Hse Referral sheet template, revision no. 00002

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		Committee
		REFERRAL
HB1	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Short form bill relating to the environment.	EEP
HB2	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Short form bill relating to the environment.	EEP
HB3	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Short form bill relating to the environment.	EEP
HB4	RELATING TO ENERGY. Short form bill relating to energy.	EEP
HB5	RELATING TO ENERGY. Short form bill relating to energy.	EEP
HB6	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Short form bill relating to transportation.	TRN
HB7	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Short form bill relating to transportation.	TRN
HB8	RELATING TO STATE HIGHWAYS. Short form bill relating to state highways.	TRN
HB9	RELATING TO HARBORS Short form bill relating to harbors.	TRN
HB10	RELATING TO AIRPORTS. Short form bill relating to airports.	TRN
HB11	RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS. Specifies that primary and secondary plan documents be listed in the public disclosure statement of a time share plan. Clarifies the manner in which the required disclosure of liens, title defects, or encumbrances on the titles of units may be made. Provides that a review of encumbrances be waived upon the certification from the developer that the time share interest is free and clear of blanket liens or that identifies all blanket liens.	TOU, CPC
HB12	RELATING TO TIME SHARING. Clarifies that a developer is responsible for ensuring that the use of out-of-state time share units for time sharing purposes complies with zoning and land use laws and rules of the jurisdiction where the time share units are located but is not required to submit evidence of such compliance to register in Hawaii.	TOU, CPC
HB13	RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS. For time share plans that use title-holding trusts, requires the developer to submit a title report evidencing that the title vested in the trustee. For time share plans that use a notice of time share plan, requires the recordation of the notice and its submission. For time share plans that use alternative arrangements, requires the recordation of any alternative arrangement documents.	TOU, CPC
HB14	RELATING TO LAND. 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. Specifies that agricultural multi-use lands under the management of the department of land and natural resources are not subject to transfer to and management by the department of agriculture. Before the transfer of non-agricultural park lands, authorizes the department of agriculture to request information from the department of land and natural resources related to the establishment of necessary and reasonable easements upon the lands. Requires the board of land and natural resources to revise its land classifications to include agricultural multi-use lands. 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. Establishes and appropriates funds for an agricultural multi-use lands specialist position.	WAL/AGR, JHA, FIN
HB15	RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY LIENS. Authorizes the State and the county in which the affected real property is situated to place a lien on the property for unpaid civil fines resulting from a violation of a land use law in connection with the property. Authorizes the State and applicable county to sell the property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings, if any, are exhausted and use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB16	RELATING TO LIQUOR. Authorizes liquor licensees to sell unopened beer, wine, and prepackaged cocktails with food for pick up, delivery, take out, or other means to be consumed off-premises. Authorizes liquor licensees holding class 4 retail dealer licenses to deliver purchased liquor to a customer's vehicle.	CPC, JHA
HB17	RELATING TO LIQUOR LICENSES. Authorizes a county liquor commission to allow licensees to sell unopened beer, wine, and prepackaged cocktails with food for pick up, delivery, take out, or other means to be consumed off‑premises.	CPC, JHA
HB18	RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Short form bill relating to procurement.	LGO
HB19	RELATING TO ETHICS. Short form bill relating to ethics.	JHA
HB20	RELATING TO LABOR. Short form bill relating to Labor.	LGO
HB21	RELATING TO LABOR. Short form bill relating to labor.	LGO
HB22	RELATING TO STATE WORKERS. Short form bill relating to state workers.	LGO
HB23	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. changes from 35% to 20% the light transmittance requirement for certain motor vehicle sun screening devices.	CPC, JHA
HB24	RELATING TO WATER COMMON CARRIERS. Removes the requirement that water common carriers secure prior approval of the Public Utilities Commission to enter into long term leases of more than three years and leverage leases.	TRN, CPC, FIN
HB25	RELATING TO TAXATION. Short form bill relating to taxation.	FIN
HB26	RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS. Short form bill relating to non-general funds.	FIN
HB27	RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET. Short form bill relating to the state budget.	FIN
HB28	RELATING TO STATE PROGRAMS. Short form bill relating to state programs.	FIN
HB29	RELATING TO STATE FINANCES. Short form bill relating to state finances.	FIN
HB30	RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Makes technical amendments to the definition of "state funds" as it relates to the deposit of certain moneys into the state treasury.	FIN
HB31	RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Requires the senate president and house speaker to be notified in writing upon the receipt of any federal-aid moneys for expenditure by the State within ten days following receipt.	FIN
HB32	RELATING TO GOVERNMENT SERVICES. Clarifies the office of the legislative analyst.	LMG, FIN
HB33	RELATING TO STATE BONDS. Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds. Makes findings required by Article VII, Section 13, of the Hawaii State Constitution to declare that the issuance of authorized bonds will not cause the debt limit to be exceeded.	FIN
HB34	RELATING TO THE WORKS OF ART SPECIAL FUND. Deletes as a source of funds for the works of art special fund capital improvement appropriations for renovations.	CAI, FIN
HB35	RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUND REPORTS. Amends the contents required to be submitted in each annual non‑general fund program measures report and non-general fund cost element report.	LGO, FIN
HB36	RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS. Abolishes certain non-general funds of the Department of Education pursuant to the recommendations contained in Auditor's Report No. 22‑01.	EDN, FIN
HB37	RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS. Abolishes the Native Hawaiian rights fund of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs pursuant to the recommendation contained in Auditor's Report No. 22‑02.	JHA, FIN
HB38	RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS. Reclassifies the human resources development special fund as a revolving fund pursuant to the recommendation made by the Auditor in Auditor's Report No. 22-12.	LGO, FIN
HB39	RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS. Abolishes or reclassifies certain non-general funds of the Department of Taxation pursuant to the recommendations contained in Auditor's Report No. 22-14.	FIN
HB40	RELATING TO THE GENERAL FUND. Provides a tax credit to taxpayers and makes deposits to the emergency and budget reserve fund and other post-employment benefits trust fund pursuant to article VII, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution. Appropriates funds.	ECD, FIN
HB41	RELATING TO PRICE TRANSPARENCY. Requires all businesses engaged in the sale of goods to include the amount of general excise tax owed in any display or tag indicating the price of the goods. Effective 1/1/2024.	ECD, CPC, FIN
HB42	RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Authorizes candidates of inactive campaigns and their candidate committees to donate residual campaign funds to the State or the counties.	JHA, FIN
HB43	RELATING TO RECYCLING. Requires the Auditor to conduct a financial audit of the deposit beverage container program and the Department of Health's expenditures from the deposit beverage container deposit special fund.	EEP, LGO/CPC, FIN
HB44	RELATING TO LITTERING. Increases from $1,000 to $2,000 the maximum fine for the petty misdemeanor offense of criminal littering.	JHA, FIN
HB45	RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION. Short form bill relating to higher education.	HET
HB46	RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION. Short form bill relating to higher education.	HET
HB47	RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY. Short form bill relating to technology.	HET
HB48	RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY. Short form bill relating to technology.	HET
HB49	RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY. Short form bill relating to technology.	HET
HB50	RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES. Short form bill relating to early learning opportunities.	EDN
HB51	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Short form bill relating to education.	EDN
HB52	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT. Requires state agencies to offer individuals who resigned or were dismissed from employment for not complying with vaccination or testing requirements the option to be reinstated, with back pay, to the position that person held prior to their termination.	LGO, FIN
HB53	RELATING TO RIGHT TO REPAIR. Requires manufacturers of digital electronic equipment to make available to owners and independent repair providers, on fair and reasonable terms, the documentation, parts, and tools used to diagnose, maintain, and repair the equipment.	HET, CPC, FIN
HB54	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program.	EDN, CPC, FIN
HB55	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the department of education to establish grant programs to provide funds for the planning and implementation of community schools.	EDN, FIN
HB56	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL PARK LEASES. Allows the department of agriculture to extend the agricultural park lease of any lessee who holds a lease with a remaining term of 15 years or less; provided that the land covered by the lease is 25 acres or less, located in a county with a population of less than 500,000, and in active agricultural production.	AGR/WAL, FIN
HB57	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.	LGO, CPC, FIN
HB58	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.	LGO, CPC, FIN
HB59	RELATING TO LIBRARIES AT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Requires a qualified school librarian and library resources on the campus of every public school in Hawaii by 6/30/2026. Appropriates funds.	EDN, FIN
HB60	RELATING TO NATURAL RESOURCES. Short form bill relating to natural resources.	WAL
HB61	RELATING TO LAND USE. Short form bill relating to land use.	WAL
HB62	RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Short form bill relating to government.	WAL
HB63	RELATING TO DISASTERS. Short form bill relating to disasters.	WAL
HB64	RELATING TO FIREARMS POSSESSION. Requires individuals denied a firearm permit or otherwise disqualified from possessing firearms and certain defendants to provide a sworn statement that the individual has disposed of any firearms and ammunition in the individual's possession. Requires the applicable chief of police to search firearm permit and registration records for those individuals before serving a protective order or restraining order involving firearms or ammunition, and to seize any firearms or ammunition that were not disposed of. Requires police to seize firearms and ammunition in domestic abuse cases that are in plain view of the officer or discovered by consensual search.	JHA
HB65	RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Increases the amount of fines that may be assessed against a noncandidate committee for violations of organizational report requirements. Increases the amount of fines that may be assessed against noncandidate committees for violations of advertisement disclosure requirements. Increases the fines for advertisements paid by noncandidate committees making only independent expenditures.	JHA, FIN
HB66	RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Amends the process for electing members to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees. Requires the Reapportionment Commission to establish a reapportionment plan for the members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs so that they are elected according to their respective districts, rather than an at-large statewide election for each seat.	JHA, FIN
HB67	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PU‘UHONUA PROGRAM. Appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent positions for Windward community college's Pu‘uhonua program.	HET, FIN
HB68	RELATING TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE. Appropriates funds to establish a centralized statewide criminal pretrial justice data reporting and collection system pursuant to state law.	JHA, FIN
HB69	RELATING TO AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS. Appropriates funds for the department of education's resources for enrichment, athletics, culture, and health program.	EDN, FIN
HB70	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
HB71	RELATED TO SUMMARY POSSESSION. Requires that a current GET license number for any rental income be filed with the complaint to the court for summary possession proceedings. Requires the judiciary to submit an annual list of certain information regarding summary possession cases to the department of taxation.	CPC, JHA
HB72	RELATING TO ANIMALS. Establishes a $500 civil fine for the feeding or attempted feeding of any feral chicken. Provides that the department of health shall enforce this prohibition regardless of whether the department determines there is a nuisance that is dangerous or injurious to health. Authorizes county police departments to issue citations.	AGR, JHA, FIN
HB73	RELATING TO THE JOHN A. BURNS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. Requires that if a student pays resident tuition fees at the John A. Burns school of medicine, the student must work in Hawaii for at least five years within the ten years immediately following the student's graduation from the John A. Burns school of medicine; otherwise, the student must pay the difference between resident and nonresident tuition fees.	HET, FIN
HB74	RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Establishes a five-year general excise tax exemption beginning 1/1/24 for amounts received from the servicing and maintenance of helicopters in an aircraft service and maintenance facility or from the construction of a facility that services and maintains helicopters where at least 75 percent of the helicopters serviced and maintained annually in the facility are equipped with quiet technology. Sunsets 12/31/2028.	TRN, ECD, FIN
HB75	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. Increases, in tiers, the minimum amounts of liability insurance coverage required for motor vehicle insurance policies.	CPC, JHA, FIN
HB76	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. Increases the minimum amounts of liability insurance coverage required for motor vehicle insurance policies.	CPC, JHA, FIN
HB77	RELATING TO TEACHERS. Clarifies that public charter school teachers and other personnel employed by public charter schools under the same pay schedule are included in collective bargaining unit (5).	LGO, EDN, FIN
HB78	RELATING TO STRENGTHENING ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION. Expands eligibility for the Hawaii community college promise program to all qualified students. Appropriates funds to expand access to community college to qualified Hawaii residents through Hawaii community college promise program scholarships.	HET, FIN
HB79	RELATING TO MEDIA LITERACY. Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in its standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech.	EDN, FIN
HB80	RELATING TO AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENTS. Authorizes public school complex areas to use authentic assessments as part of classroom-based performance assessments.	EDN, FIN
HB81	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Requires the department of health to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of an outpatient mental health facility for children and adolescents living in the Ocean View region of Hawaii island, including in the communities of Ocean View, Milolii, Naalehu, and Pahala.	HLT, FIN
HB82	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PRECEPTORS. Expands eligibility for the health care preceptor tax credit by clarifying that preceptors may be compensated for standard clinical services and including specialties that support the development and training of students in primary care. Includes the director of health on the preceptor credit assurance committee.	HLT, ECD, FIN
HB83	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Establishes deadlines for paying or contesting provider bills related to workers' compensation injury treatment.	LGO, FIN
