| SB767 | Engross
Sine Die | Legalizes the personal use, possession, and sale of cannabis in a specified quantity. Requires licensing to operate cannabis establishments. Subjects cannabis establishments to excise taxes and income taxes. Effective 5/6/2137. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB787 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that revenue estimates provided by the department of taxation to the legislature or to any executive or administrative office be accompanied by a description of the methodology used and assumptions made in providing the estimate. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB96 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the maximum area for each agricultural shade cloth structure, cold frame, and greenhouse that could qualify the structure for an exemption from building permit and building code requirements. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB465 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to perform a program audit of the policies and procedures of the Board of Education and Department of Education to support schools in meeting the goals and statewide student success indicators outlined in the 2017-2020 strategic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Education Committee |
| SB86 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to issue medical cannabis dispensary licenses to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, allowing for increased revenue for beneficiaries. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to study the feasibility and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB758 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases from three grams to thirty grams: (1) the minimum amount of marijuana that a defendant must possess to be charged with a petty misdemeanor; and (2) the maximum amount of marijuana that a defendant convicted of possessing marijuana could hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB341 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an exclusion from the state income tax for an unspecified portion of a person's income derived from the business of taro cultivation or production of taro products. Provides that the exclusion shall not apply if the department of agricult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB976 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors. Includes the director of health on the Preceptor Credit As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1159 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates unspecified sums of general fund revenues for fiscal years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 for the purpose of reimbursing the federal government for moneys lent to the State for the payment of unemployment benefit claims. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| SB65 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows direct shipment of beer and distilled spirits by certain licensees. Requires the county liquor commissions to adopt rules and regulations. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1024 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a cannabinoid medicine program within the University of Hawaii, to be administered by the John A. Burns school of medicine. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB619 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends provisions concerning fitness to proceed examinations in criminal proceedings to specify circumstances in which qualified advanced practice registered nurses or advanced practice registered nurses with prescriptive authority who hold an accred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| HB1118 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires any organization, association, party, or individual that is financially involved in the political process to file a financial disclosure with the campaign spending commission. Requires noncandidate committees to provide to the campaign spend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB821 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the state historic preservation division, in consultation with the office of Hawaiian affairs, to delegate the responsibility of historic preservation project reviews to the impacted county and establish a program for third-party individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB1237 | Engross
Sine Die | Reduces the cap amounts of the renewable energy technologies income tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2021. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB1294 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this Act is to require transfer of nonfacility general fund per-pupil allocations of special education students of a department of education school to a charter school upon receipt of the completed intent to enroll form of the student ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB241 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes qualifying patients and qualifying out-of-state patients to transport cannabis between islands of the State for personal medical use. Effective 5/6/2137. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB694 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies sustainable development goals based on the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and indicators. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB1122 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each board of water supply to transmit an accounting of all water credits held by the board to the department of Hawaiian home lands (DHHL). Allows DHHL to request unused and unallocated water credits from each board. Requires each board to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB35 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits landlords from recovering possession of a dwelling unit from tenants if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Sets a tenant's liability for rent if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Provides remedies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB998 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants voting rights to members of the board of directors of the Honolulu authority for rapid transportation appointed by the president of the senate or speaker of the house of representatives. Effective 5/6/2137. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1289 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the elections commission to, in consultation with the clerk of each county, perform an assessment of whether the election watcher and election observer programs are adequate and, if not, what adjustments are necessary to improve the programs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB805 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes the exemption from the behavior analyst licensing requirements permanent for certain teachers working in collaboration with a licensed behavior analyst or licensed psychologist. Clarifies exemptions from licensure as a behavioral analyst for ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB163 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends statutory limitations on the time period in which a survivor of childhood sexual abuse may file a civil suit. Allows punitive damages. Permits the court to order restorative justice measures at its discretion, if requested by the victim. