Hawaii 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB770
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Includes the establishment of a consistent and balanced framework for developing and implementing sea level rise adaptation strategies as an objective of the Coastal Zone Management Program. Includes the promotion of research, study, and understanding of the suitability and impacts of different sea level rise adaptation as a policy of the Coastal Zone Management Program. Includes the maintenance of a balance between public and private interests in implementing sea level rise adaptation and consideration of all appropriate sea level rise adaptations as policies of the Coastal Zone Management Program. Includes as a policy of the Coastal Zone Management Program that any construction on shoreline be allowed if it is determined to preserve, protect, or rehabilitate the beach of be considered vital development. Requires the County Planning Commission to allow proposed development within the shoreline area and within the sea level rise exposure area under certain circumstances. Prohibits any policy or guideline for setting special area use permit application procedures that has the effect of a rule without complying with the rulemaking process. Preempts any rule, policy, or guideline inconsistent with the Special Management Area Guidelines. Allows counties to require that shoreline setback lines be established at greater distances in certain circumstances. Provides that no variance be denied for maintenance, renovation, or repair of a lawful nonconforming structure with exceptions.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB771
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Increases shoreline setback requirements.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB772
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Specifies, in the State Water Code, that fire safety use is a beneficial use of fresh water. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to cooperate with the counties and reservoir owners to develop protocols and agreements for the use of reservoir waters for fire safety purposes.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB773
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Authorizes the acceptance, and allows applicants for civil identification cards to consent or dissent to the use, of biometric identifiers as documentary evidence of the applicant's identity for purposes of receiving a duplicate civil identification card. Requires the Director of Transportation to establish rules to regulate the use of biometric identifiers as a form of documentary evidence of an individual's identity.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB774
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Establishes rules of ethics applicable to persons who are contracted, subcontracted, assigned, delegated, ordered, appointed, or in any other act allowed by a state agency to work with children. Establishes additional procedures with respect to fees, candor and fairness before a tribunal, standards of proof, and a complaint filing process. Specifies that the contracts of any person who violates the rules of ethics are voidable on behalf of the State.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB775
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Establishes a 5-year social workers for public safety pilot program in the department of public safety, or its successor agency. Authorizes social workers or human service professionals to accompany law enforcement officers in responding to incidents where a person may be unsheltered, substance addicted, or mentally impaired. Requires interim reports and a final report to the legislature. Appropriates funds for the pilot program, including positions. Sunsets 7/1/2026. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB776
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Establishes provisional or associate level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists. Authorizes insurance reimbursements for associate family therapists, associate mental health counselors, associate psychologists, and supervised social work interns, in certain circumstances. Allows psychologist license applicants to sit for the licensing examination before completing other requirements.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB777
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/10/23
Report Pass
3/24/23
Refer
3/24/23
Report Pass
4/6/23
Report Pass
4/27/23
Report Pass
4/27/23
Enrolled
5/2/23
Chaptered
6/14/23
Passed
6/14/23
Authorizes the department of human services to conduct background checks for current and prospective employees, volunteers, contractors, contractors' employees and volunteers, subcontractors, and subcontractors' employees and volunteers whose position places them or would place them in close proximity to certain minors, young adults, or vulnerable adults. Clarifies that any state law permitting a more extensive inquiry into an individual's criminal history by the State and any of its branches, political subdivisions, agencies, or semi-autonomous public bodies corporate and politic will prevail over conflicting conviction record inquiries under the State's employment practices law. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB778
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Establishes a task force within the Department of Health to study issues relating to the accessibility and utilization of essential services by developmentally and intellectually disabled individuals in the State.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB779
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB78
Introduced
1/19/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
1/31/23
Refer
1/31/23
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. Effective 6/30/3000.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB780
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Requires the office of the lieutenant governor to convene a working group to examine the feasibility of establishing and implementing a kauhale pilot program based on specified criteria to provide shelter and other services to homeless individuals in the State and to submit a report of the working group's findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2024.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB781
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Refer
2/14/23
Report Pass
2/22/23
Engrossed
3/2/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
3/22/23
Refer
3/22/23
Report Pass
4/6/23
Report Pass
4/27/23
Report Pass
4/27/23
Enrolled
5/2/23
Chaptered
7/5/23
Passed
7/5/23
Requires that when an officer has custody of a child under the age of eighteen for an alleged violation of law, the child shall have contact with legal counsel and, to the extent practicable, a parent, guardian, or legal custodian before the child waives any right against self-incrimination and before any custodial interrogation. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB782
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Refer
2/14/23
Authorizes health care providers, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and faith-based organizations to distribute supplemental nutrition assistance program applications to anyone interested in applying for program benefits. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii House Bill HB783
Introduced
1/23/23
Refer
1/30/23
Refer
2/1/23
Establishes the 2023 illegal fireworks task force within the department of the attorney general to develop a comprehensive strategic plan to stop the importation of illegal fireworks and explosives into the State, promote compliance with the fireworks control law; and ensure the safety and security of airports, harbors, and other facilities and institutions in the State against the discharge of illegal fireworks and explosives. Requires a report to the legislature.