HB84	RELATING TO COUNTIES. Makes explicit the counties' authority to enact ordinances to amortize or phase out permitted, nonconforming, or otherwise allowed short-term rentals in any zoning classification. Includes swapping, bartering, or exchange of a residential dwelling, or portion thereof, in definition of "short-term rental" for this purpose.	HSG, WAL, JHA
HB85	RELATING TO SINGLE-USE PLASTICS. Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal care products in small plastic containers within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping room accommodations, or bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalties.	TOU, EEP, CPC
HB86	RELATING TO SAFETY AT HOME. Clarifies that a person who uses deadly force in self-defense does not have a duty to retreat if they are in their dwelling or on their property, unless they are the initial aggressor. Repeals statutory language that permits a person to use deadly force at their place of work.	JHA
HB87	RELATING TO PLASTIC BOTTLES. Effective January 1, 2024, prohibits the retail sale or offer for retail sale of single-use plastic bottles designed to hold less than two liters of liquid for oral consumption, unless the liquid is to be used for a medical purpose.	EEP, CPC, JHA
HB88	RELATING TO COASTAL EROSION. Establishes and appropriates funds for a two-year program at the University of Hawaii to study the impact of sandbag walls, or "sand burritos", on sand movement patterns and coastal erosion at Ehukai beach park on the north shore of Oahu. Establishes a temporary moratorium on the use of sandbag walls or "sand burritos", unless authorized by an emergency permit from the department of land and natural resources. Requires report to legislature. Appropriates funds.	WAL, FIN
HB89	RELATING TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS BY CANDIDATE COMMITTEES. Amends section 11-357, HRS, to prohibit elected officials as defined in section 11-342(d), HRS, from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the State Legislature, including any extension of any regular session or special session and any legislative recess day, holiday, or weekend.	JHA
HB90	RELATING TO COMMITTEE FUNDRAISERS. Amends section 11-342, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to increase transparency by requiring candidate committees and noncandidate committees to file fundraiser notices regardless of the price or suggested contribution for attending the function.	JHA
HB91	RELATING TO ORDERS OF THE CAMPAIGN SPENDING COMMISSION. Amends section 11-410, HRS, by: (1) amending subsection (b) to provide that a person waives the right to a contested case hearing if the person fails to request a contested case hearing within 20 days of receipt of the Commission's preliminary determination; and (2) amending subsection (d) to provide that a final order of the Commission may be filed in the First Circuit Court for confirmation as a civil judgment, enforceable and collectible as any other judgment issued by the circuit courts.	JHA
HB92	RELATING TO VIOLATIONS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW. Increases the amount of fine from $1,000 to $5,000 that may be assessed against a noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures that has received at least 1 contribution of more than $10,000, or spent more than $10,000 in an election period, for campaign spending law violations. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to order the fine be up to 3 times the amount of the unlawful contribution or expenditure, and to order that the payment of the fine assessed against a noncandidate committee, or any portion thereof, be paid from the personal funds of an officer of the noncandidate committee.	JHA, FIN
HB93	RELATING TO ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS. Amends sections 11-322 and 11-333, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require the Campaign Spending Commission ("Commission") to publish on its website the names of candidate and persons who qualify as noncandidate committees who fail to file an organizational report or a corrected organizational report with the Commission.	JHA
HB94	RELATING TO CANDIDATE COMMITTEE EXPENDITURES. Amends section 11-381, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to disallow the use of campaign funds to purchase up to two tickets for an event or fundraiser held by another candidate or committee.	JHA, FIN
HB95	RELATING TO PARTIAL PUBLIC FINANCING OF ELECTIONS. Increases the amount of partial public financing available for all offices. Amends section 11-425, HRS, by increasing the maximum amount of public funds available for all offices by 50%. Increases the maximum amount of public funds available for a candidate for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs from $1,500 to 10% of the expenditure limit established in section 11-423(d), HRS, for each election. Amends section 11-429(a), HRS, by increasing the amounts of qualifying contributions for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs from more than $1,500 in the aggregate to more than $5,000 in the aggregate. Provides a downward adjustment of the amounts of qualifying contributions for the Office of Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, County of Hawaii, and County of Kauai and for the Office of County Council for the County of Maui. Appropriates unspecified sums for each of the 2 fiscal years of the next biennium to pay for the increase in the partial public financing program. Appropriates $200,000 for each of the 2 fiscal years of the next biennium for the Commission to hire 2 additional staff members.	JHA, FIN
HB96	RELATING TO CONTRIBUTIONS BY STATE AND COUNTY CONTRACTORS AND GRANTEES OF THE STATE. Extends the ban on campaign contributions from state and county contractors to grantees of the State under Chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and to the owners, officers, employees and immediate family of the government contractor or state grantee.	JHA, FIN
HB97	RELATING TO PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION OF PROBABLE CAUSE. Provides for the service of the commission's preliminary determination of probable cause via first-class mail.	JHA
HB98	RELATING TO COMPLAINTS ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF CAMPAIGN SPENDING LAWS. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to treat a respondent's failure to explain or otherwise respond to a complaint alleging a violation of campaign spending laws as an admission that a violation has occurred.	JHA
HB99	RELATING TO LIMITING A CAMPAIGN'S ACCEPTANCE OF CASH CONTRIBUTIONS. Limits to $100 the total amount of cash a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee may accept from a single person during each election period.	JHA
HB100	RELATING TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA SHARING. Establishes a criminal justice data sharing working group to make recommendations for a statewide criminal justice data repository.	JHA
HB101	RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Clarifies that service and compensation awarded as part of an administrative, arbitral, or judicial proceeding are included in the calculation of retirement benefits and service time for the Employees' Retirement System.	LGO, FIN
HB102	RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS. Provides that a person having professional-level government employment performing lawful experience in review of engineered plans and calculations under the direct supervision of an applicably licensed engineer is eligible for licensure as a professional engineer.	CPC
HB103	RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Allows departments and agencies time to comply with Employees' Retirement System reporting standards based on when final specifications are provided by the Employees' Retirement System.	LGO, FIN
HB104	RELATING TO PUBLIC TRANSIT. Establishes the offense of interference with the operation of a public transit vehicle.	JHA
HB105	RELATING TO LICENSE PLATES. Requires license plates to include okinas. Authorizes the use of all uppercase letters, all lowercase letters, or initial capital letters in license plates.	CAI, JHA
HB106	RELATING TO THE COUNTIES. Authorizes a county to proceed with a power of sale on real property subject to a recorded lien.	JHA, FIN
HB107	RELATING TO RENEWAL OF DRIVER'S LICENSES. Authorizes the renewal of driver's licenses online or by electronic or digital means.	JHA
HB108	RELATING TO PUBLIC NOTICE. Allows government agencies to publish public notices on their official websites as an alternative to publishing them in the newspaper.	JHA, FIN
HB109	RELATING TO COUNTY ZONING. Clarifies county zoning to explicitly authorize counties to adopt zoning regulations that eliminate or amortize land uses or structures established after the effective date of the first comprehensive zoning ordinance adopted by a county and zoning regulations that restrict the time, place, manner, or duration of a land use activity that do not create different types of land uses by limiting the time, place, manner, or duration of a use of land.	WAL, FIN
HB110	RELATING TO LICENSE PLATES. Authorizes the use of diacritical marks for Hawaiian words on special number plates.	CAI, JHA
HB111	RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGE. Authorizes each county to establish a higher minimum wage than the state minimum wage.	LGO, FIN
HB112	RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Repeals the minimum age requirement for individuals who become an Employees' Retirement System member after 6/30/2012, and who have at least 25 years of credited service.	LGO, FIN
HB113	RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CODE. Requires procurement officers, when assessing an offeror's responsibility, to require the offeror to submit answers to questions contained in a standard questionnaire. Establishes certain questions that must be included in the questionnaire. Requires offerors to submit the questionnaire on an annual basis to be prequalified as responsible for projects by the procurement office. Provides that the information furnished in response to the questionnaire shall be available for public inspection and duplication.	LGO, FIN
HB114	RELATING TO PUBLIC TESTIMONY AT OPEN MEETINGS. Specifies that boards subject to the open meetings law shall allow oral testimony on any agenda item at the beginning of the board's agenda or meeting, provided that oral testimony shall not be limited to the beginning of a board's agenda. Specifies an exception for the legislative body of each county.	JHA
HB115	RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Repeals the minimum age requirement for individuals who become an Employees' Retirement System member after 6/30/2012, and who have at least 25 years of credited service.	LGO, FIN
HB116	RELATING TO SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS. Expands exclusions to the definition of "development" for purposes of special management areas to reduce the need for special management area permits for certain activities.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB117	RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Repeals section 328J-11.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB118	RELATING TO TRAFFIC FINES. Clarifies that each county may, by ordinance, designate certain sections of county highways as areas in which stopping, standing, or parking vehicles is prohibited or restricted.	JHA
HB119	RELATING TO FIREARMS. Creates the offense of negligent concealment of a firearm by a licensee.	JHA
HB120	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU. Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the victim witness assistance program.	JHA, FIN
HB121	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU. Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the career criminal prosecution unit.	JHA, FIN
HB122	RELATING TO PROBATION. Establishes the Hawaii Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Program to be administered by the Judiciary.	JHA, FIN
HB123	RELATING TO NOISE CONTROL. Allows for noise control infractions to be processed under the traffic and emergency period infractions adjudication process. Grants the district court concurrent jurisdiction over noise control infractions committed by minors.	JHA
HB124	RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. Repeals section 801-1 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.	JHA
HB125	RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. Adds a new section to Chapter 801, Hawaii Revised Statutes, establishing circumstances in which the presence of a defendant is required for court proceedings or may be waived.	JHA
HB126	RELATING TO PUBLIC CORRUPTION. Increases the penalties for bribery under certain circumstances. Amends the offense of obstruction of justice to include obstruction by force, threat of force, coercion, fraud, or deception.	JHA, FIN
HB127	RELATING TO FRAUD. Establishes the offense of fraud as a class B felony. Establishes the offense of making a false, fictitious, or fraudulent claim against the State or a county as a class C felony. Establishes the offense of the use of false statements or entries in matters within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of the State as a class C felony.	JHA
HB128	RELATING TO UNMANNED AIRCRAFT. Establishes the felony offenses of misuse of unmanned aircraft in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degrees.	JHA
HB129	RELATING TO RECOUNTS. Provides that a mandatory recount shall occur when the difference in votes cast is equal to or less than 100 votes or one-quarter of 1% of the total number of votes cast for the contest, whichever is lesser. Establishes that the filing deadline for a complaint for a contest for cause that arises from a mandatory recount shall be the same as the filing deadline for complaints for contests in which no mandatory recount was held.	JHA
HB130	RELATING TO VALIDATION OF BALLOTS. Changes the deadline for the validation of ballots following an election.	JHA
HB131	RELATING TO ADVISORY COMMITTEES. Renames the statewide and county-level voters with special needs advisory committees to elections accessibility needs advisory committees. Recognizes that voting accessibility needs may arise from disabilities other than those of a physical nature.	HLT, JHA
HB132	RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Defines "direct recording electronic voting system", "marksense ballot voting system", and "mechanical tabulation system". Amends the definition of "electronic voting system" to include the mechanical tabulation system and marksense ballot voting system. Specifies additional requirements and procedures with which the Chief Election Officer must comply when using an electronic voting system, including procedures for conducting the post-election, pre-certification audit.	JHA
HB133	RELATING TO THE BUDGET OF THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Appropriates moneys to fund the operating expenses of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the fiscal biennium beginning on 7/1/2023, and ending on 6/30/2025.	JHA, FIN
HB134	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR COUNTY ETHICS. Provides one-time grants-in-aid to the respective ethics boards of the counties of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii, and to the Ethics Commission of the City and County of Honolulu.	JHA, FIN
HB135	RELATING TO DISCLOSURES OF FINANCIAL INTERESTS. Establishes that certain candidates shall file disclosures of financial interests no later than 10 days after the nomination filing deadline. Establishes that the unauthorized release of confidential financial disclosure information is subject to chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Amends the fines imposed and procedures relating to disclosures of financial interests.	JHA, FIN
HB136	RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE ALLOWANCE. Requires each chamber of the Legislature to post on the Legislature's website a report of the legislative allowance expenditures for each member of the respective chamber.	JHA
HB137	RELATING TO LOBBYISTS. Requires the statement of expenditures filed with the State Ethics Commission to include information on the identity, by bill number, resolution number, budget cost or program identification number, or other identifier, of the legislative or administrative action that was commented on, supported by, or opposed by the person filing the statement during the statement period.	JHA
HB138	RELATING TO MANDATORY LOBBYIST TRAINING. Requires the State Ethics Commission to establish and administer a lobbyist training course and makes the lobbyist training course mandatory for all lobbyists.	JHA
HB139	RELATING TO NEPOTISM. Prohibits a legislator or public employee from naming, appointing, or hiring a relative for public employment. Prohibits a legislator or public employee from supervising a relative in public employment. Prohibits a legislator or employee from awarding a contract to a relative.	JHA
HB140	RELATING TO RECORD DISPOSITION. Provides the State Ethics Commission with the discretion to maintain or destroy records of financial disclosure statements beyond the current 6-year statutory requirement. Applies retroactively to applicable disclosures that are in the Commission's possession and control.	JHA
