| HI | SB1576 | Intro
25% | Gradually reduces the general excise tax rate imposed on the retail sale of groceries and nonprescription medication over a period of four years until eliminated in calendar year 2027. Preserves the county surcharge on tax and the general excise tax ...
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| HI | SB1021 | Intro
25% | Authorizes agencies to expend moneys from special funds under the agency's control for capital improvement projects, subject to legislative appropriation or authorization. Prohibits the expenditure of amounts that exceed 20% of the special fund's cei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB37 | Engross
50% | Abolishes the Native Hawaiian Rights Fund of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs pursuant to the recommendation contained in Auditor's Report No. 2202. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB648 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish and administer an aquaculture disease diagnostic laboratory. Appropriates funds for the laboratory. Establishes and appropriates funds for positions within the Department of Agriculture. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1608 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 11th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB943 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to fund school health support staff to sustain the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1121 | Intro
25% | Requires the Real Property and Financial Services Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association to conduct a study to determine an appropriate increase to the homestead exemption in bankruptcy proceedings. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB567 | Engross
50% | Exempts certain projects for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise taxes. Makes permanent the exemption of certain housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from school impact fee requirements. Ensures that the $6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB681 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 24th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB709 | Intro
25% | Establishes a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for expenses paid to retrofit a residence with wind resistive devices. Appropriates funds to the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs for the establishment, imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB260 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to employ individuals as vocational, technical, or career pathway teachers. Authorizes Department of Education teachers to instruct vocation, technical, or career pathway classes without possessing an applicable b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1459 | Intro
25% | Establishes a task force to examine the consequences of drinking water contamination detected at the Waipahu Wells II Granular Activated Carbon Treatment Facility. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB161 | Intro
25% | Appropriates grant funding to the YMCA of Honolulu for its Youth Wellness Program for Mental Health to address the statewide declining mental health outcomes of youths related to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB175 | Intro
25% | Requires state agencies to implement an on-site recycling program using rules issued by the Department of Health, in conjunction with the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, at buildings and facilities managed, maintained, or serviced by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB20 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to establish and operate a child care center pilot program on Oahu for eligible children of state employees, one in or near the state capitol and one in Kapolei. Appropriates funds. Repeals o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB640 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Agricultural Investment Program to support local agricultural producers. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB858 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to: prioritize the allocation of low-income housing tax credits to state-owned development projects; amend the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Qualified Allocation Plan to allow up to twen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB167 | Intro
25% | Establishes an investigator position in the Campaign Spending Commission. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1477 | Intro
25% | Transfers from the Department of Land and Natural Resources certain wharfs, launching ramps, and small boat harbors on Maui to the County of Maui with the corresponding revenue from those harbors. Appropriates funds. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1117 | Intro
25% | Requires that income tax credits established or renewed after 12/31/2023 include a five-year sunset or an annual one-third reduction beginning with the sixth year of the credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB105 | Engross
50% | Requires license plates to include okina in the word "Hawaii". Establishes requirements for number plates issued for zero-emission, hybrid, and gasoline-powered vehicles beginning 1/1/2025. Requires the continued use of the rainbow number plate desig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB34 | Intro
25% | Creates a temporary income tax credit for taxpayers who sell real property to owner-occupants. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB565 | Engross
50% | Establishes the State Self-Insurance Against Property and Casualty Risks Special Fund to be administered by the Comptroller to make it easier for the State to self-insure or utilize a captive insurer to mitigate against property and casualty risks. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB32 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the Office of the Legislative Analyst. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB740 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to complete an assessment and report on the feasibility of digitizing its applicant, beneficiary, and lessee records and creating an interactive digital database software program. Requires the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB518 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii Sea Grant Program to contract with an independent consultant to establish a five-year plan to develop goals, objectives, and an operational plan with budgets and timelines to strengthen and grow the aquaculture indus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB474 | Engross
50% | Appropriates federal funds to sustain and support the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB583 | Intro
25% | Relating To Tourism. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB312 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and administer a two-year Infant and Toddler Child Care Worker Subsidy Pilot Program. Requires annual reports on the pilot program's development and administration to the Legislature. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB952 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to address the impacts of climate change in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1228 | Intro
25% | Relating To Grants. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB579 | Intro
25% | Relating To Housing. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1326 | Intro
25% | Provides amendments to external review procedures to improve consistency with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Uniform Health Carrier External Review Model Act. Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health mainten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB883 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the department of health to operate mobile clinics providing medication-assisted treatment throughout the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1231 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB652 | Engross
50% | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a Workforce Development and Support Center. Requires the Center to develop a Workforce Pilot Project. Requires the Workforce Pilot Project to terminate on 6/30/2026. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1272 | Intro
25% | Establishes a program specialist position within the Department of Agriculture and appropriates moneys to fund the position. Prioritizes assistance for farmers and ranchers who produce local food that is at least partially consumed within the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB608 | Engross
50% | Establishes an organic foods production tax credit applicable to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Sunsets 12/31/2033. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB881 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the development and construction of permanent supportive housing for certain vulnerable individuals. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1589 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Hawaii Hemp Task Force to inform public policy and identify methods and actions to best support Hawaii agriculture and build a hemp industry to support rural economic development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1204 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to provide students who are residents of the State with school tuition in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1261 | Intro
25% | Requires state facilities to prepare a report assessing the feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each facility. Requires state facilities to implement and install the distributed energy resource systems detailed in the rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB636 | Intro
25% | Requires Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a Visitor Green Fee Program to collect fees from nonresidents via a license to use state natural and cultural resources, to be used for the protection, restoration, and care of Hawaii's n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB448 | Intro
25% | Exempts development of homestead lots or housing for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise tax and school impact fee requirements. Makes permanent the school impact fee exemption and the issuance of county affordable housing credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1320 | Intro
25% | Appropriates general funds to various programs due to anticipated operating shortfalls due to the limited ability for departments to transfer funds between programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB574 | Intro
25% | Relating To Economic Development. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB400 | Intro
25% | 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
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| HI | SB336 | Intro
25% | Restricts any county from disapproving or imposing certain conditions on a housing development project or an emergency shelter unless the county meets certain requirements. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB663 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the establishment of an agriculture education coordinator position within the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1229 | Intro
25% | Relating To Grants. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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