| SB1542 | Intro
25% | Specifies sensitive locations in which the carrying of firearms is restricted or prohibited. Authorizes, in certain circumstances, the carrying of firearms on private property. Specifies areas in which the carrying or possession of electric guns is r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1128 | Intro
25% | Exempts gross proceeds from medical services provided by physicians and advanced practice registered nurses acting in the capacity of a primary care provider from the general excise tax. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1571 | Intro
25% | Allows direct shipment of all forms of liquor, rather than just wine, by certain licensees. Requires the county liquor commissions to adopt rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB1054 | Intro
25% | Prohibits non-compete and non-solicit clauses in employment contracts relating to employees of a restaurant, retail store, newspaper, magazine, news agency, press association, wire service, or radio or television transmission station or network.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB241 | Intro
25% | Establishes general excise tax exemptions for food, medical services, and feminine hygiene products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB132 | Intro
25% | Requires a written notice to defendants and eligible paroled prisoners of their right to complete a nonreligious substance abuse treatment program. Requires a list of nonreligious substance abuse treatment programs to be provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB465 | Engross
50% | Authorizes qualifying patients and qualifying out-of-state patients to transport cannabis between islands of the State for personal medical use; provided that no individual or entity shall be required to violate federal law. Requires the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1233 | Intro
25% | Authorizes state facilities to wheel electricity that is produced by their own facility from renewable energy sources to another state facility pursuant to administrative rules established by the Public Utilities Commission. Requires a report by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB494 | Engross
50% | Requires the counties to establish expedited procedures to approve demolition permits for vacant residential properties. Allows the Department of Taxation to satisfy certain tax liens through the nonjudicial foreclosure of vacant and abandoned reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1512 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the use of proxies in condominium association voting. Requires associations to allow members to vote by mail and attend and cast votes in association meetings through internet, teleconference, or other electronic transmission technology. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB1404 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the department of transportation airports division to demand and collect reimbursement from any airport contractor, tenant, or user for the entire amount of fines and penalties levied for the violation of federal, state, or county laws rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1104 | Engross
50% | Amends the definition of "cannabis" to include cannabis propagules, cuttings, and seeds. Defines "cannabis cutting" and "cannabis propagule". Requires a licensed dispensary's production center to submit to DOH an inventory of cannabis propagules, cut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB661 | Intro
25% | 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 |
| SB591 | Engross
50% | Establishes the operation of an illegal gambling business as a class C felony. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1217 | Intro
25% | Proposes to amend the state Constitution to provide that, beginning with the 2026 general election, the minimum state residency requirement for a candidate for Governor or Lieutenant Governor shall be raised from 5 years to 30 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1523 | Engross
50% | Requires the State Board of Professional Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Landscape Architects to, upon its denial of an application for licensure, provide the applicant with a written notice of denial accompanied by a written explanation describ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB267 | Intro
25% | Amends various definitions of "moped" throughout the Hawaii Revised Statutes to exclude low-speed electric bicycles. Deletes an unused term from Chapter 286, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Establishes regulations for low-speed electric bicycles and clarifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB576 | Engross
50% | Requires reports of official out-of-state and intrastate travel by state employees, officers, or other representatives of state departments or agencies, including the judiciary and University of Hawaii, to be made available for public review on the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB938 | Intro
25% | Requires each county to adopt reasonable standards to allow the construction of up to four dwelling units on any land with an urban state land use district classification that is zoned for residential use where a single-family dwelling unit is permit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB230 | Intro
25% | Authorizes each county to establish a higher minimum wage than the state minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "historic property" to require that the property meets the criteria for inclusion in the Hawaii Register of Historic Places or has important value to Native Hawaiians or other ethnic groups of the State due to associations wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1219 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates moneys for the provision of free voice communication services in the State's youth and adult correctional facilities. Prohibits state agencies from deriving revenue or financial benefits from the provision of communication s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB991 | Intro
25% | Imposes a cap on costs charged to reproduce certain government records. Waives reproduction costs charged for the first one hundred pages if disclosure serves the public interest. Waives costs charged to duplicate certain government records in an ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB461 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the purchase, storage, and operational costs of food distribution in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB100 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission and to fund three full-time equivalent (3.00 FTE) permanent positions for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1331 | Intro
25% | Adds to the State Building Code Council a voting member representing the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB851 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the sixteenth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB223 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Program for each county with a population greater than five hundred thousand to be administered by the Judiciary. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB126 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the operation of a vehicle sound amplification system that can be heard outside the vehicle from a distance of thirty feet or more while the vehicle is on a public roadway, street, or highway, or within any residential zone or district. Est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB413 | Intro
25% | Increases the fines for violating motor vehicle insurance requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB452 | Intro
25% | Establishes a junior police pilot program at Farrington High School in coordination with the Honolulu Police Department. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB723 | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB135 | Intro
25% | Beginning January 1, , establishes a zero net vehicle growth policy in the State to ensure that the number of vehicles in the State does not exceed the vehicle threshold. Prohibits the importation of a vehicle into the State unless the dealer or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB82 | Intro
25% | Limits the discretion of the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Land Division by requiring the Board of Land and Natural Resources to approve all revoked, limited, condemned, removed, or modified public land leases or revocable permits. Effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| SB800 | Intro
25% | Establishes income tax credits for employers who offer employer-provided or employer-sponsored child care for their employees. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1379 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the penalty to be assessed on any person who intentionally operates a care facility without a certificate or license. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| SB1018 | Engross
50% | Requires the Governor to ensure continued operation of medical facilities upon declaration of a state of emergency or local state of emergency and during times of health or pandemic emergencies. Allows hospitals to suspend elective surgeries during t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB883 | Intro
25% | Establishes the crime of possession of a firearm in a sensitive location as a class C felony. Imposes a duty to inform law enforcement upon contact on concealed and unconcealed carry permit holders. Defines sensitive location.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB225 | Intro
25% | Repeals section 801-1 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB74 | Engross
50% | Establishes additional exclusions from the definition of "development" as it applies to special management areas to reduce the need for special management area permits for certain activities. Repeals the 7,500 square foot threshold for single-family ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB405 | Intro
25% | Establishes the cesspool conversion tax credit to upgrade or convert cesspools certified by the Department of Health into a director-approved wastewater system. Effective for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB790 | Intro
25% | Prohibits dispositions that authorize diverting water from East Maui county streams for commercial purposes, except for existing water uses by the Maui County Department of Water Supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB232 | Intro
25% | Requires procurement officers, when assessing an offeror's responsibility, to require the offeror to submit answers to questions contained in a standard questionnaire. Establishes certain questions that must be included in the questionnaire. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB1345 | Intro
25% | Changes the Department of Education's quarterly report on autism spectrum disorder to an annual report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB522 | Intro
25% | Relating To Agriculture. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB887 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that, in condominium elections, cumulative voting rights apply to all candidates regardless of whether they are nominated. Clarifies that individual votes are used in cumulative voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
25% | Requires each Department of Education classroom to be equipped with an opioid antagonist. Requires the Department of Education to train employees on opioid-related drug overdose prevention, recognition, and response and opioid antagonist administrati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1371 | Intro
25% | Increases the marriage license fee from $60 to $100. Increases the compensation for a marriage license agent from $9 to $15 per license. Authorizes deposits of marriage license fees into the Vital Statistics Improvement Special Fund. Adjusts the dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB1583 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funding contingent upon matching fund availability to support the Village, an agricultural community and learning center that works to improve food security and sustainability on the Island of Hawaii by offering training for interested p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB218 | Intro
25% | Allows government agencies to publish public notices on their official websites as an alternative to publishing them in the newspaper.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
