| HI | SB669 | Engross
50% | Establishes regulations for the cultivation, manufacture, sale, and personal use of small amounts of cannabis. Decriminalizes and regulates small amounts of cannabis for personal use. Establishes taxes for cannabis sales. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB684 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB428 | Engross
50% | Requires each county to develop a comprehensive integrated wastewater management plan and financial strategy. Requires each county to submit its respective plan and financial strategy to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB863 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Corporation and the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Special Fund for the purpose of enhancing credit and guaranteeing and insuring loans made by private financial institutions to developers of res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB681 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 24th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1210 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 |
| HI | SB747 | Intro
25% | Prohibits using geographic origins of coffee in labeling or advertising for roasted or instant coffee that contains less than a certain percentage of coffee by weight from that geographic origin, phased in to a minimum of fifty-one per cent after 7/1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1263 | Intro
25% | Requires commercial ocean operators who take customers into state waters to engage in recreational activities to have at least one individual aboard the vessel who is rescue diver or lifeguard certified by a nationally recognized certification organi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB309 | Intro
25% | Redefines historic property to mean buildings and structures that are over 100 years old.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land 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 | SB1528 | Intro
25% | Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose or obtain an abortion or to choose to obtain or use contraceptives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB685 | Intro
25% | Establishes the misdemeanor offense of brandishing a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB429 | Intro
25% | Requires that cesspools within five hundred feet of certain bodies of water be upgraded, converted, or connected if sold or transferred on or after 1/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB476 | Engross
50% | Exempts a public utility from the required public utilities commission authorization when disposing at a loss or donating a fully depreciated asset or property with a zero net book value that is no longer used or useful. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB881 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the development and construction of permanent supportive housing for certain vulnerable individuals. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1199 | Intro
25% | Lengthens the time period in which certain vehicles must have a safety inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB490 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement to hire law enforcement officers dedicated to investigating complaints, conducting investigations, and cooperating with enforcement authorities to ensure compliance with state laws and rules, co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1055 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the practice of election fraud intimidation includes, among other actions (1) The carrying of any firearm or weapon and (2) The act of photographing the face of any voter without permission from both the voter and an appropriate electi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB820 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract reviews of certain proposed projects that may affect historic properties, aviation artifacts, or burial sites to third-party consultants if the department will not be able to complete ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB896 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a covered entity from disclosing communication or information relating to reproductive health care services. Prohibits the issuance of a subpoena in connection with an out-of-state proceeding relating to reproductive health care services le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB650 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for an aquaculture park that promotes commercial aquaculture expansion. Requires a report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB468 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules to prevent and respond to the introduction of aquatic nuisance species from discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel and reflect the relationship between the fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB860 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Housing Savings Account System for all employees in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB1014 | Engross
50% | Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to retain independent legal counsel where the opposing party to the reasonably anticipated litigation is the State or another state agency. Provides that fees owed to independent legal counsel shall be pai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1571 | Intro
25% | Allows direct shipment of all forms of liquor, rather than just wine, by certain licensees. Requires the county liquor commissions to adopt rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB883 | Intro
25% | Establishes the crime of possession of a firearm in a sensitive location as a class C felony. Imposes a duty to inform law enforcement upon contact on concealed and unconcealed carry permit holders. Defines sensitive location.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1484 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expend the moneys from the State Parks Special Fund for programs aimed at environmental protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB670 | Intro
25% | Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multi-state 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB673 | Engross
50% | Establishes a terminally ill qualifying patient medical cannabis use working group to study the feasibility of the medical use of cannabis by terminally ill qualifying patients in health care facilities. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB1491 | Intro
25% | Prohibits, with certain exceptions, any state agency or political subdivision from providing private information regarding, or authorizing an arrest warrant based on, the receipt or provision of, or assistance with, reproductive health care services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1122 | Engross
50% | Requires nominees for the position of Deputy Director, First Deputy, or Deputy Chair, as the case may be, of principal departments and multiple deputy directors; first deputies; deputy chairs, as the case may be, for each department that has multiple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian 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] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB407 | Intro
25% | Establishes a definition for "immediate harm" and amends the definition of "imminent harm" for the purpose of the Child Protective Act. Requires a police officer to assume protective custody of a child without a court order or consent of the child's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB954 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii to provide menstrual products free of charge to all students on any University of Hawaii campus, including the community colleges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB1231 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | SB1120 | Engross
50% | Requires the State Art Museum to provide opportunities for the counties and private organizations located in Hawaii to display art through loan arrangements with the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts under the Arts in Public Places Program. Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB440 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Health to approve in-vehicle receipt of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products on the premises of dispensaries subject to Administrative Rules adopted by the Department of Health. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB689 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for the Hawaii State Loan Repayment Program administered through the John A. Burns School of Medicine, subject to a matching funds requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB375 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis Authority within the Department of Health to adopt rules to regulate responsible, adult-use of cannabis in the State. Establishes that possession of cannabis by an adult in the amount of four ounces or less without a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB1031 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources' state historic preservation division for a library digitization process and for the division's operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB96 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Aquaculture Development Branch within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the rights, powers, functions, duties, employees, and other capital of the Aquaculture and Livestock Services Branch of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB687 | Engross
50% | Increases the amount of malt beverages, wine, and alcohol that a small craft producer pub licensee may produce during the license year. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB305 | Intro
25% | Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB59 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for its manufacturing assistance programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB442 | Engross
50% | Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses, in addition to physicians, to practice medical aid in dying in accordance with their scope of practice and prescribing authority. Authorizes psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners, in addition to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB436 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support and expand the mental health technician certificate of competence program through the hiring of a mental health technician certificate of competence program coordinator, establishment of a scholarship program, and defray...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB598 | Intro
25% | Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs 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 |
