OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER

THIRTY-FIRST STATE LEGISLATURE

 

COMMITTEE REFERRALS

 

 

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NO. 1

5TH LEGISLATIVE DAY – JANUARY 27, 2021

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Committee Abbreviations:

 


AGR -  Agriculture

CAI -   Culture, Arts, & International Affairs

CMV - Corrections, Military, & Veterans

CPC -   Consumer Protection & Commerce

ECD -  Economic Development

EDN -  Education

EEP -   Energy & Environmental Protection

FIN -    Finance

GVR -  Government Reform

HET -   Higher Education & Technology

HHH -  Health, Human Services, & Homelessness

HSG -  Housing

JHA -   Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs

LAT -   Labor & Tourism

LMG -  Legislative Management

PDP -   Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness

TRN -  Transportation

WAL - Water & Land


 

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Committee

 

 

REFERRAL

 

HB1

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE LEGISLATURE, THE AUDITOR, THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU, THE OMBUDSMAN, AND THE ETHICS COMMISSION.

Appropriates funds to provide for the expenses of the Legislature, Auditor, Legislative Reference Bureau, Ombudsman, and Ethics Commission.

 

FIN

HB2

RELATING TO PAID SICK LEAVE.

Requires employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care and supplemental paid sick leave to employees under certain public health emergency conditions.

 

LAT, PDP, FIN

HB3

RELATING TO REVENUE GENERATION.

Increases the personal income tax rate and implements a rate recapture mechanism that phases out lower tax brackets for high earners for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020.  Increases the tax on capital gains.  Increases the corporate income tax and establishes a single corporate income tax rate.  From 7/1/2021 through 6/30/23, temporarily repeals certain general excise tax exemptions.  Increases conveyance taxes for the sale of properties valued at $1,000,000 or greater.

 

FIN

HB4

RELATING TO THE MINIMUM WAGE.

Establishes a temporary small business income tax credit for qualified employers to offset the cost of providing health care coverage to employees that earn below certain amounts.  Raises the minimum wage and establishes an adjusted minimum wage rate for 2027 and after.  Repeals the tip credit.  Repeals the tax credit on 7/30/2027.

 

LAT/ECD, CPC, FIN

HB5

RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE.

Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish and administer a family leave insurance program.  Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends period of family leave to 16 weeks for businesses that employs one or more employees who meet the hourly qualifications.  Appropriates funds.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB6

RELATING TO GREEN FEES.

Establishes an environmental surcharge on visitor accommodations.  Establishes the green tourism special fund to invest in the State's transition to a clean energy economy, conservation of natural resources, and sustainability and resiliency.

 

EEP/LAT, CPC, FIN

HB7

RELATING TO MARIJUANA.

Legalizes the personal use, possession, and sale of marijuana in a specified quantity.  Requires licensing to operate marijuana establishments.  Subjects marijuana establishments to excise taxes and income taxes.  Amends certain provisions of the criminal code relating to marijuana.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB8

RELATING TO FOOD SECURITY.

Establishes the Hawaii food security initiative program within the department of agriculture.

 

AGR, FIN

HB9

RELATING TO ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION.

Establishes the Hawaii 2030 economic diversification task force to develop a plan to diversify the State's economy by 2030.  Requires the task force and the auditor to submit reports to the legislature.

 

ECD, FIN

HB10

RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Requires the board of education to invite the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the department of education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative to the board.

 

EDN, JHA, FIN

HB11

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires the board of education to develop statewide performance standards to be culturally relevant, historically and scientifically accurate, and nondiscriminatory.  Requires a standards-based curriculum and its related educational materials to be nondiscriminatory.  Establishes certain requirements for school complexes when developing standards-based curricula.  Requires reports to the legislature.

 

EDN, FIN

HB12

RELATING TO RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS.

Specifies that intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to any owner, employee, or agent of a retail mercantile establishment who is engaged in enforcing a governmental health or safety requirement relating to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a class C felony.

 

PDP, JHA

HB13

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Authorizes the Department of Health to implement a program to purchase prescription drugs for the county public employers, self-insured private employers, and health insurance carriers under the purchasing authority of the State.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB14

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Directs the Department of Health to implement a program for wholesale importation of prescription drugs.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB15

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Imposes dollar limits on specialty tiers in order to protect patients from unaffordable coinsurance or copayment amounts.  Limits patients' coinsurance or copayment fees for specialty tier drugs to $150 per month for up to a thirty-day period supply.  Allow patients to request an exception to obtain a specialty drug that would not otherwise be available on a health plan formulary.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB16

RELATING TO AN INTERSTATE COMPACT TO PHASE OUT CORPORATE WELFARE.

Adopts the Interstate Compact to Phase Out Corporate Welfare.

 

ECD, CPC, FIN

HB17

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Requires drug manufacturers to notify prescription drug benefit plans and pharmacy benefit managers if a proposed increase in the wholesale price of certain drugs would result in a sixteen per cent or more price increase over a two‑year period.  Requires the drug manufacturer to identify and report to the insurance commissioner information on certain drugs whose wholesale acquisition cost increases by a certain amount during a specified time frame.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB18

RELATED TO PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS.

Requires the Insurance Commissioner to set the maximum wholesale prices of common prescription drugs based upon Canadian price regulations.  Prohibits drug makers and distributors from removing prescription drugs from Hawaii markets.  Prohibits various health plans and pharmacies from purchasing prescription drugs in excess of the maximum wholesale price.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB19

RELATING TO DISCRIMINATION.

Establishes provisions relating to civil remedies for discriminatory reporting to a law enforcement officer.  Provides that a person who summons or reports to a law enforcement officer, without reason to suspect a crime, offense, or imminent danger has occurred or is occurring, because of that person's belief or perception involving a member of a protected class shall be civilly liable.

 

LAT, JHA

HB20

RELATING TO RECORDINGS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES.

Establishes the right of persons to record law enforcement activities.  Establishes a private right of action for violations of the right.

 

CMV, JHA, FIN

HB21

RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGE.

Provides annual increases to the minimum wage rate beginning on 01/01/2022 through 01/01/2028.

 

LAT, FIN

HB22

RELATED TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE.

Increases the amount of fines that may be assessed against a noncandidate committee for violations of organizational report requirements and the amount of fines that may be assessed for violations of advertisement disclaimer requirements.

 

GVR, JHA, FIN

HB23

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Temporarily halts nonjudicial foreclosures by condominium associations until 6/30/23.

 

HSG/PDP, CPC, JHA

HB24

RELATING TO PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS.

Establishes business practice and transparency reporting requirements for pharmacy benefit managers.  Replaces the registration requirement for pharmacy benefit managers with a licensing requirement.  Increases penalties for violations of the pharmacy benefit managers law.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB25

RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

Exempts income received from unemployment compensation benefits from state income tax.  Effective 1/1/2021.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB26

RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

Requires DOTAX to retroactively exempt and refund state income tax amounts received or withheld from unemployment compensation benefits for the period March 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB27

RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX EXEMPTIONS.

Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), regardless of the means of purchase and the SNAP or WIC eligibility of the purchaser.  Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the sale of nonprescription drugs.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB28

RELATING TO THE MINIMUM WAGE.

Adjusts the tip credit beginning on January 1, 2022.  Repeals the tip credit on January 1, 2024.

 

LAT, FIN

HB29

RELATING TO PAYDAY LENDING.

Transitions from lump sum deferred deposit transactions to installment-based small dollar loan transactions.  Specifies various consumer protection requirements for small dollar loans.  Beginning 1/1/2022, requires licensure for small dollar lenders that offer small dollar loans to consumers.  Specifies licensing requirements for small dollar lenders.  Authorizes the division of financial institutions to appoint 1.0 FTE examiner position, funded via the compliance resolution fund, to carry out the purposes of the small dollar installment loan program.

 

CPC, FIN

HB30

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Requires certain drug manufacturers to pay monetary penalties to the insurance commissioner for unsupported price increases on prescription drugs sold in the State.  Provides for appeals and judicial review.  Establishes the identified drug offset special fund.  Requires annual reports to the legislature.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB31

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Raises the maximum age of minors for which safe storage of firearms is required from sixteen to eighteen years.

 

JHA

HB32

RELATING TO ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS.

Prohibits the manufacture for sale, sale, offer for sale, display for sale, trade, or distribution of certain animal fur products in the State.

 

JHA, FIN

HB33

RELATING TO THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STEERING COMMITTEE.

Amends the terms and composition of members of the information technology steering committee.  Requires the chief information officer to present an annual report to the information technology steering committee for public comment prior to submitting the report to the governor and legislature.

 

HET, FIN

HB34

RELATING TO DRIVER LICENSES.

Changes the renewal period for driver licenses from every two years to every four years for persons 72 years of age or older.

 

JHA

HB35

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Establishes the shipping container inspection program and shipping container inspection program special fund.  Increases the maximum fine for each violation of the fireworks law.  Requires PSD to submit reports to the legislature on implementation of the shipping container inspection program.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB36

RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION.

Short form bill relating to higher education.

 

HET

HB37

RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION.

Short form bill relating to higher education.

 

HET

HB38

RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY.

Short form bill relating to technology.

 

HET

HB39

RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY.

Short form bill relating to technology.

 

HET

HB40

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-eighth representative district.

 

FIN

HB41

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Short form bill relating to transportation.

 

TRN

HB42

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Short form bill relating to transportation.

 

TRN

HB43

RELATING TO STATE HIGHWAYS.

Short form bill relating to state highways.

 

TRN

HB44

RELATING TO HARBORS.

Short form bill relating to harbors.

 

TRN

HB45

RELATING TO AIRPORTS.

Short form bill relating to airports.

 

TRN

HB46

RELATING TO WILDLIFE.

Requires all habitat conservation plans to include an agreement for plan participants to enter into and maintain an annual service contract with a stand-by and response facility available to provide emergency medical and rehabilitation services to native wildlife affected by activities undertaken within the plan area.

 

WAL, FIN

HB47

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Excludes a homeowner-developer from the annual requirement to file a developer's report and pay a fee if the homeowner's development consists of not more than two units, one in which the developer resides and one for which the initial sale of the other unit has been completed.

 

CPC, FIN

HB48

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Short form bill relating to taxation.

 

FIN

HB49

RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS.

Short form bill relating to non-general funds.

 

FIN

HB50

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

Short form bill relating to the state budget.

 

FIN

HB51

RELATING TO STATE FINANCES.

Short form bill relating to state finances.

 

FIN

HB52

RELATING TO STATE PROGRAMS.

Short form bill relating to state programs.

 

FIN

HB53

RELATING TO STATE BONDS.

Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds.  Makes findings required by Article VII, Section 13, of the Hawaii State Constitution to declare that the issuance of authorized bonds will not cause the debt limit to be exceeded.

 

FIN

HB54

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

Makes technical amendments to the budget allotment modification law.

 

FIN

HB55

RELATING TO STATE FUNDS.

Makes technical amendments to the state law regarding the deposition of state funds into the state treasury.

 

FIN

HB56

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Requires the senate president and house speaker to be notified in writing upon the receipt of any federal-aid moneys for expenditure by the State within ten days following receipt.

 

FIN

HB57

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT SERVICES.

Clarifies the office of the legislative analyst.

 

LMG, FIN

HB58

RELATING TO STATE FUNDS.

Temporarily reallocates conveyance tax revenues for purposes of paying the principal and interest of general obligation bonds.  Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to be appropriated into and out of the land conservation fund and rental housing revolving fund.

 

WAL/HSG, FIN

HB59

RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS.

Repeals, abolishes, or reclassifies various non-general funds of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

 

ECD, FIN

HB60

RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS.

Abolishes or reclassifies various non-general funds of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

 

CPC, FIN

HB61

RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS.

Reclassifies or repeals non-general funds of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands or Judiciary.

 

JHA, FIN

HB62

RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS.

Repeals or reclassifies non-general funds of the University of Hawaii pursuant to recommendations of the Auditor.  Transfers the unencumbered balances of repealed funds to the general fund.

 

HET, FIN

HB63

RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS.

Reclassifies the notaries public revolving fund and criminal forfeiture revolving fund as special funds.  Reclassifies the litigation deposits trust fund as a trust account.  Abolishes the national mortgage settlement trust account.  Abolishes the criminal justice commission trust account.  Abolishes the UH intercollegiate athletics special funds.

 

HET, JHA, FIN

HB64

RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS.

Abolishes, repeals, or reclassifies various non-general funds of the department of transportation.

 

TRN, FIN

HB65

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Requires a tax clearance before a professional or vocational license may be issued or renewed.  Applies to taxable years after 12/31/2022.

 

CPC, FIN

HB66

RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS.

Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to sell parcels of Sand Island Industrial Park to a lessee under a master lease.

 

WAL/ECD, JHA, FIN

HB67

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Short form bill relating to housing.

 

HSG

HB68

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Short form bill relating to housing.

 

HSG

HB69

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Short form bill relating to housing.

 

HSG

HB70

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Short form bill relating to housing.

 

HSG

HB71

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Short form bill relating to housing.

 

HSG

HB72

RELATING TO ELECTRIC FOOT SCOOTERS.

Establishes a framework for the regulation of electric foot scooters by the State and counties.  Amends definitions of "moped" to exclude electric foot scooters.

 

JHA, FIN

HB73

RELATING TO EMERGENCY WORKERS.

Amends the definition of "emergency worker" in the Penal Code to include communications dispatchers.

 

JHA, FIN

HB74

RELATING TO RESTRICTIONS ON AGRICULTURAL USES AND ACTIVITIES.

Disallows the enforcement of a re-recorded homeowners' association restriction if the restriction prohibits bona fide agricultural uses and activities on agricultural land.

 

WAL, AGR, CPC

HB75

RELATING TO GRANTS.

Allows an organization to qualify for grants under chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, if the organization spends at least ninety per cent of its operating budget in the State.

 

FIN

HB76

RELATING TO COUNTIES.

Makes explicit the counties' authority to enact ordinances to amortize or phase out permitted, nonconforming, or otherwise allowed short-term rentals in any zoning classification.  Includes swapping, bartering, or exchange of a residential dwelling, or portion thereof, in definition of "short-term rental" for this purpose.

 

HSG, WAL, JHA

HB77

RELATING TO LANDS CONTROLLED BY THE STATE.

Exempts the sale of the leased fee interest in certain affordable leasehold developments by the HHFDC from legislative approval.

 

HSG, WAL, FIN

HB78

RELATING TO THE UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION LINES.

Eliminates the requirement for a public utility to seek approval from the public utilities commission for the underground construction of high-voltage electric transmission lines if certain conditions are met.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB79

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Establishes an affordable homeownership revolving fund within HHFDC to provide loans to nonprofit community development financial institutions and nonprofit housing development organizations for the development of affordable homeownership housing projects.  Makes appropriations into and out of the affordable homeownership revolving fund.

 

HSG, FIN

HB80

RELATING TO THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT.

Clarifies when and how members or partners of a taxpayer may claim the low-income housing tax credit.  Requires a Form 8609 for purposes of claiming the tax credit.  Specifies the application of tax provisions with respect to buildings or projects in service in 2020 and later.  Extends the sunset date of Act 129, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016, to 12/31/2027.

 

HSG, FIN

HB81

RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS.

Exempts lands set aside by the governor to HHFDC for the primary purpose of developing affordable housing from classification as public land subject to DLNR management.  Provides that lands set aside to HHFDC and no longer needed for housing, finance, and development purposes be returned to the public trust administered by DLNR.

 

HSG/WAL, JHA, FIN

HB82

RELATING TO FAMILY COURT.

Amends provisions relating to criteria and procedures in family court determinations regarding custody and visitation rights.  Clarifies that a parent's felony conviction for a violent or sexual offense in which the victim was a minor, or requirement to register as a sex offender, raises a rebuttable presumption that custody or visitation by that parent is not in the best interest of the child.  Requires courts to consider registration as a sex offender a presumption of risk that affects the burden of producing evidence.  Requires courts to state reasons for findings in writing or on the record, including specific findings that there is no risk to the child's health, safety, and welfare.

 

HHH, JHA

HB83

RELATING TO INTERNET SERVICES.

Requires the public utilities commission to ensure consumers are provided with access to information services, including internet services, that are available at just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory uncapped rates.

 

ECD, HET, CPC

HB84

RELATING TO THE USE OF FORCE IN SELF-PROTECTION.

Amends the law relating to the use of deadly force to establish under which circumstances a person using deadly force has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand the person's ground.  Repeals statutory language that permits an actor to use deadly force at the actor's place of work in some circumstances.

 

PDP, JHA

HB85

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Short form bill relating to taxation.

 

LAT

HB86

RELATING TO LABOR.

Short form bill relating to labor.

 

LAT

HB87

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS.

Short form bill relating to the department of labor and industrial relations.

 

LAT

HB88

RELATING TO TOURISM.

Short form bill relating to tourism.

 

LAT

HB89

RELATING TO WAGES.

Short form bill relating to wages.

 

LAT

HB90

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Short form bill relating to government.

 

LAT

HB91

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Short form bill relating to collective bargaining.

 

LAT

HB92

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Short form bill relating to workers' compensation.

 

LAT

HB93

RELATING TO TOURISM.

Short form bill relating to tourism.

 

LAT

HB94

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Establishes a task force to identify the top ten fruits or vegetables that are imported into the State but may be commercially grown in the State.  Creates an income tax credit to incentivize the production of those fruits or vegetables to obviate the need to import them into the State.

 

AGR, ECD, FIN

HB95

RELATING TO SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES FOR NATURAL RESOURCES.

Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for recognition and protection of the State's natural resources.

 

WAL, FIN

HB96

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS.

Increases the maximum area for each agricultural shade cloth structure, cold frame, and greenhouse that could qualify the structure for an exemption from building permit and building code requirements.

 

AGR, WAL, CPC

HB97

RELATING TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS.

Permits charitable organizations to hold online fundraising events, including online raffles.  Excludes online fundraising by charitable organizations from the definition of "gambling" in the Hawaii penal code.

 

JHA, FIN

HB98

RELATING TO AQUATIC RESOURCES.

Specifies that any equipment, article, instrument, aircraft, vehicle, vessel, or business record used in violation of the aquatic resources law is subject to forfeiture.  Authorizes the imposition of a criminal fine.  Clarifies that the fine structure may be assessed on a per-specimen basis.  Makes violations of the aquatic resources law a misdemeanor, rather than a petty misdemeanor.  Permits the department of land and natural resources to recommend community service that benefits the resource damaged when a person is ordered to perform community service in lieu of a fine.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB99

RELATING TO THE CLEAN WATER ACT.

Beginning 1/1/2031, prohibits underground injection unless authorized by a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit obtained from the director of health.

 

HHH/EEP, WAL, JHA

HB100

RELATING TO INSPECTION FEES.

Increases the inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee and charge from 75 cents to $1.50 for every 1,000 pounds of freight or part thereof brought into the State.

 

AGR, FIN

HB101

RELATING TO TORT LIABILITY.

Clarifies that persons that enter private property for recreational purposes have no cause of action, unless exempted under law.  Requires a court to award attorneys' fees and costs to landowners if plaintiffs bring unreasonable claims.  States that, as a matter of law, persons participating in outdoor recreational activities accept the inherent dangers in the activities.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB102

RELATING TO SUNSCREENS.

Beginning January 1, 2023, bans the sale, offer of sale, or distribution in the State of any sunscreen that contains avobenzone or octocrylene, or both, without a prescription issued by a licensed healthcare provider to preserve marine ecosystems.

 

EEP/WAL, CPC, FIN

HB103

RELATING TO EMERGENCY POWERS.

Requires approval of the legislature by concurrent resolution to extend to a date certain, or deny the extension of, a proclamation of a state of emergency timely requested by the governor beyond sixty days of its issuance, unless the legislature fails to take action, in which case the state of emergency is automatically extended for sixty days.  Allows the authorization of the issuance of a separate proclamation arising from the same emergency or disaster as a previous proclamation that expired, upon request of the governor and adoption of a concurrent resolution by the legislature.

 

PDP, JHA, FIN

HB104

RELATING TO POOLS.

Defines "swimming pool" for the purposes of administrative rules to mean impervious, artificial bodies of water used for swimming, diving, or recreational bathing or therapy.

 

HHH, WAL, CPC

HB105

RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Restricts zoning allowances for affordable housing developments to medium- to high-density zoning districts.

 

HSG, CPC, FIN

HB106

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Short form bill relating to energy.

 

EEP

HB107

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Short form bill relating to energy.

 

EEP

HB108

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Short form bill relating to environmental protection.

 

EEP

HB109

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Short form bill relating to environmental protection.

 

EEP

HB110

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Short form bill relating to environmental protection.

 

EEP

HB111

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Prohibits, after           , any new extension, improvements, overhauling, or refurbishing of any fossil fuel electricity generation or fossil-fuel powered electricity use for grid-tied battery energy storage.  Prohibits after     , the use of fossil fuels for electricity generation or grid-tied battery energy storage.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB112

RELATING TO WASTEWATER SYSTEMS.

Establishes the time of transfer wastewater system inspection program in the Department of Health to oversee the inspection and repair of any individual wastewater system at the time of sale or transfer of residential real property attached to the wastewater system.  Excludes certain sales or transfers.

 

EEP/HHH, CPC, FIN

HB113

RELATING TO MEASUREMENT STANDARDS.

Exempts hydrogen fuels from petroleum product measurement requirements.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB114

RELATING TO CESSPOOL CONVERSION.

Removes the limitation on specific types of wastewater systems to which cesspools must be upgraded or converted, and instead requires a cesspool to be upgraded or converted to a wastewater system approved by the department of health, prior to 1/1/2050.

 

EEP/HHH, CPC, FIN

HB115

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Facilitates the timely interconnection and transmission lines for renewable energy projects.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB116

RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY.

Authorizes the Chief Energy Officer of the Hawaii State Energy Office to adopt rules to enforce minimum efficiency standards for certain products and establish or amend appliance efficiency standards in certain situations.  Regulates the appliance efficiency standards for air purifiers and portable electric spas.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB117

RELATING TO SCRAP DEALERS.

Regulates the purchase of catalytic converters and catalytic converter metals by scrap dealers.  Requires a written statement, photograph of the catalytic converter or catalytic converter metals, and verification of a seller's identification prior to a scrap dealer's purchase of a catalytic converter or catalytic converter metals.  Specifies recordkeeping requirements for the sale of a catalytic converter or catalytic converter metals.

 

CPC, JHA

HB118

RELATING TO SAFE WATER.

Prohibits the introduction of fluoride to a public water system.  Provides that any conflicting laws or rules are preempted.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB119

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST KAUNALEWA.

Replaces E Ola Mau Na Leo O Kekaha with Kaunalewa as the entity authorized to receive special purpose revenue bonds issued to assist with the acquisition, remediation, and development of the old Kekaha Sugar Mill in Kekaha, Kauai, Hawaii.

 

ECD, FIN

HB120

RELATING TO DRIVING ON BEACHES.

Establishes a two-year beach protection pilot program under which no vehicles are authorized to drive on the beach in Polihale state park or on any beach in Kekaha, Kauai, under the jurisdiction of DLNR without a permit.  Requires DLNR to work with the county of Kauai on the feasibility of establishing a similar pilot program for the beach at Kekaha beach park under the jurisdiction of the county.  Requires report to the legislature.  Repeals on 6/30/2023.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB121

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Amends the excise tax rate on large cigars.

 

CPC, FIN

HB122

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR.

