| HI | SB1034 | Intro
25% | Requires the maintenance of at least three hundred parking stalls at Ala Wai Boat Harbor at no cost for recreational ocean access and for the practice of traditional and customary Native Hawaiian rights. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1480 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of the Attorney General, an Environmental Crimes Unit, which shall be a cooperative effort between the Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Health to investigate and prosecute crimes that pose sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB895 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii health data exchange framework. Establishes the stakeholder advisory group to assist the department of health in the development of the framework. Requires certain health care organizations to execute a health data sharing agre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB32 | Intro
25% | Amends the State Constitution to require the Reapportionment Commission to establish a reapportionment plan to draw district lines for the total number of members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Takes effect on July 1, 205...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1144 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish a homelessness coordinator position for the island of Maui within the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB780 | Intro
25% | Requires the Office of the Auditor to conduct a comprehensive management and financial audit of the Hawaii Tourism Authority and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, specifically relating to the Request for Proposals regardi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB1059 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "emergency worker" in the Penal Code to include communications dispatchers. Takes effect 1/1/2024. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB144 | Intro
25% | Establishes the compacts of Free Association Census Task Force within the Department of Human Services to conduct a census of COFA residents in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB707 | Intro
25% | Requires water carriers to keep records of persons who retrieve fireworks from a terminal facility. Requires water carriers to provide an annual compilation of persons who retrieve fireworks from a terminal facility to the appropriate county police d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1118 | Intro
25% | Reduces and eliminates the general excise tax for the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children over a four-year period. Reduces ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1148 | Intro
25% | Establishes a five-year income tax credit for general excises taxes paid on qualified aircraft service and maintenance expenses of the qualified taxpayer. Sunsets 12/31/2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1605 | Intro
25% | Requires the Homeless Programs Office of the Benefit, Employment and Support Services Division of the Department of Human Services to establish a program to acquire abandoned and vacant real properties to house individuals experiencing homelessness. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1043 | Intro
25% | Decriminalizes and legalizes the personal use, possession, and sale of cannabis in a specified quantity. Entitles persons arrested or convicted of certain marijuana offenses from custody or incarceration. Entitles certain persons to the expungement o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1028 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2024, requires rental kayaks to be registered and numbered with the Department of Land and Natural Resources and have the identification number affixed to the rental kayak. Requires the Department to establish fees for registration and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB342 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to conduct a study on paid sick leave. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the study. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1013 | Intro
25% | Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chair's designee to the Commission on Water Resource Management. Increases number of commission members from seven to eight, with only five of eight required to have substantial experience ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB412 | Intro
25% | Converts the human trafficking victim services fund to a human trafficking reparations fund. Revises the purposes for the monies in the fund to provide direct financial assistance to victims of trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB117 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Carissa Kainani Moore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB84 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Sustainable Food Systems Working Group within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop a plan for a more sustainable, resilient local food economy and to report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to establish ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB842 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to purchase health care services for certain low-income, uninsured immigrants. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB68 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "historic property" to require that the property meets the criteria for inclusion in the Hawaii Register of Historic Places or has important value to Native Hawaiians or other ethnic groups of the State due to associations wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB118 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate the Honolulu Museum of Art.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB904 | Intro
25% | Establishes a statewide program modeled after the Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program that was implemented in the City and County of Honolulu from 2004 through 2019. Requires the Judiciary to administer the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB695 | Intro
25% | Allows the department of agriculture to extend the agricultural park lease of any lessee who holds a lease with a remaining term of 15 years or less; provided that the land covered by the lease is 25 acres or less, located in a county with a populati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB174 | Intro
25% | Requires publicly held domestic corporations to have gender-diverse boards of directors. Establishes reporting requirements for the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1115 | Intro
25% | Increases the percentage rate of weekly workers' compensation benefits for partially dependent parents of a deceased child from twenty-five per cent to fifty per cent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology 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 | SB816 | Intro
25% | Allows students to complete computer science courses as a substitute for science credits at the high school level to count towards graduation requirements. Requires a computer science course credit as a graduation requirement at the high school level...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1010 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include malathion. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1114 | Intro
25% | Requires HHFDC to establish a five-year dwelling unit revolving fund equity pilot program. Creates one full-time equivalent housing development specialist III position. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB758 | Intro
25% | Beginning with policies issued on or after 1/1/2024, requires health insurance policies to cover oocyte cryopreservation in certain circumstances. Removes the one-time benefit limitation for in vitro fertilization, and requires the insured or the ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB737 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii, to develop a Hawaiian Language Medium Education Kindergarten Entry Assessment to be administered by the Department of Education, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB976 | Intro
25% | Increases minimum liability coverage of motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts 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 | SB1246 | Intro
25% | Requires the Agribusiness Development Corporation to plan, design, construct, and operate a new animal slaughterhouse on the island of Oahu. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB114 | Intro
25% | Requires the Animal Industry Division of the Department of Agriculture to administer an assessment and approval process to import and move aquatic livestock in the State. Requires the Animal Industry Division to develop a risk-based framework for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment 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 | 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 | SB1500 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Agriculture to work with taro farmers to identify taro lands, adjust lease rents, and modify lease qualification criteria. Sunsets after 10 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB969 | Intro
25% | Establishes that noise generated by helicopters in excess of a certain decibel level constitutes a public nuisance and a source of noise pollution in violation of the State's noise pollution law. Establishes fines and a private right of action for in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB52 | Intro
25% | Amends the process for electing members to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees. Requires the Reapportionment Commission to establish a reapportionment plan for five members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs so th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1233 | Intro
25% | Authorizes state facilities to wheel electricity that is produced by their own facility from renewable energy sources to another state facility pursuant to administrative rules established by the Public Utilities Commission. Requires a report by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB286 | Intro
25% | Establishes a three-year New Waste Management Solution and Cesspool System Demonstration Pilot Program within the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center to examine and demonstrate new wastewater and cesspool technology systems; implemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB119 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Performing Arts Pilot Program Committee to establish the Performing Arts Pilot Program to select, review, and fund grant proposals for performing arts events. Clarifies the scope of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts' respon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB125 | Intro
25% | Beginning January 1, 2024, increases the tip credit to be twenty per cent of the minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1245 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to establish or contract with behavioral health crisis centers to provide intervention and stabilization services in each county for persons experiencing mental health or substance use disorder crises. Appropriates m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB765 | Intro
25% | Exempts state projects from county building permit, inspection, and certificate of occupancy requirements under certain conditions. Requires the state agency responsible for the state project to submit for review and comments, a building permit exemp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB694 | Intro
25% | Makes financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult by a caregiver a Class A felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