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB12 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii public housing authority and the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to accomplish certain housing objectives. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HB571 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the felony offense of importation, sale, or possession of a childlike sex doll. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB775 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for a mechanism to adjust the transient accommodations tax rate based on visitor arrivals for a calendar year. Requires the Hawaii tourism authority and the department of business, economic development, and tourism to determine and the latte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| HB818 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the facts and circumstances to be considered in establishing the offenses of criminal trespass in the second degree and criminal trespass onto state lands may include but not be limited to authenticated photographs, video recordings, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1242 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a trauma-informed care task force within the department of health to make recommendations of trauma-informed care in the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB307 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes any firearm or rifle with the capacity to fire ammunition of fifty caliber or higher except shotguns and muzzle-loading firearms in the list of prohibited weapons. Takes effect 5/6/2137. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB270 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund (ESSER funds) moneys received by the State from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, 2020, Public Law 116-136, and the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Education Committee |
| SB1343 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes acreage restrictions on leases of Hawaiian home lands for agricultural purposes. Provides that the availability of the foregoing leases shall be subject to the availability of suitable tracts of land. Specifies that the foregoing leases may b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB1134 | Engross
Sine Die | Broadens the department of human services employees' right of entry into a vulnerable adult's premises without a warrant to investigate any type of abuse regardless of physical injury. Effective 5/6/2137. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SCR80 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Creation Of A Safe Graduation Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1351 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Clarifies the sale of credits invol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SCR79 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Department Of Education To Provide A School Resource Officer Or Registered Guard At Each Elementary School And State Prekindergarten Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB478 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates an exclusion from income tax for the lesser of a percentage of gross annual income or an amount of gross annual income earned by a farmer from farming activities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SR66 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Office Of Enterprise Technology Services To Establish A Unified Digital Public Services Working Group To Make Recommendations To Coordinate Efforts Of Individual Departments And Offices To Provide Improved Digital Public Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SR65 | Intro
Sine Die | Promoting A "green Christmas" By Encouraging The Public To Select Plantable Native Trees For Holiday Celebrations To Help Address The Climate Crisis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB947 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the safe home program to provide matching and nonmatching grants for installation of wind resistive devices to single-family, owner-occupied, residential properties in certain circumstances. Allocates a portion of the moneys earned throug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1314 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes each county to levy a county surcharge on transient accommodations tax if the county satisfies certain real property tax requirements and requires those counties to remit certain real property tax revenues to the State to offset the reduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB199 | Engross
Sine Die | Mandates appointment of a guardian ad litem to represent the best interest of a mentally ill individual in assistant community treatment proceedings. Eliminates the need for the office of the public defender to participate in the proceedings. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| HB306 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors. Includes the director of health on the preceptor credit as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Health Committee |
| SR59 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Department Of Education To Provide A School Resource Officer Or Registered Guard At Each Elementary School And State Prekindergarten Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SR62 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Department Of Labor And Industrial Relations And Department Of Business, Economic Development, And Tourism To Work Together To Establish A Statewide Green Jobs Corps Program To Support Economic Diversification, Alleviate The Unemployme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SR64 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Hawaii Technology Development Corporation And Leeward Community College To Study The Feasibility Of Establishing Technology Academy Programs At Aiea High School And Pearl City High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB686 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the offense of burglary in the second degree to include intentionally entering or remaining unlawfully on a critical electrical infrastructure. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB884 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the OIP director to rule or provide written guidance on an agency denial or granting of access to information or records. Requires the OIP director to receive and resolve complaints under Hawaii's sunshine law either by determining whether a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SCR84 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Hawaii Technology Development Corporation And Leeward Community College To Study The Feasibility Of Establishing Technology Academy Programs At Aiea High School And Pearl City High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SCR86 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Office Of Enterprise Technology Services To Establish A Unified Digital Public Services Working Group To Make Recommendations To Coordinate Efforts Of Individual Departments And Offices To Provide Improved Digital Public Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
