| HI | HB1562 | Intro
25% | Adds forfeiture of a vehicle as a maximum penalty on a third conviction for operating a motor vehicle without a license within a five-year period. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1572 | Intro
25% | Limits the exclusion from gross income to pensions received for past services provided in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Finance 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB2142 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for its meat inspection program, including positions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[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 | HB1637 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that with controverted claims, an injured employee's private health care plan must by default pay for or provide medical care, services, and supplies pending acceptance of the claim or determination of compensability and may seek reimbursem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1676 | Intro
25% | Appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to fulfill the requirements of Act 141, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1673 | Intro
25% | Requires employers to be liable for medical care, services, and supplies when a workers' compensation claim filed by a solid waste worker suffering from cancer is accepted or determined to be compensable. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1795 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the University of Hawaii to evaluate possibilities for making community college free for Hawaii residents. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1931 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for salaries and fringe benefits of positions for the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy's Space Sciences Workforce Development Program, Maunakea Scholars Program, and Akamai Internship Program. Appropriates funds for off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB2228 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a pilot program to allow inmates to perform work for the State. Sunsets on 6/30/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HI | HB2271 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2025, requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to administer a workforce development incentive rebate program that incentivizes local independent film and television productions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Economic Development 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 | HB1644 | Intro
25% | For members of the Employees' Retirement System hired after June 30, 2012, includes overtime in the definition of compensation when an employee has been directed by their supervisor or an appropriate authority to work more than their normal hours of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance 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 | 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 | HB2199 | Intro
25% | Amends the Hawaii Workforce Development Council law to be consistent with the General Appropriations Act of 2021. Renames "Hawaii Workforce Development Council" to "Hawaii Workforce Development Board". Requires the Hawaii Workforce Development Board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2258 | Intro
25% | Transfers the rights, powers, functions, duties, resources, and individual budget of the Department of Education relating to workers' compensation for its employees from the Department of Education to the Department of Human Resources Development. Ef...
[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 | HB1594 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant or habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant from purchasing or publicly consuming alcohol for a certain period. Effective 7/1/3000. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1942 | Intro
25% | Permits real property assets of a dissolved corporation to escheat to the State, upon approval of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, if the assets were not transferred to a creditor, claimant, or shareholder of the corporation; real property ta...
[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 | 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 | HB1540 | Intro
25% | Requires eligible schools to participate in the federal Community Eligibility Provision, which provides federal funds to help schools offer free meals to all students. Appropriates moneys for any difference between federal funds amounts and costs of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB966 | Intro
25% | Beginning on 1/1/2024, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1797 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services for Hawaii's public school system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1943 | Intro
25% | Requires the health benefits plan or plans established by the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund board to meet or exceed the requirements of the Prepaid Health Care Act. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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 | HB2549 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the Interagency Council for Maui Housing Recovery to coordinate and facilitate Maui's permanent housing recovery and facilitate consultation and collaboration between st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1563 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1616 | Intro
25% | Requires the DOE to submit an annual report to the legislature on the installation, repair, and maintenance of fire alarm systems in Hawaii's public schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1668 | Intro
25% | Establishes provisions allowing for consumers to request data brokers that maintain their personal information to delete any personal information related to the consumer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB1813 | Intro
25% | Requires a property owner of agricultural land to obtain a special permit from the respective county prior to conducting public and private open area types of recreational use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1971 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2240 | Intro
25% | Opens eligibility under the Hawaii Educator Loan Program for students and teachers who agree to teach as a full-time teacher in a public charter school. Decreases the service requirement for total loan forgiveness to five years and increases the perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2538 | Intro
25% | Provides that each lease that the Department of Agriculture enters into, renews, or extends after the effective date of this Act shall authorize the Department to: (1) Enter the leased premises at any time to identity, investigate, control, or eradic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1573 | Intro
25% | Caps the primary and secondary ticket seller service charges that may be added on to event ticket prices. Requires website operators to guarantee refunds in certain circumstances and disclose that the website is not the primary ticket seller. Prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1947 | Intro
25% | Reduces the minimum number of years of credited service from ten years to five years qualified Tier 2 employee's retirement system members must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes. Appropriates fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1958 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a three-year child care pilot grant program to provide grants to employers to assist in offering child care or caregiving support for their employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2197 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out. Effective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2254 | Intro
25% | Allows state departments to participate in temporary employee interchanges with private sector organizations, including nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Limits the term for a temporary employee interchange with a private sector organization to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
