| HI | SB1160 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Intermediate Appellate Court to review orders issued by the Hawaii Paroling Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1004 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a carbon emissions tax credit. Expands the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include carbon emissions. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB847 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a person to be eligible for a license as a professional engineer if the person has completed four years of full-time or equivalent part-time professional level government employment performing lawful experience in review of engineered plans an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1184 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits golf carts from operating at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour. Prohibits neighborhood electric vehicles and golf carts from being driven on highways with a posted speed limit greater than twenty-five miles, except for crossin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB288 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers the Culinary Institute of the Pacific from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as an administratively attached agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the tax credits for research activities each taxpayer may receive to $1,500,000 per taxable year. Requires that every qualified high technology business be registered to do business in the State and occupy a business location and address in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB1072 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the State's Supreme Court and Intermediate Appellate Court from affirming, modifying, reversing, or vacating a matter on grounds other than those raised by the parties to the proceeding, unless the parties are provided the opportunity to br...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB977 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for judicial review of orders fixing minimum terms of imprisonment. Specifies that in any civil action brought by the petitioner seeking compensation of any kind or nature whatsoever as a result of, related to, or arising from a conviction and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1092 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes driving without a license a civil violation. Establishes fines. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the right of persons to record law enforcement activities. Establishes a private right of action for violations of the right to record law enforcement activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB153 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes supplemental categorical funding for remote schools. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1250 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a state income tax deduction for eligible contributions made by residents of the State into the HI529Hawaii's College Savings Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Incorporates a regenerative framework into the State Planning Act by expanding objectives and policies for the visitor industry. Requires an update to the State Tourism Functional Plan to be submitted to the Legislature no later than twenty days prio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1168 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands eligibility for, and automates, the expungement of arrest and conviction records if certain criteria are met, including the lack of a conviction record for a specified time period following the date of an arrest, conviction, or release from i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB631 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to article X, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution to modify the appointment process for the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii. Repeals the requirement that the governor shall only appoint from pools of candida...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1177 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows dogs in restaurants at the restaurant owner's or manager's discretion, provided that certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1082 | Engross
Sine Die | Effective January 1, 2025, requires all state- or county-owned parking lots in the State that contain public paid parking spaces to accept payment of parking fees by credit card and debit card. Requires all state- or county-owned parking meters in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB146 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows procuring agencies to use a list of qualified persons for a particular professional service for up to three years. Allows purchasing agencies to waive any requirement for professional service providers who are on a prepared list of qualified p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB339 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all health insurers in the state, including medicaid managed care programs, to cover annual mental health wellness examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB845 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes comprehensive updates to chapter 436E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding acupuncture practitioners to reflect modernized scopes of practice, titles, and licensing and renewal requirements. Authorizes the Board of Acupuncture to establish an al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1470 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Public Safety to install digital cameras in all guard control rooms of any correctional center housing women. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HI | SB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to establish and implement a program to improve and increase support for emergency medical services in the State. Requires the Department of Health to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB98 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Aquatic Resources to submit an annual report to the Legislature, beginning in 2025, summarizing the Division's expenditure of funds received from the federal Wildlife and Sport Fish R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB1094 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the jurisdiction of county land use decision-making authorities, enabling them to amend the district boundaries of lands less than fifty acres, from lands less than fifteen acres. Limits the Land Use Commission's authority over special permit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the mold information and awareness program administered by DOH. Requires mandatory disclosure of the presence of mold as part of any sale, transfer, or rental of residential, commercial, or industrial property. Requires DOH to conduct rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes under the Hawaii Children's Trust Fund Coalition a collective impact program called the Malama Ohana Program to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Requires the Malama Ohana Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services 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
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB891 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide menstrual products at no cost in specified restrooms of public buildings maintained by that department. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB843 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "wages" to include the payment of any paid time off or personal time off, holiday, sick, or vacation pay earned and payable in accordance with the terms of an employer's policy or a written agreement with the employer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the existing plant and animal declaration form to also require in-bound travelers to the State to acknowledge state laws, federal laws, and individual responsibility to protect the environment and agriculture of the State. Requires all other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires restaurants to clearly disclose to customers how tips are allocated to employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology 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
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1175 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to develop and implement safety training for all cafeteria student helpers and ensure the student helpers receive the training prior to them volunteering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB453 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Oahu community correctional center site redevelopment working group to bring together state and county agencies, private entities, and the broader Kalihi community to examine how to best utilize the Oahu community correctional center ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1504 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the museum of modern Hawaii history. Establishes a task force to develop plans for the establishment, construction, and operation of the museum of modern Hawaii history. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB783 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education Committee on Weights to consider the impact of its weighted student formula recommendations on small and remote schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1066 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes within the Commission on Water Resource Management a water security working group to study and recommend, for legislative consideration and approval, priority capital improvement projects, including funding and financing strategies for ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | SB1568 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the period in which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from 3/31/2019 to 12/31/2023. Authorizes the use of county surcharge revenues for housing infrastructure. Temporarily authorizes counties that have pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1159 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies when the identity of a police officer, who has been suspended or discharged following a misconduct incident, is to be disclosed in a county police department's annual report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB409 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the Community Fuels Reduction Project. Beginning with fiscal year 2025-2026 and each fiscal year thereafter, requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1074 | Enroll
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii relating to the appointment of justices and judges. Changes certain time periods for the appointment and senate consent to a justice or judge. Mirrors the appointment and senate consent p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB18 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of independent expenditures and political contributions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | SB1095 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "development" to create additional exceptions, including pedestrian or bicycle facilities, trash removal, invasive vegetation control, installation of fencing for invasive species control or native habitat preservation, light...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1104 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "cannabis" to include cannabis propagules, cuttings, and seeds. Defines "cannabis cutting" and "cannabis propagule". Requires a licensed dispensary's production center to submit to DOH an inventory of cannabis propagules, cut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the cesspool conversion tax credit to upgrade or convert cesspools certified by the Department of Health into a director-approved wastewater system. Effective for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1056 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that the engineering study required prior to the setting of a maximum speed limit shall not apply to reductions of maximum speed limits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | SB1091 | Engross
Sine Die | 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. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | SB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment based on the person's status as a medical cannabis registry card holder, under certain conditions. Authorizes an employer to use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB974 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a framework to regulate controllers and processors with access to personal consumer data. Establishes penalties. Establishes a new consumer privacy special fund. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | SB418 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Hydrogen Energy Industry Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Requires the Hawaii Hydrogen Energy Industry Program to design, implement, and administer activities to further the State's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
