| HI | HB1844 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the establishment of temporary adjunct faculty positions at the University of Hawaii Maui College. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1934 | Engross
50% | Requires the Director of Transportation to convene an intoxicated driving reduction working group, under the leadership of Hawaii's strategic highway safety plan, to make recommendations for amendments to existing laws to reduce incidents of intoxica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1940 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds out of the Works of Art Special Fund to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts for the integration of works of art projects into several major capital improvement projects. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| 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 | HB2556 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the sources of funding for the Hawaii ABLE Saving Program Trust Fund. Authorizes the Director of Finance to expend all moneys in the trust fund to fulfill the purposes of the Hawaii ABLE Savings Program, including providing incentive paymen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| 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] | 2024-03-22
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 | 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 | HB408 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Health to, in its discretion, certify community care foster family homes for a fourth adult who is a Medicaid recipient and has documented housing instability, if certain conditions are met. Requires the Department of Hea...
[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 | 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 | HB2738 | Engross
50% | Requires state agencies to assess the potential and feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each state facility and submit a report to the Legislature detailing their findings; implement and install the distributed energy res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2744 | Engross
50% | Establishes an Oral Health Task Force to review the status of oral health in the State and make recommendations to improve the State's oral health infrastructure. Requires reports to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1409 | Engross
50% | Extends under certain conditions, the family leave period for up to eight 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. Requires the Civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | HB1217 | Engross
50% | Prohibits any person other than those authorized pursuant to chapter 329, part IX or chapter 329D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, from cultivating, producing, manufacturing, distributing, possessing, or dispensing cannabis for medical use. Clarifies that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | HB1250 | Engross
50% | Imposes labeling requirements for mamaki tea grown in the State. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to administer the mamaki tea labeling requirements. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | HB852 | Engross
50% | Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" to include the processing of value-added agricultural products grown within an enterprise zone and the development or production of renewable energy. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2622 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement for the State's Gun Buyback Program. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 7/1/2042. (SD1)
[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 | HCR47 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Convene A Working Group To Inform The Public About The Options Available To Address The State's Feral Chicken Population.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HR36 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Convene A Working Group To Inform The Public About The Options Available To Address The State's Feral Chicken Population.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HR137 | Intro
25% | Requesting A Task Force To Be Established To Recommend Changes To The Structure And Administration Of The Commission On Water Resource Management To Improve Its Operations And Functions And Protect Its Mission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HCR158 | Intro
25% | Requesting A Task Force To Be Established To Recommend Changes To The Structure And Administration Of The Commission On Water Resource Management To Improve Its Operations And Functions And Protect Its Mission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Water & Land 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 | 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 | HB2515 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the types of events that constitute disasters and emergencies for the purposes of emergency management. Takes effect 7/1/2042. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HR159 | Intro
25% | Requesting The State Health Planning And Development Agency To Convene A Health Information Data Sharing Working Group To Collaborate And Establish The Framework And Standards For Future Health Information Data Sharing Legislation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HCR178 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Health To Assess The Registration And Monitoring Of Clean And Sober Homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HCR179 | Intro
25% | Requesting The State Health Planning And Development Agency To Convene A Health Information Data Sharing Working Group To Collaborate And Establish The Framework And Standards For Future Health Information Data Sharing Legislation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HR158 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Health To Assess The Registration And Monitoring Of Clean And Sober Homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2084 | Engross
50% | Establishes a vacated homeless encampment clean up task force to identify parcels of land that require intergovernmental coordination to clean up vacated homeless encampments located on lands managed by government agencies, including but not limited ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Health and Human Services 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 | HB2242 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for full-time equivalent career foundations certificate program teachers for McKinley Community School for Adults. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Education 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1677 | Engross
50% | Specifies conditions for exemptions for the University of Hawaii from sections 87A-39(a) and 88-125(a), HRS. Amends the formulation of general fund budget appropriation in proportion to the amount of regular tuition and related fee revenues estimated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1825 | Engross
50% | Authorizes out-of-state pharmacists to transfer prescription information for the initial fill of an out-of-state prescription. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
