| SB1183 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals Act 15, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, that authorized the establishment of living park planning councils.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB1419 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Municipal Product Stewardship Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB911 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB9 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes, until June 30, 2022, boards to exclude the public from the meeting locations where board members are physically present if the board meetings are held by interactive conference technology during a state of emergency due to a contagious il...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB1097 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the name of the certificate of good standing issued by the department of commerce and consumer affairs to "certificate of registration."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB789 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a special procurement process for the procurement of goods and services. Requires the procurement policy board to establish rules and procedures for the special procurement process by December 31, 2021. Requires the head of a purchasing ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB841 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the abortion of a fetus that is capable of feeling pain. Prohibits abortions by dismemberment. Provides certain exceptions. Establishes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB452 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a tuition waiver from the University of Hawaii and its associated community colleges for the surviving spouse and dependent children of a fire fighter who dies in the line of duty or who is permanently and totally disabled as a direct result...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Agriculture. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB759 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to Article II, Section 1, of the Hawaii State Constitution to allow the legislature to expand the right to vote in state and local elections to those who are fifteen years of age or older who pass a test of citizenship as prescr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB544 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes provisions relating to civil remedies for discriminatory reporting to a law enforcement officer. Provides that a person who summons or reports to a law enforcement officer, without reason to suspect a crime, offense, or imminent danger ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB810 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the superintendent of education as a voting member constituting the public employer for the purpose of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement with personnel of the department of education. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Education Committee |
| SB910 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to establish a pilot program to ensure that all housing units in the Kuhio Park Terrace and Puuwai Momi public housing complexes are provided with sufficient internet speeds and connection quality. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB711 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies when force, including deadly force, may be used to protect oneself, one's property, or another person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB739 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all places of public accommodation to comply with accessibility guidelines established under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes counties to levy a county surcharge on transient accommodations tax in their respective counties pursuant to certain conditions. Sunsets on 12/31/2036.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| SB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning on November 1, 2021, requires all vulnerable coastal property sales or transfers to include a sea level rise hazard exposure statement to ensure that new property owners and transferees understand the special hazards, requirements, and limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1163 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits legislators from soliciting, accepting, or receiving, directly or indirectly, any individual gift in the form of hospitality exceeding a value of twenty-five dollars. Reduces the aggregate value of a gift that must be reported by a legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Government Reform Committee |
| SB1195 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that at least 3 members of the state council on mental health have demonstrated knowledge of or work experience involving Native Hawaiian concepts of well-being, culturally-grounded mental health methodologies, or traditional healing or heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB1338 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an office of the housing advocate within the office of the governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB116 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Small Boat Harbors. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB594 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of taxation to exempt a taxpayer whose annual general excise tax liability does not exceed $100 from monthly, quarterly, or semiannual general excise tax filing requirements; provided that the taxpayer files an annual return. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB446 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the period in which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from 3/31/2019 to 6/30/2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1067 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB977 | Intro
Sine Die | Continues the nursing facility sustainability program for two additional years. Appropriates funds out of the nursing facility sustainability program special fund for fiscal years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB695 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates November 28 of each year as La Kuokoa Hawaiian Recognition Day, not constituting a state holiday, to celebrate the historical recognition of independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB927 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that up to $50,000 per year in income earned and proceeds derived from stock options or stock by an employee from a qualified high technology business, as defined therein, or an investor who qualifies for a high technology business investmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB362 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the percentage of the land conservation fund that may be used for costs related to the operation, maintenance, and management of lands acquired by the fund. Increases the maximum dollar amount of the conveyance tax distribution to the land ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to establish a two-year pilot project to test Tier 1 beaches for Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus not less than monthly. Requires a report to the legislature before the regular se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| HB1047 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any general excise tax license be renewed biennially. Permits the department of taxation to charge a fee for biennial renewals and requires biennial renewals be applied for electronically. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB866 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporarily exempts affordable housing projects by HHFDC from certain state and county fees and exactions related to discretionary approval or ministerial permitting when the projects are exclusively for certain qualified residents. Effective 5/6/213...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act to require appraisals of improvements to identify the replacement cost or the leasehold market value. Grants authority to DHHL, to authorize second position loans on homestead leases by approved lenders. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB909 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to develop a plan to ensure that all communities in the State having schools receiving federal Title I education funds have high-speed broadband internet access.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB1326 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts "gifts of aloha", the value of which does not exceed twenty-five dollars, from the prohibition against accepting gifts in the state code of ethics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB334 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits civil actions arising from use of justifiable force if the defendant has been found not guilty by reason of a justification defense. Provides reimbursement of reasonable legal costs to defendants charged with an offense under certain sections ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB724 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the procedures for a housing savings account system for all employees in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB543 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from any waiting list maintained by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands any lessee or successor who sells or transfers their lease on a tract of Hawaiian home lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB874 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends through the 2031 tax year the important agricultural land qualified agricultural cost tax credit. Delays taxpayers from claiming and applying the tax credit for at least three full taxable years after credit is earned, to help address State's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB981 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends ballot requirements to display candidates for the office of Hawaiian affairs board of trustees, by residency and nonresidency requirements and to randomize the order of candidate names within those groupings. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
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] | 2021-12-10
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| HB314 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that providers of health or human services that receive state funds file annual financial reports and that the reports be disclosed to the department of taxation. Exempts certain contracts with existing reporting requirements. Effective 7/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the procurement preferences for class I and class II Hawaii products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB727 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires UH to provide training on the impacts of trauma for employees responsible for investigating incidents and assisting victims of sexual and domestic violence. Improves access for confidential support services. Requires UH to annually distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB587 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to procurement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Government Reform Committee |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning January 1, , establishes a zero net vehicle growth policy in the State to ensure that the number of vehicles in the State does not exceed the vehicle threshold. Prohibits the importation of a vehicle into the State unless the dealer or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB1279 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state building code council to: consider the impact of building codes and standards on the cost of single- and multi-family homes built in the State when considering whether to adopt a code or standard; and include with its annual writte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB491 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee and charge from 75 cents to $1.50 for every 1,000 pounds of freight or part thereof brought into the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the sentencing requirements for the offense of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant to require forty-eight hours of community service work.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-12-10
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
