| HI | SB2306 | Intro
25% | No later than January 1, 2025, requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to install and maintain automated external defibrillators in all state buildings. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide training...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2373 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2473 | Intro
25% | Establishes a refundable tax credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature before the convening of each Regular Session. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2471 | Intro
25% | Makes an appropriation to support the Department of Health's Senior Fall Prevention Campaign. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2470 | Intro
25% | Makes an appropriation to the Executive Office on Aging of the Department of Health for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2589 | Intro
25% | Increases the penalty for the desecration of Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian burial sites from a misdemeanor to a felony for second or subsequent offenses. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2641 | Intro
25% | Limits moving violations arising from the operation of a motor vehicle that appear on traffic abstracts to those that resulted in convictions. Requires the Traffic and Emergency Period Violations Bureaus to remove all alleged moving violations not re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2588 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the establishment of four full-time equivalent (4.0 FTE) archaeologist positions and one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) historic preservation specialist position within the State Historic Preservation Division; provided that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2816 | Intro
25% | Part I: Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to set a fee for the issuance of an apostille or a non-apostille certification by administrative rule. Establishes the Apostilles and Certifications Special Fund. Appropriates funds into and out ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2808 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Statewide Firefighting Helicopter Program, to be administered by the State Fire Marshal. Appropriates funds to obtain helicopters, facilities equipment, and supplies; hire and train staff; and do other things necessary to ensure that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2813 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish industry standards for processing meat and conduct a survey on slaughterhouse operations. Establishes a tax credit for processing meat. Declares that the general expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2815 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group within the Department of Transportation to conduct a comprehensive study to assess the State's port and harbor system and the potential viability of each location in that system to support current and future agricultural p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2967 | Intro
25% | Mandates that fifty per cent of all heavy-duty motor vehicles in the State's fleet be hydrogen or battery electric vehicles by an unspecified date. Mandates that one hundred per cent of all heavy-duty motor vehicles in the State's fleet be hydrogen o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2964 | Intro
25% | Authorizes independent generators of renewable energy to wheel the renewable energy transmitted and used to produce hydrogen, subject to certain conditions determined by the Public Utilities Commission. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3235 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Solar Hui Program to allow multi-family residential property owners to invest into a Solar Hui Investment Fund to provide loans to low- and moderate-income households to install solar energy systems. Establishes the Solar Hui Program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3261 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Local Agriculture Transportation Cost Reimbursement Program to reimburse eligible ranchers and farmers a portion of their costs to transport livestock, livestock products, agricultural commodities, and certain supplies under certain cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3340 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, in consultation with livestock industry stakeholders, to conduct a study to assess the effects of heat stress on beef cattle during interisland ocean transportatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3357 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to prepare reports assessing the feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at state facilities. Requires state facilities to implement and install the distributed energy r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB760 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Psychology to grant prescriptive authority to qualified psychologist applicants statewide. Requires a report to the Legislature. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2187 | Intro
25% | Specifies that the Labor Education Advisory Council shall be advisory to the President of the University of Hawaii on all activities and programs of the Center for Labor Education and Research. Requires written responses addressing the Council's advi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2358 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to support the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to ensure its long-term viability and prevent future problems. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2363 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a two-year agricultural crime pilot project to examine the effectiveness of prosecuting agricultural crimes, including agricultural theft and agricultural vandalism, in the City and County of Honolu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2930 | Intro
25% | Extends, under certain conditions, the family leave period that employees are entitled to under state law for up to eight additional weeks for employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the birth of a child who is required to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3384 | Intro
25% | Increases the amount each juror or prospective juror is paid for each actual day of attendance at court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2108 | Intro
25% | Allows a condominium association that claims a Renewable Energy Technologies Income Tax Credit under section 235-12.5, HRS, to transfer the credit, or a portion thereof, to another individual or corporate taxpayer that is not related to the condomini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2053 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the installation, maintenance, management, and operation of non-chemical sunscreen dispensers on all state beaches. Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract or form a partnership with private parties to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2082 | Intro
