| SB2345 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Law Enforcement to coordinate crisis intervention training for state and county law enforcement agencies. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-24-24 1:40PM; Conference Room 016. |
| SB3070 | Engross
50% | Lowers the Employees' Retirement System's funding period to amortize the System's total unfunded accrued liability. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-24 10:01AM; Conference Room 016. |
| SCR213 | Pass | Requesting The Office Of The Administrative Director Of The Courts To Collect, Compile, And Share Data On The Assessment Of Fees, Court Costs, Fines, And Restitution In Cases Against Minors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| SB2787 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Office of Community Services the Immigration Services and Access Unit. Appropriates funds for the unit, including for new positions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-24-24 10:01AM; Conference Room 016. |
| SB2529 | Engross
50% | Amends the definition of "patient's provider" in under the law governing Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment by removing language that requires the provider to examine the patient. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 1:45PM; CR 329. |
| SB3305 | Engross
50% | Requires all public charter schools that exclusively offer prekindergarten programs to adhere to the public charter school law, with certain exceptions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-24 1:30PM; Conference Room 229. |
| SB3279 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the Office of Wellness and Resilience the State of Well-Being Project to assess and enhance tier 1 and tier 2 mental health support services for all key stakeholder communities across the State. Appropriates funds to establish full...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 2:45PM; Conference Room 329. |
| SB572 | Engross
50% | Authorizes and specifies conditions under which the Department of Agriculture may declare a biosecurity emergency, during which the Department and Governor may take certain actions to prevent the establishment or spread of pests and prohibited or res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
[Hearing: Apr 23 @ 9:00 am]
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Tuesday 04-23-24 9:00AM in conference room 325. |
| SB3123 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to access vital records for purposes of verifying Native Hawaiian ancestry for beneficiary programs. Requires the Department of Health and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to enter into a Memorand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Holt, Takayama, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Ganaden, Kong. |
| SB3290 | Engross
50% | Requires the Disability and Communication Access Board to convene a working group to study the state of American Sign Language interpretation services in Hawaii. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 1:45PM; CR 329. |
| SB2526 | Engross
50% | Requires the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group to assist the Office of Enterprise Technology Services in working with certain state agencies to inventory and categorize the business criticality of each major state information technology...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-24-24 10:20AM; Conference Room 016. |
| SB2922 | Engross
50% | Creates a process for electric utilities to develop and submit wildfire protection plans to the Public Utilities Commission for approval and allow the recovery of related costs and expenses through securitization, while avoiding a disproportionate im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 791). |
| SB2753 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that no state or county building code shall prohibit the use of a substitute refrigerant allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency if the applicable equipment is listed and installed in compliance with the latest safety standards. Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 779). |
| SB3021 | Engross
50% | Renames the Electric Bicycle and Electric Moped Rebate Program to the Electric Mobility Rebate Program. Expands eligibility and amends the maximum rebate amounts. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 791). |
| SB2727 | Engross
50% | Allows condominiums to be eligible for commercial property assessed financing. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 791). |
| SB2919 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the counties' authority to regulate the time, place, manner, and duration in which uses of land and structures may take place. Allow counties to enact a zoning ordinance to amortize or phase out transient vacation rental units. Expands the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-24 1:30PM; CR 224. |
| SB795 | Engross
50% | Requires productions to provide evidence of reasonable efforts to comply with all applicable requirements to qualify for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Requires taxpayers be given notice of and an opportunit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
House Conferees Appointed: Holt, Lamosao Co-Chairs; Kitagawa, Pierick. |
| SB3139 | Engross
50% | Establishes a Crisis Intervention and Diversion Services Program within the Department of Health to expand existing services to divert those with mental health issues to appropriate health care services. Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 729). |
| SB2354 | Pass | Expands the definition of "beer" under the intoxicating liquor law to mean any alcoholic beverage containing not less than 0.5% alcohol by volume obtained by fermentation of any infusion or decoction of malt or any substitute, including alcohol seltz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Act 009, 04/19/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1109). |
| SB2337 | Engross
50% | Expands the counties' authorization to exercise the same powers as the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for purposes of developing, constructing, financing, refinancing, or providing mixed-use developments. Applies to bond proceeds ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 791). |
| SB3153 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program Special Fund to receive moneys for the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program. Appropriates funds for the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-24-24 10:20AM; Conference Room 229. |
| SB3091 | Engross
50% | Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of Education for its food service operations. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-24 1:30PM; Conference Room 229. |
| SB3092 | Engross
50% | Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of Education for charter school operations. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-24 1:30PM; Conference Room 229. |
| SB3025 | Engross
50% | Repeals the requirement for additional rules by the Department of Agriculture to address nuisance issues, including smell, noise, and excessive lighting arising out of the activities of hemp growers. Clarifies that the Department of Agriculture shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
[Hearing: Apr 23 @ 9:00 am]
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Tuesday 04-23-24 9:00AM in conference room 325. |
| SB2600 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the use of electronic mail to deliver certain documents when purchasing a condominium. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 2:31PM; Conference Room CR224. |
| SB2731 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to honor veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 2:40PM; Conference Room 016. |
| SB3128 | Engross
