| SB3351 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to prohibit discrimination against a person because of ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, and pregnancy outcomes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2930 | Intro
25% | Extends, under certain conditions, the family leave period that employees are entitled to under state law for up to eight additional weeks for employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the birth of a child who is required to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2423 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2463 | Intro
25% | Authorizes examination of defendants via telehealth. Amends conditions for a defendant's release or examination of fitness to proceed. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2634 | Intro
25% | Makes appropriations for the expansion of the certified nurse aide to practical nurse bridge program at the University of Hawaii Maui College, including funding for instructional costs and student aid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2335 | Intro
25% | Amends the membership, authority, and duties of the State Building Code Council. Gives the counties the sole discretion to amend, adopt, and update the Hawaii state building codes as they apply within each county's respective jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2680 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the charging of a fee for a lessee's spouse by a lessor under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB3054 | Intro
25% | Amends the membership of the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development to replace the Director of Law Enforcement with the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3341 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Upcycled Mobile Dishwashing System Pilot Program within the Department of Health. Requires a report to the Legislature. Establishes two full-time positions within the Department of Health. Declares the general fund expenditure ceiling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB2594 | Intro
25% | Authorizes qualified successors of at least twenty-five percent Hawaiian blood quantum of beneficiaries on the waiting list who died before receiving a lease to file a claim for a lease award within four years of the effective date. Requires the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2165 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to inventory historic properties and burial sites in the State, collect data on burial site locations, and conduct an archaeological surface survey. Declares that the general fund exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2493 | Intro
25% | Prohibits condominium associations from assessing, demanding, or seeking reimbursement from a unit owner for the association's total and final legal fees in excess of 25% of the original debt amount sought by the association. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2664 | Intro
25% | Amends the law governing interest and usury by defining "debt" to include any amount that a consumer agrees to pay under certain conditions; requiring "annual percentage rates" to be calculated pursuant to the Truth in Lending Act and requiring certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2965 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish a discounted rate by tariff for water carriers that engage in the interisland transport of hydrogen produced from renewable sources. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3110 | Intro
25% | Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chairperson's designee to the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation as an ex officio nonvoting member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3100 | Intro
25% | Renames the Hawaii Health Corps Program to the Hawaii Rural Healthcare Provider Loan Program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2082 | Intro
25% | Merges the Made in Hawaii with Aloha branding program with the Hawaii Made program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Specifies that the Department of the Attorney General shall be responsible for enforcement of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2835 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "historic property" to include buildings and structures that are registered on the Hawaii Register of Historic places or object, district, area, or site that predate 8/21/1959. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3268 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from establishing restrictions on the type of gear used for subsistence fishing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB3338 | Intro
25% | Establishes a WAI policy coordinator and other positions within the Department of Land and Natural Resources for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2295 | Intro
25% | Establishes an inter-division program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources consisting of the State Historic Preservation Division, Land Division, Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands, Island Burial Councils, the Office of Hawaiian ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2857 | Intro
25% | Establishes a five-year income tax credit for general excises taxes paid on qualified aircraft service and maintenance gross income of the qualified taxpayer. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3065 | Intro
25% | Appropriates special funds to Department of Transportation programs to pay for anticipated operating shortfalls due to the limited ability to transfer funds between programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2121 | Intro
25% | Authorizes consumers aggrieved by the conduct of a mortgage loan originator licensee to recover from the Mortgage Loan Recovery Fund. Allows for excess moneys in the Mortgage Loan Recovery Fund to be used for certain training and educational purposes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2231 | Intro
25% | Expands workers' compensation medical benefits for firefighters to include coverage for breast cancer and cancer of the female reproductive organs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2789 | Intro
25% | Permits film production on lands that are zoned for agricultural use. Establishes the Agricultural Film Production Land Use Oversight Committee to monitor and enforce compliance with regulations on film permit activities on agricultural zoned lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB3266 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation and Department of Land and Natural Resources for vegetation management projects to reduce the risks of wildfires across the State. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2863 | Intro
25% | Requires that a portion of state moneys be deposited in a financial institution chartered or authorized to do business in the State. Takes effect 7/1/2040; provided that a financial institution chartered or authorized to do business in the State is e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2811 | Intro
25% | Makes state agricultural tourism requirements applicable to all counties, instead of only counties that have adopted an agricultural tourism ordinance. Requires Land Use Commission to adopt rules that establish requirements applicable to all farms im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2344 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3259 | Intro
25% | Permanently reinstates the liability protections previously afforded to county lifeguards providing services at state beach parks or in the ocean. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2028 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Department of Housing. Places the Hawaii Community Development Authority, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, and Hawaii Public Housing Authority under the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2996 | Intro
25% | Establishes the accessory dwelling unit loan program under HHFDC to provide loans for the development of accessory dwelling units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2147 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2026, requires nonpotable water users and developers of real property adjacent to or within reach of existing suitable infrastructure connected to a wastewater recycling facility that treats wastewater to R-1 standards to use R-1 water....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2650 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys for the continued exploration and identification of geothermal resources on Hawaiian Home Lands. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2035 | Intro
25% | Specifies that a simple majority of affirmative votes of the members of the Land Use Commission present at a meeting and qualified to vote is required for any boundary amendment. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2978 | Intro
25% | Establishes an income tax credit to incentivize the voluntary relinquishment of private water systems. Directs the Attorney General to commence eminent domain proceedings in certain counties. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3069 | Intro
25% | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide special funds for disbursements of moneys in the Mass Transit Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2348 | Intro
25% | Provides that any photo red light imaging detector system's clear and unobstructed recorded image of a motor vehicle license plate shall be prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle to which the license plate is attached is the motor vehicle for wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB371 | Intro
25% | Defines "incidental and supplemental work" for purposes of specialty contractors under the contractors law. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2053 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the installation, maintenance, management, and operation of non-chemical sunscreen dispensers on all state beaches. Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract or form a partnership with private parties to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2379 | Intro
25% | Prohibits government agencies, persons, and organizations from publicly disclosing the personal information of certain public servants and their families upon receiving a written request. Establishes a misdemeanor offense for individuals who post per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2167 | Intro
25% | Appropriates additional operational funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to protect, manage, and restore Hawaii's natural resources. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2895 | Intro
25% | Permits a shipping container chassis that holds a valid out-of-state certificate of vehicle registration to obtain a certificate of safety inspection. Makes an out-of-state registration for a shipping container chassis valid in the State until its ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2810 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for Pololu Valley management, including for the Division of Forestry and Wildlife of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to develop the trailhead; develop the infrastructure necessary to accommodate parking; install approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2445 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Transportation to identify an emergency egress route other than Komo Mai Drive from Pacific Palisades or, if no other route can be found, determine the feasibility of constructing an alternate emergency egress route. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2555 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state boating facility lease pilot program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources to lease one state small boat harbor for private development, management, maintenance, and operation in a county with a population of less th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB3160 | Intro
25% | Establishes a statutory framework for inspections of public land leases, licenses, and revocable permits by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2454 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain entities from distributing unsolicited mail that is reasonably likely to cause the recipient to believe that a governmental agency has approved of the distribution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2108 | Intro
25% | Allows a condominium association that claims a Renewable Energy Technologies Income Tax Credit under section 235-12.5, HRS, to transfer the credit, or a portion thereof, to another individual or corporate taxpayer that is not related to the condomini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
