| 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 |
| HI | SB1105 | Intro
25% | Requires original equipment manufacturers of digital electronic equipment to make documentation, parts, and tools available to independent repair providers and owners for the purposes of diagnosis, maintenance, and repair on fair and reasonable terms...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB987 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to develop and implement statewide media, education, and training activities for policies related to emergency examination and hospitalization and assisted community treatment for those in need of mental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1165 | Intro
25% | Establishes a process, beginning on January 1, 2024, for automatically preregistering or registering University of Hawaii System students who are at least sixteen years old to vote. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB870 | Intro
25% | Prohibits hospitals and health care facilities to permit or require health care providers to provide services for any period after the health care provider has been on duty for sixteen consecutive hours or an aggregate of eighty hours during any peri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB897 | Intro
25% | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to provide individuals with the right to marry any human being and for that right not to be abridged by the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1126 | Intro
25% | Amends the income tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment by increasing the taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses and dollar limit on amounts creditable that constit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB982 | Intro
25% | Permits interested parties to request the director of health to file an assisted community treatment petition on behalf of the interested party. Requires final orders for a petition to be filed within thirty days of the date an assisted community tre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB128 | Intro
25% | Establishes the photo noise violation monitoring system law. Establishes the Photo Noise Violation Monitoring System Program to enforce the State Community Noise Code, implemented by the State on any state or county highways within the respective cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB863 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Corporation and the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Special Fund for the purpose of enhancing credit and guaranteeing and insuring loans made by private financial institutions to developers of res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB751 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Early Childhood Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to assist students with school tuition in return for a service commitment to teach in the Executive Office on Early Learning Public Prekindergarten Program....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB986 | Intro
25% | Requires corporations to include the income of all foreign subsidiaries to the State. Applies the State's apportionment formula to determine the share of reported profits subject to the appropriate tax. Effective 1/1/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1007 | Intro
25% | Expands the State's temporary disability insurance (TDI) coverage to, and exempt from TDI benefit eligibility requirements that are employment-related, employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the employee's childbirth or pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB24 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a retailer from selling or offering for sale combustion engine-powered mopeds beginning January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB48 | Intro
25% | Establishes penalties for failure to comply with certain submerged land reclamation regulations. Adds requirements for presently reclaimed land to be disposed of by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, without recourse to public auction, to an ab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1218 | Intro
25% | Requires the Deputy Director of Highways of the Department of Transportation to be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
