| HI | SB2342 | Engross
50% | Amends the penalties for violations of certain traffic laws and required motor vehicle insurance minimums. Establishes primary and optional coverage requirements for U-drive motor vehicle insurance policies. Establishes disclosure requirements for U-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 770). |
| HI | SB2735 | Engross
50% | Requires the driver's license examination to test the applicant's knowledge of the dangers that larger motor vehicles present to pedestrians and bicyclists. Requires persons who commit the offense of excessively speeding or habitually driving while i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
House Conferee(s) discharged. |
| HI | SB3154 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that failure to comply with approved mitigation commitments, conduct an archaeological inventory survey, or comply with other administrative requirements pertaining to archaeology approved by the Department of Land and Natural Resources sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Ichiyama, Tarnas, Poepoe, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | HB2526 | Enroll
75% | Increases the penalty for a third or subsequent offense involving the unauthorized driving or operation of motor vehicles to a class C felony. Authorizes the court, as part of the person's sentencing for the third or subsequent offense, to order that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of House agreement and passage on Final Reading (Hse. Com. No. 772). |
| HI | HB1539 | Engross
50% | Increases fines for violations of certain traffic laws and required motor vehicle insurance minimums. Establishes minimum and maximum sentences for persons convicted of violations of certain traffic laws. Amends the minimum liability coverage thresho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 760). |
| HI | HB2446 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Examiner of Drivers to suspend the driver's license of a person who violates certain regulations relating to the use of disability parking permits. Requires the court to distribute fifty per cent of any fine imposed on a person who vio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 685). |
| 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 | HB1580 | Engross
50% | Amends the criminal penalties for various animal cruelty offenses by increasing the category of offense. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Failed to pass Third Reading. Ayes, 11; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) McKelvey, Shimabukuro, Wakai . Noes, 14 (Senator(s) Aquino, Awa, Chang, DeCoite, Fevella, Hashimoto, Inouye, Kanuha, Keohokalole, Kidani, Kim, Kouchi, Richards, San Buenaventura). Excused, 0 (none). |
| HI | HB1980 | Engross
50% | Establishes the separate offense and applicable penalties relating to the fighting of birds in the first and second degrees. Takes effect 4/14/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Failed to pass Third Reading. Ayes, 9; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 16 (Senator(s) Aquino, Awa, Chang, DeCoite, Fevella, Hashimoto, Inouye, Kanuha, Keohokalole, Kidani, Kim, Kouchi, McKelvey, Richards, San Buenaventura, Shimabukuro). Excused, 0 (none). |
| HI | HB707 | Engross
50% | Makes it a class C felony to make false, fictitious, or fraudulent claims against the government. Disqualifies a person convicted of making a false, fictitious, or fraudulent claim from holding elected office for five years. Takes effect 3/22/2075. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB44 | Engross
50% | Creates a minimum penalty and raises the maximum penalty for every violation of the State Water Code. Clarifies that each day a violation exists or continues is a separate offense. Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to determine the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB586 | Engross
50% | Conditions the issuance of a certificate of inspection upon a vehicle not being equipped with a noisy muffler or exhaust system. Requires rules regarding safety check inspections to ensure that a motorcycle, moped, or motor vehicle is not equipped wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB445 | Engross
50% | Increases civil penalties for the violation of various pollution provisions. Establishes and appropriates funds for an environmental health specialist position within the clean water branch of the department of health. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB126 | Engross
50% | Specifies that a person convicted of the offense of bribery shall be sentenced to pay a fine of up to $250,000, in addition to a sentence of imprisonment or probation. Requires the Commission on Salaries to consider certain factors to retain qualifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB2977 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the imposition of a penalty for unlicensed individuals performing certain work that requires a contractor license, including the offering or performing of repairs or improvements to existing structures and property and tearing down or rebu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1544 | Engross
50% | Adds a minimum penalty and amends the maximum penalty per violation of the State Water Code, expands the types of potential violations of the State Water Code, and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offense. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB1664 | Engross
50% | Increases the penalties for bribery offenses under certain circumstances by establishing new offenses for bribery in the first and second degrees. Defines "bribery" for the purposes of these offenses. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2186 | Intro
25% | Establishes heightened penalties for the assault and terroristic threatening of health care workers. Clarifies the definition of "terroristic threatening" to include the methods of contact. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
The committee on JDC deferred the measure. |
| HI | HB1562 | Intro
25% | Adds forfeiture of a vehicle as a maximum penalty on a third conviction for operating a motor vehicle without a license within a five-year period. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2684 | Intro
25% | Creates penalties relating to the fighting of birds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2589 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalty for the desecration of Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian burial sites from a misdemeanor to a felony for second or subsequent offenses. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2309 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Age-Appropriate Design Code to promote privacy protections for children and ensure that online products, services, or features that are likely to be accessed by children are designed in a manner that recognizes the distinct nee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2465 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that failure to comply with approved mitigation commitments, conduct an archaeological inventory survey, or comply with other administrative requirements pertaining to archaeology approved by the Department of Land and Natural Resources sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2323 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the assessment of any fines, fees, or court costs against a person who was adjudicated for an offense committed while the person was a minor under the age of eighteen years, or against the person's parent or guardian. Discharges all related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2993 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any operator, transient accommodations broker, or person from offering, listing, advertising, and displaying a rate that does not include all resort fees. Requires all operators, transient accommodations brokers, and persons to include all ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2722 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the assessment of any fees, fines, or court costs against a person who was adjudicated for an offense committed during the person's minority, or against the person's parent or guardian, and discharges all related debt obligations assessed b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2606 | Intro
25% | Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to offer, list, advertise, or display a transient accommodations rental rate that includes all resort fees required for the furnishing of transient accommodations. Requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2658 | Intro
25% | Adds a minimum penalty of $50 and a maximum penalty of $60,000 per violation of the State Water Code and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offense. Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3372 | Intro
25% | Establishes certain disclosure and labelling requirements for food, products, and dietary supplements containing kratom. Prohibits the distribution and sale of kratom products to minors. Imposes civil and criminal penalties for violations. Takes effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3385 | Intro
25% | Requires electronic smoking device of e-liquid manufacturers to submit certifications with the Department of Taxation annually, stating that products comply with federal regulations. Requires the Department of Taxation to maintain a directory. Impose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2881 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from intentionally encouraging or coercing any other person to consume alcohol or any other intoxicant for the purpose of enabling the other person to operate a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant. Provides that a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2981 | Intro
25% | Establishes as a class B felony the unlicensed performance of contractor work, during or within 5 years following a national emergency, state of emergency, or disaster proclamation, in an affected political subdivision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2990 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the purchase and sale of a motor vehicle to another individual who is not duly licensed to operate that category of motor vehicle. Prohibits the registered owner of a motor vehicle from allowing an individual who is not duly licensed to ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB3020 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of operating a vehicle while impaired, and penalties. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to take administrative action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB2542 | Intro
25% | Prohibits foreign principals from acquiring real property in the State or any interest in real property in the State, except a de minimus indirect interest. Defines foreign principal. Requires a foreign principal that owns real property that was acqu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2547 | Intro
25% | Modifies penalties for violations of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations rules from a fixed fine to a fine proportional to the yearly income of the violator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2594 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain persons affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party from acquiring real property or any interest in real property in the State, except a de minimus indirect interest. Establishes exceptions. Requires a person affiliated with the Chi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2755 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalty for the desecration of Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian burial sites from a misdemeanor to a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2794 | Intro
25% | Requires electronic smoking device of e-liquid manufacturers to submit certifications with the Department of Taxation annually, stating that products comply with federal regulations. Requires the Department of Taxation to maintain a directory. Impose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1739 | Intro
25% | Establishes labeling requirements for products that were developed or tested using human cells.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2614 | Intro
25% | Modifies penalties for violations of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations rules from a fixed fine to a fine proportional to the yearly income of the violator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB2023 | Intro
25% | Limits the required payment of certain unpaid motor vehicle taxes and fees and accompanying financial penalties to those incurred during the first 5 consecutive years of delinquency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2120 | Intro
25% | Provides Hawaii residents with the option of paying for the registration of their motor vehicles and associated taxes and fees on a biannual basis. Restricts the amount of delinquency tax due to the current tax due plus one year. Removes language all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2888 | Intro
25% | Increases penalties for certain offenses relating to the unauthorized driving or operation of motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB2179 | Intro
25% | Requires publicly held domestic corporations to have gender-diverse boards of directors. Establishes reporting requirements for the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2357 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Green Environmental Fee Program that requires certain users to purchase an annual license for the use of a state beach, park, forest, trail, or other natural area on state land, to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2394 | Intro
25% | Adds a minimum penalty of $50 and a maximum penalty of $60,000 per violation of the State Water Code, expands the types of potential violations of the State Water Code, and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB658 | Intro
25% | Establishes a visitor green fee program that requires that visitors purchase a license which is valid for one year for the use of a state park, beach, state-owned forest, hiking trail on state-owned land, or other state-owned natural area, to be admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB48 | Intro
25% | Establishes penalties for failure to comply with certain submerged land reclamation regulations. Adds requirements for presently reclaimed land to be disposed of by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, without recourse to public auction, to an ab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | HB774 | Intro
25% | Establishes rules of ethics applicable to persons who are contracted, subcontracted, assigned, delegated, ordered, appointed, or in any other act allowed by a state agency to work with children. Establishes additional procedures with respect to fees,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
