| HI | SB2171 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a general excise tax exemption on gross proceeds received from the construction, sale, or installation of electrical vehicle charging infrastructure in certain circumstances. Repeals on 1/1/2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2164 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the Department of Land a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2173 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the ability for a Mayor or the Governor to suspend electronic media transmission during a state of emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2169 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts medical and dental services provided by health care providers to patients who receive Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE benefits from the general excise tax. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2154 | Intro
Sine Die | Before the transfer of non-agricultural park lands, authorizes the Department of Agriculture to request information from the Department of Land and Natural Resources related to the establishment of necessary and reasonable easements upon the lands. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2168 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes a person or entity liable for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when the person or entity knowingly enters state, county, or private property, knowingly enters a hiking trail that is closed to the public, or violates applicable laws...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2160 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Sustainable Food Systems Working Group within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop a plan for a more sustainable, resilient local food economy and to report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to establish ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2144 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the position and the Office of the State Fire Marshal. Establishes the duties of the State Fire Marshal. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2166 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Visitor Impact Special Fund to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Appropriates funds for the Visitor Impact Special Fund and establishment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2163 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the continuation of the Green Jobs Youth Corps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2179 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation to implement the recommendations of the statewide Mobility Management Task Force established pursuant to Act 214, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, in consultation with the Aging and Disability Resour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2146 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the conditions, manner, and areas in which the Commission on Water Resource Management of the Department of Land and Natural Resources can declare and provide notice of water shortages and emergencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2189 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a person who employs or contracts with a health care worker who suffers an act of violence to report the event to law enforcement and petition for a temporary restraining order and injunction under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2030 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State Building Code Council to assess the financial impact of the adoption of a code or standard on single-family and multi-family homes. Requires the State Building Code Council to also include amortized utility costs when adopting code...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2024 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an organizational, tax, and regulatory framework for limited-profit housing associations. Establishes the Limited-Profit Housing Council to oversee limited-profit housing associations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2006 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each county to allow a developer undertaking an adaptive reuse office conversion project to comply with the International Building Code with respect to provisions concerning ventilation and lighting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2036 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Legislative Reference Bureau to propose and conduct a study of a housing savings account system. Authorizes the Legislative Reference Bureau to contract for services to develop the proposed system and program and conduct a study. Makes an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2031 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts any building code with an official publication date within four years of the previous code publication date from certain adoption requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2010 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires each public school and public charter school in the State to employ, or retain under contract, at least one mental health professional for every two hundred fifty students enrolled, subject to certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2025 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates certain restrictions for developing state-owned real property located within one-half mile radius of any station along the elevated mass transit system. Permits high-density development of state-owned real property located within one-half ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2016 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2023 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning on January 1, 2025, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2041 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that in evaluating and determining the award for redevelopment of state or county lands through competitive sealed bidding or competitive sealed proposals, the number of housing units proposed in conjunction with project design and financial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2001 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of behavioral health, including mental health wellness, in grades kindergarten through twelve.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB996 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of 1,000,000 or more gallons of water per year for recreational or ornamental purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1247 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to enter into a publicprivate partnership to develop a waste-to-energy generating facility. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the penalty for sex trafficking shall be payment of a fine of no less than $50,000 but no more than $100,000, and a definite term of imprisonment of up to 20 years without the possibility of a suspended sentence, probation, or parole. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a defendant who has been convicted of three misdemeanors in the Ewa Beach area, Kapolei area, or Waianae area to be sentenced to a probationary term of geographic restriction during which the defendant shall be prohibited during certain hours ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB621 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that Hawaii is a "constitutional carry" state. Repeals the licensing procedure set forth in section 134-9, HRS, under which county police chiefs have the discretion to decide whether an applicant may receive a license to carry, concealed or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires for each draft environmental assessment and draft environmental impact statement a public hearing in the community directly affected by the underlying proposed action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB623 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii low-income home energy assistance program within the Department of Human Services to assist low-income households in paying their energy bills. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to assess ratepayers a percentage fee to f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB617 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all United States military reservations and military training facilities in the State to display the Hawaiian flag.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB273 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands coverage of breast cancer screening and imaging to include an annual mammogram for a woman of any age having an above-average risk for breast cancer, risk factor screening for women 30 years of age and older, and additional supplemental imagi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB258 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a special intergovernmental task force to eradicate illegal gambling and drug activities and to establish community safe zones across the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB257 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the abolishment of any state public service position that remains vacant for longer than 2 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB242 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a statutory right of victims and witnesses of sexual offenses under part V of chapter 707, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to a speedy trial in criminal cases involving adult defendants. Requires the court and the prosecution to take appropriate act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB256 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation a current and returning resident down payment program to provide matching funds for the down payment on a primary residence. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends various definitions of "moped" throughout the Hawaii Revised Statutes to exclude low-speed electric bicycles. Deletes an unused term from Chapter 286, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Establishes regulations for low-speed electric bicycles and clarifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB903 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of the Attorney General to establish and support a restorative justice program that, in collaboration with the prosecuting attorney of each county, offers restorative justice opportunities in each county to allow victims and o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1610 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for qualified media facilities and infrastructure projects. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Increases the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit for qualified productions that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB615 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each public or public charter school to have staff trained in the administration of, and authorized to administer, epinephrine. Requires signs to be displayed in school buildings stating the symptoms of anaphylaxis and the proper method for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB253 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits nonresident aliens and businesses and trusts that are significantly controlled by nonresident aliens from acquiring certain residential property in the State, except as otherwise provided by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any procurement change order that increases the contract cost by more than fifty per cent or substantially increases the scope of work be considered a new contract for procurement purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB733 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the office of Hawaiian affairs to conduct a feasibility study on establishing Native Hawaiian cultural centers within the State. Requires the Office to submit a report of its study findings and recommendations to the legislature. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties, before implementing any new mass transit fare or increasing any existing fare to first seek revenues from alternative sources, including transit-based advertisements. Requires a county that decides, after seeking alternative re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the county police departments to purchase and deploy explosion detection technology to assist in the location of and response to explosions caused by the illegal use of firearms and fireworks. Appropriates moneys to the counties as a grantin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1248 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires developers of housing projects that are exempt from certain laws to enter into profit-sharing agreements with the tenants of those properties. Applies to new housing projects approved after July 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the rounding up for teachers' salaries special fund, to be administered by the Department of Education. Requires electric utilities and county boards of water supply to provide an option for customers to voluntarily round up their bill to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties, before implementing any new mass transit fare or increasing any existing fare to first seek revenues from alternative sources, including transit-based advertisements. Requires a county that decides, after seeking alternative re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB274 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to transfer the Ewa Beach Public and School Library from the State Public Library System to James Campbell High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
