| HI | SB2601 | Pass | Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse committed on or after July 1, 2024, may be initiated. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on trauma-informed response. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 250, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1355). |
| HI | SB2532 | Pass | Clarifies that the definition of "dwelling", as it relates to offenses against property rights, includes multi-unit buildings and connected parking or storage areas that are restricted to residents. Allows the owner of a multi-unit building, an owner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 240, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1345). |
| HI | SB2557 | Veto | Allows a court to appoint an attorney for the subject of a petition for assisted community treatment if the interests of justice require one be appointed. Repeals language that entitles the subject of a petition for assisted community treatment to le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Vetoed on 07-09-24 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1363). |
| HI | SB2845 | Pass | Prohibits a person from selling ammunition to a person under the age of twenty-one. Prohibits a person under the age of twenty-one from owning, possessing, or controlling ammunition, with exceptions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 248, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1353). |
| HI | SB2085 | Pass | Establishes the Office of the State Fire Marshal within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to be headed by a State Fire Marshal. Exempts the State Fire Marshal from Civil Service Law. Requires the State Fire Council to establish the ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 209, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1310). |
| HI | SB2182 | Pass | Amends the persons required to collect the Ocean Stewardship User Fee. Extends the sunset date of the Ocean Stewardship Special Fund to 1/1/2031. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 214, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1315). |
| HI | SB2347 | Pass | Establishes the offense of habitual violent crime. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to submit a report to the Legislature before the Regular Sessions of 2025 and 2026. Requires the prosecuting attorney of each county to submit data to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 213, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1314). |
| HI | SB2721 | Pass | Clarifies the penalties for violations of ocean recreation laws. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 215, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1316). |
| HI | SB3364 | Pass | Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to develop destination management action plans for each county and to perform specific actions in each plan. Expands the powers and duties of the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Repeals the exemption of the Hawaii Tour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 225, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1326). |
| HI | SB2079 | Pass | Allows the State of Hawaii Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 196, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1297). |
| HI | SB2350 | Pass | Establishes a separate prohibition on driving motor vehicles with noisy mufflers on public highways in high density population areas. Establishes separate fines for violations of motor scooter and motor vehicle muffler laws. Defines "high density pop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 171, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1272). |
| HI | SB2401 | Pass | Requires the Department of Agriculture to work with each county to implement feral chicken control programs and feeding of feral animals education campaign. Requires each county to match the funds expended by the Department of Agriculture for the imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 185, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1286). |
| HI | SB2526 | Pass | Requires the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group to assist the Office of Enterprise Technology Services in working with certain state agencies to inventory and categorize the business criticality of each major state information technology...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 173, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1274). |
| HI | SB2715 | Pass | Makes it unlawful for an employer to discharge, discipline, or otherwise penalize or threaten any adverse employment action against an employee because the employee declines to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting that communicates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 174, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1275). |
| HI | SB2819 | Pass | Requires vehicles traveling ten miles per hour or more below the posted speed limit on a two-lane highway, behind which five vehicles are formed in a line, to pull over where possible to let the trailing vehicles pass or overtake. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 175, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1276). |
| HI | SB2943 | Pass | Establishes a commercial drivers workforce working group within the Department of Transportation to address the workforce shortage of commercial drivers in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 177, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1278). |
| HI | SB3011 | Pass | Makes it unlawful for any person to operate a weed whacker in or within one hundred feet of a residential zone, subject to certain exceptions. Extends the time for the use of leaf blowers and weed whackers within or near residential zones. Provides e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 179, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1280). |
| HI | SB2070 | Pass | Exempts career and technical education goods and services purchases by the Department of Education from the State Procurement Code. Requires the Department of Education to acquire three written quotes for career and technical education purchases that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 150, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1251). |
| HI | SB2245 | Pass | Adds a definition for "exigent circumstances" and amends the definitions of "harm" and "imminent harm" under the Child Protective Act. Clarifies when the police may take protective custody of a child and when the Department of Human Services may assu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 144, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1245). |
| HI | SB2305 | Pass | Establishes a Silver Alert Program within the Department of Law Enforcement to help locate and safeguard missing persons who are sixty-five years of age or older, cognitively impaired, or developmentally disabled. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 158, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1259). |
| HI | SB2475 | Pass | Establishes a harm to students registry, for all early learning programs or schools and K-12 educational institutions within the State, that contains information on school employees, contractors, or volunteers for whom, as result of an investigation,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 156, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1257). |
| HI | SB2497 | Pass | Repeals the provision that made references to the base amount in the Internal Revenue Code inapplicable to the research activities tax credit and allowed credits for all qualified research expenses to be taken without regard to previous years' expens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 139, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1240). |
