Hse Referral sheet template, revision no. 00002

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		REFERRAL
HB1601	RELATING TO ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS. Establishes the housing assistance program, to be carried out by the housing assistance program coordinator, within the department of human services to provide state grants and rental subsidies to private property owners who set aside, construct, or improve accessory dwelling units on their properties and rent the units to families or individuals who are homeless. Establishes the temporary housing assistance program commission and positions to support the housing assistance program. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2027.	HSG/HHH, FIN
HB1602	RELATING TO LAND LIABILITY. Creates strict liability for an owner of land with a twenty per cent or more slope for damage or injury to down-slope property and persons from falling rocks, debris, and landslides originating from the owner's property.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB1603	RELATING TO CRIMINAL PENALTIES. Increases certain penalties for the crimes of assault, burglary, criminal property damage, and theft by one grade.	JHA
HB1604	RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Establishes the 2022 illegal fireworks task force within the department of the attorney general to develop a comprehensive strategic plan to stop the importation of illegal fireworks and explosives into the State, promote compliance with the fireworks control law; and ensure the safety and security of airports, harbors, and other facilities and institutions in the State against the discharge of illegal fireworks and explosives. Requires a report to the legislature.	CPC
HB1605	RELATING TO HOUSING. Short form bill relating to housing.	HSG
HB1606	RELATING TO HOUSING. Short form bill relating to housing.	HSG
HB1607	RELATING TO HOUSING. Short form bill relating to housing.	HSG
HB1608	RELATING TO HOUSING. Short form bill relating to housing.	HSG
HB1609	RELATING TO HOUSING. Short form bill relating to housing.	HSG
HB1610	RELATING TO THE SPAYING AND NEUTERING OF ANIMALS. Establishes a spay and neuter special fund and allows funds from an income tax check-off to be deposited into the special fund.	AGR, FIN
HB1611	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Establishes firm renewable energy generation policy in the Hawaii State Planning Act to ensure the reliable one hundred per cent replacement of fossil fuel electricity generation to increase the sustainability and energy self-sufficiency of the State to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. Includes policy of incentives to facilitate and encourage fuel-producing crops and energy-producing crops and bioenergy and standards for achieving renewable portfolio standards.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1612	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop and adopt reliability standards and interconnection requirements to facilitate the timely interconnection of utility-scale renewable energy projects.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1613	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to develop and adopt reliability standards and interconnection requirements to facilitate the timely interconnection of utility-scale renewable energy projects.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1614	RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to offer performance-based incentives in all of its professional services contracts.	LAT, FIN
HB1615	RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. Adds the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Director of Transportation; Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources; Director of Agriculture; and the Executive Director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts as nonvoting ex officio members of the Hawaii Tourism Authority board of directors. Clarifies the authority and responsibility of the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board of Directors. Renames the Tourism Marketing Plan to the Tourism Branding Plan. Requires any state or county agency to render services upon request of the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Repeals the Hawaii Tourism Authority Advisory Board.	LAT, FIN
HB1616	RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. Adds the Hawaii Tourism Authority president and chief executive officer as an ex officio member of the Board of Land and Natural Resources and Land Use Commission.	WAL, FIN
HB1617	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-first representative district.	FIN
HB1618	RELATING TO LIQUOR. Beginning July 1, 2022, establishes a $0.10 per drink surcharge in addition to the liquor tax.	ECD, CPC, FIN
HB1619	RELATING TO PEER-TO-PEER CAR-SHARING INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS. Establishes peer-to-peer car-sharing insurance requirements. Effective July 1, 2023.	TRN, CPC
HB1620	RELATING TO HOSPITALS. Require DOH, in conjunction with DHS and insurance commissioner, to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of an all-payer global budgeting pilot program for hospital care.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1621	RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the department of health to adopt rules to allow primary caregivers to be absent from community care foster family homes for no more than thirty-six, rather than twenty-eight, hours in a calendar week, not to exceed eight, rather than five, hours per day.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1622	RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Establishes Employment First as a state policy for persons with disabilities. Requires state and county agencies to implement Employment First in hiring and in all programs and services administered or funded by the State or counties. Applies Employment First principles to Medicaid home- and community-based waiver programs.	LAT, HHH, FIN
HB1623	RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. Expands the prohibition on promoting a controlled substance in, on, or near schools, school vehicles, public parks, and public housing projects or complexes to include group child care centers, group child care homes, public recreation centers, and youth services centers, collectively as protected areas. Requires the registration and registration renewal of methadone clinics and substance use disorder services clinics as clinics and for handling controlled substances to be contingent upon location at least 750 feet away from protected areas. Gives methadone clinics and substance use disorder services clinics one year from the effective date of this Act to comply with this Act.	HHH, CPC
HB1624	RELATING TO THE CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION FEE. Repeals the discretion of a Court to waive payment of the Crime Victim Compensation Fee due to the defendant's inability to pay.	JHA, FIN
HB1625	RELATING TO THE CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION SPECIAL FUND. Exempts the Crime Victim Compensation Special Fund from transfers for central service expenses and from paying reimbursements for departmental administrative expenses.	JHA, FIN
HB1626	RELATING TO VITAL STATISTICS. Provides that the cause of death portion of a death or fetal death certificate shall be held confidential and protected from disclosure to the public or to any person who is not considered to have a direct and tangible interest in that portion of a public health statistics record, except when nondisclosure of that information is deemed by the department of health to threaten the public health or safety. Requires the department of health to redact the cause of death from a death or fetal death certificate to prevent unauthorized disclosure.	HHH, CPC
HB1627	RELATING TO TAXATION. Clarifies that amounts received or accrued for stevedoring services and related services, wharfage, and demurrage are exempt under the general excise tax law.	FIN
HB1628	RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Short form bill relating to Hawaiian home lands.	JHA
HB1629	RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Short form bill relating to Hawaiian home lands.	JHA
HB1630	RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Short form bill relating to Hawaiian affairs.	JHA
HB1631	RELATING TO WATER CONSERVATION. Creates a refundable water catchment tax credit for homeowners who install a water catchment system meeting certain requirements on residential property in the State owned by the homeowners.	WAL, FIN
HB1632	RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. Sets weight limitations for tour operators and rental vehicles on Hana and Haleakala highways. Establishes user fees to access Hana and Haleakala highways for certain vehicles. Amends the highway development special fund to allow the deposit funds received from the user fees into the special fund and authorizes the fund to be used for the development and improvement of Hana and Haleakala highways.	TRN, CPC, FIN
HB1633	RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Permits counties to adopt ordinances permitting developers to make a cash payment of fifteen per cent of the gross revenue of the development in lieu of providing the required reserved housing under the county's affordable housing program. Specifies the HCDA may permit cash payments of fifteen per cent of the gross revenue of the development project in lieu of providing reserved housing.	HSG, WAL, FIN
HB1634	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.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1635	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Establishes the rural health task force within the department of health to make recommendations on registered nurse recruitment and retention in rural areas of east Maui, Molokai, and Lanai.	HHH, FIN
HB1636	RELATING TO FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCTS. Exempts the sale of feminine hygiene products from the general excise tax.	ECD, FIN
HB1637	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Prohibits the counties from imposing a real property tax on land or land improvements used for the production or storage of renewable energy that is sold to an electric utility. Permits a county to impose an annual fee of up to $1,000 per megawatt of nameplate AC capacity generated by a renewable energy project that is actively producing and selling energy to an electric utility and sited on real property within that county.	EEP, FIN
HB1638	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A KONA HOSPITAL SITE ASSESSMENT. Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to conduct a site assessment to identify and evaluate viable locations for a new hospital site in North Kona on the island of Hawaii.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1639	RELATING TO A CARBON TAX ON AVIATION FUEL. Imposes a state carbon emissions tax of $6.25 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions on all aviation fuel. Directs the aviation fuel tax into the airport revenue fund. Implements a tax credit to mitigate the effects of this tax on lower income taxpayers.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1640	RELATING TO RECYCLING. Changes the Electronic Waste and Television Recycling and Recovery Act to the Electronic Device Recycling and Recovery Act. Establishes electronic device manufacturer recycling goals and record keeping and reporting requirements for manufacturers and collectors. Requires collectors to register with the department of health. Amends and repeals various definitions, including repealing "covered electronic device" and "covered television" and creating a new "electronic device" definition. Expands the recycling and collection requirements of televisions to all electronic devices. Requires the recycling electronic device program to include, among other things, a description of the methods for the convenient collection of electronic devices.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1641	RELATING TO RECYCLING. Requires the department of health to implement the auditor's recommendations for the deposit beverage container program, including developing a risk-based selection process to select reports submitted by distributors and redemption centers for audit.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1642	RELATING TO POSTCONSUMER RECYCLED CONTENT. Requires deposit beverage distributors, glass container importers, and distributors or importers of beverage containers that sell, offer for sale, or distribute beverage containers in the State to meet minimum postconsumer recycled content requirements, beginning with a 12/31/2026 deadline.	EEP, CPC
