HI Legislation | 2024 | Regular Session

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SB451Intro
25%
Establishes a cultivation facility license that allows cultivators to grow cannabis for sale only to licensed medical cannabis dispensaries. Establishes requirements for license applications and qualifications for applicants and licensees. Limits the...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HB175Intro
25%
Makes it discretionary for authorized emergency vehicles to use sirens when responding to an emergency or in other specified situations if the siren is not reasonably necessary under the circumstances.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HB448Engross
50%
Allows minors sixteen years of age or older and emancipated minors to petition for domestic abuse protective orders. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HB154Intro
25%
Exempts state residents from the transient accommodations tax.
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2023-12-11
To House Tourism Committee
HB1147Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/2027, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties.
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
SB48Intro
25%
Establishes penalties for failure to comply with certain submerged land reclamation regulations. Adds requirements for presently reclaimed land to be disposed of by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, without recourse to public auction, to an ab...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HB809Intro
25%
Establishes and appropriates funds for the shipping container inspection program set to begin no later than December 1, 2023. Requires reports to the legislature on implementation of the shipping container inspection program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
SB1048Intro
25%
Repeals payroll day for public officers and employees by requiring them to be paid pursuant to a predicted payroll schedule, rather than an after-the-fact payroll schedule.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HB128Intro
25%
Establishes the felony offenses of misuse of unmanned aircraft in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degrees.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HB559Intro
25%
Expands the coffee labeling and advertising requirements to include ready-to-drink coffee beverages and inner packages and inner wrapping labels. Requires disclosure on the label of coffee blends of the respective geographic and regional origins and ...
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
SB453Intro
25%
Establishes the Oahu community correctional center site redevelopment working group to bring together state and county agencies, private entities, and the broader Kalihi community to examine how to best utilize the Oahu community correctional center ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HB164Engross
50%
Requires each public employer to pay for the employer's employees' professional license renewal fees. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
SB455Engross
50%
Extends the term of the Oversight Coordinator for the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission and requires the Oversight Coordinator be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. Specifies that the Commission shall take measures as nece...
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2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
SB1117Intro
25%
Requires that income tax credits established or renewed after 12/31/2023 include a five-year sunset or an annual one-third reduction beginning with the sixth year of the credit.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
SB287Engross
50%
Authorizes counties to require their approval for condominium projects located in agricultural districts that are greater than ten acres prior to the creation of the condominium property regime. Requires a condominium map to be accompanied by a lette...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HB1203Engross
50%
Establishes an employer child care tax credit for employers who provide or sponsor approved child care. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HB277Engross
50%
Increases the fines for violating motor vehicle insurance requirements. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HB105Engross
50%
Requires license plates to include okina in the word "Hawaii". Establishes requirements for number plates issued for zero-emission, hybrid, and gasoline-powered vehicles beginning 1/1/2025. Requires the continued use of the rainbow number plate desig...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB867Intro
25%
Requires the posting of informational placards on sex trafficking and resources available to victims, in public buildings and at other specified locations, and the development of a model placard by the Department of Human Services. Requires the Depar...
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2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee
HB125Intro
25%
Adds a new section to Chapter 801, Hawaii Revised Statutes, establishing circumstances in which the presence of a defendant is required for court proceedings or may be waived.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HB967Intro
25%
Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State of Hawaii, to begin with the 2024 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit a ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
SB810Intro
25%
Beginning July 1, 2023, requires the Department of Transportation to include the kilometers per hour in a distinct, design, display, and color from the miles per hour shown on all new and replacement speed limit signs.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HB814Engross
50%
Requires the counties to adopt ordinances by 7/1/2024 to allow religious institutions, educational institutions, and medical institutions to build housing units on land that the institutions own for purchase in fee simple or use by the institutions, ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HB45Intro
25%
Short form bill relating to higher education.