HB141	RELATING TO FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES. Requires each state legislator to include within the legislator's disclosures of financial interest the names of certain lobbyists with whom the legislator has a relationship.	JHA
HB142	RELATING TO GIFTS FROM LOBBYISTS. Prohibits lobbyists from making gifts that are prohibited under state ethics law.	JHA
HB143	RELATING TO THE REDUCED IGNITION PROPENSITY CIGARETTE PROGRAM. Provides for additional use of the reduced ignition propensity cigarette certification fees to support the State Fire Council and its programs and activities.	LGO, FIN
HB144	RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Repeals section 46-19.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the counties to determine the proper requirements for residential fire sprinkler systems.	CPC, JHA
HB145	RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Imposes a statewide limitation on consumer fireworks, except by permit for cultural events.	JHA
HB146	RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE COUNCIL. Adds to the membership of the State Fire Council, and to the membership of advisory committees that the Council may appoint, representatives from the Hawaii State Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting Unit and the Division of Forestry and Wildlife of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to reflect all non‑federal fire fighting agencies in the State.	LGO, WAL
HB147	RELATING TO VEHICLE WEIGHT TAXES. Amends the vehicle weight tax exemption for noncommercial vehicles by removing the exemption for military reserves and other active duty military personnel and adding an exemption for certain veterans.	TRN, FIN
HB148	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a surcharge on the conveyance tax upon the transfer or conveyance of prolonged vacant property.	HSG, FIN
HB149	RELATING TO TAX HAVEN ABUSE. Requires corporations to include the income of all foreign subsidiaries to the State. Applies the State's apportionment formula to determine the share of reported profits subject to the appropriate tax. Effective 1/1/2023.	ECD, FIN
HB150	RELATING TO TAXATION. Increases personal income tax revenues for high earning taxpayers by establishing new income tax brackets and rates that are applied against a broader level of taxable income for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2022.	ECD, FIN
HB151	RELATING TO THE ESTATE TAX. Amends the exclusion amount of Hawaii's estate tax. Repeals exemption for tax imposed on transfer of taxable estate located in Hawaii for nonresidents and nonresidents who are not citizens. Applicable to decedents dying or taxable transfers occurring after 12/31/2022. Effective 1/1/2024.	FIN
HB152	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Short form bill relating to the department of land and natural resources.	WAL
HB153	RELATING TO STATE WATER CODE PENALTIES. Adds a minimum penalty of $50 per violation of the State Water Code and makes each day that a violation exists or continues a separate offense. Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to determine the amount of the penalty based on the circumstances of the violation.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB154	RELATING TO TAXATION. Exempts state residents from the transient accommodations tax.	TOU, CPC, FIN
HB155	RELATING TO STUDENT INSTRUCTIONAL HOURS. Repeals the mandatory minimum number of student instructional hours for Department of Education public schools.	EDN, FIN
HB156	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-THIRD REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-third representative district.	FIN
HB157	RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE. Requires the Department of Education to each Hawaiian Language to students in each public elementary, middle, and high school.	EDN, JHA, FIN
HB158	RELATING TO VESSELS. Authorizes the Director of Transportation to adopt rules that regulate and limit noise from vessels at harbors, ports, roadsteads, docks, wharves, piers, quays, bulkheads, and landings of the State.	TRN, JHA
HB159	RELATING TO LIQUOR LICENSES. Eliminates the notarization requirement regarding applications for, renewals of, and transfers of liquor licenses.	CPC, FIN
HB160	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-FIFTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-fifth representative district.	FIN
HB161	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.	LGO, JHA, FIN
HB162	RELATING TO EMERGENCY WORKERS. Amends the definition of "emergency worker" in the Penal Code to include communications dispatchers.	LGO, JHA
HB163	RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Requires the employer to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit within 30 days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate. Establishes that the employer's failure to initiate the negotiation within such time frame and the parties' failure to reach an agreement within ninety day of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate or by January 31 of a year in which the collective bargaining agreement is due to expire, whichever is earlier, constitute an impasse to which the impasse procedures in section 89-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall apply.	LGO, FIN
HB164	RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL LICENSE FEE RENEWALS. Requires each public employer to pay for the employer's employees' professional license renewal fees.	LGO, FIN
HB165	RELATING TO INTERNAL COMPLAINT PROCEDURES. Clarifies internal complaint procedures for civil service positions by requiring a formal complaint to be filed within twenty working days.	LGO, FIN
HB166	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT. Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. Requires the employee to agree to subsequently work for the employer for at least 12 weeks upon return to service except under certain conditions.	LGO, CPC, FIN
HB167	RELATING TO WAGES. Makes general contractors entering into or under contracts in the State for work on buildings, structures, or other private works liable for debt incurred by subcontractors for wages due to claimants for performance of labor in the contract between the general contractor and owner.	LGO, JHA
HB168	RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS. Imposes penalties, including suspension, on the person and the firm upon a finding of violations of state law governing wages and hours of employees on public works projects.	LGO, JHA, FIN
HB169	RELATING TO BEACH PARK RESTORATION. Appropriates funds for a grant-in-aid to the County of Hawaii to hire an engineering firm to study, plan, assist, and conduct preliminary design and concept work for a two-phase project to restore the Kahaluu Beach Park in the County of Hawaii. Conditions the appropriation on the County of Hawaii contribution of matching funds.	WAL, FIN
HB170	RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. Short form bill relating to international affairs.	CAI
HB171	RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. Short form bill relating to international affairs.	CAI
HB172	RELATING TO CULTURE AND THE ARTS. Short form bill relating to culture and the arts.	CAI
HB173	RELATING TO CULTURE AND THE ARTS. Short form bill relating to culture and the arts.	CAI
HB174	RELATING TO CULTURE AND THE ARTS. Short form bill relating to culture and the arts.	CAI
HB175	RELATING TO EMERGENCY VEHICLES. Makes it discretionary for authorized emergency vehicles to use sirens when responding to an emergency or in other specified situations if the siren is not reasonably necessary under the circumstances.	JHA
HB176	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATIONS. Expands the real estate commissions enforcement authority to include violations of requirements for association meetings and board of director elections. Requires newly elected or appointed condominium association board members to certify in writing compliance with specified duties and obligations. Clarifies electronic voting device procedures. Eliminates proxy voting for condominium associations. Establishes additional requirements and procedures for association meetings and board of director elections, including notices of election, notice of intent to run for election, ballots, and runoff elections. Establishes penalties for improper voting and forgery of ballot envelopes.	HSG, CPC
HB177	RELATING TO NOISE CONTROL. Makes unlawful for any person to play, use, operate, or otherwise permit a sound amplifier that creates a noise disturbance within thirty feet of a hotel, detached dwelling, or multi-family dwelling in Waikiki between the hours of 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Establishes civil fines and criminal penalties for violations.	HLT, JHA
HB178	RELATING TO HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATIONS. Establishes an ombudsman's office for homeowner associations within the department of commerce and consumer affairs. Establishes an ombudsman's office special fund. Requires board members of condominium associations, cooperative housing corporations, and planned community associations to meet certain educational requirements through classes offered by the ombudsman. Updates statutes relating to condominium associations, cooperative housing corporations, and planned community associations to integrate the role and functions of the ombudsman's office for homeowner associations. Appropriates funds for establishment of the ombudsman's office. Effective 1/1/2024.	HSG, CPC, FIN
HB179	RELATING TO DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER MATERIALS. Requires deposit beverage distributors that sell, offer for sale, or distribute deposit beverage containers in the State to meet minimum postconsumer recycled content requirements or minimum non-petroleum materials content requirements.	EEP, CPC
HB180	RELATING TO CESSPOOLS. Creates within the Department of Health's wastewater branch a cesspool conversion section, which will be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes 2.0 full-time equivalent positions within the cesspool conversion section in fiscal year 2023-2024, and 2.0 additional full-time equivalent positions within the section in fiscal year 2024-2025. Appropriates moneys.	EEP/WAL, CPC, FIN
HB181	RELATING TO CESSPOOLS. Implements the recommendation of the cesspool conversion working group to accelerate the dates for required upgrades, conversions, or connections of priority level 1 cesspools and priority level 2 cesspools by requiring priority level 1 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2030, and priority level 2 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2035, rather than before 1/1/2050.	EEP/WAL, CPC, FIN
HB182	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Requires the Clean Water Branch to perform water quality testing during brown water advisories as practicable and inform the public of health risks associated with water runoff during brown water advisories. Requires the Department of Health to consider environmental justice issues when making certain assessments and determinations. Appropriates funds for positions within the Department of Health.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB183	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires all private schools to develop and implement comprehensive action plans for the management of anaphylaxis in their respective schools, including administration of auto-injectable epinephrine. Establishes certain immunity from liability for designated private school employees and agents who administer auto-injectable epinephrine during emergencies.	HLT, EDN, JHA
HB184	RELATING TO COMMERCIAL OCEAN RECREATION. Requires commercial ocean operators who take customers into state waters to engage in recreational activities to have at least one individual aboard the vessel who is rescue diver or lifeguard certified by a nationally recognized certification organization. Requires vessels that transport customers for the purpose of engaging in an activity in state waters to have a backboard, emergency oxygen, and an automated external defibrillator included in its onboard safety equipment.	WAL, CPC, FIN
HB185	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL. Makes a housekeeping amendment to section 341-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to delete a reference to a repealed section.	EEP, FIN
HB186	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Prohibits the mining, extraction, and removal of minerals from the seabed in all state marine waters. Prohibits the issuance of any permit for or in connection with the development or operation of any facility or infrastructure associated with the mining, extraction, or removal of minerals from the seabed within state marine waters.	EEP, WAL, FIN
HB187	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Establishes labor requirements for the construction of renewable energy projects with a capacity rating of ten megawatts or greater.	LGO, CPC
HB188	RELATING TO CARBON SEQUESTRATION. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii carbon smart land management assistance pilot program.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB189	RELATING TO MOPEDS. Prohibits a retailer from selling or offering for sale combustion engine-powered mopeds beginning January 1, 2030. Establishes fines for violations.	TRN, EEP, JHA
HB190	RELATING TO SCHOOL BUSES. Requires the Department of Education to waive school bus fees for fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. Appropriates moneys.	EDN, FIN
HB191	RELATING TO CLIMATE MITIGATION. Requires the public utilities commission to establish an estimated social cost of carbon; each regulated electric and gas utility to use the estimated social cost of carbon in the utility's respective integrated resource planning process; and the State to consider the estimated social cost of carbon in planning new infrastructure and capital improvement projects and when designing and constructing new buildings.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB192	RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. Prohibits the sale of certain fluorescent lamps as a new manufactured product, with certain exemptions.	EEP, CPC
HB193	RELATING TO ENERGY-EFFICIENCY PORTFOLIO STANDARDS. Extends the State's energy-efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045. Authorizes the public utilities commission to establish interim goals. Clarifies that certain demand response programs and related activities count toward the portfolio standards.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB194	RELATING TO EFFICIENCY STANDARDS. Allows the chief energy officer of the Hawaii state energy office to enforce minimum efficiency standards and adopt or amend efficiency standards. Sets minimum efficiency standards for air purifiers, electric vehicle supply equipment, portable electric spas, residential ventilating fans, toilets, urinals, and water coolers, effective 1/1/2025.	EEP, CPC
HB195	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distributed energy resource systems in real time by 1/1/2024. Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to adopt self-certification for solar distributed energy resource systems that are not SolarAPP+ compatible. Makes the professional engineers, architects, surveyors, and landscape architects licensure law inapplicable to work with respect to residential distributed energy resource systems and increases the estimated cost of work on certain structures below which that licensure law is inapplicable.	EEP/WAL, CPC, FIN
HB196	RELATING TO A DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Establishes a department of environmental protection on July 1, 2027. Creates a department of environmental protection working group to address the logistics required for the State to establish a department of environmental protection. Requires the working group to submit a report to the legislature prior to the 2026 regular session.	LGO/EEP, CPC, FIN
HB197	RELATING TO CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION. Requires the department of health to establish a refrigerant management program to reduce emissions of high global warming potential refrigerants and any refrigerant that is an ozone depleting substance from operation of stationary, commercial, and industrial refrigeration equipment responsible and adopt rules for the regulation of the use of such refrigerants. Requires the state building code council to establish codes and standards consistent with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with hydrofluorocarbons when updating the state building code. Appropriates funds.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB198	RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. Establishes the Low- to moderate-income electric vehicle rebate program and the electric vehicle subaccount to encourage the purchase and use of electric vehicles by low- to moderate-income households and nonprofit organizations providing assistive services to low- to moderate-income households. Appropriates funds for deposit into the electric vehicle subaccount.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB199	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Establishes a zero-emission vehicle fleet purchasing assistance program within the Hawaii state energy office to support the transition of private fleets to zero-emission vehicles. Designates the Hawaii state energy office as the agency responsible for developing and administering the program and requires the Hawaii state energy office to work with the department of transportation to design strategies to implement the zero-emission vehicle fleet purchasing assistance program.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB200	RELATING TO VESSELS. Beginning 1/1/2024, requires rental kayaks to be registered and numbered with the department of land and natural resources and have the identification number affixed to the rental kayak. Requires the department to establish fees for registration and registration renewal of rental kayaks.	WAL, CPC, FIN
