| HI | HB1968 | Engross
50% | Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse committed on or after July 1, 2024, may be initiated. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on trauma-informed response. Effective 7/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
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| HI | HB2089 | Engross
50% | Requires the State Building Code Council to adopt, amend, or update the International Building Code and International Residential Code within two years of every other official publication date of the applicable code or standard. Provides that if a co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
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| HI | HB2579 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that the Board of Land and Natural Resources shall not unilaterally amend the terms and conditions of any lease of public lands being extended pursuant to Act 149, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, except as otherwise provided therein; and if th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
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| HI | HB2758 | Engross
50% | Facilitates the control and eradication of invasive species and pests. Establishes a plant nursery registration program. Requires the Board of Agriculture to designate certain species as pests for control or eradication. Imposes certain limits on imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
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| HI | HB2174 | Engross
50% | Repeals the existing conditions under which government entities may seek reimbursement for search or rescue expenses and instead requires a government entity of the State to impose and collect a fee for search or rescue expenses for persons who requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
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| HI | HB2382 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the Employees' Retirement System's eligibility requirement definitions for service-connected disability and accidental death benefits. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
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| HI | HB2353 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Criminal Justice Data Sharing and Research Group to consolidate the efforts of the Criminal Justice Data Sharing Working Group and the Gun Violence and Violent Crimes Commission. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
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| HI | HB2683 | Engross
50% | Makes permanent the exemption of laboratory school programs of the Hawaiian language college at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from state English-medium standards, assessments, performance ratings, staff qualifications, and staff training requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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| HI | HB2515 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the types of events that constitute disasters and emergencies for the purposes of emergency management. Takes effect 7/1/2042. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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| HI | HB1602 | Engross
50% | Authorizes a forty-eight-hour grace period after a missed initial court appearance. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | HB1664 | Engross
50% | Increases the penalties for bribery offenses under certain circumstances by establishing new offenses for bribery in the first and second degrees. Defines "bribery" for the purposes of these offenses. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | HB2470 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that a contested case hearing is not required when an identical or substantially similar administrative matter has been finally adjudicated. Includes administrative contested case proceedings within the scope of the vexatious litigant statu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | HB1766 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the distribution of synthetic media messages in advertisements before an election that a person knows or should have known are deceptive and fraudulent deepfakes of a candidate. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | HB1845 | Engross
50% | Increases the amount of partial public campaign financing available for all elective offices. Adjusts the minimum amount of qualifying contributions certain candidates must receive to participate in the program. Increases the matching fund payments f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| HI | SB2702 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the practice of election fraud intimidation includes carrying any firearm or weapon and photographing the face of any voter without permission from both the voter and an appropriate election official when those actions occur at or near...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
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| HI | SB2684 | Intro
25% | Creates penalties relating to the fighting of birds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
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| HI | SB2226 | Intro
25% | Authorizes each county to adopt ordinances to regulate or restrict motor vehicle access to certain streets, highways, thoroughfares, or roads. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3042 | Intro
25% | Amends the Criminal Justice Data Sharing Working Group to combine its members and functions with certain members and functions of the Gun Violence and Violent Crimes Commission to increase efficiency and effectiveness and eliminate redundancy. Repeal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2636 | Intro
25% | Requires a board to offer remote testifiers an option to be seen and heard by the board and the public when offering remote testimony. Authorizes a board to remove or block any persons who intentionally disrupt or compromise the conduct of a meeting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2589 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalty for the desecration of Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian burial sites from a misdemeanor to a felony for second or subsequent offenses. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2994 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Building Code Council to adopt, amend, or update the International Building Code and the International Residential Code within two years of its official publication date. Clarifies that the Hawaii State Building Code acts as the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2103 | Intro
25% | Expands the criminal offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes a $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false-labeling of Hawaii-grown roasted coffee. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3230 | Intro
25% | Makes an appropriation for the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii, to procure expertise and develop a physical risk model to assess risk in the State for insurance rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2111 | Intro
