| HI | SB1037 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates Limu Kala (Sargassum echinocarpum) as the official Hawaii state limu. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1198 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the number of members on the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board of Directors and number of members that constitute a quorum. Prohibits holdover board members of the Hawaii Tourism Authority from holding office beyond the commencement of the next ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1284 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a new section to chapter 710, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to establish the class C felony offense of official misconduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1514 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires at least one individual from each candidate and noncandidate committee to complete mandatory training on key campaign spending laws, reporting requirements, and deadlines at least once every election cycle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1526 | Intro
Sine Die | Explicitly provides that a patient has a right to choose to obtain an abortion, or terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the patient's life or health. Repeals criminal penalties for violations of certain abortion provisions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1278 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows notice of a bond or recognizance forfeiture to be sent to either the surety (bond company) or surety insurer (insurance company), by certified mail, to start the thirty-day forfeiture countdown for the surety or surety insurer to locate and su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | 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 |
| HI | 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
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| HI | 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 |
| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | 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 |
| HI | SB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that each county agency responsible for enforcing its respective building code be accredited by the International Accreditation Service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB195 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 11-342, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to increase transparency by requiring candidate committees and noncandidate committees to file fundraiser notices regardless of the price or suggested contribution for attending the function.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1369 | Intro
Sine Die | By 12/31/2027, requires the transfer of the Oahu Regional Health Care System in its entirety from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to the Department of Health. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1501 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Board of Land and Natural Resources from disturbing or acquiring for development certain wetland tarogrowing lands. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB647 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to extend the lease of any lessee who holds a lease with a remaining term of fifteen years or less; provided that the land covered by the lease is twenty-five acres or less and located in a county with a popul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB12 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to prohibit any person from serving more than a total of 16 years as a member of the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB342 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to conduct a study on paid sick leave. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the study. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies county zoning to explicitly authorize counties to adopt zoning regulations that eliminate or amortize land uses or structures established after the effective date of the first comprehensive zoning ordinance adopted by a county and zoning re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB558 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Firearms. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a definition for "immediate harm" and amends the definition of "imminent harm" for the purpose of the Child Protective Act. Requires a police officer to assume protective custody of a child without a court order or consent of the child's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB909 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a felony offense where the property owner has been convicted of an underlying felony offense. Directs forfeiture proceeds to the general fund. Amends the allowable expenses for mon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB178 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the deadline for the validation of ballots following an election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB688 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a recount of all ballots cast for any election shall occur if the official tabulation of all of the returns for that office or ballot question reveals that there is a difference equal to or less than one hundred votes, one-quarter of o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB185 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
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| HI | SB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
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| HI | SB1563 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
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| HI | SB1479 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases from $100 to $200 the fine imposed against an adult pedestrian who improperly crosses the street if the pedestrian does so while accompanied by a minor under the age of 15.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB613 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each house of the Legislature to establish by its rules, procedures that enable the Legislature to use remote testimony at legislative committee hearings, enable the public to present oral testimony at legislative committee hearings through ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1560 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows an individual who is seventeen years of age but will be eighteen years of age on or before the next general election to register and vote at the primary election immediately preceding that general election and in any co-occurring or intervenin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB720 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds an exception to mandatory disclosure of government records for deliberative and pre-decisional government inter-agency or intra-agency records concerning an agency decision about a government action. From July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2027, req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB880 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "dangerous to self" as used in State law governing mental health, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism. Defines the terms "gravely disabled" and "psychiatric deterioration". Broadens the term of "imminently dangerou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1107 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Lottery and Gaming Corporation for the purpose of conducting and regulating wagering and gaming in the State. Establishes the Lottery and Gaming Special Fund and allocates certain percentages of the fund to various community be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB187 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the State Ethics Commission with the discretion to maintain or destroy records of financial disclosure statements beyond the current 6-year statutory requirement. Applies retroactively to applicable disclosures that are in the Commission's p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1073 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the disqualification requirements for judges also apply to justices. Establishes a process by which a party before an appellate court in the State, who believes that the judge or justice presiding over their case may have a disqualifyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1420 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits state and county elected officials from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the state legislature, including any extension of any regular session or special session and any legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1356 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows an adopted individual to benefit both by relationship through a natural parent and through an adoptive parent in a disposition or other designation as provided for in accordance with the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, or admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB115 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Agriculture, an Aquacultural Area Lease Program for the purpose of identifying state facilities, state lands, and state marine waters that are suitable for use and lease as commercial aquacultural areas. Allows ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1515 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the Code of Fair Campaign Practices that candidates may use as a guide for their election campaigns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB66 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits purposeful harassment with the intent to prevent the taking of fish by persons who are fishing in state waters. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1433 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum sentence of imprisonment from one year to two years for a misdemeanor and thirty days to one year for a petty misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a time limitation for community-based subsistence fishing area designations; provided that the Department of Land and Natural Resources may consider extending a designation in the year prior to the designation's expiration unless the desi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1155 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that schedules filed with the candidate committee and noncandidate committee reports include the amount and date of deposit of each contribution and the name and both the mailing and physical address of each contributor who is not a register...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB517 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes operators of motorcycles to utilize the lane shoulders that are at least three-feet-wide with the concurrent use of emergency flashers on interstate highways as authorized by the Department of Transportation. Requires the Department of Tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB183 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each chamber of the Legislature to post on the Legislature's website a report of the legislative allowance expenditures for each member of the respective chamber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1146 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an online fantasy sports contests registration and monitoring program under the Department of the Attorney General. Imposes an online fantasy sports contests tax on the gross revenues of registrants. Establishes the Online Fantasy Sports ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB555 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Criminal Procedure. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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