| HI | HB2619 | Pass | Requires the Department of Agriculture to lead and coordinate the State's invasive pest control and eradication biosecurity efforts. Establishes certain reporting requirements. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for programs and posi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 231, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1336). |
| HI | HB2581 | Pass | Removes the ability of the Governor or a mayor to suspend electronic media transmission during a state of emergency or local state of emergency, respectively. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 237, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1342). |
| HI | HB1554 | Pass | Expands the Department of Land and Natural Resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule to impose restrictions or requirements deemed necessary to protect certain aquatic life. Expands the Board of Land and Natural Resources' authority to temp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 222, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1323). |
| HI | HB1842 | Pass | Increases the maximum fine for violations of the fire protection laws. Specifies that each day a violation exists or continues to exist shall constitute a distinct and separate offense. Raises the criminal penalty for the offense of arson in the four...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 201, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1302). |
| HI | HB1922 | Pass | Expands the department of land and natural resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule deemed necessary to protect certain wildlife. Expands the board of land and natural resources' authority to timely adopt, amend, or repeal certain rules if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 223, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1324). |
| HI | HB1902 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-08
Act 206, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1307). |
| HI | HB2107 | Pass | Appropriates funds to establish a Limited English Proficiency Language Access Coordinator position and for programming support for LEP community projects within the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 210, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1311). |
| HI | HB2193 | Pass | Authorizes law enforcement and fire officers to enter and inspect any licensee's or permittee's premises, under certain conditions, to verify compliance with the State's Fireworks Control Law. Establishes procedures for the Department of Law Enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 208, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1309). |
| HI | HB2743 | Pass | Requires the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center and the Sea Grant College Program to develop an overlay with the Hawaii Cesspool Prioritization Tool to identify specific priority areas in which the county sewer system or other centr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 217, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1318). |
| HI | HB1832 | Pass | Authorizes a state department, division, or agency, rather than the Department of Human Resources Development, to conduct a minimum qualification review of applicants for vacant positions within the department, division, or agency. Requires the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 186, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1287). |
| HI | HB2192 | Pass | Authorizes the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to appoint an organization as the limited owner of a cemetery, under certain circumstances, for the purposes of filing complaints and engaging in certain security and perpetual care activities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 193, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1294). |
| HI | HB2298 | Pass | Beginning 7/1/2027, requires roasted coffee, instant coffee, and ready-to-drink coffee beverages that contain Hawaii-grown and Hawaii-processed coffee blended with coffee of another regional origin to contain no less than fifty-one per cent coffee by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 198, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1299). |
| HI | HB1923 | Pass | Authorizes overnight camps in operation prior to January 1, 1961, to be regulated via the special permit process. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 182, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1283). |
| HI | HB470 | Pass | Clarifies the definition of "provider" as it relates to the entities eligible to provide no cost emergency shelter and related services to a consenting minor to include certain organizations who are not considered child placing organizations or child...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 145, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1246). |
| HI | HB1529 | Pass | Allows any burial council member whose term has expired to continue in office as a holdover member until the member's reappointment to a second term is confirmed or a successor is nominated and appointed. Prohibits holdover members from holding offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 123, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1224). |
| HI | HB2626 | Pass | Specifies certain findings the Board of Land and Natural Resources must make for a lease of a government-owned Hawaiian fishpond. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 124, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1225). |
| HI | HB1836 | Pass | Allows registered pharmacists during declared states of emergency to refill prescriptions for persons directly impacted by the emergency for up to a thirty-day supply if the practitioner is unavailable or cannot be contacted to authorize the refill a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 100, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1201). |
| HI | HB1830 | Pass | Beginning 7/1/2026, establishes provisional or associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances; authorizes psychol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 093, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1194). |
| HI | HB1827 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Department of Education to support health care workforce development programs, specifically the public high school health care workforce certificate program and glidepath prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 089, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1190). |
| HI | HB1944 | Pass | Authorizes certain types of radiographical coverage and specialist consultations without a treatment plan within the context of workers' compensation coverage for employees with cervical and lumbar spinal injuries, or suspected cervical and lumbar sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 094, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1195). |
| HI | HB2020 | Pass | Expands the definition of "renewable energy producer" that is used to determine the Board of Land and Natural Resources' disposition of public lands to renewable energy producers. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-21
Act 053, 06/20/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1153). |
| HI | HB1925 | Pass | Establishes the Hawaii State Planning Act Phase II Task Force within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development. Makes an appropriation. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 036, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1136). |
| HI | HB2090 | Pass | Beginning 1/1/2025, allows residential uses in areas zoned for commercial use to be considered permitted under certain circumstances. Requires, no later than 1/1/2025, each county to adopt or amend its ordinances to allow for adaptive reuse of existi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 037, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1137). |
