| HI | SB3134 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to implement a post-market testing program to verify the labeling on cannabis and manufactured cannabis products and monitor the shelf lives of cannabis and manufactured cannabis products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3057 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the department of planning for each county to approve a variance for the installation of solar water heater systems. Authorizes the department of planning for each county to impose and collect fees for the administration of the solar water hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3073 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the means of financing for a portion of funds appropriated for deposit into the school facilities special fund to expand pre-kindergarten student capacity within the State from general funds to general obligation bond funds. Extends the lapse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3080 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the Public Utilities Commission under the Universal Service Program may provide, and may use funds from the Universal Service Fund to provide, free telecommunications access to certain individuals with a print disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3107 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to assume historic preservation review of the effect of any proposed project for lands under its jurisdiction except for projects affecting properties listed or nominated for inclusion in the Hawaii regist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3046 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's Homebuyers' Club Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB3106 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chairperson's designee to the Commission on Water Resource Management. Increases number of commission members from seven to eight, with only five of eight required to have substantial exper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3149 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhances sharing of critical infrastructure information between infrastructure owners and operators and the state government. Defines and protects "critical infrastructure information" that is crucial for direct support of the security and resilience...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3136 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a travel placard to be issued to an existing permittee, allowing the person to park a vehicle at a Hawaii airport or port reserved accessible parking space and take the second placard for use at the travel destination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3105 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Director of Taxation to develop and administer a one-time tax amnesty program that would waive criminal prosecution, fines, penalties, and interest related to general excise tax and transient accommodations tax for qualified owners who c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB3181 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises sections 286-239 and 286-240, HRS, to meet new federal regulations for commercial driver's licenses when the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse prohibits a driver from operating a commercial vehicle due to alcohol and drug violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB3066 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates general funds to various programs for anticipated operating shortfalls due to the limited ability for departments to transfer funds between programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3162 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to operate and approve conservation bank and conservation in-lieu fee mitigation programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3166 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the Department of Land and Natural Resources can issue new ocean recreation commercial use permits by unsealed public auction. Revises provisions relating to boating and ocean recreation fees and permits. Specifies how commercial use p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3095 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Climate Health and Environmental Action Special Fund in the Department of Land and Natural Resources to minimize the impacts of, and respond to, climate crises funded by a $25 tax on transient accommodations. Exempts certain housing u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3148 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends chapter 132D, HRS, to strengthen county and state agencies' ability to address the illegal use of fireworks in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3030 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the amount of funding for the Tobacco Enforcement Special Fund administered by the Department of the Attorney General by amending the amount of funds that the Tobacco Enforcement Special Fund can carry over at the end of the fiscal year; incre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3150 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Cybersecurity, Economic, Education, and Infrastructure Security Coordinator within the Department of Law Enforcement. Amends sections 76-16 and 128A-3, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3140 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes examination of defendants via telehealth. Amends conditions for a defendant's release or examination of fitness to proceed. Authorizes the Department of Health to implement behavioral health crisis centers. Effective 7/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3044 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the sunset date for the research activites income tax credit. Consolidates the survey and certification requirements. Requires the certification based on the date a complete application is received subject to certain conditions. Clarifies qua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3088 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently exempts an additional administrative assistant position in the Hawaii State Public Library System from civil service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3146 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the requirements of section 353C-9, HRS, to require the Department of Law Enforcement to pursue and obtain accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. for all divisions and sections within the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3035 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the offense of manslaughter to include cases where a person knowingly and unlawfully distributes a dangerous drug in any amount and thereby recklessly causes the death of another person who ingested that drug.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3108 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the July 1, 2024, sunset date of section 1 of Act 197, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, to make permanent the exemption of housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from school impact fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3102 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation approval and certification period in which construction or rehabilitation of certain projects under section 201H-36(a)(5), HRS, can qualify for general excise tax (GET) exemption and repe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB3180 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends sections 286-234 and 286-249, HRS, to adopt federal penalties for commercial driver's license violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB3111 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chairperson's designee as a nonvoting member to the Hawaii Community Development Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3074 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 76-16(b), Hawaii Revised Statues, to exempt the Deputy Executive Director, Chief Compliance Officer, and branch managers of the Employees' Retirement System of the State of Hawaii from civil service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3104 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multistate Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multistate licensure privilege in each party state, effective 1/1/2026. Beginning 1/1/202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3117 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a definition for "exigent circumstances;" amends the definitions of "harm" and "imminent harm;" clarifies when the police may take protective custody of a child; clarifies when the department may assume temporary foster custody of a child; creat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3119 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Program. Makes appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3051 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the legislature may authorize political subdivisions, such as counties, to issue tax increment bonds and to exclude tax increment bonds in calculating the debt l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3182 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates two new commercial driver's license (CDL) restrictions. The "R" restriction is for drivers who pass the skills test on Lanai or Molokai and are limited to operate commercial motor vehicles (CMV) on those islands only. The "Q" restriction is f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB3165 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates all ocean waters of the State within 3,000 feet from shore as ocean recreation management areas (ORMAs). Prohibits commercial activity in ORMAs unless authorized by use permit. Prohibits commercial activities in ORMAs on weekends and state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3031 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits carrying or using a firearm in the commission of a separate misdemeanor offense. Amends and clarifies prohibitions regarding deadly or dangerous weapons, regarding switchblade knives, and regarding butterfly knives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3188 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the repeal and reenactment in Act 8, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, to maintain the authority of the President of the University of Hawaii to act as the University of Hawaiis chief procurement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB3130 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans the sale of all flavored tobacco products and mislabeled e-liquid products. Establishes positions and appropriates funds to enforce the ban. Repeals section 328J-11.5, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3101 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Health to redirect persons experiencing a mental health crisis who are involved with, or at risk for involvement with, the criminal justice system to the appropriate health care system and services, including behavioral h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3082 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides amendments to external review procedures to improve consistency with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Uniform Health Carrier External Review Model Act. Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health mainten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3038 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 663-10.5, HRS, to abolish joint and several liability for government entities in claims and cases relating to the maintenance and design of highways under chapter 663, HRS, so that government entities are only liable in certain cases f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3172 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to search criminal histories and fingerprint records of current and prospective volunteers and purchase of service contracted and subcontracted service providers and their employees who are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3075 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the eligibility to recover from the Mortgage Loan Recovery Fund to include consumers aggrieved by the conduct of a mortgage loan originator licensee. Allows for the annual use of $50,000 of the fund for training the Division of Financial In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3078 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the State's energy efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish interim goals, and clarifies procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3131 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals section 328J-11.5, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3163 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to issue interim administrative rules to quickly regulate the use of ocean recreation equipment, especially new and emerging ocean recreation technologies, in state ocean waters until long-term admin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3098 | Intro
Sine Die | Reestablishes the State Fire Marshal's Office within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3032 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadens enforcement of orders of wage payment violations to allow for certified copies of orders of wage payment violation to be filed in any court of competent jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3055 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3056 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the party responsible for Renewable Portfolio Standards support and reporting on certain energy matters shall be the Chief Energy Officer, following Act 122, SLH 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3145 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates chapter 329, HRS, to make it consistent with amendments in the Federal Controlled Substances Act as required under section 329-11, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
