| SB1042 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "imminent harm". Requires police officers to comply with exigency requirements when removing a child from the child's home and to promptly submit a police report documenting specific, articulable evidence of imminent harm ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1214 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax equal to seventy per cent of the manufacturer's list price for electronic smoking devices and e-liquid products. Expands the electronic smoking device retailer registration unit to include wholesalers. Requires electronic cigarette ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB802 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the job creation tax credit for qualified business firms that create qualified employment positions in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB956 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the natural resource management special fund and authorizes uses for moneys in the fund. Establishes a Natural Resource Management Commission to guide and approve the disbursement of moneys deposited into the fund. Allocates transient acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Tourism Committee |
| SB375 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis Authority within the Department of Health to adopt rules to regulate responsible, adult-use of cannabis in the State. Establishes that possession of cannabis by an adult in the amount of four ounces or less without a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HB589 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes in the State's policies for the physical environment under the Hawaii State Planning Act, the development of a statewide beach assessment study and a beach and shoreline restoration and conservation plan. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB3 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows surviving immediate family members of deceased persons for whom law enforcement initiated an investigation to receive a copy of the closing report prepared by the investigating police department after a specified period of time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB280 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits nonresident aliens and businesses and trusts that are significantly controlled by nonresident aliens from acquiring certain residential property in the State, except as otherwise provided by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| SB1098 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the State or a county that repairs or maintains a street of which the ownership or jurisdiction is in dispute between the State and the county shall be immune from liability for personal injuries or property damage arising out of the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB206 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the minimum age requirement for individuals who become an Employees' Retirement System member after 6/30/2012, and who have at least 25 years of credited service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB1388 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the natural resource management commission and special fund. Repeals the allocation of transient accommodations tax revenues to the special land and development fund. Allocates transient accommodations tax revenues to the natural resource...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1497 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a framework to regulate controllers and processors with access to personal consumer data. Provides that a violation of the consumer data privacy act constitutes an unfair method of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of diacritical marks for Hawaiian words on special number plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB366 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the statutory requirement that no person be subject to trial and sentencing for an alleged offense unless upon indictment or information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB502 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that inmates engaged in labor or in vocational training be paid no less than the state minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1095 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "development" to create additional exceptions, including pedestrian or bicycle facilities, trash removal, invasive vegetation control, installation of fencing for invasive species control or native habitat preservation, light...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB641 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes comprehensive updates to chapter 436E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding acupuncture practitioners, to reflect modernized scopes of practice, titles, and licensing and renewal requirements. Beginning with the renewal for the licensing biennium...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB1507 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensures that the $600,000,000 appropriated to the department of Hawaiian home lands in Act 279, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, is available for expenditure until June 30, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB417 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Department of Health, to prepare a report making recommendations on the establishment of a Hawaii Near Shore Waters Quality Program to monitor and test for the quality of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1134 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts medical services from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB919 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the independent medical examination and permanent impairment rating examination of an injured employee under the Workers' Compensation Law to be conducted by a qualified chiropractor or physician selected by the mutual agreement of the parti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB795 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the duty to retreat or take over evasive action with respect to the use of deadly force as a justifiable means of self-protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to lower the qualifying age of voters for any state or local election to sixteen years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1452 | Intro
Sine Die | For policies, contracts, plans, agreements, and plan contracts issued or renewed after 12/31/2023, requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| SB1432 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits social media platforms from engaging in censorship of candidates for elected office and other users.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB812 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates moneys for an immigrant services and access unit within the Office of Community Services. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB411 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that in a primary election for a legislative seat, the 2 candidates who receive the highest number of votes, regardless of political party, shall be the only two candidates to advance to a general election; provided that when a candidate rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB994 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits all removal of uhu, also known as parrotfish, from state waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB735 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the Interstate Compact to Phase Out Corporate Welfare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB1113 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a landlord from increasing a tenant's rent more than five per cent plus the percentage change in the cost of living during the previous twelve months. Prohibits a landlord from increasing a tenant's rent more than once over a twelve-month p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB822 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that motorcycles receive safety inspections once every 2 years instead of once every 12 months. Requires the director of transportation to adopt rules to increase to $25 the inspection fee for motorcycles. Establishes a 2-year moratorium on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1495 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Intermediate Appellate Court to review orders issued by the Hawaii Paroling Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1559 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the State Constitution to allow electronic copies, as an alternative to printed copies, of a bill to be made available for members of a house of the Legislature in which the bill is being voted upon for third or final reading in fulfillment of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1307 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (10) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal bienniu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB322 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the Interstate Licensed Professional Counselors Compact to allow a person who is a licensed professional counselor in the person's state of residence to practice professional counseling in a compact state in which the person is not licensed pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB1150 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a list of substances allowed for use as pesticides and fertilizers on state and county property. Provides that the use of substances not specifically allowed as pesticides and fertilizers on state property and county property is prohibite...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning 07/01/2024, establishes the office of administrative hearings to conduct contested case hearings in the department of budget and finance, department of land and natural resources, and department of taxation. Appropriates funds to establish ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1059 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "emergency worker" in the Penal Code to include communications dispatchers. Takes effect 1/1/2024. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1485 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to engage in capital improvement project work at state small boat harbors and state parks without prior approval from the Legislature and Governor for existing facilities. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Stadium Authority to sell the naming rights to Aloha Stadium and its facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of Department of Education schools. Allows the loan to be forgiven after 5 years of teaching in a hard-to-fill position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB556 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the board of education to invite the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the department of education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative to the board and the exclusive re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB721 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the court to consider frequent, continuing, and meaningful contact with each parent when awarding custody of a minor child, unless the court finds that one or both parents are unable to act in the best interests of the child, and to make cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1036 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to issue special activity permits for the purpose of recognizing and protecting individuals exercising their Native Hawaiian traditional and customary rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB574 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii to develop and implement a two-year native pollinator habitat pilot project to be deployed at the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus and the University of Hawaii at Hilo campus. Appropriates funds for a technician ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1334 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for three areas of Mental Health Crisis Response: Increased funding for 988 Hawaii CARES, creates a position for a statewide crisis mobile outreach coordinator with the goal to have statewide response 24/7, funding to increase ment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB1455 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a new issuance of special purpose revenue bonds in the amount of $30 million, to assist MauiGrown Coffee, Inc. with the operation and expansion of its farm and mill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1236 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a bank to invest, in aggregate, up to two per cent of the bank's total assets in limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations formed to invest in affordable housing residential properties....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1498 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a carbon emissions tax credit. Expands the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include carbon emissions. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
