| HI | SB2554 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2028, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties to be enforced by the Department of Health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2531 | Intro
25% | Amends the state and county contributions to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for employees hired after 6/30/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2567 | Intro
25% | Requires the law enforcement standards board to develop training materials related to the recognition and signs of Alzheimer's disease and related types of dementia. Requires law enforcement officers to review training materials for at least 1 hour p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2541 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the Director of Human Resources Development shall not hold the position of Chief Negotiator of the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2550 | Intro
25% | Requires the Real Estate Commission (Commission) to receive and investigate complaints by condominium unit owners against associations that are subject to chapter 514B, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires the Ombudsman to issue findings within an unspe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2533 | Intro
25% | Allows condominiums to be eligible for commercial property assessed financing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2775 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Rural Health Task Force within the Department of Health to make recommendations on registered nurse recruitment and retention in rural areas of east Maui, Molokai, and Lanai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2724 | Intro
25% | Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make restitution in the form of financial support t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2852 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year senior access pilot program in the Executive Office on Aging to improve access to essential services and reduce wait times for seniors seeking public services through state and county government offices. Requires the Auditor to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2807 | Intro
25% | Establishes an annual tax credit for qualified physicians who actively practice medicine in rural areas of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2739 | Intro
25% | Establishes registration and driver's licensing requirements for the operation of electric rickshaws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2853 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the department of health for mobile vaccination services for homebound individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2864 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to develop a safe parking program allowing unsheltered persons who sleep in their vehicles to park overnight on state lands. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2887 | Intro
25% | Prohibits health maintenance organizations from discriminating against certain health care providers that meet the terms and conditions for participation established by the health maintenance organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2888 | Intro
25% | Increases penalties for certain offenses relating to the unauthorized driving or operation of motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2847 | Intro
25% | Transfers the investigators of the Criminal Investigation Division, Narcotics Enforcement Division, Office of Homeland Security Division, Office of the Inspector General Division, and Sheriff Division of the Department of Law Enforcement who are subj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2939 | Intro
25% | Provides that the Hawaiian language college revolving fund may include moneys from any revenue source. Provides that the fund and the Hawaiian early learning trust fund shall support the Imiloa astronomy center. Establishes a cap on individual deposi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2947 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to submit annual reports to the Legislature on prior attendance at early learning programs for students entering kindergarten. Repeals standardized assessment requirements for students entering kindergarten.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2370 | Intro
25% | Requires a wastewater treatment plant to test sewage sludge and any other residual material for the presence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Requires the Department of Health to adopt administrative rules for the safe disposal and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2407 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in grades nine through twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete one course in financial literacy b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2402 | Intro
25% | Designates November 22 of each year as "Kimchi Day" in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2382 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of the Attorney General to assist with the preparation and filing of petitions for assisted community treatment and with the presentation of the case, unless declined by the petitioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2244 | Intro
25% | Expands the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's State Rent Supplement Program for Kupuna to provide homeowners insurance premium assistance to housing owners who rent or lease to qualified kupuna a mortgaged property located within certain lava zones, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2250 | Intro
25% | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the Department of Health to implement quality improvement recommendations at the Hawaii State Hospital. Declares that the general fund expenditure is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2247 | Intro
25% | Establishes a definition for "immediate harm" and amends the definition of "imminent harm" for the purpose of the Child Protective Act. Requires a police officer who assumes protective custody of a child who is subject to immediate harm while in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Health and Human Services 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 | SB2282 | Intro
25% | Requires providers of no cost emergency shelter and related services to take steps to ensure pertinent youth obtain and receive services from the juvenile justice or child welfare systems and maintain separation for unrelated adults and minor childre...
[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 | SB2303 | Intro
25% | Establishes comprehensive standards for the department of education related to school bus services to ensure reasonable accommodation, equitable access, timely communication, and accountability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2353 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt rules for facility maintenance. Requires that the condition of Department of Education facilities be periodically evaluated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB2131 | Intro
25% | Designates World Peace Day as a state holiday in place of Good Friday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts 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 | 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 | SB2171 | Intro
25% | Provides a general excise tax exemption on gross proceeds received from the construction, sale, or installation of electrical vehicle charging infrastructure in certain circumstances. Repeals on 1/1/2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2173 | Intro
25% | Removes the ability for a Mayor or the Governor to suspend electronic media transmission during a state of emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2168 | Intro
25% | Makes a person or entity liable for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when the person or entity knowingly enters state, county, or private property, knowingly enters a hiking trail that is closed to the public, or violates applicable laws...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2166 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Visitor Impact Special Fund to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Appropriates funds for the Visitor Impact Special Fund and establishment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2163 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the continuation of the Green Jobs Youth Corps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2179 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation to implement the recommendations of the statewide Mobility Management Task Force established pursuant to Act 214, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, in consultation with the Aging and Disability Resour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
