| HI | SB1511 | Veto | Clarifies the purpose of the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii and that its undertakings shall be limited to acts that are reasonably necessary to carry out its purpose. Repeals the requirement that the University of Hawaii contract wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Vetoed on 07-09-24 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1361). |
| 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 | SB2787 | Pass | Establishes within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Office of Community Services the Immigration Services and Access Unit. Makes appropriations for the unit, including funding for new positions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 207, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1308). |
| HI | SB2782 | Pass | Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to develop multilingual accessibility standards. Appropriates funds to establish one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) position to develop multilingual accessibility standards within the Office of En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 203, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1304). |
| 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 | SB795 | Pass | Requires productions to provide evidence of reasonable efforts to comply with all applicable requirements to qualify for the Motion Picture, Digital Media, and Film Production Income Tax Credit. Requires taxpayers be given notice of and an opportunit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 169, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1270). |
| HI | SB2413 | Pass | Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report to the Legislature on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 181, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1282). |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB2289 | Pass | Requires the Department of Health to include in its annual report regarding Kalaupapa Settlement details and updated information, as available, regarding the permanent transfer to other governmental or qualified non-governmental entities of the power...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 118, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1219). |
| HI | SB2536 | Pass | Establishes a new accounting services procurement preference for certain Hawaii accounting service businesses and adds it to the list of selection criteria for the procurement of professional services. Clarifies that the existing reciprocity procurem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 113, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1214). |
| HI | SB3279 | Pass | Establishes within the Office of Wellness and Resilience the State of Well-Being Project to assess and enhance Tier 1 and Tier 2 mental health support services for all key stakeholder communities across the State. Makes appropriations to implement th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 106, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1207). |
| HI | SB2287 | Pass | Requires the Information Technology Steering Committee to assist the Chief Information Officer to develop a plan to enhance the mobile application developed to enable the public to access the State's website. Requires the Chief Information Officer's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 082, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1183). |
| 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 | SB2537 | Pass | Clarifies that the Chief Energy Officer is responsible for supporting the renewable portfolio standards and reporting on certain energy matters. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-21
Act 055, 06/20/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1155). |
| HI | SB2919 | Pass | Clarifies the counties' authority to regulate the time, place, manner, and duration in which uses of land and structures may take place. Clarifies that uses that include the provision of transient accommodations are not considered residential uses an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Act 017, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1117). |
| HI | SB2927 | Enroll
75% | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii relating to the appointment of justices and judges. Makes the appointment and senate consent procedure for district court judges the same as the appointment and senate consent procedure f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | SB2885 | Engross
50% | Establishes a working group to develop a Homeless Triage and Treatment Center Program within the Statewide Office of Homelessness and Housing Solutions in the Department of Human Services. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 4:55 PM; CR 329. |
| 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 | SB2605 | Engross
50% | Beginning 1/1/2026, requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 722). |
| 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 | SB2286 | Engross
50% | Permits the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to enter into contracts with eligible employers or registered apprenticeship programs in the private sector to provide on-the-job training to eligible interns. Requires the Department of Human ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678). |
| HI | SB2291 | Engross
50% | Establishes advisory boards, focused on workforce development, for the Agribusiness Development Corporation, Hawaii Technology Development Corporation, and Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678). |
| 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 | SB2546 | Engross
50% | Requires hunting guides who take their clients to hunt on private lands to first obtain written permission from the owner of the private land, or occupier or holder, where appropriate. Requires hunting guides to provide copies of the written permissi...
[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 | SB3194 | Engross
50% | Authorizes independent generators of renewable energy to wheel the renewable electricity they produce to users of renewable energy under policies and procedures established by the Public Utilities Commission, should the Public Utilities Commission de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB1488 | Engross
50% | Requires the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, in consultation with livestock industry stakeholders, to conduct a study to assess the effects of heat stress on beef cattle during interisland ocean transportatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB1016 | Engross
50% | Expands the definition of "private entity" to include business organizations that are authorized to transact business in the State, including nonprofit management entities that have a certificate of need or license to operate one or more community ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB156 | Engross
50% | Requires the Board of Education to hold no less than six community forums annually, with at least one community forum in each county. Requires the Board to include an open forum for public comments on non-agenda items. Requires a report to the Legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB782 | Engross
50% | Establishes and appropriates funds for a grant program in the Department of Agriculture to provide grants to taro farmers in meeting the costs of cultivating taro for consumption. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB781 | Engross
50% | Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distribu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB1442 | Engross
50% | Establishes positions within the Office of the Governor to be responsible for the deployment of the capital improvement funds appropriated by this Act. Appropriates funds for the ohana zones pilot program for expenses relating to operations, upkeep o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB797 | Engross
50% | Specifies that primary plan documents be listed in the public disclosure statement of a time share plan. Specifies when supplementary plan documents are to be considered primary plan documents subject to disclosure. Clarifies the manner in which the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB667 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the application of the general excise tax law with regard to gross income derived from unrelated trade or business activities of nonprofit organizations. Effective 6/30/3000. Sunsets 12/31/2028. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB735 | Engross
50% | Exempts the instream use of water for commercial kalo cultivation conducted in a manner consistent with traditional and customary Native Hawaiian practices and on traditional kalo lands from the existing process for the disposition of water rights. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB155 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii Maui college's office of international and regional partnerships for students to participate in study abroad programs. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB3265 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Film Advisory Council. Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit to: (1) Clarify and amend the requirement for an independent third-party certification; (2) Expand the definition of "qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3237 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to designate certain species as pests, and periodically update taxa designated as pests, for control or eradication and develop and implement a control or eradication program for each designated pest but, if the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3335 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis and Hemp Authority and Cannabis and Hemp Control Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning 1/1/2026, legalizes the personal adult use of canna...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2942 | Engross
50% | Allows minors under the age of sixteen to work in theatrical employment provided that the employer procures a valid certificate of employment and the minor is accompanied by a parent, guardian, or a certain responsible adult. Requires a nurse certifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3360 | Engross
50% | Amends the Renewable Fuels Production Tax Credit by establishing an additional credit for renewable fuels, including sustainable aviation fuels, produced from renewable feedstock locally grown or recycled in the State; amending the amount of the cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB775 | Engross
50% | Requires hunting guides who take their clients to hunt on private lands to first obtain written permission from the owner, occupier, holder, or duly appointed agent of the private land, where appropriate. Requires hunting guides to provide copies of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB299 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the legislature, upon the agreement of form by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate, to specify the form in which the proposed budgets of the executive branch, judicial branch, and office of Hawaiian ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB784 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of transportation to establish and implement a two-year airline subsidy pilot program at Molokai airport to assist airlines in offsetting the costs of operation. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 7/1/2025. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB786 | Engross
50% | Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter an area closed to the public or hiking on a trail closed to the public, and ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
