| HB2455 | Engross
50% | Effective January 1, 2024, transfers the responsibility and management of certain private security contracts from the Department of Law Enforcement to the Department of Health, Department of Human Services, and Department of Defense for their respect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB2692 | Engross
50% | Authorizes two or more members of the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority to meet during its transition period regarding any matter relating to the Authority's business; provided that no commitment to vote is made or sought and no decision-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB2503 | Engross
50% | Repeals the Innovation and Commercialization Initiative Program's sunset provision in Act 8, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, to allow the continuation of the Innovation and Commercialization Initiative Program established within the University o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB3059 | Engross
50% | Clarifies requirements to establish a quorum to do business and validate acts of the Stadium Authority. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2106 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Access to Local Value-Added Products Act to allow homemade food operations to sell homemade food products, under certain conditions, upon registering with the Department of Health. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2079 | Engross
50% | Relaxes the requirements for prescribing certain controlled substances as part of gender-affirming health care services. Expands the protections established under Act 2, SLH 2023, to include gender-affirming health care services. Clarifies jurisdicti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB1897 | Engross
50% | Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal care products in small plastic containers within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping room accommodations, or bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2416 | Engross
50% | Provides a conveyance tax exemption for certain real property furnished as a transient accommodation. Repeals 1/1/2026. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2645 | Engross
50% | Establishes a compliance program within the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to investigate complaints, conduct investigations, and cooperate with law enforcement authorities to ensure compliance with laws. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB3171 | Engross
50% | Mandates the Office of the Lieutenant Governor or the appropriate county clerk's office to ensure access to paper or electronic copies of all meeting notices and deletes the requirement to post notices in a central location in a public building.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1631 | Engross
50% | Requires the School Facilities Authority to work with the Department of Education to prioritize projects for the construction of educator workforce housing that will house teachers and other staff of the Department. Requires the School Facilities Aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2107 | Engross
50% | Allows the Attorney General to appoint a special counsel to assume the Attorney General's powers and responsibilities over an investigation of a person or matter when the investigation or prosecution of, or any other legal or administrative action ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB3089 | Engross
50% | Requires that licensed teachers have their license revoked by the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board if the teacher is resigning or retiring during the pendency of any investigation into allegations of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or other physical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB2402 | Engross
50% | Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of Education for its food service operations. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1780 | Engross
50% | Designates September 21 of each year as World Peace Day. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB1544 | Engross
50% | Adds a minimum penalty and amends the maximum penalty per violation of the State Water Code, expands the types of potential violations of the State Water Code, and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offense. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB2045 | Engross
50% | Expands the law governing automatic renewal clauses to contracts with specified terms of one month or more and that renew for specified terms of one month or more. Requires that a notice of any material change be sent to the consumer no less than thi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1988 | 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-income projects and mixed-use developments....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3177 | Engross
50% | Amends the minimum qualifications for the Chairperson of the Taxation Board of Review. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB849 | Engross
50% | Amends the state supplemental payment ceiling for domiciliary care paid to recipients who are eligible for federal supplementary security income or public assistance, or both. Amends the monthly needs allowance for individuals residing in foster home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Human Services Committee |
| SB2850 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to appoint an organization as the limited owner of a cemetery, under certain circumstances, for the purposes of filing complaints and engaging in certain security and perpetual care activities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB3133 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Health to conduct fingerprinting and criminal history record checks on applicants who apply for a permit to operate as a hemp processor. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2565 | Engross
50% | Prohibits counties from prohibiting leashed dogs in public parks. Prohibits persons from leaving dog excrement on public or private property. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB3196 | Engross
50% | Amends the prohibition on certain assault weapons to include .50 caliber rifles and assault weapon attachments. Modernizes the prohibition on assault pistols to include pistols with one or more prohibited feature. Prohibits firearms other than pistol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1802 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to issue revenue bonds for the purpose of financing capital improvement projects. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB1636 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the use of electronic mail to deliver certain documents when purchasing a condominium. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2637 | Engross
50% | Require the third meeting of a board to deliberate and act on a matter investigated by a group of its members to be held at least six days after the second meeting. Takes effect 4/14/2112. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1660 | Engross
50% | Taxes capital gains income at the same rate as ordinary income. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2522 | Engross
50% | Expands the definition of "beer" under the liquor regulatory laws to mean any alcoholic beverage containing no less than 0.5 per cent alcohol by volume obtained by fermentation of any infusion or decoction of malt or any substitute, including alcohol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1856 | Engross
50% | Authorizes each county to adopt ordinances to regulate or restrict access to streets, highways, thoroughfares, or roads under certain circumstances. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB3147 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that the Director of Law Enforcement has authority to issue subpoenas as part of the investigative powers of the Department of Law Enforcement. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2710 | Engross
50% | Requires, as a condition for the issuance of a broadband-related permit, a wireless telecommunications carrier to maintain emergency backup power under certain circumstances. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2664 | Engross
50% | Lapses appropriations of general obligation bond funds previously authorized for the planning, design, and construction of a stadium in Halawa by the Stadium Authority. Transfers certain special fund moneys earmarked for the development of a new stad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB1591 | Engross
50% | Establishes a regulatory framework for microenterprise home kitchens. Authorizes the Department of Health to adopt rules regarding microenterprise home kitchens; grant and revoke permits; issue food safety manager certificates; charge fees; and condu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB2043 | 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, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB3124 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Director of Health to permit online access to apply for marriage and civil union licenses in lieu of in-person applications, as specified in rules adopted pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2366 | Engross
50% | Repeals the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2684 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Institute of Indigenous Education, Science, and Outreach within the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Provides that the Hawaiian language college revolving fund may include moneys from any revenue source and shall support the Imiloa astro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1534 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Registered Teacher Apprenticeship Program, to be administered by the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1904 | Engross
50% | Provides a process for school placement for a child whose parent or guardian has transferred or is pending transfer from another state to a military installation in Hawaii while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order. Effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2673 | Engross
50% | Requires that the authorized insurance benefits for chiropractic treatments for personal injury protection benefits under motor vehicle insurance be tied to the charges, and any subsequent increases in charges, permissible under the workers' compensa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB2367 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that the party responsible for renewable portfolio standards support and reporting on certain energy matters shall be the Chief Energy Officer of the Hawaii State Energy Office. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB1777 | Engross
50% | Authorizes dental hygienists who are under the general supervision of a licensed dentist to perform preventive dental sealant screenings and apply dental sealants on certain individuals in a school-based oral health program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1592 | Engross
50% | Increases the maximum amount of conveyance tax revenues allocated to the land conservation fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB2222 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Education to convene a staggered school start times task force to study and evaluate the issues and implications of instituting a staggered school start times program, including effects on school bus schedules. Requires a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1638 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the counties to require employers to disclose information regarding its employees' wages, benefits, hours, and employment status and deny, revoke, or suspend a building permit application for violating laws relating to wages, benefits, hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2686 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the State's Address Confidentiality Program protection for public servants that prohibits upon written request from the public servant or representative any person or organization from disclosing certain personal information. Estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB3217 | Engross
50% | Requires the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund base composite monthly contribution to be adjusted annually beginning 1/1/2025 by increasing the contribution in effect on 1/1/2024 by 5.2 per cent, and thereafter based on the changes in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB2780 | Engross
50% | Incrementally amends income tax rates for every other taxable year beginning after 12/31/2026. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3060 | Engross
50% | Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop and publish a statewide climate adaptation and resilience implementation plan. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Water & Land Committee |
