| HI | SB2521 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for 4.0 FTE deputy public defender III positions within the Office of the Public Defender (BUF151). Requires the Office of the Public Defender to assign one deputy public defender II to the family court section. Declares that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2723 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2823 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a blue ribbon committee within the Department of the Attorney General to analyze the Hawaii Administrative Rules and identify any rules that are not supported by statutory authority. Requires each state agency to cooperate with the blue r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2903 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits public entry into wildfire-affected areas for the purpose of habitation until the Department of Health provides notice that the wildfire-affected area is safe to enter for this purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3277 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a determination of ineligibility for tenant applicants for any program under the Hawaii Public Housing Authority law due to an eviction unless a writ of possession was issued and served as a result of the proceeding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB3274 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a felony offense where the property owner has been convicted of an underlying felony offense. Directs forfeiture proceeds to the general fund. Amends the allowable expenses for mon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | 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 | SB2064 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation the right of first refusal for the development of property for all development on state lands, excluding the Stadium Development District and lands under the Hawaii Public Housing Authorit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2635 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for operational expenses, including the hiring of staff. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | 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 | 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 | SB2042 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires counties to grant building permits within sixty days if the application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other certain conditions are met. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2534 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a condominium unit owner, resident, tenant, or their guests, or any person acting on behalf of the unit owner, from harassing or interfering with board members, managing agents, resident managers, association employees, or vendors contracte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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 | SB2528 | Intro
Sine Die | Disallows dividends paid deduction for real estate investment trusts, except for real estate investment trusts that provide affordable housing in the State. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024. Sunsets 12/31/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB3257 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the establishment of a One-Stop Student Service Center at each University of Hawaii campus with student enrollment greater than five thousand students beginning in the Fall 2025 semester. Requires that services provided by the One-Stop Stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2435 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to administer an undivided interest Lease Award Program for beneficiaries on the homestead lease waiting list who are sixty years old or older or terminally ill, under certain conditions. Requires the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2609 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases from $2,000 to $2,240, the minimum amount of guaranteed compensation required for an individual employed by and an employer who is exempt from the State's Wage and Hour Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2647 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the allowable loan term for direct loans provided by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to forty years, instead of thirty years, as currently outlined in section 215 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended. Takes effect on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2655 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Hawaiian Homes Commission to retain independent legal counsel. Authorizes the Hawaiian Homes Commission to use the services of the Attorney General as needed. Provides that funds owed to independent legal counsel shall be paid by the Hawai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2780 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to complete an interactive digitized beneficiary assessment and report on the feasibility of creating an interactive digital database software program. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2646 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the loan limit for direct loans provided by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to 75% of the maximum single residence loan amount allowed in Hawaii by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's Federal Housing Admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2921 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the appropriation of Act 279, SLH 2022, to conform its lapsing provision by 1 year, to conform to constitutional limitations. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for fiscal year 2024-2025 to give practical effect to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | SB462 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of interest in real property that is exempt from attachment and execution. Amends the value of personal property that is exempt from attachment and execution, including increasing the exemption amount for a motor vehicle. Exempts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary 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 | 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 | SB2552 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the law enforcement standards board to develop training materials related to the recognition and signs of Alzheimer's disease and related types of dementia. Requires law enforcement officers to review training materials for at least 1 hour p...
[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 | 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 | 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 | SB2672 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the state librarian to decline to conduct a requested review of an item within the Hawaii State Public Library System collection if the item was previously reviewed by the system in good faith, the basis for the request is duplicative or s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2049 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a five-year pilot program to allow qualified psychologists limited authority to prescribe psychotropic medications to patients under the care of the psychologist at a federally qualified health center. Requires a report to the Legislature...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2005 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to construct a mental health facility for inmates or detainees with mental health needs. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2462 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the functions of the State Health Planning and Development Agency. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Establishes positions. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2490 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each county to adopt, no later than June 30, 2025, ordinances applicable to subdivisions not approved by July 1, 2025, requiring as a condition of approval, the subdivider or developer to obtain a street address and install a mailbox for lot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2573 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an owner or operator of a solid waste electric generating facility to ensure that each incinerator operating as part of the facility has implemented air pollution controls sufficient to limit the emissions of nitrogen oxides, mercury, dioxin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2745 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation shall not tow vehicles operated by persons found to have committed certain traffic infractions unless a citation was issued no less than 24 hours befo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Water and Land 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 |
| HI | SB3249 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires retail merchants to accept cash payments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3252 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3233 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a statute of repose for land surveyors, after which time a complaint cannot be made.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3255 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies certain administrative rules of the Department of Land and Natural Resources regarding permits to destroy or control harmful feral pigs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
