| HI | SB2051 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to collect data and submit to the Legislature a report focused on the health disparities experienced by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities in the State prior to the con... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2050 | 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 and adopt admin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2174 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish, implement, and administer a Meat and Poultry Inspection Program and annually report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the establishment, implementation, and administration of the Meat and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2364 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Plant-Based Building Materials Working Group to report on how best to grow plants and develop plant-based building materials in Hawaii and provide economic development and green jobs while sequestering greenhouse gases to help achieve t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2482 | Intro
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] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2473 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a refundable tax credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature before the convening of each Regular Session. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2499 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to implement a Slim-hole Resource Characterization Program that identifies the location and characteristics of underground water and carbon sequestration resources across the State under the direction of the Ha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2790 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to hire two FTE positions to collect, manipulate, and graph data and to build an agricultural data dashboard for public consumption and a one year study on agricultural markets for Hawaii farmers. ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2813 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish industry standards for processing meat and conduct a survey on slaughterhouse operations. Establishes a tax credit for processing meat. Declares that the general expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Mak... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2777 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Highways Clean Energy Technology Pilot Program within the Department of Transportation. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2961 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish an Agricultural Workforce Housing Working Group to address the shortage and challenges of agricultural workforce housing in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3340 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, in consultation with livestock industry stakeholders, to conduct a study to assess the effects of heat stress on beef cattle during interisland ocean transportatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2675 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources, to facilitate the private sector's development of renewable energy projects that also support agricultural food... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1580 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Health, the Health Care Facilities Labor Standards Working Group to research, assess, and make recommendations on the best practices in labor standards that can be implemented at hospitals, care homes, and dialysi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2772 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Uniform Building Permit Working Group to study the feasibility of creating a single statewide building permit application package and uniform review and approval process for building permits that can be used by all counties. Declares th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2815 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group within the Department of Transportation to conduct a comprehensive study to assess the State's port and harbor system and the potential viability of each location in that system to support current and future agricultural p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2803 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study on the Kohala Ditch System. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2896 | Intro
Sine Die | Effective 1/1/2026 requires each parking lot in the State having public paid parking spaces in the State to accept payment of parking fees by credit card and debit card; and each parking meter in the State that collects parking fees for any public pa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2738 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a three-year pilot program within the Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the counties, to examine signalized intersections. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is excee... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3229 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to identify, assess, and recommend certain risk transfer market mechanisms. Establishes requirements for insurers relating to claims for additional living expenses under homeowners insurance policies, including situations ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2360 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to submit a report to the Legislature on the cesspool Compliance Pilot Grant Project prior to the Regular Session of 2025. Establishes three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) positions to implement the Cesspool Complian... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2742 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes three greener highway corridors pilot projects to improve the Interstate H-1, H-2, and H-201 freeway corridors with greenery. Establishes a working group. Requires reports. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2180 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services' program requirements for chore services to include an assessment of whether the applicant has a family member who is available and capable of providing necessary chore services for the applicant. Requires th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2423 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2414 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Sustainable Food Systems Working Group. Requires a report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2025. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Establishes an unspecified number of positions within the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2465 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to track and publicly report certain data relating to crisis reports, emergency mental health transports, and court-ordered treatments. Requires DOH to respond to reports about persons having severe mental illness wh... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2411 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to mitigate and control the spread of the two-lined spittlebug and to fund recovery efforts for areas affected by it. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditur... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2538 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to fully fund programs and services under its jurisdiction and fill vacant positions on the island of Molokai. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Mak... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2613 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the duties and sunset date of the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3297 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Human Resources Development to submit an annual report on vacancies, recruitment efforts, and retention policies in the State's Executive Branch. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceilin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3296 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to: (1) conduct a remote work study; (2) review any recent remote work studies done by the counties; (3) develop and administer a remote work program; and (4) submit the study to the Legislature ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2083 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture's Aquaculture Development Program to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for restorative aquaculture activities. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2259 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each employer group health policy, contract, plan, or agreement and each individual and group hospital or medical service plan, policy, contract, or agreement issued or renewed by health insurers in the State after December 31, 2024, that pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB760 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Psychology to grant prescriptive authority to qualified psychologist applicants statewide. Requires a report to the Legislature. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2097 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to study the regulation of motor carriers in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB545 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "community care foster family home" to allow one additional Medicaid individual to be cared for in the same community care foster family home. Requires a report to the Legislature. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2155 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to: (1) identify and evaluate each parcel of certain state-owned lands; and (2) contract a third-party entity to compile a report evaluating the agricultural land use potential of each parcel of state-owned land... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3179 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the caps for the total contract value for any one capital advancement contract (CAC) and the total aggregate value of CACs in a fiscal year entered into by the Department of Transportation with private parties for harbor improvements and ad... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3341 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Upcycled Mobile Dishwashing System Pilot Program within the Department of Health. Requires a report to the Legislature. Establishes two full-time positions within the Department of Health. Declares the general fund expenditure ceiling... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2445 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to identify an emergency egress route other than Komo Mai Drive from Pacific Palisades or, if no other route can be found, determine the feasibility of constructing an alternate emergency egress route. Requir... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2498 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Cesspool Conversion Revolving Loan Fund. Directs green energy market securitization loan repayments and interest to be deposited into the Cesspool Conversion Revolving Loan Fund. Requires the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority to a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| HI | SB2395 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Judiciary to establish a Compliance Credits Pilot Program for probationers that comply with their conditions of supervision. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2141 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Homeland Security and Resiliency Council to assess the resilience of the State's electric grid and other critical infrastructure to natural disasters and other emergencies and make recommendations. Requires the Council to report to Legi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2661 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Homeless Employment Grant Program, a three-year pilot program, that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Human Services to report to the Legislature... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB238 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to examine reparations for victims of child sexual abuse and the fiscal impact for childcare insurance providers, including increased premiums. Requires a report to the Legislature. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2946 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii to submit to the Legislature annual reports of all university employees who performed work from a location outside of the State for more than sixty consecutive days during the applicable year no later than December 3... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2523 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Judiciary to conduct a study to determine how to implement a program that provides free child care services to minor children of parties and witnesses who are attending court hearings in the First Circuit Family Court. Requires the Judic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2823 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a blue ribbon committee within the Department of the Attorney General to analyze the Hawaii Administrative Rules and identify any rules that are not supported by statutory authority. Requires each state agency to cooperate with the blue r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB958 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to research and explore the idea of establishing a regulatory framework and licensure requirements for school psychologists. Requires a report to the Legislature. Takes effect on 12/31/2050. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2061 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a one-year school bus driver certification subsidy pilot program within the Department of Education. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Education Committee |