| HI | SB1211 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Office of Wellness and Resilience, the Malama Ohana Working Group to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Allows the Office of Wellness and Resilience to contract with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB323 | Intro
25% | Adopts the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact allowing occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants licensed in a member state to practice in other member states. Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt ru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB463 | Engross
50% | Requires each county to adopt, no later than 6/30/2024, ordinances applicable to subdivisions not approved by 7/1/2024, requiring as a condition of approval, the subdivider or developer to obtain a street address and install a mailbox for lots, parce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB677 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and establishes procedures and criteria for prescriptive authority for clinical psychologists who meet specific education, training, and registration requirements. Requires the Board of Psychology to accept applications for prescriptive au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1251 | Intro
25% | Beginning July 1, 2023, requires substitute teachers who work ninety days or more to be compensated equivalent to the daily rate for an entry-level teacher salary commensurate with their placement in Class I, II, or III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB312 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and administer a two-year Infant and Toddler Child Care Worker Subsidy Pilot Program. Requires annual reports on the pilot program's development and administration to the Legislature. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB314 | Engross
50% | Makes permanent and amends the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program. Makes certain assessment exemptions permanent as to the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund. Repeals chapter 346E, HRS, relating to the Nursing Facility Tax. App...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1589 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Hawaii Hemp Task Force to inform public policy and identify methods and actions to best support Hawaii agriculture and build a hemp industry to support rural economic development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB467 | Enroll
75% | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to allow the Legislature to enact laws establishing limitations on moneys expended by any noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures to influence the outcome of a state election....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB604 | Intro
25% | Prohibits state and county employees and officers from providing reproductive health care services patient information or expending state resources in furtherance of another state's investigation or proceeding that seeks to impose civil, criminal, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1238 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Kupuna Rural Health Care Pilot Program within the Executive Office on Aging of the Department of Health to improve access to care in rural areas of Hawaii County and expand broadband internet access, provide at-home visits, and ground...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB465 | Engross
50% | Authorizes qualifying patients and qualifying out-of-state patients to transport cannabis between islands of the State for personal medical use; provided that no individual or entity shall be required to violate federal law. Requires the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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 | SB1546 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Institute of Indigenous Education, Science, and Outreach within the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB608 | Engross
50% | Requires pharmacies to provide accessible prescription drug label information to individuals who have difficulty seeing or reading standard printed prescription drug container labels and inform the public that prescription drug label information is a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB1077 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to establish a ballot-tracking system that allows all voters to receive alerts regarding the mailing, receipt, and counting of their ballots returned by mail. Requires the counties to immediately notify ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB676 | Intro
25% | Establishes a three-year surcharge on the liquor tax. Repeals 06/30/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1607 | Intro
25% | Requires a talent agency to provide educational materials regarding sexual harassment prevention, retaliation, and reporting resources and nutrition and eating disorders to adult artists represented by the talent agency. Requires proof of compliance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1526 | Intro
25% | Explicitly provides that a patient has a right to choose to obtain an abortion, or terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the patient's life or health. Repeals criminal penalties for violations of certain abortion provisions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1085 | Intro
25% | Establishes standards for the collection, storage, retention, and destruction of biometric identifiers and biometric information by private entities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1193 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish a grant program to assist persons who use albizia trees to create usable commercial products or are developing ways to use albizia trees to create usable products. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB683 | Intro
25% | Extends the State's energy-efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045. Authorizes the public utilities commission to establish interim goals. Clarifies that certain demand response programs and related activities count toward the portfolio stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB1116 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that there is a presumption of a nexus for certain nonresident employees who telework. Amends the income tax law to apply to the total income of certain nonresident employees who telework. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2022...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
