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HB150Intro
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.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
SB789Engross
50%
Prohibits the construction of new farm dwellings on agricultural park lots beginning 1/1/2024. Prohibits residence within an unpermitted farm dwelling. Authorizes inspections.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
SB1183Intro
25%
Requires the department of agriculture to include a statement on desecration laws in the plants and animals declaration form.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
SB131Intro
25%
Establishes the class B felony offense of prohibited acts related to female genital mutilation. Requires prosecuting attorneys of the respective counties to keep annual statistics on cases involving prohibited acts related to female genital mutilatio...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
SB320Engross
50%
Establishes a working group to study the feasibility and effects of the State adopting the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
SB1466Intro
25%
Establishes and appropriates funds for a pilot program within the Environmental Management Division of the Department of Health to work with each county to identify a priority area to expand the county sewerage system or other centralized treatment s...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB687Intro
25%
Exempts food products from the general excise tax.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
SB1167Enroll
75%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to protect an individual's reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, including the right to abortion and contraceptives. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
SB915Intro
25%
Amends the Uniform Probate Code to allow courts to appoint emergency guardians for respondents who reside in psychiatric facilities, hospitals, and homeless shelters. Extends the appointment period. Clarifies that guardians may consent to care, treat...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
SB334Intro
25%
Amends the membership of the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development to include the House of Representatives chairs of the committees on housing and transportation and the Senate chairs of the committees on housing and transportat...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HB1462Intro
25%
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...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
SB719Intro
25%
Gives the Office of Information Practices the discretion to resolve disputes about open records or open meetings either through an opinion or, when the opinion would likely be in favor of the agency, through informal written guidance. Appropriates fu...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB477Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate the Honolulu Museum of Art.
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2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee
HB94Intro
25%
Amends section 11-381, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to disallow the use of campaign funds to purchase up to two tickets for an event or fundraiser held by another candidate or committee.
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
SB805Intro
25%
Amends the definitions of "administrative action" and "lobbying" in Chapter 97, HRS.
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HB587Intro
25%
Requires each county to submit to the Legislature a comprehensive integrated wastewater management plan report that addresses and identifies the county's wastewater management needs, including financial needs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HB1398Engross
50%
Allows telecommunications and emergency dispatchers and employees who perform similar functions employed by the State and counties to collectively bargain. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HB486Intro
25%
Establishes a trauma-informed care task force within the Department of Health. Requires the task force to develop a statewide framework for trauma-informed care and to provide other recommendations on how the State can implement best practices in tra...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
SB850Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
SB1347Intro
25%
Adds new tax credit for teacher's expenses. Adds an inflation index for the income tax brackets, personal exemption amount and standard deduction amounts. Increases the amounts for the income tax brackets, personal exemption amount and standard deduc...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HB414Intro
25%
Requires the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to allow all Hawaii high school graduates to qualify for resident tuition.
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2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
SB199Intro
25%
Amends section 11-381, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to disallow the use of campaign funds to purchase up to two tickets for an event or fundraiser held by another candidate or committee.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB1461Intro
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.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
SB750Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the department of education for the expansion of civic education in the public schools. Establishes two full-time equivalent permanent civic education resource teacher positions, one of which shall be grant funded.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
SB1530Intro
25%
Requires certain persons to immediately report to the family court if the person has reason to believe that a child in foster custody has suffered an injury that may constitute a tort claim. Establishes procedures for the family court to follow when ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
SB97Intro
25%
Clarifies that the Board of Land and Natural Resources shall not unilaterally amend the terms and conditions of any lease of public lands being extended pursuant to Act 149, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, except as otherwise provided therein; and if th...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB1425Intro
25%
Legalizes, regulates, and taxes cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for adult use. Establishes the Hawaii cannabis commission to oversee the regulation of adult use cannabis manufacturers and retailers. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HB1165Intro
25%
Establishes procedures for the Department of Transportation to assist and enable a person to voluntarily purchase a verified carbon offset for carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the person's air travel to or from an airport in the State.
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
SB1112Engross
50%
Prohibits bans on dwelling unit rentals having a term between one and five months for inter-island relocations and temporary workers. Authorizes county councils to adopt any ordinances necessary to implement the prohibition by 6/30/2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
SB450Intro
25%
Requires boards to use interactive conference technology to remotely conduct public meetings in conjunction with in-person meetings that allow for public participation. Requires boards to archive certain recordings of meetings on their websites.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HB829Intro
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.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
SB1180Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of geolocation information and internet browser information without consent.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
SB1311Engross
50%
Repeals Act 192, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, which requires the employees' retirement system to divest itself of investments in companies that provide support for genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and provide annual reports to the legislature on the status...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
SB181Intro
25%
Provides one-time grants-in-aid to the respective ethics boards of the counties of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii, and to the Ethics Commission of the City and County of Honolulu. Takes effect 01/01/3000. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
SB1195Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to report to the Legislature on the progress and ultimate outcome of the ongoing lease rent renegotiations and to recommend whether the management duties for the valley should be transfe...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB293Intro
25%
Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to repeal the exclusive power of the counties to exercise the functions, powers, and duties related to real property taxation, thereby authorizing the State to also exercise those functions, powe...
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HB1506Engross
50%
Encourages the employees' retirement system, in evaluating venture capital investments, to consider opportunities in industries that will sustain Hawaii's natural environment or produce economic opportunities for its residents, including renewable en...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
SB1460Intro
25%
Provides rebates for eligible electric vehicle ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing. Beginning with calendar year 2024, requires that electric vehicle ready parking for new construction be integrated as a criterion in the l...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
SB234Intro
25%
Creates the offense of negligent concealment of a firearm by a licensee.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
SB1087Intro
25%
Renames the state highway safety council as the state highway safety and modernization council and amends the composition and duties of the council.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
SB204Intro
25%
Limits to $100 the total amount of cash a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee may accept from a single person during each election period.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB857Intro
25%
Beginning on January 1, 2024, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
SB1147Intro
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 ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HB696Intro
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...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HB916Intro
25%
Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to an unspecified amount. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires certain long-term care fac...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HB1361Intro
25%
Transfers powers, duties, and functions of stadium authority to DBEDT. Repeals stadium authority.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
SB280Intro
25%
Allows the Department of Education to create temporary positions under certain conditions. Amends the requirement that the Department of Education report the creation of temporary positions to the Department of Budget and Finance by requiring that th...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HB693Intro
25%
Clarifies reimbursement for services provided through telehealth via an interactive telecommunications system. Defines "interactive telecommunications system". Clarifies that, for services furnished for purposes of diagnosis, evaluation, or treatment...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
SB704Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the State Small Business Credit Initiative Program.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
SB26Engross
50%
Prohibits a landlord from recovering possession of a dwelling unit from a tenant if the habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Caps a tenant's liability for rent if the habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Provides...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
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