| SB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties, before implementing any new mass transit fare or increasing any existing fare to first seek revenues from alternative sources, including transit-based advertisements. Requires a county that decides, after seeking alternative re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB194 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 11-357, HRS, to prohibit elected officials as defined in section 11-342(d), HRS, from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the State Legislature, including any extension of an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB88 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for a percentage of general excise and fuel taxes generated by the counties to be used for maintenance of private roadways that are open to the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the First Senatorial District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard for use by the Department of Education in preparation of instructional materials for eligible students. Defines "eligible student" in accordance with the Individuals with Disabilities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that restrooms and toilet facilities of public amusement facilities constructed, renovated, retrofitted, or installed after 1/1/2024 have two female-use toilets for each male-use toilet or urinal. Requires certain state building construction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB122 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes uniform firearms safety and training requirements for applicants of permits to acquire firearms, regardless of firearm type. Prohibits the issuance of permits to acquire firearms to aliens who are not state law enforcement officers. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB135 | 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] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB146 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows procuring agencies to use a list of qualified persons for a particular professional service for up to three years. Allows purchasing agencies to waive any requirement for professional service providers who are on a prepared list of qualified p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SCR1 | Pass | Requesting The Chief Justice Of The Hawaii Supreme Court To Address The Legislature Assembled In Joint Session For The State Of The Judiciary Address.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
Certified copies of resolutions sent, 01/20/2023. |
| SB128 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the photo noise violation monitoring system law. Establishes the Photo Noise Violation Monitoring System Program to enforce the State Community Noise Code, implemented by the State on any state or county highways within the respective cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the ability for a Mayor or the Governor to suspend electronic media transmission during a state of emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB120 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the $3 million cap on the amount the University of Hawaii System can expend from the University of Hawaii Tuition and Fees Special Fund for the University of Hawaii Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB127 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the registration fee for bicycles and mopeds to be refundable and prorated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB148 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale or furnishing of a tobacco product or electronic smoking device to a person born on or after January 1, 2003. Prohibits the possession or consumption of a tobacco product in a public place by a person born on or after January 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB123 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a person to report the person's lost, stolen, or destroyed firearms to the appropriate county police department. Establishes penalties for failure to report and false reporting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the operation of a vehicle sound amplification system that can be heard outside the vehicle from a distance of thirty feet or more while the vehicle is on a public roadway, street, or highway, or within any residential zone or district. Est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate the Honolulu Museum of Art.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB27 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of any new combustion engine-powered vehicle by a person or entity that engages in the practice of selling vehicles to consumers. Imposes a fine of up to $1,000 for each offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB104 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Educational Expenditure Trust Fund as a separate fund of the Department of Education for improving the education of, and supporting the programs benefiting, the students of the Hawaii public school system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the carrying of a firearm in sensitive places. Defines sensitive places. Establishes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB10 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of State Parks for the management of feral roosters and chickens on state lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the class B felony offense of prohibited acts related to female genital mutilation. Requires prosecuting attorneys of the respective counties to keep annual statistics on cases involving prohibited acts related to female genital mutilatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB13 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the Interstate Compact to Phase Out Corporate Welfare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to lower the qualifying age of voters for any state or local election to sixteen years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB6 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Human Services to administer and provide public assistance to eligible residents of the State during a Governor-Declared State of Emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that any minor who resides in the same household as a victim of domestic abuse may file a petition for an order of protection or temporary restraining order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the requirement of notifying the Terrorist Screening Center administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of the gun permit application background check process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes to amend Article I of the Hawaii State Constitution by establishing the right of each person to own and have an exclusive property right in the data they generate on the Internet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB17 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Medical Board to establish standards for health care providers to ensure that a patient's consent to treatment is an informed consent. Requires that informed consent for a proposed medical or surgical treatment or a diagnostic or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes clear criteria for unpaid student internship programs under the state wage laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB3 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows surviving immediate family members of deceased persons for whom law enforcement initiated an investigation to receive a copy of the closing report prepared by the investigating police department after a specified period of time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB138 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Education to include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of Asian American history. Requires the Superintendent of Education to prepare and make available to all school complex areas instructional materia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB50 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the distribution, sale, and provision of plastic straws, except for those who request single-use plastic straws for medical reasons. Establishes a fine for violators. Takes effect 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a written notice to defendants and eligible paroled prisoners of their right to complete a nonreligious substance abuse treatment program. Requires a list of nonreligious substance abuse treatment programs to be provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of possession of a loaded firearm while intoxicated as a petty misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning 1/1/2024, allows a qualified applicant to change their sex designation on their birth certificate. Establishes information required for an applicant to change their sex designation on their birth certificate. Requires the Department of Heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB61 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a new category of professional licensure for associate physicians, which are recent medical school graduates who have passed certain medical exams but have not been placed into a residency program and who work under the supervision of a licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to administer annual mental health or behavioral health screenings to all students, faculty, and staff members at public schools. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the right of persons to record law enforcement activities. Establishes a private right of action for violations of the right to record law enforcement activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB37 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the shipping container inspection program and appropriates funds for the shipping container inspection program. Requires the Department of Public Safety to submit reports to the Legislature on implementation of the shipping container insp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB78 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to conduct a performance audit of the Department of Land and Natural Resources' State Historic Preservation Division.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB133 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the - school year, requires public high schools to start at 9:00 a.m. and public elementary and middle schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Deputy Director of Highways of the Department of Transportation to be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB112 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the position of the Tourism Liaison Officer within the Office of the Governor. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the existing plant and animal declaration form to also require in-bound travelers to the State to acknowledge state laws, federal laws, and individual responsibility to protect the environment and agriculture of the State. Requires all other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state agencies to offer individuals who resigned or were dismissed from employment for not complying with vaccination or testing requirements the option to be reinstated, with back pay, to the position that person held prior to their termina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Aquaculture Development Branch within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the rights, powers, functions, duties, employees, and other capital of the Aquaculture and Livestock Services Branch of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for its manufacturing assistance programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to change the Board of Education back to an elected board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