| HI | SB2718 | Pass | Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to admit and consider hearsay evidence. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 141, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1242). |
| HI | SB2991 | Pass | Requires the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to adopt rules establishing criteria and procedures for the creation of new bargaining units. Requires certain employees or any employer or exclusive representative proposing a new bargaining unit to submit a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 143, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1244). |
| HI | SB2974 | Pass | Establishes a Business Revitalization Task Force within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to identify methods to improve Hawaii's general economic competitiveness and business climate, including the mitigation of regulator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 142, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1243). |
| HI | SB3207 | Pass | Removes the salary cap of the Superintendent of Education. Makes permanent the annual performance evaluation requirements for the Superintendent of Education. Takes effect 6/29/2024. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 149, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1250). |
| HI | SB3305 | Pass | Requires all public charter schools that exclusively offer prekindergarten programs to adhere to the public charter school law, with certain exceptions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 154, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1255). |
| HI | SB2937 | Pass | Repeals the sunset date for the exemption of laboratory school programs of the Hawaiian language college at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from state English-medium standards, assessments, performance ratings, staff qualifications, and staff traini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 127, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1228). |
| HI | SB2119 | Pass | Authorizes out-of-state pharmacies to transfer prescription information for the initial fill of an out-of-state prescription in the State. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 096, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1197). |
| HI | SB2476 | Pass | Authorizes licensed dental hygienists to perform preventive dental sealant screenings and apply dental sealants on individuals, under certain conditions, in a school-based oral health program. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 097, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1198). |
| HI | SB3312 | Pass | Adopts, establishes, and designates the shaka as the official gesture of the State. Authorizes the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to develop a public work of art related to the shaka and its history to be displayed in a prominent location i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 085, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1186). |
| HI | SB2725 | Pass | For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023, adds a definition for "qualified member" and repeals the definitions for "direct member" and "indirect member" as used in the State's passthrough entity taxation election law. Amends the passthrough entit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
Act 050, 06/19/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1150). |
| HI | SR2 | Pass | Urging This Body To Endorse The Participation Of Taiwan As An Observer In The United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change, International Civil Aviation Organization, World Health Organization, And International Criminal Police Organization;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SCR2 | Pass | Endorsing The Participation Of Taiwan As An Observer In The United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change, International Civil Aviation Organization, World Health Organization, And International Criminal Police Organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SB2600 | Pass | Authorizes the use of electronic mail to deliver certain documents when purchasing a condominium. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Act 044, 05/30/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1144). |
| HI | SCR23 | Pass | Urging The Department Of Health To Amend The Hawaii Administrative Rules To Authorize Licensed Dietitians To Prescribe Modified Diets And Plan Therapeutic Diets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SR15 | Pass | Urging The Department Of Health To Amend The Hawaii Administrative Rules To Authorize Licensed Dietitians To Prescribe Modified Diets And Plan Therapeutic Diets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SR17 | Pass | Encouraging The United States Navy To Eradicate Octocoral And Other Invasive Species From Pearl Harbor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SCR34 | Pass | Requesting The Hawaii Medical Association And Hawaii Psychiatric Medical Association To Convene A Roundtable To Establish Medical Protocols To Ensure That An Individual's Thyroid Function Is Tested Before Psychotropic Medications For Mental Illness A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SR39 | Pass | Requesting The Legislative Reference Bureau To Conduct A Study Of A Continuous Legislative Session, Extending The Legislative Session, And Adding Additional Recess Days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SR27 | Pass | Urging The Members Of Hawaii's Congressional Delegation To Introduce Legislation To Expand The National Flood Insurance Program To Include Lava And Earthquake Insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SR69 | Pass | Urging The Office Of Enterprise Technology Services To Improve The State Of Hawaii's Open Data Portal By Increasing And Expanding The Data Sets Available On The Open Data Portal, Centralizing All Open Data Sets Of All State Departments Onto The Open ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SR56 | Pass | Requesting Businesses In Hawaii To Use Hawaiian Language And Requesting The Department Of Education To Develop And Implement Education Programs To Teach Employees Hawaiian And Hire Permanent Hawaiian Language Teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SCR85 | Pass | Urging The Department Of Transportation To Install Speed Bumps And Speed Limit Signage On The Portion Of Kapolei Parkway Between Kapolei High School And Kapolei Middle School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SR71 | Pass | Urging The Department Of Transportation To Install Speed Bumps And Speed Limit Signage On The Portion Of Kapolei Parkway Between Kapolei High School And Kapolei Middle School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SR63 | Pass | Requesting The Department Of Health To Conduct A Feasibility Study On The Implementation Of Continuous Monitoring And Sampling Technologies In Waste Combustion Facilities And Municipal Solid Waste Landfills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SR55 | Pass | Urging The Legislature To Preserve, Protect, And Restore Limu Kala.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SR73 | Pass | Urging The Department Of Hawaiian Home Lands To Adopt And Implement A Neighborhood Security Watch In Each Homestead Area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SR75 | Pass | Requesting That The Hawaii State Energy Office And Office Of Planning And Sustainable Development Develop A Plan To Implement Waste-to-energy And Other Alternative Technology Solutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SR94 | Pass | Demanding The Department Of Accounting And General Services To Develop A Comprehensive Recycling Program, With Specific Focus On The Collection Of Hi-5 Recyclable Items, To Be Implemented In All Offices At The Hawaii State Capitol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
