| HI | SB2478 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish imu infrastructure in state parks. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1909 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Maui small business rent subsidization grant program to assist small businesses displaced by the 2023 Maui wildfires to pay rent at new locations on Maui. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | SB2489 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and establishes procedures and criteria for prescriptive authority for clinical psychologists who meet specific education, training, and registration requirements. Requires the Board of Psychology to accept applications for prescriptive au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2004 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to conduct an actuarial study on a leave grant pilot program to help small businesses offer their employees paid family leave and paid sick leave. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2115 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to assign school resource officers or guards to serve at each department school and charter school. Requires the Department of Education to seek funding from federal grants. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1979 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Canadian Prescription Drug Importation Program to be implemented and administered by the Department of Health. Requires the Department of Health to obtain federal approval, make reports, and adopt rules. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2624 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits certain foreign parties from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in agricultural lands. Establishes an Office of Agricultural Intelligence within the Department of Agriculture to investigate claims that land is unlawfully owned by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2584 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for prefabricated, modular, or kauhale-type housing for homeless individuals and low-income households.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | HB2006 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for an invasive species placard program. Requires the department of agriculture to inspect certain establishments that are at risk of spreading invasive pests. Establishes correction and quarantine procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB2050 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to modernize and expand technology systems and software for new and existing policies and programs in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2106 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the position of the State Fire Marshal. Authorizes the State Fire Marshal to employ seven fire enforcement officers to issue citations to and remove persons creating fire risks on state lands. Declares that the general fund expenditure ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2022 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the legislative budget office to produce fiscal analyses and reports on bills impacting state or county finances. Repeals the joint legislative budget committee and the office of the legislative analyst. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HI | SB2484 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the continued implementation of the return-to-home pilot program, established pursuant to Act 94, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, to provide eligible homeless individuals with assistance in reuniting with family and relatives in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2075 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to further reduce its homestead program applicant waitlist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2583 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for prefabricated, modular, or kauhale-type housing for individuals impacted by the Lahaina wildfire.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | HB2092 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to develop and implement a Holocaust and genocide curricula. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2031 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the continued exploration and identification of geothermal resources on Hawaiian Home Lands. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2585 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the rental housing revolving fund to be used for mixed-income rental projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | HB2047 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a lava zone insurance fund to subsidize the cost of insurance premiums for properties in lava zones 1 and 2. Defines lava zones 1 and 2. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2110 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires the Department of Human Services to perform ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2111 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to achieve the full funding, including estimated payment increases, of Medicaid home- and community-based services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2118 | Intro
Sine Die | Remove state-related construction projects from the permitting requirements of the counties. Establishes a permitting process and division within the Department of Accounting and General Services. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2154 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Transportation to re-establish and operate the Ellison Onizuka Space Center. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2164 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the regenerative tourism program with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to increase regenerative tourism. Establishes a grant program. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2128 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish imu infrastructure in state parks. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB2852 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a two-year senior 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. Requires the Auditor to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2853 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of health for mobile vaccination services for homebound individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2875 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Office of Streaming within the Creative Industries Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to help content creators increase the scale of their respective productions. Appropriates moneys. Declares th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2795 | 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] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB2160 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to submit a report to the Legislature that focuses on the health disparities experienced by persons in the State with developmental or intellectual disabilities. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2141 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program for plans, design, construction, and equipment that is used to improve or remove deficient dams and appurtenances as determined by the Department of Land and Natural Resources....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2121 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Law enforcement to provide security twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for all state buildings. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2754 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for salaries and fringe benefits of positions for the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy's Space Sciences Workforce Development Program, Maunakea Scholars Program, and Akamai Internship Program. Appropriates funds for off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2678 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds and pursuing all other funding sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2839 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to develop and implement a Holocaust and genocide curricula. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2860 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of using artificial intelligence technology to assist the Department with improving safety at correctional institutions. Authorizes the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2905 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the DOE to submit an annual report to the legislature on the installation, repair, and maintenance of fire alarm systems in Hawaii's public schools. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2914 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to improve the State's water resource management and hydrologic data collection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB2172 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the housing assistance program, to be carried out by the housing assistance program coordinator, within the Department of Human Services to provide state grants and rental subsidies to private property owners who set aside, construct, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2957 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a one-year pilot program to reduce the population of rose-ringed parakeets on Kauai using past research and on-the-ground experience to guide future strategies. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2955 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a dam and reservoir working group to ensure and enhance the continued availability and operation of dams and reservoirs in the State and consider their role in drought mitigation and the maintenance of a dependable water supply. Appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2408 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program for plans, design, construction, and equipment that is used to improve or remove deficient dams and appurtenances as determined by the Department of Land and Natural Resources....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2446 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the governor for the ohana zones pilot program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2415 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes new security requirements for voting systems. Deems certain acts relating to election tampering or security breaches as acts of election fraud. Appropriates moneys for video security surveillance recording equipment for the state's voting sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2327 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students enrolled in department schools. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2330 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services for Hawaii's public school system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2326 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2054 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Teacher Apprenticeship Program, to be administered by the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, to support, recruit, develop, and retain teachers for Hawaii's public schools. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2191 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the victim witness assistance program. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 20242025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2046 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish and administer a family leave insurance program. Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends the period of family leave to 16 weeks for businesses that employ one or more...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
