| HI | HR130 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Accounting And General Services To Conduct A Study On The Feasibility Of Exempting All State-related Construction From County Permitting Requirements And Establishing A Permitting Division Within The Department To Be Resp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HCR151 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Accounting And General Services To Conduct A Study On The Feasibility Of Exempting All State-related Construction From County Permitting Requirements And Establishing A Permitting Division Within The Department To Be Resp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HR88 | Intro
25% | Urging The President Of The United States And United States Congress To Exempt Hawaii From The Jones Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HCR107 | Intro
25% | Urging The President Of The United States And United States Congress To Exempt Hawaii From The Jones Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | SB3197 | Intro
25% | Exempts billboards and outdoor advertising devices displayed with authorization of the Stadium Authority within the stadium facility, including outdoor advertising devices for naming the stadium facility under certain conditions. Exempts outdoor adve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| HI | SB2109 | Intro
25% | Until 6/30/2025, exempts from the offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products the shipments of large cigars and pipe tobacco sold to a consumer in the State through the Internet under certain circumstances. Defines "pipe tobacco". Takes effect 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2399 | Intro
25% | Exempts the gross proceeds received after 12/31/2023 by a farmer for the sale of produce from the general excise tax. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3047 | Intro
25% | Codifies the exemption from environmental impact statements for affordable housing projects that meet certain criteria. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3307 | Intro
25% | Authorizes representatives of the news media to be allowed to attend executive meetings held by a board under section 92-4, HRS. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2629 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Homeless Services Special Fund. Allows counties to apply for matching funds from the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund for certain housing projects. Increases the conveyance tax rates for certain properties. Establishes conveyan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2886 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the State or any of its branches, political subdivisions, or agencies from requiring a bachelor's degree as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in state employment. Establishes exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2123 | Intro
25% | Exempts psychiatric services and chronic renal dialysis services from certificate of need requirements. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2880 | Intro
25% | Expands the existing state exemption for United States Department of Defense-certified providers to those operating off federal property. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1461 | Intro
25% | Amends the exemption from the requirement that plans and specifications for construction projects be prepared and construction observed by a licensed engineer, architect, or landscape architect to be determined by floor area of work rather than estim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2195 | Intro
25% | Repeals the discretion for public officials to require work in respect to any structure or improvement, regardless of the cost valuation of the work, to be subject to the requirements of professional engineers, architects, surveyors, and landscape ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB2385 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-06
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB2413 | Intro
25% | Repeals the prohibition of qualified persons or firms from receiving direct or indirect financing for construction projects from any governmental contracting agency as a condition of prevailing wage terms. Extends the Hawaii Housing Finance and Devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2105 | Intro
25% | Authorizes students who are individuals from a COFA nation, refugees, or special immigrant visa holders to qualify for the resident tuition fee within the University of Hawaii system, under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB3216 | Intro
25% | Exempts cultural practitioners of martial arts from the prohibition of and penalty against butterfly knives; provided that evidence of instructor certification is provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3245 | Intro
25% | Exempts qualified disabled veterans from various annual motor vehicle fees and taxes, including vehicle weight taxes and beautification fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB3369 | Intro
25% | Allows the Director of Health to grant an exemption from the requirement to upgrade, convert, or connect a cesspool if the State is unable to present evidence that the cesspool is affecting the State's drinking water supply or recreational waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3333 | Intro
25% | Exempts accessory dwelling units, ohana dwelling units, and certain affordable rental housing projects developed pursuant to a county ordinance from school impact fees. Effective 6/30/2024. Sunsets 7/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | HB2308 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the State or any of its branches, political subdivisions, or agencies from requiring a bachelor's degree as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in state employment. Establishes exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB3005 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Homeless Services Fund. Amends the conveyance tax rates based on property values. Repeals the conveyance tax rates set separately for conveyances for which the purchasers are ineligible for a county homeowner's exemption on property t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3146 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB3102 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB3074 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB2599 | Intro
25% | Exempts actions involving the operation and management of fisheries in the State from environmental review requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2627 | 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] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1618 | Intro
25% | Permanently excludes businesses within a federally designated opportunity zone from required unemployment insurance contributions and temporarily excludes those businesses from general excise and income tax for five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB1699 | Intro
25% | Exempts food and medical services from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1790 | Intro
25% | Exempts qualified disabled veterans from various annual motor vehicle fees and taxes, including vehicle weight taxes and beautification fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | SB2625 | Intro
25% | Permanently excludes businesses within a federally designated opportunity zone from required unemployment insurance contributions and temporarily excludes those businesses from general excise and income tax for five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2030 | Intro
25% | Makes permanent the exemption from school impact fees of housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB2622 | Intro
25% | Exempts cigars from the prohibition of shipment of tobacco products to non-licensees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2651 | Intro
25% | Makes permanent the exemption from school impact fees of housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2868 | Intro
25% | Establishes an online fantasy sports contests registration and monitoring program under the Department of the Attorney General. Imposes an online fantasy sports contests tax on the gross revenues of registrants. Establishes the Online Fantasy Sports ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2156 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2025, requires physicians to perform or order test for lead poisoning in minor patients at certain intervals, and if the physician performs the test, the results to be included in the minor patient's record of immunization. Requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB2391 | Intro
25% | Removes the exemption of the State, political subdivisions, and United States from the child labor law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Labor and Technology 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB2022 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain housing developments from assessments of school impact fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | HB1429 | Intro
25% | Gradually reduces the general excise tax rate imposed on the retail sale of groceries and nonprescription medication over a period of four years until eliminated in calendar year 2027. Preserves the county surcharge on tax and the general excise tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | SB1053 | Intro
25% | Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB284 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the general excise tax the gross proceeds or income received from the sale of any product resulting from the cultivation and production of unprocessed taro and value-added products whose primary ingredient is taro or taro leaf. Effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1134 | Intro
25% | Exempts medical services from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1128 | Intro
25% | Exempts gross proceeds from medical services provided by physicians and advanced practice registered nurses acting in the capacity of a primary care provider from the general excise tax. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