HB1643	RELATING TO WASTE REDUCTION. Beginning January 1, 2023, allows a food vendor to provide or distribute disposable service ware for prepared food or for a beverage only upon the request or affirmative response of a customer or person being provided the prepared food or beverage, or in a self-service area or dispenser.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1644	RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Beginning July 1, 2023, bans the manufacture, sale, distribution, and use of wraps and liners, plates, food boats, pizza boxes, and firefighting foams that contain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1645	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal care products in small plastic bottles within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping room accommodations, or bathrooms used by the public or guests. Creates fines and civil penalties.	EEP/LAT, CPC, FIN
HB1646	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Prohibits the sale or distribution of consumer goods for which a deceptive claim about the recyclability of the product or packaging is made. Requires the department of health to collect data and issue a material characterization study on recyclable materials collected in the State. Establishes standards for recyclability of products in the State. Prohibits the sale of any product that is labeled as compostable or biodegradable unless the product meets specified criteria.	EEP, CPC
HB1647	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to have electric utilities separately issue requests for proposals for firm renewable energy generation and requests for proposals for intermittent renewable energy generation. Prohibits the Public Utilities Commission from approving any new or renewed utility‑owned generation project by a public utility or any new or renewed power purchase agreement for electricity generation with affiliated interests with a public utility. Appropriates moneys.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1648	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Establishes the Office of Homelessness and Housing Solutions and the Homelessness and Housing Solutions Special Fund. Makes an appropriation.	HSG/HHH, FIN
HB1649	RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Requires state agencies to report annually to the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness on any vacant state land that could be utilized for construction of affordable housing.	HSG/WAL, FIN
HB1650	RELATING TO OFFENDER REENTRY. Appropriates funds for a program named Project Reset which will help prisoners with reentry, rehabilitation, employment, and housing post-sentence.	CMV, HHH, FIN
HB1651	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.	CPC
HB1652	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NINTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the ninth representative district.	FIN
HB1653	RELATING TO AQUATIC RESOURCES. Authorizes the imposition of a criminal fine for violations involving aquatic resources. Establishes a tiered administrative fine system for each specimen of aquatic life taken, killed, or injured. Establishes a criminal fine structure on a per-specimen basis for violations involving aquatic life. Authorizes 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
HB1654	RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF BOATING AND OCEAN RECREATION. Allows the board of land and natural resources to adopt, amend, or repeal administrative fee schedules for parking fees for locations under the management of or operated by the division of boating and ocean recreation through regular or special board meetings rather than through administrative rulemaking.	WAL, FIN
HB1655	RELATING TO SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS. Expands exclusions from the definition of "development" as it applies to special management areas to reduce the need for special management area permits for certain activities.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB1656	RELATING TO TRAILS. Appropriates moneys for the establishment of a permanent full-time equivalent land and access specialist position and a permanent full-time equivalent abstractor position within the na ala hele program for the protection and expansion of public trail access statewide.	WAL, FIN
HB1657	RELATING TO LEASES. Requires as a condition precedent for any valid withdrawal of lands out of pasture leases for reforestation purposes that the division of forestry and wildlife submit a funded action plan detailing the planned reforestation process for those lands and that the withdrawal be approved by the board of land and natural resources.	WAL, FIN
HB1658	RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF NON-AGRICULTURAL PARK LANDS. Before the transfer of non-agricultural park lands, authorizes HDOA to request information from DLNR related to the establishment of easements by necessity upon the lands.	WAL, FIN
HB1659	RELATING TO LAND LEASES. Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to: (1) Amend and extend existing pasture leases for up to sixty-five years; (2) Issue new pasture leases by negotiation, if the lands are already under pastoral use; and (3) Develop agricultural and pasture lease rents based on the value of the land's agricultural uses.	WAL, FIN
HB1660	RELATING TO LAND. Specifies that agricultural multi-use lands under the management of DLNR are not subject to transfer to and management by HDOA. Requires DLNR to revise its land classifications to include agricultural multi-use lands. Establishes and appropriates funds for an agricultural multi-use lands specialist position.	WAL, FIN
HB1661	RELATING TO TAXATION. Imposes an excise tax of fifty per cent of the otherwise applicable tax under section 245-3, HRS, on every wholesaler for each modified risk tobacco product sold, used, or possessed by a wholesaler. Includes e-liquids and electronic smoking devices as tobacco products for purposes of taxation under the Cigarette Tax and Tobacco Tax Law.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1662	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Establishes a statewide homelessness shelter and housing data clearinghouse within the Department of Human Services to be administered by the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness. Makes an appropriation.	HHH, FIN
HB1663	RELATING TO PURCHASES OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES UNDER CHAPTER 103F, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Requires state moneys used to procure health and human services to be the funding source of last resort. Requires a purchasing agent to give a preference to an applicant that is a qualified medicaid provider when evaluating competitive purchase of health and human services contract proposals. Specifies that if 2 otherwise equally qualified applicants are seeking the same purchases of services contract, the purchasing agency shall select the applicant who is a qualified medicaid provider. Requires the Department of Health to provide an explanation of how providers may capture federal medicaid moneys.	HHH, FIN
HB1664	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Requires the Department of Health to establish and operate a laboratory capable of testing for diseases and air and water quality issues and other high complexity testing. Appropriates moneys.	HHH/EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1665	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes a core state behavioral health crisis services system. Provides for the designation of 1 or more crisis hotline centers to provide crisis intervention services and crisis care coordination to individuals accessing the suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline. Requires the Department of Health to provide to crisis callers onsite response services using mobile crisis teams. Requires the State to fund treatment for crisis receiving and stabilization services related to 988 calls.	HHH, FIN
HB1666	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Establishes a pilot program within the Department of Human Services to make 1 or more licensed mental health counselors available to assist county first responders in responding to mental health crises in areas with high rates of homelessness. Appropriates moneys. Requires a report to the Legislature.	HHH, FIN
HB1667	RELATING TO HEALTH. Defines "clinical laboratory director" to include certain physicians, licensed clinical laboratory scientists, and pharmacists-in-charge of pharmacies. Amends the definition of "practice of pharmacy" to include the ordering and performing of certain Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments waived tests.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1668	RELATING TO SOIL CLASSIFICATIONS. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct a study of the suitability of the State's current soil overall (master) productivity rating system classified by the Land Study Bureau's detailed land classification. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.	WAL, AGR, FIN
HB1669	RELATING TO SEA LEVEL RISE ADAPTATION. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to establish a pilot program to convene a working group to develop a Waikiki adaptation and resilience plan to address climate change and sea level impacts in the Waikiki special district. Requires reports to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation.	WAL/EEP, FIN
HB1670	RELATING TO LAND USE DISTRICT BOUNDARIES. Establishes a boundary review committee to render decisions on district boundary disputes brought before the land use commission.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB1671	RELATING TO LAND STUDY BUREAU CLASSIFICATIONS AND RATINGS. Temporarily establishes the land study bureau classifications and ratings review subcommittee within the land use commission to review and amend land study bureau classifications and ratings of agricultural lands. Repeals on 12/31/ .	WAL, FIN
HB1672	RELATING TO SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS. 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, FIN
HB1673	RELATING TO PARKING CONCESSIONS. Exempts parking concessions from the public bidding requirements under the state procurement law.	GVR, CPC, FIN
HB1674	RELATING TO IN VITRO FERTILIZATION INSURANCE COVERAGE. Removes discriminatory requirements for mandatory insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization procedures to create parity of coverage for same-sex couples, unmarried women, and male-female couples for whom male infertility is the relevant factor.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1675	RELATING TO MEDICAL CARE FOR MINORS. Permits minors to consent to medical care and services related to the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of HIV. Specifies that a minor, under certain circumstances, shall not be liable for payment associated with the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of HIV. Authorizes physician assistants, in addition to physicians and advanced practice registered nurses, to render such medical care and services to minors.	HHH, CPC, JHA
HB1676	RELATING TO DATA COLLECTION. Requires that the sexual orientation and gender identity of persons processed for crimes be included in the systems of identification.	CMV, JHA, FIN
