| SB2946 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii to submit to the Legislature annual reports of all university employees who performed work from a location outside of the State for more than sixty consecutive days during the applicable year no later than December 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2523 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Judiciary to conduct a study to determine how to implement a program that provides free child care services to minor children of parties and witnesses who are attending court hearings in the First Circuit Family Court. Requires the Judic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2870 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to identify existing mixed-use developments in Maui County that could be acquired by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3339 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Red Hill remediation authority. Creates the Red Hill remediation special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB3308 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the use of modern Hawaiian orthography, including the kahako and ?okina, on the state seal. Provides that valid representations of the seal created before this Act shall remain valid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3283 | Intro
Sine Die | Lowers the salary of the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Coordinator to be 100% of the salary of the Deputy Director of Human Resources Development, rather than 100% of the salary of the Director of Human Resources Development, effective 12/1/20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB3187 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the tuition residency rules for the University of Hawaii to grant the resident tuition fee for enrollment at any University of Hawaii campus to individuals who have graduated from a Hawaii high school and are enrolling in an undergraduate de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3336 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the retention of third party professionals with the necessary financial, accounting, and land inventory expertise to evaluate and address the completeness and accuracy of the public land trust ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3313 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to increase the salary schedules of deputy sheriffs within the Department of Law Enforcement. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2654 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts any development of homestead lots or housing for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise and use taxes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2854 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Vacated Encampment Clean Up Task Force to identify potential entities to enter into intergovernmental agreements to coordinate the clean up of vacated encampments located on lands managed by United States Army Garrison Hawaii. Declares ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2150 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to amend its shellfish sanitation administrative rules based on the United States Department of Agriculture's 2019 National Shellfish Sanitation Program model ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB2034 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's and Hawaii Public Housing Authority's projects to develop housing exclusively for qualified residents. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2087 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Insurance Commissioner to conduct a study on wildfire risk and insurance and submit a report regarding the study to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2716 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows retirement benefits to be negotiated during collective bargaining negotiations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB2925 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to hold at least one application period each year to receive applications from parties interested in applying for financing of projects to develop or improve infrastructure that is or wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2779 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to consider all avenues and models that may satisfy the housing needs of native Hawaiian beneficiaries and facilitate the reduction of the waitlist, including compliance with the plan implemented in Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2396 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the distribution of electioneering communications before an election that a person knows or should have known are deceptive and fraudulent deepfakes of a candidate or party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1208 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the income thresholds and credit amounts of the income tax credit for low-income household renters by using tax brackets individuals and different categories of households. Annually adjusts the income thresholds and credit amounts for infla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2448 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the time requirement when a disbursing officer shall inform the employee of indebtedness. Reduces the minimum amount owed per pay period from $100 to $50 or 5% of the new employee's wages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB3052 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms county debt limit statements law to exclude tax increment bonds from the debt limit of the counties if a constitutional amendment authorizing the use of tax increment bonds and excluding tax increment bonds from determinations of the countie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB3277 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a determination of ineligibility for tenant applicants for any program under the Hawaii Public Housing Authority law due to an eviction unless a writ of possession was issued and served as a result of the proceeding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2872 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the counties to regulate by ordinance the use of vehicles, campers, and mobile homes as alternative residential dwellings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB3143 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation for asbestos remediation to temporarily relocate Department of Health offices and begin preliminary planning for the redevelopment of the Kinau Hale site. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3174 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates an obsolete fee for a certified copy of a tax clearance. Adds a penalty for failure to comply with reporting requirements under general excise tax law and transient accommodations tax law for collection of rent by a third party. Raises the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2838 | Intro
Sine Die | Between 7/1/2024 and 12/31/2026, authorizes each county planning commission to petition for the redistricting of land from the agricultural to the rural district through the land use commission's declaratory ruling process. Sunsets 12/31/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2903 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits public entry into wildfire-affected areas for the purpose of habitation until the Department of Health provides notice that the wildfire-affected area is safe to enter for this purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3029 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes appropriations and approves payments for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2023-2024. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2467 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to implement quality improvement measures recommended in the comprehensive safety review for the Hawaii State Hospital. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3053 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the conveyance tax rate for certain properties. Exempts conveyances of certain real property from the conveyance tax. Eliminates the cap on the amount of conveyance tax collections allocated to the land conservation fund and rental housing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB3274 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2507 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from civil service requirements employees performing services in University of Hawaii student or employee housing and certain personal services in privately financed leased or owned buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB2376 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the rate of compensation and maximum allowable amounts per case for court-appointed counsel and guardian ad litem in family court proceedings. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2804 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes large land owners to petition the Land Use Commission to allow the development of elderly housing on portions of agricultural lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2521 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for 4.0 FTE deputy public defender III positions within the Office of the Public Defender (BUF151). Requires the Office of the Public Defender to assign one deputy public defender II to the family court section. Declares that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB958 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to research and explore the idea of establishing a regulatory framework and licensure requirements for school psychologists. Requires a report to the Legislature. Takes effect on 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2723 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2281 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a continuous Legislature. Requires the Legislature to convene at least once a month. Removes language regarding special sessions, adjournment, and recesses. Creates a two-year deadline for a bill to be submitted for gubernatorial consider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2823 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a blue ribbon committee within the Department of the Attorney General to analyze the Hawaii Administrative Rules and identify any rules that are not supported by statutory authority. Requires each state agency to cooperate with the blue r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2639 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates the enforcement mechanisms for the Uniform Information Practices Act and the Sunshine Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2241 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each cannabis dispensary to enter into a labor peace agreement that protects the State's proprietary interests by prohibiting the applicable labor organization from engaging in picketing, work stoppages, or boycotts against the establishment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB2824 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds to the Agribusiness Development Corporation for the upgrade of South and West Maui's R-1 water delivery systems, and the upgrade of certain water reservoirs located in the forest wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2188 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows striking workers to be eligible for unemployment benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB2543 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for search and rescue expenses from persons who require rescue after ignoring warning signs, leaving a hiking trail to enter a prohibited area, or hiking on a trail closed to the public. Takes effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2071 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to enhance the Department's mobile platforms that provide student mental health and social-emotional health support. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2064 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation the right of first refusal for the development of property for all development on state lands, excluding the Stadium Development District and lands under the Hawaii Public Housing Authorit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3331 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an alternative process for the termination of the rental agreement that involves mediation. Requires the Governor to notify the Chief Justice, Legislature, and Revisor of Statutes when the final wildfire proclamation will expire. Declares...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2756 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the prohibition on overnight camps in agricultural districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
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| SB2451 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Hawaii State Energy Office, in conjunction with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, to develop and submit an interim and final strategy report to the Legislature for the construction of at least one atmospheric carbon capture plant in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2975 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the qualified internship grant program within the Department of Education to provide grants to businesses and organizations that employ qualified interns participating in work-based learning through a qualified internship program. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
