| SB641 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to plan, design, construct, operate, manage, maintain, repair, demolish, and remove infrastructure on any lands under the jurisdiction of the department, to support and promote agriculture. Establishes an agri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB158 | Engross
50% | Establishes that charging shipping and delivery charges that exceed the actual cost charged to the seller to ship or deliver a consumer commodity or consumer package to a consumer in Hawaii constitutes an unfair and deceptive practice. Effective 7/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB119 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Performing Arts Pilot Program Committee to establish the Performing Arts Pilot Program to select, review, and fund grant proposals for performing arts events. Clarifies the scope of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts' respon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB617 | Intro
25% | Requires all United States military reservations and military training facilities in the State to display the Hawaiian flag.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1336 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Targeted Violence Prevention program within the state Office of Homeland Security. Mandates reporting by state and county government agencies regarding specific enumerated activity. Establishes the all-threats or all-hazards statewide r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1031 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources' state historic preservation division for a library digitization process and for the division's operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB108 | Intro
25% | Adopts the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard for use by the Department of Education in preparation of instructional materials for eligible students. Defines "eligible student" in accordance with the Individuals with Disabilities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB87 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources and its partner, or partners, for the continuation of benefits of the Green Jobs Youth Corps. Takes effect 07/01/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1281 | Intro
25% | Defines the terms "public officer or employee" and "government" in section 701-108, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify the scope and applicability of provisions related to the time limitations to bring prosecution based on misconduct in office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB102 | Intro
25% | Exempts services provided by a hospital, infirmary, medical clinic, health care facility, pharmacy, or licensed medical practitioner from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB125 | Intro
25% | Beginning January 1, 2024, increases the tip credit to be twenty per cent of the minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB1210 | Intro
25% | Increases the refundable food/excise tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1127 | Intro
25% | Requires the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, in collaboration with the County of Maui and any other private entities the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation and County of Maui deem necessary, to submit a report to the Legislature regar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB96 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Aquaculture Development Branch within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the rights, powers, functions, duties, employees, and other capital of the Aquaculture and Livestock Services Branch of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1591 | Intro
25% | Creates a Public Places Special Fund to fund hiring private security to work with county law enforcement to enforce state or county laws, rules, ordinances, or regulations prohibiting camping, loitering, nuisance, or other violations in public places...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1062 | Intro
25% | Allows up to one dwelling per quarter-acre in rural districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1202 | Intro
25% | Expands the real estate commissions enforcement authority to include violations of requirements for association meetings and board of director elections. Requires newly elected or appointed condominium association board members to certify in writing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB111 | Intro
25% | Requires state agencies to offer individuals who resigned or were dismissed from employment for not complying with vaccination or testing requirements the option to be reinstated, with back pay, to the position that person held prior to their termina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB658 | Intro
25% | Establishes a visitor green fee program that requires that visitors purchase a license which is valid for one year for the use of a state park, beach, state-owned forest, hiking trail on state-owned land, or other state-owned natural area, to be admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB61 | Intro
25% | Creates a new category of professional licensure for associate physicians, which are recent medical school graduates who have passed certain medical exams but have not been placed into a residency program and who work under the supervision of a licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1421 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of fraud as a class B felony. Disqualifies a person from holding elective public office for a period of ten years upon conviction of fraud.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB826 | Engross
50% | Transfers an unspecified sum of general funds previously appropriated to the School Facilities Authority of the Department of Education to the school facilities special fund. Appropriates moneys from the school facilities special fund in fiscal year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| SB1160 | Intro
25% | Allows the Intermediate Appellate Court to review orders issued by the Hawaii Paroling Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB609 | Engross
50% | Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued on or after 01/01/2024 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of an unspecified amount per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. Effective 12/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| SB1449 | Intro
25% | Amends the State Whistleblowers' Protection Act to include protection for public employees reporting the commission of fraud by other public employees or public bodies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB180 | Intro
25% | Defines "direct recording electronic voting system", "marksense ballot voting system", and "mechanical tabulation system". Amends the definition of "electronic voting system" to include the mechanical tabulation system and marksense ballot voting sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB511 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to establish a foreign agriculture small equipment pilot program. Requires a report to the legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB276 | Intro
25% | Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 20th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1578 | Engross
50% | Adds additional considerations for the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to take into account when ensuring that the terms and conditions required for operation of an access organization are fair to the public in its designated service area. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| SB118 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate the Honolulu Museum of Art.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB510 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Dam and Reservoir Working Group to ensure and enhance the continued availability and operation of dams and reservoirs in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB486 | Intro
25% | Prohibits, in certain circumstances, the publication of the personal information of state and federal judges and other judicial staff whose duties put them at risk for acts of violence or threats.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| SB300 | Engross
50% | Requires generally that the expenditure of public moneys for any improvement to land not owned or leased by the State must be appropriated by the legislature for that specific purpose and include a declaration in the same act of the public purpose re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB237 | Intro
25% | Requires certain individuals attempting to serve as child custody evaluators to complete a training course on the dynamics of domestic violence every three years and submit a letter or certificate of completion of the training course to the Family Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1246 | Intro
25% | Requires the Agribusiness Development Corporation to plan, design, construct, and operate a new animal slaughterhouse on the island of Oahu. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB160 | Engross
50% | Lowers the threshold blood alcohol concentration for the offense of operating a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1255 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii public housing authority for the state rent supplement program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1081 | Intro
25% | Establishes the safe routes to school advisory committee within the Planning Branch of the Highways Division of the Department of Transportation. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB1472 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the expansion and enhancement of the suicide crisis hotline and crisis management services provided by contracted service providers through the Hawaii Coordinated Access Resource Entry System (CARES) Crisis Helpline; expansion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1408 | Intro
25% | Creates a mileage-based road usage charge to replace state motor fuel taxes beginning on July 1, 2025, for electric vehicles. Eliminates $50 annual state vehicle registration surcharge for electric vehicles. Allows electric vehicles a choice of payin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB538 | Intro
25% | Relating To Government Operations. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB509 | Intro
25% | Requires each executive branch department to: identify existing and planned facilities that are vulnerable to sea level rise, flooding impacts, and natural hazards; assess options for mitigating the impacts of sea level rise to existing and planned f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1004 | Intro
25% | Establishes a carbon emissions tax credit. Expands the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include carbon emissions. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB53 | Intro
25% | Requires individuals denied a firearm permit or otherwise disqualified from possessing firearms and certain defendants to provide a sworn statement that the individual has disposed of any firearms and ammunition in the individual's possession. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1297 | Engross
50% | Establishes a public policy framework that addresses state goals in the area of economic diversification. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to implement specific projects that address those goals. Requires the Hawaii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB1325 | Engross
50% | Aligns Hawaii's money transmitters law with the provisions of the Model Money Transmitters Modernization Act, thereby enabling Hawaii to work within a network of states to license, supervise, and examine transglobal money transmission companies as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB1157 | Intro
25% | Exempts active members of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency and county emergency management agencies from jury duty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB255 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the planting of large trees along evacuation routes. Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to identify large trees along evacuation routes and trim, spray, or remove large trees having the potential to obstruct an evacuation route...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB523 | Intro
25% | Relating To The Environment. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1386 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the conditions, manner, and areas in which the Commission on Water Resource Management of the Department of Land and Natural Resources can declare water shortages and emergencies. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