HB1677	RELATING TO EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY. Requires state departments and agencies to establish hiring and promotion goals for position-qualified transgender and non-binary persons and develop transgender employment policies addressing specified areas by 1/1/2023. Requires annual reports to the Legislature.	LAT, JHA, FIN
HB1678	RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER, PLUS COMMISSION. Establishes the Hawaii state lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, plus (LGBTQ+) commission and the Hawaii state lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, plus commission trust fund. Requires each county mayor to appoint a county committee on the status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, plus affairs.	HHH, JHA, FIN
HB1679	RELATING TO ACUPUNCTURE. Makes comprehensive updates to chapter 436E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding acupuncture practitioners to reflect modernized scopes of practice, titles, and licensing and renewal requirements, including thirty hours of continuing education per licensing biennium.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1680	RELATING TO THE HAWAII PREPAID HEALTH CARE ACT'S PREMIUM SUPPLEMENTATION TRUST FUND. Appropriates funds to the premium supplementation trust fund. Establishes a position to conduct small business employer outreach and to provide assistance with applications for premium supplementation and appropriates funds for the position.	LAT, CPC, FIN
HB1681	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.	TRN, CPC
HB1682	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST NEXT LEVEL SOLUTIONS GROUP INC. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Next Level Solutions Group Inc. in developing a waste-to-energy facility.	EEP, FIN
HB1683	RELATING TO CIVIC EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with the Commission to Promote and Advance Civic Education, to develop and implement curriculum in civic education as a component of high school United States history courses.	EDN, JHA, FIN
HB1684	RELATING TO RECYCLING. Establishes the packaging stewardship program within the department of health to reduce the amount of packaging material that becomes solid waste.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1685	RELATING TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. Requires counties to post in buses operated in county mass transit systems a conspicuous sign that notifies passengers of the offense of interference with the operator of a public transit vehicle and the criminal penalties associated with the commission of the offense.	JHA, FIN
HB1686	RELATING TO DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION. Requires the Director of Transportation to establish and implement a digital identification pilot program.	JHA, FIN
HB1687	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION. Repeals the maximum amount that a county may increase the fee for certificates of registration for motor vehicles other than U-drive motor vehicles.	TRN, CPC
HB1688	RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES. Subjects U-drive motor vehicles to the same motor vehicle registration fees as other motor vehicles. Authorizes the counties to use certain motor vehicle registration fees to mitigate and address the impacts of tourism-related traffic congestion.	TRN, CPC
HB1689	RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Requires shippers that know that their cargo will include fireworks or articles pyrotechnic to report certain information to applicable county fire departments. Authorizes county fire departments to enter shippers' vessels for the purpose of inspecting any shipment declared on the shipping manifest as fireworks or articles pyrotechnic.	TRN, CPC
HB1690	RELATING TO CHILD PASSENGER RESTRAINT SYSTEMS. Requires motor vehicle operators to ensure that children 2 years of age or younger are properly restrained in rear-facing child passenger restraint systems.	JHA, FIN
HB1691	RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSES. Requires the Department of Transportation to amend its rules, and makes conforming statutory amendments, to lower the minimum age required for a commercial driver's license. Repeals the requirement that a person shall only operate category 3 vehicles to qualify to drive commercially in the State. Repeals the requirement that an application for a commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit include intrastate driver certification.	CPC, JHA, FIN
HB1692	RELATING TO MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Changes the fines imposed for mobile electronic device violations.	JHA, FIN
HB1693	RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSES. Extends the renewal period from 2 years to 4 years for licensees who are 70 years of age or older but younger than 80 years of age. Requires applicants for a new license or for license renewal who are 70 years of age or older to present certification of physical and mental competence from a doctor upon application.	JHA
HB1694	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
HB1695	RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Increases from $2,000 to $5,000 the maximum fine that may be assessed against certain fireworks-related violations.	CPC, FIN
HB1696	RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Increases the fireworks display permit fee from $110 to $300.	CPC, FIN
HB1697	RELATING TO SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION. Requires DOE to provide comprehensive training for teachers and educational officers on sexual health topics that include positive and accurate representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, and other sexual orientations and gender identities and persons of color communities, to destigmatize and promote sexual health. Requires sexual health programs to include similar sexual health topics to destigmatize and promote sexual health.	EDN, CPC, FIN
HB1698	RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Prohibits the sale of all flavored tobacco products. Establishes fines and penalties for violations. Effective 01/01/2023.	HHH, CPC
HB1699	RELATING TO AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS. Appropriates funds for the department of education's resources for enrichment, athletics, culture, and health program to match federal dollars that the State receives for the 21st Century Community Learning Center.	EDN, FIN
HB1700	RELATING TO A SEX TRAFFICKING EMERGENCY SHELTER. Authorizes the department of human services to establish or contract with a victim service provider to operate an emergency shelter for minors who are victims of sex trafficking or sexual exploitation. Provides for general excise tax and fee exemptions. Appropriates funds.	HHH, JHA, FIN
HB1701	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
HB1702	RELATING TO TAXATION. Exempts the net capital gain from the sale of a residential property by a taxpayer who is sixty-five years of age or older from the capital gains tax.	ECD, FIN
HB1703	RELATING TO COMPENSATION BENEFITS. Requires compensation benefits for volunteer firefighters who are injured or killed in the line of duty to be determined based on equivalent firefighter pay based on years of service and rank, rather than on a rate of $18 per week.	LAT, CPC, FIN
HB1704	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Authorizes wages of other employees in comparable employment to be considered when computing the average weekly wages of an injured public board member, reserve police officer, police chaplain, sheriffs' chaplain, volunteer firefighter, volunteer boating enforcement officer, or volunteer conservation and resources enforcement officer. Clarifies computation of average weekly wages of an injured volunteer firefighter for workers' compensation benefits purposes.	LAT, CPC, FIN
HB1705	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL PARK LEASES. Allows the department of agriculture to extend the lease of any lessee who holds a lease with a remaining term of fifteen years or less; provided that the land covered by the lease is twenty-five acres or less and located in a county with a population of less than five hundred thousand.	AGR, CPC, FIN
HB1706	RELATING TO SINGLE-USE PLASTICS. Prohibits the manufacture, distribution, and sale of single-use plastic bottles and rigid plastic containers designed to hold 16 fluid ounces or less, effective 1/1/2024, and single-use plastic bottles and rigid plastic containers designed to hold more than 16 fluid ounces, effective 1/1/2025.	EEP, CPC, JHA
HB1707	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Specifies additional exceptions under child labor laws to include work-based learning programs with employers.	LAT, CPC
HB1708	RELATING TO ACCESS TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES. Allows for standard telephone contacts for telehealth purposes related to behavior health services.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1709	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who purchase and install a whole house water filter system.	ECD, FIN
HB1710	RELATING TO IRRIGATION. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for water source infrastructure and the maintenance and improvement to the Peekauai Ditch Irrigation System located on Kauai.	AGR, FIN
HB1711	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to support three additional positions at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Kauai Research and Extension Station.	AGR, HET, FIN
HB1712	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Prohibits the use of important agricultural lands and lands with class A productivity ratings for waste disposal.	WAL, CPC, FIN
HB1713	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to plan, design, construct, operate, manage, maintain, repair, demolish, and remove infrastructure on any lands under the jurisdiction of the department, to support and promote agriculture. Establishes the Agricultural Enterprise Program.	AGR, CPC, FIN
HB1714	RELATING TO TWO-LINED SPITTLEBUGS. Appropriates funds to DOA for the mitigation and control of the two-lined spittlebug and recovery of the rangelands damaged by the invasive pest.	AGR, FIN
HB1715	RELATING TO UNATTENDED ANIMALS IN MOTOR VEHICLES. Limits civil and criminal liability for persons who remove unattended animals from motor vehicles that are in physical danger if the actions are reasonable, in good faith, and in accordance with other requirements.	AGR, JHA
HB1716	RELATING TO LAND USE. Requires the land use commission to prepare and adopt a conservation and development plan. Requires the land use commission to amend the district boundaries according to the determinations, findings, and recommendations of the plan.	WAL, FIN
HB1717	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to establish a foreign agriculture small equipment pilot program. Requires a report to the Legislature.	AGR, HET, FIN
HB1718	RELATING TO MEASUREMENT STANDARDS. Exempts commercial measuring devices utilized in taxicabs from the requirement that the HDOA measurement standards branch inspect and test all measurement standards and measuring devices.	TRN, CPC
HB1719	RELATING TO THE ALA WAI BOAT HARBOR. Authorizes BLNR to issue revenue bonds for the purpose of financing repairs of the Ala Wai boat harbor.	WAL, FIN
HB1720	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 Natural Resources be transferred to the Department of Agriculture no later than 12/31/2023. Requires the Department of Land Natural Resources and Department 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 Natural Resources before offering a lease.	WAL, FIN
HB1721	RELATING TO FERAL ANIMAL MANAGEMENT. Requires the department of land and natural resources and department of agriculture to collaborate on the development of a feral animal management plan and submit a report of their findings and recommendations to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2023. Appropriates funds.	WAL/AGR, FIN
