| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HB1387 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the appointment and removal of the chief executive officer of the Hawaii health systems corporation requires a majority vote by the voting members of the corporation board, rather than by the entire membership of the board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| SB212 | Intro
25% | Provides that a person having professional-level government employment performing lawful experience in review of engineered plans and calculations under the direct supervision of an applicably licensed engineer is eligible for licensure as a professi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1239 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain medical services, food, and rent from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1102 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to adopt an ordinance regulating the operation of hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodation operators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1563 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to add two members to the Reapportionment Commission, representing citizen organizations, to be appointed by the Chief Justice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1123 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-fourth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB33 | Intro
25% | Requires the licensing of sellers of ammunition, and for the identification and proper permitting of purchasers or possessors of ammunition. Regulates ammunition in the same manner that firearms are regulated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1061 | Intro
25% | Permits commercial enterprise vocational programs for young adults within the purview of the Office of Youth Services to market and sell goods and services that develop job readiness skills that lead to self-sufficiency. Establishes the Office of You...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB21 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to labor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| SB29 | Intro
25% | Adds coercive control and litigation abuse by a parent of a child to the list of factors the court shall consider in determining what constitutes the child's best interest when awarding custody and visitation rights to individuals. Defines "coercive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB175 | Intro
25% | Requires state agencies to implement an on-site recycling program using rules issued by the Department of Health, in conjunction with the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, at buildings and facilities managed, maintained, or serviced by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB667 | Intro
25% | Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multi-state Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multi-state licensure privilege in each party state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| SB20 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to establish and operate a child care center pilot program on Oahu for eligible children of state employees, one in or near the state capitol and one in Kapolei. Appropriates funds. Repeals o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1400 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the powers granted for emergency purposes shall not be inconsistent with the state constitution. Provides parameters for the duration of suspension of laws and requires justification for the suspension. Specifies parameters for when a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1414 | Intro
25% | Requires all playgrounds located in state and county parks and on public school grounds include special needs recreational playground equipment as part of the recreational apparatuses by 6/30/2025 including at a minimum a wheelchair accessible swing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| SB138 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of Asian American history. Requires the Superintendent of Education to prepare and make available to all school complex areas instructional materia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB673 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to reclassify lands fifteen to one hundred acres in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts in which at least fifty per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for persons and fam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| SB633 | Intro
25% | Requires the State of Hawaii Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB24 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a retailer from selling or offering for sale combustion engine-powered mopeds beginning January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB954 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii to provide menstrual products free of charge to all students on any University of Hawaii campus, including the community colleges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB264 | Intro
25% | Requires the counties, before implementing any new mass transit fare or increasing any existing fare to first seek revenues from alternative sources, including transit-based advertisements. Requires a county that decides, after seeking alternative re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB640 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Agricultural Investment Program to support local agricultural producers. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB629 | Intro
25% | Codifies a terminally ill patient's right to try experimental treatment options.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| SB816 | Intro
25% | Allows students to complete computer science courses as a substitute for science credits at the high school level to count towards graduation requirements. Requires a computer science course credit as a graduation requirement at the high school level...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB858 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to: prioritize the allocation of low-income housing tax credits to state-owned development projects; amend the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Qualified Allocation Plan to allow up to twen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB229 | Intro
25% | Establishes the felony offenses of misuse of unmanned aircraft in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degrees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB1491 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of health to limit unannounced inspections to investigate complaints pertaining to client or patient abuse or life- or health-threatening danger at certain care facilities. Establishes requirements for complaints. Requires rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB839 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation or an eligible developer to prepare an environmental impact statement for any proposed housing project on lands zoned as preservation or conservation by the applicable county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
