| SB929 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB433 | Intro
25% | Establishes green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines for state facility systems, infrastructure, and transit projects in the Hawaii State Planning Act to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. Defines green ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB1369 | Intro
25% | By 12/31/2027, requires the transfer of the Oahu Regional Health Care System in its entirety from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to the Department of Health. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1248 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1049 | Intro
25% | Sets the amount of the employer contribution to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund as a fixed percentage of the health benefits plan or life insurance plan premium cost. Makes conforming amendments to remove the amount of contributi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB1501 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Board of Land and Natural Resources from disturbing or acquiring for development certain wetland tarogrowing lands. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB647 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to extend the lease of any lessee who holds a lease with a remaining term of fifteen years or less; provided that the land covered by the lease is twenty-five acres or less and located in a county with a popul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB250 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1600 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 6th senatorial district, including extension of the Lahaina bypass road by the Department of Transportation; projects for Department of Education schools; projects for Department of Land and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1161 | Engross
50% | Requires the State to pay, without delay, military personnel called to active duty at the same rate as their active duty counterparts and provide basic housing allowance. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| SB1572 | Engross
50% | Creates a separate bargaining unit (16) for City and County of Honolulu Emergency Services Department employees. Recategorizes City and County of Honolulu Emergency Services Department employees from bargaining unit (10) into bargaining unit (16). Ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| SB1034 | Intro
25% | Requires the maintenance of at least three hundred parking stalls at Ala Wai Boat Harbor at no cost for recreational ocean access and for the practice of traditional and customary Native Hawaiian rights. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB738 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to administer a lease award program for beneficiaries on the homestead lease waiting list who are at least sixty years old or terminally ill, under certain conditions. Authorizes qualified successors o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1423 | Intro
25% | Establishes the office of the public advocate. Establishes rights for members of the public with respect to the conduct and operation of the legislature and its members. Specifies procedures for the investigation and reporting of alleged violations o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB1521 | Engross
50% | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to create an integrated land use study for the use of land within the agricultural district. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, Department of Agriculture, Department of Transportation,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1567 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the State Board for Career and Technical Education to cooperate with the Legislature to advise on provisions of all nonfederal funds received that are earmarked for career and technical education. Requires the State Board for Career and Te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| SB1368 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Human Services to pay certain healthcare professionals who provide care allowable under the Medicaid program to patients enrolled in Medicaid an amount similar or equivalent to reimbursement rates paid by the Medicare pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB621 | Intro
25% | Provides that Hawaii is a "constitutional carry" state. Repeals the licensing procedure set forth in section 134-9, HRS, under which county police chiefs have the discretion to decide whether an applicant may receive a license to carry, concealed or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1290 | Intro
25% | Clarifies section 6.4 of Act 248, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, as it pertains to the appropriation for the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB275 | Intro
25% | Establishes the rounding up for teachers' salaries special fund, to be administered by the Department of Education. Requires electric utilities and county boards of water supply to provide an option for customers to voluntarily round up their bill to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB891 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide menstrual products at no cost in specified restrooms of public buildings maintained by that department. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB311 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and administer a two-year Infant and Toddler Child Care Contracted Slots Pilot Program. Requires annual reports on the pilot program's development and administration to the Legislature. Appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1576 | Intro
25% | Gradually reduces the general excise tax rate imposed on the retail sale of groceries and nonprescription medication over a period of four years until eliminated in calendar year 2027. Preserves the county surcharge on tax and the general excise tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB463 | Engross
50% | Requires each county to adopt, no later than 6/30/2024, ordinances applicable to subdivisions not approved by 7/1/2024, requiring as a condition of approval, the subdivider or developer to obtain a street address and install a mailbox for lots, parce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB76 | Intro
25% | Transfers authority for certain project reviews from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Counties. Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to certify third-party reviewers and defines the role of third-party reviewers....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB344 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within DHRD to: examine and redescribe certain existing position descriptions of state public workers in all state departments and agencies; examine and make recommendations regarding the impact of the pay disparities betw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB244 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1411 | Engross
50% | Amends the name and administration of the drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory special fund. Appropriates funds. Requires a report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB383 | Engross
50% | Requires that any person who applies for an identification card or driver's license be automatically registered to vote. Requires that the applicant be provided the opportunity to opt-out of voter registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| SB1385 | Engross
50% | Expands the coverage of employees and employers covered under the minimum wage, overtime, and recordkeeping requirements of chapter 387, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by deleting from the definition of "employee" employees guaranteed a monthly compensatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| SB664 | Intro
25% | Prohibits state elected officials from accepting or receiving gifts in relation to their official duties. Requires the several counties to adopt ordinances or rules to impose similar prohibitions on county elected officials. Requires each county to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB201 | Engross
50% | Amends the prohibition against contributions to a candidate committee or noncandidate committee by state and county contractors to include state and county grantees and the owners, officers, and immediate family members of a state or county contracto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1021 | Intro
25% | Authorizes agencies to expend moneys from special funds under the agency's control for capital improvement projects, subject to legislative appropriation or authorization. Prohibits the expenditure of amounts that exceed 20% of the special fund's cei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1028 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2024, requires rental kayaks to be registered and numbered with the Department of Land and Natural Resources and have the identification number affixed to the rental kayak. Requires the Department to establish fees for registration and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB12 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to prohibit any person from serving more than a total of 16 years as a member of the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1376 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Water Pollution Control Special Fund to collect fees formerly deposited to the State general fund to create a supplemental source of funding to implement and enforce water quality management as implemented in permits, certifications, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1536 | Intro
25% | Permanently reinstates the liability protections previously afforded to county lifeguards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1531 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Beneficial Treatments Advisory Council to review mental health treatment information and advise the Department of Health. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| SB342 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to conduct a study on paid sick leave. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the study. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB990 | Engross
50% | Establishes a Traffic Fines Task Force that will examine the Finnish tiered traffic fines system, determine whether a similar system could be implemented in Hawaii, and provide recommendations as to how a system could best be implemented. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB648 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish and administer an aquaculture disease diagnostic laboratory. Appropriates funds for the laboratory. Establishes and appropriates funds for positions within the Department of Agriculture. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB563 | Intro
25% | Relating To Counties. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB219 | Intro
25% | Clarifies county zoning to explicitly authorize counties to adopt zoning regulations that eliminate or amortize land uses or structures established after the effective date of the first comprehensive zoning ordinance adopted by a county and zoning re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1608 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 11th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB943 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB843 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "wages" to include the payment of any paid time off or personal time off, holiday, sick, or vacation pay earned and payable in accordance with the terms of an employer's policy or a written agreement with the employer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB431 | Intro
25% | Requires recycling of construction and demolition materials and use of recycled materials to factor into priority offeror selections for competitive procurements of construction or demolition services by the State or any county. Requires the State Bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1355 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to issue interim rules that shall be exempt from the public notice, public hearing, and gubernatorial approval requirements of chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, after beneficiary consultation is conduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB558 | Intro
25% | Relating To Firearms. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB751 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Early Childhood Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to assist students with school tuition in return for a service commitment to teach in the Executive Office on Early Learning Public Prekindergarten Program....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