HB1722	RELATING TO AQUACULTURE. Establishes within the Department of Agriculture, an Aquacultural Area Lease Program for the purpose of identifying state facilities, state lands, and state marine waters that are suitable for use as commercial agricultural areas and leasing them to be used for aquaculture. Allows agencies having control and management of identified aquacultural areas to lease the facilities, lands, and waters to the Department of Agriculture for the purposes of the Act. Allows the program to use the moneys in the Aquaculture Development Special Fund to carry out the purposes of the Act and requires the revenues obtained from aquacultural area leases to be deposited into the special fund. Imposes penalties and civil and criminal liabilities. Exempts the program from being subject to the Hawaii Ocean and Submerged Lands Leasing Act.	AGR/WAL, CPC, FIN
HB1723	RELATING TO AQUACULTURE. Establishes the Shellfish Sanitation Act to be administered by the Department of Agriculture's Division of Animal Industry Aquaculture and Livestock Support Services Branch. Transfers certain positions, records, and equipment from the Department of Health to the Department of Agriculture.	AGR/ECD, CPC, FIN
HB1724	RELATING TO AQUACULTURE. Establishes provisions relating to the Department of Agriculture's governing of the business of aquaculture. Grants exclusive property rights to persons who lawfully obtain the cultured progeny of wild plants and animals by brood stock acquisition. Clarifies that any person who takes aquaculture products without lawful entitlement shall be subject to prosecution for theft. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to regulate the transportation, purchase, possession, and sale of specific aquaculture products as may be necessary to protect indigenous species. Establishes prohibitions relating to the spawning, incubating, or cultivation of transgenic fish species or any exotic species of finfish. Makes exemptions for certain research activities. Requires the Department of Agriculture to prepare programmatic environmental impact reports.	AGR/ECD, CPC, FIN
HB1725	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE EDUCATION. Establishes and appropriates funds for the P-20 Agriculture Education Coordinator position within the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Specifies duties of the Coordinator and P-20 agriculture education working group.	AGR, HET, FIN
HB1726	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS. Amends definitions relating to exemptions from building permits and building codes for agricultural building and structures. Requires certain agricultural buildings or structures exempt from building permits and building codes to be consistent with an approved agricultural farm plan for the property and to be made available by the owner or occupant for inspection by a county building official at any time. Prohibits certain agricultural buildings or structures from containing identified features.	AGR, WAL, CPC
HB1727	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
HB1728	RELATING TO BROADBAND SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE. Requires broadband service providers to annually disclose to the Broadband and Digital Equity Office certain broadband data and the street-level locations where it has deployed fiber cable.	HET, CPC, FIN
HB1729	RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Extends to ninety days the amount of time within which a county legislative body must approve, approve with modification, or disapprove an affordable housing project after HHFDC has submitted the preliminary plans and specifications. Deems the project to be approved on the ninety-first day if not previously disapproved by the county legislative body.	HSG, CPC, FIN
HB1730	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE HAWAII HEALTHY AGING PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii healthy aging partnership program to further the program's role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii's kupuna.	HHH, FIN
HB1731	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PROMISE PROGRAM. Provides scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain eligibility criteria. Makes an appropriation for the Hawaii Promise Program.	HET, FIN
HB1732	RELATING TO ELECTRIC GUNS. Prohibits individuals from carrying an electric gun in or near certain sensitive locations with exceptions.	JHA
HB1733	RELATING TO JUVENILE JUSTICE. Requires the Judiciary to create a separate employment classification for juvenile probation officers. Establishes minimum procedures for the appointment of juvenile probation officers. Requires reports to the Legislature on the status of the implementation of this Act.	JHA/LAT, FIN
HB1734	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
HB1735	RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT. Amends the existing expungement process to an automatic process, rather than requiring persons to petition the court or attorney general.	JHA
HB1736	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Temporarily allows licensed teachers who have retired to be employed as teachers during a state of emergency and within twelve months of their retirement.	PDP, EDN, FIN
HB1737	RELATING TO OUT-OF-STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. Beginning July 1, 2022, requires all new or renewed contract agreements with out-of-state correctional facilities to include provisions modifying the per-diem-per-inmate compensation rate to drop from the full contracted rate to fifty per cent of the contracted rate once the inmate has served the minimum term and requiring all out-of-state facilities to adhere to the same standards of care as in-state facilities, including standards related to segregation of inmates.	CMV, JHA, FIN
HB1738	RELATING TO CONFINEMENT. Establishes policies and procedures for long-term confinement, disciplinary confinement, and administrative confinement of inmates in the State's correctional facilities.	CMV, JHA, FIN
HB1739	RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Clarifies that the comprehensive offender reentry system provides programs and services that result in the timely release of inmates on parole when the minimum term, rather than the maximum term, has been served by the inmate.	CMV, JHA, FIN
HB1740	RELATING TO TEMPORARY TEACHERS. Creates a new classification of temporary teacher so that long-term substitute teachers are compensated for a full eight-hour work day of teaching and the additional necessary tasks associated with long-term substitute teaching positions. Compensates temporary teachers for designated state holidays and intersessions. Appropriates funds.	EDN/LAT, FIN
HB1741	RELATING TO CHILDREN AND FAMILY OF INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS. Requires the department of human services to work with the department of public safety and other entities to establish a pilot visitation and family resource center at Waiawa correctional facility on Oahu. Requires the department of human services to continue to lead a working group to address visitation and support needs of children and families of incarcerated individuals. Requires the working group to submit a report to the legislature before the 2023 regular session. Appropriates funds.	CMV, FIN
HB1742	RELATING TO THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Amends the composition of the Board of Agriculture by providing representation from the islands of Molokai and Lanai.	AGR, FIN
HB1743	RELATING TO POOLS. For purposes of the Department of Health's authority to adopt rules concerning public health and safety, defines "pool" to mean a watertight artificial structure containing a body of water that does not exchange water with any other body of water either naturally or mechanically used for swimming, diving, recreational bathing, or therapy by humans.	HHH, CPC
HB1744	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the development and construction of permanent supportive housing to address the needs of chronically homeless individuals and families. Requires the Hawaii housing and finance development corporation to give first priority of any competitive federal low-income housing tax credits to the Hawaii public housing authority for construction of permanent supportive housing units.	HHH/HSG, FIN
HB1745	APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO SUPPORT HAWAII'S FOOD BANKS. Appropriates funds to help Hawaii's food banks meet the significantly heightened need for food assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic.	PDP/HHH, FIN
HB1746	RELATING TO HEALTH. Clearly defines 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
HB1747	RELATING TO THE STATE BUILDING CODE COUNCIL. Requires the state building code council to consult with building industry trade associations to gather cost data on the implementation of building codes or standards and calculate the financial impact of those codes and standards, including amortized utility costs, on the cost of single-family and multi-family homes built in the State. Requires the annual report to the governor to include the cost provided by building industry trade associations on each code and standard adopted by the council. Effective 1/1/2023.	CPC, FIN
HB1748	AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds, with the bond revenue to be deposited into the rental housing revolving fund.	HSG, FIN
HB1749	RELATING TO HOUSING. Establishes and appropriates funds for a supportive housing task force to develop a new monitoring and forecasting system, bring stakeholders together to develop a roadmap for implementing supportive housing, address financing opportunities, bridge housing developers with supportive housing service providers, and develop best practices for supportive housing in the State.	HSG, FIN
HB1750	RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Makes the new construction of affordable housing eligible for exemption from environmental impact statement and environmental assessment requirements if it meets certain requirements.	HSG/EEP, FIN
HB1751	RELATING TO RURAL DISTRICTS. Authorizes the counties to adopt ordinances that allow up to one dwelling per quarter-acre in rural districts.	HSG, WAL, FIN
HB1752	RELATING TO HOUSING. Part I prohibits negative advertising relating to source of income for available rental units and provides potential tenants with remedies against a landlord for a violation of the prohibition. Part II requires the Hawaii public housing authority to adopt rules without regard to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to establish specified incentives for landlords who participate in the tenant-based assistance housing choice voucher program under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937. Part III requires that the Hawaii public housing authority adopt rules to establish a maximum of fifteen days after receipt of an owner's or landlord's inspection request as a reasonable time within which to inspect a dwelling unit for lease under the section 8 housing choice voucher program.	HSG, CPC, FIN
HB1753	RELATING TO THE RENTAL HOUSING REVOLVING FUND. Allows HHFDC greater flexibility to use the funds in the rental housing revolving fund for necessary expenses in administering the corporation's housing finance programs.	HSG, FIN
HB1754	RELATING TO ADULT DENTAL MEDICAID BENEFITS. Appropriates funds to restore diagnostic, preventive, and restorative dental benefits to adult medicaid enrollees; provided that the department of human services obtains maximum federal matching funds available and pursues all funding sources, including private grants, prior to expending any general fund appropriations.	HHH, FIN
HB1755	RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. Prohibits any planned community association from assessing a fine or requiring an architectural review for any security camera commercially available to the general public on the exterior of a member's or tenant's unit if installed for a certain duration or if installed by or on behalf of a previous member or tenant who occupied the unit. Authorizes a fine if the security camera is installed in a haphazard fashion.	CPC, JHA
