| HI | HB256 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to divert all organic waste produced within the county by facilities generating more than a certain amount of organic waste per year. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB1239 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the position of the Tourism Liaison Officer within the Office of the Governor. Makes an appropriation. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB240 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts gross proceeds from medical services provided by physicians and advanced practice registered nurses acting in the capacity of a primary care provider from the general excise tax. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB861 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission to oversee the development or expansion of new or existing correctional facilities. Prohibits moneys for construction or other capital expenditures from being requested in the executive bud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HI | HB864 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates moneys for a four-year Pacific cultural court pilot program in the family court of the first circuit. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB583 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish within the Department of Human Services' Child Care Assistance Program, a Child Care Accreditation Program to support licensed or registered child care providers to obtain accreditation from a national early learning accrediting organizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB611 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that "customary and traditional subsistence farming", which is customary and traditional subsistence farming conducted by a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner in certain situations, is included as a protected activity under the Hawaii ri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB540 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, requires the department of education and public charter schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB737 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii paroling authority to award credits to parolees for compliance with the terms and conditions of parole supervision that accordingly reduce the overall term of parole supervision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HI | HB431 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the prohibited acts related to drug paraphernalia under the uniform controlled substances act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB740 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an additional minimum supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefit of $250 per month per person for SNAP-eligible households whose income is below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level, as established by the United...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB393 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the judiciary to establish a uniform procedure for adjusting payments and partner with other state agencies for ability to pay determinations. Sets the community service conversion rate for certain monetary penalties. Appropriates funds to d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1233 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the School of Travel Industry Management of the University of Hawaii to conduct a study that assesses the tourism social carrying capacity for each of the islands of Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, Lanai, and Molokai. Requires the School of Trave...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | HB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for the low- to moderate-income electric vehicle rebate program and the electric vehicle subaccount to encourage the purchase and use of electric vehicles by low- to moderate-income households and nonprofit organiza...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB573 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes from the definition of "drug paraphernalia", testing products utilized in determining whether a controlled substance contains chemicals, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds in quantities that can cause physical harm or death, including ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | HB1252 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides rebates for eligible electric vehicle-ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB663 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the categories of women required to be covered for mammogram screenings. Requires the existing health insurance mandate for coverage of low-dose mammography to include digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis. Defines "digital b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1278 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes green infrastructure objectives and policies for transportation systems, infrastructure, and projects. Establishes the green transportation infrastructure task force to examine, evaluate, and develop policies for the design, implementatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1222 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each house of the Legislature to establish by its rules, procedures that enable the Legislature to use remote testimony at legislative committee hearings, enable the public to present oral testimony at legislative committee hearings through ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HI | HB149 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires corporations to include the income of all foreign subsidiaries to the State. Applies the State's apportionment formula to determine the share of reported profits subject to the appropriate tax. Effective 1/1/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits drivers from operating vehicles with more than four wheels and high-passenger cars in the left-hand lane, or close to the left-hand curb or left-hand edge, of roadways. Exempts drivers operating public transportation vehicles in highoccupan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1216 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii cannabis regulatory authority, which shall have oversight over the personal use of cannabis. Legalizes and regulates the personal use of small amounts of cannabis. Regulates the cultivation and sale of small amounts of cannabis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB321 | Intro
Sine Die | Lowers the income threshold from one hundred forty per cent to one hundred twenty per cent of the median family income for mixed-income rental projects to be eligible for rental housing revolving fund loans or grants. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB658 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows students who experienced educational disruption to graduate high school through enrollment in an accepted alternative education program and participation in certain activities approved by the department of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB651 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1238 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the counties to adopt an ordinance regulating the operation of hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodations operators. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB783 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the 2023 illegal fireworks task force within the department of the attorney general to develop a comprehensive strategic plan to stop the importation of illegal fireworks and explosives into the State, promote compliance with the firework...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multi-state Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multi-state licensure privilege in each party state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB967 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State of Hawaii, to begin with the 2024 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB952 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to address the impacts of climate change in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB873 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides scholarships for the unmet needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain eligibility criteria. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii promise program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | 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 |
| HI | 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 |
| HI | HB1447 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a non-refundable income tax credit for taxpayers who engage in preservation efforts using native plants. Appropriates funds. Repeals 6/30/2028. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a qualified school librarian and library resources on the campus of every public school in Hawaii by 6/30/2026. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB734 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes to replace the word "marijuana" and related terms with the term "cannabis" or related terms, as appropriate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1444 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the ranked-choice voting method of tabulation for all elections for elected office to ensure that elected officials receive the majority of votes cast by the electorate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB332 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the shade and fruit tree program in the department of education to support educational activities and encourage propagation of native shade trees or fruit trees for planting in department schools. Appropriates funds for the program and to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1370 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the uses for the state archives preservation and long-term access special fund from the preservation of and long-term access to government records only, to include photographic, phonographic, and audio-video records and collections that have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB829 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB238 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment based on the person's status as a medical cannabis registry card holder, under certain conditions. Authorizes an employer to use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB492 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the state earned income tax credit from twenty to twenty-five percent of the federal earned income tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB234 | Intro
Sine Die | Disallows dividends paid deduction for real estate investment trusts. Specifies that amounts collected from the disallowance be evenly divided and deposited into the dwelling unit revolving fund and rental housing revolving fund. Applies to taxable y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB237 | Intro
Sine Die | Legalizes, regulates, and taxes cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for responsible, adult use. Exempts sales of cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for medical use from the general excise tax. Clarifies that qualifying out-of-state p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB601 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the Department of Education to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization to establish an aquatic safety education program for elementary school students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in its standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech. Repeals certain requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB316 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the safe routes to school advisory committee within the Planning Branch of the Highways Division of the Department of Transportation. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1413 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the legislature ensure that state facilities, businesses, and recreational facilities meet certain accessibility requirements and be in compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that Hawaii housing finance and development corporation housing projects include a restrictive covenant that the percentage of units of the housing project that are designated as affordable housing, as described in the submitted housing proj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | HB832 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the chief election officer to develop and distribute a voter information guide for all candidates running for state office, including candidates running for any trustee position of the office of Hawaiian affairs. Requires the office of elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
