| HI | HB391 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of human services to develop an infant and toddler child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed infant and toddler child care centers. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB821 | Intro
25% | Prohibits pet dealers and retail pet stores in the State from selling, offering to sell, leasing, offering to lease, bartering, auctioning, or otherwise transferring ownership of any dog, cat, or rabbit. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB275 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to provide grants to assist taro farmers in meeting the costs of cultivating taro for consumption. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB235 | Intro
25% | Requires certain employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care and supplemental paid sick leave to employees under certain public health eme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB250 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally rais...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB738 | Intro
25% | Prohibits commercial operators of surfing tourism, instruction, and lesson companies from providing, or allowing the wearing of, footwear during lessons taking place on or above certain submerged reefs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB608 | Engross
50% | Establishes an organic foods production tax credit applicable to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Sunsets 12/31/2033. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB648 | Intro
25% | Temporarily expands the state rent supplement program to specifically target qualified individuals who are sixty-two years of age or older and are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Requires HPHA to submit annual reports to the legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB400 | Engross
50% | Establishes an employer-provided or employer-sponsored child care income tax credit for employers that pay for certain available child care services to their employees. Establishes an employer child care property income tax credit for the cost of chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB87 | Intro
25% | Effective 1/1/2024, prohibits the retail sale or offer for retail sale of single-use plastic bottles designed to hold less than two liters of bottled water for oral consumption, with certain exceptions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1343 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for the Office of the Reproductive Health Care Access Coordinator within the Department of Human Services for administrative purposes. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB597 | Intro
25% | Authorizes psychiatrists and advanced practice registered nurses to file a petition to initiate the administrative authorization process in cases where the patient objects to treatment and is not in the custody of the director or involuntarily commit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1330 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for school bus services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB262 | Engross
50% | Provides a process for school placement for a child whose parent 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. Effective 6/30/3000....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB196 | Intro
25% | Establishes a department of environmental protection on July 1, 2027. Creates a department of environmental protection working group to address the logistics required for the State to establish a department of environmental protection. Requires the w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB85 | Engross
50% | Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal care products in small plastic containers within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping room accommodations, or bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB1328 | Intro
25% | Provides funding for rental or lease of facilities under legislative appropriations and bond authorizations to the state public charter school commission for the design, planning, construction, repair, and maintenance of public charter school improve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB656 | Intro
25% | Establishes a list of substances allowed for use as pesticides and fertilizers on state and county property. Provides that the use of substances not specifically allowed as pesticides and fertilizers on state property and county property is prohibite...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB303 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of health to establish a two-year pilot project to test Tier 1 beaches for Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus not less than monthly. Requires a report to the legislature before the regular se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1237 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of land and natural resources to establish a green user fee program to collect user fees for certain parks. Requires the department of land and natural resources to develop a mobile application for the green user fee program. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB588 | Intro
25% | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish reliability standards and interconnection requirements for certain renewable energy projects; provided that any costs for changes in reliability standards or interconnection requirements shall not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1147 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2027, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1203 | Engross
50% | Establishes an employer child care tax credit for employers who provide or sponsor approved child care. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB548 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Erin's law task force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, report recommendations for the establishment of a program to educate public scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1212 | Engross
50% | Establishes the water neutrality task force to develop a plan for Hawaii to become water-neutral by the year 2050. Requires the task force to submit a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB190 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to waive school bus fees for fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB569 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to perform historic preservation reviews of the effect of any proposed project for lands under its jurisdiction except for projects affecting properties listed or nominated for inclusion in the Hawaii ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB216 | Intro
25% | Establishes the shipping container inspection program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Increases the maximum fine for each violation of the fireworks law. Requires PSD to submit reports to the legislature on implementation of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1506 | Engross
50% | Encourages the employees' retirement system, in evaluating venture capital investments, to consider opportunities in industries that will sustain Hawaii's natural environment or produce economic opportunities for its residents, including renewable en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB620 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, requires public schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB81 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of health to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of an outpatient mental health facility for children and adolescents living in the Ocean View region of Hawaii island, including in the communities of Ocean View, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB956 | Intro
25% | Establishes the natural resource management special fund and authorizes uses for moneys in the fund. Establishes a Natural Resource Management Commission to guide and approve the disbursement of moneys deposited into the fund. Allocates transient acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB935 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the general excise tax, gross receipts received from the sale of hearing aids.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB585 | Intro
25% | Requires the judiciary or supporting agencies to establish and support a program for restorative justice in each county and inform various criminal justice representatives of the existence of the program. Appropriates funds for the establishment of o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to the environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1127 | Intro
25% | Increases the standard deduction amounts for taxpayers for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2022. Requires biannual increases to the standard deduction amounts to match any increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for Ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1219 | Intro
25% | Defines "cannabis cutting" and "cannabis propagule". Amends the definition of "cannabis" to include cannabis propagules and cannabis cuttings. Allows qualifying patients and primary caregivers who are authorized to cultivate cannabis for medical use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB571 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Kahoolawe island reserve commission. Appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) permanent positions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB851 | Intro
25% | Lengthens the time period in which certain vehicles must have a safety inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB181 | Intro
25% | Implements the recommendation of the cesspool conversion working group to accelerate the dates for required upgrades, conversions, or connections of priority level 1 cesspools and priority level 2 cesspools by requiring priority level 1 cesspools to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