HB1756	RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. Prohibits any planned community association from assessing a fine or requiring an architectural review for construction or installation work to the exterior of a member's or tenant's unit if performed more than three or more years ago or if performed by or on behalf of a previous owner of the unit, regardless of when the unit's construction or installation work was completed. Provides the association up to ninety days after a public report of a close of sale to assess any fines and enforce the findings of the architectural review, which, once enforced, shall not expire.	CPC, JHA
HB1757	RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. Prohibits planned community associations from prohibiting an owner or a sub-association from utilizing xeriscaping. Voids any provision in an association document that prohibits xeriscaping.	CPC, JHA
HB1758	RELATING TO NURSES. Allows for temporary permits to be issued to registered nurses and licensed practical nurses from a territory or foreign country that are seeking a state license by endorsement.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1759	RELATING TO LEGAL SERVICES FOR LOW-INCOME IMMIGRANTS. Appropriates funds to the judiciary to contract with non-profit organizations to provide legal counsel and assistance to low-income immigrants.	JHA, FIN
HB1760	RELATING TO IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTERS. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Office of Community Services to restore funding for immigrant resource centers.	LAT, FIN
HB1761	RELATING TO IDENTIFICATION CARDS. Authorizes the issuance of limited purpose identification cards for certain residents.	JHA, FIN
HB1762	RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS. Requires the executive director of the office of language access to submit an annual report to the governor and legislature on compliance, complaints, resolution of complaints, and recommendations to enhance and promote language access. Appropriates funds to establish limited English proficiency language coordinator positions in the departments of commerce and consumer affairs, health, and agriculture, and the Hawaii emergency management agency.	HHH, FIN
HB1763	RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGE. Establishes a minimum wage commission to recommend the annual rate of increase for the minimum wage. Provides that recommended minimum shall go into effect unless affirmatively rejected by concurrent resolution. Makes an appropriation.	LAT, FIN
HB1764	RELATING TO HOUSING SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. Establishes the procedures for a housing savings account system for all employees in the State.	HSG, CPC, FIN
HB1765	RELATING TO THE BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP MUSEUM. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for assisting the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum with a capital improvement project.	CAI, FIN
HB1766	RELATING TO STATE PARKS. Appropriates funds out of the state parks special fund to raise the expenditure ceiling of the special fund.	WAL, FIN
HB1767	RELATING TO REGENERATIVE TOURISM. Incorporates a regenerative framework into the State Planning Act by expanding objectives and policies for the visitor industry.	LAT, CPC, FIN
HB1768	RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF WATER RIGHTS. Exempts the instream use of water for traditional and customary kalo cultivation practices from the existing process for disposition of water rights.	AGR, WAL, JHA
HB1769	RELATING TO RAPID OHIA DEATH. Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to study and combat rapid ohia death in the State.	WAL, FIN
HB1770	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII RESIDENT TUITION FEE. Expands the criteria to qualify for resident tuition fees to include high school seniors and recent high school graduates.	HET, FIN
HB1771	RELATING TO THE MINIMUM WAGE. Increases the minimum wage annually starting 1/1/2023. Beginning on September 30, 2027, 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
HB1772	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a conveyance tax vacancy surcharge on the conveyance tax for prolonged vacant property.	WAL/HSG, CPC, FIN
HB1773	RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates moneys to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage to 12 months following the end of pregnancy.	HHH, FIN
HB1774	RELATING TO COVERAGE FOR MAMMOGRAPHY. Requires insurers and mutual benefit societies to cover mandated services for mammography at least as favorably as coverage for other radiological examinations. Effective January 1, 2023.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1775	RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS. Specifies additional forms of discrimination and other prohibited conduct under Chapter 368D, HRS. Requires covered entities to adopt written policies and undertake other specified enforcement actions no later than 1/1/2023. Requires annual reports to Legislature.	EDN, JHA, FIN
HB1776	RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Mandates that there be a community-based work furlough program for all incarcerated women in the State. Appropriates funds.	CMV, JHA, FIN
HB1777	RELATING TO THE COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to provide annual reports to the Legislature on specified data pertaining to the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Appropriates moneys.	JHA, FIN
HB1778	RELATING TO THE COMPREHENSIVE OFFENDER REENTRY SYSTEM. Requires the Offender Reentry Office of the Department of Public Safety to develop and implement a risk needs assessment tool that is specifically intended to assess the needs of female offenders. Requires a report to the Legislature.	CMV, JHA, FIN
HB1779	RELATING TO INCARCERATED WOMEN. Appropriates funds for the second year of a program to train incarcerated women to be general education development tutors for their peers, provide college correspondence courses for women in the women's community correctional center, and provide reentry and transition services for women wanting to continue their education post incarceration. Enables partnerships with the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, and Department of Public Safety. Appropriates moneys.	CMV, JHA, FIN
HB1780	RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Appropriates moneys for residential programs that allow minor children to remain with their mothers, to reduce the risk of trauma and multigenerational incarceration, including community‑based furlough programs, residential drug treatment programs, therapeutic community programs, and mental health programs.	CMV, JHA, FIN
HB1781	RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. Establishes requirements for cumulative voting and the removal of directors of planned community associations. Exempts planned community associations from certain requirements regarding cumulative voting for and the removal of directors under the Hawaii Nonprofit Corporations Act.	CPC
HB1782	RELATING TO BROADBAND SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE. Allows an electric utility to own, operate, lease, plan, construct, install, maintain, and/or replace broadband facilities, including middle mile infrastructure, to help facilitate the development of and investment in broadband facilities and services to rural, unserved, underserved, and urban communities throughout the State.	ECD, CPC, FIN
HB1783	RELATING TO PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS. Addresses and defines pharmacy benefit manager practices. Creates enforcement authority by the insurance commissioner to suspend or revoke a pharmacy benefit manager's registration and impose fines.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1784	RELATING TO BUILDING INSPECTIONS. Requires periodic inspections of certain walls and appurtenances of buildings five or more stories in height.	CPC, FIN
HB1785	RELATING TO TOURISM GOVERNANCE. Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study that identifies and analyzes alternative tourism governance systems. Requires the study to include a solicitation of input from certain stakeholder groups. Requires a final report to be submitted to the Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2025. Appropriates moneys.	LAT, FIN
HB1786	RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARDS. Renames the workforce development council the workforce development board. Requires the state workforce development board and local workforce development boards to develop conflict of interest policies. Amends the composition and powers of the board. Effective 7/1/2023.	LAT, FIN
HB1787	RELATING TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Establishes employment first as a state policy with respect to persons with disabilities. Requires state and county agencies to implement this policy in hiring and all programs and services administered or funded by the State or counties. Applies employment first principles to medicaid home- and community-based waiver programs.	LAT, CPC, JHA
HB1788	RELATING TO WAIAKEA PENINSULA REDEVELOPMENT. Establishes the Waiakea peninsula redevelopment district and planning committee for the redevelopment of public lands on the Waiakea peninsula. Establishes the Waiakea peninsula redevelopment district revolving fund. Makes an appropriation. Sunsets June 30, 2032.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB1789	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.	LAT, JHA, FIN
HB1790	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of 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
HB1791	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of 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
HB1792	RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS. Expands the definition of public works to include projects involving no government contracting agency, projects using land owned by or leased from the State or counties, projects granted waivers or exemptions from state or county fees, and projects exempt from any state or county taxes.	WAL, FIN
HB1793	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION. Establishes the public employees' compensation appeals board to hear appeals requesting the repricing of a class. Appropriates moneys.	LAT, FIN
HB1794	RELATING TO OPIOIDS. Requires the Department of Health to implement standardized quality metrics to track and address health care processes or outcomes applicable to improving the quality of care for patients having opioid use disorders and targeting through value-based purchasing improvements in outcomes for patients having opioid use disorders. Requires the Department of Health to implement value-based purchasing based on the standardized quality metrics. Directs the Department of Health to collect data on levels of opioid prescriptions, use of opioids in healthcare settings, and patient interactions for opioid use disorders. Requires annual reports to the Legislature.	GVR, HHH, CPC
HB1795	RELATING TO HEALTH. Expands the Hawaii health corps program and Hawaii rural health care provider loan repayment program to include incentives for psychologists and social workers. Makes the department of health responsible for administering the Hawaii rural health care provider loan repayment program. Appropriates funds.	HHH, HET, FIN
HB1796	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Extends the Ohana Zones Pilot Program to 2026 to reduce homelessness by placing individuals into permanent housing, expanding housing, and preserving existing housing. Appropriates moneys.	HHH, FIN
HB1797	RELATING TO HOMELESS SERVICES. Establishes a 3-year medical respite pilot program within the Department of Human Services to provide out-patient health care and supportive services to homeless persons recently discharged from the hospital and non-hospitalized homeless persons who are being moved by police out of unauthorized spaces. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys.	HHH, FIN
