| HI | SB945 | Veto | Beginning 1/1/2024, establishes within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Division of Financial Institutions a program for the licensure, regulation, and oversight of special purpose digital currency companies. Extends operations of comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-07
Vetoed on 07-07-23 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1363). |
| HI | SB1166 | Pass | Allows for the renewal of driver's licenses online in addition to by mail. Effective 7/1/2025. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-06
Act 243, 07/06/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1346). |
| HI | SB478 | Pass | Repeals chapter 440J, HRS, relating to telecommunications and cable industry information reporting requirements for broadband service providers. Makes conforming amendments. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-05
Act 194, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1297). |
| HI | SB691 | Pass | Allows the chief energy officer of the Hawaii state energy office to enforce minimum efficiency standards and adopt or amend efficiency standards. Sets minimum efficiency standards for portable electric spas, residential ventilating fans, toilets, ur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-05
Act 224, 07/05/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1327). |
| HI | SB746 | Pass | Expands the coffee labeling and advertising requirements to include ready-to-drink coffee beverages and the inner packages and inner wrapping labels of roasted coffee, instant coffee, and ready-to-drink coffee beverages. Specifies that the coffee lab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-07-05
Act 211, 07/05/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1314). |
| HI | SB732 | Pass | Designates the second Monday in October of each year as Indigenous Peoples' Day. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Act 152, 06/29/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1255). |
| HI | SB944 | Pass | Requires the Department of the Attorney General to convene a task force to recommend amendments to update existing parentage laws that reflect outdated concepts of families, parenthood, conception and gestation, and parental rights. Requires an inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-30
Act 156, 06/29/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1259). |
| HI | SB404 | Pass | Makes various updates to the Hospital Sustainability Program, including amending the definition of "private hospital"; clarifying the uses of the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund; increasing various hospital sustainability fee caps; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Act 110, 06/22/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1211). |
| HI | SB674 | Pass | Adopts the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact to create a comprehensive process that complements the existing licensing and regulatory authority of state medical boards and provides a streamlined process that allows physicians to become licensed in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-22
Act 112, 06/22/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1213). |
| HI | SB865 | Pass | Establishes the Ninety-Nine Year Leasehold Program to develop low-cost residential condominium units on state-owned and county-owned land in urban redevelopment sites to be sold in leasehold by the Hawaii Community Development Authority to qualified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-21
Act 097, 06/21/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1198). |
| HI | SB712 | Pass | Establishes a trauma-informed certification program at the Windward Community College campus of the University of Hawaii for adult corrections officers. Requires the curriculum to include a level I trauma-informed care course designed for adult corre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Act 078, 06/14/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1179). |
| HI | SB1267 | Pass | Expands the jurisdiction for where petitions for domestic abuse protective orders and temporary restraining orders may be filed. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-14
Act 081, 06/14/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1182). |
| HI | SB821 | Pass | Establishes the Illegal Fireworks Task Force within the Department of Law Enforcement to stop the importation of illegal fireworks and explosives into the State, promote compliance with the fireworks control laws, and ensure the safety and security o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-07
Act 067, 06/07/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1167). |
| HI | SB975 | Pass | Establishes the offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products. Includes electronic smoking devices and e-liquids under the definition of "tobacco products" for purposes of the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Amends the license and permit fees f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-06
Act 062, 06/06/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1162). |
| HI | SB1230 | Pass | Prohibits firearms in certain locations and premises. Requires possession and disclosure of a license to carry. Prohibits leaving an unsecured firearm in a vehicle unattended. Prohibits consuming or being under the influence of alcohol, an intoxicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-02
Act 052, 06/02/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1152). |
| HI | SB435 | Pass | Orders the person or firm found to be in violation of the state law governing wages and hours of employees on public works to be jointly and severally liable for the penalty, with the penalty increasing for repeat violations. Requires each notice of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-01
Act 051, 06/01/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1151). |
| HI | SCR28 | Pass | Designating The Month Of March As Hawaii Kidney Awareness Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-22
Certified copies of resolutions sent. |
| HI | SR132 | Pass | Urging The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Revise The Prioritization And Evaluation And Ranking Criteria For Its Allocation Of Low-income Housing Tax Credits And Awards From The Rental Housing Revolving Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-22
Certified copies of resolutions sent. |
| HI | SCR162 | Pass | Requesting The Office Of Planning And Sustainable Development To Convene A Multiagency Working Group To Identify Sites That Have The Collective Capacity To Accommodate Ten Thousand New Homes Per Year, For The Next Fifty Years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-22
Certified copies of resolutions sent. |
| HI | SR188 | Pass | Requesting The Office Of Planning And Sustainable Development To Convene A Multiagency Working Group To Identify Sites That Have The Collective Capacity To Accommodate Ten Thousand New Homes Per Year, For The Next Fifty Years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-22
Certified copies of resolutions sent. |
| HI | SB63 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the board of nursing to issue temporary permits for six-month periods to out-of-state licensed practical nurses and registered nurses or who hold a multistate license issued by another state, territory, or foreign country, under certain ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HI | SB75 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to inventory historic properties and burial sites in the State, collect data on burial site locations, and conduct an archaeological surface survey. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 5:00PM in conference room 229. |
| HI | SB398 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Human Services to collect and analyze data to determine the impact of expanding post-permanency services to families receiving benefits from the adoption assistance program and report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-28-23 at 04:30pm in Conference Room 309. |
