| 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. |
| SB518 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to establish and implement a sexual abuse prevention education program to educate public and charter school students on sexual abuse prevention, provide relevant training to teachers and staff, and inform parents ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To House Education Committee |
| 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 |
| HB1040 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides emergency appropriations in fiscal year 2020-2021 to the Department of Public Safety to continue funding for various COVID-19 response related programs and activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Received from Governor Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 2). |
| HB914 | 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. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Received from Governor Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 2). |
| 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). |
| HB963 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an emergency appropriation to the Office of the Governor in fiscal year 2020-2021 to continue funding for various COVID-19 response related programs and activities. Requires that should any project or program paid for by state funds become e...
[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 |
| HB1274 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the division of aquatic resources of the department of land and natural resources to establish a pilot project to restock the Wahiawa public fishing area with northern largemouth bass, butterfly peacock bass, or both. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it a civil and administrative violation for any person to engage in certain archaeological activities without obtaining the required permission or approval from the department of land and natural resources. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB681 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes linked investments to provide loan funds for agriculture and authorizes the director of finance to commit no more than $5,000,000 in certain available moneys for the creation of linked investments through agreements with eligible lending ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance 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 |
| HB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that any equipment, article, instrument, aircraft, vehicle, vessel, business record, or other asset used in fishing, possession, or sale of aquatic life in violation of the aquatic resources law is subject to forfeiture. Authorizes the impo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance 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 |
| HB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a program within the Hawaii state fusion center to train, establish, and operate threat assessment teams, including for educational institutions. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance 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 |
| HB565 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants exclusive original jurisdiction in matters of divorce to the family court of the circuit in which an applicant is domiciled at the time the application is filed. Repeals the requirement that a person be domiciled or physically present in the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1346 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of agriculture, in coordination with the office of planning, to prepare and periodically update the agricultural functional plan to include among other agricultural economic updates, seafood sustainability that expands the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the task force on beach and water safety and risk assessment working group. Requires the design and placement of warning signs, devices, and systems on certain areas of the State to be approved by the chairperson of the board of land and natu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB796 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates reporting requirements by the PSD when inmate and employee deaths occur at correctional facilities and community correctional centers. Requires the report to include the race of the decedent. Requires the report to cite to any authority relie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance 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 |
| HB450 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines and recognizes rights in trust for children within the Child Protective Act. Requires family court to appoint guardian ad litem in custody cases. Provides that when a child is subject to harm or imminent harm, has been harmed, or may suffer p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the sunset date for the coffee berry borer pesticide subsidy program and the program manager position, including the position's civil service and collective bargaining laws exemption, to 06/30/2024. Provides that no single coffee grower shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance 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 |
| HB1055 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the director of transportation with authority to acquire real property on behalf of the State for roads and streets without review or approval by the board of land and natural resources and specifies that, upon acquisition, jurisdiction over...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB8 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 151, SLH 2019, to make identifying lands for producing food crops that may be grown locally using conventional, sustainable, and regenerative practices to replace imports one of the goals of the Department of Agriculture's strategic plan f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance 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 |
| HB654 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that every judgment for child support is enforceable until paid in full. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance 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 |
| HB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "historic property" under the historic preservation law to include the requirement that buildings, inclusive of privately owned homes, meet the criteria for being entered into the Hawaii register of historic places. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB726 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires every person to wear a face covering when in a public setting, subject to certain exceptions. Establishes a civil fine for failure to wear a face covering. Sunsets December 31, 2021, or when the last emergency proclamation related to the COV...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB984 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases ceiling of the office of health care assurance special fund to meet expanding program needs and diminish dependence on the general fund. Permits the office of health care assurance to use the special fund to enhance the office of health car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB944 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts certain provisions of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Producer Licensing Model Act, Public Adjuster Licensing Model Act, Reinsurance Intermediary Model Act, and Independent Adjuster Licensing Model Guidelines to provide co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance 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 |
| HB672 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends certain parts of the conflicts of interests law in the state ethics code to include members of the legislature. Clarifies that the conflicts of interests law does not prohibit legislators from introducing legislation, serving on a committee, m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the group of professionals who are prohibited from knowingly referring or transferring patients to an uncertified or unlicensed care facility. Repeals the landlord exclusion. Requires the department of health to prioritize complaint allegat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1109 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that prior to the adoption or repeal of a rule, electronic notice of the proposed rulemaking be provided to all persons who have made a timely written request of the adopting agency for advance notice of its rulemaking proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Finance 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 |
| HB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the auditor to conduct an impact assessment report on the social and financial impacts of prohibiting health insurance companies from denying coverage for certain types of health care on the basis of gender identity if the policy, contract, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
