Each year, thousands of bills are introduced in the House and the Senate. It’s typical for the same bill to be introduced in both houses, in which case they get two different bill numbers, one for each. Bills then proceed through the House and Senate, and may be amended, sometimes quite substantially.
| We are following | 138 | House bills out of | 1119 |
| We are following | 128 | Senate bills out of | 1386 |
| 266 | 2505 |
It sometimes takes us a while to catch up to the Legislature, so please be patient! We update this page often during bill introduction.
More information on each bill can be found on the State Legislature’s Website or in our Legislative Tax Bill Service (login required). We will prepare detailed information in the Legislative Tax Bill Service when a bill is scheduled for hearing in a House or Senate committee.
| 2/1/2022 | Reviewed Through | HB2516 |
| This Year’s Bills Start at | HB1398 | |
| Highest Numbered Bill Now | HB2516 | |
| Bill No. | Brief Description | Package Identifier |
| HB1407 | Restricts GET wholesale rate to where subsequent sale is at retail rate. | |
| HB1439 | Establishes a green fee surcharge on TAT | Maui County Council |
| HB1448 | Allows counties as well as the State to impose traffic fines. | Haw. St. Ass’n of Counties |
| HB1450 | Requires DOTAX to administer county TA taxes. | Haw. St. Ass’n of Counties |
| HB1451 | Climate change mitigation impact fee on rental motor vehicles. | Haw. St. Ass’n of Counties |
| HB1452 | Allows counties to increase registration fees for non-rental vehicles. | Haw. St. Ass’n of Counties |
| HB1476 | Tax credit for fire sprinkler system | State Fire Council |
| HB1490 | Civil penalty for failure to respond to a request for information during an audit. | |
| HB1491 | Requires licensees to pay for cigarette tax stamps upon purchase (no deferral). | |
| HB1492 | Civil penalty for failure to respond to a request for information during an audit. | |
| HB1493 | Allows greater accumulation in tax administration special fund. | |
| HB1494 | Allows DOTAX special enforcement section to examine any sector of the economy, etc. | |
| HB1495 | Disqualifies motion picture/TV production credit if production compensates State employee. | |
| HB1505 | Increases income tax. Exempts unemployment payments. | Working Families Legis. Caucus |
| HB1507 | Increases income tax on capital gains. Makes EITC refundable and permanent. | Working Families Legis. Caucus |
| HB1512 | Establishes a green fee surcharge on TAT | |
| HB1513 | Increase low income household renters credit and index for inflation. | |
| HB1522 | Requires PUC to estimate social cost of carbon. | |
| HB1556 | Blood donation income tax credit. | |
| HB1557 | Tax credit for blood donations at employer sponsored blood drive. | |
| HB1569 | Increases the income cutoff threshold for food/excise tax credit. | |
| HB1590 | GET exemption for SNAP- or WIC-eligible foods. | |
| HB1610 | Income tax check-off for spay and neuter special fund. | |
| HB1618 | Establishes a 10c per drink surcharge on the liquor tax. | |
| HB1627 | Clarifies GET exemption for GET stevedoring services, wharfage, demurrage. | |
| HB1631 | Refundable credit for water catchment system. | |
| HB1636 | GET exemption for feminine hygiene products. | |
| HB1637 | Prohibits real property tax on land used for energy production sold to public utility. | |
| HB1639 | Imposes a carbon tax on aviation fuel. Adds tax credit for lower income taxpayers. | |
| HB1661 | Tobacco tax at reduced rate on modified risk tobacco products. | |
| HB1687 | Allows counties to increase registration fees for non-rental vehicles. | |
| HB1688 | Subjects U-drive vehicles to same registration fees as other motor vehicles. | |
| HB1702 | Exemption for capital gains if taxpayer is 65 or older. | |
| HB1709 | Tax credit for whole house water filter system. | |
| HB1764 | Housing savings accounts for all state employees. | |
| HB1772 | Conveyance tax surcharge on prolonged vacant property. | Progressive Caucus |
| HB1802 | Requires DLNR to establish a visitor green fee program. | Environmental Legislative Caucus |
| HB1809 | Renewable fuels production tax credit. | |
| HB1815 | Allows sports gambling. Imposes a 55% wagering tax. | |
| HB1819 | No refundable child tax credit. | |
| HB1820 | Casino gaming. Includes wagering tax on gross receipts. | |
| HB1828 | Changes taxation board of review to 3 state employees. | |
| HB1839 | Provides that camper vans are a transient accommodation subject to TAT. | |
| HB1896 | Expands the grounds to determine employment relationship for DLIR and tax purposes | |
| HB1904 | GET exemption for fresh fruits and vegetables. | |
| HB1907 | Regulates cannabis. Exempts medical cannabis from GET. | Progressive Caucus |
| HB1919 | GET exemption for food, medical services, and feminine hygiene products | House Minority Caucus |
| HB1925 | Includes electronic smoking devices in tobacco tax. | |