Exempts certain applications from the automatic refusal provision that may be invoked by a majority of nearby voters or real estate owners; specifically, applications for a class 1 license on land designated as agricultural by state or county zoning laws and for which the majority of the agricultural commodities used in the manufacturing of the liquor are grown and produced in the State by the license holder.

 

AGR, CPC, JHA

HB123

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE III, SECTION 4, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO ESTABLISH LEGISLATIVE TERM LIMITS.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the legislature to a maximum of sixteen years in the house of representatives or senate, or both, for terms beginning on or after the general election of 2024.

 

JHA, FIN

HB124

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

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. 

 

JHA, FIN

HB125

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM EMPLOYEE AND STUDENT ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT.

Establishes The Uniform Employee and Student Online Privacy Protection Act that adopts uniform laws on protecting the online accounts of employees, prospective employees, unpaid interns, applicants, students, and prospective students from employers and educational institutions.

 

LAT, HET, CPC

HB126

RELATING TO CULTURE.

Short form bill relating to culture.

 

CAI

HB127

RELATING TO MUSEUMS.

Short form bill relating to museums.

 

CAI

HB128

RELATING TO CULTURE.

Short form bill relating to culture.

 

CAI

HB129

RELATING TO ART.

Short form bill relating to art.

 

CAI

HB130

RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

Short form bill relating to international relations.

 

CAI

HB131

RELATING TO TAX CREDITS.

Increases the amount of the tax credit for individuals and households and the adjusted gross income eligibility cap for the income tax credit for low-income household renters using tax brackets for individuals and different categories of households and providing for annual increases based on the consumer price index.

 

HSG, FIN

HB132

RELATING TO LICENSE PLATES.

Requires the director of finance to furnish to an owner of a vehicle one, rather than two, number plate for the vehicle. Makes conforming amendments.

 

TRN, CPC

HB133

RELATING TO CAPITAL GAINS.

Increases the capital gains tax threshold from 7.25 per cent to 9 per cent.  Effective for tax years beginning after 12/31/2020.

 

FIN

HB134

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Imposes a fee on the carbon content of fossil fuels.  Establishes a carbon cashback trust fund into which fees will be deposited and dividend payments will be made to Hawaii residents.  Effective for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2021.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB135

RELATING TO TREES.

Requires the department of accounting and general services and department of land and natural resources to require that, for all projects undertaken on state land or public land, three new trees are to be planted whenever an existing tree is cut down.

 

WAL, FIN

HB136

RELATING TO LIQUOR LICENSES.

Applies liquor licensing provisions related to the transfer of licenses and the denial of licenses to limited liability companies.

 

CPC, FIN

HB137

RELATING TO LIQUOR.

Provides that violations of liquor tax law shall be referred to the director of taxation for investigation.  Repeals the general right of inspection without a warrant for potential violations of liquor tax law.  Repeals the discretionary power of the liquor commission to deny a license to any person the commission finds is not fit and proper to hold a license.  Requires applications for liquor licenses to be notarized.  Provides the administrator of the liquor commission discretion over whether to refer applications for investigation.  Repeals the requirement that investigative reports to the liquor commission include any and all matters that are relevant to the application or license in the judgment of the investigator.

 

CPC, FIN

HB138

RELATING TO MEDICAL INFORMED CONSENT.

Requires the Hawaii medical board to establish standards for health care providers to ensure that a patient's consent to treatment is an informed consent.  Requires that informed consent for a proposed medical or surgical treatment or a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure be obtained prior to the day of that treatment or procedure.  Specifies that if the treatment or procedure is to occur on the same day it is scheduled, the informed consent shall be obtained at the time the decision is made to schedule that treatment or procedure.

 

HHH, CPC, JHA

HB139

RELATING TO THE ORDERS OF THE CAMPAIGN SPENDING COMMISSION.

Provides that certain rights shall be deemed waived if a preliminary determination of probable cause is rendered during a chapter 92 meeting and the person fails to request a contested case hearing within 20 days of receipt of the preliminary determination.  Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to have an order confirmed as a judgment by the first circuit court, giving the order the same force and effect as any other judgment issued by the circuit courts; provided that there shall be no appeal from the judgment.

 

GVR, JHA

HB140

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTS.

Clarifies that increased fines may apply if a candidate committee or noncandidate committee fail to timely file the preliminary primary or preliminary general report due 10 days before the primary or general election.

 

GVR, JHA, FIN

HB141

RELATING TO VIOLATIONS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW.

Increases the amount of the fine for campaign spending law violations that may be assessed against a noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures and that has received at least one contribution of more than $10,000, or spent more than $10,000, in an election period.  Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to order that the payment of a fine assessed against a noncandidate committee, or any portion thereof, be paid from the personal funds of an officer of the noncandidate committee.

 

GVR, JHA, FIN

HB142

RELATING TO REIMBURSEMENTS FOR EXPENDITURES BY COMMITTEES.

Provides that expenditures by candidate committees may be made to reimburse other individuals (e.g., campaign volunteers) for expenditures advanced by those individuals, in addition to those advanced by the candidate.  Deletes "candidate reimbursements" from the category of expenditures that noncandidate committees must itemize in their reports since noncandidate committees are not allowed to receive or make loans pursuant to section 11‑335(c), HRS.

 

GVR, JHA, FIN

HB143

RELATING TO REPORTS FILED WITH THE CAMPAIGN SPENDING COMMISSION.

Housekeeping measure that provides that candidates do not need to file preliminary general reports if they are either unsuccessful or are elected to office in the primary election.  Amends subsections (b) and (c) of section 11-339, HRS, to make them consistent with subsection (a) by aggregating contributions and expenditures in determining whether a committee need only file the final election period report.

 

GVR, JHA

HB144

RELATING TO ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS.

Increases the monetary threshold that requires disclosure of electioneering communications.  Requires that disclosures of electioneering communications occur on the date the electioneering communications are publicly distributed.  Classifies election advertisements sent by mail at any postal rate, and election advertisements that are expenditures of an organization, as electioneering communications.

 

GVR, JHA

HB145

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS.

Provides that excess contributions by nonresident contributors shall escheat to the Hawaii election campaign fund if not returned to the contributor within 30 days.

 

GVR, JHA, FIN

HB146

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING COMMISSION STAFF.

Clarifies that Campaign Spending Commission personnel includes staff and that the staff may initiate complaints on behalf of the commission.

 

GVR, JHA

HB147

RELATING TO ELECTRIC FOOT SCOOTERS.

Grants electric foot scooters the same rights and subjects them to the same duties as other vehicles, with certain exceptions.  Applies blue light prohibition to electric foot scooters.  Amends "vulnerable user" definition to include electric foot scooters.  Amends "moped" definition to exclude electric foot scooters.

 

JHA, FIN

HB148

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Requires the employees' retirement system to submit to the legislature certain annual reports through 2026.  Extends the effective date of certain sections of Act 87, Session Laws of Hawaii 2015, to 1/1/2026 to provide state and county departments and agencies with additional time to comply with new employees' retirement system reporting standards.

 

LAT, FIN

HB149

RELATING TO GIFT CERTIFICATES.

Clarifies that cards issued by a county for the purposes of paying transit fares and county fees and other uses are not subject to section 431B-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

FIN

HB150

RELATING TO FELONIES.

Specifies that interference with an automated public transit operation is unlawful and is a class C felony.

 

JHA

HB151

RELATING TO TORT LIABILITY.

Permanently reinstates the liability protections previously afforded to county lifeguards.

 

JHA, FIN

HB152

RELATING TO ANIMAL CONTROL SERVICES.

Repeals statutory language that:  (1) Requires the County of Kauai to contract with the Kauai Humane Society for animal control services; and (2) Authorizes the Kauai Humane Society to construct a dog pound with Kauai County Council approval.

 

AGR, JHA

HB153

RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES.

Allows the director of finance of a county to require payment of outstanding charges owed to the county for the towing, removal, or disposal of an abandoned or derelict vehicle within the county before issuing a motor vehicle certificate of registration.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB154

RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES.

Requires a motor vehicle transferor, or the transferor's representative, and transferee to appear in person to execute the transfer of a motor vehicle.  Subjects motor vehicle transferors to certain fees previously assessed on motor vehicle transferees.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB155

RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES.

Subjects U-drive motor vehicles to the same motor vehicle registration fees as other motor vehicles.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB156

RELATING TO ANIMAL CONTROL SERVICES.

Repeals the requirement that the County of Kauai contract solely with the Kauai Humane Society for the provision of animal control services.

 

AGR, JHA

HB157

RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS AND RECORDS.

Authorizes any board that is subject to public agency meetings law to hold a closed meeting to consider statements and information obtained from witnesses or victims during the course of any investigation into the hire, evaluation, dismissal, or discipline of an officer or employee or of charges brought against the officer or employee, where consideration of matters affecting a witness's or victim's privacy will be involved.

 

GVR, JHA, FIN

HB158

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Extends the period in which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from 3/31/2019 to 3/31/2022.

 

FIN

HB159

RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES.

Requires a motor vehicle transferor, or the transferor's representative, and transferee to appear in person to execute the transfer of a motor vehicle.  Subjects motor vehicle transferors to certain fees previously assessed on motor vehicle transferees.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB160

RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES.

Subjects U-drive motor vehicles to the same motor vehicle registration fees as other motor vehicles.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB161

RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES.

Allows the director of finance of a county to require payment of outstanding charges owed to the county for the towing, removal, or disposal of an abandoned or derelict vehicle within the county before issuing a motor vehicle certificate of registration.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB162

RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY TESTING.

Requires the State, in a declared public health emergency, to provide diagnostic and antibody tests free of charge to persons who are unable to pay for tests.  Mandates health insurance coverage for diagnostic and antibody tests in the event of a declared public health emergency.

 

PDP, CPC, FIN

HB163

RELATING TO LIQUOR FINES COLLECTED PER YEAR.

Authorizes a county liquor commission to use 15% of fines assessed against liquor licensees to fund alcohol addiction treatment programs.

 

JHA, FIN

HB164

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE INSURANCE.

Authorizes the Hawaii Health Authority to continue planning for the adoption of a universal, publicly-administered health-care-for-all insurance model with a single payout agency.  Establishes a rate stabilization reserve fund for the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund.  Transfers funds from the other post-employment benefits trust fund to the rate stabilization reserve fund.  Makes appropriations.

 

HHH/LAT, CPC, FIN

HB165

RELATING TO RENTAL MOTOR VEHICLES.

Authorizes each county to regulate the number of rental motor vehicles within the county.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB166

RELATING TO SUNSHINE LAW BOARDS.

Clarifies laws regarding public meetings held by interactive conference technology by, among other things, requiring board members to be visible and audible to other members and the public, authorizing a board to require attendees to provide their names and contact information for contact tracing during certain states of emergency, and repealing the requirement that a meeting held by interactive conference technology be terminated when audio communication cannot be maintained with all locations where the meeting by interactive conference technology is being held.

 

PDP, JHA, FIN

HB167

RELATING TO TORT LIABILITY.

Permanently reinstates the liability protections previously afforded to county lifeguards.

 

JHA, FIN

HB168

RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS AND RECORDS.

Allows state boards to hold meetings closed to the public to consider statements and information obtained from witnesses or victims during an investigation into the hiring, evaluation, dismissal, or discipline of an officer or employee, or of charges brought against the officer or employee.

 

LAT, JHA

HB169

RELATING TO DISORDERLY CONDUCT.

Amends the offense of disorderly conduct to include engaging in conduct with the intent to convey certain false or misleading information.

 

JHA

HB170

RELATING TO THEFT IN THE SECOND DEGREE.

Amends the offense of theft in the second degree to include theft of property commonly used to store items of personal or monetary value, including any purse, handbag, or wallet.

 

JHA

HB171

RELATING TO PROPERTY CRIMES.

Changes the state of mind required for section 486M-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, penalties to intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly.

 

JHA

HB172

RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY RIGHTS.

Establishes the offense of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle in the second degree, which applies if a person recklessly or negligently exerts unauthorized control over another's propelled vehicle by operating the vehicle without the owner's consent or by changing the identity of the vehicle without the owner's consent.

 

JHA

HB173

RELATING TO EXECUTIVE PARDONS.

Establishes a comprehensive application process for executive pardons.

 

CMV, JHA, FIN

HB174

RELATING TO EYEWITNESS IDENIFICATIONS.

Amends Chapter 801K, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide clarification and flexibility in eyewitness identification procedures.

 

JHA

HB175

RELATING TO SEX TRAFFICKING.

Amends section 712-1202, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to include    coercion as a means of committing the offense of sex trafficking.

 

JHA

HB176

RELATING TO ABUSE OF FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MEMBER.

Adds abuse of a family or household member to those felonies that qualify for repeat offender sentencing.

 

JHA

HB177

RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT.

Amends the offenses of sexual assault in the first and third degree, when perpetrated against someone who is mentally defective, to remove the standard of proof regarding knowledge that the other person was mentally defective, as that term is defined in section 707-700, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

JHA

HB178

RELATING TO OPERATING A VEHICLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTOXICANT.

Excludes habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant from qualifying for deferred acceptance of guilty plea or nolo contendere plea.

 

JHA

HB179

RELATING TO VIOLATION OF PRIVACY.

Excludes violation of privacy in the first degree, and certain subsections of violation of privacy in the second degree, from qualifying for deferred acceptance of guilty plea or nolo contendere plea.

 

JHA

HB180

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU.

Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu as a grant-in-aid for the career criminal prosecution unit.

 

JHA, FIN

HB181

RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF PROPERTY.

Updates the definition of "property" to expressly include intellectual property or property stored in an electronic medium, for purposes of prosecuting property crimes.

 

CPC, JHA

HB182

RELATING TO WITNESS FEES AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN CRIMINAL CASES.

Clarifies applicable reimbursement to the State or defendant for expert witness fees, as it pertains to testimony, preparation and in-court attendance in state court criminal proceedings. Increases per diem payments for all witnesses.

 

JHA, FIN

HB183

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU.

Appropriates moneys to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the victim-witness assistance program.

 

JHA, FIN

HB184

RELATING TO TAX APPEALS.

Clarifies that filing fees for tax appeals are nonrefundable and that no deposits are required for tax appeals.

 

JHA, FIN

HB185

RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY.

Appropriates funds for the Judiciary for the fiscal biennium beginning 7/1/2021, and ending 6/30/2023.  Effective 7/1/2021.

 

JHA, FIN

HB186

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM TRUST CODE.

Enacts the Uniform Trust Code (2018).  Repeals the Uniform Trustees' Powers Act, Uniform Prudent Investors Act, and article VII (trust administration) of the Uniform Probate Code.

 

JHA, FIN

HB187

RELATING TO THE DETENTION OF A MINOR IN AN ADULT JAIL OR LOCKUP.

Requires a family court to make findings, after a hearing and in writing, before a minor can be transferred to an adult jail or lockup or be permitted sight or sound contact with adult offenders.

 

HHH/CMV, JHA, FIN

HB188

RELATING TO THE ROOM CONFINEMENT OF CHILDREN AT DETENTION AND SHELTER FACILITIES.

Establishes conditions and time limits for placing a child in room confinement at a detention or shelter facility.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB189

RELATING TO DESIGNATING SUBSTITUTE JUDGES ON THE INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS.

Authorizes the Chief Justice to designate circuit court judges, retired intermediate appellate judges, or retired supreme court justices to temporarily fill a vacancy on the Intermediate Court of Appeals.

 

JHA, FIN

HB190

RELATING TO SUNSHINE LAW BOARDS.

Clarifies laws regarding public meetings held by interactive conference technology by, among other things, requiring board members to be visible and audible to other members and the public, authorizing a board to require attendees to provide their names and contact information for contact tracing during certain states of emergency, and repealing the requirement that a meeting held by interactive conference technology be terminated when audio communication cannot be maintained with all locations where the meeting by interactive conference technology is being held.

 

PDP, JHA, FIN

HB191

RELATING TO LIQUOR FINES.

Provides that 15% of fines assessed against liquor licensees may be used to fund alcohol addiction treatment programs.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB192

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE INSURANCE.

Authorizes the Hawaii Health Authority to continue planning for the adoption of a universal, publicly-administered health-care-for-all insurance model with a single payout agency.  Establishes a rate stabilization reserve fund for the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund.  Transfers funds from the other post-employment benefits trust fund to the rate stabilization reserve fund.  Makes appropriations.

 

HHH/LAT, CPC, FIN

HB193

RELATING TO RENTAL MOTOR VEHICLES.

Authorizes the counties to regulate the number of rental motor vehicles within their respective jurisdictions.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB194

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Extends the period in which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from 3/31/2019 to 6/30/2022.

 

FIN

HB195

RELATING TO VOTER REGISTRATION.

Establishes automatic voter registration upon application for a driver's license or civil identification card, except when an applicant affirmatively declines on an application to register to vote.  Requires the examiner of drivers to electronically transmit to the Office of Elections certain information associated with currently registered and newly registered voters. Requires accessibility of certain databases maintained or operated by the Department of Transportation or the counties.

 

JHA, FIN

HB196

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Reinstates the definition of "precinct" and amends the definition of "district" to facilitate the administration of elections.

 

JHA

HB197

RELATING TO RECOUNTS.

Increases the deadline for the completion and public announcement of the results of a mandatory recount to 5 days after the date of an election.

 

JHA, FIN

HB198

RELATING TO VACANCIES.

Amends the manner in which a vacancy in the membership of the State Senate is filled and certain time frames relevant thereto.

 

JHA, FIN

HB199

RELATING TO ELECTION PROCLAMATIONS.

Amends the content to be included in an election proclamation that is required to be filed not later than 4:30 p.m. on the tenth day prior to the close of filing.  Specifies that the county clerk, not the chief election officer, shall issue a proclamation on voter service centers and places of deposit.

 

JHA

HB200

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

Appropriates funds for the operating and capital improvement budget of the Executive Branch for fiscal years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.

 

FIN

HB201

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Amends or clarifies certain statutory deadlines relating to elections by mail, including the date to which the clerk must continue mailing ballot packages to voters who update their voter registration address and the date on which ballots may begin to be tabulated.  Authorizes a county clerk to operate additional voter service centers with varying days or hours of operation.  Provides that voters standing in line at a voter service center at the time the voter service center closes may vote or register to vote, if eligible.  Authorizes a county clerk to open places for ballot deposit not earlier than the initial day that ballots are mailed.

 

JHA, FIN

HB202

RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT.

Authorizes a court to expunge the records of a person for certain offenses if they are substantially related to the person's homeless status.

 

HHH, JHA

HB203

RELATING TO A WATER STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL LAND IN WAHIAWA, OAHU.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in the sum of $3,000,000 to fund construction costs of a water storage and distribution system on agricultural lands owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in Wahiawa, Oahu, surrounding the Kukaniloko Birthing Stones site.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB204

RELATING TO THE BUDGET OF THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

Appropriates moneys to fund the operating expenses of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the fiscal biennium beginning on 7/1/2021, and ending on 6/30/2023.

 

JHA, FIN

HB205

RELATING TO DISCLOSURE OF ATTORNEY-CLIENT AND ATTORNEY WORK­ PRODUCT PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS TO THE OMBUDSMAN.

Specifies that disclosure of communications by an agency to the ombudsman does not waive any existing attorney-client or attorney work-product privilege pertaining to those communications.  Prohibits the ombudsman from disclosing privileged communications to others.

 

LMG, JHA

HB206

RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION.

Establishes a tax credit of 30% of the actual cost, including installation, water meter, and permitting fees, of an automatic fire sprinkler system in any one- or two-family dwelling in a structure used only for residential purposes.  Sunsets on 6/30/2030.

 

HSG, CPC, FIN

HB207

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Repeals section 46-19.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and Act 53, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, which prohibited the counties from adopting codes and regulations that would require the installation or retrofitting of residential fire sprinklers in one- and two-family dwellings and other types of structures.

 

CPC, JHA

HB208

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Requires sellers of residential buildings or structures to provide approved smoke alarms in accordance with current state or county building or residential codes.

 

HSG, CPC

HB209

RELATING TO THE REDUCED IGNITION PROPENSITY CIGARETTE PROGRAM.

Provides flexibility in employing personnel to administer the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program.

 

LAT, FIN

HB210

RELATING TO THE REDUCED IGNITION PROPENSITY CIGARETTE PROGRAM.

Permits the use of the reduced ignition propensity cigarette certification fees to support the State Fire Council and its programs and activities.

 

HHH, FIN

HB211

RELATING TO TUITION WAIVERS.

Provides a tuition waiver from the University of Hawaii and its associated community colleges for the surviving spouse and dependent children of a fire fighter who dies in the line of duty or who is permanently and totally disabled as a direct result of a traumatic injury sustained in the line of duty.

 

HET, FIN

HB212

RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION.

Requires builders to provide cost estimates for residential fire sprinklers to potential buyers of all new one- and two-family dwellings.  The state fire council shall provide written information on the benefits of a sprinkler system.

 

HSG, CPC, FIN

HB213

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Imposes a statewide limitation on consumer fireworks, except by permit for cultural events.

 

CPC

HB214

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.

Certification of Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) to include personnel with proper certifications, to be deemed qualified to perform emergency medical services as EMTs in the State.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB215

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Short form bill relating to human services.

 

HHH

HB216

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Short form bill relating to human services.

 

HHH

HB217

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Short form bill relating to human services.

 

HHH

HB218

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Short form bill relating to health.

 

HHH

HB219

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Short form bill relating to health.

 

HHH

HB220

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires medicaid and insurance coverage of ambulance services.  Authorizes medicaid programs, and requires private insurers, to pay for community paramedicine services provided by emergency medical technicians or paramedics.  Appropriates moneys for costs resulting from medicaid coverage of ambulance service and community paramedicine services provided by emergency medical technicians or paramedics.  Effective 7/1/2022.

 

HHH, FIN

HB221

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Amends the requirements for a condominium association's standard proxy form by deleting the option for a condominium owner to give the proxy to the board as a whole.  Clarifies that no managing agent, resident manager, or their employees, or the association's employees, shall solicit any proxies from any unit owner of the association.

 

CPC

HB222

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Requires the managing agent, resident manager, or board to keep an accurate and current list of each member of the association, and any vendee under an agreement of sale, including electronic mail addresses.  Requires that a copy of the member list, including electronic mail addresses, shall be available, at cost, to any unit owner or owner's authorized agent, under certain circumstances.

 

CPC

HB223

RELATING TO MASSAGE THERAPISTS.

Beginning July 1, 2022, requires massage therapy licensees to complete twelve hours of continuing education within the two-year period preceding the license renewal date, two hours of which shall include first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or emergency related courses.

 

CPC, FIN

HB224

RELATING TO THE STATE HEALTH PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY.

Exempts hospice, psychiatric, and substance abuse facilities and certain dialysis center services from the certificate of need requirements.  Authorizes fines for persons who do not comply with an approved certificate of need.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB225

RELATING TO BULLYING.

Requires the board of education to develop a bullying prevention and response action plan.  Requires the board of education to report annually to the legislature.  Repeals Act 214, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011.

 

EDN, JHA, FIN

HB226

RELATING TO FAIR DIGITAL ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT REPAIR.

Requires original equipment manufacturers of digital electronic devices to make diagnostic and repair information available to owners of equipment manufactured by the original equipment manufacturer and independent repair providers.

 

CPC, FIN

HB227

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Clarifies the group of professionals who are prohibited from knowingly referring or transferring patients to an uncertified or unlicensed care facility.  Repeals the landlord exclusion.  Requires the department of health to prioritize complaint allegations based on severity for inspections of state-licensed or state-certified care facilities.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB228

RELATING TO UNITED STATES SENATOR DANIEL K. INOUYE DAY.

