| HI | SB2717 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Accounting and General Services to employ persons exempt from civil service and collective bargaining requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2883 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to ensure that inclusive curricula are available to all students at public schools. Makes it a discriminatory practice to refuse to approve, remove, or prohibit the use or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2848 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows direct shipment of beer and distilled spirits by certain licensees. Requires the Liquor Commission of each county to adopt rules and regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2679 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to create and distribute to the parents and guardians of students a firearms access prevention and secure storage model notice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2724 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make restitution in the form of financial support t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2852 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a two-year senior access pilot program in the Executive Office on Aging to improve access to essential services and reduce wait times for seniors seeking public services through state and county government offices. Requires the Auditor to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2750 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes state policy to promote braille literacy for blind students. Requires the individualized education programs of blind students to include the instruction of Braille and provision of Braille instructional materials under certain circumstanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2704 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits civil asset forfeiture unless the covered offense is a felony for which the property owner has been convicted. Excludes the forfeiture proceedings for an animal pending criminal charges. Requires the Attorney General to deposit the net proc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2884 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the basis to marriage shall not be denied or abridged on the basis of race or sex.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2776 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State to pay, without delay, military personnel called to active duty at the same rate as their active duty counterparts and provide basic housing allowance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2696 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes standards for the collection, sale, and destruction of consumer health data by regulated entities and small businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2807 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an annual tax credit for qualified physicians who actively practice medicine in rural areas of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2795 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with other state agencies, to develop and implement a plan to expand the meat processing capacity in the State to allow for meat from axis deer and other wild game to be processed for distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2796 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health, to the extent allowable under federal law, to prioritize the use of water pollution control revolving fund moneys for projects by homeowners to upgrade cesspools to director-approved wastewater systems or connect ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2681 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends chapter 127A, HRS, to clarify State and local authority. Prohibits the Governor or Mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital specifics during a state of emergency. Clarifies that powers granted for emergency purposes shall not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2700 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires manufacturers of certain products and appliances to make available to any applicable product or appliance owners, service and repair facilities, and service dealers, on fair and reasonable terms, the documentation, parts, and tools used to d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2851 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases from $800 to $1,600 the amount of death benefits paid by the Department of Human Services to cover the cremation and disposition costs for a deceased person who was eligible for medical or financial assistance at the time of the person's de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2844 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes critical infrastructure information from disclosure requirements under the Uniform Information Practices Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2882 | Intro
Sine Die | Relaxes the requirements for prescribing certain controlled substances as part of gender-affirming health care services. Expands the protections established under Act 2, SLH 2023, to include gender-affirming health care services. Clarifies jurisdicti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2785 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires the Department of Human Services to perform ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2778 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the composition of the Board of Agriculture by providing representation from the islands of Molokai and Lanai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2820 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits DAGS to employ persons exempt from civil service and collective bargaining.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2864 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to develop a safe parking program allowing unsheltered persons who sleep in their vehicles to park overnight on state lands. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2887 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits health maintenance organizations from discriminating against certain health care providers that meet the terms and conditions for participation established by the health maintenance organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2670 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to implement a process to allow students to use preferred names to strengthen inclusivity in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2774 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Health, a three-year Cesspool Conversion Financial Assistance Pilot Program to provide financial assistance to owners of cesspools located in the county of Maui to upgrade or convert their cesspools to a wastewate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2793 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the position and duties of the State Fire Marshal. Declares that the appropriation will cause the general fund expenditure ceiling to be exceeded. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2678 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds and pursuing all other funding sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2865 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates November 19 of each year as Laura Blears Day in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2788 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to achieve the full funding, including estimated payment increases, of Medicaid home- and community-based services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2792 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to develop a plan that creates an educational pathway in the University of Hawaii community college system that equips interested students with the necessary entry level knowledge, skill set, expertise, and advancement pot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2800 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to require the teaching of financial literacy to be included in the existing personal transition plan requirement for each student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2703 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a person selling ammunition to require the buyer to provide proof of a valid firearm registration together with a government-issued identification. Prohibits sellers of ammunition from selling ammunition to a buyer of a caliber not compatibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2915 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the department of land and natural resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule deemed necessary to protect certain aquatic life. Expands the board of land and natural resources' authority to temporarily adopt, amend, or repeal certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2912 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the department of land and natural resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule deemed necessary to protect certain wildlife. Expands the board of land and natural resources' authority to temporarily adopt, amend, or repeal certain nat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2914 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to improve the State's water resource management and hydrologic data collection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2940 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes provisions for minimum pay for employees who have canceled shifts or reduced work hours at a business establishment with fifty or more employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2926 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that housing projects financed by funds from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund remain affordable in perpetuity, regardless of redevelopment. Allows the RHRF to be used to finance and guarantee loans for the development of rental projects tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2941 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes provisions for unemployment benefit rights when claimants are unemployed due to a strike or industrial controversy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2095 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits persons from receiving compensation for advising or assisting with veterans benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2437 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State Building Codes to incorporate the International Green Construction Code. Sets specified targets for the recycling, reuse, donation, and resale of nonhazardous construction waste.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2441 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to amend the definition of "lineal descent", in HAR, to allow applicants to better claim lineal descent status to remains found at burial sites.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2446 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the governor for the ohana zones pilot program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2398 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a court to order the forfeiture of all of the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) benefits of an ERS member, former member, or retirant upon conviction of the individual for a felony related to the state or county employment of the individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2402 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates November 22 of each year as "Kimchi Day" in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2248 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes qualifying patients and qualifying out-of-state patients to transport cannabis between islands of the State for personal medical use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2244 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's State Rent Supplement Program for Kupuna to provide homeowners insurance premium assistance to housing owners who rent or lease to qualified kupuna a mortgaged property located within certain lava zones, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2249 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes additional penalties for dog owners whose dog destroys property while on land zoned for agricultural use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2247 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 who assumes protective custody of a child who is subject to immediate harm while in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2242 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning 1/1/2025, requires homeowners insurers to establish a loss-control program aimed at reducing the risk of the loss or mitigating damage to the insured property caused by the peril of fire, including fire caused by wildfire, lava, or both, wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
