| HI | SCR134 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Hawaii State Energy Office To Conduct A Study Of The Different Energy Consumption Sectors To Determine Which May Be Most Quickly And Cost-effectively Decarbonized Through Additional Public Investments In Combustion-free Alternatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SR116 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Hawaii State Energy Office To Conduct A Study Of The Different Energy Consumption Sectors To Determine Which May Be Most Quickly And Cost-effectively Decarbonized Through Additional Public Investments In Combustion-free Alternatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SR167 | Intro
25% | Requesting The National Energy Laboratory Of Hawaii Authority To Work With The University Of Hawaii At Manoa To Develop New Master And Strategic Plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SCR187 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Business, Economic Development, And Tourism To Convene A Sports Wagering Working Group To Conduct A Comprehensive Analysis Of The Potential Legalization And Regulation Of Online Sports Wagering In Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SR135 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Public Utilities Commission To Respond To Hawaiian Electric's Request To Suspend, Deprioritize, And Delay The Commencement Of Community-based Renewable Energy Projects Through Phase 2, Tranche 2 Of The Community-based Renewable Energy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SR181 | Intro
25% | Requesting That The "pledge To Our Keiki" Be Printed On The Reverse Side Of Each State Of Hawaii Plant And Animal Declaration Form.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SCR195 | Intro
25% | Requesting The National Energy Laboratory Of Hawaii Authority To Work With The University Of Hawaii At Manoa To Develop New Master And Strategic Plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SCR221 | Intro
25% | Requesting That The Agribusiness Development Corporation Conduct A Study On The Feasibility Of Developing Desalination Plants In West And South Maui That Are Co-located With Hydrological Power Plants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SR197 | Intro
25% | Requesting That The Agribusiness Development Corporation Conduct A Study On The Feasibility Of Developing Desalination Plants In West And South Maui That Are Co-located With Hydrological Power Plants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SCR205 | Intro
25% | Requesting That The "pledge To Our Keiki" Be Printed On The Reverse Side Of Each State Of Hawaii Plant And Animal Declaration Form.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SCR185 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Business, Economic Development, And Tourism To Support The Creation Of The Hawaii Innovation Alliance That Was Recommended By The Dual Use Report And To Support The Other Recommendations Within The Report To Grow The Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SR159 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Business, Economic Development, And Tourism To Support The Creation Of The Hawaii Innovation Alliance That Was Recommended By The Dual Use Report And To Support The Other Recommendations Within The Report To Grow The Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SR161 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Business, Economic Development, And Tourism To Convene A Sports Wagering Working Group To Conduct A Comprehensive Analysis Of The Potential Legalization And Regulation Of Online Sports Wagering In Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SCR161 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Public Utilities Commission To Respond To Hawaiian Electric's Request To Suspend, Deprioritize, And Delay The Commencement Of Community-based Renewable Energy Projects Through Phase 2, Tranche 2 Of The Community-based Renewable Energy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SCR40 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Business, Economic Development, And Tourism To Commission A Statewide Disparity Study Regarding The Participation Of Woman- And Minority-owned Businesses In State Contracting Derived From Federal Sources Of Funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2082 | Intro
25% | Merges the Made in Hawaii with Aloha branding program with the Hawaii Made program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Specifies that the Department of the Attorney General shall be responsible for enforcement of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3097 | Intro
25% | Establishes the senior advisor on climate position within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development. Makes the senior advisor on climate a member of the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2765 | Intro
25% | Transfers oversight of the Hawaii Convention Center and the Hawaii Convention Center Enterprise Special Fund from the Hawaii Tourism Authority to the Department of Accounting and General Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2986 | Intro
25% | Requires retail crediting for energy exports enrolled in grid services programs, whereby energy exported to the electrical grid past a participating customer-generator's point of common coupling from photovoltaic solar systems paired with battery sto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2102 | Intro
25% | Eliminates biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of "renewable energy".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2525 | Intro
25% | Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to address carbon emissions. Incrementally increases the tax rate over time. Establishes a refundable tax credit to mitigate the effect of a carbon emissions tax on taxpayers. Requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3377 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a 10-year license for 1 poker and sportsbook gaming facility in a special district designated for tourism in a county with over 500,000 residents and that is not in a hotel. Allows admission for individuals 21 years of age or older. Establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3240 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to establish a five-year pilot program to work with other public infrastructure agencies to ensure rebuilt Maui infrastructure is more resilient, provide for resiliency hubs at critical emergency infrastructure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2535 | Intro