HB201	RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Increases the minimum age of a building, structure, object, district, area, or site that would define it as historic property for purposes of the historic preservation program.	WAL, JHA
HB202	RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEWS. Requires the department of land and natural resources, through the state historic preservation division and subject to approval from the appropriate island burial council, to contract its review of proposed state projects, projects on privately owned historic property, and projects affecting historic properties to third-party consultants if the department will not be able to complete its review within sixty days.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB203	RELATING TO CIVIL SERVICE. Allows professional and technical staff of the state historic preservation division to be exempt from civil service laws.	WAL/LGO, FIN
HB204	RELATING TO MEASUREMENT STANDARDS. Prohibits the sale of farm raised fish and wild fish and shellfish without a label stating where the seafood was landed.	AGR, CPC
HB205	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.	HLT, JHA
HB206	RELATING TO MARRIAGE OF MINORS. Raises the minimum age requirement to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Removes the parental consent and written approval by the family court requirements for a minor to marry. Removes spousal cohabitation after the parties attain legal age as an exception for an annulment based on nonage. Makes conforming amendments.	HLT, JHA
HB207	RELATING TO LABOR. Requires employers with five or more employees to provide rest breaks under certain conditions.	LGO, FIN
HB208	RELATING TO CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. Appropriates funds to the department of the attorney general to collect data and conduct a study on how to reduce criminal activity in Waikiki.	JHA, FIN
HB209	RELATING TO TOURISM. Requires the department of agriculture to include a statement on desecration laws in the plants and animals declaration form.	AGR, JHA
HB210	RELATING TO MOLD. Establishes the mold information and awareness program administered by DOH. Requires mandatory disclosure of the presence of mold as part of any sale, transfer, or rental of residential, commercial, or industrial property. Requires DOH to conduct reviews every five years on mold identification and remediation technology or treatment techniques. Requires the director of health to establish a public awareness campaign. Requires disclosure forms for the sale of residential real property to include a notice to buyers about the presence of mold, if applicable. Requires a landlord or any person authorized to enter into a rental agreement on the landlord's behalf to disclose the presence of mold, if applicable. Requires DOH to study the adverse effects of mold on humans and report to the legislature.	HLT, CPC
HB211	RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS. Establishes requirements for transient accommodations brokers prior to publishing an advertisement on the availability of a property for lease or rent on behalf of an operator or plan manager. Prohibits transient accommodations brokers from engaging in business with an operator or plan manager who is not in compliance with state laws and county ordinances. Prohibits a hosting platform from providing booking services in connection with a transient vacation rental that is not lawfully certified, registered, or permitted as a transient vacation rental under applicable county ordinance.	TOU, CPC, FIN
HB212	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Short form bill relating to economic development.	ECD
HB213	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Short form bill relating to economic development.	ECD
HB214	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Short form bill relating to economic development.	ECD
HB215	RELATING TO ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS. Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, display for sale, trade, or distribution of certain animal fur products in the State. Effective 1/1/2024.	AGR, JHA
HB216	RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Establishes the shipping container inspection program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Increases the maximum fine for each violation of the fireworks law. Requires PSD to submit reports to the legislature on implementation of the shipping container inspection program.	TRN, CPC, FIN
HB217	RELATING TO HOME RENOVATIONS. Updates the cost valuations of work on buildings for the work to qualify for an exemption from the requirement that plans and specifications for construction projects be prepared by a licensed engineer or architect.	HSG, CPC
HB218	RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. Requires pharmacies to provide accessible prescription drug label information to individuals who have difficulty seeing or reading prescription drug container labels and inform the public that prescription drug label information is available in alternate accessible formats for individuals who have difficulty seeing or reading prescription drug container labels. Requires the Board of Pharmacy to adopt certain rules by December 31, 2023.	HLT, CPC
HB219	RELATING TO COURT INTERPRETERS. Requires the Judiciary to increase the hourly fees, mileage reimbursement rate, and commuter-time compensation rate for court interpreters. Appropriates funds.	JHA, FIN
HB220	RELATING TO THE SPAYING AND NEUTERING OF ANIMALS. Establishes a Spay and Neuter Special Fund. Allows funds from an income tax check-off to be deposited into the Spay and Neuter Special Fund. Appropriates funds.	AGR, FIN
HB221	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Short form bill relating to human services.	HUS
HB222	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Short form bill relating to human services.	HUS
HB223	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Short form bill relating to human services.	HUS
HB224	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Short form bill relating to human services.	HUS
HB225	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Short form bill relating to human services.	HUS
HB226	RELATING TO COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORPORATIONS. Specifies that members of the board of directors of a cooperative housing corporation shall owe the corporation a fiduciary duty and exercise the degree of care and loyalty required of an officer or director of a corporation organized under chapter 414, HRS.	HSG, CPC
HB227	RELATING TO FERAL CHICKEN CONTROL. Appropriates funds for the Department of Health to control the State's feral chicken population. Requires the establishment of a complaint hotline that may be used to report nuisances and health hazards caused by the presence of feral chickens and to request removal of the feral chickens.	AGR, FIN
HB228	RELATING TO NOISE. Makes it unlawful for any non-government entity or agent thereof to operate a weed whacker in or within one hundred feet of a residential zone, except between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on most days. Defines weed whacker.	HLT, CPC
HB229	RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. Requires contracts entered into by the Hawaii Tourism Authority for management of the Hawaii Convention Center facility to include marketing for all uses of the facility.	TOU, FIN
HB230	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Designates the Vice President for Budget and Finance and Chief Financial Officer of the University of Hawaii as the chief procurement officer for the University.	HET, FIN
HB231	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 6, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO MODIFY THE APPOINTMENT PROCESS FOR THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Proposes an amendment to article X, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution to modify the appointment process for the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii. Repeals the requirement that the governor shall only appoint from pools of candidates presented by the Candidate Advisory Council for the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii.	HET, JHA, FIN
HB232	RELATING TO CAPITAL GAINS. Taxes capital gains income at the same rate as ordinary income.	ECD, FIN
HB233	RELATING TO A CHILD TAX CREDIT. Establishes a refundable state child tax credit payable on a monthly basis.	ECD, FIN
HB234	RELATING TO TAXATION OF REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS. Disallows dividends paid deduction for real estate investment trusts. Specifies that amounts collected from the disallowance be evenly divided and deposited into the dwelling unit revolving fund and rental housing revolving fund. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Sunsets 12/31/2026.	ECD, CPC, FIN
HB235	RELATING TO PAID SICK LEAVE. Requires certain employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care and supplemental paid sick leave to employees under certain public health emergency conditions.	LGO, CPC, FIN
HB236	RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish and administer a family leave insurance program. Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends the period of family leave to 16 weeks for businesses that employ one or more employees who meet the hourly qualifications. Eliminates the previous threshold of 100 employees for employers to be subject to the family leave law. Appropriates funds.	LGO, CPC, FIN
HB237	RELATING TO CANNABIS. Legalizes, regulates, and taxes cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for responsible, adult use. Exempts sales of cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for medical use from the general excise tax. Clarifies that qualifying out-of-state patients have the same rights and privileges under the medical cannabis law. Allows qualifying out-of-state patients to cultivate medical cannabis.	HLT, JHA/CPC, FIN
HB238	RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment based on the person's status as a medical cannabis registry card holder, under certain conditions. Authorizes an employer to use a fit-for-duty test for medical cannabis qualifying patients in potentially dangerous occupations. Exempts certain occupations.	LGO, JHA
HB239	RELATING TO CLEAN ENERGY. Requires the clean energy initiative program to design, implement, and administer a plan to increase jobs aligned with the State's transition to a clean energy economy and strategies for evaluating and supporting a transition to a clean energy economy that advances social equity. Authorizes use of the energy security special fund to create jobs that advance the State's goals of achieving greater energy security and adapting to climate change, expand workforce development and training programs for workers transitioning to a clean energy economy, and strengthen social equity in the adoption of clean energy technology. Appropriates funds.	EEP/ECD, FIN
HB240	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE SERVICES. Exempts gross proceeds from medical services provided by physicians and advanced practice registered nurses acting in the capacity of a primary care provider from the general excise tax. Effective 1/1/2024.	HLT, FIN
HB241	RELATING TO TAXATION. Amends the income tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment by increasing the taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses and dollar limit on amounts creditable that constitute the tax credit. Requires the department of taxation to make annual adjustments for inflation to the adjusted gross income thresholds and dollar limits on amounts creditable. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.	ECD, FIN
HB242	RELATING TO ELECTRONIC EAVESDROPPING. Prohibits the interception or use of certain communications unless both parties consent.	CPC, JHA
HB243	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes and appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) permanent veterinary medical officer position within the department of health.	HLT, FIN
HB244	RELATING TO CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION. Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation.	EDN, FIN
HB245	RELATING TO VESSELS. Prohibits a vessel from being fumigated on ocean waters. Allows an owner whose vessel is required to be fumigated on ocean waters to apply for an exemption from the division of boating and ocean recreation. Requires any vessel granted an exemption to be fully covered and sealed while being fumigated and for any period of time thereafter needed to prevent fumigant or other chemicals from entering ocean waters.	WAL, JHA
HB246	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the department of education to employ one full-time equivalent counselor, vice principal, and media specialist at each department school. Appropriates funds.	EDN, FIN
HB247	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Increases the percentages of local agricultural products that certain departments are required to purchase by certain deadlines. Expands annual reporting requirements to include the total spending by certain market channels. Requires each relevant state departments and the University of Hawaii system to include a corrective action plan in its respective report to the legislature, should it not meet its benchmark. Repeals the separate benchmark for the department of education that requires thirty per cent of food served in public schools to consist of locally sourced products by 2030.	AGR, FIN
HB248	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education to fully implement the farm to school program and farm to school meals program by the 2024‑2025 school year. Provides that complex area superintendents have the authority to implement the farm to school and farm to school meals programs. Requires certain school cafeteria supervisors to report directly to complex area superintendents. Establishes school cafeteria supervisor positions. Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to conduct a compensation review of school cafeteria supervisor positions. Appropriates moneys.	AGR, EDN, FIN
HB249	RELATING TO THE HAWAII CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM. Establishes the Hawaii child nutrition programs agency in the office of the auditor. Establishes a grant program to support the funding of certain initiatives for the State's public schools. Establishes three permanent full-time equivalent positions (3.0 FTE). Appropriates funds.	HLT, FIN
HB250	RELATING TO FARM TO SCHOOL PROCUREMENT. Requires the department of education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally raised food products.	EDN, LGO, FIN
HB251	RELATING TO NEONICOTINOIDS. Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include neonicotinoid pesticides.	AGR, CPC
HB252	RELATING TO PESTICIDES. Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include malathion.	AGR, CPC
HB253	RELATING TO PESTICIDES. Requires monthly rather than annual reporting of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information, site information, and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Requires the department of agriculture to develop an online reporting tool for restricted use pesticides.	AGR, CPC
HB254	RELATING TO PESTICIDES. Requires the department of agriculture to use consistent units of measurement in its summary to the public on the amounts of restricted use pesticides used. Effective 1/1/2024, establishes a one-half mile buffer zone for pesticides around schools and state and county public parks.	AGR, CPC
HB255	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Amends various powers and priorities of the agribusiness development corporation, including several of its processes, membership of its board of directors, term of its executive director, and the scope of its work.	AGR, FIN
HB256	RELATING TO ORGANIC WASTE. Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to divert all organic waste produced within the county by facilities generating more than a certain amount of organic waste per year. Appropriates funds to reimburse the counties for incorporation of the new requirement into their plan revisions.	EEP, FIN
HB257	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Human Resources Development for the establishment of new employee positions and the learning management system.	LGO, FIN
HB258	RELATING TO THE ACQUISITION OF THE SAINT FRANCIS SCHOOL CAMPUS FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA. Appropriates moneys to the University of Hawaii for the acquisition of the Saint Francis School campus located at 2707 Pamoa Road in Honolulu.	HET, FIN
