| SB2738 | Intro
25% | Establishes a three-year pilot program within the Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the counties, to examine signalized intersections. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is excee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3081 | Intro
25% | Amends various provisions of the Insurance Code to update and improve existing provisions. Defines "dormant captive insurance company" and sets out a procedure to apply for the certificate of dormancy. Adds the term "doing business as" to "trade name...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2808 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Statewide Firefighting Helicopter Program, to be administered by the State Fire Marshal. Appropriates funds to obtain helicopters, facilities equipment, and supplies; hire and train staff; and do other things necessary to ensure that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2790 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to hire two FTE positions to collect, manipulate, and graph data and to build an agricultural data dashboard for public consumption and a one year study on agricultural markets for Hawaii farmers. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2827 | Intro
25% | Requires cash or protest bonds to be returned to the initiating parties, minus administrative costs as determined by the Office of Administrative Hearings of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, except in cases where the appeal was frivol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2306 | Intro
25% | No later than January 1, 2025, requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to install and maintain automated external defibrillators in all state buildings. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide training...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1852 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Emergency Services Department of the City and County of Honolulu to expand Community Outreach Response and Engagement Program services outside of urban Honolulu. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2964 | Intro
25% | Authorizes independent generators of renewable energy to wheel the renewable energy transmitted and used to produce hydrogen, subject to certain conditions determined by the Public Utilities Commission. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2028 | Intro
25% | Merges the Made in Hawaii with Aloha branding program with the Hawaii Made program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Specifies that the Department of the Attorney General shall be responsible for enforcement of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3040 | Intro
25% | Amends annual reporting requirement for the Department of the Attorney General concerning firearms concealed carry licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2203 | Intro
25% | Applies permissible uses within agricultural districts to all counties that have adopted ordinances regulating agricultural tourism. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2051 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to collect data and submit to the Legislature a report focused on the health disparities experienced by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities in the State prior to the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3096 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2607 | Intro
25% | Revises the construction defect claims process. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2813 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish industry standards for processing meat and conduct a survey on slaughterhouse operations. Establishes a tax credit for processing meat. Declares that the general expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2378 | Intro
25% | Moves the Hurricane Reserve Trust Fund into the state treasury. Repeals the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund's authority to arrange the manner in which funds are held, invested, and reinvested. Makes a housekeeping amendment to the fund. Effective 7/1/30...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2606 | Intro
25% | Establishes additional requirements for notices of claims of construction defects. Takes effect 7/1/24040. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2873 | Intro
25% | Establishes an advisory commission in the Department of Accounting and General Services to propose names or a change of names for state buildings, parks, facilities, and events. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3209 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Education for the establishment of seven full-time equivalent (7.0 FTE) positions and additional program costs for the expanded teacher cohort program to fulfill the requirements of A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2428 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Agricultural Investment Program within the Agribusiness Development Corporation to support local agricultural producers. Requires annual reports. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Appropriates fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2449 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the definition of "manufactured hemp products" in section 328G-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, includes products intended to be consumed orally in beverage and edible forms and hemp products specified in rules adopted by the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2482 | Intro
25% | Requires the Comptroller to identify state office buildings that can provide equitable telecommunication access to allow certain residents, including residents with disabilities, to participate remotely in legislative hearings. Requires a report to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2101 | Intro
25% | Requires waste combustion facility owners to implement continuous monitoring and sampling technologies for the purposes of collecting data regarding emissions. Establishes a publicly available website hosted by the Department of Health that will trac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2665 | Intro
25% | Establishes green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines for state facility systems, infrastructure, transit projects, and other areas in the Hawaii State Planning Act to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2368 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to conduct a statewide needs assessment to inform the future establishment of an extended producer responsibility program for packaging waste. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2566 | Intro
