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HIHB1674Engross
50%
Authorizes candidates and their candidate committees to donate residual campaign funds to the general fund of the State or to the real property tax general fund of any county of the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-12
The recommendation was not adopted.
HIHB2046Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, and counties to collaborate on feral chicken management projects. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHR37Intro
25%
Requesting The City And County Of Honolulu, County Of Maui, And County Of Kauai Pass Ordinances Similar To The County Of Hawaii's Bill 82 (2023-2024) Relating To Improving Private Roads.
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2024-03-08
To House Transportation Committee
HIHCR48Intro
25%
Requesting The City And County Of Honolulu, County Of Maui, And County Of Kauai Pass Ordinances Similar To The County Of Hawaii's Bill 82 (2023-2024) Relating To Improving Private Roads.
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2024-03-08
To House Transportation Committee
HISB2029Engross
50%
Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale or rent in perpetuity to buyers or renters who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants or renters, and do not own a...
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2024-03-07
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1630Engross
50%
Part II: Prohibits county zoning ordinances from not allowing two or more additional dwelling units per residential lot within an urban district. Prohibits private covenants for residential lots within a state urban land use district from including c...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Housing Committee
HIHB1638Engross
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...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB2565Engross
50%
Prohibits counties from prohibiting leashed dogs in public parks. Prohibits persons from leaving dog excrement on public or private property. (SD1)
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2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1988Engross
50%
Expands the counties' authorization to exercise the same powers as the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation for purposes of developing, constructing, financing, refinancing, or providing mixed-income projects and mixed-use developments....
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2024-03-07
To Senate Housing Committee
HIHB2695Engross
50%
Requires each county board of water supply or water board to prioritize the sustainable recharge of aquifers, ensure the health of watersheds, and, when allocating water for new development, prioritize the development of affordable housing over other...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB2146Engross
50%
Authorizes agricultural tourism activities, including certain overnight accommodations, under certain conditions and only in counties that have adopted ordinances regulating agricultural tourism activities. Requires the Land Use Commission to adopt r...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2111Intro
25%
Under certain conditions, limits the payment of any delinquent tax and penalty required by the Director of Finance of a county as a condition precedent to the transfer of ownership of a vehicle to the aggregate amount of delinquent taxes and penaltie...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2566Intro
25%
Requires lot owners to pay for the repair and maintenance of subdivision roads where the applicable deed does not specify that requirement. Authorizes counties to assess and collect fees for repair and maintenance of subdivision roads if no court-app...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2743Intro
25%
Authorizes certain counties to use county surcharge on state tax revenues and fuel tax revenues for the repair and maintenance of private roadways that are open to and used by the public. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2772Intro
25%
Establishes a Uniform Building Permit Working Group to study the feasibility of creating a single statewide building permit application package and uniform review and approval process for building permits that can be used by all counties. Declares th...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2769Intro
25%
Requires the state and counties to upgrade to zero emission buses by 2045. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2335Intro
25%
Amends the membership, authority, and duties of the State Building Code Council. Gives the counties the sole discretion to amend, adopt, and update the Hawaii state building codes as they apply within each county's respective jurisdiction.
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2024-02-15
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HIHB1933Intro
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...
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2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HISB2976Intro
25%
Requires each county board of water supply or water board to prioritize the sustainable recharge of aquifers, ensure the health of watersheds, and, when allocating water for new development, prioritize the development of affordable housing over other...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB1981Intro
25%
Specifies that a portion of the revenues collected from traffic violations shall be disbursed to the county that enforced the violation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1762Intro
25%
Prohibits a county's legislative body from approving an affordable housing project with modifications that impose stricter income requirements than the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee
HISB2324Intro
25%
Requires the State to share in the cost of county first responder personnel fulfilling state-imposed new mandates or increases in the level of service under existing programs.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2204Intro
25%
Authorizes a county to initiate a land use boundary amendment to implement the county's general plan. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2952Intro
25%
Requires each county to develop and maintain a wastewater management plan. Specifies the requirements of the wastewater management plan. Authorizes the Director of Health to exempt a county from creating a wastewater management plan if the county has...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3014Intro
25%
Extends the right to enter private property and remove or stabilize natural hazards that are at risk of harming the public or other properties to the county in which the private property is located and that county's respective mayor.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB2872Intro
25%
Authorizes the counties to regulate by ordinance the use of vehicles, campers, and mobile homes as alternative residential dwellings.