HB259	RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION. Prohibits using geographic origins of coffee in labeling or advertising for roasted or instant coffee that contains less than a certain percentage of coffee by weight from that geographic origin, phased in to a minimum of fifty-one per cent after 7/1/2025. Prohibits use of the term "All Hawaiian" in labeling or advertising for roasted or instant coffee not produced entirely from green coffee beans grown and processed in Hawaii.	AGR, CPC
HB260	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the department of education to develop and implement safety training for all cafeteria student helpers and ensure the student helpers receive the training prior to them volunteering.	EDN, FIN
HB261	RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES. Requires the department of human services to establish a child care accreditation program to assist licensed and registered child care providers obtain accreditation. Amends the time period for when existing preschool open doors service providers are required to obtain accreditation. Appropriates funds for the child care accreditation program, including for the establishment of one full-time position for the program. Appropriates funds into the child care grant special fund.	HUS, FIN
HB262	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Provides a process for school placement for a child whose parent has transferred or is pending transfer from another state to a military installation in Hawaii while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order.	CMV, EDN
HB263	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
HB264	RELATING TO CRIMES AGAINST SPORTS OFFICIALS. Makes intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to a sports official a class C felony. Authorizes a court to enjoin the offender from attending any sports event of the type at which the sports official was engaged in the lawful discharge of the sports official's duties.	JHA
HB265	RELATING TO CRIMES. Establishes a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for persons convicted of offenses based on the possession of methamphetamine and fentanyl.	JHA
HB266	RELATING TO THE LABELING OF PRODUCTS. Clarifies that in calculating whether a product labeled "Made in Hawaii" has met the requirement that at least fifty-one per cent of the wholesale value of the product is added by manufacture, processing, or production within the State, operating and overhead expenses incurred and spent within the State shall be included. Appropriates funds to promote and develop the "Made in Hawaii" brand.	ECD, CPC
HB267	RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY'S ‘OLELO HAWAI‘I INITIATIVES. Appropriates funds for staff positions and various services to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives.	JHA, FIN
HB268	RELATING TO DISPOSABLE WIPES. Makes it unlawful to sell, offer to sell, or distribute for sale in the State any flushable wipe. Defines flushable wipe.	EEP, CPC
HB269	RELATING TO THE HAWAII THEATRE CENTER. Designates the Hawaii Theatre Center as the Hawaii State Theatre. Appropriates funds.	CAI, FIN
HB270	RELATING TO HOUSING. Allows the Hawaii Community Development Authority to approve the residential development on the nine parcels conveyed to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs pursuant to Act 15, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012. Raises the building height limit and increases the maximum floor area ratio for residential development on three of the nine parcels. Exempts the residential developments on the nine parcels from the requirement to dedicate public facilities of land or facilities, or cash payments in lieu thereof, as a condition of development; the prohibition on sale or assignment of fee simple interest in land in the Kakaako Community Development District; and the prohibition on residential development in the Kakaako Makai area. Appropriates funds for repairs of certain structures located on the nine parcels and for compensation relating to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' pro rata portion of income and proceeds from the public land trust.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB271	RELATING TO ROADS. Allows for a percentage of general excise and fuel taxes generated by the counties to be used for maintenance of private roadways that are open to the public.	TRN, JHA, FIN
HB272	RELATING TO THE BOARD OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Limits the discretion of the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Land Division by requiring the Board of Land and Natural Resources to approve all revoked, limited, condemned, removed, or modified public land leases or revocable permits.	WAL, JHA, CPC
HB273	RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Clarifies that the Board of Land and Natural Resources shall not unilaterally amend the terms and conditions of any lease of public lands being extended pursuant to Act 149, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, except as otherwise provided therein; and if the Board of Land and Natural Resources wishes to amend the terms and conditions of any lease of public lands being extended to reflect the Board's most current lease form and leasing practices and policies, such lease form and leasing practices and policies must be included in the rules of the Board. Defines "lease of public lands". Repeals 6/30/2028.	WAL, JHA, CPC
HB274	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes a two-year pilot program for school bus transportation hubs in high-traffic areas. Requires a report to the legislature. Makes an appropriation.	TRN, EDN, FIN
HB275	RELATING TO TARO. Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to provide grants to Hawaii farming groups to be disbursed to taro farmers.	AGR, FIN
HB276	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a tax credit for commercial property owners that make available parking spaces within the owners' parking lots for use by peer-to-peer car-sharing platforms. Applies to taxable years after 12/31/2022.	ECD, CPC, FIN
HB277	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. Increases the fines for violating motor vehicle insurance requirements.	JHA, FIN
HB278	RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds for the executive office on aging to create an Alzheimer's disease public health campaign.	HLT, FIN
HB279	RELATING TO THE COUNTIES. Authorizes certain counties to use county surcharge on GET revenues and fuel tax revenues for the repair and maintenance of private roadways that are open to and used by the public.	TRN, JHA, FIN
HB280	RELATING TO PROPERTY. Prohibits nonresident aliens and businesses and trusts that are significantly controlled by nonresident aliens from acquiring certain residential property in the State, except as otherwise provided by law.	HSG, JHA, FIN
HB281	RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Requires the board of education to adopt rules to expand the jurisdiction of all public schools under the purview of the department of education to include a quarter-mile radius surrounding each public school.	EDN, FIN
HB282	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Establishes a five-year pilot program in the department of health to expand existing county programs that make one or more mental health professionals available to assist county first responders in responding to mental health crises in areas in the urban core with high rates of homelessness. Requires a report to the legislature. Appropriates funds.	HLT, FIN
HB283	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Establishes notice requirements for employers under Hawaii's Workers' Compensation Law. Requires employers who deny the compensability of an employee's injury to submit a written report supporting the denial to the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations within a specified period. Requires employers to furnish to the injured employee up to $10,000 for medical care, services, and supplies for the period immediately following the injury and so long as reasonably needed or until the employer files a written report with the Director denying the compensability of the injury, whichever is earlier. Clarifies that failure to give an employer notice of an employee's injury does not bar a claim for compensation if any person having authority in the interest of the employer had knowledge of the injury.	LGO, CPC, FIN
HB284	RELATING TO TARO. Exempts the gross proceeds or income received from the sale of any product resulting from the cultivation and production of unprocessed taro from the general excise tax. Repeals 6/30/2028.	AGR, ECD, FIN
HB285	RELATING TO FIRE PREVENTION. Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the Community Fuels Reduction Project. Beginning with fiscal year 2025-2026, and each fiscal year thereafter, requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish the Community Fuels Reduction Project as a separate line item within the Department's budget.	WAL, FIN
HB286	RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE TAX. Increases the rate of conveyance tax for condominiums and single family residences ineligible for a county homeowner's exemption with a value of at least $2,000,000. Exempts from the conveyance tax documents and instruments conveying real property subject to a government assistance program approved and certified by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation and used for the provision of affordable housing for qualified persons in the State. Removes maximum dollar amount of conveyance tax revenues that are to be paid into the rental housing revolving fund each fiscal year. Effective 1/1/2024.	WAL, FIN
HB287	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-fourth representative district.	FIN
HB288	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires public high schools to make available a mandatory life skills curriculum.	EDN, FIN
HB289	RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Requires public schools with elementary students to allow faculty and staff to provide, on a weekly or more frequent basis, time and space for students to engage in student-led group prayer or individual student prayer.	EDN, JHA
HB290	RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Requires public schools with elementary students to allow faculty and staff to provide time and space each day for students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and Hawaii Ponoi.	EDN, JHA
HB291	RELATING TO CERTIFICATES OF BIRTH. Provides that a new certificate of birth issued by the State shall include a designation of the sex of the person born, based on the genitalia of the person. Authorizes amendments of designations of sex on certificates of birth, provided that the birth registrant is an adult, and new designation is based on the genitalia of the birth registrant, as confirmed by a physician or physician's assistant.	HLT, JHA
HB292	RELATING TO TAXATION. By 1/1/2027, requires the department of taxation to suspend and refund certain income tax amounts received or withheld upon the enactment of a state law specifying real property tax amounts. Takes effect upon the ratification of a constitutional amendment authorizing the State to have real property taxing authority.	ECD/LGO, JHA, FIN
HB293	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VIII, SECTION 3 OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION RELATING TO THE FUNCTIONS, POWERS, AND DUTIES OF REAL PROPERTY TAXATION. Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to repeal the exclusive power of the counties to exercise the functions, powers, and duties related to real property taxation, thereby authorizing the State to also exercise those functions, powers, and duties.	ECD/LGO, JHA, FIN
HB294	RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS. Short form bill relating to military affairs.	CMV
HB295	RELATING TO VETERANS. Short form bill relating to veterans.	CMV
HB296	RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Short form bill relating to public safety.	CMV
HB297	RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Short form bill relating to corrections.	CMV
HB298	RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSING. Creates licensure and regulation requirements for managers of homeowners' associations, planned community associations, cooperative housing corporations, and unit owners' associations in the State. Establishes an Association Manager Licensing Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.	CPC, FIN
HB299	RELATING TO PROPERTY MANAGEMENT. Requires each member of a cooperative housing corporation board of directors, planned community association board of directors, and condominium association board to attend a training and certification course provided by the Real Estate Commission within one year of appointment or election or one year of the effective date of the Act. Requires the Real Estate Commission to establish and administer a training and certification program to ensure that every board member understands the member's legal and fiduciary obligations pursuant to chapters 421I, 421J, and 514B, Hawaii Revised Statutes.	CPC, FIN
HB300	RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET. Appropriates funds for the operating and capital improvement budget of the Executive Branch for fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025.	FIN
HB301	RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT. Requires the court to automatically seal or remove from the Judiciary's publicly accessible database any information relevant to the arrest or case of a person for whom an expungement order has been entered. Requires the Judiciary and the Examiner of Drivers to no longer include dismissed traffic citations in public driver's records.	CPC, JHA
HB302	RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the state YouthBuild program to assist non-profit and public entities in applying and qualifying for federal YouthBuild program grants. Authorizes the department of labor and industrial relations to award grants to eligible non-profit or public entities to meet the matching funds requirement for federal YouthBuild grant awards. Appropriates funds.	LGO, FIN
HB303	RELATING TO BEACHES. Requires the department of health to establish a two-year pilot project to test Tier 1 beaches for Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus not less than monthly. Requires a report to the legislature before the regular sessions of 2024, 2025, and 2026. Appropriates funds.	HLT, FIN
HB304	RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE. Prohibits drivers from operating vehicles with more than four wheels and high-passenger cars in the left-hand lane, or close to the left-hand curb or left-hand edge, of roadways. Exempts drivers operating public transportation vehicles in high‑occupancy vehicle lanes or zipper lanes.	JHA
HB305	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Updates the Hawaii State Planning Act's economic agricultural objectives and policies and priority guidelines by removing references to the sugarcane and pineapple industries.	AGR/ECD, FIN
HB306	RELATING TO ORNAMENTAL GINGER. Appropriates funds for statewide research into ornamental ginger pathogens, prevention of the spread of ornamental ginger pathogens, production and distribution of pathogen-free ornamental ginger plants, and outreach to ornamental producers.	AGR, FIN
HB307	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL PARK LEASES. Allows the department of agriculture to extend the agricultural park 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, WAL, CPC
HB308	RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS. Establishes the sustainable food systems working group within the department of agriculture. Requires the working group to submit a plan, any recommendations for implementing the plan, and any proposed legislation to the legislature. Appropriates funds to establish the working group and develop the plan and for an unspecified number of sustainability specialist positions to be employed by the department of agriculture.	AGR, FIN
HB309	RELATING TO IRRIGATION. Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems.	AGR, FIN
HB310	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE EDUCATION. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the college of tropical agriculture and human resources to establish an agriculture education coordinator position.	AGR, FIN
HB311	RELATING TO KALO FARMING. Establishes a GET exemption for the gross proceeds from the sale of machinery, fuel, chemicals, seed, huli, animals, or feed to a qualified farmer and directly related to the qualified farmer's kalo farming operations.	AGR, FIN
HB312	RELATING TO PESTICIDES. Replaces representatives from the sugar and pineapple industries with representatives of the coffee and diversified agriculture industries.	AGR, CPC
HB313	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
HB314	RELATING TO FOOD BANKS. Appropriates funds to the office of community services for the purchase, storage, and transportation costs of food for distribution to those in need in accordance with the emergency food assistance program's methodology to determine allocations to each of the four counties.	HUS, FIN
HB315	RELATING TO FLOODING. Appropriates moneys to the several counties for the mitigation of flood risks on privately-owned roads. Provides that the appropriation or expenditure of moneys pursuant to the Act shall not be construed to establish a duty of care or grounds for liability for the State or the several counties.	TRN, JHA, FIN
