| HI | HB1529 | Engross 50% | Allows any burial council member whose term has expired to continue in office as a holdover member until the member's reappointment to a second term is confirmed or a successor is nominated and appointed. Prohibits holdover members from holding offic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1925 | Engross 50% | Establishes the Hawaii State Planning Act Phase II Task Force within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:15 pm] To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HR1 | Intro 25% | Urging Retail Stores And Pharmacies Doing Business In The State To Adopt A Policy On A National And Local Level Guaranteeing An Individual's Unhindered Access To All United States Food And Drug Administration-approved Contraceptives. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am] To House Health Committee |
| HI | HCR5 | Intro 25% | Urging Retail Stores And Pharmacies Doing Business In The State To Adopt A Policy On A National And Local Level Guaranteeing An Individual's Unhindered Access To All United States Food And Drug Administration-approved Contraceptives. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am] To House Health Committee |
| 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 18 @ 1:00 pm] [Hearing: Mar 18 @ 1:00 pm] [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 | HR56 | Intro 25% | Requesting The Department Of Health To Convene A Stakeholder Working Group To Make Recommendations To Enhance Meaningful Access To Health Care In The State Through The Provision Of Language Assistance Services. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am] To House Health Committee |
| HI | HCR187 | Intro 25% | Requesting The Department Of Health To Convene A Health Care Facilities Labor Standards Working Group To Research, Assess, And Make Recommendations On The Best Practices In Labor Standards That Can Be Implemented At Hospitals, Care Homes, And Dialysi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am] To House Health Committee |
| HI | HR167 | Intro 25% | Requesting The Department Of Health To Convene A Health Care Facilities Labor Standards Working Group To Research, Assess, And Make Recommendations On The Best Practices In Labor Standards That Can Be Implemented At Hospitals, Care Homes, And Dialysi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am] To House Health Committee |
| HI | HCR161 | Intro 25% | Requesting The Department Of Agriculture To Convene A Working Group To Review The Effectiveness Of The Relevant State Laws Governing Agricultural-based Commercial Operations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:15 am] To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HR169 | Intro 25% | Urging The State To Prohibit The Introduction Of Biocontrol Agents That Might Threaten Economically Important Forage Grass Species. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:15 am] To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HCR189 | Intro 25% | Urging The State To Prohibit The Introduction Of Biocontrol Agents That Might Threaten Economically Important Forage Grass Species. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:15 am] To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HR140 | Intro 25% | Requesting The Department Of Agriculture To Convene A Working Group To Review The Effectiveness Of The Relevant State Laws Governing Agricultural-based Commercial Operations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:15 am] To House Agriculture 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 | HB1530 | Engross 50% | For a collective bargaining agreement or executive policy in effect on and after 7/1/2025, requires that an employer of firefighters maintains its fire staffing service at a level of no less than four on-duty firefighters in each company. Effective 7... [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 | HB1546 | Engross 50% | Amends the definition of "beach restoration" used in laws governing the Board of Land and Natural Resources' powers to engage in beach restoration to include activities undertaken to maintain and improve eroded beaches and degraded dune systems and t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. 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 | 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 | HB1554 | Engross 50% | Expands the department of land and natural resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule to impose restrictions or requirements deemed necessary to protect certain aquatic life. Expands the board of land and natural resources' authority to temp... [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 | 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] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 18 @ 3:02 pm] To Senate Education 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] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 18 @ 3:05 pm] To Senate Education 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] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 18 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Health and Human Services 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 | 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] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 18 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Health and Human Services 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 | HB1772 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to support the Department of Health's Senior Fall Prevention Campaign. Effective date 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 18 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Health and Human Services 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 | 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 | HB1776 | Engross 50% | Amends a taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses that may be claimed for the household and dependent care services tax credit for five years. Sunsets 6/30/2029. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 18 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| 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 | HB1922 | Engross 50% | Expands the department of land and natural resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule deemed necessary to protect certain wildlife. Expands the board of land and natural resources' authority to timely adopt, amend, or repeal certain rules if... [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 | HB1950 | Engross 50% | Designates November 22 of each year as "Kimchi Day" in the State. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm] To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts 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 | HB1949 | Engross 50% | Requires the University of Hawaii to establish and implement a 2-year program to develop web-GIS wildfire susceptibility and vulnerability maps for the State of Hawaii to determine which communities, landscapes, buildings, and infrastructure are most... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm] To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| 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 | HB2107 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to establish Limited English Proficiency Language Access Coordinator positions within the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 7/1/2042. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 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. 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 | HB2193 | Engross 50% | Takes effect 7/1/2042. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1974 | Engross 50% | Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal Supplemental Security Income program. Requires certain long-term care facility operators to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 18 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Health and Human Services 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 | 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. Sunsets 6... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2582 | Engross 50% | Excludes critical infrastructure information from disclosure requirements under the Uniform Information Practices Act. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2622 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement for the State's gun buyback program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [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 | HB2581 | Engross 50% | Removes the ability of the Governor or a mayor to suspend electronic media transmission during a state of emergency. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2702 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds for equipment and positions within the Department of Transportation to conduct improvements to Hana Highway. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm] To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HCR50 | Intro 25% | Requesting The Auditor To Conduct A Performance Audit Of The Operations And Management Of The Department Of Land And Natural Resources' Division Of Boating And Ocean Recreation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:30 am] To House Water & Land Committee |