| HI | SB2065 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Revolving Fund to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for the purpose of enhancing credit and guaranteeing and insuring loans made by private financial instituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2145 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties to submit annual reports on fire code enforcement updates and fire mitigation planning to the Legislature. Takes effect 1/1/2042. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2784 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the authority of employers to pay tipped employees less than the minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2661 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Homeless Employment Grant Program, a three-year pilot program, that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Human Services to report to the Legislature...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2843 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the Governor's and mayors' emergency management powers shall be consistent with the Hawaii State Constitution. Clarifies the scope of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to exten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3355 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers the functions of the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement to the Department of Law Enforcement. Increases the number of deputy directors appointed by the Director of Law Enforcement. Tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2087 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Insurance Commissioner to conduct a study on wildfire risk and insurance and submit a report regarding the study to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
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 | SB2150 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to amend its shellfish sanitation administrative rules based on the United States Department of Agriculture's 2019 National Shellfish Sanitation Program model ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2386 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes presidential preference primary elections for the 2028 election cycle. Takes effect 6/1/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2854 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Vacated Encampment Clean Up Task Force to identify potential entities to enter into intergovernmental agreements to coordinate the clean up of vacated encampments located on lands managed by United States Army Garrison Hawaii. Declares ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3339 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Red Hill remediation authority. Creates the Red Hill remediation special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3313 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to increase the salary schedules of deputy sheriffs within the Department of Law Enforcement. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2467 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to implement quality improvement measures recommended in the comprehensive safety review for the Hawaii State Hospital. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2507 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from civil service requirements employees performing services in University of Hawaii student or employee housing and certain personal services in privately financed leased or owned buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2804 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes large land owners to petition the Land Use Commission to allow the development of elderly housing on portions of agricultural lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2061 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a one-year school bus driver certification subsidy pilot program within the Department of Education. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2069 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for the establishment of three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) curriculum specialist II positions and ten full-time equivalent (10.0 FTE) classroom teacher positions for Ka Papahana Kaiapuni schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2113 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes appropriations to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for its manufacturing assistance programs. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2089 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that fire safety use is a beneficial use of fresh water in the State Water Code. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to cooperate with the counties and reservoi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2071 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to enhance the Department's mobile platforms that provide student mental health and social-emotional health support. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2142 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Wildfire Mitigation Working Group. Requires a report to the Legislature. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to provide administrative support to the working group. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2543 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for search and rescue expenses from persons who require rescue after ignoring warning signs, leaving a hiking trail to enter a prohibited area, or hiking on a trail closed to the public. Takes effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2539 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distribu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2767 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority's duties include supporting aquaculture. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2801 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to identify sites throughout the State that are suitable for the development of slaughterhouses. Requires the Agribusiness Development Corporation to plan, design, construct, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2818 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to conduct a study on the effect on businesses of increasing the minimum wage. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2824 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds to the Agribusiness Development Corporation for the upgrade of South and West Maui's R-1 water delivery systems, and the upgrade of certain water reservoirs located in the forest wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2975 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the qualified internship grant program within the Department of Education to provide grants to businesses and organizations that employ qualified interns participating in work-based learning through a qualified internship program. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3337 | Intro
Sine Die | Reestablishes the appraisal management company registration program within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Clarifies that chapter 466L, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed. Applies registration requirements retroactively to 6/30/202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2542 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the University of Hawaii for the relocation and expansion of the University of Hawaii Maui College, Molokai Education Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2765 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers oversight of the Hawaii Convention Center and the Hawaii Convention Center Enterprise Special Fund from the Hawaii Tourism Authority to the Department of Accounting and General Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2833 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for the establishment and hiring of one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) project manager III position to aid in the development of affordable housing options in the State....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2114 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the feeding of feral animals within a certain distance from Department of Education public school campuses. Establishes fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2356 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Defense the position and duties of State Wildfire Marshal, the position and duties of State Wildfire Chief, the State Wildfire Corps, and the State Wildfire Fuel Reduction Task Force. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2879 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for an artificial intelligence government services pilot program to provide certain government services to the public through an internet portal that uses artificial intelligence technologies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2063 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the legislative body of a county from imposing requirements for residential incomes lower than those adopted or established by the State for housing projects. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2117 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "preceptor" to include physician assistants, registered dietitians, and social workers. Amends the definition of "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to clarify that preceptors may be compensated for the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB471 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits camping in public areas that are not designated as camping locations by the State or a county with certain exceptions. Allows the court to order violators to participate in homeless services in lieu of prosecution or sentencing. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2486 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a silver alert program within the Department of Law Enforcement to help locate and safeguard missing vulnerable adults with developmental disabilities or mental impairments who pose a credible threat to the health and safety to themselves...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2055 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a three-year summer tuition pilot program to provide funding to UH community colleges to offset the costs aligning the resident tuition rates for the summer semester with the resident tuition rates for the spring and fall semesters at the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2068 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of a certain number of housing units. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2105 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes students who are individuals from a COFA nation, refugees, or special immigrant visa holders to qualify for the resident tuition fee within the University of Hawaii system, under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2314 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Director of Transportation to establish and implement a Digital Identification Pilot Program. In coordination with the counties and various agencies, requires the Director of Transportation to submit a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2986 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires retail crediting for energy exports enrolled in grid services programs, whereby energy exported to the electrical grid past a participating customer-generator's point of common coupling from photovoltaic solar systems paired with battery sto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2148 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts persons engaging in aquaculture research from the aquarium fish permit requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
The recommendation was not adopted. |
| HI | SB2346 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct a voluntary firearm buyback program in each county of the State. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect 1/1/2042. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2307 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with various agencies and upon request of the inmates, to assist inmates in obtaining the inmates' civil identification card, birth certificate, social security card, and oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2444 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the installation of a new outdoor emergency siren in the Pacific Palisades area of Oahu. Declares that the general expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 1/1/2042. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3210 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Department of Education school bus contracts to include provisions that require contractors to prioritize the use of motor vehicles that do not require those drivers to hold a commercial driver's license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
