| 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 | SB2123 | Intro
25% | Exempts psychiatric services and chronic renal dialysis services from certificate of need requirements. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2412 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Aquaculture Advisory Committee within the Department of Agriculture. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2613 | Intro
25% | Amends the duties and sunset date of the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2634 | Intro
25% | Makes appropriations for the expansion of the certified nurse aide to practical nurse bridge program at the University of Hawaii Maui College, including funding for instructional costs and student aid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2886 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the State or any of its branches, political subdivisions, or agencies from requiring a bachelor's degree as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in state employment. Establishes exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2976 | Intro
25% | Requires each county board of water supply or water board to prioritize the sustainable recharge of aquifers, ensure the health of watersheds, and, when allocating water for new development, prioritize the development of affordable housing over other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3297 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Human Resources Development to submit an annual report on vacancies, recruitment efforts, and retention policies in the State's Executive Branch. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceilin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3296 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to: (1) conduct a remote work study; (2) review any recent remote work studies done by the counties; (3) develop and administer a remote work program; and (4) submit the study to the Legislature ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3370 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Human Resources Development to establish permanent full-time equivalent Human Resources Specialist V Positions and to fund the operating, equipment, supplies, promotional materials, marketing, advertising, tra...
[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 | SB2121 | Intro
25% | Authorizes consumers aggrieved by the conduct of a mortgage loan originator licensee to recover from the Mortgage Loan Recovery Fund. Allows for excess moneys in the Mortgage Loan Recovery Fund to be used for certain training and educational purposes...
[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 | SB2155 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to: (1) identify and evaluate each parcel of certain state-owned lands; and (2) contract a third-party entity to compile a report evaluating the agricultural land use potential of each parcel of state-owned land...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2165 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to inventory historic properties and burial sites in the State, collect data on burial site locations, and conduct an archaeological surface survey. Declares that the general fund exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2348 | Intro
25% | Provides that any photo red light imaging detector system's clear and unobstructed recorded image of a motor vehicle license plate shall be prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle to which the license plate is attached is the motor vehicle for wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2344 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the development and construction of permanent supportive housing for certain vulnerable individuals. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2548 | Intro
25% | Requires employees, applicants, and contracted vendors of condominium associations in employment positions that grant access to security cameras and footage to undergo a background check and be licensed consistent with the requirements in chapter 463...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2555 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state boating facility lease pilot program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources to lease one state small boat harbor for private development, management, maintenance, and operation in a county with a population of less th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2889 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Transportation to establish a Noise Traffic Pilot Program. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[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 | SB2978 | Intro
25% | Establishes an income tax credit to incentivize the voluntary relinquishment of private water systems. Directs the Attorney General to commence eminent domain proceedings in certain counties. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2993 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any operator, transient accommodations broker, or person from offering, listing, advertising, and displaying a rate that does not include all resort fees. Requires all operators, transient accommodations brokers, and persons to include all ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection 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 | SB2045 | Intro
25% | Amends the priority for which moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund are to be used. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to: (1) prioritize the allocation of low-income housing tax credits to certain projects and (2) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| HI | SB2162 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to pursue and obtain accreditation for the Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2352 | Intro
25% | Repeals the requirement that the Director of Human Resources Development must submit a report to the Legislature before reclassifying and abolishing vacant positions within State departments and agencies that are under the jurisdiction of DHRD. Takes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | SB2498 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Cesspool Conversion Revolving Loan Fund. Directs green energy market securitization loan repayments and interest to be deposited into the Cesspool Conversion Revolving Loan Fund. Requires the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| HI | SB2508 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the University of Hawaii to issue $300,000,000 in revenue bonds for the purpose of financing the construction, maintenance, and modernization of qualifying capital improvement projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2719 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to establish full-time equivalent ( .0 FTE) positions within the Employee Classification and Compensation Division of the Department of Human Resources Development to perform employee classification duties. Declares that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | 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 | SB2184 | Intro
25% | Expands the authority of the State and counties to develop adaptation pathways plans to modify and relocate infrastructure away from critically threatened areas to locations outside sea level rise and coastal flooding exposure areas. Declares that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2145 | Intro
25% | Requires the counties to submit annual reports on fire code enforcement updates and fire mitigation planning to the Legislature. Takes effect 1/1/2042. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
