| HI | SB2131 | Intro
25% | Designates World Peace Day as a state holiday in place of Good Friday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2124 | Intro
25% | Restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a felony offense where the property owner has been convicted of an underlying felony offense. Directs forfeiture proceeds to the general fund. Amends the allowable expenses for mon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2059 | Intro
25% | Requires a retail establishment with an employee toilet facility to allow a customer suffering from an eligible medical condition to use that restroom during normal business hours, under certain conditions. Exempts a retail establishment and employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2110 | Intro
25% | Adds a cap for the amount of tax credits for research activities that an eligible taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities may receive per taxable year. Requires a qualified high technology business to be registered to do business in the State an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2074 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Housing Savings Account System for all employees in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2090 | Intro
25% | Establishes a tax credit for certain owners of a condominium whose association is increasing maintenance fees to comply with a county ordinance requiring an automatic fire sprinkler system or alternative fire prevention and fire safety system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2084 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a market analysis study to identify the optimum mix of private sector, public sector, and philanthropic funding sources and mechanisms needed to support blue carbon ecosystem projects in the State and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2054 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Teacher Apprenticeship Program, to be administered by the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, to support, recruit, develop, and retain teachers for Hawaii's public schools. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2098 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization to establish an aquatic safety education program for elementary school students and to establish one full-time equivalent position (1.0 FTE) to admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2086 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund. Requires the establishment of a Wildfire Reserve Trust Fund to support the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund. Authorizes the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to establish a Wildfire Bond Loan Program in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2056 | Intro
25% | Proposes amendments to the Hawaii State Constitution to increase funding for public education for the children and adults of Hawaii by authorizing the Legislature to establish, as provided by law, a surcharge on residential investment property valued...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2104 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Business Activity Water Catchment System Working Group within the Department of Health to assess the feasibility of allowing business owners in the State to utilize filtered water collected by water catchment systems for business activi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2048 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to establish and implement a program to improve and increase support for emergency medical services in the State. Requires the Department of Health to submit reports to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2075 | Intro
25% | Requires sponsored captive insurance companies to maintain separate protected cells for separate participant contracts. Except for risk retention captive insurance companies, authorizes captive insurance companies to apply for an exemption from exami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2158 | Intro
25% | Prohibits purposeful harassment with the intent to prevent the taking of fish by persons who are fishing in state waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2171 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 | SB2154 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB2173 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 | SB2160 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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 | SB2177 | Intro
25% | Lengthens the contracts for charter schools from five years to ten years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2161 | Intro
25% | Exempts the proposed drilling, construction, or use of a well and well appurtenances on lands leased from the Department of Agriculture from environmental review requirements, provided that the land is being used to support agriculture and food produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2163 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 | SB2189 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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 | SB2002 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain housing projects reserved for certain students, faculty, and staff of public educational institutions from environmental assessment requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2036 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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 | SB2007 | Intro
25% | Expands eligibility for, and automates, the expungement of arrest and conviction records for certain misdemeanors, crimes as a result of being a victim of human trafficking, and crimes relating to possession or use of controlled substances if certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2046 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish and administer a family leave insurance program. Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends the period of family leave to 16 weeks for businesses that employ one or more...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2025 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB2040 | Intro
25% | Prohibits landlords from recovering possession of a dwelling unit from tenants if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Sets a tenant's liability for rent if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Provides remedies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2009 | Intro
25% | Authorizes election officials to disclose driver's license and state identification information in association with membership in nonprofit organizations for election related purposes. Requires the office of elections to join a voter registration sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2019 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to permit all public high school students with a valid school identification card to attend school athletic events on their home campus free of charge. Requires all public high schools to offer physical ticket sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2016 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 | SB2032 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Accessory Dwelling Unit Construction Grant Program within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide funding to private property owners for the construction of accessory dwelling units, including any necessary a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2041 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB2022 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain housing developments from assessments of school impact fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2001 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB791 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to purchase one advanced life support ambulance to be based on the island of Molokai, and related equipment, and pay related personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical services personnel. (SD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB595 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the executive office on aging to create an Alzheimer's disease public health campaign.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1460 | Intro
25% | Provides rebates for eligible electric vehicle ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing. Beginning with calendar year 2024, requires that electric vehicle ready parking for new construction be integrated as a criterion in the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