| HB1926 | Retroactively restores foreign trade zone exemption for state taxes. | |
| HB1936 | Renames Hawaii’s Electric Vehicle Charging System Rebate Program; Adds the installation and upgrade of hydrogen refueling stations | |
| HB1940 | Establishes and makes an appropriation for an early child care worker subsidy pilot program. | |
| HB1941 | Requires the department of education to establish grant programs for community schools. | |
| HB1945 | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a neighbor islands blind and visually impaired service pilot program | |
| HB1947 | Requires the auditor to conduct a financial audit of the deposit beverage container program and the Department of Health’s expenditures from that fund | |
| HB1948 | Exempts state residents from the transient accommodations tax. | |
| HB1950 | Increases from $1,000 to $2,000 the maximum fine for the petty misdemeanor offense of criminal littering. | |
| HB1951 | Authorizes candidates of inactive campaigns and their candidate committees to donate residual campaign funds to the State or the counties. | |
| HB1958 | Provides annual increases to the minimum wage rate beginning on 01/01/2023 through 01/01/2029. | |
| HB1959 | Adjusts the tip credit beginning on 1/1/2023. Repeals the tip credit on 1/1/2025. | |
| HB1960 | Clarifies the GET exemption for unrelated trade or business activities of nonprofit organizations | |
| HB1964 | Requires that a current GET license number for any rental income be filed with the complaint to the court for summary possession proceedings. | |
| HB1971 | Authorizes peer-to-peer car-sharing and establishes regulations thereof. Imposes the car-sharing surcharge tax on peer-to-peer car-sharing programs. | |
| HB1975 | Amends the definitions to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors. | |
| HB1982 | Establishes a tax withholding requirement for all payments to loan-out companies. | |
| HB1996 | Amends requirements of annual non general fund program measures report and non-general fund cost element report. | |
| HB1997 | Appropriates funds into the emergency and budget reserve fund. | |
| HB2002 | Reinstates the renewable fuels production tax credit. | |
| HB2003 | Expands the renewable energy technologies income tax credit. | |
| HB2019 | Specifies that the allocation of the state bond ceiling to the State shall be used entirely for housing related projects. | |
| HB2020 | Appropriates $5,000,000 in general funds into the affordable homeownership revolving fund. | |
| HB2023 | Authorizes GO bonds and appropriates funds for certain transit-oriented development projects. | |
| HB2040 | Establishes the Hawaii Lottery and Gaming Corporation and Special Fund. | |
| HB2041 | Increases the percentage of the land conservation fund that may be used for costs related to the operation, maintenance, and management of lands. | |
| HB2043 | Creates an exclusion from income tax for annual income earned by a farmer from farming activities. | |
| HB2046 | Establishes the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program. | |
| HB2048 | Establishes a property assessed clean energy program. Increases a property’s tax assessment to make loan payments. | |
| HB2054 | Authorizes the HTDC to temporarily re-establish the Hawaii Office of Naval Research Grant Program. Establishes the alternative energy research and development revolving fund. | |
| HB2060 | Requires the HTA to prepare a form informing visitors of the mission of the DHHL that includes option to contribute a sum earmarked for infrastructure and residential lots on Hawaiian home lands. | |
| HB2061 | Adds new sources of revenues generated by the State Veterinary Laboratory and Animal Disease Control Branch as sources for the Animal Industry Special Fund. | |
| HB2064 | Reinstates and extends Important Agricultural Lands Qualified Agricultural Cost Tax Credit | |
| HB2072 | [AGS-07] Procurement Policy Board; Establishes special fund for automated procurement system | Governor |
| HB2083 | [BED-06] Tightening up Tax Credit for Research Activities | Governor |
| HB2085 | [BED-09] Con Am; authorizes counties to issue tax increment bonds | Governor |
| HB2086 | [BED-10] Expands funding sources and authorized uses of the Hawaii Film and Creative Industries Development Special Fund | Governor |
| HB2087 | [BED-11] Extends current sunset date of the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit | Governor |
| HB2088 | [BED-13] Allows property owners to finance qualified improvements through a non-ad valorem property assessment. | Governor |
| HB2090 | [BED-15] Low-moderate income zero-emission vehicle rebate program | Governor |
| HB2106 | [BUF-17] Makes an appropriation of $1 billion into the rainy day fund. | Governor |
| HB2107 | [CCA-01] Earmarks franchise tax to feed compliance resolution fund; if less than $2M, takes from income tax revenues. | Governor |
