Hawaii 2022 Regular Session All Bills
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB46
Introduced
1/21/21
Refer
1/27/21
Report Pass
2/17/21
Refer
2/17/21
Report Pass
3/5/21
Engrossed
3/9/21
Refer
3/11/21
Refer
3/12/21
Report Pass
3/24/21
Refer
3/24/21
Requires all habitat conservation plans to include an agreement for plan participants to enter into and maintain an annual service contract with a stand-by and response facility available to provide emergency medical and rehabilitation services to native wildlife affected by activities undertaken within the plan area. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB460
Introduced
1/25/21
Refer
1/27/21
Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax (barrel tax) to tax various fossil fuels at a rate equivalent to $40 per metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions in 2022. Incrementally increases the barrel tax rate to be equivalent to a carbon price of $80 per metric ton of carbon emissions in 2030. Amends the distribution of barrel tax revenues. Renames the barrel tax as the environmental response, energy, carbon emissions, and food security tax. Effective 1/1/2022.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB461
Introduced
1/25/21
Refer
1/27/21
Report Pass
2/8/21
Refer
2/8/21
Expands the coffee labeling and advertising requirements to include inner packaging or wrapping labels. Requires coffee blend labels to disclose geographic and regional origins with the percent by weight of each origin. Clarifies that the use of the term "All Hawaiian" is prohibited when the coffee product is not produced entirely from green coffee beans grown and processed in Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB462
Introduced
1/25/21
Refer
1/27/21
Establishes a work-sharing program for private employers to avoid layoffs of employees and preserve trained workforces during disruptions to regular business activity.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB463
Introduced
1/25/21
Refer
1/27/21
Sets the goal of employing one hundred percent clean ground transportation for the public and private transportation sectors by December 31, 2030. Requires all light duty motor vehicles procured pursuant to the Hawaii Public Procurement Code to be powered by renewable sources by January 1, 2030. Accelerates the State's goal of becoming one hundred percent reliant on clean energy and reaching its zero emissions clean energy target to 2030. Increases the goal for electricity use reductions achieved under the State's energy-efficiency portfolio standards. Prohibits the sale of new motor vehicles powered solely by fossil fuels by January 1, 2030.
HI
Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB464
Introduced
1/25/21
Refer
1/27/21
Prohibits BLNR from approving dispositions that authorize or have the effect of authorizing the diversion of water from streams except under specified criteria. Deposits moneys collected via land dispositions that authorize or have the effect of authorizing the diversion of water from streams into the forest stewardship fund.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB466
Introduced
1/25/21
Refer
1/27/21
Provides employees with up to eight weeks of paid family leave during a one-year period paid through an employer based private insurance program currently used to provide for temporary disability benefits. Repeals chapter 398, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB467
Introduced
1/25/21
Refer
1/27/21
Report Pass
2/8/21
Refer
2/8/21
Report Pass
2/19/21
Refer
2/19/21
Report Pass
3/4/21
Engrossed
3/4/21
Refer
3/9/21
Authorizes the designation of areas or regions of public lands classified as commercial, industrial, resort and hotel, and the establishment and implementation of guidelines for the redevelopment of the areas or regions that will: (1) modernize the policies for the management of public lands in the designated area; (2) establish a plan for the designated area, including district-wide improvements, that is coordinated with state and county land use and planning policies; and (3) implement asset and property management concepts that can optimize income from the properties and evolve in response to changing principles of property administration. Designates the public lands on the Waiakea peninsula on the island of Hawaii as the Waiakea peninsula redevelopment district. Allows the department of land and natural resources to issue a rent reduction or waiver for certain lessee's expenses for demolition or provision of basic infrastructure. Authorizes a local redevelopment agency to contract with a developer for construction of non-residential projects on public land within a redevelopment area. Exempts the costs of construction of work or improvements of a redevelopment project from general excise and use taxes. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB47
Introduced
1/21/21
Refer
1/27/21
Report Pass
2/17/21
Refer
2/17/21
Report Pass
2/24/21
Engrossed
2/24/21
Refer
3/4/21
Refer
3/17/21
Excludes a homeowner-developer from the annual requirement to file a developer's report and pay a fee if the homeowner's development consists of not more than two units, in which the developer resides in one of the units and the initial sale of the other unit has been completed. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB470
Introduced
1/25/21
Refer
1/27/21
Amends the definitions of benefit year and week. Conforms the manner of filing claims for partial benefits to the same as for total or part-total benefits. Allows the director of labor and industrial relations to omit benefits charged for experience rating for employers due to the event of COVID-19 in calendar years 2021 and 2022. For calendar years 2021, 2022, and 2023, sets the employer contribution rate at schedule C, D, and E, respectively. Makes amendments to contribution rate schedule and procedure for determination retroactive to 1/1/2021.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB472
Introduced
1/25/21
Refer
1/27/21
Report Pass
2/12/21
Refer
2/12/21
Report Pass
2/19/21
Refer
2/19/21
Exempts telehealth-related gifts from procurement requirements. Codifies the authorization of advanced practice registered nurses to use telehealth to assist a patient, including those advanced practice registered nurses who are not licensed in the State, under certain conditions. Makes permanent certain telehealth-related exemptions for licensed health professions issued by recent gubernatorial proclamation. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB473
Introduced
1/25/21
Refer
1/27/21
Report Pass
2/9/21
Refer
2/9/21
Report Pass
2/18/21
Refer
2/18/21
Authorizes the establishment of a physician-patient relationship via a telehealth interaction, if the physician is licensed to practice medicine in the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB474
Introduced
1/25/21
Refer
1/27/21
Report Pass
2/10/21
Refer
2/10/21
Report Pass
2/19/21
Refer
2/19/21
Report Pass
3/5/21
Engrossed
3/9/21
Refer
3/11/21
Report Pass
3/25/21
Refer
3/25/21
Report Pass
4/9/21
Extends the hospital sustainability program through 6/30/2024. Increases the maximum fee for inpatient care services to 5.5%. Increases the amount of time hospitals have to pay the hospital sustainability fee from 30 days to 60 days. Increases the pool of medicaid services that can be used for matching purposes. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/29/2050. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB475
Introduced
1/25/21
Refer
1/27/21
Requires medicaid and insurance coverage of ambulance services. Authorizes medicaid programs, and requires private insurers, to pay for community paramedicine services provided by emergency medical technicians or paramedics. Appropriates moneys for costs resulting from medicaid coverage of ambulance service and community paramedicine services provided by emergency medical technicians or paramedics. Effective 7/1/2022.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB476
Introduced
1/25/21
Refer
1/27/21
Report Pass
2/10/21
Refer
2/10/21
Report Pass
2/19/21
Refer
2/19/21
Report Pass
3/5/21
Engrossed
3/11/21
Refer
3/12/21
Refer
3/12/21
Refer
3/15/21
Report Pass
3/25/21
Refer
3/25/21
Imposes an excise tax of fifty percent of the otherwise applicable tax under section 245-3, HRS, on every wholesaler for each modified risk tobacco product sold, used, or possessed by a wholesaler. Defines modified risk tobacco product. Defines "eliquids" and "smoke" or "smoking". Amends the definition of "tobacco products". Effective 7/1/2060. (SD1)