| HI | SB3239 | Engross
50% | Requires the Office of Wellness and Resilience to establish a Medical Debt Forgiveness Working Group to study the feasibility of developing, implementing, and executing a program for the State to acquire and forgive outstanding medical debt of Hawaii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3265 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Film Advisory Council. Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit to: (1) Clarify and amend the requirement for an independent third-party certification; (2) Expand the definition of "qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3335 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis and Hemp Authority and Cannabis and Hemp Control Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning 1/1/2026, legalizes the personal adult use of canna...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SR118 | Intro
25% | Requesting That A Task Force Be Convened To Develop A Norwegian-based Public Facility Model Designated To Ensure The Well-being And Safety Of Dementia Patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SCR137 | Intro
25% | Requesting That A Task Force Be Convened To Develop A Norwegian-based Public Facility Model Designated To Ensure The Well-being And Safety Of Dementia Patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2746 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Transportation to require that the securing of mooring lines from vessels to commercial docks, wharves, piers, quays, and landings be performed by labor subject to collective bargaining. Sunsets 7/1/2028. Effective 7/1/3000...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB699 | Engross
50% | Establishes a state capitol tours program within the office of the governor. Establishes two full-time equivalent positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB1535 | Engross
50% | Allows the director of transportation to exempt certain ground transportation facility projects from historic preservation review and the environmental impact statement law, subject to certain conditions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB299 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the legislature, upon the agreement of form by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate, to specify the form in which the proposed budgets of the executive branch, judicial branch, and office of Hawaiian ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB296 | Engross
50% | Requires the Governor and state agencies to recommend a date by which statutorily required reports must be submitted to the Legislature, and to identify any reports that should not be subject to that uniform date and the reasons therefor. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB2697 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to revoke the licenses of architects who have been, or caused a government employee to be, convicted of a criminal offense involving the acceptance of a bribe. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2695 | Engross
50% | Adds definitions of "identifier" and "specified data element" and amends the definition of "personal information" for the purposes of notifying affected persons of data and security breaches under existing state law that governs the security breach o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3243 | Engross
50% | Amends the prohibition against foreign nationals and foreign corporations making campaign finance contributions and expenditures. Requires every business entity that contributes or expends funds in a state election to file a statement of certificatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2561 | Engross
50% | Prohibits intentionally leaving or confining pet animals in a vehicle under conditions that endanger their health, safety, or well-being. Permits law enforcement officers, animal control officers, and firefighters to enter an unattended vehicle to pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2768 | Engross
50% | Requires the state energy office to adopt rules governing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB3022 | Engross
50% | Establishes a transportation network company, taxicab, and limousine fee. Provides for the deposit of the transportation network company, taxicab, and limousine fees collected into the Safe Routes to School Program special fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB3195 | Engross
50% | Expands the definition of "renewable energy producer" that is used to determine the Board of Land and Natural Resources' disposition of public lands by direct negotiation to renewable energy producers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB3350 | Engross
50% | Requires appointees for judicial vacancies to file certain disclosures with the State Ethics Commission, under certain conditions. Requires the Commission on Salaries to consider the deterrence of bribery and corruption when making its salary recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SCR154 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Attorney General To File A Lawsuit Against Big Oil Corporations For Climate Damages To The State And Engage A Third-party Law Firm That Has Expertise In This Legal Area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SR128 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Board Of Education To Adopt A Policy Relating To The Use Of Preferred Names For Students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SCR136 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Health To Establish A Housing Equity And Wellness Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SR117 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Health To Establish A Housing Equity And Wellness Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SCR150 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Board Of Education To Adopt A Policy Relating To The Use Of Preferred Names For Students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SR131 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Attorney General To File A Lawsuit Against Big Oil Corporations For Climate Damages To The State And Engage A Third-party Law Firm That Has Expertise In This Legal Area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB370 | Engross
50% | Removes the exemption that allowed owners of multiple parking facilities within the State to designate and electrify fewer parking spaces than required in one or more of the properties if the requirement for the total number of aggregate spaces on al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2565 | Engross
50% | Prohibits counties from prohibiting leashed dogs in public parks. Prohibits persons from leaving dog excrement on public or private property. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| 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
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2684 | Intro
25% | Creates penalties relating to the fighting of birds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB367 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of tickets at higher price than the original price charged by the primary venue ticket provider. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1580 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Health, the Health Care Facilities Labor Standards Working Group to research, assess, and make recommendations on the best practices in labor standards that can be implemented at hospitals, care homes, and dialysi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2574 | Intro
25% | Establishes a tax credit for the import of renewable fuel, including sustainable aviation fuel. Expands the provisions of the renewable fuels production tax credit. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2579 | Intro
25% | Requires all state buildings being constructed on or after 7/1/2025 where a water fountain is required to have a water bottle filling station. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2769 | Intro
25% | Requires the state and counties to upgrade to zero emission buses by 2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2894 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to incorporate bikeshare and micro-mobility devices into the Pre-tax Transportation Benefit Pilot Program's commuter benefits. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2896 | Intro
25% | Effective 1/1/2026 requires each parking lot in the State having public paid parking spaces in the State to accept payment of parking fees by credit card and debit card; and each parking meter in the State that collects parking fees for any public pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2743 | Intro
25% | Authorizes certain counties to use county surcharge on state tax revenues and fuel tax revenues for the repair and maintenance of private roadways that are open to and used by the public. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2738 | Intro
25% | Establishes a three-year pilot program within the Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the counties, to examine signalized intersections. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is excee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2777 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Highways Clean Energy Technology Pilot Program within the Department of Transportation. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2742 | Intro
25% | Establishes three greener highway corridors pilot projects to improve the Interstate H-1, H-2, and H-201 freeway corridors with greenery. Establishes a working group. Requires reports. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2964 | Intro
25% | Authorizes independent generators of renewable energy to wheel the renewable energy transmitted and used to produce hydrogen, subject to certain conditions determined by the Public Utilities Commission. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3340 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, in consultation with livestock industry stakeholders, to conduct a study to assess the effects of heat stress on beef cattle during interisland ocean transportatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| 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
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3348 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the director of finance to develop means to identify additional data about vehicle registration. Requires data collected to be included in the registration database. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2414 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Sustainable Food Systems Working Group. Requires a report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2025. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Establishes an unspecified number of positions within the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2559 | Intro
25% | Establishes a pest placard program. Requires the Department of Agriculture to inspect certain establishments that are at risk of spreading pests. Establishes correction and quarantine procedures. Declares that the general expenditure ceiling is excee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2897 | Intro
25% | Requires each public employer to pay for the employer's employees' professional license renewal fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3351 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to prohibit discrimination against a person because of ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, and pregnancy outcomes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB371 | Intro
25% | Defines "incidental and supplemental work" for purposes of specialty contractors under the contractors law. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2454 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain entities from distributing unsolicited mail that is reasonably likely to cause the recipient to believe that a governmental agency has approved of the distribution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2602 | Intro
25% | Changes the administration of the human trafficking victim services fund from the department of labor and industrial relations to the department of the attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