HB316	RELATING TO SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL. Establishes the safe routes to school advisory committee within the Planning Branch of the Highways Division of the Department of Transportation. Appropriates moneys.	TRN, EDN, FIN
HB317	RELATING TO YOUTH FEES AND FINES. Prohibits the assessment of any fines, fees, or court costs against a person who was adjudicated for an offense committed during the person's minority, or against the person's parent or guardian, and discharges all related debt obligations assessed prior to the effective date of the Act. Requires the Office of the Administrative Director of the Courts to submit a report to the Legislature.	HUS, JHA, FIN
HB318	RELATING TO COMPENSATION. Requires each county to establish rates of compensation for members of certain qualifying county boards, commissions, authorities, and committees. Requires each county to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the county's compliance with this Act. Appropriates moneys to each county for the purpose of providing the compensation required by this Act.	LGO, FIN
HB319	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes the Red Hill water contamination health impacts program within the Department of Health to track the long-term impacts of the 2021 petroleum release from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. Appropriates moneys.	WAL/EEP, HLT, FIN
HB320	RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, SURVEYORS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS. Clarifies that the conviction of a crime by a person holding a license to practice professional engineering, architecture, land surveying, or landscape architecture in the State, that is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, and duties of the licensee constitutes a ground for disciplinary action by the State Board of Professional Engineers, Architects, Surveyors, and Landscape Architects. Allows the Board to suspend or revoke a convicted licensee's license or decline to reissue a license to a convicted licensee subject to certain conditions.	CPC, JHA
HB321	RELATING TO HOUSING. Lowers the income threshold from one hundred forty per cent to one hundred twenty per cent of the median family income for mixed-income rental projects to be eligible for rental housing revolving fund loans or grants. Effective 1/1/2024.	HSG, FIN
HB322	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes the Alzheimer's working group to create a public health campaign for awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia. Appropriates funds.	HLT, FIN
HB323	RELATING TO NOISE. Requires the department of health to adopt rules by 6/30/2026 for amplified sound on public and private property where decibel weighted levels exceed current standards for zoning districts and residential properties where noise is excessive during certain times.	HLT, JHA
HB324	RELATING TO TOBACCO SALES. Repeals section 328J-11.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes.	HLT, JHA, FIN
HB325	RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Increases the minimum penalty imposed upon homeowners, renters, and managers of real property when they intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly allow others to unlawfully use aerial devices from their respective properties after 9:00 p.m. and before 9:00 a.m.	JHA, FIN
HB326	RELATING TO PLASTIC STRAWS. Prohibits the distribution, sale, and provision of plastic straws, except for those who request single-use plastic straws for medical reasons. Establishes a fine for violators. Takes effect 1/1/2024.	ECD, CPC, FIN
HB327	RELATING TO ROOFTOP SOLAR INSTALLATION. Beginning 1/1/2024, prohibits the issuance of building permits for new single-family dwellings that are part of a development of ten or more dwellings and do not include a rooftop photovoltaic energy generating system, unless a variance is granted.	EEP/HSG, CPC, FIN
HB328	RELATING TO CONSERVATION MITIGATION BANKS. Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the department to contract a third-party administrator for the operation of the mitigation banks. Clarifies the sale of credits involved in conservation mitigation banking. Defines "conservation mitigation bank". Effective 1/1/2024.	WAL, FIN
HB329	RELATING TO ENERGY. Requires solar conduit and electrical panel readiness for new residential construction and electric vehicle readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 1/1/2024.	HSG, CPC, FIN
HB330	RELATING TO THE CHILD WELFARE SERVICES. Establishes within the Office of Wellness and Resilience, the Malama Ohana Working Group to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Allows the Office of Wellness and Resilience to contract with an administrative facilitator to provide necessary support for the Malama Ohana Working Group in carrying out its duties. Requires the Malama Ohana Working Group to report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2025 and be dissolved upon the adjournment thereof. Appropriates funds.	HUS, FIN
HB331	RELATING TO FIREARMS. Establishes the offense of possession of a loaded firearm while intoxicated as a petty misdemeanor.	JHA
HB332	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Establishes the shade and fruit tree program beginning on 1/1/2024 in the department of education to support educational activities and encourage propagation of native shade trees and fruit trees for planting in department schools. Appropriates funds for the program and to establish an arborist position.	EDN, FIN
HB333	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION. Repeals payroll day for public officers and employees by requiring them to be paid pursuant to a predicted payroll schedule, rather than an after-the-fact payroll schedule.	LGO, FIN
HB334	RELATING TO EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND CONTRIBUTIONS. Sets the amount of the employer contribution to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund as a fixed percentage of the health benefits plan or life insurance plan premium cost. Makes conforming amendments to remove the amount of contributions by the State and counties to the Hawaii employer‑union health benefits trust fund from the scope of collective bargaining negotiations.	LGO, FIN
HB335	RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PROCUREMENT. Exempts small purchases of career and technical education equipment for the department of education from the electronic procurement system requirements. Adjusts the quotation requirements for the procurement of small purchases of career and technical education equipment for the department.	EDN, LGO, FIN
HB336	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-NINTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-ninth representative district.	FIN
HB337	RELATING TO CAPITAL GAINS. Increases the capital gains tax threshold from 7.25 per cent to 9 per cent. Increases the alternative capital gains tax for corporations from 4 per cent to 5 per cent. Applies to tax years beginning after 12/31/2022.	ECD, FIN
HB338	RELATING TO SPECIAL NUMBER PLATES. Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Carissa Kainani Moore.	CAI, FIN
HB339	RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM CIVIL SERVICE FOR POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES. Permanently exempts eight positions in the Department of Human Services from civil service.	HUS, LGO, FIN
HB340	RELATING TO BROTHER JOSEPH DUTTON DAY. Designates April 27 of each year as Brother Joseph Dutton Day.	CAI, JHA
HB341	RELATING TO CHILD CARE. Requires that child care providers provide certain information to the Department of Human Services each year.	HUS, CPC
HB342	RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Establishes presidential preference primary elections conducted by the State. Allows political parties to limit participation in the presidential preference primary election selection of the party's candidates by voter party registration. Allows voters to change party registration on a presidential preference primary election ballot. Requires a study to determine the feasibility of implementing a presidential preference primary in Hawaii in lieu of a party caucus and make recommendations for the implementation of a presidential preference primary. Makes an appropriation to conduct the study.	JHA, FIN
HB343	RELATING TO UNFUNDED LIABILITIES. Requires the state auditor to study the feasibility of providing health benefits to state and county employees using a self-insured model. Appropriates funds. Establishes the rate stabilization reserve fund. Caps employer contributions to the other post-employment benefits trust fund. Provides for the use of portions of any other revenues collected on behalf of the public employer or held by the State to supplement deficient public employer contribution amounts.	LGO, CPC, FIN
HB344	RELATING TO SPORTS WAGERING. Allows for the regulation of sports wagering by the department of business, economic development, and tourism. Establishes licensing requirements for sports wagering operators and sports wagering suppliers. Specifies that sports wagering shall not be considered games of chance or gambling.	ECD, JHA/CPC, FIN
HB345	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Specifies that no law, rule, ordinance, or code, including the state building code shall prohibit or limit the deemed acceptable use of a refrigerant.	EEP, CPC
HB346	RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE. Requires that the design of new state facilities be electric vehicle charger-ready. Requires the Hawaii state energy office, in consultation with the department of accounting and general services and department of transportation, to evaluate the cost for retrofitting existing state facilities to make them electric vehicle charger-ready. Requires the department of accounting and general services to install or contract for the installation of retrofits and electric vehicle charging systems at selected state facilities. Appropriates funds.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB347	RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING SYSTEMS. Requires owners of multiple parking facilities within any county of the State who aggregate the required parking spaces for electric vehicles to aggregate the spaces within that same county.	EEP, FIN
HB348	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Allows the counties to establish, by ordinance, an opt-in program that allows an annual payment in lieu of real property taxes on the land or improvements thereon that are actively used to produce or store renewable energy that is sold to an electric utility.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB349	RELATING TO CHILDREN. Expands the original jurisdiction of family court to include proceedings for declaration of emancipation of minors. Specifies the rights of an emancipated minor. Allows a minor who has reached the age of sixteen years to petition the family court for a declaration of emancipation. Allows certain parties to petition the family court for voidance or rescission of a declaration of emancipation. Sets forth court procedures and standards in issuing, voiding, and rescinding a declaration of emancipation. Allows parties to appeal the court's decisions pertaining to emancipation to the Intermediate Court of Appeals.	HUS, JHA, FIN
HB350	RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE REPORTING. Establishes that the exemption from mandatory reporting by members of the clergy does not apply when the clergy member believes that there exists a substantial risk that child abuse or neglect that is especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel, manifesting exceptional depravity, may occur in the reasonably foreseeable future.	HUS, JHA
HB351	RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. Establishes a tax credit for certain owners of a condominium whose association is increasing maintenance fees to comply with a county ordinance requiring an automatic fire sprinkler system or alternative fire prevention and fire safety system.	CPC, FIN
HB352	RELATING TO TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERS. Allows petitioners to attend TRO hearings remotely when domestic violence or intimate partner violence is alleged or the petitioner has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.	JHA
HB353	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE EDUCATION. Appropriates funds for the expansion of the certified nurse aide to practical nurse bridge program at the University of Hawaii Maui college, including funding for instructional costs and student aid.	HET, FIN
HB354	RELATING TO THE KAHOOLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION. Appropriates funds for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission and to fund three full-time equivalent (3.00 FTE) permanent positions for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission.	WAL, FIN
HB355	RELATING TO COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENTS. Clarifies when the identity of a police officer, who has been suspended or discharged following a misconduct incident, is to be disclosed in a county police department's annual report to the legislature.	LGO, JHA
HB356	RELATING TO HOUSING. Short form bill relating to housing.	HSG
HB357	RELATING TO HOUSING. Short form bill relating to housing.	HSG
HB358	RELATING TO HOUSING. Short form bill relating to housing.	HSG
HB359	RELATING TO HOUSING. Short form bill relating to housing.	HSG
HB360	RELATING TO HOUSING. Short form bill relating to housing.	HSG
HB361	RELATING TO THE GREEN JOBS YOUTH CORPS. Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources and its partner, or partners, for the continuation of benefits of the Green Jobs Youth Corps.	WAL, FIN
HB362	RELATING TO STATE WATER CODE PENALTIES. Adds a minimum penalty of $50 per violation of the State Water Code and makes each day that a violation exists or continues a separate offense. Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to determine the amount of the penalty based on the circumstances of the violation.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB363	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
HB364	RELATING TO TRESPASS. Clarifies that when trespass involves public land, all state and county law enforcement officers are authorized to and shall enforce trespass laws, without regard to whether the land is owned by the State or by a county.	JHA
HB365	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
HB366	RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. Repeals the statutory requirement that no person be subject to trial and sentencing for an alleged offense unless upon indictment or information.	JHA
HB367	RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Requires the public utilities commission to issue a decision within six months from the date that a public utility has filed a financial application request to enter into any stock, certificates, bonds, notes, and other indebtedness arrangements.	CPC
HB368	RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Provides that reports required by the public utilities commission through an order and not required by statute expire one year after the issuance of the order. Allows continuation of the reporting requirement if a new order is issued and justification for the continuance is provided.	CPC
HB369	RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Exempts a public utility from the required public utilities commission authorization when disposing of a fully depreciated asset or property with a zero net book value.	CPC
HB370	RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Requires the public utilities commission to complete its review and issue a decision within nine months from the date that a public utility, other than an investor-owned electric utility company, files its completed application seeking approval for a merger, consolidation, acquisition, or other change of control and within twelve months from the date of the application for an investor-owned electric utility company.	CPC
HB371	RELATING TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND CABLE INDUSTRY INFORMATION REPORTING. Repeals chapter 440J, HRS, relating to telecommunications and cable industry information reporting requirements for broadband service providers.	HET, CPC
HB372	RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Removes requirement that common water carriers receive permission from the public utilities commission prior to executing a long-term lease of more than three years or a leverage lease.	TRN, CPC
HB373	RELATING TO AN OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS. Beginning 07/01/2024, establishes the office of administrative hearings to conduct contested case hearings in the department of budget and finance, department of land and natural resources, and department of taxation. Appropriates funds to establish the office of administrative hearings. Repeals 07/01/2026.	JHA, FIN
HB374	RELATING TO ALCOHOL. Expands the definition of "beer" under the liquor regulatory laws to mean any alcoholic beverage containing no less than 0.5 per cent alcohol by volume obtained by fermentation of any infusion or decoction of malt or any substitute, including alcohol seltzer beverages and excluding sake, cooler beverages, and other distilled products. Authorizes brewpubs to sell beer they manufacture, or beer manufactured on their premises, subject to certain conditions. Effective 1/1/2024.	CPC
