| HI | SB2066 | Engross 50% | Establishes another means for a housing project to seek an exemption from laws and rules of the State that are developed under various programs of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01 Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-03-24. |
| HI | SB2819 | Engross 50% | Requires vehicles traveling ten miles per hour or more below the posted speed limit on a two-lane highway, behind which five vehicles are formed in a line, to pull over where possible to let the trailing vehicles pass or overtake. Effective 7/1/3000.... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01 Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-03-24. |
| HI | SB2119 | Engross 50% | Authorizes out-of-state pharmacists to transfer prescription information for the initial fill of an out-of-state prescription. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Gates, Ichiyama, Kila, Lowen, Tam excused (5). |
| HI | SB2405 | Engross 50% | Allows campaign funds to be used for a candidate's child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Chun, Garrett, Kahaloa, Kila, Kobayashi, Morikawa, Nishimoto, Poepoe, Takenouchi, Alcos, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Kitagawa, Aiu, Cochran, Lamosao. |
| HI | SB2461 | Engross 50% | Specifically authorizes a medical cannabis dispensary to purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from another dispensary. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules regarding medical cannabis products within a certain time. Effecti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Chun, Garrett, Kahaloa, Kila, Kobayashi, Morikawa, Nishimoto, Poepoe, Takenouchi; Ayes with reservations: none; 2 Noes: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Kitagawa, Aiu, Cochran, Lamosao. |
| HI | SB2532 | Engross 50% | Clarifies that the definition of "dwelling", as it relates to offenses against property rights, includes multi-unit buildings and connected parking or storage areas that are restricted to residents. Allows the owner of a multi-unit building, an owner... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Gates, Ichiyama, Kila, Lowen, Tam excused (5). |
| HI | SB2747 | Engross 50% | Requires the Director of Transportation to adopt rules that require tour aircraft operators to have aircraft liability insurance coverage no less than an unspecified percentage of the highest minimum similar coverage required by a United States inter... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Nakashima, Sayama, Amato, Belatti, Hashem, Onishi, Tam, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Hussey-Burdick, Gates, Lowen. |
| HI | SB3236 | Engross 50% | Clarifies that if no personal property designation appears in a recorded instrument, the interests of the beneficiaries shall be real property. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Chun, Garrett, Kahaloa, Kila, Kobayashi, Morikawa, Nishimoto, Poepoe, Takenouchi, Alcos, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Kitagawa, Aiu, Cochran, Lamosao. |
| HI | SB3329 | Engross 50% | Requires the disclosure of any little fire ant infestation as part of any sale of residential real property. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2079 | Engross 50% | Allows the State of Hawaii Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Kitagawa, Aiu, Chun, Garrett, Kahaloa, Kila, Kobayashi, Lamosao, Morikawa, Nishimoto, Poepoe, Takenouchi, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Alcos. |
| HI | SB2170 | Engross 50% | Establishes a new regulatory framework for combat sports contests in Hawaii by establishing the Combat Sports Commission of Hawaii and repealing existing law governing mixed martial arts contests in Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2040. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Kitagawa, Aiu, Chun, Garrett, Kahaloa, Kila, Kobayashi, Lamosao, Morikawa, Nishimoto, Poepoe, Takenouchi, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Alcos. |
| HI | SB2401 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to each county as a grant-in-aid for the implementation of feral chicken control programs. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for a feeding of feral animals education campaign. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Kitagawa, Aiu, Chun, Garrett, Kahaloa, Kila, Kobayashi, Lamosao, Morikawa, Nishimoto, Poepoe, Takenouchi, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Alcos. |
| HI | SB2556 | Engross 50% | Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Kitagawa, Aiu, Chun, Garrett, Kahaloa, Kila, Kobayashi, Lamosao, Morikawa, Nishimoto, Poepoe, Takenouchi, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Alcos. |
| HI | SB2657 | Engross 50% | Designates one day of each year as Makahiki Commemoration Day. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Takayama, Evslin, Ichiyama, Ilagan, Kong, Miyake, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Ganaden, Holt. |
| HI | SB2834 | Engross 50% | Amends the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to provide for a process to dispose of the tenant's personal property and surrender the dwelling unit to a landlord when there is a death of a tenant. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Takayama, Evslin, Ichiyama, Ilagan, Kong, Miyake, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Ganaden, Holt. |
| HI | SCR192 | Intro 25% | Requesting The Office Of The Auditor To Conduct A Performance Audit Of The Department Of Agriculture's Plant Industry Division. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 [Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:01 pm] To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SR163 | Intro 25% | Urging The Department Of Agriculture To Adopt Proposed Amendments To Chapter 4-72, Hawaii Administrative Rules, That Provide Important Authorities For The Department To Prevent The Spread Of Insects, Diseases, And Other Invasive Pests Within The Stat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 [Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:01 pm] To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SR164 | Intro 25% | Requesting The Office Of The Auditor To Conduct A Performance Audit Of The Department Of Agriculture's Plant Industry Division. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 [Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:01 pm] To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SCR191 | Intro 25% | Urging The Department Of Agriculture To Adopt Proposed Amendments To Chapter 4-72, Hawaii Administrative Rules, That Provide Important Authorities For The Department To Prevent The Spread Of Insects, Diseases, And Other Invasive Pests Within The Stat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 [Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:01 pm] To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB477 | Engross 50% | Requires the public utilities commission to make every effort to complete its review for a merger, consolidation, acquisition, or other change of control and issue a decision within nine months or twelve months from the date of a completed applicatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB86 | Engross 50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, to update the State Agriculture Functional Plan to include other agricultural economic updates that expand the State's priority on food b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB398 | Engross 50% | Requires the Department of Human Services to collect and analyze data to determine the impact of expanding post-permanency services to families receiving benefits from the adoption assistance program and report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB449 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to the department of business, economic development, and tourism for the governor to plan and coordinate the festival of pacific arts and culture to be held in Honolulu from 6/6/2024 to 6/16/2024. Requires the department of busines... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB1068 | Engross 50% | Includes in the State's policies for the physical environment under the Hawaii State Planning Act, the promotion of statewide beach assessments and beach and shoreline adaptation, restoration, and conservation and the pursuit of compatible relationsh... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB1473 | Engross 50% | Requires DOH, DHS, and DOE to research rules, policies, and plan amendments necessary to ensure that medically necessary services, including applied behavior analysis services, for individuals twenty-six years of age or younger with neurodevelopmenta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB682 | Engross 50% | Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, display for sale, trade, or distribution of certain animal fur products in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB627 | Engross 50% | Allows an election candidate, treasurer, or candidate committee to use campaign funds for the candidate's child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB1442 | Engross 50% | Establishes positions within the Office of the Governor to be responsible for the deployment of the capital improvement funds appropriated by this Act. Appropriates funds for the ohana zones pilot program for expenses relating to operations, upkeep o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB587 | Engross 50% | Increases the fines for violating provisions relating to the installation of noisy exhaust pipes and mufflers. Authorizes police officers to conduct examinations and inspections if the officer has probable cause to believe that a vehicle's excessivel... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB397 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to increase medicaid payments to eligible health care providers in the State up to one hundred per cent of the current medicare fee schedule rates. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB2122 | Engross 50% | Extends the State's energy efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish interim goals, and clarifies procedures. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB62 | Engross 50% | Reestablishes the Hawaii medical education special fund. Appropriates funds into and out of the Hawaii medical education special fund to the John A. Burns School of Medicine for graduate medical education and training programs, to create more residen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB735 | Engross 50% | Exempts the instream use of water for commercial kalo cultivation conducted in a manner consistent with traditional and customary Native Hawaiian practices and on traditional kalo lands from the existing process for the disposition of water rights. E... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB586 | Engross 50% | Conditions the issuance of a certificate of inspection upon a vehicle not being equipped with a noisy muffler or exhaust system. Requires rules regarding safety check inspections to ensure that a motorcycle, moped, or motor vehicle is not equipped wi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB63 | Engross 50% | Authorizes the board of nursing to issue temporary permits for six-month periods to out-of-state licensed practical nurses and registered nurses or who hold a multistate license issued by another state, territory, or foreign country, under certain ci... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB445 | Engross 50% | Increases civil penalties for the violation of various pollution provisions. Establishes and appropriates funds for an environmental health specialist position within the clean water branch of the department of health. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB75 | Engross 50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to inventory historic properties and burial sites in the State, collect data on burial site locations, and conduct an archaeological surface survey. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SR44 | Intro 25% | Urging The Hawaii Community Development Authority To Establish A Multiagency Working Group To Update The Maps, Tier Tables, And Inventories Of State Lands Suitable And Available For Affordable Housing Development. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WTL were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, Chang, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) McKelvey. |
| HI | SCR55 | Intro 25% | Urging The Hawaii Community Development Authority To Establish A Multiagency Working Group To Update The Maps, Tier Tables, And Inventories Of State Lands Suitable And Available For Affordable Housing Development. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in WTL were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, Chang, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) McKelvey. |
| HI | SB2560 | Engross 50% | Provides that each lease that the Department of Agriculture enters into, renews, or extends shall authorize the DOA to enter the leased premises with prior notification to survey for, identify, investigate, control, or eradicate pests; work cooperati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2726 | Engross 50% | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on how certain other states approach the following subjects as they relate to condominiums: an ombudsman, licenses for management, alternative dispute resolution, governmental regulation, o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2922 | Engross 50% | Creates a process for electric utilities to develop and submit wildfire protection plans to the Public Utilities Commission for approval and allow the recovery of related costs and expenses through securitization, while avoiding a disproportionate im... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3237 | Engross 50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to designate certain species as pests, and periodically update taxa designated as pests, for control or eradication and develop and implement a control or eradication program for each designated pest but, if the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3234 | Engross 50% | Amends the laws relating to the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund and Hawaii Property Insurance Association by: imposing a different transient accommodation tax rate for transient vacation rentals and a property insurance surcharge on conveyance tax to ca... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3344 | Engross 50% | Establishes the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund and Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund Corporation to provide compensation for property damage resulting from catastrophic wildfires in the State. Requires the Corporation's board to report to the Legislature. Mak... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB3335 | Engross 50% | Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis and Hemp Authority and Cannabis and Hemp Control Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning 1/1/2026, legalizes the personal adult use of canna... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2132 | Engross 50% | Amends the deadline related to the repair of conditions that constitute health or safety violations. Increases the amount deducted from a tenant's rent for the tenant's actual expenditures to correct health or safety violations and defective conditio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Takayama, Evslin, Ganaden, Holt, Ichiyama, Ilagan, Kong, Miyake, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | SB2913 | Engross 50% | Establishes a new regulatory framework for the sale of travel insurance in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB699 | Engross 50% | Establishes a state capitol tours program within the office of the governor. Establishes two full-time equivalent positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB303 | Engross 50% | Appropriates operating and capital improvement grants for fiscal year 2023-2024. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |