| HI | SB3318 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health, for all eligible participants in the District Court Jail Diversion Program, to conduct an initial screening for possible serious mental illness; a mental health assessment for all eligible participants indicated as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2014 | Intro
25% | Beginning October 1, 2024, requires that all cartridges for electronic smoking devices and solutions for filling or refilling an electronic smoking device to be in child-resistant packaging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2689 | Intro
25% | Creates a state-initiated process to expunge records of arrests and convictions pursuant to section 712-1249, Hawaii Revised Statutes, at no cost to the record holder. Requires the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to submit biannual reports to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2138 | Intro
25% | Requires that each vote cast for a question on a ballot for the ratification of a constitutional amendment be counted in the negative only if the ballot properly indicates that the vote is in the negative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2015 | Intro
25% | Amends the priority for which moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund are to be used.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2136 | Intro
25% | Establishes fees that medical providers may charge for medical records and imposes civil penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2140 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from charging any fees on a transient accommodation or resort time share vacation interest, plan, or unit that were not disclosed before the time of purchase. Requires a person to clearly and conspicuously display in each adverti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2628 | Intro
25% | Renames the Department of Law Enforcement to the "Department of the State Sheriff". Renames the Director of Law Enforcement to "State Sheriff" and deputy directors to "undersheriffs". Establishes an assistant position to be designated by the State Sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2524 | Intro
25% | Prohibits users of algorithmic decision-making from utilizing algorithmic eligibility determinations in a discriminatory manner. Requires users of algorithmic decision-making to send corresponding notices to individuals whose personal information is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2519 | Intro
25% | Requires persons under the age of seventeen to wear a helmet while riding a skateboard. Clarifies that the Act does not infringe on county ordinances prohibiting skateboards on streets and roadways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2632 | Intro
25% | Requires insurers that issue motor vehicle insurance to notify the Insurance Commissioner when the insured or insurer cancels or fails to renew a policy or that the insurer issues a policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2629 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to make phone calls free for incarcerated persons who have been convicted or are detained and awaiting a verdict.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2786 | Intro
25% | Beginning on 7/1/2024, requires that the state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes not exceed $1,136...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2679 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to create and distribute to the parents and guardians of students a firearms access prevention and secure storage model notice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education 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 | SB2681 | Intro
25% | Amends chapter 127A, HRS, to clarify State and local authority. Prohibits the Governor or Mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital specifics during a state of emergency. Clarifies that powers granted for emergency purposes shall not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2748 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to develop and implement a statewide internet and mobile phone-based hazard tracking system that includes notifications, warnings, maps, weather, and related resources about various hazards in the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2691 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products and mislabeled e-liquid products that contain nicotine. Repeals language making the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices a statewide concern and preempting county ordinan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2785 | 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 the Department of Human Services to perform ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2749 | Intro
25% | Excludes xylazine testing strips from the definition of "drug paraphernalia". Requires the administrator of the narcotics enforcement administration to make an emergency scheduling by placing xylazine into schedule III on an emergency basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2760 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each have one vote if they have employees in a particular bargaining unit for the purposes of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. Repeals staf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2928 | Intro
25% | Beginning September 30, 2028, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to annually calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate to within the nearest twenty-five cents using the Urban Hawaii Consumer Price index to take effect on January ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2929 | Intro
25% | Lowers the blood alcohol concentration threshold for driving while under the influence of alcohol from 0.08 to 0.05.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2931 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Sheriff Division within the Department of Law Enforcement. Specifies the responsibility of the Department of Law Enforcement's Sheriff Division regarding judicial and legislative security.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2388 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Employees' Retirement System from acquiring securities of companies that have active business operations with Russia or Belarus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2383 | Intro
25% | Repeals the fuel tax credit for commercial fishers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2389 | Intro
25% | Allows for the establishment of additional regional centers for the redemption of refillable beverage containers. Repeals exemptions for certain beverage dealers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2394 | Intro
25% | Adds a minimum penalty of $50 and a maximum penalty of $60,000 per violation of the State Water Code, expands the types of potential violations of the State Water Code, and makes each day that a violation exists or continues to exist a separate offen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2455 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish the Graffiti Task Force within the Department of Law Enforcement to identify ways to reduce graffiti in Hawaii. Declares that the general services fund ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2452 | Intro
25% | Restricts the use of solitary confinement in state-operated and state-contracted correctional facilities, with certain specified exceptions. Prohibits the use of solitary confinement and requires the use of appropriate alternatives for committed pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2456 | Intro
25% | Includes the prevention of activities within an applicant's premises and adjacent areas that are potentially injurious to the health, safety, and welfare of the public and neighborhood as a factor for determining whether a controlled substances regis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2393 | Intro
25% | Proposes to amend article XVI, section 3, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to more closely reflect the language of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. (ConAm)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2390 | Intro
25% | Defines "isolated wetlands" and "wetlands". Clarifies the definition of "state waters" to include wetlands and isolated wetlands. Requires the Director of Health to determine all wetlands in the State, including whether a wetland is an isolated wetla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2382 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of the Attorney General to assist with the preparation and filing of petitions for assisted community treatment and with the presentation of the case, unless declined by the petitioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2391 | Intro
25% | Removes the exemption of the State, political subdivisions, and United States from the child labor law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2453 | Intro
25% | Requires certain solicitations that reference disasters to include a disclosure. Deems violators guilty of a class C felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2301 | Intro
25% | Requires motor vehicle lessors to provide additional insurance coverage options.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2340 | Intro
25% | Provides a timeframe for a claimant to accept a contractor's proposal to inspect an alleged construction defect. Provides a timeframe for a claimant and contractor to agree to the date of the inspection. Provides a timeframe for a claimant to accept ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2341 | Intro
25% | Increases certain traffic fines and required motor vehicle insurance minimums.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2137 | Intro
25% | Requires defendants convicted of causing the death or disability of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant to make restitution in the form of financial support to each chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2010 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires each public school and public charter school in the State to employ, or retain under contract, at least one mental health professional for every two hundred fifty students enrolled, subject to certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2025 | Intro
25% | Eliminates certain restrictions for developing state-owned real property located within one-half mile radius of any station along the elevated mass transit system. Permits high-density development of state-owned real property located within one-half ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2016 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB595 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the executive office on aging to create an Alzheimer's disease public health campaign.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB614 | Intro
25% | Require the Department of Human Services to: establish a Neighbor Islands Blind and Visually Impaired Service Pilot Program that supplements existing statewide services by providing training and other services to neighbor island residents who are bli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB417 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Department of Health, to prepare a report making recommendations on the establishment of a Hawaii Near Shore Waters Quality Program to monitor and test for the quality of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1137 | Intro
25% | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of Department of Education schools. Allows the loan to be forgiven after 5 years of teaching in a hard-to-fill position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1542 | Intro
25% | Specifies sensitive locations in which the carrying of firearms is restricted or prohibited. Authorizes, in certain circumstances, the carrying of firearms on private property. Specifies areas in which the carrying or possession of electric guns is r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB991 | Intro
25% | Imposes a cap on costs charged to reproduce certain government records. Waives reproduction costs charged for the first one hundred pages if disclosure serves the public interest. Waives costs charged to duplicate certain government records in an ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB64 | Engross
50% | Requires the insurance commissioner to establish an annual enrollment period for medigap insurance plans. Requires issuers of Medigap insurance in the State to accept an eligible individual's application for coverage during the open enrollment period...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
