| SB1614 | Engross
50% | Retains institutional, health, and correctional workers except for adult corrections officers of the Department of Public Safety's Corrections Division or its successor agency of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation under bargaining unit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| SB942 | Intro
25% | Bans the sale of flavored tobacco products and mislabeled eliquid products. Establishes fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1420 | Intro
25% | Prohibits state and county elected officials from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the state legislature, including any extension of any regular session or special session and any legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1431 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of Fentanyl possession, production, or distribution as a Class A felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1356 | Intro
25% | Allows an adopted individual to benefit both by relationship through a natural parent and through an adoptive parent in a disposition or other designation as provided for in accordance with the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, or admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to change the Board of Education back to an elected board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB115 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Agriculture, an Aquacultural Area Lease Program for the purpose of identifying state facilities, state lands, and state marine waters that are suitable for use and lease as commercial aquacultural areas. Allows ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB881 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the development and construction of permanent supportive housing for certain vulnerable individuals. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1241 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Hawaii Public Housing Authority from banning pet animals from housing under its control.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB727 | Intro
25% | Establishes procedures and eligibility criteria for a privilege to practice public accountancy in this State for public accountants and certified public accountants licensed in another state with comparable education, examination, and experience requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| SB1515 | Intro
25% | Adopts the Code of Fair Campaign Practices that candidates may use as a guide for their election campaigns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1577 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to make all business registration applications available online. Requires all applications to contain certain contact information. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB835 | Engross
50% | Repeals the requirement that the annual general fund budget appropriation for the University of Hawaii shall be 3 to 5 times the estimated regular tuition and related fee revenues for that year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| SB895 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii health data exchange framework. Establishes the stakeholder advisory group to assist the department of health in the development of the framework. Requires certain health care organizations to execute a health data sharing agre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1589 | 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 Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1199 | Intro
25% | Lengthens the time period in which certain vehicles must have a safety inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB1387 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state boating facility lease pilot program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources (Department). Clarifies that a private partner under lease or contract with the Department may assist with development, management, and maint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB243 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to assign school resource officers or guards to serve at public elementary schools and state prekindergarten programs. Requires the Department of Education to seek funding from federal grants. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1071 | Intro
25% | Allows cases within the jurisdiction of the Intermediate Court of Appeals that involve a family court judgment, order, or decree affecting the custody of a child or minor to be transferred to the Supreme Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB686 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to update the State Health Functional Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB806 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the state librarian to decline to conduct a requested review of an item within the Hawaii State Public Library System collection if the item was previously reviewed by the system in good faith, the basis for the request is duplicative or s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB221 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Victim Witness Assistance Program. Effective 06/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB278 | Engross
50% | Requires certain public buildings near mass transit projects and on Hawaiian home lands to display portraits of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| SB931 | Intro
25% | Requires check cashers to report suspected financial exploitation of elders and vulnerable adults in relation to check cashing. Provides immunity for good faith reporting. Authorizes a check casher to refuse to cash a check in situations of suspected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB611 | Intro
25% | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to use Universal Service Fund moneys to provide free telecommunications access to certain information for individuals with print disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB906 | Intro
25% | Establishes enhanced penalties for multiple violations of the same liquor law by licensees in a county with a population of 500,000 or more, under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1096 | Intro
25% | Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, or School Facilities Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB104 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Educational Expenditure Trust Fund as a separate fund of the Department of Education for improving the education of, and supporting the programs benefiting, the students of the Hawaii public school system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB412 | Intro
25% | Converts the human trafficking victim services fund to a human trafficking reparations fund. Revises the purposes for the monies in the fund to provide direct financial assistance to victims of trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB373 | Intro
25% | Establishes that gender-based pricing by manufacturers who sell the goods they manufacture to any person in the State for a price they set constitutes an unlawful deceptive trade practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB143 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1159 | Intro
25% | Clarifies when the identity of a police officer, who has been suspended or discharged following a misconduct incident, is to be disclosed in a county police department's annual report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1261 | Intro
25% | Requires state facilities to prepare a report assessing the feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each facility. Requires state facilities to implement and install the distributed energy resource systems detailed in the rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB630 | Intro
25% | Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who purchase and install a whole house water filter system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB389 | Engross
50% | Requires all places of public accommodation constructed after 12/31/23, and state building construction projects bid after 6/30/24, to provide one or more universal changing accommodations at each family restroom; provided that state building constru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB420 | Engross
50% | Establishes the sustainable food systems working group within the department of agriculture. Requires the working group to submit a plan, any recommendations for implementing the plan, and any proposed legislation to the legislature. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB499 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the conviction of a crime by a person holding a license to practice professional engineering, architecture, land surveying, or landscape architecture in the State, that is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, and dut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB480 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB269 | Intro
25% | Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit by requiring the department of business, economic development, and tourism to publish on its website the names of the qualified productions and the amount of the tax cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB154 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a School Meal Subsidy Program to provide school lunch subsidies to children whose families do not otherwise qualify for free lunch under the federal Free and Reduced Price Lunch Program, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1067 | Intro
25% | Provides that where public access is required as a condition of a subdivision, either the county must accept dedication of and maintain the access or identify an entity to own and maintain the access. Authorizes a county to require the subdivider or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB632 | Intro
25% | Establishes a 5-year pilot program within the Department of Health to eradicate feral chickens in the State. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit a special local need registration to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB620 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Department of Land and Natural Resources from approving any land disposition to the United States military that allows for or facilitates any military training activities on the subject lands. Requires that any lease or lease extension ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB66 | Intro
25% | Prohibits purposeful harassment with the intent to prevent the taking of fish by persons who are fishing in state waters. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB702 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in grades kindergarten through twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete a one-half credit in finan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB636 | Intro
25% | Requires Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a Visitor Green Fee Program to collect fees from nonresidents via a license to use state natural and cultural resources, to be used for the protection, restoration, and care of Hawaii's n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB505 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the harvesting of aquatic life for commercial aquarium purposes, regardless of the method of collection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| SB359 | Intro
25% | Disallows dividends paid deduction for real estate investment trusts. Specifies that amounts collected from the disallowance be evenly divided and deposited into the dwelling unit revolving fund and rental housing revolving fund. Applies to taxable y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB94 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to approve or deny an application for a special activity permit for aquatic research within ninety days from the date that it was submitted. Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds for the est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1581 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to limit unannounced inspections to investigate complaints pertaining to client or patient abuse or life- or health-threatening danger at certain state-licensed or state-certified care facilities and establishes requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