| HI | HB1974 | Pass | Increases the monthly needs allowance for individuals living in certain long-term care facilities from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal Supplemental Security Income Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
Act 018, 05/13/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1118). |
| HI | HCR157 | Pass | Urging The United States And The State To Recognize And Address The Air Transportation Crisis On Molokai And Lna`i.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR71 | Pass | Requesting The Department Of Health To Convene A Stakeholder Working Group To Make Recommendations To Enhance Meaningful Access To Health Care In The State Through The Provision Of Language Assistance Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Received notice of Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 826). |
| HI | HCR187 | Pass | Requesting The Legislative Reference Bureau To Conduct A Study On Best Practices For Nurse Staffing In Health Care Facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Received notice of Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 826). |
| HI | HCR198 | Pass | Requesting The State's Congressional Delegation To Advocate For The Enforcement Of Existing International Laws To Reduce Ghost Nets Entering The State From International Waters And Take Other Actions To Reduce Marine Debris From Fishing Gear.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Received notice of Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 826). |
| HI | HCR160 | Pass | Requesting The Women's Corrections Implementation Commission To Develop A Strategy And Make Recommendations To Reduce The Number Of Women Incarcerated At The Women's Community Correctional Center By Twenty-five Percent Over The Next Five Years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-01
Received notice of Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 826). |
| HI | HB1831 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Behavioral Health Crisis Center Pilot Program. Authorizes the Department of Health to establish or contract with behavioral health crisis centers in each county. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the pilot pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-26-24 at 5:30PM in Conference Room 329. |
| HI | HB1828 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the State's deadline to achieve its energy-efficiency portfolio standards target from 2030 to 2045 and updates the standards. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish interim goals for electricity use reduction to be achieved by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-26-24 at 5:20PM in Conference Room 329. |
| HI | HB1964 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and implement a child care provider subsidy and bonus program to provide subsidies to retain the existing child care workforce in licensed infant and toddler child care centers, group child care ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 4:55 PM; CR 329. |
| HI | HB2690 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Establishes a WAI Policy Coordinator and other positions within the Commission on Water Resource Management for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund. Declares that the general fund expenditur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-26-24 at 1:00PM in Conference Room 229. |
| HI | HB1919 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a state boating facility lease program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources to lease 1 state small boat harbor for private development, management, maintenance, and operation. Repeals provisions related to the leasing of fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 823). |
| HI | HB2329 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a 1-year pilot program to reduce the population of rose-ringed parakeets on Kauai and Oahu using past research and on-the-ground experience to guide future strategies. Appropriates funds. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-26-24 9:15AM in conference room 325. |
| HI | HB2712 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for applied behavioral analysis services for persons with autism. Requires the Department of Human Services to obtain maximum federal matching funds and pursue all other funding sources. Declares that the ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Bill scheduled for Conference Committee Meeting on Friday, 04-26-24 1:50PM in conference room 329. |
| HI | HCR226 | Engross
Sine Die | Recognizing And Commending The National Conference Of State Legislatures On The Upcoming Occasion Of Its Fiftieth Anniversary In 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Filed. |
| HI | HB1624 | Engross
Sine Die | For policies, contracts, plans, and agreements issued or renewed after 12/31/2024, requires the insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services for persons unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 727). |
| HI | HB1838 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the zoning powers of counties. Expands the scope of the transient accommodations tax law to include certain shelters and vehicles with sleeping accommodations. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 780). |
| HI | HB1950 | Pass | Designates November 22 of each year as "Kimchi Day" in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Act 008, 04/19/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1108). |
| HI | HCR161 | Pass | Requesting The Department Of Agriculture To Convene A Working Group To Review The Effectiveness Of The Relevant State Laws Governing Agricultural-based Commercial Operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HB1132 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires members of the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. Extends the term of the Oversight Coordinator for the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission. Requires the Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 778). |
| HI | HCR97 | Pass | Requesting The Department Of Accounting And General Services To Establish A Working Group To Plan And Construct A Hawaii First Responders Memorial.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HR212 | Pass | Recognizing And Commending The National Conference Of State Legislatures On The Upcoming Occasion Of Its Fiftieth Anniversary In 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HB500 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for various workforce readiness programs and opportunities. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 699). |
| HI | HCR4 | Pass | Requesting The Current Members Of The Northwest Wildland Fire Protection Agreement To Amend The Agreement To Allow Hawaii To Join As A Member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HB2582 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes critical infrastructure information from disclosure requirements under the Uniform Information Practices Act. Takes effect 4/14/2112. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 760). |
| HI | HCR5 | Engross
Sine Die | Urging Retail Stores And Pharmacies Doing Business In The State To Adopt A Policy On A National And Local Level Guaranteeing An Individual's Unhindered Access To All United States Food And Drug Administration-approved Contraceptives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HCR3 | Pass | Urging Each County To Establish An Emergency Zoning Code For Post-disaster Use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HB1772 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support the Department of Health's Senior Fall Prevention Campaign. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 20242025. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 738). |
