| HB1299 | Pass | Repeals various non-general funds of the Department of Agriculture; Department of Accounting and General Services; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Department of Education; Department of Health; Department of Labor and Indus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-21
Act 009, Special Session 2021, 07/20/21 (Gov. Msg. No. 3). |
| SB589 | Pass | PART I - Establishes the University of Hawaii (UH) Cancer Research Center in statute as the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii. Requires the Director of the Cancer Research Center to be appointed in accordance with the Board of Regents policy. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-21
Act 008, 2021 Special Session, on 07-20-21 (Gov. Msg. No. 2). |
| HB485 | Pass | Increases the tax by $0.50 each year from 1/1/2022 to 12/31/2027. Exempts the imposition of the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax for persons whose vehicles have been stolen and are unrecovered or will not be repaired due to total loss. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 237, 07/06/2021, (Gov. Msg. No. 1365). |
| HB53 | Pass | Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds. Makes findings required by Article VII, Section 13, of the Hawaii State Constitution to declare that the issuance of authorized bonds will not cause the debt limit to be exceeded. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Act 007, Special Session 2021, 07/08/21. |
| HB499 | Pass | Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to extend certain leases of public lands for commercial, industrial, resort, mixed-use, or government use upon approval of a proposed development agreement to make substantial improvements to the exi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 236, 07/06/2021, (Gov. Msg. No. 1364). |
| SB404 | Pass | Lowers the monetary threshold that triggers disclosure of electioneering communications. Repeals the requirement that disclosures of electioneering communications occur on the date of any subsequent expenditures. Classifies election advertisements se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Act 003, Special Session 2021, 07/06/21. |
| HB862 | Pass | Abolishes the office of aerospace development, aerospace advisory committee, and Hawaii unmanned aerial systems test site advisory board. Transfers administration of the Pacific international space center for exploration systems from DBEDT to the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Act 001, Special Session 2021, 07/06/21. |
| SB263 | Pass | Transfers oversight of the "Hawaii Made" program for manufactured products and the "Hawaii Made" trademark to the department of business, economic development, and tourism. Outlines the department of business, economic development, and tourism's duti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Act 002, Special Session 2021, 07/06/21. |
| HB177 | Pass | Amends the offenses of sexual assault in the first and third degree perpetrated against a person who is mentally defective to provide that a perpetrator commits the offense if the perpetrator is negligent in not knowing of the mental defect of the vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 239, 07/06/2021, (Gov. Msg. No. 1367). |
| HB566 | Pass | Adds coercive control between family or household members to the pilot program to strengthen state and county responses to domestic violence and increase violator accountability established by Act 19, Regular Session of 2020. Sunsets 6/30/2026. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 238, 07/06/2021, (Gov. Msg. No. 1366). |
| HB54 | Pass | Effective 6/30/2021, appropriates moneys for deposit into the emergency and budget reserve fund and makes payments for other post-employment benefits. Appropriates moneys for debt service for fiscal biennium 2021-2023. (AD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Act 006, 2021 Special Session, on 07-08-21 (Gov. Msg. No. 1). |
| SB811 | Pass | Requires the department of education to publish a weekly report on schools that have reported positive COVID-19 cases. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Act 004, Special Session 2021, 07/06/21. |
| SB1387 | Pass | Requires dog and cat owners to microchip their pets. Takes effect 1/1/2022. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-08
Act 005, Special Session 2021, 07/06/21. |
| HB891 | Pass | Regulates the sale and use of electric guns and cartridges. Repeals the prohibition on the possession, sale, offer for sale, give, lend, or delivery of any electric gun. Effective 1/1/2022. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 183, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1311). |
| HB741 | Pass | Requires certain Hawaii state ethics commission records to be retained for a period of six years from the date of filing. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 190, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1318). |
| HB671 | Pass | Prohibits certain state officials and employees from representing certain interests before the State for twelve months after termination from their respective positions. Specifies that the prohibition against disclosing certain information applies to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 189, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1317). |
| SB222 | Pass | Beginning 7/1/2022, requires the comptroller's annual report to the governor and legislature to include a list of all accounts that were closed by the comptroller during the immediately preceding fiscal year, and a list of accounts that remain open b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 202, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1330). |
| HB513 | Pass | Dissolves the state capitol management committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 231, 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1359). |
| HB334 | Pass | Establishes a state drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory special fund, to be administered by DOH. Allows moneys in the state highway fund to be expended to establish a state drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory. Deposits into the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 196, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1324). |
| HB1322 | Pass | Establishes a trauma-informed care task force within the Department of Health to make recommendations of trauma-informed care in the State. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 209, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1337). |
| SB1270 | Pass | Replaces the Director of Human Services with the Administrator of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Department of Human Services, as an ex officio, voting member on the Workforce Development Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 235, 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1363). |
| HB468 | Pass | Suspends the requirement for public employers to make annual required contributions to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund through fiscal year 2022-2023. Repeals on 6/30/2023. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 229, 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1357). |
| SB1015 | Pass | Expands the comptroller's duties to include the assessment of office space, including initiating, canceling, and renegotiating current and new leases, office space allocation, and telework infrastructure requirements for agencies and employees occupy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 219, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1347). |
| SB1313 | Pass | Requires the division of aquatic resources of the department of land and natural resources to establish a pilot project to restock the Wahiawa public fishing area with northern largemouth bass, butterfly peacock bass, or both by 1/1/2023; provided th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 223, 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1351). |
| SB791 | Pass | Clarifies removal processes for unauthorized vessels. Clarifies the criteria for determining whether a vessel is abandoned. Reduces the allowable time frame to claim an unauthorized vessel that is impounded by the department of land and natural resou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 218, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1346). |
| HB416 | Pass | Prohibits specified trolleys, trolleys with swivels, pulleys, cables, or running lines designed to attach a dog to two stationary objects in a configuration that endangers the dog, including by depriving the dog of sustenance. Prohibits tethering or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 182, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1310). |