25% | Removes the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism from membership on the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3248 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Establishes the Broadband and Digital Equity Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3376 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a 10-year license for one entity to operate online poker and sportsbook betting. Establishes the Hawaii gaming control commission. Imposes wagering tax on gross receipts. Creates the state gaming fund and compulsive gambler assistance prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3049 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Hawai`i Film Advisory Council within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Provides exemption for certified development of film studio facilities from taxes imposed under chapter 237, HRS. Amends the Motion Pict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3058 | Intro
25% | Amends section 210D-10, HRS, to increase the maximum interest rate on Community-Based Economic Development loans to ten percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2980 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Cultural Corridor Authority to develop plans to redevelop areas affected by disaster while maintaining historic and cultural preservation. Establishes an income tax credit to incentivize the voluntary relinquishment of real property l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3023 | Intro
25% | 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. Consolidates the survey and certification requirements for tax credits for research activitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3044 | Intro
25% | Extends the sunset date for the research activites income tax credit. Consolidates the survey and certification requirements. Requires the certification based on the date a complete application is received subject to certain conditions. Clarifies qua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2982 | Intro
25% | Establishes the regenerative tourism program with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to increase regenerative tourism. Establishes a grant program. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3055 | Intro
25% | Repeals the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2984 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Capital Loan Revolving Fund to be used to make loans to businesses located in nationally-declared disaster areas relating to the 2023 Maui wildfires and to, in part, administer the Maui Business Bridge Grants Program. Declares ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3056 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the party responsible for Renewable Portfolio Standards support and reporting on certain energy matters shall be the Chief Energy Officer, following Act 122, SLH 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2578 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii clean energy initiative program to design and implement a plan to increase jobs that strengthen emergency preparedness and climate resilience. Authorizes the use of the energy security special fund to advance the State's goals of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2140 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from charging any fees on a transient accommodation or resort time share vacation interest, plan, or unit that were not disclosed before the time of purchase. Requires a person to clearly and conspicuously display in each adverti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2625 | Intro
25% | Permanently excludes businesses within a federally designated opportunity zone from required unemployment insurance contributions and temporarily excludes those businesses from general excise and income tax for five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2576 | Intro
25% | Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal care products in small plastic containers within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping room accommodations, or bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2858 | Intro
25% | Requires qualified productions claiming the Motion Picture, Digital Media, and Film Production Income Tax Credit to submit call sheets and payroll information. Specifies that individuals listed on a qualified production's call sheet who are hired or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2875 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Office of Streaming within the Creative Industries Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to help content creators increase the scale of their respective productions. Appropriates moneys. Declares th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2763 | Intro
25% | Establishes the position of the Tourism Liaison Officer within the Office of the Governor. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2674 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to establish a two-year Hawaii Office of Naval Research Grant Program to provide 50% matching grants to Hawaii awardees of alternative energy research grants from the United States Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2577 | Intro
25% | Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation to the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a state-wide blanket environmental impact statement for geothermal exploration and development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2372 | Intro
25% | Redefines power-generating facility to include those that rely on the combustion of any fuel source which exceeds 5.0 megawatts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2357 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Green Environmental Fee Program that requires certain users to purchase an annual license for the use of a state beach, park, forest, trail, or other natural area on state land, to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2367 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "power-generating facility" for the purposes of environmental impact assessments to include new combustion electricity-generating facilities operating beginning January 1, 2024, that were not previously operational. Includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2206 | Intro
25% | Repeals the maximum tax rate of the county transient accommodations tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2171 | Intro
25% | Provides a general excise tax exemption on gross proceeds received from the construction, sale, or installation of electrical vehicle charging infrastructure in certain circumstances. Repeals on 1/1/2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2110 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