Designates 9/7 of each year as United States Senator Daniel K. Inouye Day.

 

CAI, JHA

HB229

RELATING TO UNITED STATES SENATOR DANIEL K. AKAKA DAY.

Designates 9/11 of each year as United States Senator Daniel K. Akaka Day.

 

CAI, JHA

HB230

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Short form bill relating to agriculture.

 

AGR

HB231

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Short form bill relating to agriculture.

 

AGR

HB232

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Short form bill relating to agriculture.

 

AGR

HB233

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Short form bill relating to agriculture.

 

AGR

HB234

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Short form bill relating to agriculture.

 

AGR

HB235

RELATING TO SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INCENTIVES.

Removes the $10 per visit per day cap on the dollar-for-dollar match received by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beneficiaries under the Hawaii Healthy Food Incentive Program, also known as the Double Up Food Bucks Program.  Specifies that healthy proteins are eligible purchases under the program.  Makes an appropriation to the Department of Agriculture to expand funding for the program.

 

AGR, HHH, FIN

HB236

RELATING TO COFFEE PEST CONTROL.

Extends the sunset date for the coffee berry borer pesticide subsidy program and the program manager position, including the position's civil service and collective bargaining laws exemption, to 06/30/2024.  Provides that no single coffee grower shall receive more than $6,000 for each pest per year in subsidies between 06/30/2021, and 07/01/2023.

 

AGR, FIN

HB237

RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES.

Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture for the control of the two-lined spittlebug and recovery of the rangelands damaged by the invasive pest.

 

AGR, FIN

HB238

RELATING TO CANNABIS.

Authorizes persons 21 years of age or older to possess or use limited amounts of cannabis for recreational purposes.  Authorizes the licensing, regulation, and taxation of cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, testing, and retail sales facilities.  Specifies that only existing medical cannabis dispensary licensees may apply for licensure as a cannabis establishment, but may be permitted to establish additional retail dispensing locations.  Allocates an unspecified percentage of general excise tax revenues derived from retail cannabis sales transactions to the counties.  Specifies the application and non-application of the Internal Revenue Code to expenses related to the production and sale of cannabis and cannabis products for state income tax purposes.  Amends certain provisions of the penal code relating to offenses involving marijuana and expands the affirmative defense to prosecution to include persons acting in accordance with the new part in Chapter 329, HRS, created by Section 2 of this Act.  Repeals limitations on authorized sources of medical cannabis.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB239

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN ADVERTISEMENTS.

Requires that the name and address of a candidate, candidate committee, noncandidate committee, or other person paying for a campaign advertisement be displayed in a prominent location.  Requires, in the case of any multiple-page advertisement, that the required disclosures be made on the first page of the advertisement or on the cover page of the publication if the advertisement is used as the lead article and displayed on the cover page of a state- or county-wide distributed publication.

 

GVR, JHA

HB240

RELATING TO A BANK OF THE STATE OF HAWAII.

Establishes the bank of the State of Hawaii working group to propose legislation to establish a state-operated bank of the State of Hawaii.  Appropriates moneys.

 

ECD, CPC, FIN

HB241

RELATING TO DISCRIMINATION.

Prohibits certain discriminatory practices based on an individual's invasive medical test status or vaccination status.

 

LAT, JHA, FIN

HB242

RELATING TO DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., DAY.

Changes the name of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr./How Would They Feel Day.

 

CAI, JHA

HB243

RELATING TO SEA LEVEL RISE ADAPTATION.

Requires each executive branch department to:  identify existing and planned facilities that are vulnerable to sea level rise, flooding impacts, and natural hazards; assess options for mitigation impacts of sea level rise to existing and planned facilities; establish staff level points of contact to improve interagency coordination for sea level rise adaptation, flooding, and resilience; and submit annual reports to the governor, legislature, and Hawaii climate change mitigation and adaptation commission.

 

WAL/EEP, FIN

HB244

RELATING TO LAND RECORDATION.

Amends the data requirements for land recordation by the bureau of conveyances, on land other than fee simple time share interests deregistered by the land court, to include a map and description prepared by a licensed professional surveyor. 

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB245

RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION.

Amends the definition of "historic property" under the Historic Preservation Law.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB246

RELATING TO COASTAL PROTECTION.

Authorizes BLNR to lease state submerged lands for private seawalls, with lease rents to be ten per cent of the real property tax assessment.  Requires BLNR to adopt rules to limit temporary structures approved under emergency permits for shoreline protection and the stabilization of shoreline erosion to a maximum of three years, after which the temporary structure must be removed, unless BLNR approves the structure as a permanent structure.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB247

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS.

Amends certain land subdivision and condominium property regime laws related to agricultural land, as recommended pursuant to Act 278, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019, to ensure condominium property regime projects within the agricultural district are used for agricultural purposes.

 

WAL, AGR, JHA

HB248

RELATING TO PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS.

Authorizes members of secular or non-religious organizations to solemnize marriages and civil unions.

 

JHA

HB249

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

Requires health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB250

RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT.

Includes as offenses of sexual assault in the second and third degrees, offenses against a person who is stopped by a law enforcement officer and a person who is accompanied by a law enforcement officer for official purposes.

 

LAT, JHA

HB251

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Includes any firearm or rifle with the capacity to fire ammunition of fifty caliber or higher in the list of prohibited weapons.

 

JHA

HB252

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Short form bill relating to government.

 

PDP

HB253

RELATING TO PANDEMIC RESPONSE.

Short form bill relating to pandemic response.

 

PDP

HB254

RELATING TO DISASTER PREPAREDNESS.

Short form bill relating to disaster preparedness.

 

PDP

HB255

RELATING TO DISASTER RECOVERY.

Short form bill relating to disaster recovery.

 

PDP

HB256

RELATING TO PANDEMIC RESPONSE.

Short form bill relating to pandemic response.

 

PDP

HB257

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Withdraws Hawaii from the rap back system of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  Repeals authorization of county police departments to enroll firearms applicants and individuals who are registering their firearms into a criminal record monitoring service used to alert police when an owner of a firearm is arrested for a criminal offense anywhere in the country.  Repeals the authority of the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to access firearm registration.

 

JHA, FIN

HB258

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the eighth representative district.

 

FIN

HB259

RELATING TO ASSOCIATIONS.

Clarifies that planned community associations are required to use good faith efforts to include the names, mailing addresses, and electronic mail addresses of its members in the association's membership list.

 

CPC

HB260

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Authorizes the counties to reclassify lands 15 to 100 acres in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts in which at least 50 percent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for persons and families with incomes at or below 140 percent of the area median income.

 

HSG/WAL, JHA, FIN

HB261

RELATING TO TOW TRUCK PRICING.

Adjusts towing company charges and fees for vehicles left unattended or abandoned.  Establishes a clean-up charge and documentation fee.

 

CPC, FIN

HB262

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Short form bill relating to insurance.

 

CPC

HB263

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR.

Allows direct shipment of all forms of liquor, rather than just wine, by certain licensees.  Requires the county liquor commissions to adopt rules and regulations.

 

ECD, CPC, FIN

HB264

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANIES.

Makes permanent insurance requirements for transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers.

 

CPC, FIN

HB265

RELATING TO THE LANDLORD-TENANT CODE.

Prohibits landlords from recovering possession of a dwelling unit from tenants if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired.  Sets a tenant's liability for rent if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired.  Provides remedies for retaliatory evictions.

 

CPC, JHA

HB266

RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE TAX.

Short form bill relating to the conveyance tax.

 

FIN

HB267

RELATING TO TAX CREDITS.

Short form bill relating to tax credits.

 

FIN

HB268

RELATING TO STATE FINANCES.

Short form bill relating to state finances.

 

FIN

HB269

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

Short form bill relating to the state budget.

 

FIN

HB270

RELATING TO COUNTY FINANCES.

Short form bill relating to county finances.

 

FIN

HB271

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Expands the definition of compensation to include overtime payments earned by essential workers during an unspecified period of time.  Appropriates moneys to fund additional employees' retirement system costs.

 

LAT, FIN

HB272

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Makes condominium laws regarding sales to owner-occupants inapplicable to time share units.  Increases the minimum number of residential units in a condominium project that must be offered for sale to prospective owner-occupants in the thirty-day period following the initial date of sale of the condominium from 50 per cent to 90 per cent.

 

HSG, CPC

HB273

RELATING TO LICENSE RENEWALS.

Allows DOT to adopt emergency rules to allow for license renewals to be completed by mail or online.

 

PDP, JHA, FIN

HB274

RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.

Removes county councils as the nominating authority for members of the HCDA who serve as representatives of the Heeia, Kalaeloa, and Kakaako community development districts.  Provides that the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall each nominate representatives of each of the three community development districts.

 

WAL, FIN

HB275

RELATING TO SERVICE OF PROCESS.

Reinstates provisions, repealed on June 30, 2020, relating to service of process and requiring the director public safety to maintain a list of independent civil process servers.  Authorizes the use of policer officers and independent civil process servers to process orders and writs for certain causes of action.

 

JHA

HB276

RELATING TO UNFUNDED LIABILITIES.

Establishes the stabilization fund.  Caps employer contributions to the other post-employment benefits trust fund.  Transfers excess funds over the established cap from other post-employment benefits trust fund to the stabilization fund to cover cost increases of providing health and other benefits plans for active employees and retirees and their dependents.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB277

RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Short form bill relating to the general excise tax.

 

FIN

HB278

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Short form bill relating to taxation.

 

FIN

HB279

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Short form bill relating to taxation.

 

FIN

HB280

RELATING TO THE TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX.

Short form bill relating to the transient accommodations tax.

 

FIN

HB281

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires DLNR to establish a two-year pilot program to install sunscreen dispensers at Waikiki beach, Pupukea beach park, Wailea beach, and Honolua Bay beach to provide sunscreens without oxybenzone or octinoxate to visitors and educate visitors on the harmful effects of oxybenzone and octinoxate on the marine environment.  Appropriates funds for the pilot program.

 

EEP/WAL, FIN

HB282

RELATING TO MINORS.

Expands the circumstances where a minor may consent to no cost emergency shelter and related services to include cases where the provider is coordinating with child welfare services.

 

HHH, JHA

HB283

RELATING TO TAXATION OF REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS.

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 years beginning after 12/31/2021.  Sunsets 12/31/2024.

 

ECD, CPC, FIN

HB284

RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT.

Exempts Waikiki from certain coastal zone management program policies relating to beach protection.

 

WAL, FIN

HB285

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Prohibits health insurance companies from denying coverage on the basis of gender identity if the policy covers the treatment for purposes other than gender transition.  Requires insurance companies to provide applicants and insured persons with clear information about the coverage of gender transition services, including the process for appealing a claim denied on the basis of medical necessity.

 

HHH, CPC, JHA

HB286

RELATING TO REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS.

Requires real estate investment trusts to notify the department of taxation of its presence within the State and to report the assets and revenues generated annually.  Imposes a daily monetary fine for noncompliance. 

 

ECD, CPC, FIN

HB287

RELATING TO SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.

Expands the purpose and rationale for which counties may create special improvement districts to include environmental research, restoration, and maintenance; natural resource management; and natural hazard mitigation to improve environmental conditions and provide community benefits.

 

WAL/EEP, JHA, FIN

HB288

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Increases the minimum and potential maximum fine for violating certain provisions relating to the installation of a noisy muffler.

 

JHA, FIN

HB289

RELATING TO LEASEHOLD CONVERSION.

Excludes from taxation one hundred per cent of the gain realized by a fee simple owner from the sale of a leased fee interest in units within a condominium project, cooperative project, or planned unit development to the association of apartment owners or the residential cooperative housing corporation of the leasehold units.  Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020 and ending prior to 1/1/2028.

 

CPC, FIN

HB290

RELATING TO VEHICLE WEIGHT TAXES.

Repeals the military exemption for vehicle weight taxes.

 

CMV, FIN

HB291

RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS.

Requires the auditor, with the assistance of the department of human services, to conduct a study to assess the impact of using medicaid funds to provide coverage for the treatment for homelessness, subject to federal matching funds.  Requires the auditor to submit a report to the legislature.  Appropriates funds.

 

HHH, FIN

HB292

RELATING TO TAX AMNESTY.

Establishes a one-time amnesty program for liabilities for taxable years beginning on or transactions occurring on or after 01/01/2010 through taxable periods ending on or transactions occurring on 12/31/2020.  Specifies that the amnesty period begins 01/01/2022 and completes no later than 12/31/2022.

 

FIN

HB293

RELATING TO POLLING PLACES.

Includes the line of voters at a voter service center, place of deposit, or its appurtenances in the prohibition of campaign related activities taking place within the 200-foot perimeter surrounding voter service centers, place of deposits, and appurtenances.

 

JHA, FIN

HB294

RELATING TO INTOXICANTS.

Amends the sentencing requirements for the offense of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant to require forty-eight hours of community service work.

 

JHA, FIN

HB295

RELATING TO IMPACT FEES.

Establishes a visitor impact fee on certain visitor arrivals into the State.

 

LAT, FIN

HB296

RELATING TO LEAF BLOWERS.

Restricts the use of leaf blowers in special improvement districts within a residential zone or near a residence to between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on any day except Sunday or a state or federal holiday and between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on Sunday or any state or federal holiday.  Allows commercial and hotel operators to operate leaf blowers on their premises at least one hundred feet away from a residential zone or residence between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any day except Sunday or a state or federal holiday, and between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on Sunday or any state or federal holiday.  Provides that leaf blowers used in special improvement districts during the permitted hours shall not emit more than sixty decibels of noise.

 

CPC, FIN

HB297

RELATING TO LABOR.

Requires employers with five or more employees to provide meal and rest breaks under certain conditions.  Requires employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care.

 

LAT, FIN

HB298

RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION.

Short form bill relating to consumer protection.

 

CPC

HB299

RELATING TO REGULATED INDUSTRIES.

Short form bill relating to regulated industries.

 

CPC

HB300

RELATING TO COMMERCE.

Short form bill relating to commerce.

 

CPC

HB301

RELATING TO UTILITIES.

Short form bill relating to utilities.

 

CPC

HB302

RELATING TO ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSES.

Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to certify whether a person is totally disabled under the income tax code.  Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to make capacity determinations.  Adds advanced practice registered nurses as primary providers in advance mental health care directives.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB303

RELATING TO ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSES.

Amends provisions concerning fitness to proceed examinations in criminal proceedings to include qualified advanced practice registered nurses or advanced practice registered nurses with prescriptive authority who hold an accredited national certification in an advanced practice registered nurse psychiatric specialization.

 

CPC, JHA

HB304

RELATING TO DEFERRED DEPOSITS.

Reduces the maximum fee a check casher may charge under a payday loan agreement for deferring the deposit of a check from fifteen per cent to seven per cent of the face value of the check.

 

CPC, FIN

HB305

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Removes the publication requirement and permits the board of directors of a condominium association to proceed directly to the sale, storage, donation, or disposal of personalty that has been abandoned in or on the common elements of a condominium when the identity or address of the owner is unknown.

 

CPC

HB306

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Amends the definition of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors.  Includes the Director of Health on the Preceptor Credit Assurance Committee.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB307

RELATING TO COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITIES.

Authorizes planned community associations and condominium associations to conduct electronic meetings and electronic or machine voting in a state of emergency or local state of emergency, regardless of what a planned community association's documents or a condominium association's bylaws or declarations provide.

 

CPC

HB308

RELATING TO GRANTS FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.

Establishes a federal grant coordinator position within the office of the director of health (HTH 907).  Provides that the federal grant coordinator shall coordinate the planning and preparation of grant proposals for the department of health and the department of human services to ensure that both departments maximize their receipt of federal grant moneys.  Appropriates moneys.

 

HHH, FIN

HB309

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Expands coverage of breast cancer screening and imaging to include risk factor screening, additional and supplemental imaging, and baseline mammograms for women between the ages of thirty-five and thirty-nine.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB310

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Amends the definition of "imminently dangerous to self or others".  Authorizes the involuntary treatment of patients who are subject to emergency hospitalization, diagnosed with a serious mental illness or severe substance use disorder, and found to be lacking decisional capacity.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB311

RELATING TO THE NURSING FACILITY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM.

Extends the nursing facility sustainability program to 2024.  Allows the nursing facility sustainability fee to be used to enhance capitated rates for the purpose of paying quality incentives.  Specifies that the nursing facility sustainability fee limit is 5.5 per cent of overall net patient service revenue.  Removes the per resident daily maximum fee of $20 for each facility.  Specifies facilities that meet certain exceptions shall pay a reduced daily fee in comparison to other participating facilities.  Appropriates funds.

 

HHH, FIN

HB312

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-seventh representative district.

 

FIN

HB313

RELATING TO PHYSICIAN WORKFORCE ASSESSMENT.

Repeals the requirement that no less than fifty per cent of the physician workforce assessment fees deposited into the John A. Burns school of medicine special fund be used for purposes identified by the Hawaii medical education council.  Repeals the monetary cap of expenditures from the John A. Burns school of medicine special fund.  Authorizes the John A. Burns school of medicine special fund to provide loan repayment to certain physicians and scholarships to qualifying medical students.

 

HHH, HET, FIN

HB314

RELATING TO MANDATORY REPORTING.

Requires that providers of services for the department of health or department of human services report any rule or law violations they observe.  Requires that providers of health or human services file annual financial reports and that the reports be disclosed to the department of taxation.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB315

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Removes the $3 million cap on the amount the University of Hawaii System can expend from the University of Hawaii tuition and fees special fund for the University of Hawaii Foundation.

 

HET, FIN

HB316

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Provides that up to $50,000 per year in income earned and proceeds derived from stock options or stock by an employee from a qualified high technology business, as defined therein, or an investor who qualifies for a high technology business investment tax credit, shall be excluded from taxation, provided the employee or investor is a resident of the State, and provided further that amounts in excess of $50,000 in the taxable year shall be taxed at the applicable income tax rate.

 

ECD, HET, FIN

HB317

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-fourth representative district.

 

FIN

HB318

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Changes the amount of the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax.

 

CPC, FIN

HB319

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Changes the fines imposed for certain fireworks violations.

 

CPC, FIN

HB320

RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION.

Makes it a civil and administrative violation for any person to engage in certain archaeological activities without obtaining the required permission or approval from the department of land and natural resources.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB321

RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX.

Repeals the allocation of excess transient accommodations tax revenues to the Turtle Bay conservation easement special fund, for the operation of a Hawaiian center and the museum of Hawaiian music and dance, to the counties, and to the special land and development fund.

 

LAT, FIN

HB322

RELATING TO MANUFACTURING.

Creates an income tax credit to incentivize the food manufacturing industry in the State.  Applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2020.

 

AGR, ECD, FIN

HB323

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRD REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the third representative district.

 

FIN

HB324

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LEASES.

Gives preference rights for an agricultural park lot and a non-agricultural park land lease to lessees who have made a significant improvement.  Adds the same preferences for a non-agricultural park land lease as those for an agricultural park lot lease.

 

AGR, CPC, FIN

HB325

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS.

Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (1) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.

 

LAT, FIN

HB326

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS.

Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (10) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.

 

LAT, FIN

HB327

RELATING TO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.

Convenes a Sustainable Aviation Fuel Task Force within the Hawaii State Energy Office to develop a state action plan to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of international air transportation from Hawaii.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB328

RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY.

Allows for the installation of certain energy-efficient technologies on any privately owned single-family residential dwelling or townhouse, with limited restrictions.  Requires private entities to adopt rules regarding the placement of those technologies.

 

EEP, HSG, FIN

HB329

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Establishes a zero net energy and zero net waste initiative program in the public utilities commission.  Establishes a zero net energy and zero net waste advisory council.  Designates property controlled by the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority as a microgrid demonstration project.  Authorizes the transmission of electric power from one governmental agency's point of generation to another governmental agency's existing transmission lines within the boundaries of the Hawaii ocean science and technology park.  Appropriates funds for the zero net energy and zero net waste initiative program.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB330

RELATING TO SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGES.

Imposes a fee for selling sugar-sweetened beverages at the distributor level to be collected by the Department of Health.  Establishes a special fund into which revenues are deposited.  Establishes a trust fund in the private sector to receive revenues from the special fund.  Establishes a healthy ohana committee to advise the department on the administration of the trust fund.  Makes appropriations.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB331

RELATING TO THE STATE PLAN.

Establishes green infrastructure objectives and policies for state facility systems in the Hawaii State Planning Act to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors.  Adds definition of "green infrastructure".  Requires the office of planning, in partnership with the greenhouse gas sequestration task force, to submit a report to the legislature making recommendations for implementing the green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines established by this measure.

 

GVR, EEP, FIN

HB332

RELATING TO VEHICLE INSPECTIONS.

Codifies certain certification, renewal, and violation processes of vehicle inspectors who conduct vehicle safety inspections under the department of transportation.  Repeals requirement for reconstructed vehicles to obtain a special inspection and certification.

 

CPC, FIN

HB333

RELATING TO PEER-TO-PEER CAR-SHARING.

Authorizes peer-to-peer car-sharing.  Establishes the peer-to-peer car sharing surcharge tax.

 

CPC, FIN

HB334

RELATING TO OPERATING A VEHICLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTOXICANT.

Establishes a state drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory special fund, to be administered by the department of health.  Deposits into the special fund fines imposed on offenders convicted of certain offenses involving operation of a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant.  Appropriates moneys.  Requires expenditure reports to the legislature.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB335

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Changes the fines imposed for certain fireworks violations.

 

CPC, FIN

HB336

RELATING TO COURTS OF APPEAL.

Prohibits courts of appeal from affirming, modifying, reversing, or vacating a matter on grounds other than those raised by the parties to the proceeding, unless the parties are provided the opportunity to brief the court and present oral argument on the matter.

 

JHA

HB337

RELATING TO CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.

Requires the language and meaning of any proposed constitutional amendment and ratification question to be simple, concise, and direct to the extent practicable.  Allows the presiding officers of the legislature to request a written opinion of the supreme court regarding the legality of a proposed amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution and the corresponding constitutional ratification question.  Requires the court to provide a written opinion within 48 hours of receipt of the request.  Requires, for any written opinion by the court that invalidates a constitutional ratification question, a detailed and specific explanation of the reasons for this opinion.  Prohibits any appeal of a written opinion.

 

JHA, FIN

HB338

RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY.

Requires an appellate court to conduct a hearing when a conflict of interest pertaining to a judge or justice is alleged by motion of a party to any suit, action, or proceeding of the appellate court.

 

JHA

HB339

RELATING TO THE FAMILY COURT.

Makes decisions of the family court appealable to the supreme court instead of the intermediate court of appeals.

 

HHH, JHA

HB340

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO REQUIRE THE JUDICIAL SELECTION COMMISSION TO BE GUIDED BY PRINCIPLES OF MERIT IN THE SELECTION OF JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS AND THE RETENTION OF JUDGES AND JUSTICES.

Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to require the judicial selection commission to be guided by principles of merit in the selection of judicial nominations and the retention of judges and justices.

 

JHA, FIN

HB341

RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE.

Beginning July 1, 2021:  Prohibits agencies from accepting petitions for declaratory rulings on issues or questions for which a decision was already issued by another agency that has sole or shared jurisdiction with the agency receiving the petition and provides that agency orders under the State’s administrative procedure law relating to declaratory rulings are final and not appealable.

 

JHA, FIN

HB342

RELATING TO THE HAWAII ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT.

Amends the definitions of "contested case" and "rule" in the Hawaii Administrative Procedures Act.

