| SB456 | Intro
25% | Expands the scope of inmate deaths that are to reported to the Governor and Legislature. Requires reports to be published on the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation website. Requires reports on the cause of death and mandates public access t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1496 | Intro
25% | Increases the maximum value of the low-income household renters credit to $150 per qualified exemption for households. Adjusts and provides income threshold tiers based on filing status.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1433 | Intro
25% | Increases the maximum sentence of imprisonment from one year to two years for a misdemeanor and thirty days to one year for a petty misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB718 | Intro
25% | Clarifies teachers and other personnel of state public charter schools are members of the same collective bargaining unit as their Department of Education counterparts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB222 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the department of the prosecuting attorney of the city and county of Honolulu for the career criminal prosecution unit. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB10 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB924 | Engross
50% | Eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB92 | Intro
25% | Establishes a time limitation for community-based subsistence fishing area designations; provided that the Department of Land and Natural Resources may consider extending a designation in the year prior to the designation's expiration unless the desi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB38 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB804 | Intro
25% | Authorizes lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture to be leased or used for pet animal sanctuaries; provided that the pet animal sanctuary provides a public benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1023 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the preschool open doors program and executive office on early learning to expand access to preschool and to implement program changes required by previous acts. Requires DHS to provide reimbursements to providers participating...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1455 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and regulates the manufacture of certain hemp products within the State. Clarifies the respective roles of persons growing hemp, processing hemp, and manufacturing hemp products. Repeals the sunset date of the State's hemp laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB606 | Engross
50% | Exempts from the general excise tax, gross receipts received by a hospital, infirmary, medical clinic, health care facility, pharmacy, or a practitioner licensed to administer drugs to an individual, from the sale of hearing aids. Effective 12/31/205...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| SB574 | Intro
25% | Relating To Economic Development. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB139 | Engross
50% | Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to conduct a study identifying certain state-owned lands located within a one-half mile radius of any rail mass transit station, including lands owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and excluding lands ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB920 | Intro
25% | Increases minimum liability coverage of motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB1114 | Intro
25% | Requires HHFDC to establish a five-year dwelling unit revolving fund equity pilot program. Creates one full-time equivalent housing development specialist III position. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1584 | Intro
25% | Establishes as null and void, any nondisclosure, confidentiality, or non-disparagement clause in any agreement entered into by any government agency, that prohibits employees of the government agency or other parties from disclosing to the public cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB400 | 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 Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1080 | Intro
25% | Establishes that the representative of labor on the Hawaii Labor Relations Board be a person selected by a majority of the exclusive representatives of the collective bargaining units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB1050 | Intro
25% | Clarifies internal complaint procedures for civil service positions by requiring a formal complaint to be filed within twenty working days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB571 | Intro
25% | Relating To Water. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB308 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Erin's law task force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, report recommendations for the establishment of a program to educate public scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB403 | Engross
50% | Repeals the designation of black coral as the official gem of the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1155 | Intro
25% | Requires that schedules filed with the candidate committee and noncandidate committee reports include the amount and date of deposit of each contribution and the name and both the mailing and physical address of each contributor who is not a register...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB190 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB656 | Intro
25% | Permits a bicyclist to proceed through an intersection from a right turn only lane if they cannot safely merge into the traffic lane. Permits a bicyclist to proceed in a right turn only lane when approaching an intersection, even if they do not inten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB1055 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the practice of election fraud intimidation includes, among other actions (1) The carrying of any firearm or weapon and (2) The act of photographing the face of any voter without permission from both the voter and an appropriate electi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB498 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Shipping Container Inspection Program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Amends the definitions of "aerial devices" and "fireworks" within state fireworks law. Requires reports to the Legislature on implementation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
25% | Makes a person or entity liable for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when the person or entity knowingly enters state, county, or private property, knowingly enters a hiking trail that is closed to the public, or violates applicable laws...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB336 | Intro
25% | Restricts any county from disapproving or imposing certain conditions on a housing development project or an emergency shelter unless the county meets certain requirements. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1262 | Intro
25% | Establishes statewide goals for solid waste reduction and organic waste diversion. Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to reduce all organic waste produced within the county by faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1172 | Intro
25% | Requires manufacturers of powered medical equipment to make available to powered medical equipment owners and independent repair providers parts, equipment, tools, documentation, and training courses and materials. Requires manufacturers to provide t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB663 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the establishment of an agriculture education coordinator position within the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB820 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract reviews of certain proposed projects that may affect historic properties, aviation artifacts, or burial sites to third-party consultants if the department will not be able to complete ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB1229 | Intro
25% | Relating To Grants. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB918 | Intro
25% | Establishes notice requirements for employers under Hawaii's Workers' Compensation Law. Requires employers who deny the compensability of an employee's injury to submit a written report supporting the denial to the Director of Labor and Industrial Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB517 | Intro
25% | Authorizes operators of motorcycles to utilize the lane shoulders that are at least three-feet-wide with the concurrent use of emergency flashers on interstate highways as authorized by the Department of Transportation. Requires the Department of Tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1181 | Intro
25% | Requires solar conduit and electrical panel readiness for new residential construction and electric vehicle readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB748 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the construction and operation of non-chemical sunscreen dispensers on all state beaches to alleviate the damaging effects of chemical-based sunscreen on reef ecosystems. Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB183 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB564 | Intro
25% | Relating To Military Affairs. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB596 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "covered employer" in the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB236 | Engross
50% | Expands the victim-counselor privilege under the Hawaii Rules of Evidence to include confidential advocates employed by the University of Hawaii. Increases the minimum number of hours of training a domestic violence victims' counselor must complete t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1142 | Intro
25% | Places certain requirements and speed restrictions on the operation of water vessels in proximity to humpback whales.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB467 | Enroll
75% | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to allow the Legislature to enact laws establishing limitations on moneys expended by any noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures to influence the outcome of a state election....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| SB1335 | Intro
25% | Amends section 2 of Act 97, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to reflect the migration of the Office of Homeland Security from the Department of Defense to the Department of Law Enforcement on January 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1146 | Intro
25% | Establishes an online fantasy sports contests registration and monitoring program under the Department of the Attorney General. Imposes an online fantasy sports contests tax on the gross revenues of registrants. Establishes the Online Fantasy Sports ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1120 | Engross
50% | Requires the State Art Museum to provide opportunities for the counties and private organizations located in Hawaii to display art through loan arrangements with the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts under the Arts in Public Places Program. Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| SB216 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a county to proceed with a power of sale on real property subject to a recorded lien.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
