| HI | HB2537 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a penalty for knowingly selling invasive plants or plants containing invasive species.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2267 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program. Authorizes the state or counties to administer the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program. Requires fines collected beginning 1/1/2025 for violations on a county highway to be expended...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2085 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a landlord or the landlord's agent from charging an application fee for a criminal background check or credit report if an applicant provides a certified copy of a criminal background check or credit report. Requires a landlord or the landl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1971 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1722 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the imposition of cost-sharing requirements for certain diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1707 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the amount of total income tax credits available. Provides the State with alternative marketing opportunities in lieu of a shared-card, end-title screen credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1728 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes tax credits for insurers providing full property coverage to owners and associations of condominiums in the amount equal to twenty per cent of the insurance premium. Provides additional ten per cent tax credits to insurers incorporated in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1715 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Ohana Bill of Rights for parents and legal guardians of minor children to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of their minor child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2205 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes to amend the Constitution of the State of Hawaii by: (1) Providing that the Department of Law Enforcement shall be headed by an elected Sheriff; (2) Applying to the Sheriff the same constitutional impeachment and removal provisions that appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2202 | Intro
Sine Die | Takes effect only upon ratification of constitutional amendment requiring the election of the Sheriff as the single executive of the Department of Law Enforcement. Effective 1/1/2025, amends elections law to accommodate the election of the Sheriff. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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 | HB2288 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to develop tax incentives, rebates, grants, and loan programs to incentivize and provide financing for agrivoltaic farms and solar energy systems on certain agricultural land. Requires a report to the legislatur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2586 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to twelve weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2585 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the offense of organized retail theft. Provides penalties for organized retail theft. Creates an organized retail theft task force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2594 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits certain persons affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party from acquiring real property or any interest in real property in the State, except a de minimus indirect interest. Establishes exceptions. Requires a person affiliated with the Chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2592 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the counties to impose, by ordinance, enhanced penalties for graffiti in certain designated zones and supersede graffiti sentencing requirements under the Penal Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2587 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the income tax for single and heads-of-household filers making less than $20,000 a year or $40,000 a year for joint filers and scale low- and middle-income tax rates more slowly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2593 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Department of Education faculty and staff to provide time and space each day for students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2708 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the requirement that the Department of Education designate sexspecific teams for the purpose of gender equality in school sports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2709 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates moneys for capital improvement projects in the 39th representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2706 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes fines for any person who sets off fireworks without a valid permit and while a red flag warning is in effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2707 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to require the chair of a committee of the Legislature to set for public hearing every bill assigned to the committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2788 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "dangerous to self". Defines the terms "gravely disabled" and "psychiatric deterioration". Broadens the term of "imminently dangerous to self and others". Increases the maximum period of emergency hospitalization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2749 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "imminent harm" in the Child Protective Act. Clarifies the due process required for child removals, including removals by a police officer without a court order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2791 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units without regard to civil service law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB2792 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires seller or seller's agent to provide buyer with disclosure of any little fire ant infestations on residential real property and agricultural land prior to sale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB1733 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires county clerks to update the general register of voters according to death certificates and other disqualifying records upon receipt from department of health or another informing agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1705 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that emergency powers must comply with the Constitution and the needs of the circumstances. Specifies parameters for when a state of emergency is terminated and how proclamations may be extended. Requires a two-thirds vote of each house of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1706 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study comparing other state's financial databases with Hawaii's current systems to assess the feasibility of adopting a single, more transparent and efficient statewide system. Appropriates funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HI | HB1703 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the legislature to a maximum of twelve years in the house of representatives or senate, or both, for terms beginning on or after the general election of 2024, with a grandfather cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1734 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any campaign advertisement that contains any image, video footage, or audio recording that is created with the use of generative artificial intelligence to include a disclosure statement regarding the use of that technology. Subjects violato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1731 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that within lands under Department of Hawaiian Home Lands jurisdiction, no down payment shall be required for any mortgage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1700 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates state income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1704 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends provisions in Chapter 11 to improve the integrity and accuracy of voter rolls, ballot security, increases the number of voter service centers, and requires ballots be sent by mail only upon voter request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1730 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the accessory dwelling unit housing development program with the Hawaii Community Development Authority to award subsidies to individuals who build accessory dwelling units on an island with a population of more than 150,000, but less tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1701 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates the Individual Housing Account statute to more accurately reflect the current cost of housing down-payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1732 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for employers to hire state residents who have been living, working, or studying on the mainland for three or more years and agree to return to Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1699 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts food and medical services from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1729 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjusts annually for tax years beginning on or after 1/1/2025, the income tax brackets, personal exemption amounts, standard deduction amounts, and the overall limitation on itemized deductions by a cost-of-living adjustment factor linked to the Urba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1702 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces zoning restrictions for affordable housing development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1708 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a K-12 curriculum-to-career pipeline initiative. Appropriates funds to develop and implement the program. Declares the general fund expenditure ceiling exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1714 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment that would establish local school boards throughout the State to be elected from at least 7 school districts as provided by law and to serve no more than twelve years as a member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1747 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that any qualified applicant shall be granted a license to carry a pistol or revolver and ammunition unconcealed on the applicant's person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1750 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of ranked choice voting for any election. Repeals the provision allowing for ranked choice voting for certain positions and circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1746 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a home-schooled child to become a member of the sports teams of the public school that the child would otherwise be required to attend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1726 | Intro
Sine Die | Standardizes medical exemptions from vaccination and immunization requirements. Allows one medical exemption form to remain valid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1740 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the requirement that the Department of Education designate sexspecific teams for the purpose of gender equality in school sports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1738 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Taxation, in consultation with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to study the feasibility of replacing the income and general excise taxes with a new retail sales tax or other tax. Requires the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1709 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of entrepreneurship. Creates a program in partnership with the Hawaii film and creative industries development special fund. Declares the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1741 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provision of the state constitution that prohibits the construction of nuclear fission power plants unless approved by a two-thirds vote in each house of the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
