| HI | SB2521 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB3274 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB2451 | Intro
25% | Directs the Hawaii State Energy Office, in conjunction with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, to develop and submit an interim and final strategy report to the Legislature for the construction of at least one atmospheric carbon capture plant in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2039 | Intro
25% | Repeals vehicle license recovery fees. Takes effect 1/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2355 | Intro
25% | Allows a letter of attestation to the Director of Finance to act as an endorsed certificate for motor vehicle transfer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB462 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB2332 | Intro
25% | Requires the Judicial Council to conduct a comprehensive review of the Hawaii Penal Code and to recommend proposed changes. Requires the Judicial Council to appoint an advisory committee to assist in the review, and allows the Council to also appoint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2021 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to conduct a study identifying certain state-owned lands located within a one-half mile radius of any rail mass transit station, including lands owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and excluding lands ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2525 | Intro
25% | Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to address carbon emissions. Incrementally increases the tax rate over time. Establishes a refundable tax credit to mitigate the effect of a carbon emissions tax on taxpayers. Requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2005 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB3252 | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3276 | Intro
25% | Requires the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax to be pro-rated if the vehicle is rented or leased for a portion of the day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3272 | Intro
25% | Requires insurance providers to give written notice of policy cancellations or nonrenewal through certified mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3275 | Intro
25% | Increases the liquor tax and adjusts it for future inflation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3273 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to develop strategies for vehicle miles traveled reduction in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3318 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health, for all eligible participants in the District Court Jail Diversion Program, to conduct an initial screening for possible serious mental illness; a mental health assessment for all eligible participants indicated as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2014 | Intro
25% | Beginning October 1, 2024, requires that all cartridges for electronic smoking devices and solutions for filling or refilling an electronic smoking device to be in child-resistant packaging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2689 | Intro
25% | Creates a state-initiated process to expunge records of arrests and convictions pursuant to section 712-1249, Hawaii Revised Statutes, at no cost to the record holder. Requires the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to submit biannual reports to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2138 | Intro
25% | Requires that each vote cast for a question on a ballot for the ratification of a constitutional amendment be counted in the negative only if the ballot properly indicates that the vote is in the negative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2015 | Intro
25% | Amends the priority for which moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund are to be used.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2136 | Intro
25% | Establishes fees that medical providers may charge for medical records and imposes civil penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2140 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from charging any fees on a transient accommodation or resort time share vacation interest, plan, or unit that were not disclosed before the time of purchase. Requires a person to clearly and conspicuously display in each adverti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2628 | Intro
25% | Renames the Department of Law Enforcement to the "Department of the State Sheriff". Renames the Director of Law Enforcement to "State Sheriff" and deputy directors to "undersheriffs". Establishes an assistant position to be designated by the State Sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2524 | Intro
25% | Prohibits users of algorithmic decision-making from utilizing algorithmic eligibility determinations in a discriminatory manner. Requires users of algorithmic decision-making to send corresponding notices to individuals whose personal information is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2519 | Intro
25% | Requires persons under the age of seventeen to wear a helmet while riding a skateboard. Clarifies that the Act does not infringe on county ordinances prohibiting skateboards on streets and roadways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2632 | Intro
25% | Requires insurers that issue motor vehicle insurance to notify the Insurance Commissioner when the insured or insurer cancels or fails to renew a policy or that the insurer issues a policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2629 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to make phone calls free for incarcerated persons who have been convicted or are detained and awaiting a verdict.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2786 | Intro
25% | Beginning on 7/1/2024, requires that the state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes not exceed $1,136...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2679 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB2750 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB2681 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB2748 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to develop and implement a statewide internet and mobile phone-based hazard tracking system that includes notifications, warnings, maps, weather, and related resources about various hazards in the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2691 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products and mislabeled e-liquid products that contain nicotine. Repeals language making the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices a statewide concern and preempting county ordinan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2785 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB2749 | Intro
25% | Excludes xylazine testing strips from the definition of "drug paraphernalia". Requires the administrator of the narcotics enforcement administration to make an emergency scheduling by placing xylazine into schedule III on an emergency basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2760 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each have one vote if they have employees in a particular bargaining unit for the purposes of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. Repeals staf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2928 | Intro
25% | Beginning September 30, 2028, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to annually calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate to within the nearest twenty-five cents using the Urban Hawaii Consumer Price index to take effect on January ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2929 | Intro
25% | Lowers the blood alcohol concentration threshold for driving while under the influence of alcohol from 0.08 to 0.05.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2931 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Sheriff Division within the Department of Law Enforcement. Specifies the responsibility of the Department of Law Enforcement's Sheriff Division regarding judicial and legislative security.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2388 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Employees' Retirement System from acquiring securities of companies that have active business operations with Russia or Belarus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2383 | Intro
25% | Repeals the fuel tax credit for commercial fishers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2389 | Intro
25% | Allows for the establishment of additional regional centers for the redemption of refillable beverage containers. Repeals exemptions for certain beverage dealers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2394 | Intro
25% | Adds a minimum penalty of $50 and a maximum penalty of $60,000 per violation of the State Water Code, expands the types of potential violations of the State Water Code, and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2455 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish the Graffiti Task Force within the Department of Law Enforcement to identify ways to reduce graffiti in Hawaii. Declares that the general services fund ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2452 | Intro
25% | Restricts the use of solitary confinement in state-operated and state-contracted correctional facilities, with certain specified exceptions. Prohibits the use of solitary confinement and requires the use of appropriate alternatives for committed pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2456 | Intro
25% | Includes the prevention of activities within an applicant's premises and adjacent areas that are potentially injurious to the health, safety, and welfare of the public and neighborhood as a factor for determining whether a controlled substances regis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2393 | Intro
25% | Proposes to amend article XVI, section 3, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to more closely reflect the language of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. (ConAm)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2390 | Intro
25% | Defines "isolated wetlands" and "wetlands". Clarifies the definition of "state waters" to include wetlands and isolated wetlands. Requires the Director of Health to determine all wetlands in the State, including whether a wetland is an isolated wetla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2382 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of the Attorney General to assist with the preparation and filing of petitions for assisted community treatment and with the presentation of the case, unless declined by the petitioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2391 | Intro
25% | Removes the exemption of the State, political subdivisions, and United States from the child labor law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
