| HI | SB1470 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Public Safety to install digital cameras in all guard control rooms of any correctional center housing women. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HI | SB846 | Intro
25% | Increases fines that may be assessed against certain fireworks-related violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB891 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide menstrual products at no cost in specified restrooms of public buildings maintained by that department. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB688 | Intro
25% | Specifies that a recount of all ballots cast for any election shall occur if the official tabulation of all of the returns for that office or ballot question reveals that there is a difference equal to or less than one hundred votes, one-quarter of o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1159 | Intro
25% | Clarifies when the identity of a police officer, who has been suspended or discharged following a misconduct incident, is to be disclosed in a county police department's annual report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB515 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Hawaii Small Business Innovation Research Program. Beginning with fiscal year 2025-2026, and each fiscal year thereafter, requires the Department of Business, Economic Develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB1104 | Engross
50% | Amends the definition of "cannabis" to include cannabis propagules, cuttings, and seeds. Defines "cannabis cutting" and "cannabis propagule". Requires a licensed dispensary's production center to submit to DOH an inventory of cannabis propagules, cut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB405 | Intro
25% | Establishes the cesspool conversion tax credit to upgrade or convert cesspools certified by the Department of Health into a director-approved wastewater system. Effective for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1487 | Intro
25% | Imposes labeling requirements for mamaki tea grown in the State. Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to administer the mamaki tea labeling requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB418 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Hydrogen Energy Industry Program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Requires the Hawaii Hydrogen Energy Industry Program to design, implement, and administer activities to further the State's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB391 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii community colleges' workforce development programs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB330 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation the right of first refusal for the development of property for all development on state lands, excluding the Stadium Development District and lands under Hawaii Public Housing Authorit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB437 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to issue interim rules exempt from the public hearing and gubernatorial approval requirements of chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, after beneficiary consultation is conducted by the Department of Hawaii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1471 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Department of Health or any recipient of individually identifiable health information of a newborn child obtained through genetic and metabolic screening tests required by law to disclose to any person other than the newborn child's par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB451 | Intro
25% | Establishes a cultivation facility license that allows cultivators to grow cannabis for sale only to licensed medical cannabis dispensaries. Establishes requirements for license applications and qualifications for applicants and licensees. Limits the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB480 | Intro
25% | Expands the definition of "beer" under the liquor regulatory laws to mean any alcoholic beverage containing no less than 0.5 per cent alcohol by volume obtained by fermentation of any infusion or decoction of malt or any substitute, including alcohol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB949 | Intro
25% | Requires that any secure psychiatric rehabilitation program operated or contracted for by the Department of Health must be a forensic facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1235 | Engross
50% | Establishes a temporary public land trust working group within the Office of the Governor for administrative purposes only. Provides that the working group's sole purpose shall be to compile a definitive inventory of public land trust lands. Authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB946 | Intro
25% | Makes comprehensive updates to chapter 436E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding acupuncture practitioners, to reflect modernized scopes of practice, titles, and licensing and renewal requirements. Beginning with the renewal for the licensing biennium...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB899 | Intro
25% | Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to practice medical aid in dying or provide counseling to a qualified patient. Amends the mandatory waiting period between oral requests and the provision of a prescription.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1480 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of the Attorney General, an Environmental Crimes Unit, which shall be a cooperative effort between the Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Health to investigate and prosecute crimes that pose sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB895 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii health data exchange framework. Establishes the stakeholder advisory group to assist the department of health in the development of the framework. Requires certain health care organizations to execute a health data sharing agre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB686 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to update the State Health Functional Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1142 | Intro
25% | Places certain requirements and speed restrictions on the operation of water vessels in proximity to humpback whales.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB724 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the enhancement of technology resources for the Department of Human Resources Development and for positions in the Department. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB439 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors. Includes the Director of Health as a member of the Precept...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB978 | Intro
25% | Includes any firearm or rifle with the capacity to fire ammunition of fifty caliber or higher, excluding antique pistols and revolvers, and muzzleloaders in the list of prohibited weapons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1259 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to DOA 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB592 | Intro
25% | Requires certain patients subject to emergency hospitalization to be assessed to determine whether a surrogate or guardian is needed to make appropriate health care decisions for the patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1043 | Intro
25% | Decriminalizes and legalizes the personal use, possession, and sale of cannabis in a specified quantity. Entitles persons arrested or convicted of certain marijuana offenses from custody or incarceration. Entitles certain persons to the expungement o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1013 | Intro
25% | Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chair's designee to the Commission on Water Resource Management. Increases number of commission members from seven to eight, with only five of eight required to have substantial experience ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB690 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the sale of certain fluorescent lamps as a new manufactured product, with certain exemptions. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1570 | Intro
25% | Amends various statutory provisions for the purpose of strengthening the integrity of medical cannabis law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB741 | Engross
50% | Excludes from any waiting list maintained by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands any lessee or successor who sells or transfers their lease on a tract of Hawaiian home lands for personal gain. Establishes that the Hawaiian Homes Commission shall ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB84 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Sustainable Food Systems Working Group within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop a plan for a more sustainable, resilient local food economy and to report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to establish ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB734 | Engross
50% | Establishes an inter-division program between the State Historic Preservation Division, Land Division, Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands, Island Burial Councils, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs that addresses the location, movement, and res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB444 | Intro
25% | Authorizes dispensaries to distribute medical cannabis propagules and cuttings. Authorizes only those persons who may cultivate medical cannabis to purchase the propagules and cuttings. Imposes quantity limits and quality requirements on medical cann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB842 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to purchase health care services for certain low-income, uninsured immigrants. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB951 | Engross
50% | Adds a cap for the amount of tax credits for research activities that an eligible taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities may receive per taxable year. Requires a qualified high technology business to be registered to do business in the State an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1478 | Engross
50% | Establishes an offensive cybersecurity program within the office of enterprise technology services to analyze and evaluate cybersecurity threats and increase cybersecurity awareness and education. Establishes a goal for all state and county agencies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB474 | Intro
25% | Requires the public utilities commission to issue a decision within six months from the date that a public utility has filed a financial application request to enter into any stock, certificates, bonds, notes, and other indebtedness arrangements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB777 | Engross
50% | For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023, provides a temporary income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a wastewater system approved by the Director of Health, or connecting to a sewerage system. Sunsets 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB1114 | Intro
25% | Requires HHFDC to establish a five-year dwelling unit revolving fund equity pilot program. Creates one full-time equivalent housing development specialist III position. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB737 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii, to develop a Hawaiian Language Medium Education Kindergarten Entry Assessment to be administered by the Department of Education, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB475 | Intro
25% | Provides that reports required by the public utilities commission through an order and not required by statute expire one year after the issuance of the order. Allows continuation of the reporting requirement if a new order is issued and justificatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB704 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the State Small Business Credit Initiative Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB1260 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support collaboration between the Department of Agriculture and the aquaculture industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB386 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) engineer position and one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) planner position within the Department of Health's Wastewater Branch to support processing of individual wastewater systems application...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB479 | Engross
50% | Exempts from the requirement that a water common carrier secure the prior approval of the Public Utilities Commission to issue stocks and stock certificates and enter long-term leases of more than three years and leverage leases: (1) land leases from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | SB1101 | Engross
50% | Conforms county debt limit statements law to permit counties to exclude tax increment bonds from the debt limit of the counties if a constitutional amendment authorizing the use of tax increment bonds and excluding tax increment bonds from determinat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
