| HI | SB2709 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Government Innovation Shadow Program that allows the State's governmental units to temporarily assign employees to shadow employees of other governmental agencies and private organizations and businesses to observe and report innovation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2792 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to develop a plan that creates an educational pathway in the University of Hawaii community college system that equips interested students with the necessary entry level knowledge, skill set, expertise, and advancement pot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2665 | Intro
Sine Die | Require the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to convene a Four-Day Workweek Task Force. Requires the taskforce to submit a report to the Legislature. Dissolves the taskforce on 6/30/25.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2905 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the DOE to submit an annual report to the legislature on the installation, repair, and maintenance of fire alarm systems in Hawaii's public schools. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2947 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to submit annual reports to the Legislature on prior attendance at early learning programs for students entering kindergarten. Repeals standardized assessment requirements for students entering kindergarten.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2410 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for an aquaculture park that promotes commercial aquaculture expansion. Requires a report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2430 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2452 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts the use of solitary confinement in state-operated and state-contracted correctional facilities, with certain specified exceptions. Prohibits the use of solitary confinement and requires the use of appropriate alternatives for committed pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2343 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to create a comprehensive long-term care master plan to accomplish long-term care policy goals that, when implemented, ensure the availability of a full continuum of institutional and community-based services. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2313 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain owners and occupants of properties located in hazardous fire areas to maintain effective firebreaks within thirty feet of the property and to practice other fire prevention activities. Establishes the Community Fuels Reduction Projec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2104 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | SB2160 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB2189 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB320 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to study the feasibility and effects of the State adopting the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB755 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to submit a report to the Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2025 focused on the health disparities experienced by persons in the State with developmental or intellect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB658 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB128 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the photo noise violation monitoring system law. Establishes the Photo Noise Violation Monitoring System Program to enforce the State Community Noise Code, implemented by the State on any state or county highways within the respective cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB867 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale in perpetuity to buyers who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants, and do not own any other real property. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB134 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes water fluoridation requirements for privately-owned and government entity water suppliers in the State to conform with the United States Department of Health and Human Services standards for optimal water fluoridation levels. Exempts fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB302 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporarily reinstates the technology infrastructure renovation tax credit. Expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers. Requires a report from the department of taxation analyzing the tax implications for sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1127 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, in collaboration with the County of Maui and any other private entities the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation and County of Maui deem necessary, to submit a report to the Legislature regar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB363 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rent Reporting for Credit Pilot Program within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) that sunsets on 6/30/2027. Requires a report to the governor and legislature. Requires HHFDC to develop a series of state-sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB754 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to partner with a nonprofit organization in the Kau District in the County of Hawaii to conduct a needs assessment to determine the demand for and access to urgent care and outpatient behavioral health s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1491 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits, with certain exceptions, any state agency or political subdivision from providing private information regarding, or authorizing an arrest warrant based on, the receipt or provision of, or assistance with, reproductive health care services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB481 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to submit annual reports. Repeals standardized assessment requirements for students entering kindergarten. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB1120 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the State Art Museum to provide opportunities for the counties and private organizations located in Hawaii to display art through loan arrangements with the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts under the Arts in Public Places Program. Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB319 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to study the feasibility and effects of the State adopting the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB1341 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Department of Education's weekly report on schools that have reported positive COVID-19 cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB470 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the assessment of any fines, fees, 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 p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1227 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the employees' retirement system, in evaluating venture capital investments, to consider opportunities in industries that will sustain Hawaii's natural environment or produce economic opportunities for its residents, including renewable ener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB91 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct a study to assess the possible implementation of widescale agrivoltaic adaptation and use statewide. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to submit a report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB762 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the natural resource management special fund and authorizes uses for moneys in the fund. Establishes a Natural Resource Management Commission to guide and approve the disbursement of moneys deposited into the fund. Allocates transient acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB285 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates within the Department of Health's wastewater branch a cesspool conversion section, which will be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent posi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1578 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds additional considerations for the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to take into account when ensuring that the terms and conditions required for operation of an access organization are fair to the public in its designated service area. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | SB321 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to study the feasibility and effects of the State adopting the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB1454 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Therapeutic Psilocybin Working Group within the Department of Health. Requires the working group to examine the medicinal and therapeutic effects of psilocybin or psilocybinbased products on mental health, report to the Legislature be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB757 | Intro
Sine Die | 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. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes under the Hawaii Children's Trust Fund Coalition a collective impact program called the Malama Ohana Program to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Requires the Malama Ohana Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB772 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and conduct the Marine Life Conservation District Carrying Capacity Program. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB740 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to complete an assessment and report on the feasibility of digitizing its applicant, beneficiary, and lessee records and creating an interactive digital database software program. Requires the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1497 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Highways Clean Energy Technology Pilot Program within the Department of Transportation. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB973 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires rental vehicle companies using state facilities to pay or reimburse the State to construct new or use existing state electric vehicle charging infrastructure at those facilities, beginning January 1, 2028. Establishes a task force to develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB752 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the comptroller to identify state office buildings that can provide equitable telecommunication access to allow certain residents, including residents with disabilities, to participate remotely in legislative hearings. Requires a report to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB605 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to meet with Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind stakeholders and members of the Hawaii deaf community regarding the development of a plan to transition the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind to a conversion ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB803 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates moneys for a two-year pilot project to grow biodiesel crops on the island of Molokai. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a feasibility study on the State's ability to achieve its renewable energy goals by 2045 and to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the conve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB929 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation Highways Division to implement recommendations made by the Office of the Auditor regarding compliance with federal funding laws and regulations and information technology authentication. Takes effect 7/1/2050...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB250 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Department of Education from mandating that any student attend a school outside the student's service area. Establishes a 5-year phaseout period. Requires the Department of Education to submit annual progress reports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
