| SB1198 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the number of members on the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board of Directors and number of members that constitute a quorum. Prohibits holdover board members of the Hawaii Tourism Authority from holding office beyond the commencement of the next ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1017 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a voluntary non-opioid option to the sample advance health-care directive form. Establishes that a prescription presented or electronically transmitted to a pharmacy shall be presumed valid and grants pharmacists immunity from civil, criminal, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1010 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include malathion. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB718 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies teachers and other personnel of state public charter schools are members of the same collective bargaining unit as their Department of Education counterparts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a county from enacting a development policy, standard, or condition that would have the effect of changing the land use designation or zoning of a parcel or parcels of property to a less intensive use or reducing the intensity of land use w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB684 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms existing Medicaid requirements to health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to cover services provided through telehealth, including by way of an interactive telecommunications system. Defines "interacti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Shimabukuro, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Moriwaki. |
| SB881 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the development and construction of permanent supportive housing for certain vulnerable individuals. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to: prioritize the allocation of low-income housing tax credits to state-owned development projects; amend the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Qualified Allocation Plan to allow up to twen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB421 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for the Department of Transportation to assist and enable a person to voluntarily purchase a verified carbon offset for carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the person's air travel to or from an airport in the State. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1060 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a carbon emissions tax credit. Expands the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include carbon emissions. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB237 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain individuals attempting to serve as child custody evaluators to complete a training course on the dynamics of domestic violence every three years and submit a letter or certificate of completion of the training course to the Family Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB943 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to fund school health support staff to sustain the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1004 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a carbon emissions tax credit. Expands the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include carbon emissions. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB776 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the composition of the Board of Agriculture by requiring representation from the islands of Molokai and Lanai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1585 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits new operations and renewal of existing licenses or permits to operate large concentrated animal feeding operations in the State, under certain conditions and by an unspecified date. Phases out all existing large concentrated animal feeding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
The recommendation was not adopted. |
| SB614 | Intro
Sine Die | Require the Department of Human Services to: establish a Neighbor Islands Blind and Visually Impaired Service Pilot Program that supplements existing statewide services by providing training and other services to neighbor island residents who are bli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1006 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Transportation to engage climate change adaptation measures for the State's low-lying roads and highways. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1350 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to address impacts of climate change and to mitigate further impacts on the State through carbon sequestration and resiliency planning. Allocates funds to the sea le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1564 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a requestor of a public record to receive the public record in the format of their choice; provided that the format that is being requested is available.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB1410 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits operation of a pickup truck with any passengers seated in the bed or load-carrying area unless in an emergency or an officially authorized parade caravan, or exhibition. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Zero to Three Court Program Coordinator position. Expands the Zero to Three Court to the Third Circuit. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB469 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the counties to reclassify lands fifteen to one fifty acres in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts in which at least seventy-five per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for persons an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB223 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Program for each county with a population greater than five hundred thousand to be administered by the Judiciary. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that 0.5 per cent, rather than one per cent, of state fund appropriations for capital improvements shall be transferred into the Works of Art Special Fund. Limits the 0.5 per cent amount to appropriations designated for the construction of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB1526 | Intro
Sine Die | Explicitly provides that a patient has a right to choose to obtain an abortion, or terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the patient's life or health. Repeals criminal penalties for violations of certain abortion provisions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB981 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the time period that a family court may order continued assisted community treatment. Reduces the time period that a family court needs to determine whether assisted community treatment should continue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1090 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes requirements for number plates issued for zero-emission, hybrid, and gasoline-powered vehicles beginning 1/1/2025. Requires the continued use of the rainbow number plate design for hybrid and gasoline-powered vehicles. Requires the Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1353 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts gross income from the planning, design, financing, or construction of any development of homestead lots or housing for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise and use taxes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts development of homestead lots or housing for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise tax and school impact fee requirements. Makes permanent the school impact fee exemption and the issuance of county affordable housing credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1406 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the law relating to vehicle weight violations by replacing the fine schedule and increasing the potential fines based on multitude and magnitude of vehicle weight violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1225 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies when the termination of peer-to-peer car-sharing occurs for purposes of motor vehicle insurance. Clarifies the application of the peer-to-peer car-sharing insurance laws as to other entities that make available rental vehicles under state l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB1224 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the required coverage for shared cars that are made available through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program. On 6/30/2025, repeals the allowable exclusions, recordkeeping requirements, right of recovery, insurable interest, and required disclosur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB1092 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes driving without a license a civil violation. Establishes fines. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1356 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows an adopted individual to benefit both by relationship through a natural parent and through an adoptive parent in a disposition or other designation as provided for in accordance with the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, or admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to identify and analyze existing and projected housing needs and identify adequate sites for housing sufficient to meet housing demands for all income levels each year. Appropriates funds fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB836 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Agribusiness Development Corporation to acquire property through condemnation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Carissa Kainani Moore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires owners of multiple parking facilities within any county of the State who aggregate the required parking spaces for electric vehicles to aggregate the spaces within that same county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB14 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Liquor Commission to record all complaints against any licensee, regardless of whether the complaint is filed during or after the occurrence of the violation. Requires the Liquor Commission to review the history of complaints against any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB495 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the time each county has to amend and adopt the Hawaii state building codes from two years to six years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "historic property" to require that the property meets the criteria for inclusion in the Hawaii Register of Historic Places or has important value to Native Hawaiians or other ethnic groups of the State due to associations wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the cesspool conversion tax credit to upgrade or convert cesspools certified by the Department of Health into a director-approved wastewater system. Effective for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB662 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a capital improvement project for the Honalo Marshalling Yard. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB468 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules to prevent and respond to the introduction of aquatic nuisance species from discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel and reflect the relationship between the fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB785 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies sustainable development goals based on the United Nations' Global Goals and indicators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB1248 | 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, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1231 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB931 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires check cashers to report suspected financial exploitation of elders and vulnerable adults in relation to check cashing. Provides immunity for good faith reporting. Authorizes a check casher to refuse to cash a check in situations of suspected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB929 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation Highways Division to implement recommendations made by the Office of the Auditor regarding compliance with federal funding laws and regulations and information technology authentication. Takes effect 7/1/2050...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for an aquaculture park that promotes commercial aquaculture expansion. Requires a report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