HB1798	RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR ASSISTING NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS THAT PROVIDE HEALTH CARE FACILITIES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenues bonds to assist The Queen's Health Systems.	HHH, FIN
HB1799	RELATING TO ASTHMA. Requires the Department of Education to offer optional asthma education courses to students and provide mandatory asthma training to teachers and other department employees who interact with students.	EDN, HHH, FIN
HB1800	RELATING TO CLIMATE MITIGATION. Establishes a goal for the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit to be at least seventy per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. Requires the Hawaii state energy office to conduct a study to determine Hawaii's pathway to decarbonization and identify challenges, opportunities, and actions that will be needed to achieve those goals. Appropriates funds out of the energy security special fund for the study.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1801	RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. Requires and establishes deadlines for state facilities, except smaller facilities, 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. Establishes a goal for the State to achieve at least twenty-five percent reduction in the electricity consumption of state facilities. Beginning 7/1/2023, 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, CPC, FIN
HB1802	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Require DLNR to establish a visitor green fee program to collect fees from nonresidents, to be used for the protection, restoration, and care of Hawaii's natural, cultural, and outdoor recreational resources and build the resilience of these resources to the impacts of climate change and local threats, in order to obtain a license to use state natural resources. Establishes the Hawaii environmental legacy commission to guide the disbursement of visitor green fee program funds. Establishes the Hawaii environmental legacy special fund.	EEP/LAT, CPC, FIN
HB1803	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO RECOGNIZE AND PROTECT THE INHERENT AND INALIENABLE RIGHT OF ALL PEOPLE TO CLEAN WATER AND AIR AND HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS, INCLUDING CLIMATE, AND TO THE PRESERVATION OF THE NATURAL, CULTURAL, SCENIC, AND HEALTHFUL QUALITIES OF THE ENVIRONMENT. Proposes a constitutional amendment that recognizes and protects, for present and future generations, the inherent and inalienable right of all people to clean water and air and healthy ecosystems, including climate, and to the preservation of the natural, cultural, scenic, and healthful qualities of the environment. Provides that the State and its subdivisions shall protect and shall not infringe upon these rights.	EEP/WAL, JHA, FIN
HB1804	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program.	AGR, FIN
HB1805	RELATING TO CESSPOOLS. Requires the upgrade, conversion, or connection of cesspools upon sale of real property, with certain exemptions. Establishes a temporary income tax credit until 12/31/2035 for costs of cesspool upgrade, conversion, or connection.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1806	RELATING TO CESSPOOL CONVERSION. Requires cesspools in the State to be upgraded or converted to a wastewater system approved by the Department of Health before 1/1/2050.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1807	RELATING TO ENERGY INTERCONNECTION. Directs the public utilities commission to adopt guidelines for interconnection applications that would trigger distribution, transmission, or other utility infrastructure upgrade costs in excess of a threshold determined by the commission.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1808	RELATING TO GEOTHERMAL ROYALTIES. Increases the percentage of royalties received by the State from geothermal resources that are to be paid to the county in which the geothermal resources are located. Requires the royalties paid to a county to be used for further geothermal resources discovery and development. Requires the county to submit an annual report to the legislature.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1809	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a renewable fuels production tax credit.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1810	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL. Defines what constitutes a quorum for the environmental advisory council. Specifies the number of votes required to make any action of the council valid.	EEP, FIN
HB1811	RELATING TO ENERGY. Allows for new electric vehicle charging stations having a single port to qualify for a rebate. Increases flexibility of the Public Utilities Commission to administer the electric vehicle charging station rebate program. Allows for marketing and outreach expense to be included within allowable administration costs of the electric vehicle charging station rebate program.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1812	RELATING TO THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY. Clarifies that the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority's duties include supporting aquaculture.	AGR/ECD, FIN
HB1813	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. Established within the Highways Division of the Department of Transportation a pilot program to maintain areas beneath certain highway bridges. Appropriates moneys.	TRN, FIN
HB1814	RELATING TO FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS. Establishes a temporary fetal alcohol spectrum disorders task force within the Department of Health for administrative purposes. Requires a report to the Legislature. Establishes the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders special fund, to be administered by the Department of Human Services, and which shall consist of federal funds and interest earned on those funds.	HHH, JHA, FIN
HB1815	RELATING TO ONLINE SPORTS WAGERING. Creates the online sports wagering corporation to regulate and administer sports wagering in the State over the internet.	ECD, CPC/JHA
HB1816	RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSES. Extends the expiration date of a driver's license for a licensee who is seventy-two years of age or older from two years to four years.	JHA
HB1817	RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. Requires shopping centers having 15 or more retail tenants to have no less than 1 publicly available restroom. Effective 1/1/2022.	CPC
HB1818	RELATING TO BROTHER JOSEPH DUTTON DAY. Designates April 27 of each year as Brother Joseph Dutton Day.	CAI, JHA
HB1819	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a nonrefundable state child tax credit.	HHH, FIN
HB1820	RELATING TO CASINO GAMING. Grants a 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, CPC, JHA
HB1821	RELATING TO ENERGY. Includes as an objective in energy-related planning for the State's facility systems that all new utility scale electricity generation projects be renewable. Includes state policies that ensure short- and long-term provision of adequate, reasonably priced, and dependable renewable energy services, prioritizing the dispatch of renewable energy generation. Updates the State's policies to ensure that all new utility scale electricity generation projects are renewable, prioritize renewable energy generation, and include the use of non-fossil fuel sources in the development or expansion of energy systems. Appropriates moneys.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1822	RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSES. Extends the renewal period from two years to four years for licensees who are seventy years of age or older but younger than eighty years of age. Requires applicants for a new license or for license renewal who are seventy years of age or older to present certification of physical and mental competence from a doctor upon application.	JHA
HB1823	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 and clinical nurse specialists, 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, CPC, JHA
HB1824	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE OFFICE OF THE LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM. Appropriates funds to the Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman for 5.0 FTE ombudsman program specialist positions.	HHH, FIN
HB1825	RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE HEALTH INSURANCE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Appropriates funds to expand the Hawaii State Health Insurance Assistance Program by: (1) contracting with third party service providers and staffing consultants and (2) recruiting more volunteers.	HHH, FIN
HB1826	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Establishes the long-term rental assistance pilot program to be administered by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for individuals over sixty-two years old who are homeless, or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Appropriates funds.	HSG, FIN
HB1827	RELATING TO THE PULEHUNUI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT. Establishes the Pulehunui community development district. Establishes community development district authority boards for each community development district. Amends the membership and reassigns certain duties of the Hawaii Community Development Authority to the community development district authority boards.	WAL, FIN
HB1828	RELATING TO THE TAXATION BOARD OF REVIEW. Reduces the size of the Taxation Board of Review from 10 members to 3, with at least 2 members required for quorum. Establishes that the members shall be full-time employees, with compensation based on a percentage of the salary of the director of taxation. Authorizes the members of the Taxation Board of Review to validate the board's actions with a concurrence of the majority of members who heard the appeal. Clarifies that board meetings are contested case hearings and provides notice requirements. Clarifies the legal and evidentiary framework the board shall use in reaching its decisions. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Taxation to establish 3 full-time equivalent Taxation Board of Review members and 2 full-time equivalent staff positions.	ECD, JHA, FIN
HB1829	RELATING TO BONDS. Specifies that the entire allocation of the state bond ceiling shall go to the State to be used for housing related projects. Removes the authorization for counties or issuers to request additional allocations of the state bond ceiling. Requires counties or issuers that retain their allocation to submit quarterly reports on the status or use of any allocation. Requires a project to first apply to the county in which the project is located, if the county has a private activity bond issuance program, before applying to the State. Changes the dates for reverted or remaining allocations and requires certain reverted or remaining allocations to be used for housing related projects. Sunsets on 12/31/2027.	HSG, FIN
HB1830	RELATING TO STATE SELF-INSURANCE AGAINST PROPERTY AND CASUALTY RISKS. Establishes the State self-insurance against property and casualty risks special fund to be administered by the comptroller to provide the State with self-insurance against the State's property and casualty risks. Appropriates funds.	GVR, CPC, FIN
HB1831	RELATING TO BEACHES. Includes in the State's policies for the physical environment under the Hawaii State Planning Act, the development of a statewide beach assessment study and a restoration and conservation plan.	WAL, FIN
HB1832	RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE SERVICE AGENCIES. Provides for the process of seeking, examining, and recommending candidates for legislative service agency director vacancies by the joint legislative management committee. Amends the duties and membership of the joint legislative management committee.	LMG, FIN