HB375	RELATING TO GAMBLING. Establishes the operation of an illegal gambling business as a class C felony.	JHA
HB376	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Requires associations to maintain and operate the property to ensure conformance with all laws, ordinances, and rules.	HSG, CPC
HB377	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM PROXY VOTING. Removes from the standard condominium proxy form the option of giving a proxy vote to the board of directors of a condominium association as a whole. Removes the authority of a board to use association funds to solicit proxies as part of the distribution of proxies.	CPC, JHA
HB378	RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. Requires the registration and registration renewal for methadone clinics and substance use disorder services clinics to be deemed a clinic and for the handling of controlled substances to be contingent upon its location being at least 750 feet away from a school. Gives methadone clinics and substance use disorder services clinics one year from the effective date of this Act to comply with this Act.	HLT, CPC
HB379	RELATING TO HAWAII RETIREMENT SAVINGS. Amends the definition of "covered employer" in the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act.	LGO, CPC
HB380	RELATING TO CESSPOOLS. Short form bill relating to cesspools.	WAL
HB381	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Repeals the sunset date of Act 196, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, that allowed for voluntary binding arbitration for condominium related disputes and amended the conditions for mediation.	HSG, CPC
HB382	RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Appropriates funds for the Judiciary for the fiscal biennium beginning 7/1/2023, and ending 6/30/2025. Effective 7/1/2023.	JHA, FIN
HB383	RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PROBATE CODE. Updates articles I through IV of the Uniform Probate Code to adjust for inflation, provide additional clarity, resolve issues that have arisen in probate practice, and address societal changes in familial relations.	JHA, FIN
HB384	RELATING TO PARENTAGE. Enacts portions of the Uniform Parentage Act of 2017 to replace the Uniform Parentage Act of 1973. Takes effect 1/1/2024.	JHA
HB385	RELATING TO JUDGES FOR THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT. Establishes 1 additional district court judgeship in the First Circuit.	JHA, FIN
HB386	RELATING TO THE SAFETY OF JUDICIARY PERSONNEL. Prohibits, in certain circumstances, the publication of the personal information of state and federal judges and other judicial staff whose duties put them at risk for acts of violence or threats.	JHA
HB387	RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Provides police officers who become members of the ERS after 6/30/2023 with retirement benefits similar to those provided for members of the ERS who became members before 7/1/2012, including but not limited to calculation of retirement allowance, minimum age or years of credited service requirements, and vesting period. Allows retired police officers hired after 6/30/01 to be treated as if employment began before 7/1/01 in order to maintain spousal health benefits.	LGO, FIN
HB388	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Adopts the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard. Requires the department of education to obtain instructional materials in accessible formats for eligible students.	EDN, FIN
HB389	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a carbon sequestration income tax credit. Applicable to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB390	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
HB391	RELATING TO CHILD CARE. Requires the department of human services to develop a child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed infant and toddler child care centers.	HUS, FIN
HB392	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires board of education approval prior to the termination of a complex area superintendent.	EDN, FIN
HB393	RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Requires the judiciary to establish a uniform procedure for adjusting payments and partner with other state agencies for ability to pay determinations. Sets the community service conversion rate for certain monetary penalties. Appropriates funds to develop a legal financial obligation calculator.	JHA, FIN
HB394	RELATING TO THE FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTS. Appropriates funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the Commission on the Thirteenth Festival of Pacific Arts to plan for the Festival of Pacific Arts to be held in Honolulu from June 6 to June 16, 2024.	CAI, FIN
HB395	RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Appropriates funds for the small business innovation research program under the Hawaii technology development corporation.	ECD, FIN
HB396	RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Appropriates funds for the manufacturing assistance program under the Hawaii technology development corporation.	ECD, FIN
HB397	RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii technology development corporation for the Hawaii small business capital program.	ECD, FIN
HB398	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a refundable job creation income tax credit for employers who increase the number of full-time employees in the State and make certain capital investment expenditures.	ECD, FIN
HB399	RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. Allows employers to obtain a tax credit for offering positions to qualified interns in work-based learning programs that have been approved by the department of education or University of Hawaii.	ECD, FIN
HB400	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes an employer-provided or -sponsored child care income tax credit for employers that make available child care services to their employees. Establishes an employer child care property income tax credit for the cost of child care property purchased or acquired by an employer and put into service for employer-provided child care. Applies to taxable years after 12/31/2022.	ECD, FIN
HB401	RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT. Short form bill relating to legislative management.	LMG
HB402	RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT. Short form bill relating to legislative management.	LMG
HB403	RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT. Short form bill relating to legislative management.	LMG
HB404	RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT. Short form bill relating to legislative management.	LMG
HB405	RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT. Short form bill relating to legislative management.	LMG
HB406	RELATING TO HEALTH. Short form bill relating to health.	HLT
HB407	RELATING TO HEALTH. Short form bill relating to health.	HLT
HB408	RELATING TO HEALTH. Short form bill relating to health.	HLT
HB409	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Short form bill relating to homelessness.	HLT
HB410	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Short form bill relating to homelessness.	HLT
HB411	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE III, SECTION 4, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO AMEND PROCEDURES TO ELECT LEGISLATORS. Provides that in a primary election for a legislative seat, the 2 candidates who receive the highest number of votes, regardless of political party, shall be the only two candidates to advance to a general election; provided that when a candidate receives a majority of votes in a primary election, the candidate shall be deemed elected to that seat at the primary election.	JHA, FIN
HB412	RELATING TO THE STADIUM AUTHORITY. Makes the president of the University of Hawaii system and the superintendent of the department of education, or their designees, voting members of the stadium authority.	ECD, FIN
HB413	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates funds for the department of human resources development to retain the services of an online employment marketplace or networking platform to assist in recruiting employees for the State.	LGO, FIN
HB414	RELATING TO RESIDENT TUITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Requires the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to allow all Hawaii high school graduates to qualify for resident tuition.	HET, FIN
HB415	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO IMPLEMENT THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TASK FORCE ON MOBILITY MANAGEMENT, ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO ACT 214, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2013. Makes an appropriation to the Department of Health to implement the recommendations of the statewide Mobility Management Task Force, established pursuant to Act 214, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013.	TRN, HUS, FIN
HB416	RELATING TO HOUSING DENSITY. Prohibits each county from adopting ordinances that restrict housing density on state lands that are within 0.5 miles of an elevated mass transit station.	HSG, WAL, FIN
HB417	RELATING TO GOLF CARTS. Prohibits golf carts from operating at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour. Prohibits neighborhood electric vehicles and golf carts from being driven on highways with a posted speed limit greater than twenty-five miles, except for crossing an intersection at a highway with a posted speed limit greater than twenty-five miles. Restricts operation of neighborhood electric vehicles or golf carts to daylight hours unless the vehicle is equipped with headlights. Authorizes county police departments to confiscate neighborhood electric vehicles or golf carts at the time of violation.	JHA
HB418	RELATING TO EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. Appropriates funds for repairing warning sirens on the island of Hawaii.	WAL, FIN
HB419	RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY GENERATING SYSTEMS. Requires the counties to exempt from county permitting requirements the installation of off-grid residential photovoltaic energy generating systems on the rooftops of residential properties under certain circumstances.	EEP, CPC
HB420	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fourth representative district.	FIN
HB421	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Amends the definition of "dangerous to self" as used in State law governing mental health, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism. Defines the terms "gravely disabled" and "psychiatric deterioration". Broadens the term of "imminently dangerous to self and others" to persons who will likely be dangerous to self or to others within the next ninety days, rather than within the next forty-five days. Increases the maximum period of emergency hospitalization from forty-eight hours to seventy-two hours.	HLT, JHA
HB422	RELATING TO SMALL BOAT HARBORS. Establishes the small boat harbor advisory board to advise DLNR on the repair and maintenance of small boat harbor facilities and related waterways under DLNR's jurisdiction.	WAL, FIN
HB423	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
HB424	RELATING TO AN OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS. Beginning 07/01/2024, establishes the office of administrative hearings to conduct contested case hearings in the department of budget and finance, department of land and natural resources, and department of taxation. Appropriates funds to establish the office of administrative hearings. Repeals 07/01/2026.	JHA, FIN
HB425	RELATING TO FIREARMS. Requires any person carrying an unloaded firearm in a motor vehicle to locate the firearm so as not to be readily or directly accessible from the passenger compartment of the vehicle or, if the firearm is being carried in a motor vehicle that does not have a compartment separate from the passenger compartment, to keep the firearm in an enclosed container that is locked, other than the glove compartment or console, and not in plain view.	JHA
HB426	RELATING TO FIREARMS. Establishes standards of conduct for firearm industry members. Authorizes any person who has suffered harm because of a firearm industry member's violation of the standards of conduct to bring a civil action. Authorizes the attorney general or any county attorney or public prosecutor to bring a civil action against a firearm industry member for violation of standards of conduct.	JHA
HB427	RELATING TO FIREARMS. Amends the requirements for licenses to carry firearms concealed or unconcealed. Requires possession and display of a valid license when publicly carrying firearms.	JHA, FIN
HB428	RELATING TO FIREARMS. Prohibits the public carry of firearms in sensitive places and upon private business establishment or charitable establishment premises, except under certain circumstances.	JHA
HB429	RELATING TO FIREARMS. Requires individuals to complete a firearms skills assessment, safety course, and education course prior to being granted a license to carry a pistol or revolver.	JHA
HB430	RELATING TO FIREARMS. Prohibits concealed firearms in certain sensitive locations. Requires the department of the attorney general to publish an annual report on licenses to carry. Amends requirements for firearm permitting and licenses to carry firearms. Effective 7/1/2050.	JHA
HB431	RELATING TO DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. Repeals the prohibited acts related to drug paraphernalia under the uniform controlled substances act.	HLT, JHA
HB432	RELATING TO APPEALS. Allows parties aggrieved by an order of the Hawaii Paroling Authority to appeal to the intermediate appellate court within 90 days of issuance and service of the order fixing the minimum term of imprisonment. Establishes the standard of judicial review for an order of the Hawaii Paroling Authority.	CMV, JHA
HB433	RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Short form bill relating to Hawaiian affairs.	JHA
HB434	RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Short form bill relating to the judiciary.	JHA
HB435	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Short form bill relating to the department of the attorney general.	JHA
HB436	RELATING TO STATE LAW. Short form bill relating to state law.	JHA
HB437	RELATING TO PENAL CODE. Short form bill relating to the penal code.	JHA
HB438	RELATING TO YOUTH PROGRAMS. Appropriates moneys and establishes one Pacific youth programs coordinator position within the Department of Human Services Office of Youth Services. Appropriates moneys.	HUS, FIN
HB439	RELATING TO IMMIGRANT SERVICES. Establishes and appropriates moneys for an immigrant services and access unit within the Office of Community Services.	HUS, FIN
HB440	RELATING TO CESSPOOLS. Establishes an income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a director of health-approved wastewater system or connecting to a sewerage system. Requires certain information regarding cesspools on real property to be included in seller mandatory disclosures on real property transactions.	EEP/WAL, HLT, FIN
HB441	RELATING TO CLIMATE EQUITY. Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2023-2024 for the development of a database and data portal from data sources detailed in the May 2022 report on social vulnerability to climate change in Hawaii to the Hawaii climate change mitigation and adaptation commission and the accompanying guide. Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2024-2025 for the maintenance and updating of the data portal.	EEP, FIN
HB442	RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Establishes a visitor green fee program that requires that visitors purchase a license which is valid for one year for the use of a state park, beach, state-owned forest, hiking trail on state-owned land, or other state-owned natural area, to be administered by the department of land and natural resources. Establishes a visitor green fee special fund, into which shall be deposited fees, penalties, appropriations, and gifts and donations for the program. Establishes an environmental legacy commission, which shall be responsible for allocating disbursements and awarding grants from the visitor green fee special fund for the protection, restoration, enhancement, care, and increased resilience of Hawaii's natural and outdoor recreational resources. Appropriates fund for the establishment of the environmental legacy commission and a strategic plan. Requires annual reports to the legislature on the progress of the program.	TOU, WAL, FIN
HB443	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Requires the department of agriculture to establish a healthy soils program. Appropriates funds.	AGR, FIN
HB444	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, A HEALTHFUL ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE, HEALTHY NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS, AND BEACHES. Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches, shall be protected and shall not be infringed.	EEP/WAL, JHA, FIN
HB445	RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT. Requires the Attorney General and Department of Human Services to convene a study group to examine the impacts, costs, and impediments of allowing child support payments to pass through to recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program funds and to submit a joint report to the 2024 Legislature.	HUS, JHA, FIN
