| HI | SB2094 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to establish a one-year pilot program to allow inmates incarcerated at the Women's Community Correctional Center to foster pets while incarcerated. Requires DCR to submit a report to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2288 | Engross
50% | Requires that travel reports submitted by state employees, officers, or other representatives of state departments or agencies, in connection with out-of-state or intra-state travel for purposes of official state business, be made available for publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2977 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the imposition of a penalty for unlicensed individuals performing certain work that requires a contractor license, including the offering or performing of repairs or improvements to existing structures and property and tearing down or rebu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2072 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Health to require the Department of Education to report coronavirus disease 2019 potential outbreaks or other public health emergencies and related information in a manner most appropriate to public health and safety, as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3363 | Engross
50% | Provides that a living beneficiary's place on the Department of Hawaiian Home Land's waiting list for any residential, agricultural or pastoral tract may be designated for transfer to a successor if the living beneficiary dies before receiving an off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3332 | Engross
50% | Delays filing an action for summary possession for certain tenancies affected by the eviction moratorium contained in certain emergency proclamations issued by the Governor. Effective 7/1/2040. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2474 | Engross
50% | By 1/1/2027, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2028, requires the Department to start ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2501 | Engross
50% | Requires the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to prioritize the protection of exceptional trees from invasive species. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB2945 | Engross
50% | Establishes a Task Force to conduct a statewide study on the accessibility of ignition interlock devices and any national best practices. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | SB2091 | Engross
50% | Requires all telecommunications service providers to communicate relevant information relating to the deenergization of electrical lines to public safety or emergency response offices for the affected areas. Requires all electric utilities to operate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2092 | Engross
50% | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to direct each electric utility company in the State to file proposals for programs to provide certain benefits to residential property owners in fire-prone areas that install electric infrastructure improveme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2011 | Engross
50% | Allows the construction of multi-family dwelling units on any lot within certain designated county zoning districts, subject to reasonable standards adopted by each county. Takes effect 4/14/2112. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2492 | Engross
50% | Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multistate Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multi-state licensure privilege in each party state, effective 1/1/2026. Beginning 1/1/20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB2762 | Engross
50% | Prohibits a landlord from renting or leasing, or offering to rent or lease, a dwelling unit in a rent-controlled county at a rate that exceeds the rate established by resolution adopted by the appropriate county council, subject to certain exceptions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2850 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to appoint an organization as the limited owner of a cemetery, under certain circumstances, for the purposes of filing complaints and engaging in certain security and perpetual care activities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2890 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to develop or license cloud-based software for use by each state department or agency to track the status of its capital improvement projects and provide training for the software. Requires e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2911 | Engross
50% | Designates certain snail species as official state snails.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2904 | Engross
50% | Amends emergency management law to protect tenants, mortgagors, consumers, and residents for certain periods of time after the issuance of a gubernatorial or mayoral emergency proclamation. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB3217 | Engross
50% | Requires the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund base composite monthly contribution to be adjusted annually beginning 1/1/2025 by increasing the contribution in effect on 1/1/2024 by 5.2 per cent, and thereafter based on the changes in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB494 | Engross
50% | Requires the counties to establish expedited procedures to approve demolition permits for vacant residential properties. Allows the Department of Taxation to satisfy certain tax liens through the nonjudicial foreclosure of vacant and abandoned reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB755 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB861 | Engross
50% | Directs the Legislative Reference Bureau to propose and conduct a study of a housing savings account system. Authorizes the Legislative Reference Bureau to contract for services to develop the proposed system and program and conduct a study. Appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB756 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB298 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB853 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB867 | Engross
50% | Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale in perpetuity to buyers who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants, and do not own any other real property. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB1046 | Engross
50% | Amends the vehicle weight tax exemption for noncommercial vehicles by adding an exemption for certain veterans. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | SB1145 | Engross
50% | Requires that Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing projects include a restrictive covenant that states that the units designated as affordable housing, as described in the submitted project application, shall remain as affordabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB302 | Engross
50% | Temporarily reinstates the technology infrastructure renovation tax credit. Expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers. Requires a report from the department of taxation analyzing the tax implications for sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB763 | Engross
50% | Temporarily exempts affordable housing projects under certain circumstances from specific state and county fees and exactions related to discretionary approval or ministerial permitting, except fees and costs payable to the Hawaii Housing Finance and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB395 | Engross
50% | Requires a seller or its agent in a residential real property transaction to disclose to prospective buyers that the United States Postal Service is unable to deliver mail or packages to the location of the residential real property being offered for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB434 | Engross
50% | Requires sponsored captive insurance companies to maintain separate protected cells for separate participant contracts. Authorizes captive insurance companies to apply for an exemption from examination from the insurance commissioner; provided that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB498 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Shipping Container Inspection Program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Amends the definitions of "aerial devices" and "fireworks" within state fireworks law. Requires reports to the Legislature on implementation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | SB733 | Engross
50% | Requires the office of Hawaiian affairs to conduct a feasibility study on establishing Native Hawaiian cultural centers within the State. Requires the Office to submit a report of its study findings and recommendations to the legislature. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1112 | Engross
50% | Prohibits bans on dwelling unit rentals having a term between one and five months for inter-island relocations and temporary workers. Authorizes county councils to adopt any ordinances necessary to implement the prohibition by 6/30/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB292 | Engross
50% | Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's variance reports accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals. Effective 6/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1577 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to make all business registration applications available online. Requires all applications to contain certain contact information. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB283 | Engross
50% | Excludes from the charter school per-pupil funding calculation all amounts relating to programs that provide comparable benefits for all public school students regardless of whether the student is a Department of Education school student or a public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB340 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units without regard to civil service law. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB278 | Engross
50% | Requires certain public buildings near mass transit projects and on Hawaiian home lands to display portraits of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB420 | Engross
50% | Establishes the sustainable food systems working group within the department of agriculture. Requires the working group to submit a plan, any recommendations for implementing the plan, and any proposed legislation to the legislature. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1569 | Engross
50% | Establishes a temporary Telework Working Group. Requires interim and final reports to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1040 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to establish the native Hawaiian supportive housing pilot program on the Leeward Coast of Oahu to provide individual or shared micro housing units and services to native Hawaiian beneficiaries who are ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB74 | Engross
50% | Establishes additional exclusions from the definition of "development" as it applies to special management areas to reduce the need for special management area permits for certain activities. Repeals the 7,500 square foot threshold for single-family ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB730 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to restore and restock fishponds by providing fingerlings and limu and establishing one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) aquaculture coordinator biologist VI position. Effective 6/30/30...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB409 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB293 | Engross
50% | Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's program memoranda accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals. Effective 6/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1038 | Engross
50% | Temporarily allows for the reimbursement of services provided through telehealth via an interactive telecommunications system and two-way, real-time audio-only communications in certain circumstances. Defines "interactive telecommunications system". ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB1486 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness; Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife; and Department of Health, Food Safety Branch; and in consultati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB391 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii community colleges' workforce development programs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