| HI | SB397 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to increase medicaid payments to eligible health care providers in the State up to one hundred per cent of the current medicare fee schedule rates. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-28-23 at 04:40pm in Conference Room 329. |
| HI | SB445 | Engross
50% | Increases civil penalties for the violation of various pollution provisions. Establishes and appropriates funds for an environmental health specialist position within the clean water branch of the department of health. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309. |
| HI | SB682 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, display for sale, trade, or distribution of certain animal fur products in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309 |
| HI | SB1068 | Engross
50% | Includes in the State's policies for the physical environment under the Hawaii State Planning Act, the promotion of statewide beach assessments and beach and shoreline adaptation, restoration, and conservation and the pursuit of compatible relationsh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 5:00PM in conference room 229. |
| HI | SB1473 | Engross
50% | Requires DOH, DHS, and DOE to research rules, policies, and plan amendments necessary to ensure that medically necessary services, including applied behavior analysis services, for individuals twenty-six years of age or younger with neurodevelopmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-28-23 at 04:40pm in Conference Room 329. |
| HI | SB86 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, to update the State Agriculture Functional Plan to include other agricultural economic updates that expand the State's priority on food b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 2:30PM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB627 | Engross
50% | Allows an election candidate, treasurer, or candidate committee to use campaign funds for the candidate's child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 1:45PM; Conference Room 325. |
| HI | SB735 | Engross
50% | Exempts the instream use of water for commercial kalo cultivation conducted in a manner consistent with traditional and customary Native Hawaiian practices and on traditional kalo lands from the existing process for the disposition of water rights. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 9:45AM in conference room 229. |
| HI | SB62 | Engross
50% | Reestablishes the Hawaii medical education special fund. Appropriates funds into and out of the Hawaii medical education special fund to the John A. Burns School of Medicine for graduate medical education and training programs, to create more residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-27-23 2:00PM; Conference Room 229. |
| HI | SB1442 | Engross
50% | Establishes positions within the Office of the Governor to be responsible for the deployment of the capital improvement funds appropriated by this Act. Appropriates funds for the ohana zones pilot program for expenses relating to operations, upkeep o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-23 10:35AM; Conference Room 224. |
| HI | SB477 | Engross
50% | Requires the public utilities commission to make every effort to complete its review for a merger, consolidation, acquisition, or other change of control and issue a decision within nine months or twelve months from the date of a completed applicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 976). |
| HI | SB449 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the department of business, economic development, and tourism for the governor to plan and coordinate the festival of pacific arts and culture to be held in Honolulu from 6/6/2024 to 6/16/2024. Requires the department of busines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 840). |
| HI | SB586 | Engross
50% | Conditions the issuance of a certificate of inspection upon a vehicle not being equipped with a noisy muffler or exhaust system. Requires rules regarding safety check inspections to ensure that a motorcycle, moped, or motor vehicle is not equipped wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 976). |
| HI | SB587 | Engross
50% | Increases the fines for violating provisions relating to the installation of noisy exhaust pipes and mufflers. Authorizes police officers to conduct examinations and inspections if the officer has probable cause to believe that a vehicle's excessivel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 976). |
| HI | SB438 | Pass | Reduces the period for which an application shall be considered abandoned from two years to one year. Specifies the conditions under which applications for licenses and examinations will be deemed abandoned. Provides that the one-year period after wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-20
Act 021, 04/19/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1121). |
| HI | SB699 | Engross
50% | Establishes a state capitol tours program within the office of the governor. Establishes two full-time equivalent positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-20
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 915). |
| HI | SB731 | Pass | Designates November 28 of each year as La Kuokoa, Hawaiian Independence Day, to celebrate the historical recognition of the independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-20
Act 011, 04/19/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1111). |
| HI | SB784 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of transportation to establish and implement a two-year airline subsidy pilot program at Molokai airport to assist airlines in offsetting the costs of operation. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 7/1/2025. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-20
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 915). |
| HI | SB299 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the legislature, upon the agreement of form by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate, to specify the form in which the proposed budgets of the executive branch, judicial branch, and office of Hawaiian ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 904). |
| HI | SB1196 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that the authorization for board and commission holdover members to continue in office until a successor is nominated and appointed, but not beyond the end of the second regular legislative session following the expiration of the member's t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-18
Senate Conferees Appointed: McKelvey Chair; Rhoads Co-Chair; Awa. |
| HI | SB303 | Engross
50% | Appropriates operating and capital improvement grants for fiscal year 2023-2024. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 891). |
| HI | SCR4 | Engross
50% | Requesting The Legislative Reference Bureau To Conduct An Analysis Of The Regulation And Licensure Of Associate Physicians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SCR131 | Engross
50% | Requesting The Regulated Industries Complaints Office To Report The Itemized Total Amount Of Fines Or Judgments Collected And Uncollected Each Year, And To Include That Information In The Director Of Commerce And Consumer Affairs' Annual Compliance R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SCR83 | Engross
50% | Authorizing The Issuance Of A Term, Non-exclusive Easement Covering A Portion Of State Submerged Lands At Kaneohe, Koolaupoko, Oahu, For The Existing Boat Ramp And Concrete Wall, And For Use, Repair, And Maintenance Of The Existing Improvements Const...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SCR130 | Engross
50% | Urging The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Revise The Prioritization And Evaluation And Ranking Criteria For Its Allocation Of Low-income Housing Tax Credits And Awards From The Rental Housing Revolving Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SCR118 | Engross
50% | Requesting The Legislative Reference Bureau To Research The Designation Of November 20th Of Each Year As Makahiki Commemoration Day, Which Is Requested To Be Recognized As An Unpaid State Holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs 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] | 2023-03-29
To House Finance Committee |
