| HI | SB2522 | Engross
50% | Allows persons convicted of certain criminal violations to apply to the court for an expungement order under certain circumstances. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2692 | Engross
50% | Establishes requirements and penalties for owners of dangerous dogs. Allows for impounding of dangerous dogs under certain conditions. Takes effect 1/1/2025. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2686 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the State's Address Confidentiality Program protection for public servants that prohibits upon written request from the public servant or representative any person or organization from disclosing certain personal information. Estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3316 | Engross
50% | Requires quarterly rather than annual reporting of all use of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | SB2690 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant or habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant from purchasing or publicly consuming alcohol for a certain period. Takes effect 1/1/205...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| HI | SB2684 | Intro
25% | Creates penalties relating to the fighting of birds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2139 | Intro
25% | Establishes provisions regarding the fees and other costs charged to reproduce certain government documents during a nationally declared disaster. Requires the Office of Information Practices to adopt certain rules regarding the fees and other charge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB367 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of tickets at higher price than the original price charged by the primary venue ticket provider. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2037 | Intro
25% | Designates the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice of every year as the Lunar New Year. Establishes the Lunar New Year as a state holiday. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1580 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Health, the Health Care Facilities Labor Standards Working Group to research, assess, and make recommendations on the best practices in labor standards that can be implemented at hospitals, care homes, and dialysi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2783 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for Medicaid coverage under the Children's Health Insurance Program for income-qualified pregnant persons and children, regardless of immigration status. Declares that the general fund expenditur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3209 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Education for the establishment of seven full-time equivalent (7.0 FTE) positions and additional program costs for the expanded teacher cohort program to fulfill the requirements of A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3317 | Intro
25% | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate assistants employed by the University of Hawaii and community college system. Takes effect 7/1/2055. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3315 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to use consistent units of measurement in its summary to the public on the amounts of restricted use pesticides used. Establishes a one-half mile buffer zone for pesticides around schools and state and county pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB760 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Psychology to grant prescriptive authority to qualified psychologist applicants statewide. Requires a report to the Legislature. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2752 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Office of Elections Statewide Elections Accessibility Needs Advisory Committee to provide voter education and outreach services for individuals with accessibility needs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2930 | Intro
25% | Extends, under certain conditions, the family leave period that employees are entitled to under state law for up to eight additional weeks for employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the birth of a child who is required to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2454 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain entities from distributing unsolicited mail that is reasonably likely to cause the recipient to believe that a governmental agency has approved of the distribution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2680 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the charging of a fee for a lessee's spouse by a lessor under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3200 | Intro
25% | Establishes under the Department of Health a Smoking Sensor Rebate Program, which offers a rebate for installation of smoking sensors to detect smoking within smoking-prohibited areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
The committee on HHS deferred the measure. |
| HI | SB2026 | Intro
25% | Requires the Director of Finance to consider, before the selection of a depository for the state treasury, the beneficial effects to the State of using depositories within the State, including but not limited to lending at favorable terms for the cre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2457 | Intro
25% | Provides that the Liquor Commission or other licensing agency of each county shall deny the renewal of certain current liquor licenses upon receipt of sufficient protests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2395 | Intro
25% | Requires the Judiciary to establish a Compliance Credits Pilot Program for probationers that comply with their conditions of supervision. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2627 | Intro
25% | Requires that any new contract entered into by the Office of Elections for equipment or services relating to preparing ballots or counting votes include the capability to randomize the names of candidates appearing on the ballot if technologically po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2751 | Intro
25% | Establishes accessibility standards for the distribution of public documents and media presentations by boards as defined in section 92-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2688 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Access Hawaii Advisory Committee to advise the Access Hawaii Committee on how to improve accessibility to government information for people with diminished access to government information arising from disabilities. Requires the Acces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2135 | Intro
25% | Expands eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to include any individual or household whose monthly income is equal to or less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2784 | Intro
25% | Repeals the authority of employers to pay tipped employees less than the minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3213 | Intro
25% | Requires one per cent of the transient accommodations tax be allocated to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for the purposes of building affordable housing for individuals on the DHHL waiting list.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2034 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's and Hawaii Public Housing Authority's projects to develop housing exclusively for qualified residents. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1208 | Intro
25% | Increases the income thresholds and credit amounts of the income tax credit for low-income household renters by using tax brackets individuals and different categories of households. Annually adjusts the income thresholds and credit amounts for infla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2396 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the distribution of electioneering communications before an election that a person knows or should have known are deceptive and fraudulent deepfakes of a candidate or party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2386 | Intro
25% | Establishes presidential preference primary elections for the 2028 election cycle. Takes effect 6/1/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2523 | Intro
25% | Requires the Judiciary to conduct a study to determine how to implement a program that provides free child care services to minor children of parties and witnesses who are attending court hearings in the First Circuit Family Court. Requires the Judic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2241 | Intro
25% | Requires each cannabis dispensary to enter into a labor peace agreement that protects the State's proprietary interests by prohibiting the applicable labor organization from engaging in picketing, work stoppages, or boycotts against the establishment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| 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 |
