| SB618 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to establish a five-year State Permit Pilot Program to process building and infrastructure permits for the construction of state-owned buildings, state roads and highways, and other construct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2874 | Intro
25% | Establishes a non-refundable income tax credit for residential landlords who lease a unit to a tenant with a pet for at least six months. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3260 | Intro
25% | Requires that, by 1/1/2112, one hundred percent of the food purchased by certain state departments consist of fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products. Requires the Department of Agriculture t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3302 | Intro
25% | For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024, creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for qualified expenses of eligible farmers, ranchers, and fishers. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB263 | Intro
25% | Requires council members to receive annual training on topics related to Native Hawaiian healing and health. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB367 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of tickets at higher price than the original price charged by the primary venue ticket provider. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2349 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, or operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers. Increases the amounts of fines for offenses against leaf blower restrictions and provides for the forfeiture of gasoline-powered leaf blowers on a third violation. Rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2369 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group to investigate the existence and environmental dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and related chemicals. Requires reports to the Legislature. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2399 | Intro
25% | Exempts the gross proceeds received after 12/31/2023 by a farmer for the sale of produce from the general excise tax. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2425 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and appropriates funds to the Department of Health to retain qualified consultants as necessary to identify necessary public outreach and education resources and tools and develop a comprehensive public outreach strategy and website to edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3229 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group to identify, assess, and recommend certain risk transfer market mechanisms. Establishes requirements for insurers relating to claims for additional living expenses under homeowners insurance policies, including situations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2421 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the continued administration of the Hawaii Healthy Food Incentive Program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Declare...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2675 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources, to facilitate the private sector's development of renewable energy projects that also support agricultural food...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2588 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the establishment of four full-time equivalent (4.0 FTE) archaeologist positions and one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) historic preservation specialist position within the State Historic Preservation Division; provided that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3184 | Intro
25% | Establishes a three-year pilot program that allows the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct emergency procurement in certain districts under certain circumstances. Requires reports to the Legislature. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2722 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2894 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to incorporate bikeshare and micro-mobility devices into the Pre-tax Transportation Benefit Pilot Program's commuter benefits. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3001 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for applied behavioral analysis services for persons with autism. Requires the Department of Human Services to obtain maximum federal matching funds and pursue all other funding sources. Declares that the ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3185 | Intro
25% | Amends chapter 103D, HRS, to add to part III a new section allowing an alternative procurement method when the federal government provides for or approves the alternative procurement method, and the head of the purchasing agency makes a written deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3345 | Intro
25% | Conforms Hawaii estate tax laws to the operative provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to decrease the burden on taxpayers and increase efficiencies in the Department of Taxation's monitoring and auditing of estate tax returns. Establishes an estat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2545 | Intro
25% | Authorizes manufacturers of electronic devices to coordinate collection activities for the purpose of recycling electronic devices. Allows manufacturers of electronic devices to be considered to have satisfied its recycling goals by providing only co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2418 | Intro
25% | Requires state agencies that monitor environmental toxins and pollutants to establish environmental action levels (EALs) to ensure the preservation of a safe environment. Prohibits modifications to EALs unless certain procedural requirements are met....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2477 | Intro
25% | Includes single-ingredient products as a purchasing option for certain state departments and entities to fulfill their local food purchasing requirements. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2570 | Intro
25% | Requires a protest based on the content of the solicitation to be submitted a minimum of one day business before the date set for the receipt of offers, and all other protests be submitted within seven calendar days after the posting of award of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3045 | Intro
25% | Increases the cap for awards to assist businesses applying for the Small Business Innovation Research Grant Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Grant Program of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Adds purchasing of renewabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3261 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Local Agriculture Transportation Cost Reimbursement Program to reimburse eligible ranchers and farmers a portion of their costs to transport livestock, livestock products, agricultural commodities, and certain supplies under certain cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2183 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "beach restoration" used in laws governing the Board of Land and Natural Resources' powers to engage in beach restoration to include activities undertaken to improve eroded beaches and degraded dune systems and to remove aban...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2078 | Intro
25% | Permits a contractor, developer, or owner of affordable housing to employ a construction crane or other machinery that temporarily intrudes into a neighboring landowner's airspace, under certain conditions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2403 | Intro
25% | Requires any report of a study or an audit enacted with a legislative appropriation or adopted by concurrent resolution to be submitted to the chairs of the appropriate subject matter committee of each house of the State Legislature. Requires a publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2471 | Intro
25% | Makes an appropriation to support the Department of Health's Senior Fall Prevention Campaign. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2360 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to submit a report to the Legislature on the cesspool Compliance Pilot Grant Project prior to the Regular Session of 2025. Establishes three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) positions to implement the Cesspool Complian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2896 | Intro
25% | Effective 1/1/2026 requires each parking lot in the State having public paid parking spaces in the State to accept payment of parking fees by credit card and debit card; and each parking meter in the State that collects parking fees for any public pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3317 | Intro
25% | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate assistants employed by the University of Hawaii and community college system. Takes effect 7/1/2055. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2470 | Intro
25% | Makes an appropriation to the Executive Office on Aging of the Department of Health for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3315 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to use consistent units of measurement in its summary to the public on the amounts of restricted use pesticides used. Establishes a one-half mile buffer zone for pesticides around schools and state and county pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2972 | Intro
25% | Requires all high-occupancy public buildings constructed after January 1, 2025, to be designed to withstand category five hurricanes, as determined by wind zone maps, and be used as shelters in the event of an emergency. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3190 | Intro
25% | Repeals the reporting requirement to identify the cost impacts to the State of providing workers' compensation coverage for University of Hawaii students. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2816 | Intro
25% | Part I: Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to set a fee for the issuance of an apostille or a non-apostille certification by administrative rule. Establishes the Apostilles and Certifications Special Fund. Appropriates funds into and out ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3326 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to create and annually update a wildfire hazard map. Requires private and public property owners to trim grasses within certain proximities of public rights of way and utility lines. Authorizes el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2961 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish an Agricultural Workforce Housing Working Group to address the shortage and challenges of agricultural workforce housing in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3348 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the director of finance to develop means to identify additional data about vehicle registration. Requires data collected to be included in the registration database. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2979 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Lahaina Recovery Oversight Commission within the Department of Accounting and General Services to oversee and guide the recovery of Lahaina from the 2023 wildfires. Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to assist in es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2292 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the procedures for selecting members of boards and commissions also apply to ex officio members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB513 | Intro
25% | Specifies certain findings the Board of Land and Natural Resources must make for a lease of a government-owned Hawaiian fishpond. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2317 | Intro
25% | Requires the Governor to implement a State Capitol Tour Program for volunteer docents to conduct tours of the capitol building and grounds. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect 7/1/2112....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2116 | Intro
25% | Requires boards to hold hybrid meetings that that allow for participation both in-person and remotely by interactive conference technology. Requires boards to archive minutes and video of meetings on their websites. Takes effect 1/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2743 | Intro
25% | Authorizes certain counties to use county surcharge on state tax revenues and fuel tax revenues for the repair and maintenance of private roadways that are open to and used by the public. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2967 | Intro
25% | Mandates that fifty per cent of all heavy-duty motor vehicles in the State's fleet be hydrogen or battery electric vehicles by an unspecified date. Mandates that one hundred per cent of all heavy-duty motor vehicles in the State's fleet be hydrogen o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2315 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to post the business address and business phone number of each licensed professional on its public website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2109 | Intro
25% | Until 6/30/2025, exempts from the offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products the shipments of large cigars and pipe tobacco sold to a consumer in the State through the Internet under certain circumstances. Defines "pipe tobacco". Takes effect 7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
