| HI | SB1143 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of transportation to perform routine inspections of highways in the state highway system that are at risk of rockslides every five years and after major rainfall events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB923 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a person from lending a firearm to a person who does not have a firearm permit or does not have a registered firearm. Requires an adult who is borrowing a firearm to have either a firearm permit or a registered firearm, and not be prohibite...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB723 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, or operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers. Increases the amounts of fines for offenses against leaf blower restrictions and provides for the forfeiture of gasoline-powered leaf blowers on a third violation. Rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB353 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that when trespass involves public land, all state and county law enforcement officers are authorized to and shall enforce trespass laws, without regard to whether the land is owned by the State or by a county. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB992 | Enroll
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from 70 to 75 years of age. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB348 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits public funding to beach replenishment projects in resort zoned areas to twenty per cent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB1051 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes state-licensed and credentialed physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants, who are not physically in the State, to issue prescriptions for certain controlled substances under a limited circumstance. Authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB168 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to post on its website an easily understandable, searchable, and sortable list of all state-licensed care facilities including information on their licenses and inspections. Requires that the list be updated within f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB8 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all state agencies adopting, amending, or repealing a rule to make the full text of the rules of the agency available on the website of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor in a digitally accessible and searchable format.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1008 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a state carbon emissions tax of $6.25 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions on all aviation fuel. Directs the aviation fuel tax into the airport revenue fund. Implements a tax credit to mitigate the effects of this tax on lower incom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB340 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units without regard to civil service law. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB679 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an oral health task force to review the status of oral health in the State and make recommendations to improve oral health infrastructure in Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB15 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Director of Transportation to adopt rules that regulate and limit noise from vessels at harbors, ports, roadsteads, docks, wharves, piers, quays, bulkheads, and landings of the State. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB1212 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits any campaign website for any candidate or candidate committee from containing information or manipulating content in any manner that is designed to induce a noncandidate committee to use that content to make expenditures supporting the cand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB607 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard for the purposes of providing instructional materials to eligible students in a timely manner and requires the Department of Education to coordinate with the National Instructional Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB632 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a 5-year pilot program within the Department of Health to eradicate feral chickens in the State. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit a special local need registration to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes clear criteria for unpaid student internship programs under the state wage laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to provide employees with written notice of the employee's shift schedule at least ten calendar days before the employee is scheduled to work, under certain circumstances. Requires certain employers to pay their employees twice as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB341 | Intro
Sine Die | Inserts unspecified amounts for minimum required liability coverage for accidental harm and destruction of property for motor vehicle insurance policies in the State. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB3 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows surviving immediate family members of deceased persons for whom law enforcement initiated an investigation to receive a copy of the closing report prepared by the investigating police department after a specified period of time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1081 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the safe routes to school advisory committee within the Planning Branch of the Highways Division of the Department of Transportation. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB905 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires periodic inspections of certain walls and appurtenances of buildings five or more stories in height. Establishes procedures for inspections, preparing inspection reports, and responding to report findings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB745 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes a mandatory $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB113 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that calculations to determine whether a non-perishable good labeled "Hawaii Made" has met the requirement that at least 51% of the wholesale value of the product is added by production within the State include operating and overhead expens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB496 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products and the mislabeling of e-liquids as nicotine free. Authorizes the department of health to appoint, commission, or contract for services of inspectors. Establishes two full-time equivalent program specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB380 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits digital application developers and digital application distribution platforms from increasing the price of a digital application subscription plan that is automatically billed to the user's account without obtaining the user's written conse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1483 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits cyber harassment and cyberstalking. Allows for civil liabilities and injunctions for cyber harassment and cyberstalking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1445 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms the amount allowable for the Hawaii expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment tax credit to the credit amounts allowed in the federal tax code. Increases the low-income household renters' income tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB927 | Enroll
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to specify that reapportionment shall be based on the resident population, as counted in the decennial United States census for the respective reapportionment year, rather than the permanent resident population. (S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB285 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates within the Department of Health's wastewater branch a cesspool conversion section, which will be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent posi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB149 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a continuous Legislature. Requires the Legislature to convene at least once a month. Removes language regarding special sessions, adjournment, and recesses. Creates a two-year deadline for a bill to be submitted for gubernatorial consider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB980 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes standards of conduct for firearm industry members. Authorizes the attorney general or any county attorney or public prosecutor to bring a civil action against a firearm industry member for violation of standards of conduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to provide employees the right to sit at work when standing is not necessary. Establishes fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to establish and operate a child care center pilot program on Oahu for eligible children of state employees, one in or near the state capitol and one in Kapolei. Appropriates funds. Repeals o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB56 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the use of broadband audible reverse warning systems (back-up beepers) on state and county-owned vehicles purchased on or after 1/1/2026. Authorizes the Director of Transportation to provide an exemption in the event broadband sirens are una...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB13 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the Interstate Compact to Phase Out Corporate Welfare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB499 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the conviction of a crime by a person holding a license to practice professional engineering, architecture, land surveying, or landscape architecture in the State, that is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, and dut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB424 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of renewable energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts any county from disapproving or imposing certain conditions on a housing development project or an emergency shelter unless the county meets certain requirements. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB4 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definitions of the terms "billboards" and "outdoor advertising device" and the acts included in the phrases "displaying an outdoor advertising device" and "maintaining a billboard" as used in state law that governs county licenses for o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the governing body of a county to create, by ordinance, a process for the recordation and enforcement of solar easements. Allows counties to require individuals claiming a solar easement to record that easement by filing a declaration with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB918 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes notice requirements for employers under Hawaii's Workers' Compensation Law. Requires employers who deny the compensability of an employee's injury to submit a written report supporting the denial to the Director of Labor and Industrial Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1481 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes conditions for the importation of fireworks. Authorizes the county fire departments to inspect warehouses, piers, cargo, baggage, and personal effects of persons arriving in the State to ascertain if they contain any fireworks. Requires i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB421 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for the Department of Transportation to assist and enable a person to voluntarily purchase a verified carbon offset for carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the person's air travel to or from an airport in the State. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB917 | Enroll
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to provide that freedom of speech protected under the Hawaii State Constitution does not include the expenditure of money to influence elections. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB171 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the state income tax rate by five per cent for taxpayers in the highest income bracket for six years. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB612 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that a written disclaimer be provided by sellers or providers of emotional support animals or certificates or identification tags for emotional support animals that the animal is not a service animal or the item does not qualify as an item f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB1167 | Enroll
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to protect an individual's reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, including the right to abortion and contraceptives. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB850 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
