| SB1481 | Intro
25% | Establishes conditions for the importation of fireworks. Authorizes the county fire departments to inspect warehouses, piers, cargo, baggage, and personal effects of persons arriving in the State to ascertain if they contain any fireworks. Requires i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB555 | Intro
25% | Relating To Criminal Procedure. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB758 | Intro
25% | Beginning with policies issued on or after 1/1/2024, requires health insurance policies to cover oocyte cryopreservation in certain circumstances. Removes the one-time benefit limitation for in vitro fertilization, and requires the insured or the ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB409 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the Community Fuels Reduction Project. Beginning with fiscal year 2025-2026 and each fiscal year thereafter, requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1497 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Highways Clean Energy Technology Pilot Program within the Department of Transportation. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1517 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide assistance and supplemental funding to the National Wildlife Research Center of the United States Department of Agriculture to conduct pilot field studies to evaluate contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1123 | Intro
25% | Exempts members of a county council from the limitation on the number of members that may attend an informational meeting or presentation on matters relating to official county council business for purposes of permitted interactions. Clarifies that s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB741 | Engross
50% | Excludes from any waiting list maintained by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands any lessee or successor who sells or transfers their lease on a tract of Hawaiian home lands for personal gain. Establishes that the Hawaiian Homes Commission shall ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB556 | Intro
25% | Relating To Elections. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB567 | Intro
25% | Relating To Transportation. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB387 | Intro
25% | Requires governmental bodies to obtain written approval from the Administrator of the State Procurement Office to cancel invitations for bids, requests for proposals, or other solicitations, or reject bids or proposals. Prohibits post-award remedial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB733 | Engross
50% | Requires the office of Hawaiian affairs to conduct a feasibility study on establishing Native Hawaiian cultural centers within the State. Requires the Office to submit a report of its study findings and recommendations to the legislature. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB235 | Engross
50% | Establishes a statewide human trafficking prevention program overseen by the department of the attorney general to provide services and assistance to commercially sexually exploited children and victims of human trafficking. Requires reports to the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB23 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the residential zone restriction on the use of leaf blowers at certain hours includes residential districts, apartment districts, and business mixed use districts. Removes the exemption on leaf blower restrictions for government agenci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB697 | Intro
25% | Requires compensation benefits for volunteer firefighters who are injured or killed in the line of duty to be determined based on equivalent firefighter pay based on years of service and rank, rather than on a rate of $18 per week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB896 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a covered entity from disclosing communication or information relating to reproductive health care services. Prohibits the issuance of a subpoena in connection with an out-of-state proceeding relating to reproductive health care services le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB643 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to comply with various development statutes, ordinances, charter provisions, and rules when developing on lands of the state conservation district or a county preservation district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB192 | Intro
25% | Imposes a statewide limitation on consumer fireworks, except by permit for cultural events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB877 | Intro
25% | Requires employers to provide certain paid breaks to employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB289 | Intro
25% | Requires that appropriations allocated to Department of Education programs that provide instructional services directly to students shall remain within the budget of the program to which they were originally allocated and that the retention of an app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1422 | Intro
25% | Establishes the class C felony offense of using or making false statements or entries in matters within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the State, or any county. Disqualifies a person from holding elective public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB32 | Intro
25% | Amends the State Constitution to require the Reapportionment Commission to establish a reapportionment plan to draw district lines for the total number of members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Takes effect on July 1, 205...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1188 | Intro
25% | Prohibits persons soliciting a state contract, or applicants for or recipients of state grants or subsidies awarded under chapter 42F and their family members from making campaign contributions. Includes subcontractors to a state contract in the proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB914 | Intro
25% | Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in its standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1227 | Intro
25% | Requires the employees' retirement system, in evaluating venture capital investments, to consider opportunities in industries that will sustain Hawaii's natural environment or produce economic opportunities for its residents, including renewable ener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB659 | Intro
25% | Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal care products in small plastic containers within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping room accommodations, or bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB625 | Intro
25% | Repeals inspection requirements for motor carrier vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB1412 | Intro
25% | Provides scholarships for the unmet needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB1012 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii to develop native pollinator habitats to be deployed on all campuses in the University system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB824 | Engross
50% | Requires the securing of mooring lines from vessels requiring tug assistance to be manned by an existing, operational stevedoring company that is operating within the State, except the securing of mooring lines from vessels for purposes of shipyard o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB885 | Intro
25% | Makes the quorum and voting requirements of the Nonprofit Corporation Act inapplicable to planned community associations and condominiums.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB916 | Intro
25% | Authorizes long-acting psychotropic medication to be provided to patients who are subject to emergency examination or hospitalization. Expands the administration of treatment over a patient's objection to include persons in director of health custody...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1171 | Intro
25% | Requires that funds from the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund be used to provide zero interest loans or grants to certain buyers and aid certain existing-for sale projects that have received funds from the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund. Appropriates funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB650 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for an aquaculture park that promotes commercial aquaculture expansion. Requires a report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB440 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Health to approve in-vehicle receipt of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products on the premises of dispensaries subject to Administrative Rules adopted by the Department of Health. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB4 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definitions of the terms "billboards" and "outdoor advertising device" and the acts included in the phrases "displaying an outdoor advertising device" and "maintaining a billboard" as used in state law that governs county licenses for o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB767 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the Governor or a Mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital statistics during a declared state of emergency. Allows for a reasonable delay in an agency's response to a request as a result of extenuating circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB468 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules to prevent and respond to the introduction of aquatic nuisance species from discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel and reflect the relationship between the fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB319 | Engross
50% | Establishes a working group to study the feasibility and effects of the State adopting the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| SB993 | Intro
25% | Removes discriminatory requirements for mandatory insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization procedures to create parity of coverage for same-sex couples, unmarried women, and opposite-sex couples for whom male infertility is the relevant factor. R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB88 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1334 | Intro
25% | Formally establishes the Hawaii State Fusion Center as a program under the Office of Homeland Security to be transferred to the Department of Law Enforcement and delineates its roles and responsibilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB376 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the mining, extraction, and removal of minerals from the seabed in all state marine waters. Prohibits the issuance of any permit for or in connection with the development or operation of any facility or infrastructure associated with the mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1144 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish a homelessness coordinator position for the island of Maui within the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB604 | Intro
25% | Prohibits state and county employees and officers from providing reproductive health care services patient information or expending state resources in furtherance of another state's investigation or proceeding that seeks to impose civil, criminal, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB256 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation a current and returning resident down payment program to provide matching funds for the down payment on a primary residence. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1249 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys for cybersecurity and data science programs at the University of Hawaii Maui College. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1350 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to address impacts of climate change and to mitigate further impacts on the State through carbon sequestration and resiliency planning. Allocates funds to the sea le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB382 | Engross
50% | Prohibits motor vehicle manufacturers from charging subscription fees for certain services that employ equipment already installed in the motor vehicle at the time of sale as a new motor vehicle. Provides that the prohibition shall not apply to enter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Carissa Kainani Moore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
