| HI | SB371 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB1208 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the income thresholds and credit amounts of the income tax credit for low-income household renters by using tax brackets individuals and different categories of households. Annually adjusts the income thresholds and credit amounts for infla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB462 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of interest in real property that is exempt from attachment and execution. Amends the value of personal property that is exempt from attachment and execution, including increasing the exemption amount for a motor vehicle. Exempts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB343 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes provisional or associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Allows psychologist license applicants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1209 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms the amount allowable for the Hawaii expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for the gainful employment tax credit to the credit amounts allowed in the federal tax code. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1132 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to identify a central area on Maui and plan a hemp decorticator facility for the use of interested parties in the area. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB791 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to purchase one advanced life support ambulance to be based on the island of Molokai, and related equipment, and pay related personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical services personnel. (SD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB595 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the executive office on aging to create an Alzheimer's disease public health campaign.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1020 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for medication used for the treatment of obesity or weight loss management for a covered individual who is overweight and has one or more rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB794 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Health, a three-year Cesspool Conversion Financial Assistance Pilot Program to provide financial assistance to owners of cesspools located in the county of Maui to upgrade or convert their cesspools to a wastewate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of Department of Education schools. Allows the loan to be forgiven after 5 years of teaching in a hard-to-fill position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1542 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies sensitive locations in which the carrying of firearms is restricted or prohibited. Authorizes, in certain circumstances, the carrying of firearms on private property. Specifies areas in which the carrying or possession of electric guns is r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1018 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Governor to ensure continued operation of medical facilities upon declaration of a state of emergency or local state of emergency and during times of health or pandemic emergencies. Allows hospitals to suspend elective surgeries during t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1439 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for a pre-litigation mediation pilot program. Requires landlords to participate in mediation before filing an action for summary possession. Creates and appropriates funds for an emergency rent relief program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB755 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to submit a report to the Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2025 focused on the health disparities experienced by persons in the State with developmental or intellect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB64 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the insurance commissioner to establish an annual enrollment period for medigap insurance plans. Requires issuers of Medigap insurance in the State to accept an eligible individual's application for coverage during the open enrollment period...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB705 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Manufacturing Assistance Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB1105 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires original equipment manufacturers of digital electronic equipment to make documentation, parts, and tools available to independent repair providers and owners for the purposes of diagnosis, maintenance, and repair on fair and reasonable terms...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB512 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources a water security working group to study and recommend priority capital improvement projects for legislative consideration and approval that leverage public-private investment to increase...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB987 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to develop and implement statewide media, education, and training activities for policies related to emergency examination and hospitalization and assisted community treatment for those in need of mental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1165 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a process, beginning on January 1, 2024, for automatically preregistering or registering University of Hawaii System students who are at least sixteen years old to vote. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB870 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits hospitals and health care facilities to permit or require health care providers to provide services for any period after the health care provider has been on duty for sixteen consecutive hours or an aggregate of eighty hours during any peri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1065 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies, in the State Water Code, that fire safety use is a beneficial use of fresh water. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to cooperate with the counties and reserv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1126 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the income tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment by increasing the taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses and dollar limit on amounts creditable that constit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1053 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB756 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Access to Local Food Act to allow cottage food operations to sell cottage food products, under certain conditions, upon receiving a permit from the Department of Health. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | SB1223 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a new issuance of special purpose revenue bonds in the amount of $30 million, to assist MauiGrown Coffee, Inc. with the operation and expansion of its farm and mill. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1019 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementias public health campaign.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB298 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to acquire any real, personal, or mixed property for immediate or future use; own, hold, improve, rehabilitate, sell, assign, exchange, transfer, convey, lease, or dispose of any real, personal, or mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB684 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms existing Medicaid requirements to health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to cover services provided through telehealth, including by way of an interactive telecommunications system. Defines "interacti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB1161 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the State to pay, without delay, military personnel called to active duty at the same rate as their active duty counterparts and provide basic housing allowance. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HI | SB648 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Early Childhood Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to assist students with school tuition in return for a service commitment to teach in the Executive Office on Early Learning Public Prekindergarten Program....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB48 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes penalties for failure to comply with certain submerged land reclamation regulations. Adds requirements for presently reclaimed land to be disposed of by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, without recourse to public auction, to an ab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1069 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits purposeful harassment with the intent to prevent the taking of fish from persons who are fishing in state waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1093 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and provides moneys for the composting grant program in the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that gender-based pricing by manufacturers who sell the goods they manufacture to any person in the State for a price they set constitutes an unlawful deceptive trade practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB630 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who purchase and install a whole house water filter system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1050 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies internal complaint procedures for civil service positions by requiring a formal complaint to be filed within twenty working days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB914 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in its standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes the establishment of a consistent and balanced framework for developing and implementing sea level rise adaptation strategies as an objective of the Coastal Zone Management Program. Includes the promotion of research, study, and understandin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB774 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes ownership of any cow, horse, mule, donkey, sheep, goat, or swine, not marked or branded, and running wild on public lands to any person who intentionally feeds the animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1162 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires compliance with the federal Military Selective Service Act for an individual to enroll in a state-supported post-secondary educational institution, qualify for state financial assistance for post-secondary education, or be eligible for emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB997 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires notice and identification of certain top donors who contributed to a noncandidate committee. Changes the requirement of certain information from the schedules filed with the noncandidate committee reports. Removes certain information require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB378 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to establish an electric school bus pilot program to provide certain complex areas with ownership and control of electric school buses. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1603 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for donation of wild game to under-resourced communities. Establishes a task force for development and implementation to expand meat processing capacity in the State. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1134 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts medical services from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1128 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts gross proceeds from medical services provided by physicians and advanced practice registered nurses acting in the capacity of a primary care provider from the general excise tax. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1210 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the refundable food/excise tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB61 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a new category of professional licensure for associate physicians, which are recent medical school graduates who have passed certain medical exams but have not been placed into a residency program and who work under the supervision of a licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
