| HI | HB2187 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a non-refundable income tax credit for residential landlords who lease a unit to a tenant with a pet for at least six months.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
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| HI | HB2754 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Plant-Based Building Materials Working Group to report on how best to grow plants and develop plant-based building materials in Hawaii and provide economic development and green jobs while sequestering greenhouse gases to help achieve t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2613 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the criminal offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes a $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false-labeling of Hawaii-grown roasted coffee. Makes an appropriation for 1.0 FTE enforcement positio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2138 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to establish an agriculture education coordinator position. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for the sustainable food systems working group and positions within the Department of Agriculture. Requires report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2429 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Human Services to provide temporary emergency public assistance, case management, and other recovery services following the period covered by an emergency proclamation and establishes an emergency management program withi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2629 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Homeless Services Special Fund. Allows counties to apply for matching funds from the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund for certain housing projects. Increases the conveyance tax rates for certain properties. Establishes conveyan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2182 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to administer a three-year rural community health worker pilot program that enables community health workers to provide outreach, education, training, and navigation to individuals residing in rural communities in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2326 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to purchase, staff, and operate two mobile clinics to serve homeless persons residing in ohana zones. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2137 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii farm to food bank program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2335 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces and sets fixed interest rates for loans under the Agricultural Loan Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2630 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes, and establishes a regulatory framework for, the administration of psilocybin for therapeutic use. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2617 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Aquaculture Advisory Committee within the Department of Agriculture. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2176 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Artificial Intelligence Working Group to develop acceptable use policies and guidelines for the regulation, development, deployment, and use of artificial technologies in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB1788 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a cap for the amount of tax credits for research activities that an eligible taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities may receive per taxable year. Consolidates the survey and certification requirements for tax credits for research activitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB1525 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the continued administration of the Hawaii healthy food incentive program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2392 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends various provisions of the Insurance Code to update and improve existing provisions. Defines "dormant captive insurance company" and sets out a procedure to apply for the certificate of dormancy. Adds the term "doing business as" to "trade name...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2324 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for prefabricated, modular, or kauhale-type housing for homeless individuals and low-income households. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB1852 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Emergency Services Department of the City and County of Honolulu to expand Community Outreach Response and Engagement Program services outside of urban Honolulu. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2028 | Intro
Sine Die | Merges the Made in Hawaii with Aloha branding program with the Hawaii Made program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Specifies that the Department of the Attorney General shall be responsible for enforcement of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2378 | Intro
Sine Die | Moves the Hurricane Reserve Trust Fund into the state treasury. Repeals the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund's authority to arrange the manner in which funds are held, invested, and reinvested. Makes a housekeeping amendment to the fund. Effective 7/1/30...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2665 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines for state facility systems, infrastructure, transit projects, and other areas in the Hawaii State Planning Act to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2719 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a pilot program to offer tuition waivers for certain community college students starting in fall 2025. Requires the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to submit a report. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB2757 | Intro
Sine Die | By 1/1/2027, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2028, requires the Department to start ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | HB1918 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the sunset date for the historic preservation tax credit to December 31, 2030, and adjusts the cap on the total tax credits for future taxable years. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB1933 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2375 | Intro
Sine Die | Reinstates the Governor's authority to transfer funds to cope with the effects of natural disasters, for operating purposes, or to supplement the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Firefighter's Contingency Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2721 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a fireshed partnership program within the department of land and natural resources. Makes appropriations. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB1952 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifically authorizes a medical cannabis dispensary to purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from another dispensary. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules regarding medical cannabis products within a certain time. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2132 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Ant Lab to share data collected related to invasive ant surveys with the Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Ant Lab to support little fire ant mitigation and e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2127 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with other state agencies, to develop and implement a plan to expand the meat processing capacity in the State to allow for meat from axis deer and other wild game to be processed for distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB1954 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2672 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support the Hawaii ant lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2143 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a grant-in-aid to the County of Hawaii to hire an engineering firm to study, plan, assist, and conduct preliminary design and concept work for a two-phase project to restore the Kahaluu Beach Park in the County of Hawaii. Condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2001 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture's Aquaculture Development Program to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for restorative aquaculture activities. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB1778 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning 7/1/2026, amends existing law regarding preemption of local ordinances and regulations regulating the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices as a matter of statewide concern to clarify that the State's preempti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2191 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the City and County of Honolulu for the expansion of the feral chicken project and the Vector Control Branch of the Department of Health for a statewide education campaign for the feeding of feral animals. Effective 7/1/3000. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2142 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for its meat inspection program, including positions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2464 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program Special Fund to receive moneys for the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program. Appropriates funds for the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2516 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to purchase a Striker fire truck to be housed on a Department of Defense facility on Maui. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2276 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Smoking Sensor Rebate Program under the Department of Health to offer a rebate for installation of smoking sensors that can detect a smoking incident within smoking-prohibited areas. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2618 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for an aquaculture park that promotes commercial aquaculture expansion. Requires a report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB2633 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to Leeward community college Waianae Moku to support and assist students who are twenty-four years old or younger and ineligible to apply for federal financial assistance through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid applica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
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| HI | HB2105 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a statewide environmental assessment for, and subsequently administer, a slim-hole resource characterization program under the direction of the Hawaii Groundwater and Geothermal Resources Center at t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
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| HI | HB2177 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii to provide menstrual products free of charge to all students on all campuses, including community colleges and education centers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
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| HI | HB2186 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to develop a safe parking program allowing unsheltered persons who sleep in their vehicles to park overnight on state lands. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriations funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
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| HI | HB2397 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts career and technical education goods and services purchases up to $500,000 per purchase by the Department of Education from the State Procurement Code. Repeals on 7/1/2027. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
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| HI | HB1673 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to be liable for medical care, services, and supplies when a workers' compensation claim filed by a solid waste worker suffering from cancer is accepted or determined to be compensable. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
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| HI | HB1615 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all existing University of Hawaii employees to be provided training on federal laws and University of Hawaii policies regarding sex discrimination and sexual misconduct by December 31, 2024. Clarifies that amnesty provisions are applicable t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
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| HI | HB1537 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the Hawaii State Constitution to repeal the counties exclusive power to tax real property and authorize the Legislature to establish a state surcharge on real property taxation levied by the counties on certain residential inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
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