| HB618 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an exemption from mediation in paternity proceedings where there are allegations of domestic abuse if the party alleging domestic abuse does not wish to participate. Prohibits a mediator from engaging in mediation where there are allegati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB497 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the school facilities authority to conduct a feasibility study for the development of teacher and workforce housing at the Queen Liliuokalani elementary school property. Requires a report to the legislature prior to the 2024 regular session....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1053 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the infant and early childhood mental health program within the department of health to provide and coordinate mental health services for children from birth to age five. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes unlawful for any person to play, use, operate, or otherwise permit a sound amplifier that creates a noise disturbance within thirty feet of a hotel, detached dwelling, or multi-family dwelling in Waikiki between the hours of 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB557 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the sale of gasoline for an unconscionably excessive price during periods of abnormal disruption of the market an unfair trade practice. Increases penalties for violations of the law regulating unfair trade practices by the petroleum industry. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB360 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the deadline for a county council to take action on an affordable housing project's application from forty-five days to an unspecified number of days after receipt of the proposed project's preliminary plans and specifications from the Hawa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB1154 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Amends the Uniform Probate Code to allow courts to appoint emergency guardians for respondents who reside in psychiatric facilities, hospitals, and homeless shelters. Extends the appointment period. Clarifies that guardians may consent to car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB1253 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Honolua Bay Special Fund for conservation purposes and the upkeep and maintenance of Lipoa Point. Establishes a Honolua Bay Advisory Board to administer the Honolua Bay Special Fund and oversee the conservation of Honolua Bay. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB883 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of health to operate mobile clinics providing medication-assisted treatment throughout the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1016 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 87A-23, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to exclude medicare reimbursement by the State and counties for the spouses of retired employees hired after June 30, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to legislative management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HB151 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the exclusion amount of Hawaii's estate tax. Repeals exemption for tax imposed on transfer of taxable estate located in Hawaii for nonresidents and nonresidents who are not citizens. Applicable to decedents dying or taxable transfers occurring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1221 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates reimbursement for services provided by participating registered pharmacists practicing within their scope of practice by private and public health plans in the State beginning 1/1/2024. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB785 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of human services to appoint an existing employee to apply for and manage grants, request grant writing assistance from other state agencies, or contract or employ a dedicated capture manager for this purpose. Requires repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB395 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the small business innovation research program under the Hawaii technology development corporation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for judicial review of orders fixing minimum terms of imprisonment. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1158 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that certain deliberative and pre-decisional government inter-agency or intra-agency records concerning an agency decision about a government action are not subject to disclosure until a decision on the action has been made or abandoned. Cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB688 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts medical services from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB292 | Intro
Sine Die | By 1/1/2027, requires the department of taxation to suspend and refund certain income tax amounts received or withheld upon the enactment of a state law specifying real property tax amounts. Takes effect upon the ratification of a constitutional amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB498 | Intro
Sine Die | 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. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends and modifies the task force established to recommend amendments to update existing parentage laws that reflect outdated, cisheteronormative concepts of families, parenthood, and parental rights to December 31, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB1140 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Health and the counties to use electronic devices to trap and remove feral chickens. Establishes fines for interfering with the trapping or removal of feral chickens. Requires the Department of Health to establish and ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1435 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to transfer the Ewa Beach Public and School Library from the State Public Library System to James Campbell High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB1229 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the death care industry board to regulate the practices of funeral directing and cemetery sales. Establishes the death care industry board special fund. Requires funeral directors and cemetery salespersons to be licensed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to authorize qualified voters to recall any official holding a state elected office, pursuant to standards and procedures for recall that are provided by law, subject to certain specified grounds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the offense of negligent concealment of a firearm by a licensee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB509 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools. Establishes new parental rights regarding health services and records. Establishes the parental right to sue and receive damages if schools fail to adhere to new pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB1368 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes various updates to the hospital sustainability program, including amending the definition of "private hospital"; clarifying the uses of the hospital sustainability program special fund; increasing various hospital sustainability fee caps; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB15 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the State and the counties to place liens on real properties for unpaid civil fines resulting from violations of land use laws. Authorizes the State and counties, subject to adoption of appropriate and particular laws or rules establishing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1352 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the short-time compensation program to allow employees to receive reduced compensation when employers reduce work hours in lieu of layoffs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies when the identity of a police officer, who has been suspended or discharged following a misconduct incident, is to be disclosed in a county police department's annual report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB504 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of human services to develop a preschool child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed child care facilities for preschool children aged two through five. Sunsets 6/30/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1013 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals Act 192, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, which requires the employees' retirement system to divest itself of investments in companies that provide support for genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and provide annual reports to the legislature on the status...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB1410 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to establish a reverse vending machine pilot program to provide grants to deploy reverse vending machines in the State. Allows moneys from the deposit beverage container deposit special fund to be used for grants to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB652 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a Workforce Development and Support Center. Requires the Center to develop a Workforce Pilot Project. Requires the Workforce Pilot Project to terminate on 6/30/2026. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB801 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits a holdover trustee's time in office to one hundred twenty calendar days after the trustee's term ends.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB1212 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the water neutrality task force to develop a plan for Hawaii to become water-neutral by the year 2050. Requires the task force to submit a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB789 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the child abuse and neglect reporting requirement to specify that a member of the clergy shall not be required to report information gained solely during a penitential communication, unless exigent circumstances exist that justify disclosure o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the Department of Human Services to purchase, staff, and operate 2 mobile clinics to serve homeless persons residing in ohana zones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB1032 | Intro
Sine Die | Converts the emergency management specialist series positions at level IV and higher in the Hawaii emergency management agency from civil service status to exempt status. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Climate Impact Special Fund. Allocates five cents from the Environmental Response, Energy, and Food Security Tax to the Climate Impact Special Fund. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of accounting and general services to establish and operate a child care center pilot program for eligible children of state employees, one in or near the state capitol and one in Kapolei. Appropriates funds. Repeals on 6/30/2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1171 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a visitor security surcharge on overseas aircraft passenger tickets arriving and departing the state excluding inter-island for the purpose of recruiting and retaining police offices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Tourism Committee |
| HB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include malathion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB211 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes requirements for transient accommodations brokers prior to publishing an advertisement on the availability of a property for lease or rent on behalf of an operator or plan manager. Prohibits transient accommodations brokers from engaging ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1034 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the Governor's and mayors' emergency management powers shall be consistent with the state constitution. Clarifies the scope of the comprehensive emergency management plan. Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to extend or te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB627 | Intro
Sine Die | Introduces suggestions to improve the standards of conduct concerning elected officials, as recommended by the Commission to Improve Standards of Conduct in their final report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB608 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an organic foods production tax credit applicable to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Sunsets 12/31/2033. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1257 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fourteenth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the definitions of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based clinical training rotation" to allow for improved accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits. Adds dieticians, physician assistants, and social workers to the list of precepto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