 

JHA, FIN

HB343

RELATING TO CONTESTED CASES.

Requires any state agency that does not have hearings officers on its staff to arrange with the department of commerce and consumer affairs to have its contested case hearings heard by hearings officers of the department.  Allows the department of commerce and consumer affairs to charge a fee for conducting these hearings.

 

CPC, JHA, FIN

HB344

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Provides that the Board of Land and Natural Resources and Commission on Water Resource Management shall not conduct contested case hearings, and counties shall not conduct contested case hearings regarding disputes over land use, but that decisions and disputes may be contested and adjudicated in circuit court.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB345

RELATING TO ASSISTED COMMUNITY TREATMENT.

Mandates appointment of a guardian ad litem to represent the best interest of a mentally ill individual in assistant community treatment proceedings.  Eliminates the need for the office of the public offender to participate in the proceedings.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB346

RELATING TO PRIVACY.

Adds the intentional disclosure or threat of disclosure of certain types of deep fake images or video to the offense of violation of privacy in the first degree.

 

CPC, JHA

HB347

RELATING TO JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT OF THE UNIFORM INFORMATION PRACTICES ACT.

Clarifies and expands procedural requirements for judicial review of an agency's denial of access to a government record.  Provides procedural requirements and standards of review upon appeal.

 

JHA, FIN

HB348

RELATING TO LIQUOR LAW VIOLATIONS.

Establishes enhanced penalties for multiple violations of the same liquor law by licensees in a county with a population of 500,000 or more, under certain circumstances.

 

CPC, FIN

HB349

RELATING TO VOTING.

Requires that any person who is eligible to vote and applies for a new or renewal motor vehicle driver's license, provisional license, or instruction permit, or a new, renewal, or duplicate identification card be automatically registered to vote if that person is not already registered to vote unless the applicant affirmatively declines to be registered to vote.  Authorizes access to and electronic transmission of databases maintained or operated by the counties or the department of transportation containing driver's license or identification card information to election officials and the statewide voter registration system.  Effective 1/1/2022.

 

JHA, FIN

HB350

RELATING TO ATTACHMENT OF REAL PROPERTY.

Increases the real property exemption amount for attachment or execution.

 

JHA, FIN

HB351

RELATING TO REVENUES.

Short form bill relating to revenues.

 

FIN

HB352

RELATING TO SECONDHAND DEALERS.

Clarifies that the secondhand dealers law applies to a secondhand dealer's operation of an automated recycling kiosk.

 

CPC, JHA

HB353

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT REVENUES.

Requires the legislature to consider whether counties have maximized their existing sources of revenue prior to appropriating moneys as a grant-in-aid.

 

FIN

HB354

RELATING TO THE AUDITOR.

Requires the salary of the state auditor to be fixed by the legislature.

 

LMG, FIN

HB355

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Requires the chiefs of police to grant licenses to carry concealed pistols or revolvers and ammunition therefor to applicants twenty-one years of age or more.  Extends the period of licensure to five years.  Amends the required procedures for granting a license.  Repeals language authorizing the chiefs of police to grant licenses to carry unconcealed pistols or revolvers and ammunition therefor.  Repeals the prohibition against the unauthorized carry of a concealed or unconcealed pistol or revolver.  Repeals the licensure fee.

 

JHA, FIN

HB356

RELATING TO THE JUDICIAL COUNCIL.

Requires meetings of the judicial council to be open to the public.

 

JHA

HB357

RELATING TO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.

Establishes a two-year statute of limitations for all actions for a regulatory taking against the State, including a claim brought under article I, section 20, of the state constitution.

 

JHA, FIN

HB358

RELATING TO NAME CHANGES.

Transfers the change of name procedures from the office of the lieutenant governor to the department of health.  Effective 1/1/2022.

 

JHA, FIN

HB359

RELATING TO GAMING.

Grants forty-year gaming license for a single integrated resort property on Hawaiian home lands designated for commercial use on the island of Oahu excluding lands west of Ko Olina.  Establishes Hawaii Gaming Commission.  Imposes wagering tax on gross gaming revenue.  Creates State Gaming Fund.  Appropriates funds.

 

ECD, JHA, FIN

HB360

RELATING TO STATUTORY REVISION: AMENDING OR REPEALING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES OR THE SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII FOR THE PURPOSES OF CORRECTING ERRORS AND REFERENCES, CLARIFYING LANGUAGE, OR DELETING OBSOLETE OR UNNECESSARY PROVISIONS.

Amends or repeals various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes or the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, or deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions.

 

JHA

HB361

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS.

Requires a supplemental environmental assessment or supplemental environmental impact statement after the passage of 15 years from the date of the determination of a finding of no significant impact or the acceptance of the statement, if the proposed action is not implemented.  Exempts actions involving a renewable energy project from this requirement.

 

EEP, JHA, FIN

HB362

RELATING TO THE LAND CONSERVATION FUND.

Increases the percentage of the land conservation fund that may be used for costs related to the operation, maintenance, and management of lands acquired by the fund.  Increases the maximum dollar amount of the conveyance tax distribution to the land conservation fund.  Appropriates funds from the land conservation fund for resource land acquisition.  Effective 1/1/2022.

 

WAL, FIN

HB363

RELATING TO GAMING.

Establishes the Hawaii lottery and gaming corporation for the purpose of conducting gambling in Hawaii.  Allocates proceeds to capital improvements at public schools and the University of Hawaii system, scholarships and educational loan repayments for medical students who practice in Hawaii for ten years, support for the family practice rural residency program, watershed protection, and reduction and prevention of problem gambling.  Effective 7/1/2021.

 

ECD, JHA, FIN

HB364

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Authorizes counties to levy a county surcharge on transient accommodations tax in their respective counties pursuant to certain conditions.  Sunsets on 12/31/2036.

 

FIN

HB365

RELATING TO THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE SENATE.

Requires nominees for the position of deputy director of principal departments to be subject to advice and consent of the senate.

 

GVR, JHA, FIN

HB366

RELATING TO STATE DEPARTMENTS.

Establishes repeal dates for each principal department, preceded by an auditor review.  Establishes procedures for department termination in six-year intervals.

 

GVR, JHA, FIN

HB367

RELATING TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES.

Repeals the school impact fee exemptions for nonresidential development and housing subject to the transient accommodations tax when seeking development in a designated school impact district requiring county subdivision approval, county building permit, or condominium property regime approval of the project. 

 

HSG, EDN, FIN

HB368

RELATING TO SOLAR ENERGY.

Permits the governing body of a county to create, by ordinance, a process for the recordation and enforcement of solar easements.  Allows counties to require individuals claiming a solar right to record that right by filing a declaration with the county clerk.  Permits the governing body of a county to require, by ordinance, the trimming of vegetation that blocks solar radiation from solar energy devices.  Authorizes the ordinance to include a designation for the cost of trimming.

 

EEP, JHA, FIN

HB369

RELATING TO THE TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX.

Increases the allocation of funds from transient accommodations tax revenue to the special land and development fund to improve certain state resources and services.

 

WAL, LAT, FIN

HB370

RELATING TO FARMS.

Creates an exclusion from income tax for the lesser of a percentage of gross annual income or an amount of gross annual income earned by a farmer from farming activities.  Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020.

 

AGR, FIN

HB371

RELATING TO DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES.

Clarifies that any person that offers free or reduced rate shipping to a consumer in another state but who refuses to honor that shipping offer to a consumer in Hawaii has engaged in an act that is unfair and deceptive under certain conditions.  Extends remedies.

 

ECD, CPC, FIN

HB372

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

Requires the auditor to perform an annual operational audit of the academic and financial plans of the department of education.  Requires the department of education to contract with a third-party consultant that specializes in school finance to study the adequacy of education funding in Hawaii.  Appropriates funds.

 

EDN, LMG, FIN

HB373

RELATING TO SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES.

Authorizes the issuance of special number license plates for members of the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol.

 

CMV, FIN

HB374

RELATING TO A SCHOOL FACILITIES AGENCY.

Amends Act 72, Session Laws of Hawaii 2020, to require that the school facilities agency complies with the Hawaii Public Procurement Code.  Authorizes the school facilities agency to have additional powers and duties.  Specifies additional uses for the school facilities special fund.  Provides the executive director of the school facilities agency with authority relating to capital improvement projects for the school facilities agency.

 

EDN, FIN

HB375

RELATING TO PERMITS.

Allows the counties to exempt permits for certain kinds of repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of the department of education, University of Hawaii, and school facilities agency.

 

WAL, EDN/HET, FIN

HB376

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Allows purchasing agencies to use the second low bid method for procurement.

 

GVR, CPC, FIN

HB377

RELATING TO SELECTIVE SERVICE.

Requires compliance with the federal Military Selective Service Act to be eligible for enrollment in a state-supported post-secondary institution, qualify for state financial assistance for post-secondary education, or be eligible for state or county employment or service.  Provides exceptions.

 

CMV, HET, FIN

HB378

RELATING TO LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT.

Allows the low-income housing tax credit to be allocated among the partners or members of the taxpayer earning the credit in any manner by the parties.  Extends increases made to the low-income housing tax credit from 12/31/21 to 12/31/27.

 

HSG, FIN

HB379

RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES.

Requires the Office of Information Practices to resolve open meeting and open record complaints through either a legal determination on whether a violation occurred or guidance on the relevant legal requirements.

 

JHA, FIN

HB380

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR.

Requires the liquor commission to record all complaints against any licensee, regardless of whether the complaint is filed during or after the occurrence of the violation.  Requires the liquor commission to review the history of complaints against any applicant at the time of application for a new license or renewal of an existing license.

 

CPC, FIN

HB381

RELATING TO FAIR HOUSING REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS.

Codifies the administrative rule definition of "assistance animal".  Clarifies the type of verification an individual may provide to substantiate a reasonable accommodation request for a specific assistance animal.  Specifies that possession of a vest or other distinguishing animal garment, tag, or registration document commonly purchased online and purporting to identify an animal as a service animal or assistance animal does not constitute valid verification of a disability-related need for an assistance animal.

 

HHH, JHA

HB382

RELATING TO DOG BITES.

Removes the requirement to prove that the dog has bitten on two separate occasions for dog bite victims to bring legal action against a dog's owner. 

 

JHA, FIN

HB383

RELATING TO A STATE POKER COMMISSION.

Establishes a state poker commission to oversee the licensing and operation of specified gaming activities in the State, including live poker rooms.  Designates as commissioners the respective directors of business, economic development, and tourism; commerce and consumer affairs; and taxation; or their designees.  Appropriates funds.

 

ECD, JHA, FIN

HB384

RELATING TO TELEHEALTH.

Prohibits health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations from excluding coverage of a service solely because the service is provided through telehealth and not through face-to-face contact.  Requires parity between telehealth services and face-to-face services for purposes of deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, benefit limits, and utilization reviews.  Clarifies the definition of "telehealth".

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB385

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Amends the penalties for reckless driving and improperly displayed license plates.  Effective 1/1/2022.

 

JHA, FIN

HB386

RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

Requires drug manufacturers to establish and implement drug take-back programs or join drug take-back organizations for purposes of collecting and disposing of various types of prescription and nonprescription drugs.  Specifies requirements for the department of public safety, covered manufacturers, drug take-back program operators, authorized collectors, and other entities who establish or participate in drug take-back programs.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB387

RELATING TO EXPLOSION DETECTION TECHNOLOGY.

Requires the county police departments to purchase and deploy explosion detection technology to assist in the location of and response to explosions caused by the illegal use of firearms and fireworks.  Appropriates unspecified funds to the counties as a grant-in-aid.

 

CPC, JHA, FIN

HB388

RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS.

Prohibits any planned community association from assessing a fine or requiring an architectural review for any security camera on the exterior of a member's or tenant's unit if installed three or more years ago or if installed by a previous member or tenant who occupied the unit.

 

CPC, FIN

HB389

RELATING TO POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION.

Requires accredited and non-accredited post-secondary educational institutions that are for-profit entities to disclose in print and electronic media and signage that they are for-profit businesses registered in the State.

 

HET, CPC, FIN

HB390

RELATING TO SCRAP DEALERS.

Regulates the purchase of catalytic converters and catalytic converter metals by scrap dealers.  Requires a written statement, photograph of the catalytic converter or catalytic converter metals, and verification of a seller's identification prior to a scrap dealer's purchase of a catalytic converter or catalytic converter metals.  Specifies recordkeeping requirements for the sale of a catalytic converter or catalytic converter metals.

 

CPC, JHA

HB391

RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE.

Establishes a process for the early termination of a rental agreement for certain active duty servicemembers who receive military orders to vacate civilian housing and move into on-post government quarters; become eligible to live in on-post government quarters and failure to move into on-post government quarters will result in a forfeiture of basic allowance for housing; or die while serving on active duty.

 

CMV, CPC, JHA

HB392

RELATING TO THE CHIEF OF POLICE.

Makes the office of the chief of police an elected office for each county, with four-year terms and no term limits.  Provides for candidate filing requirement with the elections commission and partial public financing limitations and requirements.

 

JHA, FIN

HB393

RELATING TO GROUND TRANSPORTATION.

Prohibits the sale of new motor vehicles that are solely powered by fossil fuels and designed for personal use beginning January 1, 2030, by motor vehicle dealers and salespersons.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB394

RELATING TO MASS TRANSPORTATION.

Prohibits counties with mass transportation service from charging a fee to users of that service for the operation or maintenance of that service.  Appropriates an additional $5,000,000 in transient accommodations taxes to each county to be used solely for the operation or maintenance, including for purposes of cleanliness and safety, of mass transportation service.  Takes effect 1/1/2022.

 

CPC, FIN

HB395

RELATING TO ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY ENTITLEMENTS.

Requires the State to pay, without delay, military personnel called to active duty at the same rate as their active duty counterparts; provide basic housing allowance; provide service credit for time on active duty; and allow state and county employees to count the time called to active duty in the State toward retirement.

 

CMV, LAT, FIN

HB396

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Allows nonprofit organizations to establish an applicant governing board and develop a charter application for a start-up or conversion charter school; provided that (1) the governing board operates separately from the nonprofit organization and (2) the governing board may include members of the nonprofit organization, but such members shall not constitute a majority of the governing board's members.

 

EDN, FIN

HB397

RELATING TO THE HAWAII CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM OVERSIGHT COMMISSION.

Transfers the administrative attachment of the Hawaii correctional system oversight commission from the department of the attorney general to the department of human services.

 

CMV, JHA, FIN

HB398

RELATING TO INMATES.

Clarifies that the department of public safety retains custody of and jurisdiction over any Hawaii inmate who has been transferred to and is incarcerated at a correctional institution located outside of the State.  Provides that the department of public safety may transfer any Hawaii inmate who was transferred to an out-of-state institution back to the State at any time and for any reason.  Requires Hawaii inmates incarcerated outside of the State to be afforded all rights and privileges available to inmates incarcerated at correctional institutions located within the State.

 

CMV, JHA, FIN

HB399

RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Allows governing boards of accredited public and private postsecondary institutions, county agencies, and state agencies to authorize public charter schools without applying to the board of education for chartering authority.

 

EDN, FIN

HB400

RELATING TO GARNISHMENT.

Prohibits the use of wage garnishment in the recovery of consumer debt.  Defines "consumer debt".

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB401

RELATING TO CAPITOL PERSONNEL.

Short form bill relating to capitol personnel.

 

LMG

HB402

RELATING TO CAPITOL FACILITIES.

Short form bill relating to capitol facilities.

 

LMG

HB403

RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT.

Short form bill relating to legislative management.

 

LMG

HB404

RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT.

Short form bill relating to legislative management.

 

LMG

HB405

RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT.

Short form bill relating to legislative management.

 

LMG

HB406

RELATING TO THE HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD.

Prohibits the Hawaii National Guard from being released from the State into active duty combat unless the United States Congress passes an official declaration of war or takes an official action pursuant to its constitutional powers to call the National Guard to execute the laws of the union, repel an invasion, or suppress an insurrection.  Requires the Governor to take any action necessary to comply with those requirements.

 

CMV, JHA

HB407

RELATING TO UNFUNDED LIABILITIES.

Requires the state auditor to study the feasibility of providing health benefits to state and county employees using a self-insured model.  Appropriates moneys.  Establishes the rate stabilization reserve fund.  Caps employer contributions to the other post-employment benefits trust fund.  Provides for the use of a portion of transient accommodations tax revenues to supplement deficient county public employer contribution amounts.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB408

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Ensures the collection of the state general excise tax in instances in which the transportation of passengers is furnished by common carriers by the use of aircraft when the collection of the tax is not prohibited by federal law.  Limits imposition of tax to flights that occur within the airspace of a single island of the State.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB409

RELATING TO ANIMAL CARETAKERS.

Requires the Department of Health to contract with a nonprofit animal rescue group to oversee caretakers of feral cats and mongooses.  Exempts registered caretakers of feral cats and mongooses from state laws and county ordinances relating to the feeding and confinement of cats and mongooses.  Establishes a trap-sterilize-return process.

 

AGR, JHA, FIN

HB410

RELATING TO TREE PLANTING.

Requires that eighth grade students and twelfth grade students in Hawaii public schools along with University of Hawaii undergraduate students plant trees.

 

EEP, EDN/HET, FIN

HB411

RELATING TO GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES.

Establishes a geothermal resources development permit system.  Prohibits hydraulic fracturing.  Appropriates funds to the county of Hawaii as a grant-in-aid to administer the permit system.

 

EEP/WAL, CPC, FIN

HB412

RELATING TO SHARK PROTECTION.

Prohibits the importation of shark parts and products containing shark parts.  Provides certain exemptions.

 

AGR, JHA

HB413

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE V, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO REQUIRE THE GUBERNATORIAL NOMINEE OF EACH POLITICAL PARTY TO SELECT THE PARTY'S LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR NOMINEE.

Proposes an amendment to article V, section 2, of the Hawaii State Constitution to require that each gubernatorial nominee appoint a person from the same political party as a running mate for lieutenant governor in the general election.

 

JHA, FIN

HB414

RELATING TO AQUATIC RESOURCES.

Prohibits the sale of coral products in the State and the importing and exporting of coral product.

 

WAL, CPC

HB415

RELATING TO MOBILE DEVICES.

Requires original manufacturers of certain electronics-enabled mobile equipment sold or used in the State to make available to owners and independent repair providers, on fair and reasonable terms, the documentation, tools, and parts needed to diagnose, maintain, or repair the equipment.

 

CPC, FIN

HB416

RELATING TO SECTION 711-1109, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES.

Prohibits certain restraints and tethers that endanger, or deny sustenance, to a dog.  Authorizes the court to assess fines, order performance of community service, require mental health counseling, or order attendance at educational classes concerning animal abuse prevention in addition to or in lieu of other penalties.

 

AGR, JHA

HB417

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-eighth representative district.

 

FIN

HB418

RELATING TO MINORS.

Grants a circuit court, when sentencing a minor for a criminal offense, the discretion to impose a sentence that includes a period of incarceration that is as much as 50% shorter than any mandatory minimum and, in certain cases, decline to impose a mandatory enhanced sentence.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB419

RELATING TO CHILDREN.

Requires that when an officer has custody of a child under the age of 16 for an alleged violation of law, the child shall have contact with legal counsel or a parent or legal guardian before the child waives any constitutional rights and before any custodial interrogation.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB420

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Increases the maximum fine that may be assessed per fireworks-related violation from $2,000 to $5,000; provided that the fireworks violation does not otherwise have a specific penalty enumerated in chapter 132D, HRS.

 

CPC, FIN

HB421

RELATING TO AN ADVISORY REFERENDUM ON CANNABIS IN HAWAII.

Requires an advisory referendum consisting of a question to be placed on the ballot for the general election of 2022 on whether the electorate wishes the State to legalize the sale and use of recreational cannabis in Hawaii.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB422

RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

Adds Delta 8 tetrahydrocannabinol as another name for Delta 6 cis or trans tetrahydrocannabinol, on schedule I of the list of controlled substances.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB423

RELATING TO A DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Establishes the department of environmental protection.  Transfers jurisdiction of certain functions and employees of the department of land and natural resources, department of agriculture, and department of health to the department of environmental protection.

 

EEP/AGR/HHH, CPC, FIN

HB424

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT OF CONTRACTS FOR VEHICLE RENTAL.

Requires all state and county entities, when renting a vehicle on behalf of a state employee in the discharge of official government business, to rent electric or hybrid vehicles, in order of preference, provided that such a vehicle is suitable for the specific travel requirements and available when needed.  Requires the State Procurement Office to promulgate rules and execute future contracts consistent with specified terms.

 

GVR, CPC, FIN

HB425

RELATING TO PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.

Beginning 1/1/2022, prohibits the issuance of building permits for new building construction unless the applicant provides sufficient proof that the building will be able to withstand category four hurricanes.  Beginning 1/1/2022, requires building permits to be obtained for work performed for state government agencies on all new public buildings, and requires new public buildings to be designed to withstand category five hurricanes.

 

PDP, CPC, FIN

HB426

RELATING TO TUITION WAIVERS.

Requires UH and the community colleges under certain circumstances to waive tuition for dependent children of service-connected one hundred per cent disability veterans and active or reserve members of the armed forces who were killed in action.

 

CMV, HET, FIN

HB427

RELATING TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE.

Requires the judiciary or supporting agencies to establish and support a program for restorative justice in each county and inform various criminal justice representatives of the existence of the program.  Appropriates funds.

 

JHA, FIN

HB428

RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT REFORM.

Part I:  Requires a law enforcement officer who observes criminal misconduct by another law enforcement officer to report the criminal misconduct.  Requires passage of a psychological screening test battery to qualify for appointment as a law enforcement officer.  Subjects a law enforcement officer to denial, suspension, or revocation of a law enforcement officer's certification for failure to report observed criminal misconduct or committing an act of criminal misconduct.  Part II:  Prohibits the use of a chokehold by a law enforcement officer unless the use of deadly force is justifiable.  Defines chokehold.

 

LAT, JHA

HB429

RELATING TO HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS.

Increases the homestead exemption for all persons up to $2,000,000 and requires that the real property be the principal residence.

 

HSG, CPC, FIN

HB430

RELATING TO ELECTION REFORM.

Requires ballots returned by mail to be postmarked on or before election day.  Deems ballots with illegible postmarks to have been timely postmarked if received by a certain time.  Requires the county clerks to coordinate with the United States Postal Service to establish places of deposit at each post office or for the collection of ballots.  Requires an additional preliminary campaign spending report to be filed on June 30 of a general election year.  Establishes a flexible fine structure for violations of campaign finance laws by certain noncandidate committees.  Requires campaign advertisements to include disclosure notices on every page or section of the advertisement.

 

JHA, FIN

HB431

RELATING TO REAL ESTATE DISCLOSURE.

Beginning on November 1, 2021, requires all vulnerable coastal property sales or transfers to include a sea level rise hazard exposure statement to ensure that new property owners and transferees understand the special hazards, requirements, and limitations that may affect the property.  Requires sellers to include whether property is within a sea level rise exposure area in the disclosure statement provided to the buyer.

 

WAL, CPC

HB432

RELATING TO THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT.

Extends the earned income tax credit by five years.

 

FIN

HB433

RELATING TO CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION.

Assesses a climate change mitigation impact fee on every customer who rents, leases, or utilizes a rental motor vehicle.  Establishes the climate change mitigation special fund.  Specifies that the impact fees collected shall be deposited to the credit of the general fund; provided that beginning July 1, 2024, the impact fees shall be deposited to the credit of the climate change mitigation special fund.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB434

RELATING TO AIRCRAFT.

