| HI | SB2222 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys as a grant-in-aid to the Emergency Services Department of the City and County of Honolulu. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
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| HI | SB2772 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Uniform Building Permit Working Group to study the feasibility of creating a single statewide building permit application package and uniform review and approval process for building permits that can be used by all counties. Declares th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2579 | Intro
25% | Requires all state buildings being constructed on or after 7/1/2025 where a water fountain is required to have a water bottle filling station. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2547 | Intro
25% | Establishes income tax credits for employers who offer employer-provided or employer-sponsored child care services for their employees. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2829 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Accounting and General Services to employ persons exempt from chapters 76 and 89, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as part of the State's information technology modernization efforts. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2296 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to restore and restock fishponds by procuring fingerlings and limu and establishing one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) Aquaculture Coordinator Biologist VI position. Declares that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2473 | Intro
25% | Establishes a refundable tax credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature before the convening of each Regular Session. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3047 | Intro
25% | Codifies the exemption from environmental impact statements for affordable housing projects that meet certain criteria. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2373 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2777 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Highways Clean Energy Technology Pilot Program within the Department of Transportation. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3003 | Intro
25% | Repeals language that gives the Director of Finance discretion to use moneys in the Hawaii ABLE Savings Program Trust Fund if the Director elects to accept deposits from contributors instead of sending deposits directly to the ABLE Program Manager. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3247 | Intro
25% | Creates an income tax credit for transportation costs incurred by certain taxpayers who ship agricultural products and inputs between counties. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3357 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to prepare reports assessing the feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at state facilities. Requires state facilities to implement and install the distributed energy r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2499 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to implement a Slim-hole Resource Characterization Program that identifies the location and characteristics of underground water and carbon sequestration resources across the State under the direction of the Ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3235 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Solar Hui Program to allow multi-family residential property owners to invest into a Solar Hui Investment Fund to provide loans to low- and moderate-income households to install solar energy systems. Establishes the Solar Hui Program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2432 | Intro
25% | Establishes a food manufacturer tax credit. Defines "qualified taxpayer" as a manufacturer that produces value-added processed, agricultural, or food products. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2364 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Plant-Based Building Materials Working Group to report on how best to grow plants and develop plant-based building materials in Hawaii and provide economic development and green jobs while sequestering greenhouse gases to help achieve t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2174 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish, implement, and administer a Meat and Poultry Inspection Program and annually report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the establishment, implementation, and administration of the Meat and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2803 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study on the Kohala Ditch System. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3061 | Intro
25% | Clarifies part III of Act 164, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, as it pertains to the appropriation for the Solar Energy Storage Loan Program. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2742 | Intro
25% | Establishes three greener highway corridors pilot projects to improve the Interstate H-1, H-2, and H-201 freeway corridors with greenery. Establishes a working group. Requires reports. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2060 | Intro
25% | Makes an appropriation to establish one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) Educational Support Associate position within the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources' Kona Cooperative Extension. Declares that the general f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2783 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for Medicaid coverage under the Children's Health Insurance Program for income-qualified pregnant persons and children, regardless of immigration status. Declares that the general fund expenditur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3015 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. and its subsidiaries Maui Electric Company, Limited, and Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc., for multiproject capital improvement programs. Takes effect 7/1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3382 | Intro
25% | Establishes an income tax credit to encourage investment in businesses affected by the 2023 Lahaina wildfire, and in redevelopment resiliency projects occurring within the Lahaina district. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2178 | Intro
25% | Allows for a percentage of general excise and fuel taxes generated by the counties to be used for the maintenance of private roadways that are open to the public. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2935 | Intro
25% | Makes an appropriation to the Agribusiness Development Corporation for the creation of a composting program. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3013 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation for the coordinated removal of albizia and other invasive trees. Requires matching funds from public utilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2201 | Intro
25% | Requires license plates to include okinas. Authorizes the use of all uppercase letters, all lowercase letters, or initial capital letters in motor vehicle license plates. Limits special number plates for environmental conservation to apply to electri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3258 | Intro
25% | Establishes additional requirements for the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Board of Land and Natural Resources regarding the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2641 | Intro
25% | Limits moving violations arising from the operation of a motor vehicle that appear on traffic abstracts to those that resulted in convictions. Requires the Traffic and Emergency Period Violations Bureaus to remove all alleged moving violations not re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB618 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to establish a five-year State Permit Pilot Program to process building and infrastructure permits for the construction of state-owned buildings, state roads and highways, and other construct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2874 | Intro
25% | Establishes a non-refundable income tax credit for residential landlords who lease a unit to a tenant with a pet for at least six months. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3260 | Intro
25% | Requires that, by 1/1/2112, one hundred percent of the food purchased by certain state departments consist of fresh local agricultural products and local value-added, processed, agricultural, or food products. Requires the Department of Agriculture t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3302 | Intro
25% | For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024, creates a nonrefundable income tax credit for qualified expenses of eligible farmers, ranchers, and fishers. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2399 | Intro
25% | Exempts the gross proceeds received after 12/31/2023 by a farmer for the sale of produce from the general excise tax. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2425 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and appropriates funds to the Department of Health to retain qualified consultants as necessary to identify necessary public outreach and education resources and tools and develop a comprehensive public outreach strategy and website to edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2421 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the continued administration of the Hawaii Healthy Food Incentive Program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Declare...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2675 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources, to facilitate the private sector's development of renewable energy projects that also support agricultural food...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2588 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the establishment of four full-time equivalent (4.0 FTE) archaeologist positions and one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) historic preservation specialist position within the State Historic Preservation Division; provided that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3184 | Intro
25% | Establishes a three-year pilot program that allows the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct emergency procurement in certain districts under certain circumstances. Requires reports to the Legislature. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2722 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2894 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to incorporate bikeshare and micro-mobility devices into the Pre-tax Transportation Benefit Pilot Program's commuter benefits. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3001 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for applied behavioral analysis services for persons with autism. Requires the Department of Human Services to obtain maximum federal matching funds and pursue all other funding sources. Declares that the ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3185 | Intro
25% | Amends chapter 103D, HRS, to add to part III a new section allowing an alternative procurement method when the federal government provides for or approves the alternative procurement method, and the head of the purchasing agency makes a written deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3345 | Intro
25% | Conforms Hawaii estate tax laws to the operative provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to decrease the burden on taxpayers and increase efficiencies in the Department of Taxation's monitoring and auditing of estate tax returns. Establishes an estat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2418 | Intro
25% | Requires state agencies that monitor environmental toxins and pollutants to establish environmental action levels (EALs) to ensure the preservation of a safe environment. Prohibits modifications to EALs unless certain procedural requirements are met....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB2477 | Intro
25% | Includes single-ingredient products as a purchasing option for certain state departments and entities to fulfill their local food purchasing requirements. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3045 | Intro
25% | Increases the cap for awards to assist businesses applying for the Small Business Innovation Research Grant Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Grant Program of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Adds purchasing of renewabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| HI | SB3261 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Local Agriculture Transportation Cost Reimbursement Program to reimburse eligible ranchers and farmers a portion of their costs to transport livestock, livestock products, agricultural commodities, and certain supplies under certain cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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