| HI | SB2119 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2066 | Enroll
75% | Establishes another means for a housing project to seek an exemption from laws and rules of the State that are developed under various programs of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2079 | Enroll
75% | Allows the State of Hawaii Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2133 | Enroll
75% | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to issue bonds for housing project infrastructure and finance the development of regional state infrastructure projects. Exempts bonds issued by HHFDC for improvements by assessments, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2085 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2070 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2132 | Enroll
75% | Amends the deadline related to the repair of conditions that constitute health or safety violations. Increases the amount deducted from a tenant's rent for the tenant's actual expenditures to correct health or safety violations and defective conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2182 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2347 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2305 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2350 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2401 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2476 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2497 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2600 | Enroll
75% | Authorizes the use of electronic mail to deliver certain documents when purchasing a condominium. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2532 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2557 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2721 | Enroll
75% | Clarifies the penalties for violations of ocean recreation laws. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2845 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2715 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2718 | Enroll
75% | Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to admit and consider hearsay evidence. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2819 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2841 | Enroll
75% | Designates May 15 of each year as Water Safety Day. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2991 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2974 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB3011 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB3312 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB3305 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-03
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2475 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2526 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2601 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2725 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2943 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2937 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB3207 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB3364 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-05-02
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2159 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, to prepare a report on freshwater and saltwater aquatic organisms regarding their agricultural and economic impact on the State's food se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-26-24 5:30PM in conference room 325. |
| HI | SB2322 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Health to continue water sampling and analysis of Tier 1 beaches during brown water advisories, with certain exceptions and under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 4:25 PM; CR 329. |
| HI | SB2362 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for statewide research into ornamental ginger pathogens, prevention of the spread of ornamental ginger pathogens, production and distribution of pathogen-free ornamental ginger plants, and outreach to ornamental producers. Effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-26-24 3:30PM in conference room 325. |
| HI | SB2345 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Law Enforcement to coordinate crisis intervention training for state and county law enforcement agencies. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 4:45 PM; CR 016. |
| HI | SB2556 | Engross
50% | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 5:40 PM; CR 325. |
| HI | SB2615 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the counties to require contractors to disclose information regarding its employees' wages, benefits, hours, and employment status and deny, revoke, or suspend a building permit application for violating laws relating to wages, benefits, h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 5:20 PM; CR 016. |
| HI | SB3344 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund and Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund Corporation to provide compensation for property damage resulting from catastrophic wildfires in the State. Requires the Corporation's board to report to the Legislature. Mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 816). |
| HI | SB2245 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-23
Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2354 | Pass | Expands the definition of "beer" under the intoxicating liquor law to mean any alcoholic beverage containing not less than 0.5% alcohol by volume obtained by fermentation of any infusion or decoction of malt or any substitute, including alcohol seltz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Act 009, 04/19/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1109). |
| HI | SB2405 | Engross
50% | Allows campaign funds to be used for a candidate's child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 690). |
| HI | SB2143 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Wildfire Management Branch of the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Forestry and Wildlife to provide nonprofit organizations with grants for wildfire preparedness and mitigation programming. Effective 7/1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 684). |
| HI | SB2308 | Engross
50% | Authorizes additional fines and penalties for convictions of speeding in a school zone. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678). |
| HI | SB2553 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out. Repeals an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678). |
| HI | SB2170 | Engross
50% | Establishes a new regulatory framework for combat sports contests in Hawaii by establishing the Combat Sports Commission of Hawaii and repealing existing law governing mixed martial arts contests in Hawaii. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 673). |
