| SB385 | Engross
50% | Establishes registration and driver's licensing requirements for operation of electric rickshaws. Defines electric rickshaw. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB703 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Small Business Innovation Research Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB734 | Engross
50% | Establishes an inter-division program between the State Historic Preservation Division, Land Division, Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands, Island Burial Councils, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs that addresses the location, movement, and res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1322 | Intro
25% | Allows for temporary permits to be issued to registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, and revises the exemptions for license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1253 | Intro
25% | Defines "guidance", "opinion", and "ruling". Requires the Director of the Office of Information Practices to provide either a ruling or guidance in writing on open records responses and open meetings complaints. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB553 | Intro
25% | Relating To Housing. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1463 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a landlord from terminating certain tenancies without just cause. Requires a landlord to provide relocation assistance or waive the last month's rent when terminating a tenancy for no-fault just cause. Restricts how much and how often a lan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB822 | Engross
50% | Creates a process for the establishment of a creative district. Establishes a 5-year income tax credit for creative districts. Permits counties to enact incentives for creative districts. Requires the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to submi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB472 | Intro
25% | Requires the family court to amend its rules to require that service upon a party who is not a resident of or found within the island or circuit with jurisdiction over the proceeding may be effectuated by a declaration of the petitioner that states t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1303 | Intro
25% | Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (6) 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 |
| SB886 | Intro
25% | Specifies the procedure for condominium association meetings conducted in person and electronically. Clarifies the procedure for electronic, machine, or mail voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB525 | Intro
25% | Relating To Commerce. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB976 | Intro
25% | Increases minimum liability coverage of motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB347 | Intro
25% | Restricts the use of solitary confinement in state-operated and state-contracted correctional facilities, with certain specified exceptions. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to use appropriate alternatives to solitary confine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB791 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to purchase one advanced life support ambulance to be based on the island of Molokai, and related equipment, and pay related personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical services personnel. (SD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1548 | Intro
25% | Repeals redundant regulations on hemp production, which will reduce costs for the State and Hawaii farmers. Amends hemp law in a manner that recognizes the unique constraints of Hawaii farmers, while protecting human health. Allows licensed hemp prod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB42 | Intro
25% | Requires employers to provide employees with written notice of the employee's shift schedule at least ten calendar days before the employee is scheduled to work, under certain circumstances. Requires certain employers to pay their employees twice as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB171 | Intro
25% | Raises the state income tax rate by five per cent for taxpayers in the highest income bracket for six years. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB188 | Intro
25% | Requires each state legislator to include within the legislator's disclosures of financial interest the names of certain lobbyists with whom the legislator has a relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB506 | Engross
50% | Requires self-service stations to put labels on gas dispensing equipment that advise consumers on the effects of fossil fuel consumption to human health and the environment. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB701 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 15th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB446 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of implementing a pilot program to integrate prescription digital therapeutic products approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration in outpatient treatment prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1304 | Intro
25% | Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (7) 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 |
| SB52 | Intro
25% | Amends the process for electing members to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees. Requires the Reapportionment Commission to establish a reapportionment plan for five members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs so th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB997 | Intro
25% | Requires notice and identification of certain top donors who contributed to a noncandidate committee. Changes the requirement of certain information from the schedules filed with the noncandidate committee reports. Removes certain information require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB134 | Intro
25% | Establishes water fluoridation requirements for privately-owned and government entity water suppliers in the State to conform with the United States Department of Health and Human Services standards for optimal water fluoridation levels. Exempts fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB83 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the First Senatorial District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1006 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Transportation to engage climate change adaptation measures for the State's low-lying roads and highways. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB557 | Intro
25% | Relating To Ethics. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB902 | Engross
50% | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a workforce development and support center. Appropriates funds for the center's establishment. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| SB1462 | Engross
50% | Establishes a limited-profit housing associations working group. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB475 | Intro
25% | Provides that reports required by the public utilities commission through an order and not required by statute expire one year after the issuance of the order. Allows continuation of the reporting requirement if a new order is issued and justificatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB378 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to establish an electric school bus pilot program to provide certain complex areas with ownership and control of electric school buses. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB788 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Department of Health from issuing permits for commercial burning of green waste products in residential areas or within one thousand feet of a residential property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1434 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 12th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB595 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the executive office on aging to create an Alzheimer's disease public health campaign.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1014 | Engross
50% | Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to retain independent legal counsel where the opposing party to the reasonably anticipated litigation is the State or another state agency. Provides that fees owed to independent legal counsel shall be pai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB957 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Mobility Management, including funding of positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1279 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a fingerprint-based criminal history background check by the county police departments of applicants for licenses to sell, offer to sell, distribute, or otherwise transfer electric guns or cartridges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB159 | Intro
25% | Expands the definition of "beer" under the State's liquor tax and liquor regulatory laws, to specify that the term includes an alcohol by volume of no less than 0.5 per cent and alcohol seltzer beverages, but excludes certain other forms of distillat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB952 | Intro
25% | Clarifies provisions related to the statutory limitations on the time periods in which a survivor of childhood sexual abuse may file a civil action. Allows for punitive damages. Permits the court to order restorative justice measures, if deemed appro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1020 | Intro
25% | Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for medication used for the treatment of obesity or weight loss management for a covered individual who is overweight and has one or more rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB54 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers in any urban land use districts. Increases the amounts of fines for violations of leaf blower restrictions and provides for the forfeiture of gasoline-powered leaf blowers upon a third violatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1553 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for positions and activities related to coconut rhinoceros beetle infestation control.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB341 | Intro
25% | Inserts unspecified amounts for minimum required liability coverage for accidental harm and destruction of property for motor vehicle insurance policies in the State. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| SB1405 | Engross
50% | Requires vehicle weights to be consistent with federal weight limits with respect to legal limits for gross vehicle weight and axle loads traveling on all public roadways. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB361 | Intro
25% | Establishes a carbon sequestration income tax credit. Applicable to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB120 | Intro
25% | Removes the $3 million cap on the amount the University of Hawaii System can expend from the University of Hawaii Tuition and Fees Special Fund for the University of Hawaii Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB794 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Health, a three-year Cesspool Conversion Financial Assistance Pilot Program to provide financial assistance to owners of cesspools located in the county of Maui to upgrade or convert their cesspools to a wastewate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1174 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Transportation to program intersections to allow walk signals to commence four seconds before the green light is given to motor vehicle traffic when the walk button has been pressed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
