| HI | SB2855 | Intro
25% | Clarifies U-drive motor vehicle insurance policy requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2880 | Intro
25% | Expands the existing state exemption for United States Department of Defense-certified providers to those operating off federal property. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2924 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for planning, design, and construction for a warehouse to expand the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency's ability to store and deploy supplies and equipment to all counties wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | SB238 | Intro
25% | Establishes a working group to examine reparations for victims of child sexual abuse and the fiscal impact for childcare insurance providers, including increased premiums. Requires a report to the Legislature. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 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 | 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 | SB2661 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Homeless Employment Grant Program, a three-year pilot program, that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Human Services to report to the Legislature...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2843 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Governor's and mayors' emergency management powers shall be consistent with the Hawaii State Constitution. Clarifies the scope of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to exten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2973 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a three-year child care pilot grant program to provide grants to employers to assist in offering child care or caregiving support for their employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3213 | Intro
25% | Requires one per cent of the transient accommodations tax be allocated to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for the purposes of building affordable housing for individuals on the DHHL waiting list.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1208 | Intro
25% | Increases the income thresholds and credit amounts of the income tax credit for low-income household renters by using tax brackets individuals and different categories of households. Annually adjusts the income thresholds and credit amounts for infla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2448 | Intro
25% | Reduces the time requirement when a disbursing officer shall inform the employee of indebtedness. Reduces the minimum amount owed per pay period from $100 to $50 or 5% of the new employee's wages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2386 | Intro
25% | Establishes presidential preference primary elections for the 2028 election cycle. Takes effect 6/1/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2712 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Warehouse Worker Protection Act. Requires certain warehouse employers to provide written descriptions of quotas to employees and maintain records of quotas and employee work speed data. Protects employees from quotas that would preven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2854 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Vacated Encampment Clean Up Task Force to identify potential entities to enter into intergovernmental agreements to coordinate the clean up of vacated encampments located on lands managed by United States Army Garrison Hawaii. Declares ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2716 | Intro
25% | Allows retirement benefits to be negotiated during collective bargaining negotiations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2779 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to consider all avenues and models that may satisfy the housing needs of native Hawaiian beneficiaries and facilitate the reduction of the waitlist, including compliance with the plan implemented in Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2925 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to hold at least one application period each year to receive applications from parties interested in applying for financing of projects to develop or improve infrastructure that is or wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2946 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii to submit to the Legislature annual reports of all university employees who performed work from a location outside of the State for more than sixty consecutive days during the applicable year no later than December 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3339 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Red Hill remediation authority. Creates the Red Hill remediation special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3336 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the retention of third party professionals with the necessary financial, accounting, and land inventory expertise to evaluate and address the completeness and accuracy of the public land trust ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3313 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the salary schedules of deputy sheriffs within the Department of Law Enforcement. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2507 | Intro
25% | Excludes from civil service requirements employees performing services in University of Hawaii student or employee housing and certain personal services in privately financed leased or owned buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2723 | Intro
25% | Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2823 | Intro
25% | Establishes a blue ribbon committee within the Department of the Attorney General to analyze the Hawaii Administrative Rules and identify any rules that are not supported by statutory authority. Requires each state agency to cooperate with the blue r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2903 | Intro
25% | Prohibits public entry into wildfire-affected areas for the purpose of habitation until the Department of Health provides notice that the wildfire-affected area is safe to enter for this purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2061 | Intro
25% | Establishes a one-year school bus driver certification subsidy pilot program within the Department of Education. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2069 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for the establishment of three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) curriculum specialist II positions and ten full-time equivalent (10.0 FTE) classroom teacher positions for Ka Papahana Kaiapuni schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2113 | Intro
25% | Makes appropriations to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for its manufacturing assistance programs. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2089 | Intro
25% | Specifies that fire safety use is a beneficial use of fresh water in the State Water Code. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to cooperate with the counties and reservoi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2071 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to enhance the Department's mobile platforms that provide student mental health and social-emotional health support. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2188 | Intro
25% | Allows striking workers to be eligible for unemployment benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2635 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for operational expenses, including the hiring of staff. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2543 | Intro
25% | Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for search and rescue expenses from persons who require rescue after ignoring warning signs, leaving a hiking trail to enter a prohibited area, or hiking on a trail closed to the public. Takes effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2539 | Intro
25% | Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distribu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2593 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources a Makua Valley task force to prepare for the transition of the management of the Makua military reservation from the United States Army upon the expiration of the Army's lease for the la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2767 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority's duties include supporting aquaculture. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2818 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to conduct a study on the effect on businesses of increasing the minimum wage. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2824 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds to the Agribusiness Development Corporation for the upgrade of South and West Maui's R-1 water delivery systems, and the upgrade of certain water reservoirs located in the forest wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2975 | Intro
25% | Establishes the qualified internship grant program within the Department of Education to provide grants to businesses and organizations that employ qualified interns participating in work-based learning through a qualified internship program. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3337 | Intro
25% | Reestablishes the appraisal management company registration program within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Clarifies that chapter 466L, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed. Applies registration requirements retroactively to 6/30/202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3331 | Intro
25% | Establishes an alternative process for the termination of the rental agreement that involves mediation. Requires the Governor to notify the Chief Justice, Legislature, and Revisor of Statutes when the final wildfire proclamation will expire. Declares...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2039 | Intro
25% | Repeals vehicle license recovery fees. Takes effect 1/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2004 | Intro
25% | Designates all University of Hawaii system campuses as voter registration agencies as defined in the National Voter Registration Act. Requires the Chief Election Officer to use data concerning voter registration and election participation to study vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2042 | Intro
25% | Requires counties to grant building permits within sixty days if the application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other certain conditions are met. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2027 | Intro
25% | Restricts any county from disapproving or imposing certain conditions on the development of a housing development project or emergency shelter unless the county meets certain requirements. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2534 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a condominium unit owner, resident, tenant, or their guests, or any person acting on behalf of the unit owner, from harassing or interfering with board members, managing agents, resident managers, association employees, or vendors contracte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2542 | Intro
25% | Makes an appropriation to the University of Hawaii for the relocation and expansion of the University of Hawaii Maui College, Molokai Education Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2528 | Intro
25% | Disallows dividends paid deduction for real estate investment trusts, except for real estate investment trusts that provide affordable housing in the State. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024. Sunsets 12/31/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Housing Committee |