HB446	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.	HUS, JHA
HB447	RELATING TO DOMESTIC ABUSE. Repeals referral and reporting requirements for the Family Courts and the Department of Human Services that apply to cases in which a temporary restraining order is sought for alleged domestic abuse involving an incapacitated or minor family or household member.	JHA
HB448	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.	HUS, JHA
HB449	RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION. Establishes definitions of "immediate harm" and "protective custody warrant" for the purpose of the Child Protective Act. Requires a police officer who assumes protective custody of a child who is subject to immediate harm to provide a written report detailing the observations justifying the immediate removal to the department within twenty-four hours of assuming custody of the child. Requires a copy of the police report to be provided to the parents of the child and to the court. Requires the department of human services to provide written notice to a parent of parental rights when conducting an investigation regarding a child who has been harmed or may be subject to imminent or threatened harm.	HUS, JHA
HB450	RELATING TO CHILD CARE. Requires the department of human services, when determining income eligibility for child care subsidies, to consider special circumstances, such as the retroactive payment of worker's compensation or temporary disability insurance benefits, that cause the monthly gross income of a parent, guardian, or other responsible party to exceed the eligible monthly gross income.	HUS, FIN
HB451	RELATING TO INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS. Amends Act 125, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to extend the time to expend appropriations for the establishment of a pilot visitation and family resource center at Waiawa correctional facility on Oahu, and makes conforming amendments related to the establishment of the department of corrections and rehabilitation. Appropriates additional funds to implement the pilot visitation and family resource center at Waiawa correctional facility.	CMV, FIN
HB452	RELATING TO AN ADVISORY REFERENDUM ON CANNABIS IN HAWAII. Requires an advisory referendum, or opinion poll, consisting of a question to be placed on the ballot for the general election of 2024 on whether the electorate wishes the State to legalize the sale and use of recreational cannabis in Hawaii.	HLT, JHA, FIN
HB453	RELATING TO ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS COMPLETING A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT. Establishes within the Department of Human Services a 4-year pilot program to provide housing and child care vouchers to qualified applicants who will soon complete, or have recently completed, a term of imprisonment as a sentenced offender, and who have or will have sole or primary custody of 1 or more children under the age of 18. Requires a voucher recipient to be employed at least 20 hours per week or be employed and attend an educational program for a combined total of at least 20 hours per week. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.	CMV/HUS, JHA, FIN
HB454	RELATING TO LAND LIABILITY. Creates strict liability for an owner of land with a 20% 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
HB455	RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSES. Changes from 2 to 4 years the period for renewal of driver's licenses for licensees over 80 years of age.	JHA
HB456	RELATING TO YOUTH. Establishes a grant program within the Office of Youth Services. Gives priority to programs that support youth from ethnic groups that are disproportionately represented in the State's correctional system, support rehabilitation, or meet needs identified by the Office of Youth Services in consultation with the community. Appropriates moneys.	HUS, FIN
HB457	RELATING TO IOLANI PALACE. Phases out parking of motor vehicles on the grounds of Iolani Palace. Requires DAGS to remove the blacktop, parking area, and parking meters adjacent to Iolani Palace. Requires DLNR to develop and maintain a pedestrian area adjacent to Iolani Palace. Requires DAGS and DLNR to report cost analysis to the legislature.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB458	RELATING TO WATER. Establishes a Desalination Planning Task Force to examine the feasibility of, and develop a plan and timeline for, the use desalination as a source of potable water in the State. Appropriates moneys.	WAL, FIN
HB459	RELATING TO GAMBLING. Prohibits the possession and ownership of gambling machines larger than one cubic foot.	JHA
HB460	RELATING TO SOCIAL MEDIA. Prohibits the downloading or use of social media application TikTok on government-issued devices capable of internet connectivity, or on government internet networks.	LGO, CPC
HB461	RELATING TO ACT 86, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2021. Repeals Act 86, SLH 2021, which authorized the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Luana Kai A Life Plan Community in the development of a continuing care retirement community in Hawaii Kai.	HUS, FIN
HB462	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR SCHOOLS IN THE EIGHTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-fifth representative district.	FIN
HB463	RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Lowers the threshold for disclosure of campaign expenditures for noncandidate committees to $100.	JHA
HB464	RELATING TO MAGNET SCHOOLS. Establishes a five-year magnet school pilot program at Waiahole and Ka‘a‘awa elementary schools. Establishes eight full-time equivalent (8.0 FTE) positions. Appropriates funds.	EDN, FIN
HB465	RELATING TO WAIAHOLE VALLEY. Requires Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to offer 5-year lease extensions to Waiahole Valley lessee at the current terms. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to submit a report regarding whether a different entity should manage Waiahole Valley.	WAL, JHA, FIN
HB466	RELATING TO ALBIZIA. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish a grant program to assist persons who use albizia trees to create usable commercial products or are developing ways to use albizia trees to create usable products. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, in consultation with certain academic units of the University of Hawaii, to study economically feasible ways in which businesses may use albizia trees to produce usable commercial products, including housing, throughout the State. Appropriates moneys.	ECD, WAL, FIN
HB467	RELATING TO SOCIAL WORK. Requires the department of public safety, in collaboration with the department of human services, to develop and establish a social work training program to assist nonviolent incarcerated individuals in the area of social work. Requires progress reports on the program to the legislature. Appropriates funds.	CMV, HUS, FIN
HB468	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Specifies that a certificate of inspection shall be issued if a vehicle is not equipped with a noisy muffler or exhaust system. Requires rules regarding safety check inspections to ensure that a motorcycle, moped, or motor vehicle is not equipped with a noisy muffler or exhaust system. Suspends, revokes, or refuses renewal of a permit for an official inspection station upon a third or subsequent wilful violation of any rule regarding inspecting a noisy muffler or exhaust system. Makes violating the noisy muffler laws a petty misdemeanor. Includes repairing or installing a noisy muffler or exhaust system as a prohibited practice for motor vehicle repair regulations.	TRN, CPC
HB469	RELATING TO A PERMANENT HAWAII STATE DIVIDEND. Establishes a permanent Hawaii state dividend special fund to collect and disburse annual Hawaii state dividend fund payments. Appropriates funds.	LGO, JHA, FIN
HB470	RELATING TO MINORS. Repeals the sunset date of Act 23, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, thereby making it permanent.	HUS, JHA
HB471	RELATING TO EXCESSIVE NOISE. Appropriates funds for the department of transportation, in conjunction with the city and county of Honolulu, to develop a pilot program to use noise detection traffic cameras to address excessive traffic noise in urban areas on the island of Oahu. Requires report to the legislature. Sunsets 12/31/2025.	TRN, FIN
HB472	RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS. Appropriates funds out of the works of art special fund to the state foundation on culture and the arts for the integration of works of art projects into several state capital improvement projects.	CAI, FIN
HB473	RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS. Appropriates funds to the state foundation on culture and the arts creative workforce grant program for the awarding of grants to eligible nonprofit arts and culture organizations to support the living wage of creative workers.	CAI, FIN
HB474	RELATING TO THE STATE OF HAWAII MUSEUM OF NATURAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY. Appropriates federal funds to sustain and support the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History.	CAI, FIN
HB475	RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS. Appropriates funds to the state foundation on culture and the arts for the art in private places program and to establish one position for the foundation.	CAI, FIN
HB476	RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS. Allows the Works of Art Special Fund to be used for performing arts, under certain conditions. Provides that forty per cent of the Works of Art Special Fund be used for performing arts. Defines performing arts.	CAI, FIN
HB477	RELATING TO SPECIAL NUMBER PLATES. Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate the Honolulu Museum of Art.	CAI, FIN
HB478	RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS. Appropriates funds to the state foundation on culture and the arts artist fellowship program for the awarding of one-time fellowships to promising artists.	CAI, FIN
HB479	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRD REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the third representative district.	FIN
HB480	RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. Defines "special interest vehicles" as vehicles that are at least 35 years old or vehicles modified to resemble vehicles that are at least 35 years old. Makes conforming amendments to provisions relating to street rod vehicles and street rod replica vehicles.	JHA, FIN
HB481	RELATING TO MENSTRUAL EQUITY. Requires the University of Hawaii to provide menstrual products free of charge to all students on any University of Hawaii campus, including the community colleges.	HET, FIN
HB482	RELATING TO MEDICAL CARE FOR MINORS. Authorizes licensed osteopathic physicians and physician assistants, in addition to physicians and advance practice registered nurses, to provide minor-initiated medical care and services. Requires the licensed health care provider to ensure that the covered entity has been notified that minor-initiated medical care and services should not be disclosed. Requires the covered entity to have policies and procedures established to maintain nondisclosure of the minor-initiated medical care and services to the minor's parent or legal guardian. Authorizes the licensed health care provider to submit a claim to the covered entity for the provision of minor-initiated medical care and services.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB483	RELATING TO CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE. Clarifies provisions related to the statutory limitations on the time periods in which a survivor of childhood sexual abuse may file a civil action. Allows for punitive damages. Permits the court to order restorative justice measures, if deemed appropriate.	JHA, FIN
HB484	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH LICENSING. Requires psychologists licensed in the State to complete at least four hours of continuing education per licensing biennium on topics relating to cultural diversity, cultural competence, sexual orientation, gender identity, or health equity. Requires psychologists seeking renewal of their license in the State without full compliance with the continuing education requirement to have completed at least seven hours of continuing education in the next licensing biennium on topics relating to cultural diversity, cultural competence, sexual orientation, gender identity, or health equity.	HLT, CPC
HB485	RELATING TO MARRIAGE. Provides for the replacement of certificates of marriage for individuals who have changed their gender, sex, and, if applicable, name.	HLT, JHA, FIN
HB486	RELATING TO TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE. Establishes a trauma-informed care task force within the Department of Health. Requires the task force to develop a statewide framework for trauma-informed care and to provide other recommendations on how the State can implement best practices in trauma-informed care, including native Hawaiian cultural practices. Provides that the trauma-informed care task force shall serve as an advisory board for, and be administratively attached to, the office of wellness and resilience established in section 27-62, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires the task force to submit a report to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of each regular session.	HLT, FIN
HB487	RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF WELLNESS AND RESILIENCE. Transfers the Office of Wellness and Resilience from the Office of the Governor to the Department of Human Services on 7/1/2025. Extends the Trauma-Informed Care Task Force dissolution date to 6/30/2025 and establishes the task force as an advisory board to the Office of Wellness and Resilience until its dissolution. Reconstitutes the membership of the Trauma-Informed Care Task Force into a permanent advisory board to the Office of Wellness and Resilience to be called the Wellness and Resilience Advisory Board.	HLT, FIN
HB488	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 and lease as commercial aquacultural areas. 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 Aquaculture Development 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, FIN
HB489	RELATING TO AQUACULTURE. Requires the Animal Industry Division of the Department of Agriculture to administer an assessment and approval process to import and move aquatic livestock in the State. Requires the Animal Industry Division to develop a risk-based framework for the aquatic livestock assessment and approval process and to undertake certain activities to develop and expand the aquaculture industry. Defines aquatic biorisk, aquatic livestock, and biocontainment.	AGR/ECD, CPC, FIN
HB490	RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Provides employed individuals with up to 8 weeks of paid family leave during the 1st year after birth of the individual's child, adoption of a child by the individual, or placement of a child with the individual through foster care, and 8 weeks of paid family leave to care for the individual's family member having a serious health condition during any benefit year, paid through an employer-based private insurance program currently used to provide for temporary disability benefits. Specifies that private employers having fewer than 200 employees shall not be required to provide family leave and family leave benefits. Repeals chapter 398, HRS. Appropriates funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Sections 1-28 effective 7/1/2025.	LGO, CPC, FIN
HB491	RELATING TO A LEAVE GRANT PROGRAM. Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism a leave grant program to help small businesses offer their paid family leave and sick leave. Appropriates moneys.	LGO, ECD, FIN
HB492	RELATING TO TAXATION. Increases the state earned income tax credit from twenty to twenty-five percent of the federal earned income tax credit.	ECD, FIN
HB493	RELATING TO TAXATION. Amends the income brackets and credit amounts of the refundable food/excise tax credit.	ECD, FIN
HB494	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Subjects to the rights, responsibilities, and liabilities of transferees under section 286-52, Hawaii Revised Statutes, organizations that receive motor vehicles as charitable donations.	JHA
HB495	RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Increases fines that may be assessed against certain fireworks-related violations.	JHA, FIN
HB496	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-sixth representative district.	FIN
HB497	RELATING TO HOUSING. Requires the school facilities authority to conduct a feasibility study for the development of teacher and workforce housing at the Queen Liliuokalani elementary school property. Requires a report to the legislature prior to the 2024 regular session. Appropriates funds for the feasibility study.	EDN, FIN
HB498	RELATING TO THE COUNTIES. Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property.	CPC, JHA
HB499	RELATING TO SPECIAL NUMBER PLATES. Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Duke Kahanamoku.	CAI, FIN
HB500	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds to DOE to promote surfing as an interscholastic sport.	EDN, FIN