| SB644 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation or an eligible developer to prepare an environmental impact statement for any proposed housing project on lands zoned as preservation or conservation by the applicable county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the school facilities authority to, to the greatest extent possible, renovate, improve, and expand existing public school facilities and classrooms to increase pre-kindergarten student capacity, including while expending funds appropriated f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB555 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Criminal Procedure. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB429 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that cesspools within five hundred feet of certain bodies of water be upgraded, converted, or connected if sold or transferred on or after 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB326 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state procurement office to amend its administrative rules to allow expenditures for goods, services, and construction with an estimated total cost that is less than $5,000 to be awarded in a manner the purchasing agency deems practical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB378 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to establish an electric school bus pilot program to provide certain complex areas with ownership and control of electric school buses. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB399 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the original jurisdiction of family court to include proceedings for declaration of emancipation of minors. Expands the circumstances under which a minor shall be deemed to be emancipated to include minors on active duty with the Armed Forces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB600 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the categories of women required to be covered for mammogram screenings. Requires the existing health insurance mandate for coverage of low-dose mammography to include digital mammography and breast tomosynthesis. Defines "digital breast to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB595 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the executive office on aging to create an Alzheimer's disease public health campaign.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB559 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Penal Code. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB380 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits digital application developers and digital application distribution platforms from increasing the price of a digital application subscription plan that is automatically billed to the user's account without obtaining the user's written conse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB305 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB590 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to adopt rules by 6/30/2026 for amplified sound on public and private property where decibel weighted levels exceed current standards for zoning districts and residential properties where noise is excessive during ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB633 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State of Hawaii Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB634 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of renewable energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB750 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of education for the expansion of civic education in the public schools. Establishes two full-time equivalent permanent civic education resource teacher positions, one of which shall be grant funded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB546 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Human Services. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB747 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits using geographic origins of coffee in labeling or advertising for roasted or instant coffee that contains less than a certain percentage of coffee by weight from that geographic origin, phased in to a minimum of fifty-one per cent after 7/1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-25
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB171 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the state income tax rate by five per cent for taxpayers in the highest income bracket for six years. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB199 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 11-381, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to disallow the use of campaign funds to purchase up to two tickets for an event or fundraiser held by another candidate or committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB168 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to post on its website an easily understandable, searchable, and sortable list of all state-licensed care facilities including information on their licenses and inspections. Requires that the list be updated within f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB189 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits lobbyists from making gifts that are prohibited under state ethics law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB244 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that any goods provided to any state agency by the correctional industries program shall be: (1) produced or manufactured by the program; or (2) pre-existing goods that are substantially altered or customized by the program for the purpose o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB166 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the ban on pistols with a detachable magazine with over a ten round capacity to any firearm with a detachable magazine with over a ten round capacity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals section 801-1 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a mandatory recount shall occur when the difference in votes cast is equal to or less than 100 votes or one-quarter of 1% of the total number of votes cast for the contest, whichever is lesser. Establishes that the filing deadline for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB172 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands eligibility for the Hawaii community college promise program to all qualified students. Appropriates funds to expand access to community college to qualified Hawaii residents through Hawaii community college promise program scholarships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB178 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the deadline for the validation of ballots following an election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB188 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each state legislator to include within the legislator's disclosures of financial interest the names of certain lobbyists with whom the legislator has a relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB277 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that licenses and leases for certain non-residential lots and tracts of land under issued pursuant to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, shall be issued based on fair market value, subject to certain exceptions. Prohibits subletting of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB195 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 11-342, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to increase transparency by requiring candidate committees and noncandidate committees to file fundraiser notices regardless of the price or suggested contribution for attending the function.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB192 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a statewide limitation on consumer fireworks, except by permit for cultural events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB279 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires medicaid and insurance coverage of ketamine therapy to treat depression. Appropriates moneys for costs resulting from medicaid coverage ketamine therapy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the raising of the building height limit for 2 of the 6 parcels owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in the Kakaako Makai area to 400 feet. Lifts the current restriction against residential development in Kakaako Makai to allow residential ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the minimum age requirement for individuals who become an Employees' Retirement System member after 6/30/2012, and who have at least 25 years of credited service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB240 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the shade and fruit tree program beginning on 1/1/2024 in the department of education to support educational activities and encourage propagation of native shade trees and fruit trees for planting in department schools. Appropriates funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB265 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes enhanced public notice requirements for changes in land use by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Department of Land and Natural Resources, or the University of Hawaii and boundary changes by the Land Use Commission. Requires approval...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB242 | 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] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB255 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the planting of large trees along evacuation routes. Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to identify large trees along evacuation routes and trim, spray, or remove large trees having the potential to obstruct an evacuation route...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB202 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the service of the commission's preliminary determination of probable cause via first-class mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB207 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands exclusions to the definition of "development" for purposes of special management areas to reduce the need for special management area permits for certain activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB180 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "direct recording electronic voting system", "marksense ballot voting system", and "mechanical tabulation system". Amends the definition of "electronic voting system" to include the mechanical tabulation system and marksense ballot voting sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes general excise tax exemptions for food, medical services, and feminine hygiene products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows departments and agencies time to comply with Employees' Retirement System reporting standards based on when final specifications are provided by the Employees' Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB276 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 20th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB238 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse may be initiated, including an otherwise timebarred action. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on traumainformed response.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB271 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to purchase the Honolulu Federal Detention Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB187 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the State Ethics Commission with the discretion to maintain or destroy records of financial disclosure statements beyond the current 6-year statutory requirement. Applies retroactively to applicable disclosures that are in the Commission's p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB186 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a legislator or public employee from naming, appointing, or hiring a relative for public employment. Prohibits a legislator or public employee from supervising a relative in public employment. Prohibits a legislator or employee from awardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB246 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the election of the members of the Hawaiian Homes Commission. Establishes the elected office of Director of Hawaiian Home Lands, the holder of which shall have administrative oversight over the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. Subject to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
