| SB1121 | Intro
25% | Requires the Real Property and Financial Services Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association to conduct a study to determine an appropriate increase to the homestead exemption in bankruptcy proceedings. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1438 | Intro
25% | Transfers the Office of Consumer Protection from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Protection to the Department of the Attorney General. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB1088 | Intro
25% | Provides public employees with up to 2 hours of paid leave each calendar year to attend a scheduled physical examination with a licensed physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB1389 | Engross
50% | Requires mandatory disclosure of all existing permitted and unpermitted shoreline erosion control structures and the annual coastal erosion rates for shoreline properties in real estate transactions when publicly available. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB270 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to submit an annual report on the enforcement of the wage and hour law in the State to the Legislature. Requires the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish: (1) investigation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| SB1013 | Intro
25% | Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chair's designee to the Commission on Water Resource Management. Increases number of commission members from seven to eight, with only five of eight required to have substantial experience ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB681 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 24th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1145 | Engross
50% | Requires that Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing projects include a restrictive covenant that states that the units designated as affordable housing, as described in the submitted project application, shall remain as affordabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| SB1428 | Intro
25% | Bans instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools. Establishes new parental rights regarding health services and records. Establishes the parental right to sue and receive damages if schools fail to adhere to new pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1598 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Maui college to support water testing on the island of Maui, including supplies and the establishment of two full-time equivalent positions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB539 | Intro
25% | Relating To Procurement. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB709 | Intro
25% | Establishes a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for expenses paid to retrofit a residence with wind resistive devices. Appropriates funds to the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs for the establishment, imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB329 | Intro
25% | Prohibits landlords from recovering possession of a dwelling unit from tenants if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Sets a tenant's liability for rent if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Provides remedies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB690 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the sale of certain fluorescent lamps as a new manufactured product, with certain exemptions. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB325 | Intro
25% | Requires sponsored captive insurance companies to maintain separate protected cells for separate participant contracts. Except for risk retention captive insurance companies, authorizes captive insurance companies to apply for a certificate of exempt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB685 | Intro
25% | Establishes the misdemeanor offense of brandishing a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB615 | Intro
25% | Requires each public or public charter school to have staff trained in the administration of, and authorized to administer, epinephrine. Requires signs to be displayed in school buildings stating the symptoms of anaphylaxis and the proper method for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB58 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1264 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish limited-entry commercial fisheries for fisheries that are not subject to federal fisheries regulations, when appropriate or necessary to ensure sustainable fisheries for two species...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB260 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to employ individuals as vocational, technical, or career pathway teachers. Authorizes Department of Education teachers to instruct vocation, technical, or career pathway classes without possessing an applicable b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB986 | Intro
25% | Requires corporations to include the income of all foreign subsidiaries to the State. Applies the State's apportionment formula to determine the share of reported profits subject to the appropriate tax. Effective 1/1/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB429 | Intro
25% | Requires that cesspools within five hundred feet of certain bodies of water be upgraded, converted, or connected if sold or transferred on or after 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB407 | Intro
25% | Establishes a definition for "immediate harm" and amends the definition of "imminent harm" for the purpose of the Child Protective Act. Requires a police officer to assume protective custody of a child without a court order or consent of the child's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1206 | Engross
50% | Requires the Director of Finance to consider, prior to the selection of a depository for the state treasury, the beneficial effects to the State of using depositories within the State, including but not limited to lending at favorable terms for the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB215 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB1007 | Intro
25% | Expands the State's temporary disability insurance (TDI) coverage to, and exempt from TDI benefit eligibility requirements that are employment-related, employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the employee's childbirth or pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB360 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, in consultation with the Insurance Commissioner, to develop a procedural manual to implement a family leave insurance program that pays family leave insurance benefits. Appropriates funds. Ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| SB379 | Intro
25% | Requires restaurants to clearly disclose to customers how tips are allocated to employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB909 | Intro
25% | Restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a felony offense where the property owner has been convicted of an underlying felony offense. Directs forfeiture proceeds to the general fund. Amends the allowable expenses for mon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB548 | Intro
25% | Relating To The Research Corporation Of The University Of Hawaii. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB908 | Intro
25% | Imposes a fee for selling sugar-sweetened beverages at the distributor level to be collected by the Department of Health. Establishes a special fund into which revenues are deposited. Establishes a trust fund in the private sector to receive revenues...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1556 | Intro
25% | Creates within the Department of Health's wastewater branch a cesspool conversion section, which will be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes 2.0 full-time equivalent positions within the cesspool con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB876 | Intro
25% | Requires employers to provide employees the right to sit at work when standing is not necessary. Establishes fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB1360 | Intro
25% | Strengthens and continues the Hospital Sustainability Program indefinitely. Appropriates funds out of the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund for fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. Makes other non-substantive changes for consistency and c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1295 | Enroll
75% | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the legislature may authorize, by general law, political subdivisions, such as counties, to issue tax increment bonds and to exclude tax increment bonds in calcu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB121 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the carrying of a firearm in sensitive places. Defines sensitive places. Establishes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB963 | Intro
25% | Exempts parking lot operations at state parks and operation of concessions at certain state parks from the bidding requirements for concessions operating on public property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB178 | Intro
25% | Changes the deadline for the validation of ballots following an election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB688 | Intro
25% | Specifies that a recount of all ballots cast for any election shall occur if the official tabulation of all of the returns for that office or ballot question reveals that there is a difference equal to or less than one hundred votes, one-quarter of o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1480 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of the Attorney General, an Environmental Crimes Unit, which shall be a cooperative effort between the Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Health to investigate and prosecute crimes that pose sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB185 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB677 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and establishes procedures and criteria for prescriptive authority for clinical psychologists who meet specific education, training, and registration requirements. Requires the Board of Psychology to accept applications for prescriptive au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB1100 | Intro
25% | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the Legislature may authorize the Counties to issue tax increment bonds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1175 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to develop and implement safety training for all cafeteria student helpers and ensure the student helpers receive the training prior to them volunteering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1089 | Intro
25% | Establishes a tax credit for commercial property owners that make available parking spaces within the owners' parking lots for use by peer-to-peer car-sharing platforms. Applies to taxable years after 12/31/2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB995 | Intro
25% | Increases the general excise tax by 1%. Establishes the teacher salary special fund within the Department of Education. Requires that increased general excise tax revenues be deposited into the teacher salary special fund and the school facilities sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB634 | Intro
25% | Removes biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of renewable energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB217 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the renewal of driver's licenses online or by electronic or digital means.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB1282 | Intro
25% | Amends, clarifies, and enacts provisions of chapter 134, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS); amends section 707-716, HRS; and amends and clarifies section 846-2.7(b), HRS. Amends and enacts requirements and processes regarding permits to acquire and licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1459 | Intro
25% | Establishes a task force to examine the consequences of drinking water contamination detected at the Waipahu Wells II Granular Activated Carbon Treatment Facility. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