Establishes a non-commercial aircraft landing fee and non-commercial aircraft storage fee.  Directs proceeds from these fees into the general fund.  Defines "non-commercial aircraft".

 

TRN, FIN

HB435

RELATING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

Requires the Department of Budget and Finance, in consultation with the Department of Accounting and General Services and the Office of Enterprise Technology Services, to develop and procure a uniform financial database for use by all state agencies.  Appropriates moneys.

 

HET, FIN

HB436

RELATING TO DEPENDENT CARE FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNTS.

Establishes Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts for all working taxpayers. Defines qualifying individuals and eligible expenses. Outlines the requirements and limitations of the accounts. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2021. 

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB437

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes a nonrefundable state child tax credit.

 

HHH, FIN

HB438

RELATING TO EXTERNAL CONTRACTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

Requires the DOE, in consultation with and approval by the BOE, to develop and implement a plan to reduce the use of external contracts for curricula, instruction, and testing.  Requires DOE to convene an advisory committee to make recommendations for developing and implementing the plan.  Requires DOE to submit interim and final reports to the legislature.

 

EDN, FIN

HB439

RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF TENANTS.

Prohibits landlords from recovering possession of a dwelling unit from tenants if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired.  Sets a tenant's liability for rent if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired.  Specifies that the damages for retaliatory evictions are equal to two months' rent or free occupancy for two months.

 

CPC, JHA

HB440

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes a conveyance tax vacancy surcharge on the conveyance tax for prolonged vacant property.

 

WAL/HSG, FIN

HB441

RELATING TO TAX HAVEN ABUSE.

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 1/1/2022.

 

ECD, FIN

HB442

RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS.

Requires DLNR to develop a plan to reduce the disposition of public lands for military activities and make recommendations regarding the remediation and restoration of public lands that have been damaged by military use.  Requires DLNR to convene an advisory committee to provide recommendations regarding the plan.  Requires reports to the legislature.

 

CMV, WAL, FIN

HB443

RELATING TO SCHOOL FOOD PROGRAMS.

Requires the department of education conduct a comprehensive cost analysis of the department's food services and student meals programs to, in part, increase the use of locally grown agricultural products.  Requires a report to the legislature.

 

AGR, EDN, FIN

HB444

PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES VIII AND X OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO AUTHORIZE THE LEGISLATURE TO ESTABLISH A SURCHARGE TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION.

Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to advance the State's goal of providing a quality education for the children of Hawaii by authorizing the legislature to establish, as to be provided by law, a surcharge on residential investment property and visitor accommodations.

 

EDN, JHA, FIN

HB445

RELATING TO INCREASING THE ESTATE TAX.

Lowers the exclusion amount of Hawaii's estate tax to $1,000,000.  Applicable to decedents dying or taxable transfers occurring after 12/31/2020.

 

FIN

HB446

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Establishes a new offense of theft of a catalytic converter. Requires vehicle registration records to be kept for businesses engaged in the selling or negotiating the purchase of used motor vehicle parts or accessories.  Specifies that these businesses are required to refuse purchase of used motor vehicle parts or accessories and report the attempted sale to police if a seller does not provide certain information at the time of the attempted sale. Changes the fine for any violations of the used motor vehicle parts and accessories law. 

 

CPC, JHA, FIN

HB447

RELATING TO EMPLOYEE-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS.

Establishes State and county contributions to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund for employees hired after June 30, 2021, with certain exclusions.

 

LAT, FIN

HB448

RELATING TO VIOLATION OF PRIVACY.

Adds the improper use of unmanned aircraft systems to the criminal offenses of violation of privacy in the first degree and violation of privacy in the second degree.

 

CPC, JHA

HB449

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO AMEND THE QUALIFYING AGE OF VOTERS FOR ANY STATE OR LOCAL ELECTION.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to lower the qualifying age of voters for any state or local election to sixteen years of age.

 

JHA, FIN

HB450

RELATING TO CHILD WELFARE.

Defines and recognizes rights in trust for children within the Child Protective Act.  Requires family court to appoint guardian ad litem in custody cases.  Provides that when a child is subject to harm or imminent harm, has been harmed, or may suffer probable harm is sufficient for police officer to take child into protective custody without court order, for department of human services to assume temporary foster custody of child, and for the department of human services to conduct an investigation.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB451

RELATING TO CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE.

Prohibits courts from considering parental alienation syndrome in determining child custody.  Allows for the consideration of "harm" and "probable harm", rather than just "imminent harm", in Child Protective Act determinations.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB452

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires chairs of legislative committees to make certain determinations when bills directly affecting the moneys appropriated to the department of education are deliberated on by their committees and to place those determinations in the accompanying committee reports.

 

EDN, LMG, FIN

HB453

RELATING TO CHILDREN.

Allows a minor who has reached the age of 16 to petition the Family Court for emancipation, and directs the court regarding investigation of the petition, appointment of legal counsel and a guardian ad litem for the petitioner, and the findings necessary to grant the petition.  Specifies the rights gained by the minor upon emancipation and authorizes the court to require the minor's parents or legal guardians to pay for any services ordered by the court.  Requires emancipation proceedings to be stayed until final disposition of the minor's child protective case under Chapter 587A, HRS.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB454

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes an income tax credit for investment in qualified businesses that develop cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

 

ECD, CPC, FIN

HB455

RELATING TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT.

Establishes the solid waste management research and development special fund.  Sets aside 1% of general revenues collected by the State each fiscal year to be deposited into the solid waste management research and development special fund.  Requires the department of health to use moneys in the solid waste management research and development special fund for research and development into solid waste management.  Requires the department of health to submit biennial reports to the legislature.

 

EEP, FIN

HB456

RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT.

Requires the department of health to conduct an economic and environmental study of the deposit beverage container program and report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2022.  Appropriates funds.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB457

RELATING TO LEGALIZED GAMBLING.

Establishes a task force within the department of business, economic development, and tourism to study and recommend to the legislature the feasibility of authorizing controlled legalized gambling in the State, including offshore gambling and a state lottery system, to generate revenues for pay raises for teachers and police officers.  Appropriates funds for the study.

 

ECD, JHA, FIN

HB458

RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSES.

Extends the renewal period from two years to four years for licensees who are seventy-two years of age or older but younger than eighty years of age; provided their driving record does not include two or more moving traffic violation convictions after the licensee attained the age of seventy-two years.  Defines moving traffic violation.

 

JHA

HB459

RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE DISQUALIFICATION FOR SEVERE FORMS OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS.

Adds a permanent commercial driver's license disqualification for a holder of a commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit who is convicted of a felony involving a severe form of trafficking in persons.

 

CPC, JHA

HB460

RELATING TO A CARBON TAX.

Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax (barrel tax) to tax various fossil fuels at a rate equivalent to $40 per metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions in 2022.  Incrementally increases the barrel tax rate to be equivalent to a carbon price of $80 per metric ton of carbon emissions in 2030.  Amends the distribution of barrel tax revenues.  Renames the barrel tax as the environmental response, energy, carbon emissions, and food security tax.  Effective 1/1/2022.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB461

RELATING TO COFFEE LABELING.

Expands the coffee labeling and advertising requirements to include ready-to-drink coffee beverages and inner packaging or wrapping labels.  Requires coffee blend labels to disclose geographic and regional origins with the percent by weight of each origin, while gradually increasing the minimum percentage of coffee by weight required to be able to use a geographic origin on a label or advertisement.  Clarifies that the use of the term "All Hawaiian" is prohibited when the coffee product is not produced entirely from green coffee beans grown and processed in Hawaii.

 

AGR, ECD, CPC

HB462

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY.

Establishes a work-sharing program for private employers to avoid layoffs of employees and preserve trained workforces during disruptions to regular business activity.

 

ECD/LAT, CPC, FIN

HB463

RELATING TO CLIMATE CHANGE.

Sets the goal of employing one hundred percent clean ground transportation for the public and private transportation sectors by December 31, 2030.  Requires all light duty motor vehicles procured pursuant to the Hawaii Public Procurement Code to be powered by renewable sources by January 1, 2030.  Accelerates the State's goal of becoming one hundred percent reliant on clean energy and reaching its zero emissions clean energy target to 2030.  Increases the goal for electricity use reductions achieved under the State's energy-efficiency portfolio standards.  Prohibits the sale of new motor vehicles powered solely by fossil fuels by January 1, 2030.

 

EEP/TRN, CPC, FIN

HB464

RELATING TO STREAM PROTECTION.

Prohibits BLNR from approving dispositions that authorize or have the effect of authorizing the diversion of water from streams except under specified criteria.  Deposits moneys collected via land dispositions that authorize or have the effect of authorizing the diversion of water from streams into the forest stewardship fund.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB465

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Establishes that the representative of labor on the Hawaii Labor Relations Board be a person selected by a majority of the exclusive representatives of the collective bargaining units.  Establishes procedures for removal of the representative of labor on the Hawaii Labor Relations Board.

 

LAT, JHA, FIN

HB466

RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE AND TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE.

Provides employees with up to eight weeks of paid family leave during a one-year period paid through an employer based private insurance program currently used to provide for temporary disability benefits.  Repeals chapter 398, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB467

RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS.

Authorizes the designation of areas or regions of public lands classified as commercial, industrial, resort and hotel, and the establishment and implementation of guidelines for the redevelopment of the areas or regions that will:  (1) modernize the policies for the management of public lands in the designated area; (2) establish a plan for the designated area, including district-wide improvements, that is coordinated with state and county land use and planning policies; and (3) implement asset and property management concepts that can optimize income from the properties and evolve in response to changing principles of property administration.  Designates the public lands on the Waiakea peninsula on the island of Hawaii as the Waiakea peninsula redevelopment district.  Allows the department of land and natural resources to issue a rent reduction or waiver for certain lessee's expenses for demolition or provision of basic infrastructure.  Authorizes a local redevelopment agency to contract with a developer for construction of non-residential projects on public land within a redevelopment area.  Exempts the costs of construction of work or improvements of a redevelopment project from general excise and use taxes.  Makes an appropriation.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB468

RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND.

Removes medicare part B reimbursement for spouses of employee-beneficiaries hired on or after 7/1/2021.

 

LAT, FIN

HB469

RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF NON-AGRICULTURAL PARK LANDS.

Requires the department of land natural resources and department of agriculture to meet and identify the non-agricultural park lands that should be rezoned as those in the conservation district.  Requires that agricultural lands under the jurisdiction of the department of land and natural resources be transferred to the department of agriculture not later than 12/31/2023.  Requires the department of land and natural resources and departmetn of agriculture to meet every five years to discuss transferring remaining lands.  Requires the department of agriculture to inquire about any easements needed by the department of land and natural resources before offering a lease.

 

WAL, FIN

HB470

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY.

Amends the definitions of benefit year and week.  Conforms the manner of filing claims for partial benefits to the same as for total or part-total benefits.  Allows the director of labor and industrial relations to omit benefits charged for experience rating for employers due to the event of COVID-19 in calendar years 2021 and 2022.  For calendar years 2021, 2022, and 2023, sets the employer contribution rate at schedule C, D, and E, respectively.  Makes amendments to contribution rate schedule and procedure for determination retroactive to 1/1/2021.

 

LAT/PDP, FIN

HB471

RELATING TO BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS.

Makes permanent the regulation of behavior analysts.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB472

RELATING TO TELEHEALTH.

Exempts telehealth-related gifts from procurement requirements.  Makes permanent certain telehealth-related exemptions for licensed health professions issued by recent gubernatorial proclamation.

 

PDP/HHH, CPC, FIN

HB473

RELATING TO TELEHEALTH.

Authorizes the establishment of a physician-patient relationship via a telehealth interaction, if the physician is licensed to practice medicine in the State.

 

PDP/HHH, CPC, FIN

HB474

RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM.

Extends the hospital sustainability program through June 30, 2024.  Increases the maximum fee for inpatient care services to five and one-half per cent.  Increases the amount of time hospitals have to pay the hospital sustainability fee from 30 days to 60 days.  Increases the pool of medicaid services that can be used matching purposes.  Appropriates funds.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB475

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires medicaid and insurance coverage of ambulance services.  Authorizes medicaid programs, and requires private insurers, to pay for community paramedicine services provided by emergency medical technicians or paramedics.  Appropriates moneys for costs resulting from medicaid coverage of ambulance service and community paramedicine services provided by emergency medical technicians or paramedics.  Effective 7/1/2022.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB476

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes taxation of e-liquids used in electronic smoking devices.  Requires wholesalers and dealers to be licensed.  Requires retailers to obtain permits.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB477

RELATING TO CANNABIS.

Increases the allowable number of production centers and retail dispensing locations per dispensary license.  Authorizes the department of health to allow a licensed dispensary to purchase medical cannabis or manufactured cannabis products from another licensed dispensary to ensure ongoing qualified patient access.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB478

RELATING TO MEDICAL CARE FOR MINORS.

Permits minors to consent to medical care related to the diagnosis or treatment of HIV or the prevention of HIV.  Provides that a minor, under certain circumstances, shall not be liable for payment for treatment or prevention of HIV.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB479

RELATING TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.

Allows the Department of Human Services to administer and provide public assistance to eligible residents of the State during a governor-declared state of emergency.

 

PDP, HHH, FIN

HB480

RELATING TO THE CHILD PROTECTIVE ACT.

Requires the family court to appoint counsel to indigent parents in foster care cases and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parent.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB481

RELATING TO INFORMAL MEETINGS.

Exempts members of a county council from the limitation on the number of members that may attend an informational meeting or presentation on matters relating to official county council business for purposes of permitted interactions.  Clarifies that such meetings shall be meetings that are open to the public.

 

JHA, FIN

HB482

RELATING TO CANNABIS FOR MEDICAL USE.

Authorizes medical cannabis dispensaries to distribute cannabis propagules and cuttings to individuals authorized to cultivate cannabis plants for medical use, subject to quantity limits and quality requirements.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB483

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Increases the amount of the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax from $5 to $8 for any county with a resident population of more than 125,000, but less than 195,000.  Sets aside the revenue from the increased surcharge tax for capacity projects in that county.  Effective 1/1/2023.

 

CPC, FIN

HB484

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION.

Requires the Department of Agriculture to collaborate with agricultural growers and researchers to develop and implement a program to safely distribute disease- and insect-free tropical plant materials to Hawaii farmers.  Appropriates funds.

 

AGR, FIN

HB485

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Increases the amount of the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax from $5 to $8.  Effective 1/1/2023.

 

CPC, FIN

HB486

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Specifies that a government agency does not assume ownership or jurisdiction over a disputed road solely through maintenance or repair activities.  Authorizes the State to transfer ownership of roads in favor of counties by quitclaim if requested by the county.

 

TRN, WAL, JHA

HB487

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses, in addition to physicians, to practice medical aid in dying in accordance with their scope of practice and prescribing authority.  Authorizes psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners, in addition to psychiatrists, psychologists, and clinical social workers, to provide counseling to a qualified patient.  Reduces the mandatory waiting period between oral requests from twenty days to fifteen days.  Waives the mandatory waiting period for those terminally ill individuals not expected to survive the mandatory waiting period.

 

HHH, JHA

HB488

RELATING TO INSPECTIONS OF CARE FACILITIES.

Specifies that plans of correction and the status of corrective actions for care facilities shall be added to reports by the department of health within five working days.  Clarifies, for reporting purposes, that the conclusion of an inspection occurs after the initial visit to a facility is completed.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB489

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE.

Requires the thirty-day lapse or termination notices for long-term care policies to be sent by certified mail, priority mail, or commercial delivery service, or other method of delivery requiring proof of delivery.

 

CPC, FIN

HB490

RELATING TO CRIMES AGAINST SENIORS.

Lowers the age at which enhanced penalties apply for crimes against seniors from sixty-two years of age to sixty years of age.  Makes commission of certain criminal offenses against a senior's person or property applicable if the perpetrator knows or reasonably should know the senior victim's age.  Effective 1/1/2022.

 

HHH, JHA

HB491

RELATING TO SERVICES FOR KUPUNA.

Allows the executive office of aging to relax the thirty-hour employment requirement for qualified caregivers under the Kupuna Caregivers Program during a state-declared state of emergency.  Adds the option of kupuna caregiver-directed services to the kupuna caregivers program.  Includes assisting the care recipient and caregiver with the enrollment process as the duty of a coach.  Allows funds under the Kupuna Caregivers Program to be issued to the care recipient's financial management service provider.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB492

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Short form bill relating to land use.

 

WAL

HB493

RELATING TO MARINE RESOURCES.

Short form bill relating to marine resources.

 

WAL

HB494

RELATING TO WATER.

Short form bill relating to water.

 

WAL

HB495

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Makes violations of voting requirements for elections of a condominium association subject to the enforcement powers of the Real Estate Commission and amends the requirements for a condominium association's standard proxy form by deleting the option for a condominium owner to give the proxy to the board as a whole.

 

CPC, JHA

HB496

RELATING TO FISHING.

Conditions the designation of community-based subsistence fishing areas upon approval of the affected community.

 

WAL, CPC

HB497

RELATING TO COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCES.

Prohibits the counties from requiring, as part of a county zoning ordinance or county rule, a developer with more than one residential unit obtain the approval of any state agency unless that approval is expressly required by law.

 

WAL, FIN

HB498

RELATING TO AQUATIC RESOURCES.

Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to use in-lieu fee mitigation to restore, create, enhance, or preserve aquatic habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB499

RELATING TO LEASE EXTENSIONS ON PUBLIC LAND.

Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to extend certain leases of public lands for commercial, industrial, resort, or government use upon approval of a proposed development agreement to make substantial improvements to the existing improvements.

 

WAL, CPC, FIN

HB500

RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.

Increases the number of members of the commission on water resource management to eight and adds the chairman of the Hawaiian homes commission or the chairman's designee to the commission.

 

WAL, JHA

HB501

RELATING TO WATER RIGHTS.

Requires any disposition of water rights by the State to comply with existing minerals and water rights requirements.  Prohibits the disposition of water rights for less than a certain percentage of the cost of the least expensive alternative source of water of similar quality and purpose, except for water leases or licenses issued for instream traditional and customary native Hawaiian practices.  Requires the DLNR, commission on water resource management, and DHHL to report on the application of minerals and water rights and make recommendations for improvement.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB502

RELATING TO RURAL DISTRICTS.

Allows up to one dwelling per quarter-acre in rural districts.

 

HSG, WAL, FIN

HB503

RELATING TO BOARD MEETINGS.

Allows boards to use interactive conference technology to remotely conduct public meetings under the Sunshine Law in conjunction with in-person meetings, even when no emergency has been declared by government authorities.  Authorizes boards to exclude the public from nonpublic locations, such as homes, where board members are physically present when remote board meetings are held by interactive conference technology.  Establishes requirements for the conduct of remote meetings.  Establishes a new notice requirement to provide the board's contact information for the submission of written testimony by electronic or postal mail.  Amends existing option to hold in-person meetings at multiple public meeting sites connected by interactive conference technology to require termination of meeting only if audio communication is lost and cannot be reestablished within an hour and the board had not provided reasonable notice of how the meeting would be continued.  Allows for additional courtesy sites open to the public for both remote and in-person meetings held by interactive conference technology.  Allows for contact tracing and social distancing during states of emergency caused by contagious diseases.

 

PDP, JHA, FIN

HB504

RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS HOSTING PLATFORMS.

Authorizes the counties to adopt an ordinance regulating the operation of hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodation operators.

 

LAT, JHA, FIN

HB505

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Establishes minimum number of district precincts per district.  Prohibits campaigning or electioneering within two hundred feet of the last person in line to vote or deposit a ballot at a voter service center or place of deposit.  Makes housekeeping amendments to Hawaii's elections laws to clarify and improve the administration of elections by mail.

 

JHA, FIN

HB506

RELATING TO OUTDOOR ADVERTISING.

Amends the fines and community service penalties for violating Hawaii's outdoor advertising laws.

 

JHA, FIN

HB507

RELATING TO MEDIA.

Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to fix the payment of royalties to the State for the filming of scenic shots of iconic locations in the State that are subsequently featured in media for production purposes.

 

ECD, FIN

HB508

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Increases the fines associated with the illegal use of consumer fireworks and display fireworks, articles pyrotechnic, and aerial devices outside of the times permitted by law.

 

CPC, FIN

HB509

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-NINTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-ninth representative district.

 

FIN

HB510

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes a vehicle registration fee tax credit for persons who are eligible for a refundable food/excise tax credit greater than $0.

 

FIN

HB511

RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY.

Requires an applicant seeking to register more than 10 acres of land with either the land court or the bureau of conveyances to provide a sworn affidavit that the community where the land is located has been given notice of the applicant's intended use of the land and provide a copy of the notice.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB512

RELATING TO MOBILE HEALTH SERVICES.

Appropriates funds for each year of the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium for mobile health clinics in the State.

 

HHH, FIN

HB513

RELATING TO THE STATE CAPITOL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.

Dissolves the state capitol management committee.

 

LMG, FIN

HB514

RELATING TO ON-SITE EARLY CHILDHOOD FACILITIES.

Establishes an income tax credit for employers who create on‑site early childhood facilities.  Establishes and appropriates funds for 1.0 FTE on-site early childhood facility coordinator position.  Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2021.

 

FIN

HB515

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

Requires the auditor to audit the department of education's school food services branch to determine how much local produce is being purchased and served to students.

 

EDN, AGR, FIN

HB516

RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE ELECTRONICS MANAGEMENT.

Requires persons who receive state funds and state financial assistance to donate unnecessary but functioning electronic devices, hardware, and televisions to nonprofit organizations that will refurbish and distribute them to eligible persons in the State.  Sets reporting requirements for donating entities, nonprofit refurbishers, and the department of accounting and general services.  Sets penalties for violations.

 

GVR, HET, FIN

HB517

RELATING TO THE AUDITOR.

Clarifies that the state auditor may examine all accounts and records of any other State department, agency, or division notwithstanding any law to the contrary.

 

LMG, JHA, FIN

HB518

RELATING TO EMERGENCY RESPONSE VEHICLES.

Establishes an emergency response vehicle noise task force to determine the impact of emergency response vehicle sirens in terms of excessive noise, the effect on public safety, and the relative effectiveness of the use of emergency lights instead of the use of sirens at night.

 

HHH, FIN

HB519

RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Authorizes cash payments made by developers in lieu of providing the required reserved housing units in the development of residential projects for the Hawaii community development authority to be deposited into the rental housing revolving fund.

 

HSG, WAL, FIN

HB520

RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Provides that an exemption from the general excise tax established by section 201H-36, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that has been approved by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation shall be provided once the qualified person or firm has filed or recorded the regulatory agreement in land court or the bureau of conveyances, whichever is appropriate.

 

HSG, FIN

HB521

RELATING TO EDUCATION FUNDING.

Requires the committee on weights to submit a report to the legislature detailing any changes to the funding formula within thirty days of the change.

 

EDN, FIN

HB522

RELATING TO CORAL.

Requires the university of Hawaii environmental center to conduct ongoing studies of the environmental impacts of sewage spills on affected coral reefs and submit an annual report to the legislature prior to the convening of each regular session.  Appropriates moneys.

 

EEP, WAL, FIN

HB523

RELATING TO PROTECTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

Imposes a $20 per guest tax on users of transient accommodations for the purposes of funding conservation efforts.

 

EEP/LAT, WAL, FIN

HB524

RELATING TO ANIMALS.

Establishes a $500 civil fine for the feeding or attempted feeding of any feral chicken.  Provides that the Department of Health shall enforce this prohibition regardless of whether the department determines there is a nuisance that is dangerous or injurious to health.  Authorizes county police departments to issue citations.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB525

RELATING TO TEACHER HOUSING.