50% | Extends the transfer of the Oahu Regional Health Care System (Oahu Region) from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to the Department of Health to 12/31/2026. Requires the working group established by Act 212, SLH 2021, to submit a report to the Le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 1:45PM; CR 329. |
| SB3068 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to support the State's continued response to the August 2023 wildfires that affected the counties of Hawaii and Maui. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-24 2:00PM; Conference Room 309. |
| SB2066 | Engross
50% | Establishes another means for a housing project to seek an exemption from laws and rules of the State that are developed under various programs of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-24 11:00AM; Conference Room 224. |
| SB2070 | Engross
50% | Exempts career and technical education goods and services purchases by the Department of Education from the State Procurement Code. Requires the Department of Education to acquire three verbal or written quotes for career and technical education purc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 1:45PM; Conference Room 229. |
| SB2257 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to consider qualified individuals with at least an associate's degree or high school diploma with comparable education and coursework, industry experience, and content expertise to teach career and techni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-24 1:30PM; Conference Room 229. |
| SB2475 | Engross
50% | Establishes a harm to students registry, for all early learning programs or schools and K-12 educational institutions within the State, that contains information on school employees, contractors, or volunteers for whom, as result of an investigation,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 1:45PM; Conference Room 229. |
| SB2287 | Engross
50% | Requires the Information Technology Steering Committee to assist the Chief Information Officer to develop a plan to enhance the mobile application developed to enable the public to access the State's website. Requires the Chief Information Officer's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-24-24 10:10AM; Conference Room 016. |
| SCR183 | Pass | Urging The Department Of The Attorney General To Investigate And Enforce Applicable Laws Against Landlords Who Are Ending Rental Agreements To House Femaeligible Households Through The Direct Lease Program Or The Department Of Human Services Rental A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| SB63 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the board of nursing to issue temporary permits for six-month periods to out-of-state licensed practical nurses and registered nurses or who hold a multistate license issued by another state, territory, or foreign country, under certain ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Senate Conferees Appointed: San Buenaventura Chair; Keohokalole, Shimabukuro Co-Chairs. |
| SCR23 | Pass | Urging The Department Of Health To Amend The Hawaii Administrative Rules To Authorize Licensed Dietitians To Prescribe Modified Diets And Plan Therapeutic Diets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| SB3157 | Engross
50% | Authorizes disposition of public land leases by direct negotiation for commercial or industrial use on parcels of up to five acres. Repeals 6/30/2029. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
[Hearing: Apr 23 @ 10:15 am]
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Tuesday 04-23-24 10:15AM in conference room 229. |
| SB2983 | Engross
50% | Beginning 1/1/2026, authorizes the Department of the Attorney General to regulate charitable fundraising platforms and platform charities. Includes provisions relating to the misuse of funds. Imposes vicarious liability upon a platform charity for a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-24 3:33PM; Conference Room 016. |
| SB3159 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that a contested case hearing is not required for matters that are identical or arising from the same factual situation as another administrative matter that has been finally adjudicated. Includes administrative contested case proceedings w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
[Hearing: Apr 23 @ 1:35 pm]
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Tuesday 04-23-24 1:35PM in conference room 325. |
| SB2562 | Engross
50% | Prohibits animal owners and their employees from performing any surgical procedures on the owner's animal or animals. Provides a violation for unlicensed practice of veterinary medicine is a misdemeanor subject to a fine of no more than $1,000, or im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of change in Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 728). |
| SB2537 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that the Chief Energy Officer is responsible for supporting the renewable portfolio standards and reporting on certain energy matters. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 791). |
| SB2937 | Engross
50% | Repeals the sunset date for the exemption of laboratory school programs of the Hawaiian language college at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from state English-medium standards, assessments, performance ratings, staff qualifications, and staff traini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 1:45PM; Conference Room 229. |
| SB2245 | Engross
50% | Adds a definition for "exigent circumstances" and amends the definitions of "harm" and "imminent harm" under the Child Protective Act. Clarifies when the police may take protective custody of a child and when the Department of Human Services may assu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 761). |
| SB2715 | Engross
50% | Makes it unlawful for an employer to discharge, discipline, or otherwise penalize or threaten any adverse employment action against an employee because the employee declines to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting that communicates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Tarnas, Garrett, Tam, Alcos; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| SB2557 | Engross
50% | Allows a court to appoint an attorney for the subject of a petition for assisted community treatment if the interests of justice require one be appointed. Repeals language that entitles the subject of a petition for assisted community treatment to le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
[Hearing: Apr 23 @ 1:35 pm]
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Tuesday 04-23-24 1:35PM in conference room 325. |
| SB2413 | Engross
50% | Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 9:05 am]
Bill scheduled for Conference Committee Meeting on Wednesday, 04-24-24 9:05AM in conference room 325. |
| SB3207 | Engross
50% | Removes the salary cap of Superintendent of Education. Makes permanent the annual performance evaluation requirements for the Superintendent of Education. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 1:45PM; Conference Room 229. |
| SB3034 | Engross
50% | Explicitly categorizes defenses based on intoxication that is not self-induced or is pathological as affirmative defenses. Sunsets 7/1/2027. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 3 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Takayama, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| SCR34 | Pass | Requesting The Hawaii Medical Association And Hawaii Psychiatric Medical Association To Convene A Roundtable To Establish Medical Protocols To Ensure That An Individual's Thyroid Function Is Tested Before Psychotropic Medications For Mental Illness A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| SB2735 | Engross
50% | Requires the driver's license examination to test the applicant's knowledge of the dangers that larger motor vehicles present to pedestrians and bicyclists. Requires persons who commit the offense of excessively speeding or habitually driving while i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 779). |
