| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | 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
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| HI | SB1108 | Intro
25% | Establishes an online fantasy sports contests registration and monitoring program under the Department of the Attorney General. Exempts registered online fantasy sports contests from state gambling laws. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1253 | Intro
25% | Defines "guidance", "opinion", and "ruling". Requires the Director of the Office of Information Practices to provide either a ruling or guidance in writing on open records responses and open meetings complaints. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB472 | Intro
25% | Requires the family court to amend its rules to require that service upon a party who is not a resident of or found within the island or circuit with jurisdiction over the proceeding may be effectuated by a declaration of the petitioner that states t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB89 | Engross
50% | Amends section 11-357, HRS, to prohibit elected officials as defined in section 11-342(d), HRS, from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the State Legislature, including any extension of an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB188 | Intro
25% | Requires each state legislator to include within the legislator's disclosures of financial interest the names of certain lobbyists with whom the legislator has a relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB52 | Intro
25% | Amends the process for electing members to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees. Requires the Reapportionment Commission to establish a reapportionment plan for five members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs so th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB997 | Intro
25% | Requires notice and identification of certain top donors who contributed to a noncandidate committee. Changes the requirement of certain information from the schedules filed with the noncandidate committee reports. Removes certain information require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB557 | Intro
25% | Relating To Ethics. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | 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
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| HI | SB719 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB199 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB97 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB204 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB200 | Intro
25% | Increases the maximum amount of public funds available for all offices by fifty per cent. Increases the maximum amount of public funds available for a candidate for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs from $1,500 to ten per cent of the expenditure limit f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1557 | Intro
25% | Establishes procedures for the custody, inventory, and care of protocol gifts received by members of either house of the Legislature or state employees. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1095 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "development" to create additional exceptions, including pedestrian or bicycle facilities, trash removal, invasive vegetation control, installation of fencing for invasive species control or native habitat preservation, light...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB150 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to lower the qualifying age of voters for any state or local election to sixteen years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1059 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "emergency worker" in the Penal Code to include communications dispatchers. Takes effect 1/1/2024. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1217 | Intro
25% | Proposes to amend the state Constitution to provide that, beginning with the 2026 general election, the minimum state residency requirement for a candidate for Governor or Lieutenant Governor shall be raised from 5 years to 30 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB68 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "historic property" to require that the property meets the criteria for inclusion in the Hawaii Register of Historic Places or has important value to Native Hawaiians or other ethnic groups of the State due to associations wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB991 | Intro
25% | Imposes a cap on costs charged to reproduce certain government records. Waives reproduction costs charged for the first one hundred pages if disclosure serves the public interest. Waives costs charged to duplicate certain government records in an ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB223 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Program for each county with a population greater than five hundred thousand to be administered by the Judiciary. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB225 | Intro
25% | Repeals section 801-1 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB71 | Intro
25% | Exempts the proposed drilling, construction, or use of a well and well appurtenances on lands leased from the Department of Agriculture from environmental review requirements, provided that the land is being used to support agriculture and food produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB177 | Intro
25% | Provides that a mandatory recount shall occur when the difference in votes cast is equal to or less than 100 votes or one-quarter of 1% of the total number of votes cast for the contest, whichever is lesser. Establishes that the filing deadline for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB554 | Intro
25% | Relating To Courts. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1421 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of fraud as a class B felony. Disqualifies a person from holding elective public office for a period of ten years upon conviction of fraud.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1160 | Intro
25% | Allows the Intermediate Appellate Court to review orders issued by the Hawaii Paroling Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB180 | Intro
25% | Defines "direct recording electronic voting system", "marksense ballot voting system", and "mechanical tabulation system". Amends the definition of "electronic voting system" to include the mechanical tabulation system and marksense ballot voting sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB95 | Engross
50% | Increases the amount of partial public financing available for all offices. Adjusts the minimum amount of qualifying contributions certain candidates must receive to participate in the program. Increases the matching fund payments for excess qualifyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB237 | Intro
25% | Requires certain individuals attempting to serve as child custody evaluators to complete a training course on the dynamics of domestic violence every three years and submit a letter or certificate of completion of the training course to the Family Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1516 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to provide for a citizens assembly and to authorize the citizens assembly to propose to the Legislature constitutional and statutory revisions or amendments to the laws governing elections, political campaigns, cam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1544 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of fraud as a class B felony. Disqualifies a person from holding elective public office for a period of ten years upon conviction of fraud.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1424 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to prohibit a person from serving as a member of the legislature for more than sixteen years during the person's lifetime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1410 | Intro
25% | Prohibits operation of a pickup truck with any passengers seated in the bed or load-carrying area unless in an emergency or an officially authorized parade caravan, or exhibition. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB124 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the possession of firearms on school property and school buses and at school-sponsored functions. Exempts certain law enforcement officers and instructors and participants of certain educational or training programs. Establishes that violat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB960 | Intro
25% | Repeals the University of Hawaii Board of Regents Candidate Advisory Council. Authorizes the Governor to directly appoint members to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents. Effective upon ratification of a constitutional amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1406 | Intro
25% | Amends the law relating to vehicle weight violations by replacing the fine schedule and increasing the potential fines based on multitude and magnitude of vehicle weight violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB189 | Intro
25% | Prohibits lobbyists from making gifts that are prohibited under state ethics law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB723 | Engross
50% | Expands application of the State's sunshine law to legislatively appointed bodies, including task forces, working groups, commissions, special committees, and select committees. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB484 | Intro
25% | Enacts portions of the Uniform Parentage Act of 2017 to replace the Uniform Parentage Act of 1973. Takes effect 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1077 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to establish a ballot-tracking system that allows all voters to receive alerts regarding the mailing, receipt, and counting of their ballots returned by mail. Requires the counties to immediately notify ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1072 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the State's Supreme Court and Intermediate Appellate Court from affirming, modifying, reversing, or vacating a matter on grounds other than those raised by the parties to the proceeding, unless the parties are provided the opportunity to br...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1425 | Intro
25% | Limits the permitted uses of campaign funds to only those purposes that are directly related to the campaigns of candidates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1283 | Intro
25% | Adds a new section to chapter 708, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to establish the class C felony offense of government fraud.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB871 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to employ an Executive Director to be nominated by the Governor, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. Transfers the duties and powers of the Board of Directors of the Hawaii ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB635 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches, shall be protected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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