| HI | SB2240 | Engross
50% | Requires the Office of Elections to file an application with Electronic Registration Information Center, Inc. (ERIC), by 6/30/2025, for the State to be admitted as a member of that organization. Requires the Office of Elections to share with each cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House Conferees Appointed: Tarnas, Nishimoto Co-Chairs; Garrett, Holt, Souza. |
| HI | SB2342 | Engross
50% | Amends the penalties for violations of certain traffic laws and required motor vehicle insurance minimums. Establishes primary and optional coverage requirements for U-drive motor vehicle insurance policies. Establishes disclosure requirements for U-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House Conferees Appointed: Todd, Nakashima Co-Chairs; Kila, Nishimoto, Matsumoto. |
| HI | SB2787 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Office of Community Services the Immigration Services and Access Unit. Appropriates funds for the unit, including for new positions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House Conferees Appointed: Matayoshi, Lamosao Co-Chairs; Garrett, M. Mizuno, Alcos. |
| HI | SB2687 | Engross
50% | Prohibits a person from distributing, or entering into an agreement with another person to distribute, materially deceptive media, subject to certain exceptions. Establishes criminal penalties for distributing materially deceptive media. Establishes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House Conferees Appointed: Tarnas, Onishi Co-Chairs; La Chica, Miyake, Souza. |
| 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] | 2024-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 737). |
| HI | SB2333 | Engross
50% | Allows the Chief Election Officer to use accurate copies of paper ballots, rather than the originals, when conducting a precinct audit of an electronic voting system's tally. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678). |
| HI | SB2782 | Engross
50% | Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to develop multilingual accessibility standards. Appropriates funds to establish an unspecified number of positions to develop multilingual accessibility standards within the Office of Enterprise ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678). |
| HI | SCR5 | Engross
50% | Urging The Prompt Implementation Of The Hawaii Electronic Information Technology Accessibility Act On Or Before December 31, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SCR115 | Engross
50% | Encouraging Developers To Incorporate Net Zero Water Building Strategies When Constructing And Renovating Housing Projects In The State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
[Hearing: Apr 17 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SCR106 | Engross
50% | Urging The Department Of Health, Department Of Transportation, And Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Take Any Action Possible To Reduce The Carbon Emissions Arising From Airplane Transportation To And From The State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SCR103 | Engross
50% | Requesting All High-occupancy State And County Buildings, The Design Of Which Commences On Or After July 1, 2025, To Be Designed And Constructed To Withstand Category Five Hurricanes And To Serve As Shelters In The Event Of An Emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB2520 | Engross
50% | Requires the State to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions or proceedings, under certain circumstances. Clarifies that the employee may employ their own attorney at the employee's own expense. Establishes a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 670). |
| HI | SB2630 | Engross
50% | Authorizes pedestrians to cross roadways in a manner contrary to the statewide traffic code under certain circumstances. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 670). |
| HI | SB3290 | Engross
50% | Requires the Disability and Communication Access Board to convene a working group to study the state of American Sign Language interpretation services in Hawaii. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 489). |
| HI | SCR105 | Engross
50% | Requesting The Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation And Adaptation Commission To Conduct An Educational Program Regarding The Activities Of Individuals That Contribute To Climate Change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SCR126 | Engross
50% | Encouraging The Department Of Agriculture And Hawaii State Energy Office To Increase The State's Usage Of Biodiesel And To Fund Programs That Support The Development Of The Biodiesel Industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SCR135 | Engross
50% | Urging The Governor's Senior Advisor For Mental Health And The Justice System To Define Their Role And To Provide An Annual Report To The Legislature On The Progress The State Has Made Towards Jail Diversion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SCR109 | Engross
50% | Urging The United States Congress To Adopt The Social Security 2100 Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB384 | Engross
50% | Authorizes each county to adopt ordinances to enforce the design and construction requirements for the provision of accessible parking spaces, including the establishment of penalties for failure to comply with the ordinance. Authorizes officials app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB1543 | Engross
50% | Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State, to begin with the 2026 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit a progress a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB504 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, distribution for sale, and distribution for use of any food packaging, food service ware, cosmetic, or personal care product that contains intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substan...
[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 | SB1005 | Engross
50% | Establishes presidential preference primary elections. Makes an appropriation. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB1490 | Engross
50% | Requires the attorney general to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions or proceedings, subject to certain circumstances. Establishes certain filing and hearing requirements for when the attorney general refuse...
[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 | SB652 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to mitigate and control infestations of the two-lined spittlebug, undertake recovery efforts for lands damaged by the two-lined spittlebug, and establish a five-year pilot program to mitigate and co...
[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 | SB44 | Engross
50% | Creates a minimum penalty and raises the maximum penalty for every violation of the State Water Code. Clarifies that each day a violation exists or continues is a separate offense. Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to determine the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB1492 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of health to track and publicly report certain data relating to crisis reports, emergency mental health transports, and court-ordered treatments. Requires the department of health to respond to reports about persons having sev...
[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 | 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 | SB304 | Engross
50% | Effective 7/1/2025, establishes the visitor impact fee program within the department of land and natural resources, through which the department will collect a fee from visitors for a license to visit a state park, forest, hiking trail, or other stat...
[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 | SB57 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the judiciary to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB2685 | Engross
50% | Beginning 1/1/2026, establishes judicial procedures to prevent and remedy abusive litigation. Requires the courts to create new forms by 1/1/2025. Requires the Judiciary to provide training to judges by 7/1/2025. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB775 | Engross
50% | Requires hunting guides who take their clients to hunt on private lands to first obtain written permission from the owner, occupier, holder, or duly appointed agent of the private land, where appropriate. Requires hunting guides to provide copies of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB306 | Engross
50% | Requires that prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of an administrative rule, electronic notice of the proposed rulemaking be provided to all persons who have made a timely written request to, and provided a valid working email address to, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB297 | Engross
50% | Requires organizations to obtain legislative approval prior to the disposition of land that was acquired using state grants, but only if the land was acquired after the enactment of this Act. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB47 | Engross
50% | Requires that any new contract entered into by the Office of Elections for equipment or services relating to preparing ballots or counting votes include the capability to randomize the names of candidates appearing on the ballot if technologically po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB299 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the legislature, upon the agreement of form by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate, to specify the form in which the proposed budgets of the executive branch, judicial branch, and office of Hawaiian ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB926 | Engross
50% | Authorizes pedestrians to act contrary to the statewide traffic code when a reasonably careful pedestrian would determine that there is no immediate danger of a collision with a moving vehicle. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB2334 | Engross
50% | Reduces the number of randomly selected precincts employing an electronic voting system that the Chief Election Officer is required to conduct a post-election, pre-certification audit of from ten per cent to five per cent. Clarifies that the Chief El...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2683 | Engross
50% | Protects individuals who make claims of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or sex discrimination from defamation lawsuits unless the claims were made with malice. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2381 | Engross
50% | Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State of Hawaii, to begin with the 2028 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2682 | Engross
50% | Beginning 1/1/2025, requires physicians to perform or order lead screening tests for minor patients at certain intervals as recommended by the Department of Health and make an entry of the lead screening test in the minor patient's record. Requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2631 | Engross
50% | Prohibits commercial website operators from publishing mugshots. Establishes exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2730 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to disclose records, including but not limited to Supplemental Compensation Exhibits, submitted to the Insurance Commissioner that describe the name, title, or compensation of the directors, trustees, officers, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
