishes a child care classroom contracts pilot program to require the Department of Human Services to contract directly with child care center providers in licensed infant and toddler child care centers and group child care centers that meet cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HHS were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB2611 | Engross 50% | Statutorily establishes a Department of Land and Natural Resources transaction fee for each recording in the Bureau of Conveyances and Land Court. Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to adopt, amend, or repeal administrative fees, incl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WTL were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, McKelvey, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Chang. |
| HI | HB2713 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to provide additional support and resources to families receiving benefits through the State's adoption assistance and permanency assistance programs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa. |
| HI | HB2712 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for applied behavioral analysis services for persons with autism. Requires the Department of Human Services to obtain maximum federal matching funds and pursue all other funding sources. Effective 7/1/3000. ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa. |
| HI | HB2743 | Engross 50% | Requires each county to develop and maintain a wastewater management plan. Authorizes the Director of Health to exempt a county from creating a wastewater management plan under certain conditions. Requires the counties to identify specific priority a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:01 pm]
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 1 No(es): Senator(s) Awa; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB2787 | Engross 50% | Increases the maximum amount of deductible contributions for individual housing accounts. Requires the Department of Taxation to create and implement a public awareness campaign about individual housing accounts. Appropriates funds. Applies to taxabl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HR191 | Intro 25% | Urging The Department Of Accounting And General Services And The Department Of Human Resources Development To Evaluate Subsidizing Public Transit For Public Employees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 10:00 am] To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HCR211 | Intro 25% | Urging The Department Of Accounting And General Services And The Department Of Human Resources Development To Evaluate Subsidizing Public Transit For Public Employees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 10:00 am] To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HCR201 | Intro 25% | Establishing A Candidate Advisory Committee For The Nomination Of The Auditor, Ombudsman, And Legislative Reference Bureau Director. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 3:00 pm] To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HI | HB500 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to DOE to promote surfing as an interscholastic sport. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 3:01 pm] To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1565 | Engross 50% | Excludes a homeowner-developer from the annual requirement to file a developer's report and pay a fee if the homeowner's development consists of not more than two units, one in which the developer resides and one for which the initial sale of the oth... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 9:30 am] To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1624 | Engross 50% | For policies, contracts, plans, and agreements issued or renewed after 12/31/2024, requires the insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services for persons unde... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1595 | Engross 50% | Creates a pilot project, to be administered by the Department of the Attorney General, for a state-initiated expungement process of arrest records concerning certain marijuana offenses under section 712-1249, HRS. Requires the Hawai?i Criminal Justic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1833 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds into and out of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to provide loans or grants for mixed-income rental projects or units in mixed-income rental projects for qualifying individuals and families. Appropriates funds for an unspecified n... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1841 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to DLNR for operating expenses, equipment, the establishment of positions, and capital improvement projects to support wildfire emergency response. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 3:00 pm] To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HCR3 | Intro 25% | Urging Each County To Establish An Emergency Zoning Code For Post-disaster Use. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 9:00 am] To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1837 | Engross 50% | Requires the Department of Education to grant public access to emergency action plans that do not pose a security risk to students, staff, or guests of school campuses. Requires each Department school to have a comprehensive school evacuation communi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 3:00 pm] To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1834 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to increase the department of human services' homeless programs office base budget. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa. |
| HI | HB1826 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds for temporary positions to support the statewide expansion of the University of Hawaii Windward Community College's mental health-related programs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm] To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1892 | Engross 50% | Part II: Amends the deadlines for required upgrades conversions, or connections for certain priority level 1 and priority level 2 cesspools. Part III: Authorizes and appropriates funds to the Department of Health to retain qualified consultants as ne... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, DeCoite, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Richards, Awa. |
| HI | HB1843 | Engross 50% | Establishes the office of the state fire marshal to direct fire protection efforts statewide. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Elefante, Fukunaga, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa. |
| HI | HB1838 | Engross 50% | Allows counties to enact a zoning ordinance to amortize or phase out nonconforming single-family transient vacation rental units over a reasonable period of time. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:40 am] To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1830 | Engross 50% | Establishes provisional or associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Requires psychologist license applican... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HCR4 | Intro 25% | Requesting Hawaii's Congressional Delegation To Amend The Wildland Fire Protection Agreement To Allow Hawaii To Join As A Member. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:30 am] To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1844 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds for temporary adjunct faculty positions at the University of Hawaii Maui College. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm] To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1896 | Engross 50% | Beginning 1/1/2027, prohibits the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, distribution for sale, and distribution for use of any food packaging, food service ware, cosmetic, or personal care product that contains intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and pol... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, DeCoite, Rhoads, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Richards. |
| HI | HB1937 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the preparation of an environmental impact statement to drill non-potable water wells on individual parcels at Panaewa and Pahoa agricultural parks. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB1900 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to improve the State's water resource management and hydrologic data collection. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in WTL were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, McKelvey; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Chang, Fevella. |
| HI | HB1902 | Engross 50% | Clarifies that the Governor's and mayors' emergency management powers shall be consistent with the state constitution. Clarifies the scope of the comprehensive emergency management plan. Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to extend or te... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Fukunaga, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Elefante ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa. |
| HI | HB1945 | Engross 50% | Establishes and appropriates funds for a leave cash-out pilot program for eligible department of corrections and rehabilitation employees who work in any state correctional facility. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2012 | Engross 50% | Removes the exemption that allowed owners of multiple parking facilities within the State to designate and electrify fewer parking spaces than required in one or more of the properties if the requirement for the total number of aggregate spaces on al... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB2175 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds for and requires the involvement of community members and organizations in the development of a community-based long-range transportation plan for the Kaaawa, Punaluu, and Hauula communities. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm] To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB2215 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding of certain medicaid home and community-based services, including adult day programs and residential services offered in community care foster family homes and expanded adult residential care homes. Requires ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa. |
| HI | HB2218 | Engross 50% | Amends the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended, to increase the loan limit for direct loans provided by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from fifty per cent to seventy-five per cent of the maximum single residence loan amount allow... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2246 | Engross 50% | Transfers the awarding and administration of certain cultural grants from the Hawaii Tourism Authority to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and establishes a standing selection committee within the Foundation to review and award the cultur... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2298 | Engross 50% | Establishes a timeline by which roasted coffee, instant coffee, and ready-to-drink coffee beverages that use a geographic origin in labeling or advertising are required to contain a certain per cent coffee by weight from that geographic origin. Requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 9:30 am] To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2241 | Engross 50% | Grants Civil Air Patrol the ability to receive grant funding from the State without requiring bylaws or policies that describe the manner in which the activities or services for which a grant is awarded shall be conducted or provided. Appropriates fu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |