| HI | SB1090 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 design for hybrid and gasoline-powered vehicles. Requires the Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB776 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the composition of the Board of Agriculture by requiring representation from the islands of Molokai and Lanai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the requirement of notifying the Terrorist Screening Center administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of the gun permit application background check process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB172 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands eligibility for the Hawaii community college promise program to all qualified students. Appropriates funds to expand access to community college to qualified Hawaii residents through Hawaii community college promise program scholarships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB1088 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides public employees with up to 2 hours of paid leave each calendar year to attend a scheduled physical examination with a licensed physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB872 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to develop certain housing projects that are exempt from laws, rules, and ordinances, including income restrictions, under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB411 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1071 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows cases within the jurisdiction of the Intermediate Court of Appeals that involve a family court judgment, order, or decree affecting the custody of a child or minor to be transferred to the Supreme Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB308 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Erin's law task force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, report recommendations for the establishment of a program to educate public scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning 7/1/2025, requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources State Historic Preservation Division to contract its review of proposed state projects, and projects affecting historic properties to third party consultants if the projects in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1227 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the employees' retirement system, in evaluating venture capital investments, to consider opportunities in industries that will sustain Hawaii's natural environment or produce economic opportunities for its residents, including renewable ener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB450 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires boards to use interactive conference technology to remotely conduct public meetings in conjunction with in-person meetings that allow for public participation. Requires boards to archive certain recordings of meetings on their websites.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB857 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning on January 1, 2024, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to lower the qualifying age of voters for any state or local election to sixteen years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1111 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a five-year pilot project for counties with a population of less than 200,000 to regulate the operation of hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodation operators. Requires a report to the Legislature. Repeals on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB124 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the possession of firearms on school property and school buses and at school-sponsored functions. Exempts certain law enforcement officers and instructors and participants of certain educational or training programs. Establishes that violat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1051 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes state-licensed and credentialed physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants, who are not physically in the State, to issue prescriptions for certain controlled substances under a limited circumstance. Authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1008 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a state carbon emissions tax of $6.25 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions on all aviation fuel. Directs the aviation fuel tax into the airport revenue fund. Implements a tax credit to mitigate the effects of this tax on lower incom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB469 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the counties to reclassify lands fifteen to one fifty acres in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts in which at least seventy-five per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for persons an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Business Activity Water Catchment System Working Group within the Department of Health to assess the feasibility of allowing business owners in the State to utilize filtered water collected by water catchment systems for business activi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1097 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a government agency does not assume ownership or jurisdiction over a disputed road solely through maintenance or repair activities. Authorizes the State to transfer ownership of roads in favor of counties by quitclaim if requested by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB333 | Intro
Sine Die | Promotes development within one-half mile radius of any station along the rail transit system. Eliminates certain restrictions for developing state-owned real property located within one-half mile radius of any station along the rail transit system. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB1436 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts affordable housing and certain qualifying housing development projects from HEPA. Establishes a definition of "program" and "project" to preempt the existing definitions under section 11-200.1-2, Hawaii Administrative Rules, and narrow the ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB441 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an excise tax of 25 cents for e-liquid cartridges and fifteen per cent of the wholesale price of open system eliquid sold, used, or possessed by a wholesaler or dealer on or after 7/1/2023. Defines and amends related terms. Makes conformi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1239 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts certain medical services, food, and rent from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, or School Facilities Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB632 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a 5-year pilot program within the Department of Health to eradicate feral chickens in the State. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit a special local need registration to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes clear criteria for unpaid student internship programs under the state wage laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1108 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an online fantasy sports contests registration and monitoring program under the Department of the Attorney General. Exempts registered online fantasy sports contests from state gambling laws. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to provide employees with written notice of the employee's shift schedule at least ten calendar days before the employee is scheduled to work, under certain circumstances. Requires certain employers to pay their employees twice as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Department of Health from issuing permits for commercial burning of green waste products in residential areas or within one thousand feet of a residential property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the definition of "beer" under the State's liquor tax and liquor regulatory laws, to specify that the term includes an alcohol by volume of no less than 0.5 per cent and alcohol seltzer beverages, but excludes certain other forms of distillat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB341 | Intro
Sine Die | Inserts unspecified amounts for minimum required liability coverage for accidental harm and destruction of property for motor vehicle insurance policies in the State. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB301 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 257, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to authorize the School Facilities Authority to provide affordable housing to Department of Education teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1081 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the safe routes to school advisory committee within the Planning Branch of the Highways Division of the Department of Transportation. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB815 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an accelerator program within the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Amends the reporting requirements for Hawaii Technology Development Corporation's manufacturing and development program. Requires the Hawaii Technology Developme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB967 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an organic foods production tax credit for farmers investing into the organic certification process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1030 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the department to contra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB972 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases fines for any operator of a motor vehicle carrier using a vehicle for commercial tour operations who is not registered with the Public Utilities Commission. Increases penalty for any person who advertises as a motor carrier of passengers wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB380 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits digital application developers and digital application distribution platforms from increasing the price of a digital application subscription plan that is automatically billed to the user's account without obtaining the user's written conse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain amounts of child support moneys collected by the Department of Human Services for public assistance of a child to pass through to the family receiving public assistance. Requires the Department of Human Services to disregard passed-t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1110 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a framework to regulate controllers and processors with access to personal consumer data. Establishes that a violation of the consumer data privacy act constitutes an unfair method of competition and unfair and deceptive acts or practices...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1483 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits cyber harassment and cyberstalking. Allows for civil liabilities and injunctions for cyber harassment and cyberstalking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of operating a vehicle while impaired, and penalties. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to take administrative action. Takes effect 1/1/2024. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the natural resource management special fund and authorizes uses for moneys in the fund. Establishes a Natural Resource Management Commission to guide and approve the disbursement of moneys deposited into the fund. Allocates transient acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB675 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1475 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to create a strategic plan for maintenance dredging of important port and harbor locations and report the plan to the Legislature. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to complete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1441 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the deadline for submitting written protests that are based on the content of a solicitation. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB943 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
