| 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 |
| HB1254 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to establish homelessness coordinator positions on Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and Hawaii island within the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB481 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii to provide menstrual products free of charge to all students on any University of Hawaii campus, including the community colleges. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance 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 |
| HB1428 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the State from denying or interfering with a patient's right to choose to obtain an abortion or to terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the patient. Repeals a criminal penalty for violations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB22 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to state workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations 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 |
| HB291 | Intro
25% | Provides that a new certificate of birth issued by the State shall include a designation of the sex of the person born, based on the genitalia of the person. Authorizes amendments of designations of sex on certificates of birth, provided that the bir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB374 | Engross
50% | 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 |
| HB893 | Intro
25% | Requires condominium associations and planned community associations that have a service agreement with a towing company to maintain and provide to the towing company a "do not tow" list of authorized resident vehicles. Prohibits authorized vehicles ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB943 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Honokaa Land Company, LLC, with acquiring, developing, and renovating agricultural facilities. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| 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 |
| HB72 | Intro
25% | Establishes a $500 civil fine for the feeding or attempted feeding of any feral chicken. Provides that the department of health shall enforce this prohibition regardless of whether the department determines there is a nuisance that is dangerous or in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Agriculture 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 |
| HB937 | Intro
25% | Requires lessors of rental motor vehicles to incorporate zeroemission vehicles or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, or both, into the lessor's rental motor vehicle fleets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection 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 |
| HB445 | Intro
25% | Requires the departments of the attorney general and human services to convene a working group to examine issues related to allowing child support payments to pass through to recipients of temporary assistance for needy families program funds and sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance 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 |
| HB743 | 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. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance 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 |
| HB103 | Intro
25% | Allows departments and agencies time to comply with employees' retirement system reporting standards based on when final specifications are provided by the employees' retirement system. Effective 6/30/3000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance 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 |
| HB1050 | Intro
25% | Exempts all gross proceeds derived from the sale of certain groceries, feminine hygiene products, incontinence products, and over-the-counter drugs from the general excise tax. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance 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 |
| SB1063 | Intro
25% | Increases the percentage of the Land Conservation Fund that may be used for costs related to the operation, maintenance, and management of lands acquired by the fund. Increases the maximum dollar amount of the conveyance tax distribution to the Land ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB226 | Intro
25% | Adds a new section to Chapter 801, Hawaii Revised Statutes, establishing circumstances in which the presence of a defendant is required for court proceedings or may be waived.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB372 | Intro
25% | Removes requirement that common water carriers receive permission from the public utilities commission prior to executing a long-term lease of more than three years or a leverage lease.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1244 | Intro
25% | Establishes system access and system integration requirements for the computer software tracking system for medical cannabis dispensaries. Requires the department of health to submit an annual report to the legislature on data captured using the comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HB1449 | Intro
25% | Amends Act 162, SLH 2022, to extend the sunset date for the early lung cancer screening task force and extend the date for the task force to submit reports to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1220 | Engross
50% | Prohibits persons convicted of certain felony offenses against public administration from becoming a candidate for or holding public office for ten years after the person's final discharge. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1287 | Intro
25% | Requires manufacturers of digital electronic equipment to make available to owners and independent repair providers, on fair and reasonable terms, the documentation, parts, and tools used to diagnose, maintain, and repair the equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1057 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to issue interim rules that shall be exempt from the public notice, public hearing, and gubernatorial approval requirements of chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, after beneficiary consultation is conduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB809 | Engross
50% | Repeals the electric bicycle and electric moped rebate program and electric bicycle and electric moped subaccount of the highway development special fund. Establishes the electric mobility rebate program and electric mobility special fund. Appropriat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB288 | Intro
25% | Requires public high schools to make available a mandatory life skills curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| SB1618 | Intro
25% | Amends land use classifications to add taro lands to unique agricultural lands. Requires retention of supporting structures for taro fields. Adds growth and perpetuation of taro and crops native to Hawaii to agricultural planning policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1294 | Intro
25% | Repeals the provision for farm dwelling and farm employee housing on Important Agricultural Lands and adopts a new provision for farm cluster housing as an incentive for the designation of lands as Important Agricultural Lands pursuant to chapter 205...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB772 | Intro
25% | Specifies, in the State Water Code, that fire safety use is a beneficial use of fresh water. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to cooperate with the counties and reserv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB612 | Engross
50% | Requires that a written disclaimer be provided by sellers or providers of emotional support animals or certificates or identification tags for emotional support animals that the animal is not a service animal or the item does not qualify as an item f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB938 | Intro
25% | Establishes an income tax credit for employers who create on-site early childhood facilities. Establishes and appropriates funds for 1.0 FTE on-site early childhood facility coordinator position. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB150 | Intro
25% | Increases personal income tax revenues for high earning taxpayers by establishing new income tax brackets and rates that are applied against a broader level of taxable income for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