Clarifies that the Department of Education may construct teachers' housing on a public school campus.  Requires that teachers' housing units constructed or acquired on a school campus after 6/30/2021, be rented at a low cost or no cost to new teachers employed full-time at that school.

 

EDN, HSG, FIN

HB526

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Requires the state procurement office to establish a past performance database.  Requires that the determination of certain contract awards through the procurement process consider a contractor's past performance.  Appropriates funds.

 

GVR, JHA, FIN

HB527

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS.

Prohibits certain solar energy facilities on lands with soil classified by the land study bureau's detailed land classification as overall (master) productivity rating class B.

 

WAL, AGR, JHA

HB528

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Authorizes counties to use fireworks license fee revenue to offset costs related to inspecting shipped containers of aerial devices when they are opened.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB529

RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY.

Authorizes county police and planning or permitting agencies to enter privately owned residential real property, under certain specified conditions, to address imminent threats to health and safety or violations of county zoning laws.  Specifies that a property owner who receives a notice of violation and fails to remediate the violation within the county planning or permitting agency's specified time frame shall be fined a minimum of $5,000 per day and subject to foreclosure proceedings if the fine is not paid within 90 days.

 

JHA, FIN

HB530

RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF NON-AGRICULTURAL PARK LANDS.

Requires the department of land and natural resources (DLNR) and department of agriculture (HDOA) to meet and identify the non-agricultural park lands that should be rezoned as conservation district.  Requires that agriculture lands under the jurisdiction of DLNR be transferred to HDOA not later than 12/31/2023.  Requires DLNR and HDOA to meet every 5 years to discuss transferring remaining lands.  Requires HDOA to inquire about any easements needed by DLNR before offering a lease.

 

WAL, FIN

HB531

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS.

Requires a state contract for the purchase of produce to include an option to lease an appropriate amount of state agricultural lands under the control of the department of agriculture of sufficient area and quality to produce the crops being procured.  Establishes a process for the college of tropical agriculture and human resources of the university of Hawaii to identify appropriate land to be leased.

 

GVR, AGR, FIN

HB532

RELATING TO RECKLESS ENDANGERING.

Provides for a minimum fine of $500 and maximum fine of $4,000, in addition to any other penalty, for the misdemeanor offense of reckless endangering in the second degree under certain circumstances, such as boarding a commercial flight into the State after having tested positive for COVID-19.

 

PDP, JHA, FIN

HB533

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST LE JARDIN ACADEMY, INC.

Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Le Jardin Academy, Inc., in planning, designing, constructing, reconstructing, renovating, acquiring, equipping, and improving educational facilities.

 

FIN

HB534

RELATING TO USE OF FORCE IN SELF-PROTECTION.

Amends the law relating to the use of deadly force in self-defense to establish the circumstances where a person using deadly force has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand the person's ground.  Repeals statutory language that permits an actor to use deadly force at the actor's place of work in some circumstances.

 

PDP, JHA

HB535

RELATING TO MANSLAUGHTER.

Specifies that a person commits the offense of manslaughter if the person causes the death of another person by recklessly operating a motor vehicle with .08 or more grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath or .08 or more grams of alcohol per 100 milliliters or cubic centimeters of blood.

 

JHA

HB536

RELATING TO VITAL STATISTICS.

Requires the department of health to issue a certificate of stillbirth, upon request of the parent or parents named on a fetal death certificate issued in the case of a stillbirth.  Appropriates funds.

 

HHH, FIN

HB537

RELATING TO SAFETY EQUIPMENT.

Requires department of education school football programs to ensure that each non-new football and privately purchased football helmet used in a football program is reconditioned and recertified at least once every two years.

 

EDN, CPC, FIN

HB538

RELATING TO FARM ANIMALS.

Requires farm owner or operators to confine egg-laying hens in accordance with the standards established in this measure. Effective 12/31/25, prohibits a business owner or operator from selling shell eggs or egg products that are produced by egg-laying hens that were confined in a cruel manner.

 

AGR, FIN

HB539

RELATING TO THREAT ASSESSMENT.

Establishes a program within the Hawaii state fusion center to train, establish, and operate threat assessment teams, including for educational institutions.

 

PDP, HET, FIN

HB540

RELATING TO LIABILITY.

Makes immune from civil or criminal liability a health care provider who acts in good faith during a state of emergency or local state of emergency and adheres to crisis standards of care.

 

PDP, JHA, FIN

HB541

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires executive programs that purchase social services related to mental health, substance abuse, and homelessness to establish uniform baseline performance metrics, evaluation standards, and reimbursement rates.  Requires all community or private organizations that purchase services for behavioral health, substance abuse, or homelessness, at the request of any state funding agency, to disclose the source of other federal, state, or county-level funding it receives for the purposes of performing such services.  Establishes the state payor committee, to be administered by the director of the department of health, to oversee and coordinate the purchase of services and recommend approval or rejection of the purchase of contracts relating to mental health, substance abuse, or homelessness services.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB542

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT.

Removes cannabidiol drugs that have been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration from the list of Schedule V substances for consistency with federal laws.

 

JHA, FIN

HB543

RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT.

Excludes from any waiting list maintained by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands any lessee or successor who sells or transfers their lease on a tract of Hawaiian home lands.

 

JHA, FIN

HB544

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AT MAUNA KEA ON THE ISLAND OF HAWAII.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for a capital improvement project for the department of land and natural resources, to be expended by the university of Hawaii, to remove the Hoku Kea telescopes from the summit of Mauna Kea.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB545

RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT.

Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to digitize its applicant, beneficiary, and lessee records and create a usable digital database no later than 7/1/2022.

 

HET, JHA, FIN

HB546

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Amends the composition of the early learning board to make a representative from Aha Punana Leo a standing member.

 

EDN, JHA

HB547

RELATING TO FEDERAL LANDS.

Establishes within the department of land and natural resources a Makua Valley task force to prepare for the transition of the management of the Makua military reservation from the United States Army upon the expiration of the Army's lease for the land.  Requires a report to the legislature.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB548

RELATING TO THE COUNTY BOARDS OF WATER SUPPLY.

Requires county boards of water supply to provide an accounting of water credits to and to reserve credits for the department of Hawaiian home lands.  Requires boards to develop policies that reduce nonpublic trust uses before other uses in cases of emergency.  Requires boards to apply for leases for water from state lands.  Designates a certain number of board members to represent interests for water allocation on Hawaiian home lands.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB549

RELATING TO MEASUREMENT STANDARDS.

Transfers the oversight and regulation of measurement standards in the State from the department of agriculture to the department of commerce and consumer affairs.

 

AGR, CPC, FIN

HB550

RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY.

Requires and establishes deadlines for state facilities, except smaller facilities and facilities at Aloha Stadium, to implement cost-effective energy efficiency measures.  Directs the Hawaii state energy office to collect utility bill and energy usage data for state-owned buildings and to make the data publicly available.  Provides that certain agencies that perform energy efficiency retrofitting may continue to receive appropriations for energy expenditures at an amount that accounts for any costs or debt service for the implementation and management of energy efficiency measures.  Beginning 7/1/2021, requires, where feasible and cost-effective, the design of all new state building construction to maximize energy and water efficiency, maximize energy generation potential, and use building materials that reduce the carbon footprint of the project.

 

EEP/WAL, CPC, FIN

HB551

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO GUARANTEE ALL INDIVIDUALS THE RIGHT TO HAVE A CLEAN AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT.

Proposes a constitutional amendment which guarantees individuals the right to a clean and healthy environment, including pure water, clean air, healthy ecosystems, and a stable climate, and to the preservation of the natural, cultural, scenic and healthful qualities of the environment.  Self-executing.  Clarifies that the rights guaranteed may not be diminished by Article XI, Section 9, of the Constitution.

 

EEP/WAL, JHA, FIN

HB552

RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT.

Establishes clean ground transportation goals for state agencies on a staggered basis until achieving a 100 per cent light-duty motor vehicle clean fleet by 12/31/2035, and all light-duty motor vehicles in the State by 12/31/2045.  Requires the procurement policy for all agencies purchasing or leasing medium- and heavy-duty motor vehicles to seek vehicles that reduce dependence on petroleum-based fuels that meet the needs of the agency, where feasible and cost-effective.  Requires state and county agencies to purchase building materials that reduce the carbon footprint of the project for use on the construction of new roads, where feasible and cost‑effective.

 

EEP/TRN, CPC, FIN

HB553

RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF SHARKS.

Establishes an offense of knowingly capturing, entangling, or killing a shark in state marine waters, and provides penalties and fines.  Provides certain exemptions.

 

AGR, JHA

HB554

RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS.

Beginning 07/01/2022, requires sellers to disclose whether the real property lies within the sea level rise exposure area designated by the Hawaii climate change mitigation and adaptation commission or its successor.

 

WAL, CPC

HB555

RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION.

Requires retailers of household appliances to conspicuously display available energy efficiency rebates funded by the public benefits fee and state-specific energy operation costs.  Requires the public benefits fee administrator to create and update the template to be used by retailers.  Requires the Hawaii state energy office and administrator to give notice to retailers.

 

EEP, ECD, CPC

HB556

RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY.

Requires that the state building code council include voting members with experience and knowledge in building energy efficiency standards and sustainable building, design, construction, and operation.  Requires that the counties amend or adopt their respective building codes and standards based upon the International Energy Conservation Code no later than one year after the adoption of the Hawaii state building energy conservation code.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB557

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Requires the employees' retirement system to reevaluate its investments in coal, oil, natural gas, oil or natural gas services, and pipeline companies and over the next five years, divest of holdings in any companies that have a majority of its holdings invested in fossil fuels, rather than clean renewable energy sources.

 

EEP, LAT, FIN

HB558

RELATING TO CLEAN ENERGY FINANCING.

Creates the clean energy and energy efficiency revolving loan fund in the Hawaii green infrastructure special fund, to be administered by the Hawaii green infrastructure authority.  Amends and expands the purpose of the $50,000,000 revolving sub-fund for state agencies and also includes the electrification of fleet vehicles.  Repeals the building energy efficiency revolving loan fund.  Appropriates loan ceiling.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB559

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Requires lessors of rental motor vehicles to include an option for the lessee in the motor vehicle rental agreement to contribute a sum to DLNR for the preservation and protection of the environment.  Takes effect 1/1/2022.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB560

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Provides for timely review by the public utilities commission in its decision-making process regarding proposed renewable energy projects.  Requires timely completion of the interconnection process by electric public utilities.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB561

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Requires the public utilities commission to determine whether analysis of the effect of the State's reliance on fossil fuels is necessary for proceedings involving water, wastewater, or telecommunications providers on an individual basis.  Provides that the analysis is not required for an electric or gas utility's routine system replacements or determinations that do not directly pertain to capital improvements or operations.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB562

RELATING TO BOTTLED WATER.

Repeals the requirement that noncarbonated bottled water be transported, stored, processed, or bottled through lines or equipment through which only water is passed.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB563

RELATING TO SEX OFFENDERS.

Prohibits a sex offender from residing within two thousand feet of the sex offender's former victim or the victim's immediate family members.  Requires the covered offender to receive approval from the Attorney General prior to a change in address.

 

JHA

HB564

RELATING TO BREAST CANCER SCREENING.

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 breast tomosynthesis.  Defines digital breast tomosynthesis.  Requires health care providers to be reimbursed at rates accurately reflecting the resource costs specific to each service, including any increased resource cost after January 1, 2021.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB565

RELATING TO DIVORCE.

Grants exclusive original jurisdiction in matters of divorce to the family court of the circuit in which an applicant is domiciled at the time the application is filed.  Repeals the requirement that a person be domiciled or physically present in the State for a continuous period of at least six months before completing a divorce. 

 

JHA, FIN

HB566

RELATING TO ABUSE OF FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS.

Adds coercive control between family or household members to the offense of abuse of family or household members as a petty misdemeanor.

 

JHA

HB567

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT.

Requires each department to establish a telework and alternative work schedule policy.  Establishes a minimum percentage of eligible employees who are required to telework or use an alternative work schedule policy.  Where feasible, requires departments to allow employees who act as a caregiver to telework or use an alternative work schedule.

 

LAT, JHA, FIN

HB568

RELATING TO SEX TRAFFICKING.

Authorizes a prosecution for sex trafficking to be commenced at any time.  Includes coercion as a means of committing the offense of sex trafficking.  Makes the solicitation of a minor for sex a strict liability offense of sex trafficking.  Repeals the offense of solicitation of a minor for prostitution.

 

JHA

HB569

RELATING TO VICTIM-COUNSELOR PRIVILEGE.

Expands the victim-counselor privilege under Rule 505.5 of the Hawaii Rules of Evidence to include confidential advocates employed by the university of Hawaii.

 

HET, JHA, FIN

HB570

RELATING TO SEXUAL ABUSE OF MINORS.

Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse must be initiated.  Extends the period during which a victim of childhood sexual abuse may bring an otherwise time-barred action against the victim's abuser or an entity having a duty of care.  Allows recovery of treble damages in certain circumstances.  Prohibits settlement agreements and court orders that restrict disclosure of certain information.  Provides for training on trauma-informed response.  Applies retroactively to 4/24/2020.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB571

RELATING TO CHILDLIKE SEX DOLLS.

Establishes the felony offense of importation, sale, or possession of a childlike sex doll.

 

CPC, JHA

HB572

RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY.

Specifies that the Hawaii emergency management agency is an administratively attached agency to, rather than established within, the department of defense.  Requires the governor to appoint the administrator of the Hawaii emergency management agency.

 

PDP, FIN

HB573

RELATING TO FEDERAL FUNDS.

Appropriates federal funds for COVID-19 response.  Requires funding of certain programs to be paid for from the county share.

 

PDP, FIN

HB574

RELATING TO DISASTER RELIEF.

Shortens the time for reporting the purpose of any allotment or expenditure of fund moneys.  Requires federal disaster relief funds to lapse to the general fund if not expended within five years.  Repeals language authorizing the DOE to retain federal disaster relief funds.  Repeals language requiring unspent funds to be rolled over.  Requires annual reports to the legislature on federal disaster relief funds.

 

PDP, EDN, FIN

HB575

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-second representative district.

 

FIN

HB576

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

Authorizes licensed physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses to perform certain abortions.

 

HHH, CPC, JHA

HB577

RELATING TO VETERANS.

Short form bill relating to veterans.

 

CMV

HB578

RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS.

Short form bill relating to military affairs.

 

CMV

HB579

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Short form bill relating to corrections.

 

CMV

HB580

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Short form bill relating to public safety.

 

CMV

HB581

RELATING TO COMMERCIAL TENANT PROTECTION.

Prohibits a commercial landlord from initiating or continuing any action to evict or collect unpaid rent from a commercial tenant that has been adversely impacted by the economic effects of COVID-19 or official measures intended to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.  Sunsets 7/1/2022.

 

PDP/ECD, CPC, FIN

HB582

RELATING TO PREFERENCES UNDER THE PROCUREMENT CODE.

Establishes a preference under the procurement code for employers who pledge to hire individuals with disabilities when contracting for goods, services, or construction through competitive sealed bidding, competitive sealed proposals, or both.

 

GVR/ECD, CPC, FIN

HB583

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING.

Short form bill relating to campaign spending.

 

GVR

HB584

RELATING TO ETHICS.

Short form bill relating to ethics.

 

GVR

HB585

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY.

Short form bill relating to government efficiency.

 

GVR

HB586

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT REFORM.

Short form bill relating to government reform.

 

GVR

HB587

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Short form bill relating to procurement.

 

GVR

HB588

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION.

Establishes the Lipoa point special management area and a visitor fee to be used for the management and maintenance of the Lipoa point special management area and to educate visitors of the stewardship activities being funded by the visitor fees. Creates the Lipoa point special management area special fund.  Requires reports to the legislature.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB589

RELATING TO CHILD VISITATION.

Requires a finding that denial of reasonable grandparent visitation rights would cause significant harm to a child as a condition of awarding grandparent visitation rights.  Clarifies procedures for an order awarding reasonable grandparent visitation rights.  Specifies that a violation of the terms and conditions of the order is punishable as contempt of court.

 

HHH, JHA

HB590

RELATING TO DIGITAL MEDIA.

Defines digital media account.  Prohibits contracts that prohibit, limit, or restrict the transfer of a digital media account upon the account holder's death.  Provides for the transfer of a decedent's digital media account to a devisee or heir.

 

HET, CPC, JHA

HB591

RELATING TO FIDUCIARY ACCESS TO DIGITAL ASSETS.

Gives various types of fiduciaries access to the digital assets of the principal.

 

HET, CPC, JHA

HB592

RELATING TO UTILITIES.

Requires the public utilities commission to explore, through its docket process, the feasibility of relocating above-ground electrical transmission lines and distribution lines underground in high-risk areas on the island of Maui.  Requires the public utilities commission to submit a report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2022.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB593

RELATING TO ALCOHOL.

Expands the definition of "beer" to specify an alcohol by volume of no less than 0.5 percent and to include alcoholic seltzer beverages.

 

ECD, CPC

HB594

RELATING TO BUSINESS.

Requires any taxpayer claiming an income tax credit to submit documentation verifying that seventy-five per cent of the applicant's employees are residents of Hawaii, including proof of residency for each qualifying employee through a state-issued identification card and two other acceptable documents as determined by the director of taxation.

 

ECD, JHA, FIN

HB595

RELATING TO SEA LEVEL RISE.

Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to further address and make recommendations regarding sea level rise.  Appropriates funds.

 

WAL/EEP, FIN

HB596

RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS.

Requires a vulnerable coastal property purchaser statement to be executed by the purchaser or transferee with the sale or transfer of vulnerable coastal real estate.  Requires filing of statement with Bureau of Conveyances.

 

WAL, CPC

HB597

RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS.

Requires that mandatory seller disclosures in real estate transactions include identification of residential real properties lying within the sea level rise exposure area.  Effective 1/1/2022.

 

WAL, CPC

HB598

RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS.

Establishes the offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products.  Includes e-liquid and electronic smoking devices within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law.  Increases the license fee for persons engaged as a wholesaler or dealer of cigarettes and tobacco products.  Increases the retail tobacco permit fee for retailers engaged in the retail sale of cigarettes and tobacco products.  Allocates a portion of funds collected from excise taxes on tobacco products to health education and prevention programs concerning the risks and dangers of the use of electronic smoking devices for youth.  Repeals certain provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to electronic smoking devices.  Effective January 1, 2022.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB599

RELATING TO ASSOCIATION GOVERNANCE.

Specifies notice requirements for a regular annual or special meeting of a cooperative housing corporation.  Allows the annual meetings and election of board members of cooperative housing corporations, planned community associations, and condominium associations to be conducted by videoconferencing in the event of a pandemic or other similar unforeseen circumstance that prevents owners from physically gathering for a meeting.

 

CPC

HB600

RELATING TO THE MINIMUM WAGE.

Increases the minimum wage annually starting 1/1/2022.  Beginning on September 30, 2026, and each year thereafter, requires the department of labor and industrial relations to calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate to the nearest five cents using the Honolulu region consumer price index for all urban consumers, subject to certain conditions.  Repeals the tip credit.

 

LAT, FIN

HB601

RELATING TO THE TRAFFIC CODE.

Amends the statewide traffic code to allow for the chairperson of the BLNR and county chiefs of police to designate state or county employees or contractors to issue citations for traffic violations.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB602

RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES.

Amends the procedure of transferring the title or ownership interest in a vehicle.  Requires the transferor, or transferor's representative with the appropriate documentation, and transferee to be appear in person before the clerk of the respective county department of motor vehicles to execute the transfer of title.  Exempts licensed dealers from appearing in person with the transferee to execute such transfer.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB603

RELATING TO THE MINIMUM WAGE.

Repeals the exemption of persons with disabilities from minimum wage requirements.  Takes effect on 1/1/2022.

 

LAT, FIN

HB604

RELATING TO VISION ZERO.

Requires the Department of Transportation to implement a vision zero program in Hawaii by 7/1/2022.  Establishes a goal of no traffic fatalities or serious injuries by 2030.

 

TRN, JHA, FIN

HB605

RELATING TO HOUSING SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.

Establishes the procedures for a housing savings account system for all employees in the State.

 

HSG, CPC, FIN

HB606

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds with the funds to be deposited into the dwelling unit revolving fund and the rental housing revolving fund.

 

HSG, FIN

HB607

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Establishes the ALOHA homes program to develop low-cost homes on state-owned and county-owned land in urban redevelopment sites to be sold in leasehold by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) to qualified residents.  Exempts certain land from the definition of public lands.  Requires HHFDC to gain legislative approval before disposing of certain lands.  Requires HHFDC to transfer a number of ALOHA homes units to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands or Office of Hawaiian Affairs.  Provides for the disposition of lands acquired by HHFDC but no longer needed for the ALOHA homes program.  Requires HHFDC to develop an ALOHA homes demonstration project by July 1, 2026.  Appropriates funds.

 

HSG/WAL, JHA, FIN

HB608

RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Requires the board of education to hold no less than six community forums annually, with at least one forum in each county.  Requires the board to include an open forum for public comments on non-agenda items.  Requires a report to the Legislature on implementing open forums.

 

EDN, JHA

HB609

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Authorizes supplemental categorical funding for remote schools.  Appropriates funds.

 

EDN/HET, FIN

HB610

RELATING TO GARDENS.

Authorizes the Department of Education to develop programs to encourage the development of gardens on school property. Authorizes the Hawaii Community Development Authority to develop programs that provide incentives to establish gardens in housing projects, communities, and schools. 

 

EDN, WAL, FIN

HB611

RELATING TO EDUCATION FUNDING.

Establishes maintenance of effort provisions.  Establishes a public education stabilization trust fund.  Makes appropriations.

 

EDN, FIN

HB612

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires the superintendent to serve as the summer learning coordinator and coordinate all summer programs for children.  Requires the summer learning coordinator to leverage certain federal funds for school-based summer programs.

 

EDN, FIN

HB613

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Short form bill relating to education.

 

EDN

HB614

RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.

Short form bill relating to early learning opportunities.

 

EDN

HB615

RELATING TO INTERNET ACCESS.

Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to develop a plan to ensure that all communities in the State having schools receiving federal Title I education funds have high-speed broadband internet access.

 

HET/EDN, CPC, FIN

HB616

RELATING TO BROADBAND ACCESS.

Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to conduct a study on the state of broadband access in all public housing projects in the State.  Requires the Public Housing Authority to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the legislature prior to the convening of the regular session of 2022.  Authorizes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to request assistance from the Legislative Reference Bureau as may be necessary.

 

HSG, HET, FIN

HB617

RELATING TO HOTELS.

Requires the Hawaii emergency management agency and Hawaii tourism authority to implement a program to provide complimentary hotels rooms to certain healthcare workers and first responders who are at a higher risk of exposure to COVID‑19 and who want to limit the possibility of exposing their respective households and families to COVID-19.

 

PDP/LAT, CPC, FIN

HB618

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires the department of education to ensure that the department's annual budget request to the legislature includes adequate funding for Hawaiian education.  Requires the university of Hawaii board of regents to make support of Hawaiian education partnerships a benchmark when developing the university's annual budget request.

 

EDN/HET, JHA, FIN

HB619

RELATING TO ETHNIC STUDIES.

Requires public school students to complete a course in ethnic studies.  Requires the superintendent of education to develop a model curriculum in ethnic studies, circulate the curriculum for public comment, and obtain approval of the curriculum from the board of education.

