| HI | SB763 | Engross
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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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| HI | SB1179 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits foreign entities and foreign-influenced business entities from making contributions, expenditures, electioneering communications, or donations for election purposes. Requires every business entity that contributes or expends funds in a stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB285 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates within the Department of Health's wastewater branch a cesspool conversion section, which will be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent posi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1153 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the preservation and protection of Honolua bay and Lipoa point. Directs DLNR to create the Honolua bay and Lipoa point subaccount within the special land and development fund. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1478 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an offensive cybersecurity program within the office of enterprise technology services to analyze and evaluate cybersecurity threats and increase cybersecurity awareness and education. Establishes a goal for all state and county agencies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1609 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and Department of Land and Natural Resources to improve Native Hawaiian communities and culture through various assistance services. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB730 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to restore and restock fishponds by providing fingerlings and limu and establishing one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) aquaculture coordinator biologist VI position. Effective 6/30/30...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB391 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii community colleges' workforce development programs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB70 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to pursue and obtain accreditation for the Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1498 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the Board of Land and Natural Resources from disturbing or acquiring for development certain wetland or dryland tarogrowing lands. Establishes a taro lands classification for public lands. Permits structures for loi or mala taro fields in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB839 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii electricity reliability administrator special fund. Increases the carryover balance of the public utilities commission special fund to $3,000,000 and transfers a portion of that balance to the Hawaii electricity reliability adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB646 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for statewide research into ornamental ginger pathogens, prevention of the spread of ornamental ginger pathogens, production and distribution of pathogen-free ornamental ginger plants, and outreach to or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1078 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a statewide electronic citation program within the Judiciary. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB752 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the comptroller to identify state office buildings that can provide equitable telecommunication access to allow certain residents, including residents with disabilities, to participate remotely in legislative hearings. Requires a report to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1352 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds a definition for "affordable housing" and amends the definition of "historic property" used in the State's historic preservation program. Allows the State Historic Preservation Division to contract its historic reviews to third-party consultants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1573 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group within the Office of the Governor for administrative purposes to ascertain the State's available water resources and water system source capacity and streamline well permit approval processes to further plan for the develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1082 | Engross
Sine Die | Effective January 1, 2025, requires all state- or county-owned parking lots in the State that contain public paid parking spaces to accept payment of parking fees by credit card and debit card. Requires all state- or county-owned parking meters in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB292 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's variance reports 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 6/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1538 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes appropriations to the Judiciary for capital improvement projects for the fiscal biennium beginning 7/1/2023, and ending 6/30/2025. Effective 1/7/2059. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1509 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the state archives preservation and long-term access special fund to be used to preserve and provide long-term access to other materials preserved at the state archives, in addition to government records. Establishes additional funding sou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB711 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice as a grant to conduct a study of all programming offered to persons incarcerated at correctional facilities and convene a group of incarcerated women for the purpose of identifying gaps ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1223 | Engross
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. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1447 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB340 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units without regard to civil service law. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1506 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of transportation for bicycle and pedestrian safety. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB948 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Division of Forestry and Wildlife of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to coordinate the removal of hazardous albizia trees that potentially threaten public and private land. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1287 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for expenses related to building renovations. Effective 1/6/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1191 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Community Development Authority for statewide planning, designing, and constructing of various transit-oriented development projects identified in the state strategic plan for transit-oriented development. Authorizes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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