| HI | SB2133 | Enroll
75% | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to issue bonds for housing project infrastructure and finance the development of regional state infrastructure projects. Exempts bonds issued by HHFDC for improvements by assessments, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB1035 | Enroll
75% | Exempts from the general excise tax those medical and dental services provided by health care providers to patients who receive Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE benefits. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2182 | Enroll
75% | Amends the persons required to collect the Ocean Stewardship User Fee. Extends the sunset date of the Ocean Stewardship Special Fund to 1/1/2031. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2305 | Enroll
75% | Establishes a Silver Alert Program within the Department of Law Enforcement to help locate and safeguard missing persons who are sixty-five years of age or older, cognitively impaired, or developmentally disabled. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2461 | Enroll
75% | Authorizes medical cannabis dispensaries to purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from other dispensaries without showing that such purchase is necessary for a qualifying patient's continuous access for medical use, or for medical, sci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2497 | Enroll
75% | Repeals the provision that made references to the base amount in the Internal Revenue Code inapplicable to the research activities tax credit and allowed credits for all qualified research expenses to be taken without regard to previous years' expens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2600 | Enroll
75% | Authorizes the use of electronic mail to deliver certain documents when purchasing a condominium. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2532 | Enroll
75% | Clarifies that the definition of "dwelling", as it relates to offenses against property rights, includes multi-unit buildings and connected parking or storage areas that are restricted to residents. Allows the owner of a multi-unit building, an owner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2861 | Enroll
75% | Makes certain long-term exclusive listing agreements for the sale of residential real property void and unenforceable under the state law that governs unfair and deceptive practices. Prohibits the recording or filing of exclusive listing agreements o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2787 | Enroll
75% | Establishes within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Office of Community Services the Immigration Services and Access Unit. Makes appropriations for the unit, including funding for new positions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2731 | Enroll
75% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to honor veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2837 | Enroll
75% | Requires the transfer of the Maui State Veterans Home to a state agency having a Maui affiliation, in a manner and to an extent that may be negotiated between the Oahu Regional Health Care System or state agency having a Maui affiliation and the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2782 | Enroll
75% | Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to develop multilingual accessibility standards. Appropriates funds to establish one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) position to develop multilingual accessibility standards within the Office of En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2726 | Enroll
75% | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on how certain other states approach the following subjects as they relate to condominiums: an ombudsman, licenses for management, alternative dispute resolution, governmental regulation, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2687 | Enroll
75% | Prohibits a person from recklessly distributing, or entering into an agreement with another person to distribute, materially deceptive media, subject to certain exceptions. Establishes criminal penalties for distributing materially deceptive media. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2834 | Enroll
75% | Amends the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to provide for a process to dispose of the tenant's personal property and surrender the dwelling unit to a landlord when there is a death of a tenant. Takes effect 11/1/2024. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2841 | Enroll
75% | Designates May 15 of each year as Water Safety Day. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2974 | Enroll
75% | Establishes a Business Revitalization Task Force within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to identify methods to improve Hawaii's general economic competitiveness and business climate, including the mitigation of regulator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2983 | Enroll
75% | Beginning 1/1/2026, authorizes the Department of the Attorney General to regulate charitable fundraising platforms and platform charities. Includes provisions relating to the misuse of funds. Imposes vicarious liability upon a platform charity for a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB3312 | Enroll
75% | Adopts, establishes, and designates the shaka as the official gesture of the State. Authorizes the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to develop a public work of art related to the shaka and its history to be displayed in a prominent location i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB3305 | Enroll
75% | Requires all public charter schools that exclusively offer prekindergarten programs to adhere to the public charter school law, with certain exceptions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1099 | Enroll
75% | Clarifies the authority of the counties to use county surcharge on state tax revenues for housing infrastructure costs for county-appropriated housing infrastructure costs. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2413 | Enroll
75% | Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report to the Legislature on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2526 | Enroll
75% | Requires the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group to assist the Office of Enterprise Technology Services in working with certain state agencies to inventory and categorize the business criticality of each major state information technology...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2601 | Enroll
75% | Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse committed on or after July 1, 2024, may be initiated. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on trauma-informed response. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2725 | Enroll