 

EDN, FIN

HB620

RELATING TO LEGAL PERSONHOOD STATUS.

Establishes a means of determining which physical sites, geographical features, and natural resources having historical, cultural, or religious significance to native Hawaiians should be granted special protection by securing legal personhood status for these places and resources.  Designates the aha moku advisory committee as the lead agency to coordinate this effort.  Requires the department of land and natural resources to adopt rules no later than 12/31/2023.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB621

RELATING TO THE OAHU COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER SITE.

Establishes the Oahu community correctional center site redevelopment working group to bring together state and county agencies, private entities, and the broader Kalihi community to examine how to best utilize the Oahu community correctional center site and the surrounding area after the correctional center is relocated to a new location and identify, work through, and recommend solutions to issues relating to the redevelopment.

 

CMV, JHA, FIN

HB622

RELATING TO BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY.

Requires the Hawaii technology development corporation to establish a blockchain working group to recommend a definition for blockchain technology and make recommendations for individuals, businesses, and state agencies to use blockchain technology and report to the legislature.  Appropriates funds.

 

HET, FIN

HB623

RELATING TO THE BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP MUSEUM.

Appropriates federal funds to support the work of the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

 

CAI, JHA, FIN

HB624

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Lowers conveyance tax rates for properties with a value under $2,000,000.  Increases conveyance tax rates for investment properties.  Requires a percentage of conveyance taxes collected to be deposited into the housing finance revolving fund.  Effective 1/1/2022.

 

WAL/HSG, FIN

HB625

RELATING TO THE FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTS.

Extends the date on which the temporary commission on the thirteenth festival of pacific arts shall cease to exist to August 31, 2025.  Permits the commission members to discuss matters relating to official board business without regard to chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to enable them to perform their duties faithfully.

 

CAI, JHA, FIN

HB626

RELATING TO WATER CIRCULATION.

Requires the department of health to establish a two-year pilot project to test Tier 1 beaches for Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus not less than monthly.  Requires a report to the legislature before the regular sessions of 2022, 2023, and 2024.

 

HHH, WAL, FIN

HB627

RELATING TO SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES.

Authorizes the issuance of special number electric vehicle license plates to commemorate the Polynesian Voyaging Society.

 

CAI, FIN

HB628

RELATING TO THE COMPOSITION OF THE STATE COUNCIL ON MENTAL HEALTH.

Requires that at least 3 members of the state council on mental health have demonstrated knowledge of or work experience involving Native Hawaiian concepts of well-being, culturally-grounded mental health methodologies, or traditional healing or health practices.

 

HHH, JHA, CPC

HB629

RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Establishes an enforcement division in the department of the attorney general.  Transfers to the department of the attorney general enforcement division the law enforcement activities of the department of land and natural resources, division of conservation and resources enforcement; the department of public safety state law enforcement officers and the narcotics enforcement division; and the department of transportation harbors division.  Specifies the persons authorized to serve civil legal process.  Mandates the attorney general to maintain a list of independent civil process servers.  Shields the State and the department of the attorney general from liability arising from the acts of independent civil process servers.  Effective 7/1/2022.

 

JHA, FIN

HB630

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Includes e-liquid and electronic smoking devices within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law.  Establishes a tax of twenty per cent for the wholesale price for electronic smoking devices and 10 cents for each milliliter of e-liquid.  Allocates a portion of funds collected on excise taxes on electronic smoking devices and e‑liquids to the trauma system special fund, community health centers special fund, and emergency medical services special fund.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB631

RELATING TO FINANCIAL HARDSHIP.

Provides judges with greater discretion to adjust the amount owed or financial circumstances by a person who violates certain traffic offenses based on the person's inability to pay.  Decreases the imprisonment term to contumacious nonpayment ratio.  Increases the amount of credit given to a person committed for contumacious nonpayment.

 

JHA, FIN

HB632

RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Limits monthly rent increases for certain dwelling units to an unspecified per cent for the term of the rental agreement or every 12 months, whichever period is longer.  Prohibits rent increases due to the landlord's negative cash flow resulting from refinancing or purchasing the rental dwelling unit.  Establishes a rent stabilization advisory working group to advise on matters relating to the stabilization of certain dwelling unit rental amounts.  Requires the legislative reference bureau to conduct a study on actions that other states have taken to incentivize landlords to stabilize rents.

 

HSG, CPC, FIN

HB633

RELATING TO VOTING.

Lowers the age of voting in state and local elections from eighteen to sixteen years of age.  Lowers the age of preregistration.

 

JHA, FIN

HB634

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS.

Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to open at least one office in each county for claimants wishing to file for unemployment insurance in person.  Requires state library employees to minimally assist claimants wishing to file for unemployment insurance using public access computers at the library.  Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to hire or reassign staff to increase capacity of processing unemployment insurance claims.  Requires the department to complete its computer upgrade and modification project within six months of this Acts passage.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB635

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Sets the maximum weekly benefit amount at seventy-five per cent of the average weekly wage from June 1, 2021 to December 31, 2023.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB636

RELATED TO THE SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY REVIEW BOARD.

Appropriation for staffing, commissioner inter-island travel, and other related operating expenses associated with the small business regulatory review board under the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

 

ECD, FIN

HB637

RELATING TO FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT.

Allows greater flexibility in conditions placed on eligibility requirements for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit.  Amends the amount of the total tax credit that may be claimed per qualified production.  Amends the annual aggregate cap placed on the amount of the tax credits that may be claimed by qualified productions. 

 

ECD, FIN

HB638

RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX EXEMPTIONS.

Exempts certain foods, medical services, and feminine hygiene products from the general excise tax.

 

ECD, FIN

HB639

RELATING TO IOLANI PALACE.

Phases out parking of motor vehicles on the grounds of Iolani Palace.  Requires DAGS to remove the blacktop, parking area, and parking meters adjacent to Iolani Palace.  Requires DLNR to develop and maintain a pedestrian area adjacent to Iolani Palace.  Requires DAGS and DLNR to report cost analysis to the legislature.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB640

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Requires bidders for construction contracts to submit the final list of all joint contractors and subcontractors no later than five days after the bid submission deadline.

 

CPC, FIN

HB641

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Provides a process for associations to incorporate power of sale language into governing documents.  Clarifies that the explicit grant of power of sale to associations is not required for the purposes of enforcing association liens under the association alternate power of sale foreclosure process.

 

CPC, FIN

HB642

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT.

Requires a hotel employer to recall the same number of employees in substantially the same classification as the employer's active workforce as of 3/1/2020.  Requires certain laid-off employees to be offered job positions as they become available, under certain terms and conditions.  Prohibits an employer from retaliatory actions against employees who exercise their right to recall.  Establishes the rights of employers and employees under the right of recall law.

 

PDP/LAT, JHA, FIN

HB643

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

Makes interfering with an essential worker during an emergency a felony.  Defines essential worker.

 

PDP/LAT, JHA, FIN

HB644

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO REQUIRE THE REAPPORTIONMENT COMMISSION TO ESTABLISH A REAPPORTIONMENT PLAN TO DRAW DISTRICT LINES FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

Amends the State Constitution to require the Reapportionment Commission to establish a reapportionment plan to draw district lines for the total number of members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

JHA, FIN

HB645

RELATING TO GIFT REPORTING.

Exempts expenditures for meals or beverages with a total value of under $25 from reporting requirements when provided to a public official at an informational meeting or presentation or goodwill event with non-lobbyists.

 

GVR, JHA, FIN

HB646

RELATING TO STATE LAW.

Short form bill relating to state law.

 

JHA

HB647

RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY.

Short form bill relating to the Judiciary.

 

JHA

HB648

RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

Short form bill relating to Hawaiian affairs.

 

JHA

HB649

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Short form bill relating to the department of the attorney general.

 

JHA

HB650

RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE.

Short form bill relating to the penal code.

 

JHA

HB651

RELATING TO THE USE OF INTOXICANTS WHILE OPERATING A VEHICLE.

Lowers the threshold blood alcohol concentration for the offense of operating a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant.

 

JHA

HB652

RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM JURY DUTY.

Exempts active members of the Hawaii emergency management agency and county emergency management agencies from jury duty.

 

JHA, FIN

HB653

RELATING TO PAYMENTS OF SUPPORT.

Includes tips or gratuities paid directly to an individual by a customer of the employer and reported or declared to the employer under the definition of income used to calculate payments of child or spousal support.

 

LAT, JHA, FIN

HB654

RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.

Establishes that every judgment for child support is enforceable until paid in full.

 

JHA, FIN

HB655

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Allows the elections commission to refer a complaint to the attorney general or county prosecutor in addition to any administrative determination and without the requirement that the commission believes the respondent has recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally committed a violation.  Disqualifies a person convicted of violating elections criminal prosecution laws from holding elective public office for ten years rather than four.  Repeals language stipulating that elections criminal prosecution law does not apply to any persons who has paid or agrees to pay fines related to report filing violations and advertisement violations prior to the commencement of the proceedings.

 

JHA, FIN

HB656

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Excludes from the definition of "advertisement" communications on clothing and other attire associated with a candidate's candidate committee.  Removes clothing, other attire, yard signs, and sundry items and advertisements made by a candidate or candidate's candidate committee from electioneering communication reporting requirements.

 

GVR, JHA, FIN

HB657

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Authorizes the department of the attorney general to develop and implement a state program to allow active and retired law enforcement officers to carry a concealed firearm in the State pursuant to the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004.  Makes a conforming amendment to state firearm laws.

 

JHA, FIN

HB658

RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

Amends the process for electing members to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees.  Requires the Reapportionment Commission to establish a reapportionment plan based on basic island units for the members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs so that they are elected according to their respective districts, rather than an at-large statewide election for each seat.

 

JHA, FIN

HB659

RELATING TO PROPERTY FORFEITURE.

Restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a felony offense where the property owner has been convicted of an underlying felony offense.  Directs any forfeiture proceeds to the general fund.

 

JHA, FIN

HB660

RELATING TO POLITICAL ADVERTISING.

Prohibits the microtargeting of political advertisements on television and social media based on online behavioral data, demographic characteristics, and geographic location below the electoral district level.

 

GVR, JHA, FIN

HB661

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Authorizes the use of aerial devices and consumer fireworks, including firecrackers, at any time without a permit.  Imposes a 25% tax on all fireworks, aerial devices, and articles pyrotechnic.

 

CPC, JHA, FIN

HB662

RELATING TO FIREARM OWNERSHIP.

Provide an extensive process for limited firearm ownership for hunting or sport only for certain misdemeanor offenders who are currently not allowed to possess a firearm in the State.

 

JHA, FIN

HB663

RELATING TO THE GAME MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION.

Amends the manner of appointment of members to the game management advisory commission.

 

WAL, JHA

HB664

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

Increases the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000 for violations of emergency rules prescribed and promulgated pursuant to Chapter 127A, HRS, and having the force and effect of law when the noncompliance jeopardizes the health or safety of government personnel having "emergency worker" status.

 

PDP, JHA, FIN

HB665

RELATING TO LIFEGUARDS.

Establishes an exception to liability for a person qualified as a county lifeguard and the lifeguard's employing county if the lifeguard renders rescue, resuscitative, or other lifeguard services without remuneration or expectation of remuneration on a beach or in the ocean while in the scope of employment as a county lifeguard, for civil damages resulting from the person's acts or omissions while providing rescue, resuscitative, or other lifeguard services, except for damages that may result from the person's gross negligence or wanton acts or omissions.

 

JHA, FIN

HB666

RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Establishes a private cause of action for persons injured by the deprivation of rights under the United States Constitution or the Hawaii Constitution by law enforcement officers.  Requires that employers of law enforcement officers indemnify officers for judgments or settlements arising from that cause of action over a certain amount.  Requires political subdivisions of the State who employ law enforcement officers to publicly disclose a list of officers against whom a judgment or settlement is entered as well as the amount of the judgment or settlement and any disciplinary actions or criminal charges brought against the officer.

 

JHA, FIN

HB667

RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS.

Authorizes the department of health to issue medical cannabis delivery permits and medical cannabis transporter licenses for the delivery of medical cannabis and manufactured cannabis products to qualifying patients if certain conditions are met.  Increases the allowable number of retail dispensing locations and cannabis plants per dispensary license.  Allows a licensed dispensary to purchase medical cannabis or manufactured cannabis products from another licensed dispensary, with department approval, in the event of a crop failure or an inability to meet product demand or to provide more product diversity.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB668

RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

Requires the department of health to submit a request for an exception to regulations and a petition to initiate proceedings for federal rulemaking to the drug enforcement administration to clarify that the state-authorized use of cannabis does not violate federal controlled substances laws.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB669

RELATING TO LIABILITY.

Provides that the State or a county that repairs or maintains a street of which the ownership or jurisdiction is in dispute between the State and the county shall be immune from liability for personal injuries or property damage arising out of the repair or maintenance of that street.  Deems that maintenance of a street shall not confer ownership or jurisdiction over such street if the ownership or jurisdiction over the street is in dispute between the State and the county.

 

TRN, WAL, JHA

HB670

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Authorizes forfeiture of certain ERS benefits, pursuant to court order, for state or county employees and designated beneficiaries who are convicted of an employment-related felony.

 

LAT, JHA, FIN

HB671

RELATING TO THE CODE OF ETHICS.

Prohibits certain state officials and employees from representing certain interests before the State for 12 months after termination from their respective positions.  Effective 1/1/2022.

 

GVR, JHA

HB672

RELATING TO THE STATE ETHICS CODE.

Amends certain parts of the conflicts of interests law in the state ethics code to include members of the legislature.  Clarifies that the conflicts of interests law does not prohibit legislators from introducing legislation, serving on a committee, making statements, or taking action in the exercise of their legislative functions.

 

GVR, JHA

HB673

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Requires an election discussion group to submit recommendations to the legislature regarding election law.  Amends election day registration and voting procedures for an individual who is not registered to vote before election day to authorize the clerk to give the individual a provisional ballot instead of a regular ballot under certain circumstances.  Requires ballot package instructions to inform voters of the availability of translated ballot materials.  Allows for counting of timely-postmarked ballots if they are received by the clerk within 5 business days of an election.  Restricts electronic transmission of votes to certain military voters.  Improves availability of voter service centers and places of deposit.  Increases penalty for campaigning at or near voter service centers and places of deposit.  Specifically includes lines at voter service centers and places of deposit in the area in which loitering and campaigning are prohibited.

 

JHA, FIN

HB674

RELATING TO ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS.

Limits electioneering communication disclosure requirements to noncandidate committees.

 

JHA

HB675

RELATING TO COMMUNITY MEETINGS.

Specifies that the limit on the number of attendees at an informational meeting or presentation that is open to the public on matters relating to official board business does not apply to members of a county council.

 

JHA, FIN

HB676

RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES.

Requires the OIP director to rule or provide guidance on an agency denial of access to, or granting of access to, information or records.  Requires the OIP director to receive and resolve complaints under Hawaii's sunshine law either by determining whether a violation occurred or providing guidance.

 

JHA, FIN

HB677

RELATING TO THE SUNSHINE LAW.

Allows boards to use interactive conference technology to remotely conduct public meetings under the sunshine law and outlines the requirements for such meetings.  Allows boards to require information for purposes of contact tracing in times of emergency due to a contagious disease.  Allows for the holding of in-person meetings at multiple sites connected by interactive conference technology.  Requires that notices include the board's electronic and postal contact information.

 

PDP, JHA, FIN

HB678

RELATING TO STATE HOLIDAYS.

Recognizes La Ku‘oko‘a, Hawaiian Recognition Day, as an official state holiday.  Removes election day as an official state holiday.

 

CAI, JHA, FIN

HB679

RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIAN BENEFICIARIES.

Requires the department of Hawaiian home lands to digitize its applicant, beneficiary, and lessee records.  Requires that the digital database be completed and available for use no later than July 1, 2022.

 

HET, JHA, FIN

HB680

RELATING TO HUMAN REMAINS.

Allows the use of traditional Hawaiian burial practices in the treatment and disposal of human remains, which includes the use of alkaline hydrolysis, water cremation, and natural organic reduction.  Amends procedures for the resolution of disputes regarding the right of disposition, right to rely and act upon written instructions in a funeral service agreement or similar documents, and provisions for the disposition of a decedent's remains and recovery of reasonable expenses to include hydrolysis facilities and natural organic reduction facilities.

 

HHH, JHA, CPC

HB681

RELATING TO MANAGEMENT OF STATE FUNDS.

Establishes linked investments to provide loan funds for agriculture and authorizes the State to invest in linked investments.  Appropriates funds to the department of budget and finance to hire one position to administer the linked investment program.

 

AGR, ECD, FIN

HB682

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes a task force in the department of taxation to discuss the need to rebalance and repurpose the tax programs created by the general excise tax, income tax, and property tax laws.

 

FIN

HB683

RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUEL.

Establishes the sustainable aviation fuel program to provide matching grants to any small business in Hawaii that is developing products related to sustainable aviation fuel or commercial aviation operations greenhouse gas reduction.  Specifies moneys for the program are from legislative appropriations out of the environmental response, energy, and food security tax.

 

ECD, CPC, FIN

HB684

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes an income tax credit for the conversion of gasoline-powered buses to hydrogen-powered buses or the purchase of new hydrogen-powered buses.

 

EEP, FIN

HB685

RELATING TO RAW MILK.

Authorizes the direct sale of raw milk and raw milk products to consumers, with certain restrictions.  Specifies labeling requirements for raw milk and raw milk products.

 

AGR, CPC, FIN

HB686

RELATING TO CRITICAL ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

Establishes the offense of criminal trespass on critical electrical infrastructure and makes it a class C felony.

 

HET, JHA

HB687

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Directs the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to take title to a specified 15.418-acre parcel in Honokaa, Hawaii county, if the corporation finds, after its due diligence, that the parcel is suitable for residential development.  Specifies that the corporation is responsible for documenting any change in title.  Requires the corporation to conduct a feasibility study.  Appropriates funds for the feasibility study.

 

WAL, HSG, FIN

HB688

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST KEAHOLE HOTEL & SUITES LLC.

Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Keahole Hotel & Suites LLC with planning, designing, constructing, and equipping facilities for a hotel at the Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole.

 

TRN, FIN

HB689

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST HOUSE OF ALOHA ENTERPRISES LLC.

Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist the House of Aloha Enterprises LLC, with planning, designing, constructing, and equipping facilities for the manufacturing and processing of certain products.

 

ECD, FIN

HB690

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 1, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO REQUIRE THAT THE STATEWIDE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM BE THOROUGH AND EFFICIENT.

Proposes an amendment to article X, section 1, of the Hawaii State Constitution to require that the statewide public school system be thorough and efficient.

 

EDN, JHA, FIN

HB691

RELATING TO CAMPUS SAFETY.

Requires UH to provide training on the impacts of trauma for employees responsible for investigating incidents and assisting victims of sexual and domestic violence.  Improves access for confidential support services.  Requires UH to annually distribute information about sexual and domestic violence prevention and disclosure protocols to students and employees.  To the extent possible, requires a private college or university to implement identical campus safety and accountability standards to those applicable to UH.

 

HET, JHA, FIN

HB692

RELATING TO SEX TRAFFICKING PREVENTION.

Requires the department of education to offer training for teachers, educational officers, and school-based behavioral health specialists on sex trafficking prevention and response.

 

EDN, JHA, FIN

HB693

RELATING TO MAUNA KEA.

Establishes legal personhood for Mauna Kea.  Requires the board of land and natural resources and board of regents of the University of Hawaii to provide certain information prior to approving any use, activity, lease, license, permit, or easement on Mauna Kea.  Establishes the Mauna Kea legal personhood working group to review measures enacted by various jurisdictions to protect the rights of nature.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB694

RELATING TO TARO.

Establishes an exemption from state income tax for the first $100,000 of income derived from taro, taro products, and land used to produce taro if the total amount of land used to cultivate taro in Hawaii does not exceed thirty thousand acres at any point in the year.

 

AGR, FIN

HB695

RELATING TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

Establishes the center to combat human trafficking, including a centralized database, within the department of the attorney general.  Makes the solicitation of a minor for sex a strict liability offense of sex trafficking.  Appropriates funds for the establishment of the center to combat human trafficking.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB696

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS.

Adds definitions of "biomass" and "fossil fuels", and amends the definition of "power generating facility" for purposes of environmental impact statements.

 

EEP, JHA, FIN

HB697

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Excludes from state income tax a certain amount of income received after 4/1/2020, from unemployment compensation benefits or pandemic unemployment assistance.  Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2019.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB698

RELATING TO MATERNAL HEALTH.

Requires the department of human services to collect and report data on severe maternal morbidity incidents, disaggregated by county, race, and ethnicity.  Establishes a maternal disparity and health equity task force to make recommendations on reducing maternal morbidity and improving maternal health outcomes for women, particularly women of color.  Requires the task force to submit an initial report to the legislature no later than 6/30/2022 and an annual report prior to each regular session.  Requires the department of human services to develop and the Hawaii state commission on the status of women to administer implicit bias training for health care professionals in perinatal facilities.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB699

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANIES.

Establishes requirements and permitting procedures for transportation network companies operating in the State.  Makes permanent insurance requirements for transportation network companies and transportation network drivers.

 

CPC, FIN

HB700

RELATING TO PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS.

Requires the disability and communications access board to establish within the disability and communications access board special fund an accessible parking special account.  Authorizes the use of moneys in the special account to cover the costs to administer the statewide parking program for persons with disabilities.  Increases the annual vehicle registration fee for vehicles and motor vehicles other than electric and alternative fuel vehicles.  Requires that $1 of the annual vehicle registration fee be deposited into the special account.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB701

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-FIFTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-fifth representative district.

 

FIN

HB702

RELATING TO FARM TO SCHOOL PROCUREMENT.

Requires the department of education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally raised food products.  Except for the provision relating to Hawaii products, exempts the department's food program from the Hawaii public procurement code.

 

AGR, EDN, FIN

HB703

RELATING TO MAUNA KEA.

Prohibits any new or ground-disturbing development, except for the decommissioning of telescopes or for native Hawaiian traditional and cultural purposes, on conservation lands of the Mauna Kea summit at 6,000 feet above sea level and higher.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB704

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Transfers the procurement compliance audit unit from the office of the auditor to the state procurement office.  Requires the state procurement office to establish a database of all government procurement contracts, accessible to each governmental entity.  Requires state procurement office oversight of procurement information.  Appropriates funds to establish the database and for related positions.

 

HET, CPC, FIN

HB705

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-sixth representative district.

 

FIN

HB706

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST WAHIAWA GENERAL HOSPITAL.

Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for long-term debt restructuring of Wahiawa general hospital.

 

HHH, FIN

HB707

RELATING TO NORTH ROAD.

Establishes a task force within the department of transportation to research and make recommendations on ways to mitigate the dangers of North Road, the cost to transfer ownership of the road to the city and county of Honolulu, and other appropriate solutions that may be considered.

 

TRN, JHA, FIN

HB708

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTIETH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 40th representative district.

 

FIN

HB709

RELATING TO DISABLED VETERANS.

Exempts qualified disabled veterans from the annual vehicle weight tax.

 

CMV, FIN

HB710

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Authorizes county police chiefs to issue permits to acquire firearms to U.S. nationals who otherwise meet all of the applicable criteria under section 134-2, HRS.

 

JHA, FIN

HB711

RELATING TO SELF-DEFENSE.

Clarifies when force, including deadly force, may be used to protect oneself, one's property, or another person.

 

JHA

HB712

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS.

Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (2) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments and Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.

