| HB1398 | Engross
50% | Allows telecommunications and emergency dispatchers and employees who perform similar functions employed by the State and counties to collectively bargain. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB1112 | Engross
50% | Prohibits bans on dwelling unit rentals having a term between one and five months for inter-island relocations and temporary workers. Authorizes county councils to adopt any ordinances necessary to implement the prohibition by 6/30/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB1311 | Engross
50% | Repeals Act 192, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, which requires the employees' retirement system to divest itself of investments in companies that provide support for genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and provide annual reports to the legislature on the status...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HB1506 | Engross
50% | Encourages 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 en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB26 | Engross
50% | Prohibits a landlord from recovering possession of a dwelling unit from a tenant if the habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Caps a tenant's liability for rent if the habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Provides...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| SB1237 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Film Commission in the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Amends the administration and extends the sunset date of the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit to 1/1/2038. Es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB1384 | Engross
50% | Creates an income tax credit to incentivize the food manufacturing industry in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB542 | Engross
50% | Allows bidders to clarify or correct immaterial or technical information required as part of a bid submission for up to twenty-four hours after the bid submission deadline. Requires that bids for construction be opened no sooner than twenty-four hour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB302 | Engross
50% | Temporarily reinstates the technology infrastructure renovation tax credit. Expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers. Requires a report from the department of taxation analyzing the tax implications for sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1158 | Engross
50% | Provides police officers who become members of the Employees' Retirement System after 6/30/2023 with retirement benefits similar to those provided for members of the Employees' Retirement System who became members before 7/1/2012, including but not l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| SB293 | Engross
50% | Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's program memoranda accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals. Effective 6/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB247 | Engross
50% | Increases the percentages of local agricultural products that certain departments are required to purchase by certain deadlines. Expands annual reporting requirements to include the total spending by certain market channels. Requires the University o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB18 | Engross
50% | Requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of independent expenditures and political contributions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB763 | Engross
50% | Temporarily exempts affordable housing projects under certain circumstances from specific state and county fees and exactions related to discretionary approval or ministerial permitting, except fees and costs payable to the Hawaii Housing Finance and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB715 | Engross
50% | Designates the month of September as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month to promote public awareness of the risks of alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB55 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of education to establish grant programs to provide funds for the planning and implementation of community schools. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1015 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the expansion of the certified nurse aide to practical nurse bridge program at the University of Hawaii Maui college, including funding for instructional costs and student aid. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| SB610 | Engross
50% | Recognizes American Sign Language as a fully developed, autonomous, natural language with its own grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and cultural heritage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB244 | Engross
50% | Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB165 | Engross
50% | Clarifies internal complaint procedures for civil service positions by requiring a formal complaint to be filed within twenty working days. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB1130 | Engross
50% | Makes a principal of an activity desk, and all persons with an ownership interest in the activity desk, jointly and severally liable for any financial deficiency when the activity desk's client trust account is insufficient to pay consumers or activi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1038 | Engross
50% | Temporarily allows for the reimbursement of services provided through telehealth via an interactive telecommunications system and two-way, real-time audio-only communications in certain circumstances. Defines "interactive telecommunications system". ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| SB16 | Engross
50% | Requires that the Hawaiian version of a law be held binding if the law in question was originally drafted in Hawaiian and then translated into English and if the law has not been subsequently amended, codified, recodified, or reenacted in English. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB828 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of education to establish a student bus fare rate system to include free bus passes for students whose household qualifies the student for free or reduced price lunch under the free and reduced price lunch program. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB465 | Engross
50% | Authorizes qualifying patients and qualifying out-of-state patients to transport cannabis between islands of the State for personal medical use; provided that no individual or entity shall be required to violate federal law. Requires the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB494 | Engross
50% | Requires the counties to establish expedited procedures to approve demolition permits for vacant residential properties. Allows the Department of Taxation to satisfy certain tax liens through the nonjudicial foreclosure of vacant and abandoned reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1404 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the department of transportation airports division to demand and collect reimbursement from any airport contractor, tenant, or user for the entire amount of fines and penalties levied for the violation of federal, state, or county laws rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1104 | Engross
50% | Amends the definition of "cannabis" to include cannabis propagules, cuttings, and seeds. Defines "cannabis cutting" and "cannabis propagule". Requires a licensed dispensary's production center to submit to DOH an inventory of cannabis propagules, cut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB591 | Engross
50% | Establishes the operation of an illegal gambling business as a class C felony. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1523 | Engross
50% | Requires the State Board of Professional Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Landscape Architects to, upon its denial of an application for licensure, provide the applicant with a written notice of denial accompanied by a written explanation describ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB576 | Engross
50% | Requires reports of official out-of-state and intrastate travel by state employees, officers, or other representatives of state departments or agencies, including the judiciary and University of Hawaii, to be made available for public review on the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB390 | Engross
50% | Provides scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain eligibility criteria. Makes an appropriation for the Hawaii promise program. Effective 6/30/3000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB1054 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Rental Deposit Loan Program. Amends the definition of "historic property". Temporarily requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to retain a third-party consultant, under certain circumstances, to conduct review of certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1326 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Zero Waste Initiative to, among other things, manage the State's transition to a zero solid waste economy. Establishes the Packaging Waste Advisory Council. Allows the establishment of a nonprofit producer responsibility organi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1379 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the penalty to be assessed on any person who intentionally operates a care facility without a certificate or license. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| SB1018 | Engross
50% | Requires the Governor to ensure continued operation of medical facilities upon declaration of a state of emergency or local state of emergency and during times of health or pandemic emergencies. Allows hospitals to suspend elective surgeries during t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB74 | Engross
50% | Establishes additional exclusions from the definition of "development" as it applies to special management areas to reduce the need for special management area permits for certain activities. Repeals the 7,500 square foot threshold for single-family ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB724 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the enhancement of technology resources for the Department of Human Resources Development and for positions in the Department. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB755 | Engross
50% | 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 contemplate the relationship between the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB493 | Engross
50% | Amends the adjusted gross income brackets and credit amounts of the refundable food/excise tax credit. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB146 | Engross
50% | Adds to the membership of the state fire council, and to the membership of advisory committees that the council may appoint, representatives from the Hawaii state aircraft rescue fire fighting unit and the division of forestry and wildlife of the dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB54 | Engross
50% | Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1377 | Engross
50% | Revises chapter 342D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to add definitions that are consistent with federal Clean Water Act regulations. Clarifies the Director of Health's role as a certifying agency including enforcement of water quality certifications, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB432 | Engross
50% | Designates Hawaii coral reefs as critical natural infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1405 | Engross
50% | Requires the commission on water resource management and division of aquatic resources of the department of land and natural resources, in partnership with the University of Hawaii and department of health, to conduct research on limu to understand t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB521 | Engross
50% | Establishes a Surplus Military Land Task Force within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to plan for the remediation and restoration of lands currently under federal control that are anticipated to be returned to the State, consider p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HB1182 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture for the preparation of an environmental impact statement for lessees to drill non-potable water wells on individual parcels at Panaewa agricultural park. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB755 | Engross
50% | Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to submit a report to the Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2025 focused on the health disparities experienced by persons in the State with developmental or intellect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1260 | Engross
50% | Changes the governmental entity responsible for the administration of the address confidentiality program from the office of the lieutenant governor to the department of the law enforcement. Authorizes the department of law enforcement to contract th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB970 | Engross
50% | Makes technical changes to the statutory definitions of "agricultural enterprise lands" and "non-agricultural park lands" for clarification and consistency purposes. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