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2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
SB34Intro
25%
Creates a temporary income tax credit for taxpayers who sell real property to owner-occupants. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB1112Intro
25%
Repeals several exemptions from the prohibition on operating a pickup truck with a passenger seated in the bed or loadcarrying area, including the exemption that allows passengers over twelve years of age to ride in the bed or loadcarrying area.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HB774Intro
25%
Establishes rules of ethics applicable to persons who are contracted, subcontracted, assigned, delegated, ordered, appointed, or in any other act allowed by a state agency to work with children. Establishes additional procedures with respect to fees,...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
SB476Engross
50%
Exempts a public utility from the required public utilities commission authorization when disposing at a loss or donating a fully depreciated asset or property with a zero net book value that is no longer used or useful. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HB921Intro
25%
Establishes the Environmental Crimes Unit within the Department of the Attorney General. Makes the disposal of motor vehicle tires in violation of State law governing recovery of used motor vehicle tire recovery a petty misdemeanor. Establishes a $1 ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HB565Engross
50%
Establishes the State Self-Insurance Against Property and Casualty Risks Special Fund to be administered by the Comptroller to make it easier for the State to self-insure or utilize a captive insurer to mitigate against property and casualty risks. A...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB32Engross
50%
Clarifies the Office of the Legislative Analyst. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
SB1308Intro
25%
Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (11) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal bienniu...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
SB1479Intro
25%
Increases from $100 to $200 the fine imposed against an adult pedestrian who improperly crosses the street if the pedestrian does so while accompanied by a minor under the age of 15.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB823Engross
50%
Provides an exemption for flatbed trucks from registration renewals and initial registrations of motor carrier vehicles when used as marine terminal equipment temporarily moving in or between certain terminals. Adds new terminal locales, times, and r...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HB1067Intro
25%
Amends Act 317, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to give the Department of Human Services needed flexibility in developing a comprehensive child welfare information system that complies with federal regulation, which may allow the department to receive f...
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2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee
SB282Intro
25%
Reduces the amount transferred to the works of art special fund from 1% to 0.5% of all state fund appropriations for capital improvements designated for the construction cost element.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
SB884Engross
50%
Excludes from taxation one hundred per cent of the gain realized by a fee simple owner from the sale of a leased fee interest in units within a condominium project, cooperative project, or planned unit development to the association of apartment owne...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
SB793Intro
25%
Amends recycling goals under the Electronic Device Recycling and Recovering Act so that goals are based upon the manufacturer's overall market share in the State. Amends penalties and definitions.
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
SB1346Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Educational Expenditure Trust Fund as a separate fund of the Department of Education for improving the education of, and supporting the programs benefiting, the students of the Hawaii public school system.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HB240Intro
25%
Exempts gross proceeds from medical services provided by physicians and advanced practice registered nurses acting in the capacity of a primary care provider from the general excise tax. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
SB613Intro
25%
Requires each house of the Legislature to establish by its rules, procedures that enable the Legislature to use remote testimony at legislative committee hearings, enable the public to present oral testimony at legislative committee hearings through ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB446Intro
25%
Requires certain individuals attempting to serve as child custody evaluators to complete a training course on domestic violence issues every 3 years. Requires the Family Court to approve training courses and publish approved courses on the Judiciary ...
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2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee
SB649Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health, with assistance from each county, to develop a statewide needs assessment to determine resources necessary to reduce packaging waste by seventy per cent from the baseline amount. Requires the Department of Health to...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
SB43Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "employer" in chapter 388, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to wages and other compensation to include the State and counties when a provision in that chapter has no comparable provision in chapter 78, Hawaii Revised Statute...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
SB1560Intro
25%
Allows an individual who is seventeen years of age but will be eighteen years of age on or before the next general election to register and vote at the primary election immediately preceding that general election and in any co-occurring or intervenin...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB1445Intro
25%
Removes biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of "renewable energy".
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
SB848Intro
25%
Specifies that the registration fee for mopeds shall not exceed $100 per year, as determined by the counties' director of finance. Specifies that the issuance fee for a tag or emblem shall be no more than $20.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HB1420Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the replacements to the water capturing system at the Hilo wastewater treatment plant.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
SB907Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to establish and administer a Bicycle Grant Program for all high school students enrolled at a Department of Education school in grades nine through twelve. Requires reports to the Legislature.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
SB597Engross
50%
Excludes income received from deferred compensation retirement plans from the state income tax for taxpayers who meet certain income requirements. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
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