Hawaii Senate Bill 157

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Introduced on January 18 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
Pending: Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Repeals the exemption granted to churches by Act 22, Session Laws of Hawaii 2020, relating to bonding requirements and fee requirements for licenses, renewals, and reinstatements of licenses applicable to cemeteries and funeral trusts. Clarifies that the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs shall exempt any cemetery authority from the bonding requirement and the fee requirements for license, renewal, and reinstatement upon proof satisfactory to the Director that the cemetery authority does not sell for financial profit. Effective retroactively to 09/15/2020.

Relating To Cemeteries.

Sen. Gil Keith-agaran [D]	Sen. Stanley Chang [D]	Sen. Angus McKelvey [D]	Sen. Karl Rhoads [D]
Sen. Les Ihara [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-12-11		Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
2023-01-31	Senate	The committee on CPN deferred the measure.
2023-01-27	Senate	The committee(s) on CPN has scheduled a public hearing on 01-31-23 9:05AM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.
2023-01-23	Senate	Referred to CPN.
2023-01-18	Senate	Introduced and passed First Reading.
2023-01-17	Senate	Pending Introduction.

HB646 (Same As) 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
SB157 (Carry Over) 2023-01-31 - The committee on CPN deferred the measure.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=157&year=2024
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2024/bills/SB157_.HTM