| HI | SB2281 | Intro
25% | Establishes a continuous Legislature. Requires the Legislature to convene at least once a month. Removes language regarding special sessions, adjournment, and recesses. Creates a two-year deadline for a bill to be submitted for gubernatorial consider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2467 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to implement quality improvement measures recommended in the comprehensive safety review for the Hawaii State Hospital. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2872 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to regulate by ordinance the use of vehicles, campers, and mobile homes as alternative residential dwellings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2823 | Intro
25% | Establishes a blue ribbon committee within the Department of the Attorney General to analyze the Hawaii Administrative Rules and identify any rules that are not supported by statutory authority. Requires each state agency to cooperate with the blue r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2903 | Intro
25% | Prohibits public entry into wildfire-affected areas for the purpose of habitation until the Department of Health provides notice that the wildfire-affected area is safe to enter for this purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3277 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a determination of ineligibility for tenant applicants for any program under the Hawaii Public Housing Authority law due to an eviction unless a writ of possession was issued and served as a result of the proceeding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2113 | Intro
25% | Makes appropriations to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for its manufacturing assistance programs. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2635 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for operational expenses, including the hiring of staff. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2543 | Intro
25% | Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for search and rescue expenses from persons who require rescue after ignoring warning signs, leaving a hiking trail to enter a prohibited area, or hiking on a trail closed to the public. Takes effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2824 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds to the Agribusiness Development Corporation for the upgrade of South and West Maui's R-1 water delivery systems, and the upgrade of certain water reservoirs located in the forest wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2910 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement for an additional fifteen full-time equivalent deputy sheriff positions for law enforcement officer activities in Lahaina and Maui. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2975 | Intro
25% | Establishes the qualified internship grant program within the Department of Education to provide grants to businesses and organizations that employ qualified interns participating in work-based learning through a qualified internship program. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3337 | Intro
25% | Reestablishes the appraisal management company registration program within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Clarifies that chapter 466L, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed. Applies registration requirements retroactively to 6/30/202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2542 | Intro
25% | Makes an appropriation to the University of Hawaii for the relocation and expansion of the University of Hawaii Maui College, Molokai Education Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2528 | Intro
25% | Disallows dividends paid deduction for real estate investment trusts, except for real estate investment trusts that provide affordable housing in the State. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024. Sunsets 12/31/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB3257 | Intro
25% | Requires the establishment of a One-Stop Student Service Center at each University of Hawaii campus with student enrollment greater than five thousand students beginning in the Fall 2025 semester. Requires that services provided by the One-Stop Stude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2356 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Defense the position and duties of State Wildfire Marshal, the position and duties of State Wildfire Chief, the State Wildfire Corps, and the State Wildfire Fuel Reduction Task Force. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2879 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for an artificial intelligence government services pilot program to provide certain government services to the public through an internet portal that uses artificial intelligence technologies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB462 | Intro
25% | Increases the amount of interest in real property that is exempt from attachment and execution. Amends the value of personal property that is exempt from attachment and execution, including increasing the exemption amount for a motor vehicle. Exempts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB471 | Intro
25% | Prohibits camping in public areas that are not designated as camping locations by the State or a county with certain exceptions. Allows the court to order violators to participate in homeless services in lieu of prosecution or sentencing. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2486 | Intro
25% | Establishes a silver alert program within the Department of Law Enforcement to help locate and safeguard missing vulnerable adults with developmental disabilities or mental impairments who pose a credible threat to the health and safety to themselves...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2909 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to lead the State's emergency management activities in a federally declared disaster.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2525 | Intro
25% | Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to address carbon emissions. Incrementally increases the tax rate over time. Establishes a refundable tax credit to mitigate the effect of a carbon emissions tax on taxpayers. Requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2371 | Intro
25% | Establishes the PFAS Testing Grant Program within the Department of Health to provide funding to assist communities, businesses, and residents throughout the State in obtaining testing services and biological sampling to identify and detect perfluoro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2462 | Intro
25% | Amends the functions of the State Health Planning and Development Agency. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Establishes positions. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2535 | Intro
25% | Removes the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism from membership on the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2490 | Intro
25% | Requires each county to adopt, no later than June 30, 2025, ordinances applicable to subdivisions not approved by July 1, 2025, requiring as a condition of approval, the subdivider or developer to obtain a street address and install a mailbox for lot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2745 | Intro
25% | Provides that the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation shall not tow vehicles operated by persons found to have committed certain traffic infractions unless a citation was issued no less than 24 hours befo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2918 | Intro
25% | Appropriates the function of the State Health Planning and Developmental Agency with the Department of Health. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Establishes positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3210 | Intro
25% | Requires Department of Education school bus contracts to include provisions that require contractors to prioritize the use of motor vehicles that do not require those drivers to hold a commercial driver's license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3238 | Intro
25% | For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024, provides an aquaculture investment tax credit for investments into a qualified aquaculture business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3252 | Intro
25% | Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose or obtain an abortion or to choose to obtain or use contraceptives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3233 | Intro
25% | Establishes a statute of repose for land surveyors, after which time a complaint cannot be made.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3253 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to provide additional support and resources to families receiving benefits through the State's adoption assistance and permanency assistance programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3262 | Intro
25% | Renames the John A. Burns School of Medicine special fund as the physician and veterinarian special fund. Expands the authorized uses of the special fund to include providing loan repayments to veterinarians and scholarships for students attending a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3228 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of the Attorney General to identify all administrative rules, statutory provisions, accounts, special funds, and other legal provisions that require amendment to redesignate the Department of Health as the Department of Environmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3264 | Intro
25% | Authorizes manufacturers of electronic devices to coordinate collection activities for the purpose of recycling electronic devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3278 | Intro
25% | Amends state laws governing medical use of cannabis and the medical cannabis dispensary system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3232 | Intro
25% | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of Department of Education schools. Allows a loan to be forgiven for teachers who become a licensed teacher in Hawaii or for teachers who will co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3251 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Medicaid buy-in program for workers with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3231 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Lahaina Bank and Lahaina Community Preservation Fund. Directs the Lahaina Bank to administer the Lahaina Community Preservation Fund. Directs the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to establish and operate an interim p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3263 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Program within the Department of Human Services to assist qualifying households in paying their energy bills. Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Special Fund. Declares that the general fund exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3254 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds and pursuing all other funding sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3292 | Intro
25% | Beginning 7/1/2024, increases the cigarette tax rate and amends the disposition of the cigarette tax revenues by increasing the amount allocated to the Hawaii Cancer Research Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3291 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Health to allow dispensaries to dispense cannabis or manufactured cannabis products to qualifying patients or primary caregivers of qualifying patients outside of the dispensary's retail store building but on the dispensa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3295 | Intro
25% | Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make restitution in the form of financial support t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3343 | Intro
25% | Requires beekeepers to adhere to certain industry standards and best management practice in the keeping of bees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3321 | Intro
25% | Allows for the use of fine meshed nets for the protection of plants against invasive species.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3358 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to indemnify Molokai ranchers whose herds were affected by the bovine tuberculosis outbreak and have not received indemnification from other sources. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3368 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish a teacher loan forgiveness program to assist in the payment of loans for teachers who commit to teaching in the Hawaii public school system. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
