| SB2001 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of behavioral health, including mental health wellness, in grades kindergarten through twelve.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2006 | Intro
25% | Requires each county to allow a developer undertaking an adaptive reuse office conversion project to comply with the International Building Code with respect to provisions concerning ventilation and lighting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2019 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to permit all public high school students with a valid school identification card to attend school athletic events on their home campus free of charge. Requires all public high schools to offer physical ticket sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2025 | Intro
25% | Eliminates certain restrictions for developing state-owned real property located within one-half mile radius of any station along the elevated mass transit system. Permits high-density development of state-owned real property located within one-half ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2030 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Building Code Council to assess the financial impact of the adoption of a code or standard on single-family and multi-family homes. Requires the State Building Code Council to also include amortized utility costs when adopting code...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2016 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2023 | Intro
25% | Beginning on January 1, 2025, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB2009 | Intro
25% | Authorizes election officials to disclose driver's license and state identification information in association with membership in nonprofit organizations for election related purposes. Requires the office of elections to join a voter registration sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2040 | Intro
25% | Prohibits landlords from recovering possession of a dwelling unit from tenants if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Sets a tenant's liability for rent if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Provides remedies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2007 | Intro
25% | Expands eligibility for, and automates, the expungement of arrest and conviction records for certain misdemeanors, crimes as a result of being a victim of human trafficking, and crimes relating to possession or use of controlled substances if certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2046 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish and administer a family leave insurance program. Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends the period of family leave to 16 weeks for businesses that employ one or more...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB2032 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Accessory Dwelling Unit Construction Grant Program within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide funding to private property owners for the construction of accessory dwelling units, including any necessary a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2041 | Intro
25% | Requires that in evaluating and determining the award for redevelopment of state or county lands through competitive sealed bidding or competitive sealed proposals, the number of housing units proposed in conjunction with project design and financial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2031 | Intro
25% | Exempts any building code with an official publication date within four years of the previous code publication date from certain adoption requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2010 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires each public school and public charter school in the State to employ, or retain under contract, at least one mental health professional for every two hundred fifty students enrolled, subject to certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2024 | Intro
25% | Establishes an organizational, tax, and regulatory framework for limited-profit housing associations. Establishes the Limited-Profit Housing Council to oversee limited-profit housing associations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2022 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain housing developments from assessments of school impact fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2036 | Intro
25% | Directs the Legislative Reference Bureau to propose and conduct a study of a housing savings account system. Authorizes the Legislative Reference Bureau to contract for services to develop the proposed system and program and conduct a study. Makes an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB910 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the harvesting of aquatic life for commercial aquarium purposes, regardless of the method of collection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1173 | Intro
25% | Adds new sections to the Hawaii Constitution. Allows for amendments by initiative to prevail and reserves the powers of initiative and referendum to the people. Specifies a procedure for vote recalls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB41 | Intro
25% | Establishes clear criteria for unpaid student internship programs under the state wage laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB421 | Intro
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. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB120 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the department of the prosecuting attorney of the city and county of Honolulu for the victim witness assistance program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB335 | Intro
25% | Repeals vehicle license recovery fees. Takes effect 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB904 | Intro
25% | Exempts active members of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency and county emergency management agencies from jury duty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1361 | Intro
25% | Making the nursing facility sustainability program and exemptions from the special fund assessments permanent. Make changes to strengthen the nursing facility sustainability program and other nonsubstantive changes for consistency and clarify. Approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB69 | Intro
25% | Includes the establishment of a consistent and balanced framework for developing and implementing sea level rise adaptation strategies as an objective of the Coastal Zone Management Program. Includes the promotion of research, study, and understandin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB166 | Intro
25% | Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB740 | Intro
25% | Establishes an additional minimum supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefit of $250 per month per person for SNAP-eligible households whose income is below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level, as established by the United...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB332 | Intro
25% | Establishes the shade and fruit tree program in the department of education to support educational activities and encourage propagation of native shade trees or fruit trees for planting in department schools. Appropriates funds for the program and to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB198 | Intro
25% | Amends sections 11-322 and 11-333, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require the Campaign Spending Commission ("Commission") to publish on its website the names of candidate and persons who qualify as noncandidate committees who fail to file an organizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB440 | Intro
25% | Establishes an income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a director of health-approved wastewater system or connecting to a sewerage system. Requires certain information regarding cesspools on real property to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB955 | Intro
25% | Exempts birth attendants practicing on or before 7/1/2025 from licensure requirements, under certain conditions. Expands qualifications for licensure to include the North American Registry of Midwives portfolio evaluation process. Effective 6/30/3000...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB815 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the counties from imposing inclusionary zoning requirements. Requires the counties to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB233 | Engross
50% | Establishes a nonrefundable state child tax credit. Effective 6/30/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB737 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii, to develop a Hawaiian Language Medium Education Kindergarten Entry Assessment to be administered by the Department of Education, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB216 | Intro
25% | Establishes the shipping container inspection program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Increases the maximum fine for each violation of the fireworks law. Requires PSD to submit reports to the legislature on implementation of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB174 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to culture and the arts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| SB785 | Intro
25% | Codifies sustainable development goals based on the United Nations' Global Goals and indicators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB1115 | Intro
25% | Requires the tuition residency rules for the University of Hawaii to grant the resident tuition fee for enrollment at any University of Hawaii campus to individuals who have graduated from a Hawaii high school and are enrolling in an undergraduate de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| SB1399 | Intro
25% | Exempts the State and its departments and agencies that maintain or operate a stormwater management system that is interconnected to a county stormwater system from county stormwater user fees. Prohibits each county from denying services to the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1416 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of human services to adopt rules, contingent on the approval of the Hawaii state plan amendment by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to remove the $2,000-per-individual asset limit for eligibility for assistance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1299 | Intro
25% | Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (2) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| SB515 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Hawaii Small Business Innovation Research Program. Beginning with fiscal year 2025-2026, and each fiscal year thereafter, requires the Department of Business, Economic Develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB1579 | Intro
25% | Requires that any revenue derived from an access organization that receives public, education, and government access funds shall be deposited into the state general fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB298 | Intro
25% | Creates licensure and regulation requirements for managers of homeowners' associations, planned community associations, cooperative housing corporations, and unit owners' associations in the State. Establishes an Association Manager Licensing Board w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB81 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that the Board of Land and Natural Resources' authority shall supersede the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority for all lands designated under the state conservation district. Specifying that the Chairperson of the University of H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1495 | Intro
25% | Clarifies requirements for film productions with production expenditures of $1,000,000 or more claiming the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Increases the annual cap from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 for the total a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB362 | Intro
25% | Adds a minimum penalty of $50 per violation of the State Water Code and makes each day that a violation exists or continues a separate offense. Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to determine the amount of the penalty based on the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB274 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to transfer the Ewa Beach Public and School Library from the State Public Library System to James Campbell High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
