| 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 |
| HB230 | Intro
25% | Designates the vice president for budget and finance and chief financial officer of the University of Hawaii as the chief procurement officer for the university. Effective 6/30/3000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB783 | Intro
25% | Establishes the 2023 illegal fireworks task force within the department of the attorney general to develop a comprehensive strategic plan to stop the importation of illegal fireworks and explosives into the State, promote compliance with the firework...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB6 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation 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 |
| HB544 | Intro
25% | Requires the State of Hawaii Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically prior to the debarkation of passengers or baggage. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance 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 |
| HB1069 | Intro
25% | Amends Act 130, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, clarifies access to services, provides a definition of homeless youth; expands the age of youth that may be served; establishes two full-time equivalent positions; and makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB524 | 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 House Housing 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 |
| HB1066 | Intro
25% | Restores the second deputy director position for the Department of Human Services; authorizes a private secretary position for the second deputy; appropriate funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB749 | Intro
25% | Removes historic sites and the Waikiki special district from the requirement for environmental assessments under section 343-5, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land 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 |
| HB1029 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the public utilities commission to use electronic filing processes, including electronic service of documents, under the statutory chapters regulating public utilities, motor carriers, and water carriers. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[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 |
| HB753 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year nonrefundable individual income tax credit for expenses paid to retrofit a residence with wind resistive devices. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Sunsets 12/31/2025. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1239 | Intro
25% | Establishes the position of the Tourism Liaison Officer within the Office of the Governor. Makes an appropriation. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance 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 |
| HB847 | Intro
25% | Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter an area closed to the public or hiking on a trail closed to the public, with a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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 |
| HB1483 | Intro
25% | Reduces and eliminates the general excise tax for the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children over a four-year period. Reduces ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development 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 |
| HB855 | Intro
25% | Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the manufacture, production, packaging, and sale of diapers. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB42 | Engross
50% | Authorizes candidates and their candidate committees to donate residual campaign funds to the general fund of the State or to the real property tax general fund of any county of the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1208 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 41st Representative District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance 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 |
| HB235 | Intro
25% | Requires certain employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care and supplemental paid sick leave to employees under certain public health eme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB856 | Intro
25% | Directs state departments to implement four day, forty hour work weeks. Addresses worker concerns of traffic congestion, commuting concerns, and work life balance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations 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 |
| HB1282 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the city and county of Honolulu to perform maintenance activities to benefit Manoa stream. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB188 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Hawaii carbon smart land management assistance pilot program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance 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 |
| SB35 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the Judiciary to purchase civil legal services for low- and moderate-income persons. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB161 | Intro
25% | Appropriates grant funding to the YMCA of Honolulu for its Youth Wellness Program for Mental Health to address the statewide declining mental health outcomes of youths related to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1251 | Intro
25% | Beginning July 1, 2023, requires substitute teachers who work ninety days or more to be compensated equivalent to the daily rate for an entry-level teacher salary commensurate with their placement in Class I, II, or III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1314 | Intro
25% | Requires productions to provide evidence of reasonable efforts to comply, rather than actually comply, with all applicable requirements to qualify for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Requires taxpayers be giv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB563 | 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 House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
