| HI | SB2442 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "burial site".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2441 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to amend the definition of "lineal descent", in HAR, to allow applicants to better claim lineal descent status to remains found at burial sites.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2434 | Intro
25% | Establishes the position of the State Fire Marshal. Authorizes the State Fire Marshal to employ seven fire enforcement officers to issue citations to and remove persons creating fire risks on state lands. Declares that the general fund expenditure ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2398 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a court to order the forfeiture of all of the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) benefits of an ERS member, former member, or retirant upon conviction of the individual for a felony related to the state or county employment of the individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2433 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii to provide menstrual products free of charge to all students on all campuses, including community colleges and education centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Higher Education 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 | SB2440 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to compile a list of approved archaeologists to ensure the quality and integrity of archaeological services contracted by developers. Specifies informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2290 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of any waste or disposal facility for hazardous waste or solid waste on land that is near or above a significant aquifer as determined by the Department of Health, in consultation with the Commis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2302 | Intro
25% | Requires the Director of the Executive Office on Aging to work with health care providers to ensure that there are sufficient long-term care facilities on each island of the State. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2343 | Intro
25% | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to create a comprehensive long-term care master plan to accomplish long-term care policy goals that, when implemented, ensure the availability of a full continuum of institutional and community-based services. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2313 | Intro
25% | Requires certain owners and occupants of properties located in hazardous fire areas to maintain effective firebreaks within thirty feet of the property and to practice other fire prevention activities. Establishes the Community Fuels Reduction Projec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2321 | Intro
25% | Establishes the public employee health benefits working group to investigate the feasibility of establishing and offering a fully self-insured health benefits plan with no deductible or monthly premium cost to state and county public employees. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2325 | Intro
25% | Taxes capital gains income at the same rate as ordinary income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2318 | Intro
25% | Amends the state supplemental payment ceiling for domiciliary care paid to recipients who are eligible for federal supplementary security income or public assistance, or both. Amends the monthly needs allowance for individuals residing in foster home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2320 | Intro
25% | Lowers the level of light transmittance allowed on sun screening glazing on motor vehicle windows from thirty-five per cent to twenty per cent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2304 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2339 | Intro
25% | Allows HHFDC or a county to establish a bond recycling program authorized by federal law. Allows HHFDC or a county to secure a line of credit or other instrument of indebtedness for the bond recycling program. Allows the Department of Budget and Fina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2326 | Intro
25% | Increases the bonus for teachers who achieve and maintain a current national board certification from $5,000 to $15,000. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2316 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a health insurer from requiring an insured diagnosed with stage two through stage five cancer to undergo step therapy prior to covering the insured for certain drugs prescribed by the insured's health care provider, under certain conditions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2312 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to assign school security personnel at all schools and facilities where students are present and determine the appropriate number of security personnel for each school. Requires the Department of Education to esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2099 | Intro
25% | Prohibits loitering at schools and public property within 200 feet of a school. Prohibits obstructing a building, walkway, public passage, road, highway, sidewalk, or structure of a school or a public property within 200 feet of a school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2118 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Health to approve in-vehicle receipt of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products on the premises of dispensaries subject to Administrative Rules adopted by the Department of Health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2096 | Intro
25% | Includes certain spirts-based beverages in the definition of cooler beverage. Establishes a separate tax rate for qualified small brewers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2067 | Intro
25% | Requires that each county agency responsible for enforcing its respective building code be accredited by the International Accreditation Service. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2115 | Intro
25% | Specifies that a recount of all ballots cast for any election shall occur if the official tabulation of all of the returns for that office or ballot question reveals that there is a difference equal to or less than one hundred votes, one-quarter of o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2080 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expend the moneys from the State Parks Special Fund for programs aimed at environmental protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2059 | Intro
25% | Requires a retail establishment with an employee toilet facility to allow a customer suffering from an eligible medical condition to use that restroom during normal business hours, under certain conditions. Exempts a retail establishment and employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2110 | Intro
25% | Adds a cap for the amount of tax credits for research activities that an eligible taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities may receive per taxable year. Requires a qualified high technology business to be registered to do business in the State an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2090 | Intro
25% | Establishes a tax credit for certain owners of a condominium whose association is increasing maintenance fees to comply with a county ordinance requiring an automatic fire sprinkler system or alternative fire prevention and fire safety system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2084 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a market analysis study to identify the optimum mix of private sector, public sector, and philanthropic funding sources and mechanisms needed to support blue carbon ecosystem projects in the State and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2086 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund. Requires the establishment of a Wildfire Reserve Trust Fund to support the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund. Authorizes the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to establish a Wildfire Bond Loan Program in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2104 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Business Activity Water Catchment System Working Group within the Department of Health to assess the feasibility of allowing business owners in the State to utilize filtered water collected by water catchment systems for business activi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2048 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to establish and implement a program to improve and increase support for emergency medical services in the State. Requires the Department of Health to submit reports to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2169 | Intro
25% | Exempts medical and dental services provided by health care providers to patients who receive Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE benefits from the general excise tax. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2189 | Intro
25% | Allows a person who employs or contracts with a health care worker who suffers an act of violence to report the event to law enforcement and petition for a temporary restraining order and injunction under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2030 | Intro
25% | Requires the State Building Code Council to assess the financial impact of the adoption of a code or standard on single-family and multi-family homes. Requires the State Building Code Council to also include amortized utility costs when adopting code...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2024 | Intro
25% | Establishes an organizational, tax, and regulatory framework for limited-profit housing associations. Establishes the Limited-Profit Housing Council to oversee limited-profit housing associations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2006 | Intro
25% | Requires each county to allow a developer undertaking an adaptive reuse office conversion project to comply with the International Building Code with respect to provisions concerning ventilation and lighting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2002 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain housing projects reserved for certain students, faculty, and staff of public educational institutions from environmental assessment requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2031 | Intro
25% | Exempts any building code with an official publication date within four years of the previous code publication date from certain adoption requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs 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 | SB2023 | Intro
25% | Beginning on January 1, 2025, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2041 | Intro
25% | Requires that in evaluating and determining the award for redevelopment of state or county lands through competitive sealed bidding or competitive sealed proposals, the number of housing units proposed in conjunction with project design and financial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2022 | Intro
25% | Exempts certain housing developments from assessments of school impact fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB791 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to purchase one advanced life support ambulance to be based on the island of Molokai, and related equipment, and pay related personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical services personnel. (SD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | SB1595 | Intro
25% | Adopts the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act. Repeals the superseded Uniform Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB705 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Manufacturing Assistance Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism 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 | 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 |
