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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
HIHB1877Intro
25%
Amend the procurement code to require County Council approval for contracts awarded by a county under its statutory authorization for sole source procurement if the contract amount exceeds $30,000.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HISB2580Intro
25%
Establishes a task force to identify 1 or more parcels of alienable state land and propose a plan for a public-private partnership to develop that land for affordable housing. Requires a report to the Legislature prior to the convening of the 2025 Re...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee
HIHB2118Intro
25%
Remove state-related construction projects from the permitting requirements of the counties. Establishes a permitting process and division within the Department of Accounting and General Services. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB2869Intro
25%
Designates each county as the special management area authority within the county's respective jurisdiction. Makes conforming amendments.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2798Intro
25%
Establishes the hike safe card program and search and rescue special fund to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when th...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2840Intro
25%
Provides a new source of interim financing for affordable housing projects using housing programs under chapter 201H, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Sunsets 7/1/2029. Effective 1/1/2025.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2901Intro
25%
Provides that where public access is required as a condition of a subdivision, the county shall either accept dedication of and maintain the access or identify an entity to own and maintain the access. Authorizes the county to require the subdivider ...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2062Intro
25%
Expands the housing powers of the counties to include the planning, development, construction, financing, and providing of housing projects, including low- and moderate-income housing and mixed-use developments.
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2024-01-22
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2067Intro
25%
Requires that each county agency responsible for enforcing its respective building code be accredited by the International Accreditation Service. Makes an appropriation.
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2024-01-18
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2168Intro
25%
Makes a person or entity liable for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when the person or entity knowingly enters state, county, or private property, knowingly enters a hiking trail that is closed to the public, or violates applicable laws...
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2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2208Intro
25%
Amend the procurement code to require County Council approval for contracts awarded by a county under its statutory authorization for sole source procurement if the contract amount exceeds $30,000.
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2024-01-18
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB2025Intro
25%
Eliminates certain restrictions for developing state-owned real property located within one-half mile radius of any station along the elevated mass transit system. Permits high-density development of state-owned real property located within one-half ...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2032Intro
25%
Establishes the Accessory Dwelling Unit Construction Grant Program within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide funding to private property owners for the construction of accessory dwelling units, including any necessary a...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB331Intro
25%
Prohibits a county from enacting a development policy, standard, or condition that would have the effect of changing the land use designation or zoning of a parcel or parcels of property to a less intensive use or reducing the intensity of land use w...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB76Intro
25%
Transfers authority for certain project reviews from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Counties. Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to certify third-party reviewers and defines the role of third-party reviewers....
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB563Intro
25%
Relating To Counties. Short form bill.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1100Intro
25%
Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the Legislature may authorize the Counties to issue tax increment bonds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1466Intro
25%
Establishes and appropriates funds for a pilot program within the Environmental Management Division of the Department of Health to work with each county to identify a priority area to expand the county sewerage system or other centralized treatment s...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB903Intro
25%
Requires the Department of the Attorney General to establish and support a restorative justice program that, in collaboration with the prosecuting attorney of each county, offers restorative justice opportunities in each county to allow victims and o...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1305Intro
25%
Authorizes any county with a population of 500,000 or more to form partnerships with certain qualifying nonprofit corporations to execute community-initiated development project within the county. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB318Intro
25%
Requires each county to establish rates of compensation for members of certain qualifying county boards, commissions, authorities, and committees. Requires each county to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the county's compliance with this ...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB587Intro
25%
Requires each county to submit to the Legislature a comprehensive integrated wastewater management plan report that addresses and identifies the county's wastewater management needs, including financial needs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB769Intro
25%
Authorizes the appropriate county land use decision-making authority to determine district boundary amendments involving land areas over fifteen acres if the county has adopted an ordinance that meets certain requirements.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB1374Intro
25%
Makes explicit the counties' authority to regulate hosting platforms providing booking services for short-term rentals. Includes swapping, bartering, or exchange of a residential dwelling, or portion thereof, in the definition of "short-term rental"....
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB616Intro
25%
Requires the counties, before implementing any new mass transit fare or increasing any existing fare to first seek revenues from alternative sources, including transit-based advertisements. Requires a county that decides, after seeking alternative re...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB598Intro
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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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB251Intro
25%
Requires the county police departments to purchase and deploy explosion detection technology to assist in the location of and response to explosions caused by the illegal use of firearms and fireworks. Appropriates moneys to the counties as a grantin...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB84Intro
25%
Makes explicit the counties' authority to enact ordinances to amortize or phase out permitted, nonconforming, or otherwise allowed short-term rentals in any zoning classification. Includes swapping, bartering, or exchange of a residential dwelling, o...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB256Intro
25%
Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to divert all organic waste produced within the county by facilities generating more than a certain amount of organic waste per year. Appropriate...
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HISB264Intro
25%
Requires the counties, before implementing any new mass transit fare or increasing any existing fare to first seek revenues from alternative sources, including transit-based advertisements. Requires a county that decides, after seeking alternative re...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1477Intro
25%
Transfers from the Department of Land and Natural Resources certain wharfs, launching ramps, and small boat harbors on Maui to the County of Maui with the corresponding revenue from those harbors. Appropriates funds. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1465Intro
25%
Prohibits bans on dwelling unit rentals having a term between one and five months for inter-island relocations and temporary workers. Authorizes county councils to adopt any ordinances necessary to implement the prohibition by 6/30/2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB80Intro
25%
Makes a person or entity liable for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when the person or entity knowingly enters state, county, or private property, knowingly enters a hiking trail that is closed to the public, or violates applicable laws...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB416Intro
25%
Prohibits each county from adopting ordinances that restrict housing density on state lands that are within 0.5 miles of an elevated mass transit station.
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB1480Intro
25%
Permits the governing body of a county to create, by ordinance, a process for the recordation and enforcement of solar easements. Allows counties to require individuals claiming a solar easement to record that easement by filing a declaration with th...
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HISB469Intro
25%
Authorizes the counties to reclassify lands fifteen to one fifty acres in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts in which at least seventy-five per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for persons an...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1215Intro
25%
Permits the counties to make district boundary amendments without consideration from the land use commission for certain classifications of land parcels with an area of fifty acres or less.
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HISB216Intro
25%
Authorizes a county to proceed with a power of sale on real property subject to a recorded lien.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHB1318Intro
25%
Transfers from the Department of Natural Resources certain wharfs, launching ramps, and small boat harbors on Maui to the County of Maui with the corresponding revenue from those harbors.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB336Intro
25%
Restricts any county from disapproving or imposing certain conditions on a housing development project or an emergency shelter unless the county meets certain requirements. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1061Intro
25%
Permits the governing body of a county to create, by ordinance, a process for the recordation and enforcement of solar easements. Allows counties to require individuals claiming a solar easement to record that easement by filing a declaration with th...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB862Intro
25%
Requires that each county agency responsible for enforcing its respective building code be accredited by the International Accreditation Service.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1393Intro
25%
Establishes certain parental rights. Prohibits the State and counties from enacting any rules, regulations, or laws that infringe upon these parental rights.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB106Intro
25%
Authorizes a county to proceed with a power of sale on real property subject to a recorded lien.
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1422Intro
25%
Establishes the class C felony offense of using or making false statements or entries in matters within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the State, or any county. Disqualifies a person from holding elective public...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HIHB728Intro
25%
Provides grants in aid to several counties' boards of ethics.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB332Intro
25%
Prohibits each county from adopting ordinances that restrict housing density on state lands that are within 0.5 miles of an elevated mass transit station.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
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