| HI | SB2011 | Engross
50% | Allows the construction of multi-family dwelling units on any lot within certain designated county zoning districts, subject to reasonable standards adopted by each county. Takes effect 4/14/2112. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2029 | Engross
50% | Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale or rent in perpetuity to buyers or renters who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants or renters, and do not own a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB370 | Engross
50% | Removes the exemption that allowed owners of multiple parking facilities within the State to designate and electrify fewer parking spaces than required in one or more of the properties if the requirement for the total number of aggregate spaces on al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2107 | Engross
50% | Allows the Attorney General to appoint a special counsel to assume the Attorney General's powers and responsibilities over an investigation of a person or matter when the investigation or prosecution of, or any other legal or administrative action ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB849 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-07
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2492 | Engross
50% | Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multistate Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multi-state licensure privilege in each party state, effective 1/1/2026. Beginning 1/1/20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB2597 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that the prohibition against board and commission holdover members from holding office beyond the end of the second regular legislative session following the expiration of the member's term of office takes precedence over any conflicting st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2850 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to appoint an organization as the limited owner of a cemetery, under certain circumstances, for the purposes of filing complaints and engaging in certain security and perpetual care activities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB2686 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the State's Address Confidentiality Program protection for public servants that prohibits upon written request from the public servant or representative any person or organization from disclosing certain personal information. Estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2890 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to develop or license cloud-based software for use by each state department or agency to track the status of its capital improvement projects and provide training for the software. Requires e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2911 | Engross
50% | Designates certain snail species as official state snails.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2904 | Engross
50% | Amends emergency management law to protect tenants, mortgagors, consumers, and residents for certain periods of time after the issuance of a gubernatorial or mayoral emergency proclamation. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB3196 | Engross
50% | Amends the prohibition on certain assault weapons to include .50 caliber rifles and assault weapon attachments. Modernizes the prohibition on assault pistols to include pistols with one or more prohibited feature. Prohibits firearms other than pistol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB755 | Engross
50% | Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to submit a report to the Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2025 focused on the health disparities experienced by persons in the State with developmental or intellect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1510 | Engross
50% | Establishes a center for the design, development, and fabrication of astronomical instruments within the University of Hawaii. Appropriates funds for the center's planning and design and 10 full-time equivalent faculty positions within the center. Ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | SB861 | Engross
50% | Directs the Legislative Reference Bureau to propose and conduct a study of a housing savings account system. Authorizes the Legislative Reference Bureau to contract for services to develop the proposed system and program and conduct a study. Appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB756 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Access to Local Food Act to allow cottage food operations to sell cottage food products, under certain conditions, upon receiving a permit from the Department of Health. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | SB669 | Engross
50% | Establishes regulations for the cultivation, manufacture, sale, and personal use of small amounts of cannabis. Decriminalizes and regulates small amounts of cannabis for personal use. Establishes taxes for cannabis sales. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB298 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to acquire any real, personal, or mixed property for immediate or future use; own, hold, improve, rehabilitate, sell, assign, exchange, transfer, convey, lease, or dispose of any real, personal, or mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB853 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB1240 | Engross
50% | Specifies that a public servant convicted of the offense of bribery shall be sentenced to pay a fine of up to $250,000, in addition to a sentence of imprisonment or probation. Requires the Commission on Salaries to consider certain factors to retain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB867 | Engross
50% | Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale in perpetuity to buyers who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants, and do not own any other real property. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB1046 | Engross
50% | Amends the vehicle weight tax exemption for noncommercial vehicles by adding an exemption for certain veterans. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | SB1145 | Engross
50% | Requires that Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing projects include a restrictive covenant that states that the units designated as affordable housing, as described in the submitted project application, shall remain as affordabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB360 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, in consultation with the Insurance Commissioner, to develop a procedural manual to implement a family leave insurance program that pays family leave insurance benefits. Appropriates funds. Ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB389 | Engross
50% | Requires all places of public accommodation constructed after 12/31/23, and state building construction projects bid after 6/30/24, to provide one or more universal changing accommodations at each family restroom; provided that state building constru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB822 | Engross
50% | Creates a process for the establishment of a creative district. Establishes a 5-year income tax credit for creative districts. Permits counties to enact incentives for creative districts. Requires the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to submi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | SB302 | Engross
50% | Temporarily reinstates the technology infrastructure renovation tax credit. Expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers. Requires a report from the department of taxation analyzing the tax implications for sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB763 | Engross
50% | Temporarily exempts affordable housing projects under certain circumstances from specific state and county fees and exactions related to discretionary approval or ministerial permitting, except fees and costs payable to the Hawaii Housing Finance and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1197 | Engross
50% | Designates the Vice President for Budget and Finance and Chief Financial Officer of the University of Hawaii as the Chief Procurement Officer for the University and appropriates funds for the transition. Appropriates general obligation bond funds to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | SB668 | Engross
50% | Adopts the physical therapy compact effective 7/1/3025. Requires the department of commerce and consumer affairs to adopt rules to implement and administer the compact. Requires applicants for physical therapist or physical therapist assistant licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB753 | Engross
50% | Requires retail establishments 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. Establishes fines. Effective 12/31/2050. (HD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB875 | Engross
50% | 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; provided that the county sells...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB711 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice as a grant to conduct a study of all programming offered to persons incarcerated at correctional facilities and convene a group of incarcerated women for the purpose of identifying gaps ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1447 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1122 | Engross
50% | Requires nominees for the position of Deputy Director, First Deputy, or Deputy Chair, as the case may be, of principal departments and multiple deputy directors; first deputies; deputy chairs, as the case may be, for each department that has multiple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB434 | Engross
50% | Requires sponsored captive insurance companies to maintain separate protected cells for separate participant contracts. Authorizes captive insurance companies to apply for an exemption from examination from the insurance commissioner; provided that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB597 | Engross
50% | Excludes income received from deferred compensation retirement plans from the state income tax for taxpayers who meet certain income requirements. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | SB1414 | Engross
50% | Exempts certain University of Hawaii contracts involving research and training from the Hawaii Public Procurement Code and requires the Board of Regents to develop internal policies and procedures for those procurements. Repeals the requirement that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee |
| HI | SB498 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Shipping Container Inspection Program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Amends the definitions of "aerial devices" and "fireworks" within state fireworks law. Requires reports to the Legislature on implementation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | SB715 | Engross
50% | Designates the month of September as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month to promote public awareness of the risks of alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | SB432 | Engross
50% | Designates Hawaii coral reefs as critical natural infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB874 | Engross
50% | Exempts certain housing developments from assessments of school impact fees. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB687 | Engross
50% | Increases the amount of malt beverages, wine, and alcohol that a small craft producer pub licensee may produce during the license year. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB292 | Engross
50% | Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's variance reports accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals. Effective 6/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB824 | Engross
50% | Requires the securing of mooring lines from vessels requiring tug assistance to be manned by an existing, operational stevedoring company that is operating within the State, except the securing of mooring lines from vessels for purposes of shipyard o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB376 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the mining, extraction, and removal of minerals from the seabed in all state marine waters. Prohibits the issuance of any permit for or in connection with the development or operation of any facility or infrastructure associated with the mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB283 | Engross
50% | Excludes from the charter school per-pupil funding calculation all amounts relating to programs that provide comparable benefits for all public school students regardless of whether the student is a Department of Education school student or a public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB937 | Engross
50% | Specifies that a simple majority of affirmative votes of the members of the Land Use Commission present at a meeting and qualified to vote is required for any boundary amendment. Reduces the number of days by when the Land Use Commission must act for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB340 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units without regard to civil service law. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
