| HI | HB1689 | Intro
25% | Amends conservation and resources law to prohibit: (1) Commercial sales of parrotfish that have been caught by spearing; and (2) The spearing of parrotfish in state waters after sunset or before sunrise.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2100 | Intro
25% | Provides rebates for eligible electric vehicle-ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1629 | Intro
25% | Requires contested cases, environmental assessment cases, or environmental impact statement cases involving large-scale renewable energy projects over twenty megawatts in size to be appealed from an agency's decision directly to the Hawaii Supreme Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1585 | Intro
25% | Prohibits state agencies from purchasing or using polystyrene food-service containers. Prohibits vendors contracted through a state agency from selling, offering for sale, providing, or using polystyrene food-service containers at any site owned or l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2028 | Intro
25% | Merges the Made in Hawaii with Aloha branding program with the Hawaii Made program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Specifies that the Department of the Attorney General shall be responsible for enforcement of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2138 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to establish an agriculture education coordinator position. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2130 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for the sustainable food systems working group and positions within the Department of Agriculture. Requires report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2137 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii farm to food bank program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2297 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii state energy office to adopt rules governing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2613 | Intro
25% | Expands the criminal offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes a $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false-labeling of Hawaii-grown roasted coffee. Makes an appropriation for 1.0 FTE enforcement positio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2665 | Intro
25% | Establishes green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines for state facility systems, infrastructure, transit projects, and other areas in the Hawaii State Planning Act to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2719 | Intro
25% | Establishes a pilot program to offer tuition waivers for certain community college students starting in fall 2025. Requires the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to submit a report. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2757 | Intro
25% | By 1/1/2027, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2028, requires the Department to start ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2754 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Plant-Based Building Materials Working Group to report on how best to grow plants and develop plant-based building materials in Hawaii and provide economic development and green jobs while sequestering greenhouse gases to help achieve t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1778 | Intro
25% | Beginning 7/1/2026, amends existing law regarding preemption of local ordinances and regulations regulating the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices as a matter of statewide concern to clarify that the State's preempti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1933 | Intro
25% | Establishes a sobriety checkpoint special fund to provide funding to county law enforcement agencies for staffing for sobriety checks and processing of persons arrested at sobriety checkpoints. Increases the state vehicle registration fee and establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1954 | Intro
25% | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2098 | Intro
25% | Authorizes independent generators of renewable energy to wheel the renewable electricity they produce to users of renewable energy under policies and procedures established by the Public Utilities Commission. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2132 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Ant Lab to share data collected related to invasive ant surveys with the Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Ant Lab to support little fire ant mitigation and e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2143 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for a grant-in-aid to the County of Hawaii to hire an engineering firm to study, plan, assist, and conduct preliminary design and concept work for a two-phase project to restore the Kahaluu Beach Park in the County of Hawaii. Condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2672 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support the Hawaii ant lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2721 | Intro
25% | Establishes a fireshed partnership program within the department of land and natural resources. Makes appropriations. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1537 | Intro
25% | Proposes amendments to the Hawaii State Constitution to repeal the counties exclusive power to tax real property and authorize the Legislature to establish a state surcharge on real property taxation levied by the counties on certain residential inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2129 | Intro
25% | Includes single-ingredient products as a purchasing option for certain state departments and entities to fulfill their local food purchasing requirements. Defines "single-ingredient product".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2123 | Intro
25% | Requires the owner or operator of each waste combustion facility or municipal solid waste landfill to develop a plan to implement continuous monitoring and sampling technologies for the purposes of collecting data regarding emissions. Requires a publ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2105 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a statewide environmental assessment for, and subsequently administer, a slim-hole resource characterization program under the direction of the Hawaii Groundwater and Geothermal Resources Center at t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2232 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of the Attorney General to publish annual reports regarding certain protective and restraining orders, firearms, and electric guns. Authorizes persons subject to certain protective and restraining orders to possess or control ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2703 | Intro
25% | Replaces the position of Deputy to the Chairperson of the Commission on Water Resource Management with the position of Executive Officer, who shall be appointed and managed by the Commission. Authorizes the Commission on Water Resource Management to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1656 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to assist individuals in obtaining a commercial driver's license for the purpose of becoming school bus drivers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1648 | Intro
25% | Creates a School Psychologists Working Group to recommend actionable steps or propose legislation for an immediate pathway to licensure for school psychologists that can be acted upon in 2025. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1893 | Intro
25% | Amends Act 153, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to increase the cesspool compliance pilot grant project grant amount and update a reference. Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2024-2025 and to establish positions to implement the pilot grant project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1894 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and appropriates funds to the Department of Health to retain qualified consultants as necessary to identify necessary public outreach and education resources and tools and develop a comprehensive public outreach strategy and website to edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1921 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for mobile vaccination services for populations with reduced access to vaccines. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1908 | Intro
25% | Repeals payroll day for public officers and employees by requiring them to be paid pursuant to a predicted payroll schedule, rather than an after-the-fact payroll schedule. Provides that the predicted payroll schedule shall not be subject to negotiat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2066 | Intro
25% | Establishes a cesspool conversion on-bill financing program to be administered by the Hawaii green infrastructure authority to provide low-interest loans to eligible homeowners for the upgrade, conversion, or connection of cesspools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2122 | Intro
25% | Establishes a private roads task force to identify and facilitate the repair and transfer of certain private or disputed roads to the appropriate government agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB2621 | Intro
25% | Establishes a task force on ethical policing to evaluate the efficacy and impact of Weed and Seed programs. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2606 | Intro
25% | Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to offer, list, advertise, or display a transient accommodations rental rate that includes all resort fees required for the furnishing of transient accommodations. Requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1596 | Intro
25% | Makes the class B felony offense of delivering drug paraphernalia to persons under eighteen years of age applicable to offenders who are at least twenty-one years old. Exempts drug paraphernalia for marijuana from certain penalties under the Uniform ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2181 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipient advisory committee to assist the Department of Human Services in strengthening the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for working families. Effective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2537 | Intro
25% | Imposes a penalty for knowingly selling invasive plants or plants containing invasive species.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2675 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to provide and disseminate its procedures for dealing with bullying. Requires principals, teachers, and staff to disseminate the Department's bullying procedures to students. Defines bullying procedures. Effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2739 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii home energy assistance program within the Department of Human Services to assist households in paying their energy bills. Establishes the Hawaii home energy assistance special fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2267 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program. Authorizes the state or counties to administer the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program. Requires fines collected beginning 1/1/2025 for violations on a county highway to be expended...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1890 | Intro
25% | Prohibits retailers from selling or offering for sale certain combustion engine-powered mopeds beginning 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1929 | Intro
25% | Defines "isolated wetlands" and "wetlands". Clarifies the definition of "state waters" to include wetlands and isolated wetlands. Requires the Director of Health to determine all wetlands in the State, including whether a wetland is an isolated wetla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2219 | Intro
25% | Increases the number of Commission on Water Resource Management members from 7 to 8, with only 5 of the 8 members required to have substantial experience in water resource management. Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, or the Chai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2256 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to students enrolled in a public school who meet certain requirements. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2562 | Intro
25% | Effective 1/1/2025, 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2725 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Correction Facilities Authority to be responsible for all public corrections development, planning, and construction related to capital improvement projects. Requires the Correction Facilities Authority to apply for a loan or grant fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