| HB2131 | [GOV-01] Extends state earned income tax credit until tax year 2028. | Governor |
| HB2132 | [GOV-02] Constitutional Tax Refund for Resident Taxpayers | Governor |
| HB2133 | [HHL-03] GET exemption for homestead development for DHHL | Governor |
| HB2151 | [HTH-17] Tobacco products, increases license and permit fees for retailers. | Governor |
| HB2152 | [HTH-23] Eliminate the ceiling on the office of healthcare assurance special fund, to “reduce dependence on the general fund.” | Governor |
| HB2153 | [HTH-25] Increases vehicle registration fee to fund accessible parking special account | Governor |
| HB2160 | [LBR-04] Amends definition of “adequate reserve fund”, for SUI purposes, to exclude benefit cost rate from 6/2020-8/2021, effective through 2030. | Governor |
| HB2175 | [TAX-01] Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws | Governor |
| HB2176 | [TAX-02] Clarifies procedure before State Taxation Board of Review. | Governor |
| HB2177 | [TAX-03] Administrative changes related to electronic filing, electronic funds transfers, tax clearances, interest rates and non resident withholding. Significant enhancement of penalties. | Governor |
| HB2178 | [TAX-04] Requires laws that create, modify, or extend a tax benefit to contain detailed information. Allows public disclosure of identity and amount of any benefiting taxpayer. | Governor |
| HB2179 | [TAX-05] Allows DoTax to apply to convert tax liens to civil judgments. | Governor |
| HB2181 | [TRN-02] Exempts State from payment of county stormwater user fees. | Governor |
| HB2190 | Extension for DOA to certify IAL agricultural costs tax credit | |
| HB2195 | Cesspool compliance grants for low-moderate income property owners | |
| HB2196 | Reimbursement to homeowners for cost of debris clearance for stream maintenance to prevent flooding | |
| HB2212 | Reduces taxable income by means of contributions to a first time home buyer savings account | |
| HB2215 | Establishes tax credit for employers that create on-site early childhood facilities | |
| HB2216 | Creates Dependent care flexible spending accounts, allows deduction from gross income | |
| HB2226 | Tax Credit for Research Activities; high technology business | |
| HB2228 | Creates a nonrefundable twenty percent film infrastructure tax credit. | |
| HB2233 | Provides housing assistance subsidies to TANF/TAONF participants in first to work program | |
| HB2236 | Requires that new income tax credits include a five-year sunset or a gradual 3 reduction over a three-year period. | |
| HB2245 | Establishes Visitor Green fee program | |
| HB2246 | State Highway Enforcement program surcharge | |
| HB2262 | Establishes an income tax credit for water rationing systems. | |
| HB2264 | GET surcharge on sales of non-medical marijuana if authorized by county | |
| HB2278 | Changes barrel tax into carbon tax, enacts tax credit. | |
| HB2306 | Establishes fee for the inspection, quarantine, and eradication of invasive species. | |
| HB2322 | Lowers the state barrel tax from $1.05 to $0.20. | |
| HB2323 | Temporarily reduces employer contribution rates for unemployment insurance. Effective for 2022-2024. | |
| HB2325 | GET exemption for business development in Pearl-City Aiea and Waipahu opportunity zones. Also tax credit for upgrading infrastructure. | |
| HB2334 | Temporarily reduces employer contribution rates for unemployment insurance. Effective for 2022-2024. | |
| HB2370 | For liquor tax allows seltzer beverages to qualify for the rate on beer. | |
| HB2389 | Adjustment of individual income tax brackets. | |
| HB2402 | Establishes a separate GET rate for a business’s first five years of operation. | |
| HB2406 | Makes the earned income tax credit refundable and permanent. | |
| HB2414 | GET exemption for manufacture, production, packaging, and sale of diapers. | |
| HB2437 | Tax credit for physicians, osteopaths, and nurses practicing in the State. | |
| HB2466 | GET exemption for first $100,000 of income derived from taro. | |
| HB2469 | Establishes unemployment compensation insolvency special fund. | |
| HB2471 | Provides that “adequate reserve fund” for SUI purposes excludes benefit cost rate from 6/2020 – 8/2021. Effective through 2030. | |
| HB2478 | Tax credit for employers who create on-site early childhood facilities. | |
| HB2506 | ConAm to authorize the legislature to freeze any increase in residential property tax. | |
| HB2507 | ConAm to require a 2/3 supermajority voting requirement for the legislature to raise the minimum wage and pass new or increased taxes. | |
| HB2508 | Repeal inheritance and estate taxes. | |
| HB2509 | Increases conveyance tax on nonresident noncitizens, creates tax credit for real estate transfer for residents. | |
| HB2510 | Omnibus bill to raise minimum wage and enhance credits for low-income taxpayers. | |
| HB2511 | Creates Hawaiian home lands special fund, appropriates $600 million to it. |
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