| HB1314 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires productions to provide evidence of reasonable efforts to comply, rather than actually comply, with all applicable requirements to qualify for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Requires taxpayers be giv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB563 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts members of a county council from the limitation on the number of members that may attend an informational meeting or presentation on matters relating to official county council business for purposes of permitted interactions. Clarifies that s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB1387 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the appointment and removal of the chief executive officer of the Hawaii health systems corporation requires a majority vote by the voting members of the corporation board, rather than by the entire membership of the board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB1123 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-fourth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits commercial enterprise vocational programs for young adults within the purview of the Office of Youth Services to market and sell goods and services that develop job readiness skills that lead to self-sufficiency. Establishes the Office of You...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to labor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multi-state Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multi-state licensure privilege in each party state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB1400 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the powers granted for emergency purposes shall not be inconsistent with the state constitution. Provides parameters for the duration of suspension of laws and requires justification for the suspension. Specifies parameters for when a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1414 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all playgrounds located in state and county parks and on public school grounds include special needs recreational playground equipment as part of the recreational apparatuses by 6/30/2025 including at a minimum a wheelchair accessible swing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB673 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the counties to reclassify lands fifteen to one hundred acres in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts in which at least fifty per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for persons and fam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HB640 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the required coverage for shared cars that are made available through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program. Clarifies when the requirements for motor vehicle insurance coverage are satisfied. Provides that the counties may adopt ordinances to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB629 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies a terminally ill patient's right to try experimental treatment options.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB480 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definitions of "special interest vehicle", "street rod replica vehicle", and "street rod vehicle", for purposes of the Hawaii Highway Safety Act, to be based on the age of the vehicle or the parts used, rather than a certain year. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1491 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to limit unannounced inspections to investigate complaints pertaining to client or patient abuse or life- or health-threatening danger at certain care facilities. Establishes requirements for complaints. Requires rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB839 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation or an eligible developer to prepare an environmental impact statement for any proposed housing project on lands zoned as preservation or conservation by the applicable county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB3 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to the environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB942 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each department of education school and public charter school to establish a critical emergency response team. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB250 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally rais...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1019 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates general funds for federal broadband programs matching fund requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HB102 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a person having professional-level government employment performing lawful experience in review of engineered plans and calculations under the direct supervision of an applicably licensed engineer is eligible for licensure as a professi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB750 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the dam and appurtenance loan and grant programs for plans, design, construction, and equipment that is used to improve deficient dams and appurtenances as determined by the Department of Land and Natural Resources and approved by the Boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB399 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows employers to obtain a tax credit for offering positions to qualified interns in work-based learning programs that have been approved by the department of education or University of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a GET exemption for the gross proceeds from the sale of machinery, fuel, chemicals, seed, huli, animals, or feed to a qualified farmer and directly related to the qualified farmer's kalo farming operations. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes a housekeeping amendment to section 341-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to delete a reference to a repealed section.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB260 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DOE to develop and implement safety training for all cafeteria student helpers and ensure the student helpers receive the training prior to them volunteering. Requires DOE to provide personal protective equipment for all cafeteria student he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB175 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it discretionary for authorized emergency vehicles to use sirens when responding to an emergency or in other specified situations if the siren is not reasonably necessary under the circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB448 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows minors sixteen years of age or older and emancipated minors to petition for domestic abuse protective orders. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB154 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts state residents from the transient accommodations tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Tourism Committee |
| HB1147 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning 1/1/2027, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB809 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for the shipping container inspection program set to begin no later than December 1, 2023. Requires reports to the legislature on implementation of the shipping container inspection program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB128 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the felony offenses of misuse of unmanned aircraft in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degrees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB559 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the coffee labeling and advertising requirements to include ready-to-drink coffee beverages and inner packages and inner wrapping labels. Requires disclosure on the label of coffee blends of the respective geographic and regional origins and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB164 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each public employer to pay for the employer's employees' professional license renewal fees. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB1203 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an employer child care tax credit for employers who provide or sponsor approved child care. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB277 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the fines for violating motor vehicle insurance requirements. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB105 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires license plates to include okina in the word "Hawaii". Establishes requirements for number plates issued for zero-emission, hybrid, and gasoline-powered vehicles beginning 1/1/2025. Requires the continued use of the rainbow number plate desig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB867 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the posting of informational placards on sex trafficking and resources available to victims, in public buildings and at other specified locations, and the development of a model placard by the Department of Human Services. Requires the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a new section to Chapter 801, Hawaii Revised Statutes, establishing circumstances in which the presence of a defendant is required for court proceedings or may be waived.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB967 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State of Hawaii, to begin with the 2024 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB814 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the counties to adopt ordinances by 7/1/2024 to allow religious institutions, educational institutions, and medical institutions to build housing units on land that the institutions own for purchase in fee simple or use by the institutions, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB45 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HB1112 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals several exemptions from the prohibition on operating a pickup truck with a passenger seated in the bed or loadcarrying area, including the exemption that allows passengers over twelve years of age to ride in the bed or loadcarrying area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB774 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes rules of ethics applicable to persons who are contracted, subcontracted, assigned, delegated, ordered, appointed, or in any other act allowed by a state agency to work with children. Establishes additional procedures with respect to fees,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB921 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Environmental Crimes Unit within the Department of the Attorney General. Makes the disposal of motor vehicle tires in violation of State law governing recovery of used motor vehicle tire recovery a petty misdemeanor. Establishes a $1 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB565 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the State Self-Insurance Against Property and Casualty Risks Special Fund to be administered by the Comptroller to make it easier for the State to self-insure or utilize a captive insurer to mitigate against property and casualty risks. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB32 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the Office of the Legislative Analyst. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1067 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 317, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to give the Department of Human Services needed flexibility in developing a comprehensive child welfare information system that complies with federal regulation, which may allow the department to receive f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB240 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts gross proceeds from medical services provided by physicians and advanced practice registered nurses acting in the capacity of a primary care provider from the general excise tax. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB446 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain individuals attempting to serve as child custody evaluators to complete a training course on domestic violence issues every 3 years. Requires the Family Court to approve training courses and publish approved courses on the Judiciary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB1445 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of "renewable energy".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