25% | Under certain conditions, limits the payment of any delinquent tax and penalty required by the Director of Finance of a county as a condition precedent to the transfer of ownership of a vehicle to the aggregate amount of delinquent taxes and penaltie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3349 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Office of Gun Violence Prevention within the Department of the Attorney General for administrative purposes only. Repeals the Gun Violence and Violent Crimes Commission. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3307 | Intro
25% | Authorizes representatives of the news media to be allowed to attend executive meetings held by a board under section 92-4, HRS. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2517 | Intro
25% | Requires appointments and selections of heads of state divisions and agencies that require a board approval to be made through a publicly established process and timeline. Requires the approval of the process and timeline to appoint or select a new h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2933 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches, shall be protected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2139 | Intro
25% | Establishes provisions regarding the fees and other costs charged to reproduce certain government documents during a nationally declared disaster. Requires the Office of Information Practices to adopt certain rules regarding the fees and other charge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB263 | Intro
25% | Requires council members to receive annual training on topics related to Native Hawaiian healing and health. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3229 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group to identify, assess, and recommend certain risk transfer market mechanisms. Establishes requirements for insurers relating to claims for additional living expenses under homeowners insurance policies, including situations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2570 | Intro
25% | Requires a protest based on the content of the solicitation to be submitted a minimum of one day business before the date set for the receipt of offers, and all other protests be submitted within seven calendar days after the posting of award of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2078 | Intro
25% | Permits a contractor, developer, or owner of affordable housing to employ a construction crane or other machinery that temporarily intrudes into a neighboring landowner's airspace, under certain conditions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3315 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to use consistent units of measurement in its summary to the public on the amounts of restricted use pesticides used. Establishes a one-half mile buffer zone for pesticides around schools and state and county pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2292 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the procedures for selecting members of boards and commissions also apply to ex officio members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2116 | Intro
25% | Requires boards to hold hybrid meetings that that allow for participation both in-person and remotely by interactive conference technology. Requires boards to archive minutes and video of meetings on their websites. Takes effect 1/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2109 | Intro
25% | Until 6/30/2025, exempts from the offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products the shipments of large cigars and pipe tobacco sold to a consumer in the State through the Internet under certain circumstances. Defines "pipe tobacco". Takes effect 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2306 | Intro
25% | No later than January 1, 2025, requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to install and maintain automated external defibrillators in all state buildings. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide training...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3040 | Intro
25% | Amends annual reporting requirement for the Department of the Attorney General concerning firearms concealed carry licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2607 | Intro
25% | Revises the construction defect claims process. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2606 | Intro
25% | Establishes additional requirements for notices of claims of construction defects. Takes effect 7/1/24040. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2400 | Intro
25% | Reduces the number of members on the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board of Directors and number of members that constitute a quorum. Makes certain amendments to membership eligibility. Prohibits holdover board members of the Hawaii Tourism Authority from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2830 | Intro
25% | Amends the definitions of "board", "board business", and "meeting" within state open meetings law to expand the scope of the law to include state and county policymaking groups, including groups created by emergency proclamations. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3132 | Intro
25% | Repeals the sunset date of the authorization for primary caregivers to cultivate medical cannabis for their qualifying patients, subject to certain restrictions. Authorizes patient grow sites with more than five patients on land zoned for agricultura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2806 | Intro
25% | Allows all-terrain vehicle to drive on streets with posted speed limits of not more than 45 miles per hour. Allows all-terrain vehicles to drive in the evening and night if they are equipped with headlights and tail lights. Allows drivers of all-terr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | SB2363 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a two-year agricultural crime pilot project to examine the effectiveness of prosecuting agricultural crimes, including agricultural theft and agricultural vandalism, in the City and County of Honolu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | SB2123 | Intro
25% | Exempts psychiatric services and chronic renal dialysis services from certificate of need requirements. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | SB3127 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Department of Health has the legal authority and obligation to prevent nuisances that affect environmental health and public health. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | HB70 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the sale or holding, offering, and distribution of hemp products that contain cannabinoids created through isomerization. Inserts the alternative name for Delta 6 cis or trans tetrahydrocannabinol, and their optical isomers into the list of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | SB2594 | Intro
25% | Authorizes qualified successors of at least twenty-five percent Hawaiian blood quantum of beneficiaries on the waiting list who died before receiving a lease to file a claim for a lease award within four years of the effective date. Requires the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
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