| SB1230 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the executive director of the office of language access or the department of health to perform the duties of the office of language access. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB89 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the implementation date from December 31, 2023, to December 31, 2021, for the requirement that qualifying patients shall obtain medical cannabis or manufactured cannabis products only from a licensed dispensary or by cultivating cannabis as pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to establish a task force to plan the certification and training process for community health workers and submit a report to the legislature. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB1219 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the sunset provision in Act 39, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, to 6/30/2024. Takes effect 6/29/2021. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB1218 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the sunset provision in Act 38, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, to 6/30/2025. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB276 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the state income tax rate by five per cent for taxpayers in the highest income bracket for six years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB578 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits commercial shark tour operations from operating without a permit. Requires the department of land and natural resources to adopt rules to regulate commercial shark tours. Effective 1/1/2022. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB1317 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires agencies that collect receipts for any disposition of the public land trust shall each fiscal quarter transfer to the department of Hawaiian home lands or the Office of Hawaiian Affairs twenty per cent of each receipt from the disposition. P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
The committee on JDC deferred the measure. |
| SB1420 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Hawaii Diversification and Resilience in a Vibrant Economy Program (HI DRiVE) and special fund, which requires the Hawaii technology development corporation to build on small business innovation research phase II awards and use funds to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB1349 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB620 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to certify whether a person is totally disabled under the income tax code. Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to make capacity determinations. Adds advanced practice registered nurses as prim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
The committee on JDC deferred the measure. |
| SB869 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state historic preservation division 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 projects involve the deve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB928 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the works of art special fund to be used for performing arts, under certain conditions. Defines performing arts. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB964 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadens the definition of "food waste" as used in integrated solid waste management. Excludes facilities designed primarily for composting organic material such as food waste and green waste, on-site school campus food waste programs, and recycling ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
The committee on JDC deferred the measure. |
| SB711 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all letterheads, documents, symbols, and emblems of the State and other political subdivisions that include Hawaiian words or names to include accurate and appropriate Hawaiian names, spelling, and punctuation. Establishes references for acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjusts towing company charges and fees for vehicles left unattended or abandoned. Establishes a clean-up charge and documentation fee. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB495 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates the laws on agricultural cooperative associations and consumer cooperative associations including operations as resale agents and conversions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB1155 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes issuance of licenses to solemnize marriages for persons of a secular or non-religious organization. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
The committee on JDC deferred the measure. |
| SB1403 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires commercial helicopter owners and operators to retain and make available records containing basic helicopter flight information and report that information to the Department of Transportation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB48 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes coercion as a means of committing the offense of sex trafficking. Removes the criminal statute of limitations for sex trafficking and promoting prostitution. Designates solicitation of a minor for prostitution as a form of sex trafficking. S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
The committee on JDC deferred the measure. |
| SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the microtargeting of political advertisements on television and social media based on online behavioral data, demographic characteristics, and geographic location below the electoral district level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1233 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a two-year vendor facilities pilot program task force for vendors with serious mental illness within the department of health. Requires the vendor facilities pilot program task force submit an annual report to the Governor and the Legisla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
The committee on JDC deferred the measure. |
| SB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the deadline to file nomination papers for public office from the first Tuesday in June to the first Tuesday in May for certain elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1244 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines serious crime as murder or attempted murder in the first degree or class A felony, or a call B or C felony involving violence of threat of violence. Allows the court to determine if bail may be denied where the charge is for a serious crime. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
The committee on JDC deferred the measure. |
| SB738 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes psilocybin and psilocyn from the list of Schedule I substances. Requires the Department of Health to establish designated treatment centers for the therapeutic administration of psilocybin and psilocyn. Establishes a review panel to review an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1068 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an emergency appropriation in fiscal year 2020-2021 to the Hawaii Tourism Authority for COVID-19 response related programs and activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Received from Governor Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 2). |
| SB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the governor and the mayors to establish lesser petty misdemeanor offenses and violations during emergency periods, including non-criminal infractions; and establishes a more expeditious system for the processing of these infractions to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person based on the person's status as a medical cannabis cardholder or a registered qualifying patients' positive test result for cannabis, under certain conditions. Specifies that an employer may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB840 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires developers of housing projects that are exempt from certain laws to enter into profit-sharing agreements with the tenants of those properties. Applies to new housing projects approved after July 1, 2021. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1083 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies benefits to alternate payees, advisory review determinations of Hawaii domestic relations orders and the priority of multiple orders. Applies to domestic relations orders submitted on or after its effective date. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1410 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that "traditional and customary subsistence farming", which is customary and traditional subsistence farming conducted by a native Hawaiian cultural practitioner for direct personal or family consumption. Provides that one of the State's po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1276 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each county to adopt ordinances authorizing detached dwelling units that meet certain minimum standards. Prohibits a county from denying a building permit under certain conditions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB886 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a statutory right of victims and witnesses of sexual offenses under part V of chapter 707, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to a speedy trial in criminal cases involving adult defendants. Requires the court and the prosecution to take appropriate act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1292 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the proposed drilling, construction, or use of a well on lands leased from the department of agriculture from the requirements of the environmental impact statements law, provided that the land is being used to support agriculture and food pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1210 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the authority of the Director of Transportation over required motor carrier vehicle inspections. Authorizes the Director of Transportation to adopt administrative rules related to fees. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1176 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that any officer of the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) upon whom the Board of Land and Natural Resources (Board) has conferred police powers may, in the performance of their official duties, inspect certain items for compli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1332 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the allowable number of production centers and retail dispensing locations per dispensary license. Authorizes the department of health to allow a licensed dispensary to purchase medical cannabis or manufactured cannabis products from anothe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1280 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to be appropriated into and out of the rental housing revolving fund for construction of phase I of a senior affordable housing project on Hawaii public housing authority property on School street, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the definition of "housing" to include all potential properties that could be developed by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB933 | Intro
Sine Die | Preserves the continuity of the Information Technology Steering Committee (ITSC) by establishing four-year terms for its members, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. Redefines the composition of the committee by allowing the Superintende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB871 | Intro
Sine Die | Lowers conveyance tax rates for properties with a value under $2,000,000. Increases conveyance tax rates for investment properties with certain exceptions. Requires a percentage of conveyance taxes collected to be deposited into the housing finance r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB529 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the right of persons to record law enforcement activities. Establishes a private right of action for violations of the right. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB779 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each county to authorize construction for a specified number of new housing units between fiscal year 2021-2022 and 2024-2025. Reduces the amount of transient accommodation tax revenue the counties receive for failure to meet the requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each county to prepare a housing supply plan to plan for projected increases in the State's housing supply to meet housing demands of the respective county, identify and analyze existing and projected housing needs for all income levels, def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1084 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the employees' retirement system from disclosing under chapter 92F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, certain types of alternative investment fund information. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends requirements for the restraint of child passengers. Requires rear facing child safety seats for children under two years of age. Repeals exceptions for compliance. Raises certain fines for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB693 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of land natural resources and department of agriculture to meet and identify the non-agricultural park lands that should be rezoned as those in the conservation district. Requires that agricultural lands under the jurisdiction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes peer-to-peer car-sharing. Establishes the peer-to-peer car sharing surcharge tax. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB128 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a fungicide subsidy program until June 30, 2026, to subsidize coffee growers for the purchase of fungicides to combat coffee leaf rust. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB816 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a state lottery to begin by 1/1/2023. Creates the state lottery commission, state lottery account, and lottery administration account. Requires certain amounts of lottery revenues to be deposited into the administrative account, general fund,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
