| SB2364 | Intro
25% | 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 |
| SB2111 | Intro
25% | Under certain conditions, limits the payment of any delinquent tax and penalty required by the Director of Finance of a county as a condition precedent to the transfer of ownership of a vehicle to the aggregate amount of delinquent taxes and penaltie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2174 | Intro
25% | 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
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| SB2803 | Intro
25% | 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 |
| SB3349 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Office of Gun Violence Prevention within the Department of the Attorney General for administrative purposes only. Repeals the Gun Violence and Violent Crimes Commission. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3061 | Intro
25% | Clarifies part III of Act 164, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, as it pertains to the appropriation for the Solar Energy Storage Loan Program. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2742 | Intro
25% | 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 |
| 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 |
| SB2060 | Intro
25% | Makes an appropriation to establish one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) Educational Support Associate position within the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources' Kona Cooperative Extension. Declares that the general f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2517 | Intro
25% | Requires appointments and selections of heads of state divisions and agencies that require a board approval to be made through a publicly established process and timeline. Requires the approval of the process and timeline to appoint or select a new h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2783 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for Medicaid coverage under the Children's Health Insurance Program for income-qualified pregnant persons and children, regardless of immigration status. Declares that the general fund expenditur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| SB2933 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches, shall be protected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3015 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. and its subsidiaries Maui Electric Company, Limited, and Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc., for multiproject capital improvement programs. Takes effect 7/1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3382 | Intro
25% | Establishes an income tax credit to encourage investment in businesses affected by the 2023 Lahaina wildfire, and in redevelopment resiliency projects occurring within the Lahaina district. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2769 | Intro
25% | Requires the state and counties to upgrade to zero emission buses by 2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2178 | Intro
25% | Allows for a percentage of general excise and fuel taxes generated by the counties to be used for the maintenance of private roadways that are open to the public. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| SB2935 | Intro
25% | Makes an appropriation to the Agribusiness Development Corporation for the creation of a composting program. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2822 | Intro
25% | By 8/1/24, requires the Public Utilities Commission to open a docket and set a procedural schedule to determine whether and by which rules the Department of Accounting and General Services may engage in wheeling of electricity that is produced by ren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB3013 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation for the coordinated removal of albizia and other invasive trees. Requires matching funds from public utilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2201 | Intro
25% | Requires license plates to include okinas. Authorizes the use of all uppercase letters, all lowercase letters, or initial capital letters in motor vehicle license plates. Limits special number plates for environmental conservation to apply to electri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3258 | Intro
25% | Establishes additional requirements for the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Board of Land and Natural Resources regarding the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2641 | Intro
25% | Limits moving violations arising from the operation of a motor vehicle that appear on traffic abstracts to those that resulted in convictions. Requires the Traffic and Emergency Period Violations Bureaus to remove all alleged moving violations not re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2139 | Intro
25% | Establishes provisions regarding the fees and other costs charged to reproduce certain government documents during a nationally declared disaster. Requires the Office of Information Practices to adopt certain rules regarding the fees and other charge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB618 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to establish a five-year State Permit Pilot Program to process building and infrastructure permits for the construction of state-owned buildings, state roads and highways, and other construct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2874 | Intro
25% | Establishes a non-refundable income tax credit for residential landlords who lease a unit to a tenant with a pet for at least six months. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3260 | Intro
25% | Requires that, by 1/1/2112, one hundred percent of the food purchased by certain state departments consist of fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products. Requires the Department of Agriculture t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| SB3302 | Intro
25% | For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024, creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for qualified expenses of eligible farmers, ranchers, and fishers. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB263 | Intro
25% | Requires council members to receive annual training on topics related to Native Hawaiian healing and health. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB367 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of tickets at higher price than the original price charged by the primary venue ticket provider. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2349 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, or operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers. Increases the amounts of fines for offenses against leaf blower restrictions and provides for the forfeiture of gasoline-powered leaf blowers on a third violation. Rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2369 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group to investigate the existence and environmental dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and related chemicals. Requires reports to the Legislature. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| 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 |
| SB2425 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and appropriates funds to the Department of Health to retain qualified consultants as necessary to identify necessary public outreach and education resources and tools and develop a comprehensive public outreach strategy and website to edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3229 | Intro
25% | 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 |
| SB2421 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the continued administration of the Hawaii Healthy Food Incentive Program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Declare...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2675 | Intro
25% | 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 |
| SB2588 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the establishment of four full-time equivalent (4.0 FTE) archaeologist positions and one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) historic preservation specialist position within the State Historic Preservation Division; provided that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3184 | Intro
25% | Establishes a three-year pilot program that allows the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct emergency procurement in certain districts under certain circumstances. Requires reports to the Legislature. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2722 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2894 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to incorporate bikeshare and micro-mobility devices into the Pre-tax Transportation Benefit Pilot Program's commuter benefits. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3001 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for applied behavioral analysis services for persons with autism. Requires the Department of Human Services to obtain maximum federal matching funds and pursue all other funding sources. Declares that the ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3185 | Intro
25% | Amends chapter 103D, HRS, to add to part III a new section allowing an alternative procurement method when the federal government provides for or approves the alternative procurement method, and the head of the purchasing agency makes a written deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3345 | Intro
25% | Conforms Hawaii estate tax laws to the operative provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to decrease the burden on taxpayers and increase efficiencies in the Department of Taxation's monitoring and auditing of estate tax returns. Establishes an estat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2545 | Intro
25% | Authorizes manufacturers of electronic devices to coordinate collection activities for the purpose of recycling electronic devices. Allows manufacturers of electronic devices to be considered to have satisfied its recycling goals by providing only co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2418 | Intro
25% | Requires state agencies that monitor environmental toxins and pollutants to establish environmental action levels (EALs) to ensure the preservation of a safe environment. Prohibits modifications to EALs unless certain procedural requirements are met....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2477 | Intro
25% | Includes single-ingredient products as a purchasing option for certain state departments and entities to fulfill their local food purchasing requirements. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2570 | Intro
25% | Requires a protest based on the content of the solicitation to be submitted a minimum of one day business before the date set for the receipt of offers, and all other protests be submitted within seven calendar days after the posting of award of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3045 | Intro
25% | Increases the cap for awards to assist businesses applying for the Small Business Innovation Research Grant Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Grant Program of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Adds purchasing of renewabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3261 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Local Agriculture Transportation Cost Reimbursement Program to reimburse eligible ranchers and farmers a portion of their costs to transport livestock, livestock products, agricultural commodities, and certain supplies under certain cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2183 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "beach restoration" used in laws governing the Board of Land and Natural Resources' powers to engage in beach restoration to include activities undertaken to improve eroded beaches and degraded dune systems and to remove aban...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