25% | Merges the Made in Hawaii with Aloha branding program with the Hawaii Made program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Specifies that the Department of the Attorney General shall be responsible for enforcement of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2323 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the assessment of any fines, fees, or court costs against a person who was adjudicated for an offense committed while the person was a minor under the age of eighteen years, or against the person's parent or guardian. Discharges all related...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2594 | Intro
25% | Authorizes qualified successors of at least twenty-five percent Hawaiian blood quantum of beneficiaries on the waiting list who died before receiving a lease to file a claim for a lease award within four years of the effective date. Requires the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2495 | Intro
25% | Requires the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture or their designee to annually notify all irrigation users by mail and conduct in-person visits on procedures to remove unused irrigation system water meters and stop acreage assessments. By an unsp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2811 | Intro
25% | Makes state agricultural tourism requirements applicable to all counties, instead of only counties that have adopted an agricultural tourism ordinance. Requires Land Use Commission to adopt rules that establish requirements applicable to all farms im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2810 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for Pololu Valley management, including for the Division of Forestry and Wildlife of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to develop the trailhead; develop the infrastructure necessary to accommodate parking; install approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2965 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish a discounted rate by tariff for water carriers that engage in the interisland transport of hydrogen produced from renewable sources. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3266 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation and Department of Land and Natural Resources for vegetation management projects to reduce the risks of wildfires across the State. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3341 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Upcycled Mobile Dishwashing System Pilot Program within the Department of Health. Requires a report to the Legislature. Establishes two full-time positions within the Department of Health. Declares the general fund expenditure ceiling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3338 | Intro
25% | Establishes a WAI policy coordinator and other positions within the Department of Land and Natural Resources for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2324 | Intro
25% | Requires the State to share in the cost of county first responder personnel fulfilling state-imposed new mandates or increases in the level of service under existing programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2311 | Intro
25% | Establishes an electric vehicle battery recycling and disposal program. Prohibits disposal of propulsion batteries as solid waste. Prohibits producers of propulsion batteries from refusing propulsion batteries for reuse, remanufacturing, repurposing,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2449 | Intro
25% | Requires employers to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit within 30 days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate. Establishes that the employer's failure to initiate the negotia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2436 | Intro
25% | Requires recycling of construction and demolition materials and use of recycled materials to factor into priority offeror selections for competitive procurements of construction or demolition services by the State or any county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2590 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to amend the definitions of "inadvertent discovery" and "previously identified" in the HAR, to better protect burial sites.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2592 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to amend the definition of "cultural descendant", in HAR, to more accurately capture relationships between individuals and families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2644 | Intro
25% | Establishes the legislative budget office to produce fiscal analyses and reports on bills impacting state or county finances. Repeals the joint legislative budget committee and the office of the legislative analyst. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB3012 | Intro
25% | Lengthens the time period in which certain vehicles must have a safety inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2135 | Intro
25% | Expands eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to include any individual or household whose monthly income is equal to or less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2052 | Intro
25% | Requires the public access room to establish and maintain an outreach and engagement program for primary, secondary, post-secondary, and community education. Requires the department of education and university of Hawaii to assign appropriate staff to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
The recommendation was not adopted. |
| HI | SB2065 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Revolving Fund to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for the purpose of enhancing credit and guaranteeing and insuring loans made by private financial instituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2141 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Homeland Security and Resiliency Council to assess the resilience of the State's electric grid and other critical infrastructure to natural disasters and other emergencies and make recommendations. Requires the Council to report to Legi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2331 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Governor may waive historic preservation requirements in an emergency proclamation only when there is an imminent or presently occurring emergency which threatens health and safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2087 | Intro
25% | Requires the Insurance Commissioner to conduct a study on wildfire risk and insurance and submit a report regarding the study to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
