| HI | SB2460 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to address the mental health and wellness needs of youth in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2483 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to administer a three-year pilot program to authorize community health workers to provide outreach, education, training, and navigation of services to address the social determinants of health in Kau, Hawaii County. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2810 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for Pololu Valley management, including for the Division of Forestry and Wildlife of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to develop the trailhead; develop the infrastructure necessary to accommodate parking; install approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2797 | Intro
25% | Creates a refundable water catchment income tax credit for a homeowner who installs, places in service, or maintains a water catchment system meeting certain requirements on residential property in the State owned by the taxpayer. Applies to taxable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2498 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Cesspool Conversion Revolving Loan Fund. Directs green energy market securitization loan repayments and interest to be deposited into the Cesspool Conversion Revolving Loan Fund. Requires the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| HI | SB2751 | Intro
25% | Establishes accessibility standards for the distribution of public documents and media presentations by boards as defined in section 92-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2052 | Intro
25% | Requires the public access room to establish and maintain an outreach and engagement program for primary, secondary, post-secondary, and community education. Requires the department of education and university of Hawaii to assign appropriate staff to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
The recommendation was not adopted. |
| HI | SR4 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Hawaii State Public Library System To Establish A Hawaii Deaf Culture Digital Library For The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SCR4 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Hawaii State Public Library System To Establish A Hawaii Deaf Culture Digital Library For The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3213 | Intro
25% | Requires one per cent of the transient accommodations tax be allocated to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for the purposes of building affordable housing for individuals on the DHHL waiting list.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3308 | Intro
25% | Requires the use of modern Hawaiian orthography, including the kahako and ?okina, on the state seal. Provides that valid representations of the seal created before this Act shall remain valid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2061 | Intro
25% | Establishes a one-year school bus driver certification subsidy pilot program within the Department of Education. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2069 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for the establishment of three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) curriculum specialist II positions and ten full-time equivalent (10.0 FTE) classroom teacher positions for Ka Papahana Kaiapuni schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | SB2767 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority's duties include supporting aquaculture. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2801 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to identify sites throughout the State that are suitable for the development of slaughterhouses. Requires the Agribusiness Development Corporation to plan, design, construct, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | SB2055 | Intro
25% | Establishes a three-year summer tuition pilot program to provide funding to UH community colleges to offset the costs aligning the resident tuition rates for the summer semester with the resident tuition rates for the spring and fall semesters at the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2105 | Intro
25% | Authorizes students who are individuals from a COFA nation, refugees, or special immigrant visa holders to qualify for the resident tuition fee within the University of Hawaii system, under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2049 | Intro
25% | Establishes a five-year pilot program to allow qualified psychologists limited authority to prescribe psychotropic medications to patients under the care of the psychologist at a federally qualified health center. Requires a report to the Legislature...
[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 | SB3212 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Transportation to acquire any real, personal, or mixed property for immediate or future use; own, hold, improve, rehabilitate, sell, assign, exchange, transfer, convey, lease, or dispose of any real, personal, or mixed pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB3309 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Electric Vehicle Charging System and Infrastructure Funding Program. Increases the amount of petroleum tax to be deposited into the electric vehicle charging system subaccount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB3310 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 3rd senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3311 | Intro
25% | Establishes that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice for public accommodations to deny a person with a disability full and equal enjoyment of information related to their services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations using inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2988 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii State Planning Act Phase II Update Task Force within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2481 | Intro
25% | Establishes a timeline by which roasted coffee, instant coffee, and ready-to-drink coffee beverages that use a geographic origin in labeling or advertising are required to contain a certain per cent coffee by weight from that geographic origin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2472 | Intro
25% | Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. 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 facility operators to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2852 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year senior access pilot program in the Executive Office on Aging to improve access to essential services and reduce wait times for seniors seeking public services through state and county government offices. Requires the Auditor to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2750 | Intro
25% | Establishes state policy to promote braille literacy for blind students. Requires the individualized education programs of blind students to include the instruction of Braille and provision of Braille instructional materials under certain circumstanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2802 | Intro
25% | Declares that the general fund expenditure is exceeded. Makes an appropriation to the Department of Agriculture to increase the benefits of the Hawaii healthy food incentive program to a wider portion of the State's population and the provision of ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2799 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Local Agriculture Transportation Cost Reimbursement Incentive Program to be administered by the Department of Agriculture to reimburse eligible producers for a portion of the producer's costs to transport agricultural commodities. Decla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2809 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Fire Council to appoint the State Fire Marshal. Establishes that this measure only takes effect if another bill is passed that establishes a State Fire Marshal position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2807 | Intro
25% | Establishes an annual tax credit for qualified physicians who actively practice medicine in rural areas of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2798 | Intro
25% | Establishes the hike safe card program and search and rescue special fund to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2660 | Intro
25% | Establishes a refundable child tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2812 | Intro
25% | Establishes the sustainable food systems working group within the Department of Agriculture. Requires the working group to develop an interagency food systems plan and a state farm bill. Appropriates funds for the working group and for an unspecified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2800 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to require the teaching of financial literacy to be included in the existing personal transition plan requirement for each student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2917 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2027, establishes licensing requirements, including minimum standards and qualifications, for journey worker electric utility linemen and expands the board of electricians and plumbers to include members engaged in electric utility work...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2938 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Institute of Indigenous Education, Science, and Outreach within the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2939 | Intro
25% | Provides that the Hawaiian language college revolving fund may include moneys from any revenue source. Provides that the fund and the Hawaiian early learning trust fund shall support the Imiloa astronomy center. Establishes a cap on individual deposi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2407 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in grades nine through twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete one course in financial literacy b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2244 | Intro
25% | Expands the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's State Rent Supplement Program for Kupuna to provide homeowners insurance premium assistance to housing owners who rent or lease to qualified kupuna a mortgaged property located within certain lava zones, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2261 | Intro
25% | Relating To Human Services. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2256 | Intro
25% | Relating To The Environment. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2253 | Intro
25% | Relating To Agriculture. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2302 | Intro
25% | Requires the Director of the Executive Office on Aging to work with health care providers to ensure that there are sufficient long-term care facilities on each island of the State. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2275 | Intro
25% | Relating To International Affairs. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2274 | Intro
25% | Relating To The Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2255 | Intro
25% | Relating To The Environment. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
