| HI | HB945 | Intro
25% | Reduces, then later exempts, the tax collected on the sale of groceries that are eligible under the supplemental nutrition assistance program or special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, regardless of the means of purch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB753 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year nonrefundable individual income tax credit for expenses paid to retrofit a residence with wind resistive devices. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Sunsets 12/31/2025. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB855 | Intro
25% | Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the manufacture, production, packaging, and sale of diapers. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1387 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the appointment and removal of the chief executive officer of the Hawaii health systems corporation requires a majority vote by the voting members of the corporation board, rather than by the entire membership of the board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB535 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to create and periodically update a game management plan. Requires the Board of Land and Natural Resources to establish a certified public hunter program to address the growing problem of feral pi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB587 | Intro
25% | Requires each county to submit to the Legislature a comprehensive integrated wastewater management plan report that addresses and identifies the county's wastewater management needs, including financial needs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1374 | Intro
25% | Makes explicit the counties' authority to regulate hosting platforms providing booking services for short-term rentals. Includes swapping, bartering, or exchange of a residential dwelling, or portion thereof, in the definition of "short-term rental"....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB430 | Intro
25% | Prohibits concealed firearms in certain sensitive locations. Requires the department of the attorney general to publish an annual report on licenses to carry. Amends requirements for firearm permitting and licenses to carry firearms. Effective 7/1/20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB845 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to hold not less than six community forums annually, with at least one community forum in each county. Requires the Board to include an open forum for public comments on non-agenda items. Requires a report to the Legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB736 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Resources to contract for a study on the gender pay gap within the government of the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB84 | Intro
25% | Makes explicit the counties' authority to enact ordinances to amortize or phase out permitted, nonconforming, or otherwise allowed short-term rentals in any zoning classification. Includes swapping, bartering, or exchange of a residential dwelling, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB642 | Engross
50% | Requires check cashers to report suspected financial exploitation of elders and vulnerable adults in relation to check cashing. Authorizes a check casher to refuse to cash a check in situations of suspected financial exploitation. Provides immunity f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1436 | Intro
25% | Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit by requiring the department of business, economic development, and tourism to publish on its website the names of the qualified productions and the amount of the tax cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB305 | Engross
50% | Updates the Hawaii State Planning Act's economic agricultural objectives and policies and priority guidelines by removing references to the sugar and pineapple industries. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1243 | Intro
25% | Establishes the east Hawaii community development district and board. Requires the department of land and natural resources to transfer certain leases within the district to the board. Repeals the Hilo community economic district. Appropriates moneys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB272 | Intro
25% | Limits the discretion of the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Land Division by requiring the Board of Land and Natural Resources to approve all revoked, limited, condemned, removed, or modified public land leases or revocable permits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB611 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that "customary and traditional subsistence farming", which is customary and traditional subsistence farming conducted by a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner in certain situations, is included as a protected activity under the Hawaii ri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1398 | Engross
50% | Allows telecommunications and emergency dispatchers and employees who perform similar functions employed by the State and counties to collectively bargain. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB1241 | Engross
50% | Authorizes professional land surveyors and their assistants to enter private property to perform land surveying, subject to certain provisions. Shields land surveyors and their assistants from prosecution under criminal trespass laws when performing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1433 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Adult Mental Health Division of the Department of Health to support increased behavioral health crisis stabilization beds. Creates a working group to get county input on possible sites for these crisis stabilization beds. Ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB198 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for the low- to moderate-income electric vehicle rebate program and the electric vehicle subaccount to encourage the purchase and use of electric vehicles by low- to moderate-income households and nonprofit organiza...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB573 | Engross
50% | Excludes from the definition of "drug paraphernalia", testing products utilized in determining whether a controlled substance contains chemicals, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds in quantities that can cause physical harm or death, including ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | HB1252 | Intro
25% | Provides rebates for eligible electric vehicle-ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1381 | Intro
25% | Requires the legislative reference bureau to conduct a study that identifies and analyzes alternative tourism governance systems. Requires the study to include a solicitation of input from certain stakeholder groups. Requires a final report to be sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB149 | Intro
25% | Requires corporations to include the income of all foreign subsidiaries to the State. Applies the State's apportionment formula to determine the share of reported profits subject to the appropriate tax. Effective 1/1/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB424 | Intro
25% | Beginning 07/01/2024, establishes the office of administrative hearings to conduct contested case hearings in the department of budget and finance, department of land and natural resources, and department of taxation. Appropriates funds to establish ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB71 | Intro
25% | Requires that a current GET license number for any rental income be filed with the complaint to the court for summary possession proceedings. Requires the judiciary to submit an annual list of certain information regarding summary possession cases to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1122 | Intro
25% | Requires certain patients subject to emergency hospitalization to be assessed to determine whether a surrogate or guardian is needed to make appropriate health care decisions for the patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB651 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1238 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to adopt an ordinance regulating the operation of hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodations operators. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB783 | Intro
25% | Establishes the 2023 illegal fireworks task force within the department of the attorney general to develop a comprehensive strategic plan to stop the importation of illegal fireworks and explosives into the State, promote compliance with the firework...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB881 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from presetting commercial beach equipment on any public beach under the jurisdiction of the department of land and natural resources, unless the customer is physically present. Requires commercial vendors to expeditiously remove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB529 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB59 | Intro
25% | Requires a qualified school librarian and library resources on the campus of every public school in Hawaii by 6/30/2026. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB332 | Intro
25% | Establishes the shade and fruit tree program in the department of education to support educational activities and encourage propagation of native shade trees or fruit trees for planting in department schools. Appropriates funds for the program and to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1416 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of human services to adopt rules, contingent on the approval of the Hawaii state plan amendment by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to remove the $2,000-per-individual asset limit for eligibility for assistance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1452 | Intro
25% | For policies, contracts, plans, agreements, and plan contracts issued or renewed after 12/31/2023, requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB492 | Intro
25% | Increases the state earned income tax credit from twenty to twenty-five percent of the federal earned income tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1367 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase medicaid payments to eligible health care providers in the State up to one hundred per cent of the current medicare rates. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB520 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Access to Local Food Act to allow cottage food operations to sell cottage food products, under certain conditions, upon receiving a permit from the Department of Health. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB79 | Intro
25% | Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in its standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech. Repeals certain requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1179 | Intro
25% | Requires health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB532 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the salaries and fringe benefits of five positions within the Ko education center of the Hawaii community college. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1427 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a covered entity from disclosing communication or information relating to reproductive health care services. Prohibits the issuance of a subpoena in connection with an out-of-state proceeding relating to reproductive health care services le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1265 | Intro
25% | Establishes licensure for school psychologists consistent with National Association of School Psychologists standards. Clarifies that the exemptions from licensure as a psychologist apply to those persons employed as school psychologists by an educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB592 | Intro
25% | Modifies the existing plant and animal declaration form to also require in-bound travelers to the State to acknowledge federal and state laws, and individual responsibility to protect the environment and agriculture of the State. Requires all other d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB425 | Intro
25% | Requires any person carrying an unloaded firearm in a motor vehicle to locate the firearm so as not to be readily or directly accessible from the passenger compartment of the vehicle or, if the firearm is being carried in a motor vehicle that does no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1410 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of health to establish a reverse vending machine pilot program to provide grants to deploy reverse vending machines in the State. Allows moneys from the deposit beverage container deposit special fund to be used for grants to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1288 | Intro
25% | Repeals the authority of employers to pay tipped employees less than the minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB245 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a vessel from being fumigated on ocean waters. Allows an owner whose vessel is required to be fumigated on ocean waters to apply for an exemption from the division of boating and ocean recreation. Requires any vessel granted an exemption to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