HB1833	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Requires the University of Hawaii to establish in each county, K-12 expanded teaching cohort programs for students who are pursuing undergraduate degrees in education. Requires interim reports prior to the regular sessions of 2023, 2024, and 2025, and a final report prior to the regular session of 2026. Repeals 12/31/26.	HET, FIN
HB1834	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the DOE to establish and administer the strong students grant pilot program to provide grants for eligible education expenses to eligible students. Requires the DOE to submit progress reports to the legislature prior to the 2023 and 2024 regular sessions. Appropriates funds received by the State from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, established by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act and Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, for the pilot program.	PDP, EDN, FIN
HB1835	RELATING TO HOUSING. Authorizes the counties to reclassify lands fifteen to one hundred acres in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts in which at least fifty per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for persons and families with incomes at or below one hundred forty per cent of the area median income.	HSG/WAL, CPC, FIN
HB1836	RELATING TO HOUSING. Establishes expedited county approvals for district boundary amendments for affordable housing projects on land areas fifteen acres or less. Requires consultation with the Hawaii community development authority for affordable housing development within designated community development districts.	HSG/WAL, CPC, FIN
HB1837	RELATING TO HOUSING. Requires each county to provide an annual report to the legislature on the county's efforts at reducing zoning and regulatory barriers to housing development.	HSG/WAL, CPC, FIN
HB1838	RELATING TO A COASTAL ZONE PROGRAM. Establishes, within the office of planning and sustainable development, a taskforce, advisory group, and consultant team to develop a coastal zone framework-development taskforce to develop a programmatic framework for a Hawaii next generation coastal zone management program. Makes an appropriation.	WAL, FIN
HB1839	RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. Makes camper vans a type of transient accommodation, the rental of which is subject to the transient accommodations tax.	LAT, ECD, FIN
HB1840	RELATING TO DISTRICT BOUNDARY AMENDMENTS. Authorizes the appropriate county land use decision-making authority to determine district boundary amendments involving land areas over fifteen acres but less than or equal to fifty acres if the county has adopted an ordinance that meets certain requirements.	WAL, CPC, FIN
HB1841	RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Increases the rate of compensation and maximum allowable amounts per case for court-appointed counsel and guardian ad litem. Appropriates funds.	JHA, FIN
HB1842	RELATING TO CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON HUMAN HEALTH. Establishes and appropriates funds for a climate change and human health adaptation coordinator within the department of health and related operating expenses.	EEP, FIN
HB1843	RELATING TO CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES. Appropriates funds for the Judiciary to purchase civil legal services for low and moderate income persons.	JHA, FIN
HB1844	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to establish one full-time agriculture education coordinator position.	AGR, HET, FIN
HB1845	RELATING TO FERAL ROOSTERS AND CHICKENS. Appropriates funds to the Department of Natural Resources Division of State Parks for the eradication of feral roosters and chickens on state lands.	WAL/AGR, FIN
HB1846	RELATING TO LEAF BLOWERS. Clarifies that the residential zone restriction on the use of leaf blowers at certain hours includes residential districts, apartment districts, and business mixed use districts. Removes the exemption on leaf blower restrictions for government agencies.	HHH, CPC
HB1847	RELATING TO TRANSIENT VACATION UNITS. Authorizes any person to commence a civil action in district court on that person's own behalf against any owner of a dwelling unit if the owner advertises, solicits, offers, or provides the dwelling unit as a transient vacation unit and the owner is not authorized by the applicable county to provide the unit as a transient vacation unit.	WAL, JHA
HB1848	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
HB1849	RELATING TO STATE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. Requires certain information on the financial disclosure statements deemed to be public records for non-paid volunteer members of state boards and commissions to be redacted.	GVR, JHA, CPC
HB1850	RELATING TO MINORS. Provides that a school counselor, domestic violence victim advocate, or other mental health professional licensed by the State may petition for a protective order on a minor's behalf when the minor's parent or guardian is unwilling or unable to submit a petition; provided that certain specified information is provided in support of the petition.	HHH, JHA
HB1851	RELATING TO CHILD CUSTODY. Requires certain individuals attempting to serve as child custody evaluators to complete a training course on domestic violence issues every 3 years. Requires the Family Court to approve training courses and publish approved courses on the Judiciary website.	HHH, JHA
HB1852	RELATING TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION TRUST FUND. Appropriates funds for the unemployment compensation trust fund.	LAT, CPC, FIN
HB1853	RELATING TO LEAF BLOWERS. Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, or operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers. Increases the amounts of fines for offenses against leaf blower restrictions and provides for the forfeiture of gasoline-powered leaf blowers on a third violation. Removes the exemption on leaf blower restrictions for government agencies. Takes effect 1/1/2024.	HHH, CPC
HB1854	RELATING TO NOISE CONTROL. Enhances the control of low-frequency noise emitted from establishments regulated by county liquor commissions by setting a maximum permissible noise level in dBC measurements. Clarifies that emission of noise that exceeds the maximum permissible noise level constitutes a noise violation. Allows noise violations to be enforced by summons or citation issued by law enforcement officers. Allows county liquor commissions to adopt rules to issue fines for noise violation. Allows county liquor commissions to revoke or suspend a liquor license, deny the application, renewal, or transfer of a license, or withhold issuance of a license when the licensee or applicant fails to take corrective action to address noise complaints or violations.	HHH, CPC
HB1855	RELATING TO LIQUOR LICENSES. Increases the maximum allowable fine for violation of liquor control laws by a licensee from $2,000 to $5,000.	CPC, FIN
HB1856	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Increases the minimum and potential maximum fine for violating certain provisions relating to the installation of a noisy muffler.	HHH, CPC
HB1857	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATIONS. Requires that the fees for attorneys retained by a condominium association be paid from an association's funds or reserves. Limits the total and final legal fees to twenty-five per cent of the original debt amount. Requires attorneys retained by a condominium association to confine their communications to the condominium board, except when the attorneys must request and require materials and responses directly from owners for each matter. Prohibits attorneys retained by a condominium association from billing unit owners directly.	CPC, FIN
HB1858	RELATING TO SHORT-TERM RENTAL ASSISTANCE. Establishes the short-term rental assistance fund and short-term rental assistance program. Makes an appropriation.	HSG, FIN
HB1859	RELATING TO HOUSING. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the State Rent Supplement Program.	HSG, FIN
HB1860	RELATING TO CATALYTIC CONVERTERS. Requires licensed used motor vehicle part dealers to keep records of purchases and sales of catalytic converters and requires the sellers to file a written statement that the seller has the lawful right to sell and dispose of the catalytic converter. Establishes the offense of theft of catalytic converter as a class C felony. Increases the penalty for engaging in the business of purchasing or selling used motor vehicle parts and accessories without a license. Requires scrap dealers to keep records of purchases and sales of palladium, platinum, and rhodium. Requires all scrap dealers to pay for palladium, platinum, and rhodium, and used motor vehicle part dealers to pay for catalytic converters, by check.	CPC, JHA
HB1861	RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE. Prohibits a landlord from terminating certain tenancies without just cause. Requires a landlord to provide relocation assistance or waive the last month's rent when terminating a tenancy for no-fault just cause. Restricts how much and how often a landlord may increase an existing tenant's rent. Establishes the Hawaii rent board to oversee annual rent increases and conduct rental arbitrations, mediations, and investigative hearings on reports of wrongful evictions. Establishes a rent stabilization special fund, to be funded by a separate fee assessed on rental units to support the activities of the Hawaii rent board.	CPC, JHA
HB1862	RELATING TO EVICTION RECORDS. Requires that all court records of any eviction proceeding be sealed within specified timeframes upon resolution of the proceeding. Authorizes the court to seal certain eviction records prior to the expiration of these timeframes upon motion by a tenant who is able to demonstrate that certain conditions apply. Requires the clerk of the court to provide access to sealed eviction records to the tenant. Makes it a discriminatory practice to require a person to disclose a sealed eviction record as a condition of certain real property transactions. Prohibits discrimination in real property transactions against a person with a sealed eviction record.	CPC, JHA
HB1863	RELATING TO LANDLORD-TENANT DISPUTES. Provides for state-funded access to legal services to residential tenants in actions or proceedings for possession, with full access to each income-eligible tenant available by 7/1/2027. Authorizes attorneys, paralegals, and law students to provide the legal services. Appropriates funds for the judiciary to contract for the legal services.	CPC, JHA, FIN
HB1864	RELATING TO SCHOOL FOOD PROGRAMS. Appropriates funds for school cafeteria upgrades and cafeteria staff training to improve the ability of the department of education's school food programs to serve students fresh, locally grown foods.	AGR, EDN, FIN
HB1865	RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Removes federal funds disbursement authority from State Public Charter School Commission. Authorizes the Department of Budget and Finance to disburse federal funds directly to public charter schools. Repeals the exemption for charter schools from requirements on the administration and use of the federal funds allocated to the State for public education purposes.	EDN, FIN
HB1866	RELATING TO INTOXICATION. Amends the procedures under which a blood test, urine test, or breath test is administered in the event of certain vehicular collisions. Prohibits state courts from vacating any conviction for a crime that was committed before 12/5/2016, if the only basis for doing so would be a warrantless blood test for an intoxicant, unless otherwise required by constitutional law.	JHA
