| SB579 | Intro
25% | Relating To Housing. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB653 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to improve and maintain the NELHA in its mission to develop and diversify the Hawaii economy by providing resources and facilities for energy and ocean-related research, education, and commercial activities in an environmentally so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB956 | Intro
25% | Provides for the replacement of certificates of marriage for individuals who have changed their gender, sex, and, if applicable, name.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB880 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "dangerous to self" as used in State law governing mental health, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism. Defines the terms "gravely disabled" and "psychiatric deterioration". Broadens the term of "imminently dangerou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB258 | Intro
25% | Establishes a special intergovernmental task force to eradicate illegal gambling and drug activities and to establish community safe zones across the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB873 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Resources to contract for a study on the gender pay gap within the government of the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB1224 | Intro
25% | Amends the required coverage for shared cars that are made available through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program. On 6/30/2025, repeals the allowable exclusions, recordkeeping requirements, right of recovery, insurable interest, and required disclosur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB819 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to temporarily re-establish the Hawaii Office of Naval Research Grant Program to provide fifty per cent matching grants to Hawaii awardees of alternative energy research grants from the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB1415 | Engross
50% | Requires the University of Hawaii to submit annual reports of all university employees who performed work from a location outside of the State during the applicable year to the legislature no later than December 31 of that year. Effective 6/30/3000. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB257 | Intro
25% | Requires the abolishment of any state public service position that remains vacant for longer than 2 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB1326 | Intro
25% | Provides amendments to external review procedures to improve consistency with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Uniform Health Carrier External Review Model Act. Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health mainten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1140 | Intro
25% | Exempts from restrictions on light transmittance percentages of certain motor vehicle sun screening devices persons having skin cancer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB349 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the nominated members of certain boards and commission are subject to the advice and consent of the Senate Standing Committee on Government Operations. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| SB534 | Intro
25% | Relating To Energy. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB1231 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1107 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Lottery and Gaming Corporation for the purpose of conducting and regulating wagering and gaming in the State. Establishes the Lottery and Gaming Special Fund and allocates certain percentages of the fund to various community be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB964 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Hawaii Hemp Task Force to inform public policy and identify methods and actions to best support Hawaii agriculture and build a hemp industry to support rural economic development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB913 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of certain fluorescent lamps as a new manufactured product, with certain exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB187 | Intro
25% | Provides the State Ethics Commission with the discretion to maintain or destroy records of financial disclosure statements beyond the current 6-year statutory requirement. Applies retroactively to applicable disclosures that are in the Commission's p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB783 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education Committee on Weights to consider the impact of its weighted student formula recommendations on small and remote schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1348 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain groceries, feminine hygiene products, incontinence products, and over-the-counter drugs from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1218 | Intro
25% | Requires the Deputy Director of Highways of the Department of Transportation to be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB49 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of possession of a loaded firearm while intoxicated as a petty misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1427 | Intro
25% | Expands application of the State's sunshine law to legislatively appointed bodies, including task forces, working groups, special committees, and select committees. Requires the senate and the house of representatives to hold public hearings on a bie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB165 | Intro
25% | Mandates reimbursement for services provided by participating registered pharmacists practicing within their scope of practice by private and public health plans in the State beginning January 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB176 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a county with a pre-existing surcharge to continue the surcharge after December 31, 2030 at a lower rate of one-fourth per cent. Authorizes counties that have not adopted a surcharge ordinance on state tax to adopt a surcharge ordinance at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| SB603 | Intro
25% | Allows students who experienced educational disruption to graduate high school through enrollment in an accepted alternative education program and participation in certain activities approved by the department of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1073 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the disqualification requirements for judges also apply to justices. Establishes a process by which a party before an appellate court in the State, who believes that the judge or justice presiding over their case may have a disqualifyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB352 | Engross
50% | Implements amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code set forth by the Uniform Law Commission. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB27 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of any new combustion engine-powered vehicle by a person or entity that engages in the practice of selling vehicles to consumers. Imposes a fine of up to $1,000 for each offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB526 | Intro
25% | Relating To Commerce. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB1085 | Intro
25% | Establishes standards for the collection, storage, retention, and destruction of biometric identifiers and biometric information by private entities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB1066 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the Commission on Water Resource Management a water security working group to study and recommend, for legislative consideration and approval, priority capital improvement projects, including funding and financing strategies for ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB922 | Intro
25% | Requires a law enforcement officer who observes criminal misconduct by another law enforcement officer to report the criminal misconduct. Requires passage of a psychological screening test battery to qualify for appointment as a law enforcement offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| SB623 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii low-income home energy assistance program within the Department of Human Services to assist low-income households in paying their energy bills. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to assess ratepayers a percentage fee to f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB411 | Intro
25% | Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB13 | Intro
25% | Adopts the Interstate Compact to Phase Out Corporate Welfare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB879 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the retention of employees of the unemployment insurance division of the department of labor and industrial relations. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1416 | Engross
50% | Requires any report of a study or an audit enacted with a legislative appropriation or adopted by concurrent resolution to be submitted to the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, the chairs of the appropriate subject mat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB314 | Engross
50% | Makes permanent and amends the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program. Makes certain assessment exemptions permanent as to the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund. Repeals chapter 346E, HRS, relating to the Nursing Facility Tax. App...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| SB1093 | Intro
25% | Establishes and provides moneys for the composting grant program in the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1040 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to establish the native Hawaiian supportive housing pilot program on the Leeward Coast of Oahu to provide individual or shared micro housing units and services to native Hawaiian beneficiaries who are ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB485 | Engross
50% | Establishes 1 additional district court judgeship in the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB666 | Intro
25% | Requires the State, to the extent practicable, to plant fruit trees in new or renovated landscaping that includes trees. Authorizes persons to harvest fruit from those fruit trees. Provides that the State is not liable for any injuries or illnesses r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB25 | Intro
25% | Requires the Liquor Commission to deny any renewal for a liquor license if the applicant for renewal has violated any provision of the Intoxicating Liquor Law under chapter 281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, on three separate occasions during the twelve-m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB626 | Intro
25% | Requires tire retailers to collect and submit to the Department of Health certain information relating to tires sold by the retailer. Requires the Department of Health to establish and maintain a database containing this information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB247 | Intro
25% | Requires that any procurement change order that increases the contract cost by more than fifty per cent or substantially increases the scope of work be considered a new contract for procurement purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB1272 | Intro
25% | Establishes a program specialist position within the Department of Agriculture and appropriates moneys to fund the position. Prioritizes assistance for farmers and ranchers who produce local food that is at least partially consumed within the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB426 | Engross
50% | Requires priority level 1 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2035, with certain exceptions, and priority level 2 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2040, rather than before 1/1/2050. Specifies that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1568 | Engross
50% | Extends the period in which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from 3/31/2019 to 12/31/2023. Authorizes the use of county surcharge revenues for housing infrastructure. Temporarily authorizes counties that have pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