75% | For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023, adds a definition for "qualified member" and repeals the definitions for "direct member" and "indirect member" as used in the State's passthrough entity taxation election law. Amends the passthrough entit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2943 | Enroll
75% | Establishes a commercial drivers workforce working group within the Department of Transportation to address the workforce shortage of commercial drivers in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2937 | Enroll
75% | Repeals the sunset date for the exemption of laboratory school programs of the Hawaiian language college at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from state English-medium standards, assessments, performance ratings, staff qualifications, and staff traini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SCR45 | Pass | Urging The Director Of Finance To Adopt Administrative Rules To Define "beneficial Effects To The State" In Section 38-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, To Include The Financing Of Housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Received notice of Senate agreement and Adoption (Sen. Com No. 796). |
| HI | SCR81 | Pass | Urging The Governor To Ensure That Relevant State Agencies, Including The Department Of Health And Department Of Human Services, Collaborate To Explore Avenues To Ensure Continued Access To Affordable Medications For The State's Underserved Populatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-30
Received notice of Senate agreement and Adoption (Sen. Com No. 795). |
| HI | SB2362 | Engross
50% | 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. Effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-26-24 3:30PM in conference room 325. |
| HI | SB2556 | Engross
50% | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 5:40 PM; CR 325. |
| HI | SB2885 | Engross
50% | Establishes a working group to develop a Homeless Triage and Treatment Center Program within the Statewide Office of Homelessness and Housing Solutions in the Department of Human Services. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 4:55 PM; CR 329. |
| HI | SB3344 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund and Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund Corporation to provide compensation for property damage resulting from catastrophic wildfires in the State. Requires the Corporation's board to report to the Legislature. Mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 816). |
| HI | SB1590 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to assess the steps necessary for the State to supplement federal authority to perform meat inspections within the State. Requires the Department of Agriculture to assess the steps necessary to transfer full aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received notice of change in Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 768). |
| HI | SB2727 | Engross
50% | Allows condominiums to be eligible for commercial property assessed financing. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 791). |
| HI | SB3234 | Engross
50% | Amends the laws relating to the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund and Hawaii Property Insurance Association by: imposing a different transient accommodation tax rate for transient vacation rentals, a property insurance surcharge on conveyance tax, and a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 791). |
| HI | SCR23 | Pass | Urging The Department Of Health To Amend The Hawaii Administrative Rules To Authorize Licensed Dietitians To Prescribe Modified Diets And Plan Therapeutic Diets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | SCR27 | Engross
50% | Encouraging The United States Navy To Eradicate Octocoral And Other Invasive Species From The Waters Of Pearl Harbor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 759). |
| HI | SCR43 | Pass | Urging The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Amend The Priority For Which Low-income Housing Tax Credits Are Allocated And Monies In The Rental Housing Revolving Fund Are Used And Adopt Certain Administrative Rules That Incentiviz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of Adoption (Sen. Com. No. 730). |
| HI | SCR213 | Pass | Requesting The Office Of The Administrative Director Of The Courts To Collect, Compile, And Share Data On The Assessment Of Fees, Court Costs, Fines, And Restitution In Cases Against Minors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | SB2605 | Engross
50% | Beginning 1/1/2026, requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 722). |
| HI | SB2831 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Taxation, under certain circumstances, to assist a county in levying, assessing, collecting, and otherwise administering the county transient accommodations tax, including delinquencies and penalties, for a 6-year period ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 704). |
| HI | SB2908 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to extend or terminate a state of emergency. Clarifies when proclamations take effect. Prohibits residential rent increases in areas subject to emergency declarations or severe weather warnings. Shorten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 759). |
| HI | SB1594 | Engross
50% | Establishes an expanded crisis intervention and diversion activities program within the department of health to expand existing activities to divert those with mental health issues to appropriate health care services. Defines "crisis center" and "cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House Conferees Appointed: Takenouchi, Nishimoto Co-Chairs; Garrett, Lamosao, Garcia. |
| HI | SCR186 | Engross
50% | Requesting The Insurance Commissioner To Conduct A Comprehensive Study On Wildfire Risk And Insurance, Including Market-based Approaches.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB1596 | Engross
50% | Establishes and appropriates funds for a Maui campus housing pilot program. Requires the School Facilities Authority and Department of Education to submit reports to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 737). |
| HI | SCR29 | Pass | Urging The Department Of Agriculture To Support Efforts To Improve The Aquaculture Development Program Strategic Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | SCR116 | Pass | Urging The Department Of Transportation To Work With The City And County Of Honolulu To Plan And Implement Options For Alternative Ingress And Egress Routes In Pacific Palisades.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | SCR220 | Pass | Urging The Hawaii Construction Industry To Increase The Recycling Of Construction And Demolition Debris And To Expand The Usage Of Recycled Construction Materials To The Greatest Extent Possible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Resolution adopted in final form. |