HB1867	RELATING TO HOMICIDE. Changes the name of the offense of negligent homicide to vehicular homicide. Recategorizes the penalty categories for each of the 3 degrees of the offense to the next highest level of severity. Establishes that a person who has been convicted of vehicular homicide in the first degree shall be sentenced without the possibility of suspension of sentence or probation. Prohibits any prosecutor from dismissing a charge of vehicular homicide in the first degree in exchange for a defendant's agreement to a change of plea on a lesser charge, or for any other reason, unless the charge is not supported by probable cause or cannot be proven at trial. For any prosecution of vehicular homicide in the first degree that alleges that the defendant operated the vehicle while having a concentration of alcohol of .08% or more in the defendant's blood or breath, establishes as an affirmative defense that the concentration was the result of the defendant's consumption of alcohol after the defendant stopped operation of the vehicle.	JHA
HB1868	RELATING TO EGG-LAYING HENS. Requires farm owners or operators to confine egg-laying hens in accordance with the standards established in this measure. Effective 6/30/27, 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, JHA
HB1869	RELATING TO VIOLATION OF PRIVACY. Establishes limits on the government's use of facial recognition systems, with certain specified exceptions.	HET, JHA, FIN
HB1870	RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY'S ‘OLELO HAWAI‘I INITIATIVES. Appropriates funds for staff positions and various services to support the ‘Olelo Hawai‘i Initiatives.	JHA, FIN
HB1871	RELATING TO GIFTS. Excludes from the State Code of Ethics' prohibition against acceptance of gifts by legislators and employees, foreign protocol gifts, gifts of aloha, invitations to certain events, and meals, under certain conditions. Defines foreign protocol gifts and gifts of aloha.	GVR, JHA
HB1872	RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to recognize that game mammals and game birds provide a food source and play a role in native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices and that striking the right balance between the management of game mammal and game bird populations and sustainability of their natural habitats to reduce negative impacts to important watershed areas is a priority and that the State's unique relationship with the ocean requires careful consideration and management of land and ocean activities that prioritize the public trust responsibilities of the State. Requires each department, office, or agency of the State to update its rules and policies to integrate the local hunting and fishing industries into any food security or sustainability strategies that department, office, or agency employs.	WAL, FIN
HB1873	RELATING TO HEMP. Reduces from 500 feet to 100 feet the buffers for the growth and processing of hemp. Exempts certain authorized hemp producers from processor registration requirements. Authorizes certain authorized hemp producers to process hemp in certified kitchens, food hubs, and agricultural parks.	AGR, CPC, FIN
HB1874	RELATING TO BOARDS. Allows a board to conduct up to one retreat in private per calendar year; provided that the board does not vote on any matter, make decisions, or deliberate toward a decision on any matter currently pending before the board or likely to arise before the board.	GVR, FIN
HB1875	RELATING TO INCARCERATION. Short form bill relating to incarceration.	JHA
HB1876	RELATING TO CRIME PREVENTION AND CONTROL. Short form bill relating to crime prevention and control.	JHA
HB1877	RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES. Short form bill relating to civil rights and liberties.	JHA
HB1878	RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Amends the period in which the supreme court is in session to annual terms commencing on the first Monday in January of each year. Effective 1/1/2024.	JHA
HB1879	RELATING TO THE CAMPAIGN SPENDING COMMISSION. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to file a complaint with the local office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or Postmaster General as appropriate for grossly false or anonymous advertisements.	GVR, JHA
HB1880	RELATING TO ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS. Requires a person to file a statement of information with the campaign spending commission for every expenditure for an electioneering communication.	GVR, JHA
HB1881	RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Requires the maintenance of transfer records relating to certain campaign contributions and transfers. Requires certain covered persons to seek permission from contributors to use of transfer contributed funds for independent campaign spending. Requires certain major contributors to disclose and maintain relevant records relating to the identities of other contributors. Requires certain covered persons to file disclosure reports with the Campaign Spending Commission. Facilitates the identification of certain top contributors of funds for certain political advertisements. Prohibits structured transactions.	GVR, JHA, FIN
HB1882	RELATING TO RANKED CHOICE VOTING. Establishes ranked choice voting for special federal elections and special elections of vacant county council seats.	JHA, FIN
HB1883	RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires the exterior of the envelope containing the ballot package to include instructions on how to obtain language translation services in Hawaiian and certain foreign languages.	JHA, FIN
HB1884	RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE. Prohibits any person whose driver's license has been administratively revoked or who has been convicted for offenses involving operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant from being eligible for a driver's license without providing proof of compliance with the ignition interlock law. Prohibits a person from driving for two years if the person does not own or have the use of a vehicle for the installation of an ignition interlock device or is otherwise unable to drive during the revocation period.	CPC, JHA
HB1885	RELATING TO GOVERNMENT DATA. Establishes a chief data officer and data task force within the office of enterprise technology services to develop, implement, and manage statewide data policies, procedures, and standards and to facilitate data sharing across state agencies. Appropriates funds.	HET, CPC, FIN
HB1886	RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. Bans hemp products that contain Delta 8 tetrahydrocannabinol. Adds Delta 8 tetrahydrocannabinol to the list of schedule I controlled substances.	JHA, CPC
HB1887	RELATING TO JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS. Requires the department of human services to continue to lead a working group to address visitation and support needs of children and families of incarcerated individuals. Requires the judiciary to coordinate discussions with the department of human services and to work with the department of public safety, family reunification working group, and other entities serving children and families affected by parental incarceration to establish a pilot visitation and family resource center at Waiawa correctional facility. Requires the visitation and family resource center to be run by a non-profit. Requires working group to report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2023. Appropriates funds.	CMV, JHA, FIN
HB1888	RELATING TO ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS. Specifies the disclosure date for subsequent expenditures for electioneering communications. Requires that disclosures of electioneering communications occur on the date the electioneering communications are publicly distributed. Applies to all elections beginning with the 2022 primary election.	GVR, JHA, FIN
HB1889	RELATING TO HOMICIDE. Changes the name of the offense of negligent homicide to vehicular homicide. Recategorizes the penalty categories for each of the three degrees of the offense to the next highest level of severity.	JHA
HB1890	RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Extends by one business day the deadline by which a candidate may withdraw for any reason from an election for public office.	JHA, FIN
HB1891	RELATING TO THE UNIFORM RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF CANADIAN DOMESTIC-VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDERS ACT. Enacts the Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic-Violence Protection Orders Act.	HHH, JHA
HB1892	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Requires the Department of Health to provide to elderly residents free wireless broadband internet access in parking lots adjoining Department of Health buildings in each county. Appropriates moneys.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1893	RELATING TO THE OAHU REGIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. Requires the transfer of the Daniel K. Akaka state veterans home to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and then to the Department of Health as part of the Oahu Regional Health Care System. Extends the date of the transfer of the Oahu Regional Health Care System to the Department of Health by 1 year.	HHH, CPC, FIN
HB1894	RELATING TO HUMAN REMAINS. Accommodates the use of both traditional Hawaiian burial practices and environmentally-friendly burial practices by including water cremation in the treatment and disposal of human remains.	HHH, JHA, CPC
HB1895	RELATING TO TENANT RIGHTS. Establishes a penalty for landlord violations of the residential landlord-tenant code. Establishes minimum notice requirements for landlords terminating rental agreements. Limits the allowable amount for landlord rent increases annually. Requires landlords to pay tenants when terminating or refusing to renew a rental agreement.	CPC, JHA
HB1896	RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Expands the grounds for the department of labor and industrial relations to determine that services performed by an individual for wages or under a contract of hire are not employment for purposes of the Hawaii employment security law. Replaces references to master and servant with the common law equivalent of employer and employee.	LAT, JHA, FIN
HB1897	RELATING TO THE SUNSHINE LAW. Requires all boards to livestream meetings and archive the recordings online. Requires a board to identify each item on its meeting agenda as an item for action or an item for discussion and allow for oral testimony after each agenda item. Amends time frame requirements for the posting of board meeting minutes and board packets. Requires board meeting minutes and board packets to be posted online.	GVR, JHA
HB1898	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE VALUATION. When identifying a replacement vehicle or cash settlement value, requires an insurer to take into consideration costs of shipping the vehicle and the insured's travel for pre-purchase inspection of the replacement vehicle, if not on the same island, and, if the insured vehicle is an electric vehicle, the remaining battery life and capacity of the vehicle's primary battery, known as the traction battery pack, which shall have equal or greater weight than mileage on the vehicle.	TRN, CPC
HB1899	RELATING TO TOURISM MANAGEMENT. Includes best practice destination management and regenerative tourism under the scope and responsibilities of the Hawaii tourism authority. Requires the Hawaii tourism authority to develop a tourism management plan that includes tourism marketing, best practice destination management, and regenerative tourism.	LAT, CPC, FIN
HB1900	RELATING TO THRILL CRAFT. Updates the definition of thrill craft, as used in the state boating law, and includes within the term surfboards using a motorized hydrofoil.	WAL, CPC, FIN

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HB1436	RELATING TO DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS. Expands the authority of the counties to transfer development rights to address areas at risk of sea level rise, coastal erosion, storm surge, or flooding.	WAL, CPC
HB1450	RELATING TO THE COUNTY TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. Requires county transient accommodations taxes to be levied, assessed, collected, and otherwise administered by the Department of Taxation. Repeals the rate limit on the county transient accommodations tax. Requires transient accommodations tax revenues to be used to address pressures of the visitor industry on the demand for county services.	LAT, FIN