| SB1555 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children and the sale of nonprescription drugs from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to establish and implement a program to improve and increase support for emergency medical services in the State. Requires the Department of Health to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB827 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the DOE to develop and maintain a communication strategy and outreach plan for emergency management and disaster preparedness. Requires the DOE to provide updated information to parents and guardians about its communication strategy and outr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB1321 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates general funds to various programs due to anticipated operating shortfalls due to the limited ability for departments to transfer funds between programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB588 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish reliability standards and interconnection requirements for certain renewable energy projects; provided that any costs for changes in reliability standards or interconnection requirements shall not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB885 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of health to develop and implement statewide media, education, and training activities for policies related to emergency examination and hospitalization and assisted community treatment for those in need of mental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for staff positions and various services to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB990 | Intro
Sine Die | Consolidates the survey and certification requirements for the research activities tax credit. Requires the certification based on the date a complete application is received subject to certain conditions. Adds a cap for an eligible taxpayer and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HB472 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds out of the works of art special fund to the state foundation on culture and the arts for the integration of works of art projects into several state capital improvement projects. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB249 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the President of the University of Hawaii from serving concurrently as a campus chancellor. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB437 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to issue interim rules exempt from the public hearing and gubernatorial approval requirements of chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, after beneficiary consultation is conducted by the Department of Hawaii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1463 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of renewable energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB808 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to amend its administrative rules to repeal any provisions requiring the furnishing of evidence of registration as a condition precedent to receiving a certificate of inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| SB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning 7/1/2025, requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources State Historic Preservation Division to contract its review of proposed state projects, and projects affecting historic properties to third party consultants if the projects in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB790 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a program for the licensure, regulation, and oversight of digital currency companies. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1475 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to create a strategic plan for maintenance dredging of important port and harbor locations and report the plan to the Legislature. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to complete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB600 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the categories of women required to be covered for mammogram screenings. Requires the existing health insurance mandate for coverage of low-dose mammography to include digital mammography and breast tomosynthesis. Defines "digital breast to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1471 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Department of Health or any recipient of individually identifiable health information of a newborn child obtained through genetic and metabolic screening tests required by law to disclose to any person other than the newborn child's par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1043 | Intro
Sine Die | Decriminalizes and legalizes the personal use, possession, and sale of cannabis in a specified quantity. Entitles persons arrested or convicted of certain marijuana offenses from custody or incarceration. Entitles certain persons to the expungement o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1487 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for three program specialist positions within the Executive Office on Aging for the State's Senior Medicare Patrol Program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB863 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Corporation and the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Special Fund for the purpose of enhancing credit and guaranteeing and insuring loans made by private financial institutions to developers of res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1204 | Intro
Sine Die | Decriminalizes prostitution. Increases the rights for victims of sex trafficking. Requires the county prosecutors to file motions or applications to expunge certain prostitution convictions. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB1436 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit by requiring the department of business, economic development, and tourism to publish on its website the names of the qualified productions and the amount of the tax cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB1337 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 278, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to modify the transfer of the personnel and functions of the Department of the Attorney General to the Department of Law Enforcement, clarify that Act 278 does not amend or abrogate the Attorney General's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of farm raised fish and wild fish and shellfish without a label stating where the seafood was landed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1003 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Director of Human Resources Development, in consultation with the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, State Energy Office, and Department of Accounting and General Services to develop and implement a comprehensive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB1417 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the elimination of funding for vacant positions in the department of human services and department of health for five years, or until the director of human services or director of health, as applicable, requests that the positions be elimin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1252 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits owners of vacant undeveloped land to cause or permit visible fugitive dust to become airborne from their land or to cause or permit visible fugitive dust that originates from their vacant developed land to be discharged beyond their land's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB1528 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose or obtain an abortion or to choose to obtain or use contraceptives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to non-general funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1436 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts affordable housing and certain qualifying housing development projects from HEPA. Establishes a definition of "program" and "project" to preempt the existing definitions under section 11-200.1-2, Hawaii Administrative Rules, and narrow the ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1343 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a minor student's parent or legal guardian produce the required student records when transferring schools. Clarifies that emancipated minors may also produce the required student records when transferring schools. Clarifies that the tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB842 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the board of education to adopt and the department of education to administer a kindergarten entry assessment in Olelo Hawaii for Kaiapuni schools. Delays the administration of the kindergarten entry assessment in Olelo Hawaii for Kaiapuni s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022 to specify that the appropriation for Hawaii housing finance and development corporation (BED160) is to be deposited into and expended from the affordable homeownership revolving fund for purposes of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HB1342 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| SB1273 | Intro
Sine Die | This housekeeping measure addresses potential deficiencies in Act 312, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, which established a three-year cover crop reimbursement pilot program to provide up to 75 per cent cost reimbursement to farming operations in the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB326 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the distribution, sale, and provision of plastic straws, except for those who request single-use plastic straws for medical reasons. Establishes a fine for violators. Takes effect 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB1441 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the deadline for submitting written protests that are based on the content of a solicitation. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB846 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases fines that may be assessed against certain fireworks-related violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB671 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the ohana zones pilot program, including expenses relating to operations, upkeep of facilities, provision of services, and administrative costs. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the construction or rehabi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB700 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an emergency appropriation to the Department of Education to address the anticipated budget shortfall in utilities and school food services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1166 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires firearms owners to obtain firearms insurance. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a prospective juror is disqualified to serve as a juror if they have been convicted of a felony and have not been finally discharged, in addition to not being pardoned.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB983 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the registration and registration renewal for methadone clinics and substance use disorder services clinics to be deemed a clinic and for the handling of controlled substances to be contingent upon its location being at least 750 feet away f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB172 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands eligibility for the Hawaii community college promise program to all qualified students. Appropriates funds to expand access to community college to qualified Hawaii residents through Hawaii community college promise program scholarships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB441 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an excise tax of 25 cents for e-liquid cartridges and fifteen per cent of the wholesale price of open system eliquid sold, used, or possessed by a wholesaler or dealer on or after 7/1/2023. Defines and amends related terms. Makes conformi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a county to proceed with a power of sale on real property subject to a recorded lien.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB605 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to meet with Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind stakeholders and members of the Hawaii deaf community regarding the development of a plan to transition the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind to a conversion ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB940 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a Local Housing Market that is tied to the Hawaii State resident's incomes, and not the global economy. Thus, providing housing options that are affordable relative to wages for residents of the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
