| 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 |
| SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes each county to establish a higher minimum wage than the state minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the penalties for bribery under certain circumstances. Amends the offense of obstruction of justice to include obstruction by force, threat of force, coercion, fraud, or deception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB263 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state council on mental health to include an unspecified number of members with demonstrated knowledge of or work experience involving native Hawaiian health practices. Requires council members to receive annual training on topics relate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the felony offenses of misuse of unmanned aircraft in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degrees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB196 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 11-410, HRS, by: (1) amending subsection (b) to provide that a person waives the right to a contested case hearing if the person fails to request a contested case hearing within 20 days of receipt of the Commission's preliminary determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the county police departments to purchase and deploy explosion detection technology to assist in the location of and response to explosions caused by the illegal use of firearms and fireworks. Appropriates moneys to the counties as a grantin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB183 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each chamber of the Legislature to post on the Legislature's website a report of the legislative allowance expenditures for each member of the respective chamber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB216 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a county to proceed with a power of sale on real property subject to a recorded lien.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends various definitions of "moped" throughout the Hawaii Revised Statutes to exclude low-speed electric bicycles. Deletes an unused term from Chapter 286, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Establishes regulations for low-speed electric bicycles and clarifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB250 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Department of Education from mandating that any student attend a school outside the student's service area. Establishes a 5-year phaseout period. Requires the Department of Education to submit annual progress reports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB286 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a three-year New Waste Management Solution and Cesspool System Demonstration Pilot Program within the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center to examine and demonstrate new wastewater and cesspool technology systems; implemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB215 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires license plates to include okinas. Authorizes the use of all uppercase letters, all lowercase letters, or initial capital letters in license plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB273 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands coverage of breast cancer screening and imaging to include an annual mammogram for a woman of any age having an above-average risk for breast cancer, risk factor screening for women 30 years of age and older, and additional supplemental imagi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB204 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits to $100 the total amount of cash a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee may accept from a single person during each election period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB212 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a person having professional-level government employment performing lawful experience in review of engineered plans and calculations under the direct supervision of an applicably licensed engineer is eligible for licensure as a professi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB184 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the statement of expenditures filed with the State Ethics Commission to include information on the identity, by bill number, resolution number, budget cost or program identification number, or other identifier, of the legislative or administ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State Ethics Commission to establish and administer a lobbyist training course and makes the lobbyist training course mandatory for all lobbyists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB268 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires laws that enact, modify, or extend the availability of a tax expenditure to contain specific information, revenue estimates, and analyses before becoming law. Allows the disclosure of certain tax credit information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to assign school resource officers or guards to serve at public elementary schools and state prekindergarten programs. Requires the Department of Education to seek funding from federal grants. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB209 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that each county may, by ordinance, designate certain sections of county highways as areas in which stopping, standing, or parking vehicles is prohibited or restricted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the amount transferred to the works of art special fund from 1% to 0.5% of all state fund appropriations for capital improvements designated for the construction cost element.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB153 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes supplemental categorical funding for remote schools. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates reimbursement for services provided by participating registered pharmacists practicing within their scope of practice by private and public health plans in the State beginning January 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB272 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to cover mandated services for mammography on terms at least as favorable as the terms for other radiological examinations
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB274 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to transfer the Ewa Beach Public and School Library from the State Public Library System to James Campbell High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires electric utilities to compensate electricity producers for excess electricity credits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB234 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the offense of negligent concealment of a firearm by a licensee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB257 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the abolishment of any state public service position that remains vacant for longer than 2 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB254 | 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] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB266 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires medically appropriate and reasonable life-saving and life-sustaining medical care and treatment for all born alive infants. Establishes civil and criminal penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB269 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit by requiring the department of business, economic development, and tourism to publish on its website the names of the qualified productions and the amount of the tax cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends sections 11-322 and 11-333, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require the Campaign Spending Commission ("Commission") to publish on its website the names of candidate and persons who qualify as noncandidate committees who fail to file an organizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB288 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers the Culinary Institute of the Pacific from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as an administratively attached agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB253 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits nonresident aliens and businesses and trusts that are significantly controlled by nonresident aliens from acquiring certain residential property in the State, except as otherwise provided by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB190 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for additional use of the reduced ignition propensity cigarette certification fees to support the State Fire Council and its programs and activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