 

LAT, FIN

HB713

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS.

Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (3) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments and Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.

 

LAT, FIN

HB714

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS.

Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (4) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments and Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.

 

LAT, FIN

HB715

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS.

Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (6) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments and Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.

 

LAT, FIN

HB716

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS.

Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (8) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments and Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.

 

LAT, FIN

HB717

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Includes autocycles equipped with handlebars in the definition of motorcycle in the Hawaii Safety Act.  Exempts motorcycles and motor scooters with partially enclosed cabs from the safety helmet requirement.

 

TRN, CPC

HB718

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires the department of human services to compile information regarding employers having employees who receive public assistance and to submit an annual report to the legislature on the 50 employers with the highest number of employees receiving public assistance.  Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to share employment data with the department of human services.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB719

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Establishes fixed state registration fees of $150 for all commercial motor vehicles of a certain weight that are used for transporting property and $100 for all other vehicles and motor vehicles in the State.  Repeals the state vehicle weight tax.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB720

RELATING TO SHOPPING CARTS.

Establishes the petty misdemeanor offense of prohibited use of shopping cart in or on a public roadway, sidewalk, or park.

 

HHH, JHA

HB721

RELATED TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

Prohibits the governor from declaring a state of emergency requiring the shutdown of any type of business or operation, or the quarantine of any person, for a period of more than 28 days.  Allows a state of emergency to be extended by periods of 14 days if each extension is approved by a two-thirds vote of each house of the legislature.

 

PDP/ECD, JHA, FIN

HB722

RELATING TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

Establishes a statewide coordinator and program within the department of the attorney general to provide services and assistance to sexually exploited children and victims of human trafficking. Requires the attorney general to submit reports to the legislature. Requires the children's justice program to coordinate the investigation and case management of human trafficking cases, including cases involving the sexual exploitation of children.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB723

RELATING TO PANDEMIC RESPONSE.

Authorizes use of funds appropriated from the emergency and budget reserve fund, from the amounts received by the State from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) Act, for the purchase and distribution of personal protective equipment and industrial hygiene products to state departments and attached agencies.  Effective retroactive to 7/1/2020.

 

PDP/ECD, FIN

HB724

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

Prohibits the application of travel restrictions implemented during a state of emergency or local state of emergency to essential workers unless the application of those travel restrictions to essential workers has first been approved by the governor.  Defines essential workers for this purpose.

 

PDP/ECD, JHA, FIN

HB725

RELATING TO THE VIOLATION OF RULES DURING EMERGENCY PERIODS.

Authorizes the governor and the county mayors to establish lesser petty misdemeanor offenses and violations during emergency periods, including non-criminal infractions.  Establishes an expeditious adjudication system for the processing of emergency period infractions.  Establishes a fine of no less than $50 and no more than $500 for an emergency period infraction, with the amount per infraction to be set by the emergency order.  Makes an appropriation.

 

PDP, JHA, FIN

HB726

RELATING TO FACE COVERINGS.

Requires every person to wear a face covering when in a public setting, subject to certain exceptions.  Establishes a fine for failure to wear a face covering.  Sunsets December 31, 2021.

 

PDP, JHA, FIN

HB727

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires DOH to coordinate public health statistics and other public health data to implement and update a statewide public health planning and public health program development program.  Requires DOH to establish a fee for inspections of public swimming pools.  Increases the annual permit fee and temporary permit fee for tattoo artists.  Increases the fee for certified copies of vital statistic records.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB728

RELATING TO STATEWIDE HEALTH PLANNING.

Provides flexibility in the administering of the statewide language access resource center.

 

HHH, FIN

HB729

RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS.

Reallocates moneys to fund and administer core homelessness services (HMS 224), including the housing first program, rapid re-housing program, family assessment centers, and homeless outreach and civil legal services.

 

HHH, FIN

HB730

RELATING TO HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.

Requires that any provider that is awarded a contract to provide health and human services by a purchasing agency shall be a qualified medicaid provider.  Requires the department of health to provide an explanation of how providers may capture federal medicaid moneys.

 

HHH, FIN

HB731

RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH.

Requires employers to provide employees access to seizure first aid information specified by the department of labor and industrial relations.

 

LAT, FIN

HB732

RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER.

Establishes a Hawaii community correctional center task force within the department of public safety to study and recommend to the legislature a site for a new jail to replace the correctional center's primary facility on three acres in downtown Hilo, Hawaii, and consider alternative governmental uses for the existing site.  Appropriates funds for the task force.

 

CMV, JHA, FIN

HB733

RELATING TO MINORS.

Raises the minimum age to marry from 16 to 18 years of age.  Provides that minors may not marry, even with parental or judicial consent.  Requires family court judges to declare marriage contracts void on the grounds that one or both parties had not attained legal age at the time of marriage.  Removes spousal cohabitation after the parties attained legal age as an exception for an annulment on the grounds that at least one of the parties was not of legal age at the time of the marriage. Allows a court to order the complete or partial emancipation of a minor under certain circumstances.  Makes conforming amendments.

 

HHH, JHA

HB734

RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT.

Requires certain amounts of child support moneys collected by the Department of Human Services for public assistance of a child to pass through to the family receiving public assistance.  Requires the Department of Human Services to disregard passed-through child support payments when calculating the income of an applicant for or recipient of public assistance.  Increases the maximum fine for an employer who discharges from employment, refuses to employ, or takes disciplinary action against any noncustodial parent subject to income withholding or who fails to comply with an order of assignment of future income to pay child support.  Appropriates funds.

 

JHA, FIN

HB735

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the second representative district.

 

FIN

HB736

RELATING TO SPORTS BETTING.

Amends the definition of gambling to exclude digital sports betting on a platform licensed pursuant to state law.  Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism, to develop a pilot program to license businesses in the State to operate digital sports betting platforms.  Provides an amended definition of gambling to be enacted when the pilot program ceases to exist.

 

ECD, JHA, FIN

HB737

RELATING TO VOTERS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.

Establishes voters with special needs advisory committees at the state and county levels to ensure equal and independent access to voter registration, casting of ballots, and all other office of elections services.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB738

RELATING TO ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF BALLOTS.

Provides that a voter with special needs shall be provided a means of electronic authentication of an electronic transmission of replacement ballot that does not include the voter's handwritten signature or a waiver of secrecy.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB739

RELATING TO INFORMATION PRIVACY.

Requires manufacturers of connected devices to equip the devices with reasonable security features regarding information collected, unauthorized access, or the destruction or use of the devices.

 

HET, CPC

HB740

RELATING TO VOTING.

Makes an application for voter registration, including an affidavit, part of all driver license and state identification card applications.  Automatically registers each applicant who elects to be registered to vote, unless the applicant affirmatively declines to be registered to vote.  Requires sharing of information among the counties, department of transportation, and election personnel.

 

JHA, FIN

HB741

RELATING TO ETHICS.

Increases the retention period for certain Hawaii state ethics commission records from 4 years to 5 years.

 

GVR, JHA

HB742

RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

Changes the minimum frequency with which the office of Hawaiian affairs is required to offer training relating to native Hawaiian and Hawaiian traditional and customary rights, natural resources and access rights, and the public trust from twice per year to once per quarter.

 

JHA

HB743

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING.

Excludes expenditures for electioneering communications made by candidates and candidate committees from the requirement to file a statement of information with the campaign spending commission.

 

GVR, JHA

HB744

RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE.

Makes a technical amendment to the elements of the criminal offense of compounding.

 

JHA

HB745

RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Exempts workforce development projects from paying school impact fees for the development of workforce housing if at least 90% of the residential units that are set aside for purchase or rent for residents in the low-income or moderate-income ranges are set aside specifically for public school teachers.

 

EDN, HSG, FIN

HB746

RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Establishes that whenever the infrastructure or equipment for electric utility service is required to be installed underground for affordable housing within an area that has been designated by a county as a transit-oriented development area, it shall be the responsibility of the electric utility company to install the infrastructure or equipment.

 

HSG, CPC, FIN

HB747

RELATING TO CHILDLIKE SEX DOLLS.

Establishes the felony offense of importation, sale, or possession of a childlike sex doll.

 

CPC, JHA

HB748

RELATING TO THE AHA MOKU ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

Repeals the Aha Moku Advisory Committee on July 1, 2021.  Effective 6/30/2021.

 

JHA, FIN

HB749

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Adjusts the method of determining average final compensation by specifying that base pay shall not be reduced by furloughs or pay reductions.

 

LAT, FIN

HB750

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Changes the deadline for in-person late voter registration to the day before the primary election or the day before the general election in which a person intends to vote.

 

JHA, FIN

HB751

RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS.

Changes the date after which: (1) qualifying patients shall only obtain shall obtain medical cannabis or manufactured cannabis products from certain authorized sources; and (2) primary caregivers shall no longer be authorized to cultivate cannabis for any qualifying patient, from 12/31/2023 to 12/31/2021.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB752

RELATING TO SOCIAL SERVICES.

Changes the monthly needs allowance for individuals residing in foster homes, care homes, domiciliary homes, and other long-term care facilities.  Changes the state supplemental payment ceiling for needs allowances for certain individuals.

 

HHH, CPC, FIN

HB753

RELATING TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES.

Excludes housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from school impact fees.

 

WAL, JHA, FIN

HB754

RELATING TO FEES.

Exempts the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from permit and review fees for residential buildings for use by beneficiaries of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended; provided that the department shall comply with applicable building, electrical, plumbing, and fire codes.

 

JHA, CPC

HB755

RELATING TO THE WORKS OF ART SPECIAL FUND.

Excludes appropriations to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for the development of residential buildings from the general requirement that 1% of capital improvement appropriations for state buildings be transferred to the works of art special fund.

 

CAI, JHA, FIN

HB756

RELATING TO THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

Adds a member of the Hawaiian Homes Commission to the Board of Agriculture.

 

AGR, JHA

HB757

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

Adds a member of the Hawaiian Homes Commission to the board of directors of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.  Reduces the number of public members appointed by the governor.

 

ECD, JHA

HB758

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT FOR THE FIFTIETH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for a capital improvement project by the department of education to install a photovoltaic system at Kalaheo high school.

 

FIN

HB759

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Specifies that employees' retirement system payment of refunds and benefits may be paid into individual, joint, and trust accounts of financial institutions.

 

LAT, FIN

HB760

RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS.

Allows the works of art special fund to be used for performing arts, under certain conditions.  Includes posting of a recording of performing art as a form of public display.  Defines performing arts.

 

CAI, FIN

HB761

RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

Exempts income received from unemployment compensation benefits from state income tax.  Effective 1/1/2021.

 

LAT, CPC, FIN

HB762

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-sixth representative district.

 

FIN

HB763

RELATING TO EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATIONS.

Amends Chapter 801K, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide clarification and flexibility in eyewitness identification procedures.

 

JHA

HB764

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS.

Amends the definition of "farm dwelling" that applies to allowable uses in the agricultural district.  Amends certain land subdivision and condominium property regime laws related to agricultural land, as recommended pursuant to Act 278, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019, to ensure agricultural lands that are organized under a condominium property regime are used for agricultural purposes.  Subjects condominium associations that violate section 205-4.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the enforcement authority of the department of commerce and consumer affairs.

 

AGR/WAL, CPC, FIN

HB765

RELATING TO MOBILE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICES.

Appropriates funds for each year of the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium for the Hawaii emergency management agency to acquire mobile communications, water, and power service capabilities that can be deployed to each county as needed.

 

PDP, FIN

HB766

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.

Allows the department of transportation to assess impact fees for the repair or renovation of an unsafe roadway that is used by the public that is a substantial danger to public health and safety.

 

TRN, CPC, FIN

HB767

RELATING TO THE FARM TO SCHOOL PROGRAM.

Moves the Hawaii farm to school program from the department of agriculture to the department of education.  Establishes a programmatic goal for the department of education that at least thirty per cent of food served in public schools shall consist of locally sourced products by 2030.  Creates an annual reporting requirement.

 

AGR, EDN, FIN

HB768

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Establishes a task force within the department of health to identify populations and sub-populations with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in the State who experience burdens in navigating and accessing care services; identify therapies and home and community-based care services that may benefit persons with FASD; identify strategies to reduce the incidence and impact of FASD; and make recommendations for a comprehensive solution, including necessary legislation.  Requires a report to the legislature.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB769

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Designates the month of September as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month to promote public awareness of the risks of alcohol consumption during pregnancy.

 

HHH, JHA

HB770

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Establishes a task force to review and recommend specific actions to ensure that Hawaii's food imports are sourced, transported, stored, and distributed in compliance with the federal Food Safety Modernization Act; and develop specific recommendations to ensure that all foods and brands imported into Hawaii do not mislead or confuse the public.

 

AGR, FIN

HB771

RELATING TO LIQUOR.

Establishes a three-year surcharge on the liquor tax.  Repeals 06/30/2024.

 

CPC, JHA, FIN

HB772

RELATING TO CASINO GAMING.

Grants 10-year license for 1 stand-alone, members-only casino in Waikiki, not in a hotel.  Allows guests 21 years of age or older who register to stay 1 day and night at a hotel on Oahu for each day of admission at $20-per-day pass.  Establishes the Hawaii gaming control commission.  Imposes wagering tax on gross receipts.  Creates the state gaming fund and compulsive gambler program.

 

ECD, JHA, FIN

HB773

RELATING TO DAM AND RESERVOIR SAFETY.

Requires the board of land and natural resources to prepare all studies to determine the safe removal or retirement of a dam or reservoir upon the request of a homeowner association or homeowner of property where a dam or reservoir is situated.

 

WAL, FIN

HB774

RELATING TO DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS.

Establishes the Pulehunui community development authority as an autonomous community development authority under the Hawaii community development authority for the purposes of developing the Pulehunui community development district.  Authorizes the Hawaii community development authority to obtain various forms of federal funding for construction, maintenance, and development projects in the Pulehunui community development district.

 

WAL, FIN

HB775

RELATING TO RENAMING KAHULUI AIRPORT ACCESS ROAD.

Renames Kahului Airport Access Road on Maui as the Mayor Elmer F. Cravalho Way.

 

TRN, JHA

HB776

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST PUEO DEVELOPMENT, LLC.

Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for a master planned development proposed by Pueo Development, LLC, on Hawaiian Home Lands.

 

JHA, FIN

HB777

RELATING TO WORKS OF ART SPECIAL FUND.

Deletes as a source of funds for the works of art special fund appropriations for capital renovations.

 

CAI, FIN

HB778

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires courts and administrative panels, in certain proceedings regarding whether a person is dangerous to self or others, to consider the statements of the person's parents.  Clarifies that a parent who does not reside with a respondent is still a "family member" who may petition for the respondent's entrance into an outpatient treatment program for substance abuse.

 

HHH, JHA

HB779

RELATING TO PESTICIDES.

Requires the department of agriculture, in consultation with the department of health, to develop and implement a one-time pesticide disposal collection program, for a duration to be determined by the department.  Requires the department of agriculture to convene a steering committee to guide and monitor the pesticide disposal collection program.  Increases the civil and criminal penalties for violating the Hawaii pesticides law.   Appropriates moneys.

 

AGR, JHA, FIN

HB780

RELATING TO THE AHA MOKU ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

Requires that the Executive Director of the Aha Moku Advisory Committee shall be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate with a term limit of four years.

 

JHA, FIN

HB781

RELATING TO STUDENT JOURNALISM.

Establishes freedom of press protections for student journalists producing school-sponsored media or university-sponsored media unless subject to certain exceptions.

 

EDN/HET, JHA

HB782

RELATING TO LICENSING.

Allows a person who: is married to an active duty member in the military; accompanies his or her spouse on a permanent change of station to Hawaii; and holds a current, unencumbered license in another jurisdiction in specific professions to apply for licensure on an expedited basis in the State of Hawaii.

 

CMV, CPC

HB783

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PROBATE CODE.

Requires a personal representative of a decedent appointed under the Uniform Probate Code to notify the police department of the appropriate county of any and all firearms in an estate.  Requires the police department to certify that all registered firearms in an estate and other firearms of which the police department has been notified are properly transferred or disposed of before the estate may close.

 

JHA, FIN

HB784

RELATING TO TRESPASS.

Clarifies that when trespass involves public land, all law enforcement officers shall enforce trespass laws, without regard to whether the land is owned by the State or by a county.

 

JHA

HB785

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Establishes the offense of a loaded firearm while intoxicated as a petty misdemeanor.

 

JHA

HB786

RELATING TO THE FOOD WASTE RECYCLING.

Establishes a task force in the office of planning to study the feasibility of developing and implementing a food waste recycling and safe disposal program.  Requires a report to the legislature.

 

EEP, HHH, FIN

HB787

RELATING TO QUALIFIED COMMUNITY REHABILITATION PROGRAMS.

Allows community rehabilitation programs for persons with disabilities to be considered qualified under the State's procurement code without requiring federal and state certification that authorizes the payment of a subminimum wage to workers in their program.

 

HHH, GVR, FIN

HB788

RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS.

Establishes the fifteen-year hale kokua project and hale kokua special fund under the department of human services with the aim of incentivizing homeowners to provide rental units to homeless persons.  Amends the basis and rate of tax and disposition of the conveyance tax to support the hale kokua special fund.  Effective 1/1/2022.  Repeals on 7/1/2037.

 

HHH, HSG, FIN

HB789

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

MANDATES THAT MAIL-IN BALLOTS BE DISTRIBUTED NO EARLIER THAN FIFTEEN DAYS AND NO LATER THAN EIGHT DAYS PRIOR TO ELECTION DAY.

 

JHA, FIN

HB790

RELATING TO THE NATIONAL GUARD.

Grants eligibility for participation in the State deferred compensation retirement plan for state and county part-time, temporary, and seasonal or casual employees to members of the Hawaii National Guard who have been ordered into active service.

 

CMV, LAT, FIN

HB791

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes a state income tax credit for certain expenses incurred by pre-kindergarten through grade 12 teachers, instructors, school librarians, counselors, principals, registrars, or aides in a school.  Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2021.

 

EDN, FIN

HB792

RELATING TO FAMILY COURTS.

Amends the criteria and procedures used by family courts in determining child custody and visitation rights.  Addresses the considerations and factors a family court shall consider in determining custody or visitation if one parent has a felony conviction for a violent or sexual offense in which the victim was a minor, is required to register as a sex offender, or has been convicted of murdering the other parent.  Requires the family court to state its reasons in writing or on the record when it finds there is no risk to the child's health, safety, and welfare.  Prohibits the family court from disclosing the custodial parent's place of residence, place of employment, or the child's school unless disclosure is in the child's best interests.

 

HHH, JHA

HB793

RELATING TO TRAFFIC RULES.

Requires heavy trucks having a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds to drive within the right-hand lane of an interstate highway except when the heavy truck is turning left or avoiding an obstruction.

 

JHA

HB794

RELATING TO ONLINE ACCOUNT PRIVACY.

Prohibits employers and educational institutions from requiring employees or students to provide protected personal online account information.  Authorizes private civil actions against violators.

 

ECD, EDN/HET, CPC

HB795

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Requires the department of defense to conduct a vulnerability study that provides recommendations for areas in the State that should be protected by decorative bollards and submit a report to the legislature.

 

TRN, JHA, FIN

HB796

RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AND COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER DEATHS.

Updates reporting requirements by PSD when employees and inmates die at correctional facilities and community correctional centers.  Requires race and ancestry of the decedent to be included in the report.  Requires the report to cite to any authority relied upon by PSD in determining that information is protected by state or federal law.  Makes a copy of the report public and readily available to the family and press upon the governor's receipt of the report.

 

CMV, JHA, FIN

HB797

RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS.

Prohibits the governor from suspending any provision under Hawaii's Uniform Information Practices Act, or any rule adopted pursuant thereto, during any emergency period.

 

PDP, JHA, FIN

HB798

RELATING TO GRANTS.

Specifies that nonprofits with a legislator on its governing board shall not be eligible to receive a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

JHA, FIN

HB799

RELATING TO PROTECTIONS FOR CHILDREN.

Allows the court and the prosecution to ensure a prompt trial for certain proceedings involving minors.  Allows a court to prohibit residency from certain areas for persons convicted of a crime against minors or sexual offense.  Amends Hawaii Rules of Evidence to allow a child to testify before the court using teleconferencing or videoconferencing if an in-person testimony will cause harm to the child.

 

HHH, JHA, FIN

HB800

RELATING TO TRAINING IN NATIVE HAWAIIAN RIGHTS.

Prohibits council, board, and commission members from serving if the member has not completed, within the requisite time, the required training course related to native Hawaiian and Hawaiian traditional and customary rights, native Hawaiian and Hawaiian natural resource protection and access rights, and the public trust, including the State's trust responsibility.

 

JHA, FIN

HB801

RELATING TO MOPEDS.

Prohibits a retailer from selling or offering for sale combustion engine-powered mopeds beginning January 1, 2023.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB802

RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES.

Increases from 1 parking space to 4 parking spaces the number of parking spaces that a place of public accommodation with at least one hundred parking spaces is required to offer by 7/1/2026.  Removes the exemption that owners of multiple places of public accommodation may offer electric vehicle parking spaces based on the aggregate number of parking spaces available in their properties.  Establishes notification requirements and fines for noncompliance.

 

TRN/EEP, JHA, FIN

HB803

RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES.

Authorizes each county to adopt ordinances to enforce section 291-71, HRS, including the establishment of penalties for failure to comply with its requirements or make reasonable efforts to maintain electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in working order.  Clarifies that certain enforcement officers may enter private property to enforce EV parking space violations.  Requires new EV charging systems installed pursuant to the EV charging system requirement to be at least Level 2 and internet-capable.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB804

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Prohibits the sale by motor vehicle dealers and salespersons of new motor vehicles that are solely powered by fossil fuels and designed for personal use beginning 1/1/2035.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

HB805

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Establishes a green fee surcharge on transient accommodations for the purposes of funding workforce and services that promote certain environmental goals.  Repeals on June 30, 2031.

 

EEP/LAT, CPC, FIN

HB806

RELATING TO WORK HOURS.

Establishes overtime limitations for nurses, nurse aides, and respiratory therapists.  Takes effect 1/1/2022.

 

LAT/HHH, CPC

HB807

RELATING TO NURSES.

Prohibits a hospital from assigning unlicensed assistive personnel to perform nursing care tasks, functions, and activities that would otherwise fall under the scope of practice of a registered nurse or permitting a registered nurse to delegate certain tasks, functions, and activities to unlicensed assistive personnel.  Prohibits registered nurses from being assigned to a nursing unit or critical care area unless registered nurses receive orientation and demonstrate individual competency.  Requires the department of health to adopt rules that establish requirements related to registered nurse-to-patient ratios in licensed hospitals.  Requires a report to the legislature.

 

LAT/HHH, CPC

HB808

RELATING TO PRISONER RELEASE.

Prohibits early release of prisoners prior to expiration of their sentence, except pursuant to the existing system for paroles and pardons or by reason of the prisoner's terminal illness.

 

JHA, FIN

HB809

RELATING TO BROADBAND.

Establishes the Hawaii broadband office within Hawaii technology development corporation.  Establishes the position of state broadband strategy officer.  Renames the broadband assistance advisory council as the broadband advisory council and amends its purpose and membership.  Requires the chief executive officer of the Hawaii technology development corporation to convene and chair the broadband advisory council.  Appropriates funds.

 

ECD, CPC, FIN

HB810

RELATING TO BROADBAND.

Establishes and appropriates funds for a broadband infrastructure grant program to be administered by the department of business, economic development, and tourism.

 

ECD, CPC, FIN