| HI | HB1573 | Intro
Sine Die | Caps the primary and secondary ticket seller service charges that may be added on to event ticket prices. Requires website operators to guarantee refunds in certain circumstances and disclose that the website is not the primary ticket seller. Prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1663 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands eligibility for, and automates, the expungement of conviction records if certain criteria are met. Beginning 12/1/2026, requires the Attorney General to issue automatic expungement orders and the Judiciary to seal or remove information from p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1661 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to include any individual or household whose monthly income is equal to or less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1947 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the minimum number of years of credited service from ten years to five years qualified Tier 2 employee's retirement system members must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes. Appropriates fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2087 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a two-year elder access pilot program in the Executive Office on Aging, to improve access to essential services and reduce wait times for seniors seeking public services through state and county government offices. Authorizes the Executiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2166 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii environmental protection agency within the department of land and natural resources. Transfers jurisdiction of certain functions and employees of the department of agriculture and department of health to the Hawaii environmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2180 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits development in special management areas unless the development is first found to not be located in a sea level rise exposure area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2197 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out. Effective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2286 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires fees for attorneys retained by a condominium association to be paid from the association's funds or reserves, except in matters involving the collection of delinquent assessments. Prohibits associations from assessing, demanding, or seeking ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2691 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Red Hill remediation authority. Creates the Red Hill remediation special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1593 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Elections to print and mail a physical copy of the digital voter information guide to any voter upon request. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1614 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the bonus for teachers who achieve and maintain a current national board certification from $5,000 to $15,000. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1609 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Elections to apply to be a member of the Electronic Registration Information Center, Inc. (ERIC), by 6/30/2025. Requires the Office of Elections and counties to use information and services made available by ERIC to verify thei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1649 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1687 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires full retail crediting for energy exports enrolled in grid services programs, whereby energy exported to the electrical grid past a participating customer-generator's point of common coupling from photovoltaic solar systems paired with batter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1970 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires solar conduit- and electrical panel-readiness for new residential construction offered for sale at fair market value and electric vehicle-readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1555 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice of every year as the Lunar New Year. Effective date 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1966 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans under the Hawaii Em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2044 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Establishes the Broadband and Digital Equity Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB2158 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the nurse licensure compact. Beginning 01/01/2026, requires nurses who hold multistate licenses issued by a state other than Hawaii to complete demographic data surveys. Authorizes the Board of Nursing to assess different fees for registered n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2194 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a health insurer from requiring an insured diagnosed with stage two through stage five cancer to undergo step therapy prior to covering the insured for certain drugs prescribed by the insured's health care provider, under certain conditions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2634 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the duties and sunset date of the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB1622 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to each county to mitigate flood risks on privately owned roads. Provides that the appropriation or expenditure of moneys shall not be construed to establish a duty of care or grounds for liability for the State or counties. Decla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB2591 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Human Services for the Preschool Open Doors program. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the general fund expenditure ceiling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2746 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires and appropriate moneys for the provision of free voice communication services in the State's youth and adult correctional facilities. Amends sources of funding for and imposes a limit on moneys retained in the victim information and notifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1965 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a court's authority to issue an order restricting abusive litigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2165 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a landlord from renting or leasing, or offering to rent or lease, a dwelling unit in the district described in section 4-1(2)(D), HRS, at a rate that exceeds the rate for which that dwelling unit was rented or leased or offered for rent or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2250 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to coordinate crisis intervention training for state and county law enforcement agencies and crisis intervention officers. Requires the Department of Health to certify crisis intervention officers. Defines "...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1606 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any new contract entered into by the Office of Elections for equipment or services relating to preparing ballots or counting votes include the capability to randomize the names of candidates appearing on the ballot if technologically po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB183 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all private schools to develop and implement comprehensive action plans for the management of anaphylaxis in their respective schools, including administration of auto-injectable epinephrine. Establishes certain immunity from liability for d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1605 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that each vote cast for a question on a ballot for the ratification of a constitutional amendment be counted in the negative only if the ballot properly indicates that the vote is in the negative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1678 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates all University of Hawaii system campuses as voter registration agencies as defined in the National Voter Registration Act. Requires the Chief Election Officer to use data concerning voter registration and election participation to study vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1948 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from establishing restrictions on the type of gear used for subsistence fishing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2296 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax credit for the import of renewable fuel. Updates the renewable fuels production tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to convene workshops to aid electric utilities in the development and implementation of best practices regarding wildfires. Requires electric utilities to design and operate in compliance with a risk-based wil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2169 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the construction of overhead high-voltage electric transmission lines. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to submit to the Public Utilities Commission a report identifying the areas of the State having the highest r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2290 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits planned community associations from planting yellow oleander or causing or allowing yellow oleander to be planted on their real property. Effective 7/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2257 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to provide students who are residents of the State with scholarships in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of Ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | HB2291 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii sustainable aviation fuel program within the State Energy Office to work with the Department of Transportation and fuel suppliers in order to establish a sustainable fuel portfolio standard for the use of sustainable aviation f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2287 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for prefabricated, modular, or kauhale-type housing for individuals impacted by the Lahaina wildfire.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "patient's provider" in state law governing Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment by removing language that requires the provider to examine the patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2251 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a separate prohibition on driving motor vehicles having noisy mufflers on public highways in high-density areas. Authorizes police officers to conduct examinations and inspections of motor vehicle mufflers in high-density areas. Establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB2289 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes new security requirements for voting systems. Deems as election fraud certain acts relating to the provision of valuable consideration, including gifts and loans, for the purpose of bribery; election tampering; and security breaches. Appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2249 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that violation of part I of chapter 200, HRS, relating to ocean recreation and coastal areas, or any rules adopted thereunder shall be subject to criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2233 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits private and state workforce development programs from rejecting an applicant who is 18 years of age or younger based solely on the applicant's active sentence of probation; provided that the applicant is in full compliance with any court-or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2511 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2507 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to: (1) conduct a remote work study; (2) review any recent remote work studies done by the counties; (3) develop and administer a remote work program; and (4) submit the study to the Legislature ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2649 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the State's midwifery law to permit care by extended family, cultural supporters, or others with whom a woman chooses to give birth. Specifies that nothing in the midwifery law shall prohibit or restrict healing practices by traditional hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2573 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires planned community associations to either develop and adopt program rules for a neighborhood security watch program within the association's planned community or allocate a portion of the association's regular assessments to fund a neighborho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2631 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds, including for positions, equipment, and maintenance and operating costs, for mullet production for fishponds and stock enhancement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
