| SB1263 | Intro
25% | Requires commercial ocean operators who take customers into state waters to engage in recreational activities to have at least one individual aboard the vessel who is rescue diver or lifeguard certified by a nationally recognized certification organi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| SB745 | Engross
50% | Extends the offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes a mandatory $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1410 | Intro
25% | Prohibits operation of a pickup truck with any passengers seated in the bed or load-carrying area unless in an emergency or an officially authorized parade caravan, or exhibition. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB853 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| SB1610 | Intro
25% | Establishes an income tax credit for qualified media facilities and infrastructure projects. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Increases the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit for qualified productions that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB124 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the possession of firearms on school property and school buses and at school-sponsored functions. Exempts certain law enforcement officers and instructors and participants of certain educational or training programs. Establishes that violat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB501 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB949 | Intro
25% | Requires that any secure psychiatric rehabilitation program operated or contracted for by the Department of Health must be a forensic facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB337 | Intro
25% | Increases the term that the Hawaii Community Development Authority may lease certain property from sixty-five to ninety-nine years. Retains terms for leases of ceded lands at sixty-five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB960 | Intro
25% | Repeals the University of Hawaii Board of Regents Candidate Advisory Council. Authorizes the Governor to directly appoint members to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents. Effective upon ratification of a constitutional amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1406 | Intro
25% | Amends the law relating to vehicle weight violations by replacing the fine schedule and increasing the potential fines based on multitude and magnitude of vehicle weight violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB874 | Engross
50% | Exempts certain housing developments from assessments of school impact fees. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| SB353 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that when trespass involves public land, all state and county law enforcement officers are authorized to and shall enforce trespass laws, without regard to whether the land is owned by the State or by a county. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB152 | Intro
25% | Authorizes prescriptions made by chiropractors for physical therapy and therapeutic massage treatment to qualify as a motor vehicle insurance personal injury protection benefit. Replaces the existing cap on the number of chiropractic treatment visits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB953 | Intro
25% | Requires psychologists licensed in the State to complete at least four hours of continuing education per licensing biennium on topics relating to cultural diversity, cultural competence, sexual orientation, gender identity, or health equity. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1193 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish a grant program to assist persons who use albizia trees to create usable commercial products or are developing ways to use albizia trees to create usable products. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB970 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish zero-emission vehicle goals and plant-based food goals as part of the sustainable schools initiative. Requires annual report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB992 | Enroll
75% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from 70 to 75 years of age. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| SB1184 | Intro
25% | Prohibits golf carts from operating at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour. Prohibits neighborhood electric vehicles and golf carts from being driven on highways with a posted speed limit greater than twenty-five miles, except for crossin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB978 | Intro
25% | Includes any firearm or rifle with the capacity to fire ammunition of fifty caliber or higher, excluding antique pistols and revolvers, and muzzleloaders in the list of prohibited weapons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB208 | Intro
25% | Repeals section 328J-11.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1597 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Environmental Protection Agency. Transfers jurisdiction of certain functions and employees of the Department of Agriculture and Department of Health to the Hawaii Environmental Protection Agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB967 | Intro
25% | Establishes an organic foods production tax credit for farmers investing into the organic certification process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1192 | Intro
25% | Establishes minimum hour and daily pay rates for substitute teachers for the 2024-2025 to 2028-2029 school years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB1430 | Intro
25% | Repeals motor vehicle safety inspection requirements for certain motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB935 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Gambling Addiction Special Fund within the Department of Human Services for the treatment of gambling addiction for Hawaii residents. Imposes a general excise tax on persons engaged in the arrangement, provision, or sale within the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1443 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the department of education to stock bronchodilators for emergency use during respiratory distress and authorize department employees to volunteer to administer bronchodilators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB716 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys for the Department of Education to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization to establish an aquatic safety education program for elementary school students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1247 | Engross
50% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to enter into a publicprivate partnership to develop a waste-to-energy generating facility. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB543 | Intro
25% | Relating To Health. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB771 | Intro
25% | Establishes a criminal penalty and monetary fines for aquarium fishing violations. Clarifies that each fish or aquatic life specimen taken in violation of certain fishing laws regarding aquarium fish and the possession and use of prohibited explosive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB288 | Intro
25% | Transfers the Culinary Institute of the Pacific from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as an administratively attached agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB189 | Intro
25% | Prohibits lobbyists from making gifts that are prohibited under state ethics law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB93 | Engross
50% | Requires county agencies producing recycled water to establish water reuse zones within their service areas by January 1, 2024. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB381 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a person from promoting, arranging, conducting, assisting in, receiving money for, or taking part in any meeting, competition, exhibition, pastime, practice, display, or event at or in the course of which a captive marine mammal is used for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1194 | Intro
25% | Establishes a financial literacy pilot project within the elementary, intermediate, and high schools in the Castle-Kahuku complex area during the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 school years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1323 | Intro
25% | Amends the Professional and Vocational Licensing Act to reduce the time frame for which an application is considered abandoned from two years to one year and to specify how this one-year period applies to the process for applications for examination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB1301 | Intro
25% | Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (4) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB1221 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to offer training for teachers, educational officers, and school-based behavioral health specialists on sex trafficking prevention and response.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB484 | Intro
25% | Enacts portions of the Uniform Parentage Act of 2017 to replace the Uniform Parentage Act of 1973. Takes effect 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB64 | Engross
50% | Requires the insurance commissioner to establish an annual enrollment period for medigap insurance plans. Requires issuers of Medigap insurance in the State to accept an eligible individual's application for coverage during the open enrollment period...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1032 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of land and natural resources to prepare plans and a program to facilitate voluntary relocation of Presidential development away from areas at risk of sea level rise. Establishes the sea level rise relocation special fund. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB348 | Intro
25% | Limits public funding to beach replenishment projects in resort zoned areas to twenty per cent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB1454 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Therapeutic Psilocybin Working Group within the Department of Health. Requires the working group to examine the medicinal and therapeutic effects of psilocybin or psilocybinbased products on mental health, report to the Legislature be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| SB423 | Intro
25% | Requires the employees' retirement system to divest its investment portfolio of coal, oil, and gas companies within an unspecified number of years and to report certain information to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB328 | Intro
25% | Requires at least one hundred thousand housing units to be developed near the rail station nearest to the Aloha Stadium. Requires a minimum of eighty per cent of those housing units to be priced or rented as affordable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB577 | Intro
25% | Relating To Government. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1051 | Intro
25% | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB1077 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to establish a ballot-tracking system that allows all voters to receive alerts regarding the mailing, receipt, and counting of their ballots returned by mail. Requires the counties to immediately notify ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1617 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, in consultation with the Department of Human Services and Department of Health, to establish and administer a Kauhale Program to provide individual or shared housing units and support services to certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