25% | Requires lot owners to pay for the repair and maintenance of subdivision roads where the applicable deed does not specify that requirement. Authorizes counties to assess and collect fees for repair and maintenance of subdivision roads if no court-app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2719 | Intro
25% | Establishes a pilot program to offer tuition waivers for certain community college students starting in fall 2025. Requires the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to submit a report. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3079 | Intro
25% | Amends section 269-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify that the Public Utilities Commission shall consider the effect of the State's reliance on fossil fuels on lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions and may require a lifecycle greenhouse gas emission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2057 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for a grant-in-aid to the County of Hawaii to hire an engineering firm to study, plan, assist, and conduct preliminary design and concept work for a two-phase project to restore the Kahaluu Beach Park in the County of Hawaii. Condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2400 | Intro
25% | Reduces the number of members on the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board of Directors and number of members that constitute a quorum. Makes certain amendments to membership eligibility. Prohibits holdover board members of the Hawaii Tourism Authority from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3028 | Intro
25% | Deletes the term "enhanced" in reference to 911 services to allow funding of all 911 technologies. Amends the rate of the monthly enhanced 911 surcharge. Allows the 911 Board to employ staff, in addition to the executive director, exempt from chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2757 | Intro
25% | By 1/1/2027, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2028, requires the Department to start ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2815 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Department of Transportation to conduct a comprehensive study to assess the State's port and harbor system and the potential viability of each location in that system to support current and future agricultural p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3340 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, in consultation with livestock industry stakeholders, to conduct a study to assess the effects of heat stress on beef cattle during interisland ocean transportatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2050 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and conduct the Marine Life Conservation District Carrying Capacity Program. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit reports to the Legislature and adopt admin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2936 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Agriculture for the planning and construction of a new inspection, quarantine, and incineration facility on the island of Maui. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceilin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2830 | Intro
25% | Amends the definitions of "board", "board business", and "meeting" within state open meetings law to expand the scope of the law to include state and county policymaking groups, including groups created by emergency proclamations. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB407 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
Failed to adopt report with 4 Noes Representative(s) Kitagawa, Kobayashi, Marten, Matayoshi; and 6 Excused Representative(s) Aiu, Garrett, Perruso, Pierick, Takayama, Todd. |
| SB3132 | Intro
25% | Repeals the sunset date of the authorization for primary caregivers to cultivate medical cannabis for their qualifying patients, subject to certain restrictions. Authorizes patient grow sites with more than five patients on land zoned for agricultura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2426 | Intro
25% | Part II: Requires certain priority level 1 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2035, and priority level 2 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2045, rather than before 1/1/2050. Part III: Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2574 | Intro
25% | Establishes a tax credit for the import of renewable fuel, including sustainable aviation fuel. Expands the provisions of the renewable fuels production tax credit. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2358 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to ensure its long-term viability and prevent future problems. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3370 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Human Resources Development to establish permanent full-time equivalent Human Resources Specialist V Positions and to fund the operating, equipment, supplies, promotional materials, marketing, advertising, tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2098 | Intro
25% | Authorizes independent generators of renewable energy to wheel the renewable electricity they produce to users of renewable energy under policies and procedures established by the Public Utilities Commission. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1918 | Intro
25% | Extends the sunset date for the historic preservation tax credit to December 31, 2030, and adjusts the cap on the total tax credits for future taxable years. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1933 | Intro
25% | Establishes a sobriety checkpoint special fund to provide funding to county law enforcement agencies for staffing for sobriety checks and processing of persons arrested at sobriety checkpoints. Increases the state vehicle registration fee and establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2867 | Intro
25% | Temporarily transfers certain lands in West Maui to the Department of Accounting and General Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB2375 | Intro
25% | Reinstates the Governor's authority to transfer funds to cope with the effects of natural disasters, for operating purposes, or to supplement the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Firefighter's Contingency Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2465 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that failure to comply with approved mitigation commitments, conduct an archaeological inventory survey, or comply with other administrative requirements pertaining to archaeology approved by the Department of Land and Natural Resources sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2886 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the State or any of its branches, political subdivisions, or agencies from requiring a bachelor's degree as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in state employment. Establishes exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
