| HI | SB2222 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys as a grant-in-aid to the Emergency Services Department of the City and County of Honolulu. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2936 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Agriculture for the planning and construction of a new inspection, quarantine, and incineration facility on the island of Maui. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceilin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2380 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for collective bargaining cost items for judiciary employees and their excluded counterparts. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2153 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an air and space law program at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2376 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the rate of compensation and maximum allowable amounts per case for court-appointed counsel and guardian ad litem in family court proceedings. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3029 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes appropriations and approves payments for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2023-2024. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2327 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to partner with the property owner of 1021 Smith Street in Honolulu, Oahu, to create 60 units of affordable rental housing at that site. Requires units to be affordable to households having an income tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB3337 | Intro
Sine Die | Reestablishes the appraisal management company registration program within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Clarifies that chapter 466L, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed. Applies registration requirements retroactively to 6/30/202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3331 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an alternative process for the termination of the rental agreement that involves mediation. Requires the Governor to notify the Chief Justice, Legislature, and Revisor of Statutes when the final wildfire proclamation will expire. Declares...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2693 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Cultural Corridor Authority to develop plans to redevelop areas affected by disaster while maintaining historic and cultural preservation. Establishes an income tax credit to incentivize the voluntary relinquishment of real property l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB2377 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the rate of compensation and maximum allowable amounts per case for court-appointed counsel in criminal proceedings. Appropriates funds. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2655 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Hawaiian Homes Commission to retain independent legal counsel. Authorizes the Hawaiian Homes Commission to use the services of the Attorney General as needed. Provides that funds owed to independent legal counsel shall be paid by the Hawai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB2529 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a 5-year behavioral health exempt employee pilot program, to be administered by the Department of Health, under which the Department may fill employee vacancies in the Department's Behavioral Health Services Administration in a manner tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB1622 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to each county to mitigate flood risks on privately owned roads. Provides that the appropriation or expenditure of moneys shall not be construed to establish a duty of care or grounds for liability for the State or counties. Decla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB2571 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the multifamily housing accessibility modifications grant program to facilitate the installation of accessibility modifications in certain properties. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB3201 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the multifamily housing accessibility modifications grant program to facilitate the installation of accessibility modifications in certain properties. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3225 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Department of Education to support healthcare workforce development programs, specifically the public high school healthcare workforce certificate program and glidepath progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3342 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a spay and neuter special fund and an advisory committee for the special fund. Allows funds from an income tax check-off to be deposited into the spay and neuter special fund. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB2200 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a student loan forgiveness program within the University of Hawaii to forgive outstanding student loans of elders who have graduated from an institution of higher education in the United States and have worked for at least 10 years in pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2980 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Cultural Corridor Authority to develop plans to redevelop areas affected by disaster while maintaining historic and cultural preservation. Establishes an income tax credit to incentivize the voluntary relinquishment of real property l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2289 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes new security requirements for voting systems. Deems as election fraud certain acts relating to the provision of valuable consideration, including gifts and loans, for the purpose of bribery; election tampering; and security breaches. Appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2987 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Teacher Home Assistance Program to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide housing vouchers to certain teachers who are employed by the Department of Education and commit to teach at hard-t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2982 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the regenerative tourism program with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to increase regenerative tourism. Establishes a grant program. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2569 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for geothermal energy exploration. Requires surface and subsurface exploration and community outreach. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure cei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2541 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits certain foreign parties from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in agricultural lands. Establishes an Office of Agricultural Intelligence within the Department of Agriculture to investigate claims that land is unlawfully owned by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB2718 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all travel and lodging expenses for legislative members to be reimbursed at federally determined rates. Establishes a basic housing allowance for non-Oahu legislative members. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HI | HB2807 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group within the Department of Health to comprehensively and systematically map the array of child and adolescent mental health programs and services statewide. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB2764 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a compliance and enforcement program within the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to investigate complaints, conduct investigations, and cooperate with enforcement authorities to ensure compliance with laws. Appropriates moneys. Declares ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2763 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Hawaiian Homes Commission to retain independent legal counsel. Authorizes the Hawaiian Homes Commission to use the services of the Attorney General as needed. Provides that funds owed to independent legal counsel shall be paid by the Hawai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1564 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a statewide firefighting helicopter program, to be administered by the State Fire Marshal. Appropriates funds to obtain helicopters, facilities equipment, and supplies; hire and train staff; and do other things necessary to ensure that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1685 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to temporarily re-establish the Hawaii Office of Naval Research Grant Program to provide 50 per cent matching grants to Hawaii awardees of alternative energy research grants from the U.S. Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2190 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the career criminal prosecution unit. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 20242025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB1851 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the City and County of Honolulu Department of Land Management and Department of Design and Construction for compliance with Act 210, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018. Declares that the appropriations exceed the state general fund ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB1789 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to identify any roadways other than Makakilo Drive that may be used as emergency egress routes in Makakilo. Requires the Department of Transportation to plan for, design, and construct an emergency egress rou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB1745 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an ombudsman's office for homeowner associations within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes an ombudsman's office special fund. Requires board members of condominium associations, cooperative housing corporations,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1909 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Maui small business rent subsidization grant program to assist small businesses displaced by the 2023 Maui wildfires to pay rent at new locations on Maui. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | SB2624 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits certain foreign parties from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in agricultural lands. Establishes an Office of Agricultural Intelligence within the Department of Agriculture to investigate claims that land is unlawfully owned by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | HB2031 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the continued exploration and identification of geothermal resources on Hawaiian Home Lands. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB2154 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Transportation to re-establish and operate the Ellison Onizuka Space Center. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB2164 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the regenerative tourism program with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to increase regenerative tourism. Establishes a grant program. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Tourism Committee |
| HI | HB2150 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the mayor of each county to appoint, and the county council or city council to confirm, a county medical examiner. Provides that the medical examiner for each county shall serve as the county's coroner. Makes conforming amendments. Appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB2875 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Office of Streaming within the Creative Industries Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to help content creators increase the scale of their respective productions. Appropriates moneys. Declares th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2812 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the sustainable food systems working group within the Department of Agriculture. Requires the working group to develop an interagency food systems plan and a state farm bill. Appropriates funds for the working group and for an unspecified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2860 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of using artificial intelligence technology to assist the Department with improving safety at correctional institutions. Authorizes the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2956 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an oral health task force to review the status of oral health in the State and make recommendations to improve the State's oral health infrastructure. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2415 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes new security requirements for voting systems. Deems certain acts relating to election tampering or security breaches as acts of election fraud. Appropriates moneys for video security surveillance recording equipment for the state's voting sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2221 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the City and County of Honolulu Department of Land Management and Department of Design and Construction for compliance with Act 210, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018. Declares that the appropriations exceed the state general fund ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2191 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the victim witness assistance program. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 20242025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