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2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB2723Intro
25%
Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property.
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2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB2175Intro
25%
Authorizes the counties to reclassify up to one hundred acres of land areas in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts; provided that at least seventy-five per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2042Intro
25%
Requires counties to grant building permits within sixty days if the application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other certain conditions are met. (SD1)
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2024-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2027Intro
25%
Restricts any county from disapproving or imposing certain conditions on the development of a housing development project or emergency shelter unless the county meets certain requirements. (SD1)
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2024-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1571Intro
25%
Requires the State to share in the cost of county first responder personnel fulfilling state-imposed new mandates or increases in the level of service under existing programs.
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1609Intro
25%
Requires the Office of Elections to apply to be a member of the Electronic Registration Information Center, Inc. (ERIC), by 6/30/2025. Requires the Office of Elections and counties to use information and services made available by ERIC to verify thei...
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2214Intro
25%
Provides a new source of interim financing for affordable housing projects using housing programs developed under a Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing program. Sunsets 7/1/2029. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-02
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB2063Intro
25%
Prohibits the legislative body of a county from imposing requirements for residential incomes lower than those adopted or established by the State for housing projects. (SD1)
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2024-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2314Intro
25%
Requires the Director of Transportation to establish and implement a Digital Identification Pilot Program. In coordination with the counties and various agencies, requires the Director of Transportation to submit a report to the Legislature.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB3333Intro
25%
Exempts accessory dwelling units, ohana dwelling units, and certain affordable rental housing projects developed pursuant to a county ordinance from school impact fees. Effective 6/30/2024. Sunsets 7/1/2026.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2733Intro
25%
Requires transferors and transferees of used motor vehicles, mopeds, and trailers, including motor vehicles whose owners do not intend to drive the vehicle on public highways, to appear together before the county director of finance with governmentis...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2732Intro
25%
Limits the payment of any delinquent tax and penalty required by the Director of Finance of a county as a condition precedent to the registration, renewal, or transfer of ownership of a vehicle more than 25 years old to the aggregate amount of delinq...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HIHB2310Intro
25%
Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property.
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB3057Intro
25%
Allows the department of planning for each county to approve a variance for the installation of solar water heater systems. Authorizes the department of planning for each county to impose and collect fees for the administration of the solar water hea...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB2368Intro
25%
Allows the department of planning for each county to approve a variance for the installation of solar water heater systems. Authorizes the department of planning for each county to impose and collect fees for the administration of the solar water hea...
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2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2510Intro
25%
Excludes from the definition of "laws" in section 127A-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, county charter provisions pertaining to executive, legislative, and administrative structure and organization are excluded.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2592Intro
25%
Allows the counties to impose, by ordinance, enhanced penalties for graffiti in certain designated zones and supersede graffiti sentencing requirements under the Penal Code.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2651Intro
25%
Extends the right to enter private property and remove or stabilize natural hazards that are at risk of harming the public or other properties to the county in which the private property is located and that county's respective mayor.
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB2073Intro
25%
Allows counties to prohibit discrimination against renters based on their source of income.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee
HIHB1632Intro
25%
Requires the counties to adopt an ordinance allowing licensed architects and professional engineers to self-certify that plans accompanying a building permit application are in compliance with all applicable state and county building codes.
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2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee
HIHB1634Intro
25%
Prohibits the counties from levying minimum real property taxes upon property that would be greater than the real property tax levied under the county's standard tax rate for the property.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB2229Intro
25%
Repeals section 46-19.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the counties to determine the proper requirements for fire sprinkler systems in residences.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB1887Intro
25%
Repeals section 46-19.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the counties to determine the proper requirements for fire sprinkler systems in residences.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1864Intro
25%
Authorizes a county to initiate a land use boundary amendment to implement the county's general plan.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
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