| SB1054 | Pass | Enables use of moneys in the brownfields cleanup revolving fund for subgrants to eligible entities for assessment and cleanup of brownfields sites and certain site monitoring activities. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 234, 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1362). |
| SB548 | Pass | Amends various statutory provisions to clarify and improve the administration of elections by mail. Establishes voters with special needs advisory committees at the state and county levels. Requires the department of public safety and Hawaii paroling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 213, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1341). |
| HB1004 | Pass | Authorizes the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to prohibit the operation of pressure retaining items, amusement rides, and elevators and kindred equipment if inspection fees or fines are not timely paid. Deletes the statutory boiler and el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 200, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1328). |
| SB808 | Pass | Renames the school facilities agency as the school facilities authority. Describes the powers and responsibilities of the school facilities authority by amending chapter 302A, part VI, subpart C and Act 72, Session Laws of Hawaii 2020. Transfers the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 217, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1345). |
| HB1031 | Pass | Reduces the number of members on the Hawaii Historic Places Review Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 232, 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1360). |
| HB991 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Health to disclose vital statistics records for public health purposes. Updates eligibility requirements for access to confidential vital statistics records. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 199, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1327). |
| HB1253 | Pass | Prohibits employers, with certain exemptions, from requiring employees and prospective employees to download to their personal communication device, a mobile application that enables the employee's location to be tracked or the employee's personal in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 206, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1334). |
| SB1162 | Pass | Clarifies conditions that must be met by applicants to receive funds under the forest stewardship program administered by the board of land and natural resources. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 221, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1349). |
| HB1032 | Pass | Updates the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make it consistent with amendments in the federal controlled substances law as required by section 329-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 233, 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1361). |
| HB79 | Pass | Establishes an affordable homeownership revolving fund within HHFDC to provide loans to nonprofit community development financial institutions and nonprofit housing development organizations for the development of affordable homeownership housing pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 227, 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1355). |
| SB540 | Pass | Allows for lesser emergency period penalties to be adopted by the governor or a mayor. Allows for the emergency period infractions to be processed under the traffic adjudication process. Allows electronic copies of notices of infractions, infraction ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 185, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1313). |
| SB512 | Pass | Removes the $10 per visit per day cap on the dollar-for-dollar match received by supplemental nutrition assistance program beneficiaries under the Hawaii healthy food incentive program, also known as the double up food bucks program. Specifies that h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 177, on 07/02/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1305). |
| HB1191 | Pass | Establishes the broadband infrastructure grant program to award grants to applicants to extend deployment of infrastructure used to provide broadband service to unserved and underserved areas of the State. Renames the Hawaii technology loan revolving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 225, 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1353). |
| HB776 | Pass | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for a master planned development proposed by Pueo Development, LLC, on Hawaiian Home Lands. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 198, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1326). |
| SB764 | Pass | Adds a permanent commercial driver's license disqualification for a commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit holder who is convicted of a felony involving severe forms of trafficking in persons, without the possibility of reinstatem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 215, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1343). |
| SB474 | Pass | Requires that mandatory seller disclosures in real estate transactions include identification of residential real properties lying within the sea level rise exposure area. Takes effect 5/1/22. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 179, on 07/02/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1307). |
| HB244 | Pass | Amends the data requirements for land recordation by the bureau of conveyances, on land other than fee simple time share interests deregistered by the land court, to include a map and description prepared by a licensed professional surveyor. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 187, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1315). |
| SB1327 | Pass | Amends or repeals various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes or the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, or deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 230, 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1358). |
| SB615 | Pass | Requires all moped and motor scooter rental companies to ensure that mopeds and motor scooters are equipped with flags and that riders wear safety helmets, subject to certain circumstances. Amends the definition of motor scooter. Prohibits the rental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 214, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1342). |
| SB405 | Pass | Provides that excess contributions by nonresident contributors shall escheat to the Hawaii election campaign fund if not returned to the contributor within thirty days of the end of the election period. Allows the candidate, candidate committee, or n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 207, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1335). |
| HB1276 | Pass | Allows the board of land and natural resources to adopt, amend, or repeal administrative fee schedules for certain activities related to state parks through regular or special board meetings rather than through administrative rulemaking. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 194, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1322). |
| SB400 | Pass | Clarifies that increased fines may apply if a candidate committee or noncandidate committee fails to timely file the preliminary primary or preliminary general report due ten calendar days before a primary or general election. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 204, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1332). |
| HB33 | Pass | Amends the terms and composition of members of the information technology steering committee. Requires the chief information officer to present an annual report to the information technology steering committee for public comment prior to submitting t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 186, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1314). |
| HB1362 | Pass | Authorizes the department of education to directly accept private funding for the purpose of establishing public prekindergarten programs under certain circumstances. Establishes the Hawaii early childhood educator stipend program to address shortage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-07-07
Act 210, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1338). |
