| HI | SB2527 | Engross
50% | For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024, temporarily reinstates the Technology Infrastructure Renovation Tax Credit and expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers. Takes effect 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
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| HI | SB3120 | Engross
50% | Establishes the position of Housing Policy and Program Coordinator in the Hawaii Public Housing Authority. Clarifies that the employment of certain positions and the adjustment of salaries are authorized by the Executive Director and not the Board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
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| HI | SB3009 | Engross
50% | Specifies the responsibilities of the Department of Law Enforcement's Sheriff Division regarding judicial and legislative security. Requires the Sheriff Division to pursue, obtain, and maintain accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for L...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB3243 | Engross
50% | Amends the prohibition against foreign nationals and foreign corporations making campaign finance contributions and expenditures. Requires every business entity that contributes or expends funds in a state election to file a statement of certificatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB2288 | Engross
50% | Requires that travel reports submitted by state employees, officers, or other representatives of state departments or agencies, in connection with out-of-state or intra-state travel for purposes of official state business, be made available for publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB2017 | Engross
50% | Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child or an adult dependent child with disabilities by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB2094 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to establish a one-year pilot program to allow inmates incarcerated at the Women's Community Correctional Center to foster pets while incarcerated. Requires DCR to submit a report to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB2419 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the biosecurity program of the Department of Agriculture to develop and implement projects for clean plant material, agricultural treatments, diagnostics, and pest management. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB2977 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the imposition of a penalty for unlicensed individuals performing certain work that requires a contractor license, including the offering or performing of repairs or improvements to existing structures and property and tearing down or rebu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB3361 | Engross
50% | Includes oilseed cover crops in the Cover Crop Reimbursement Pilot Program established by Act 312, SLH 2022. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB2511 | Engross
50% | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to consider the short-term and long-term retention and creation of local jobs in its review of electric utility performance. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB541 | Engross
50% | Designates January 17 of each year as Reconciliation Day. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | SB3006 | Engross
50% | Exempts the Convention Center from certain requirements regarding concessions on public property. Authorizes the Hawaii Tourism Authority to sell or lease naming rights of the Hawaii Convention Center Facility. Facilitates advertising and marketing i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB2683 | Engross
50% | Protects individuals who make claims of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or sex discrimination from defamation lawsuits unless the claims were made with malice. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB3363 | Engross
50% | Provides that a living beneficiary's place on the Department of Hawaiian Home Land's waiting list for any residential, agricultural or pastoral tract may be designated for transfer to a successor if the living beneficiary dies before receiving an off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB2959 | Engross
50% | Establishes a refundable income tax credit for medically-related travel expenses not covered or compensated by insurance or otherwise. Effective 12/31/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB2112 | Engross
50% | Amends the definition of "installment lender" to clarify that the law is not intended to eliminate the ability of lenders to make low interest rate loans under the interest and usury law. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB2072 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Health to require the Department of Education to report coronavirus disease 2019 potential outbreaks or other public health emergencies and related information in a manner most appropriate to public health and safety, as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB2406 | Engross
50% | Requires contracts entered into by the Hawaii Tourism Authority for management of the Hawaii Convention Center facility to include marketing for all uses of the facility. Amends the frequency with which the Hawaii Tourism Authority is required to sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| HI | SB3383 | Engross
50% | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to contract for a statewide needs assessment of the needs of the long-term care workforce for providers of home- and community-based services. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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| HI | SB2280 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the State. Requires funding to be through a publicprivate partnership that meets certain requirements. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | SB2890 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to develop or license cloud-based software for use by each state department or agency to track the status of its capital improvement projects and provide training for the software. Requires e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | SB3173 | Engross
50% | Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | SB1215 | Engross
50% | Amends the preceptor tax credit law to expand access to the program and to make it easier for preceptors to access tax credits under the program. Adds the Director of Health to the preceptor credit assurance committee. Effective 12/31/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB809 | Engross
50% | Repeals the electric bicycle and electric moped rebate program and electric bicycle and electric moped subaccount of the highway development special fund. Establishes the electric mobility rebate program and electric mobility special fund. Appropriat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | SB460 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Office of Community Services of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to fund the purchase, storage, and transportation costs of food for distribution to food banks in the State. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB962 | Engross
50% | Defines "waiting room" within a medical cannabis retail dispensing location and clarifies public access to the waiting room. Adds or clarifies requirements for the dispensary program related to signage, permitted types of manufactured cannabis produc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB197 | Engross
50% | Increases the amount of fines for campaign spending law violations that may be assessed against certain noncandidate committees making only independent expenditures. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to order that the payment of the fine assess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB511 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to establish a foreign agriculture small equipment pilot program. Requires a report to the legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB300 | Engross
50% | Requires generally that the expenditure of public moneys for any improvement to land not owned or leased by the State must be appropriated by the legislature for that specific purpose and include a declaration in the same act of the public purpose re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1472 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the expansion and enhancement of the suicide crisis hotline and crisis management services provided by contracted service providers through the Hawaii Coordinated Access Resource Entry System (CARES) Crisis Helpline; expansion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB965 | Engross
50% | Establishes green infrastructure objectives and policies for transportation systems, infrastructure, and projects. Establishes the green transportation infrastructure task force to examine, evaluate, and develop policies for the design, implementatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1302 | Engross
50% | Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (5) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fisc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB745 | Engross
50% | Extends the offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes a mandatory $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB93 | Engross
50% | Requires county agencies producing recycled water to establish water reuse zones within their service areas by January 1, 2024. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB99 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish, implement, and administer a meat and poultry inspection program. Appropriates funds for the establishment, implementation, and administration of the program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1457 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Kohala Mountain Fish Company, LLC, in establishing The Village project. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB951 | Engross
50% | Adds a cap for the amount of tax credits for research activities that an eligible taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities may receive per taxable year. Requires a qualified high technology business to be registered to do business in the State an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB832 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the counties to transfer land to the School Facilities Authority. Exempts the School Facilities Authority from certain assessments and taxes. Authorizes state and county agencies to render services to the School Facilities Authority upon r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1486 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness; Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife; and Department of Health, Food Safety Branch; and in consultati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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