| HI | HB1592 | Engross
50% | Increases the maximum amount of conveyance tax revenues allocated to the land conservation fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1655 | Engross
50% | Requires the DOE to work with the BOE to create a public digital platform by the 2027-2028 school year that shows how schools are adopting high-quality instructional materials for K-12 English language arts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1638 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the counties to require employers to disclose information regarding its employees' wages, benefits, hours, and employment status and deny, revoke, or suspend a building permit application for violating laws relating to wages, benefits, hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB1654 | Engross
50% | Establishes the qualified internship grant program within the Department of Education to provide grants to businesses and organizations that employ qualified interns participating in work-based learning through a qualified internship program. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1773 | Engross
50% | Requires the law enforcement standards board to develop training materials related to the recognition and signs of Alzheimer's disease and related types of dementia. Requires law enforcement officers to review training materials for at least one hour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1775 | Engross
50% | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students enrolled in department schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1835 | Engross
50% | Establishes the distribution management advisory board to develop and advise on the statewide distribution management plan. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1777 | Engross
50% | Authorizes dental hygienists who are under the general supervision of a licensed dentist to perform preventive dental sealant screenings and apply dental sealants on certain individuals in a school-based oral health program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1774 | Engross
50% | Establishes a silver alert program within the Department of Law Enforcement to help locate and safeguard missing persons who are sixty years of age or older, cognitively impaired, or developmentally disabled. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1779 | Engross
50% | Establishes a three-year summer tuition pilot program to provide funding to UH community colleges to offset the costs aligning the resident tuition rates for the summer semester with the resident tuition rates for the spring and fall semesters at the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB1904 | Engross
50% | Provides a process for school placement for a child whose parent or guardian 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. Effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1957 | Engross
50% | Repeals the provision that made references to the base amount in the Internal Revenue Code inapplicable to the research activities tax credit and allowed credits for all qualified research expenses to be taken without regard to previous years expense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2043 | Engross
50% | Establishes a harm to students registry for all early learning programs or schools and K-12 educational institutions within the State that contains information on school employees, contractors, or volunteers for whom, as result of an investigation, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB2196 | Engross
50% | Removes requirement of a college degree for any state position, unless the degree is relevant to licensing or certification as it relates to the duties and responsibilities of the position or when the position requires specialized knowledge, skills, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB2514 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Teacher Home Assistance Program to provide housing vouchers to certain eligible teachers. Appropriates funds out of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | HB2664 | Engross
50% | Lapses appropriations of general obligation bond funds previously authorized for the planning, design, and construction of a stadium in Halawa by the Stadium Authority. Transfers certain special fund moneys earmarked for the development of a new stad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2736 | Engross
50% | Adopts, establishes, and designates the shaka as the official gesture of the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB2759 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for health technician positions within the Department of Education for the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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 | HB70 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the sale or holding, offering, and distribution of hemp products that contain cannabinoids created through isomerization. Inserts the alternative name for Delta 6 cis or trans tetrahydrocannabinol, and their optical isomers into the list of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Judiciary 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 |
