| HI | HB1967 | Engross
50% | Changes the administration of the Human Trafficking Victim Services Fund from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to the Department of the Attorney General. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means 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. Requires a report to the Legislature. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2174 | Engross
50% | Repeals the existing conditions under which government entities may seek reimbursement for search or rescue expenses and instead requires a government entity of the State to impose and collect a fee for search or rescue expenses for persons who requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2263 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Agribusiness Development Corporation to establish positions to maintain and improve the East Kauai irrigation system and for maintenance of and improvements to the system. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2544 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the Department of Health a 2-year pilot project to charter flights from rural islands to an urban island to provide rural island residents with reliable transportation to medical care on urban islands. Appropriates funds. Declares ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| 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] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2758 | Engross
50% | Facilitates the control and eradication of invasive species and pests. Establishes a plant nursery registration program. Requires the Board of Agriculture to designate certain species as pests for control or eradication. Imposes certain limits on imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1608 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for four deputy public defender positions within the Office of the Public Defender and requires that one of the positions be assigned to the family court section. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Take...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means 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] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1834 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to increase the base budget of the Department of Human Services' Homeless Programs Office. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1776 | Engross
50% | Amends income tax brackets. Temporarily amends the applicable percentage of the employment-related expenses for which the child and dependent care income tax credit may be claimed and permanently provides for a disallowance period when there is a fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1972 | Engross
50% | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii State Energy Office to make recommendations for the reuse and recycling of electric vehicle batteries and report to the Legislature. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means 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] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2552 | Engross
50% | Extends, under certain conditions, the family leave period under state law, 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 c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means 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] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education 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] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1840 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to support long-term water quality monitoring and pollution source detection. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1781 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Panaewa Community Development District to allow for planning, development, and maintenance of public lands in Panaewa, Hawaii. Amends membership of the Hawaii Community Development Authority to include representatives of the Panaewa C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1843 | Engross
50% | Establishes the State Fire Marshal within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to direct fire protection efforts statewide. Appropriates funds. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1959 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Aerospace and Aeronautics Development Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2261 | Engross
50% | Amends the definition of "historic property" used in historic preservation laws to only include property listed on the Hawaii or National Register of Historic Places or built before 8/21/1959. Require historic review for proposed projects on existing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB2548 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Accessory Dwelling Unit Loan Program under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide loans for the development of accessory dwelling units. Appropriates funds. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2771 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the continued administration of the Hawaii Healthy Food Incentive Program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Declares that the general fund expenditu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | HB1771 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1769 | Engross
50% | Establishes a refundable Family Caregiver Tax Credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature before the convening of each Regular Session. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2230 | Engross
50% | Requires the Law Enforcement Standards Board to develop, and each department employing law enforcement officers to implement, a structured health intervention program to support law enforcement officers' physical and mental health. Takes effect 7/1/2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2772 | Engross
50% | Requires a translation and explanation of how to pronounce the state motto using modern Hawaiian orthography as displayed on the state seal on the official state website. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
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 | HB2133 | Engross
50% | Establishes an invasive species grant pilot program to provide grants through DOA to individuals, businesses, and organizations for the eradication of invasive species on property located in Hawaii that is owned by the individual, business, or organi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2134 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to establish grant specialist positions within the Department of Agriculture. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2590 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for food bank purchases from local farmers, to be expended by the Department of Agriculture via requests for proposals. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1956 | Engross
50% | Establishes a business revitalization task force to identify methods to improve Hawaii's general economic competitiveness and business climate, including by mitigating regulatory and tax burdens. Requires a report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/30...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB1535 | Engross
50% | Provides scholarships for the unmet needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain criteria. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | 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 |
| HI | HB1630 | Engross
50% | Part II: Prohibits county zoning ordinances from not allowing two or more additional dwelling units per residential lot within an urban district. Prohibits private covenants for residential lots within a state urban land use district from including c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1655 | Engross
50% | Requires the DOE to work with the BOE to create a public digital platform by the 2027-2028 school year that shows how schools are adopting high-quality instructional materials for K-12 English language arts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1654 | Engross
50% | Establishes the qualified internship grant program within the Department of Education to provide grants to businesses and organizations that employ qualified interns participating in work-based learning through a qualified internship program. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1657 | Engross
50% | Requires all public schools to implement universal screenings for students in kindergarten through third grade to identify and support students who are at risk of dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1650 | Engross
50% | Requires the board of education to invite the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the department of education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative to the board and the exclusive re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1767 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans for school bus services if certain conditions are met. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB1782 | Engross
50% | Makes a conforming amendment to allow the Department of Health, or its designee, to conduct criminal history record checks on applicants for hemp processor permits. Sunsets 7/1/2027. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1773 | Engross
50% | Requires the law enforcement standards board to develop training materials related to the recognition and signs of Alzheimer's disease and related types of dementia. Requires law enforcement officers to review training materials for at least one hour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1775 | Engross
50% | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students enrolled in department schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1835 | Engross
50% | Establishes the distribution management advisory board to develop and advise on the statewide distribution management plan. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | 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 |
| HI | HB1774 | Engross
50% | Establishes a silver alert program within the Department of Law Enforcement to help locate and safeguard missing persons who are sixty years of age or older, cognitively impaired, or developmentally disabled. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1904 | Engross
50% | Provides a process for school placement for a child whose parent or guardian has transferred or is pending transfer from another state to a military installation in Hawaii while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order. Effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | 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 |
