| HI | SB3227 | Intro
25% | Allows religious, educational, and medical institutions to build residential units on lands zoned for residential or commercial use within the urban state land use district, under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB3278 | Intro
25% | Amends state laws governing medical use of cannabis and the medical cannabis dispensary system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3232 | Intro
25% | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of Department of Education schools. Allows a loan to be forgiven for teachers who become a licensed teacher in Hawaii or for teachers who will co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3251 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Medicaid buy-in program for workers with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3263 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Program within the Department of Human Services to assist qualifying households in paying their energy bills. Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Special Fund. Declares that the general fund exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3256 | Intro
25% | Requires any person responsible for news and social media reports based on government records received under Hawaiis Uniform Information Practices Act to respond to record requests in the same manner as an agency under chapter 92F, HRS, with exceptio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB3284 | Intro
25% | Specifies some of the measures the Director of Health may take in response to emergency circumstances affecting the availability of safe drinking water or the discovery of contamination in a public water source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3254 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds and pursuing all other funding sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3292 | Intro
25% | Beginning 7/1/2024, increases the cigarette tax rate and amends the disposition of the cigarette tax revenues by increasing the amount allocated to the Hawaii Cancer Research Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3291 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Health to allow dispensaries to dispense cannabis or manufactured cannabis products to qualifying patients or primary caregivers of qualifying patients outside of the dispensary's retail store building but on the dispensa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3295 | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3319 | Intro
25% | Designates the seventeenth day in January of each year as Reconciliation Day. Establishes Reconciliation Day as a state holiday. Requires the State and its departments and agencies to recognize Reconciliation Day through educational programs, cultura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB3343 | Intro
25% | Requires beekeepers to adhere to certain industry standards and best management practice in the keeping of bees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3367 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of $55,000,000 in general obligation bonds for the purpose of assisting the Korean War Foundation, Inc., with the acquisition of land and the planning, design, and construction of a war memorial hall within the Aiea (Rainbow) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3321 | Intro
25% | Allows for the use of fine meshed nets for the protection of plants against invasive species.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3358 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to indemnify Molokai ranchers whose herds were affected by the bovine tuberculosis outbreak and have not received indemnification from other sources. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3322 | Intro
25% | Updates and expands the statutory prohibition on the use of tobacco at public schools to include prohibiting the possession and use of electronic smoking devices. Requires the Department of Education to be responsible for educating students, employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3368 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish a teacher loan forgiveness program to assist in the payment of loans for teachers who commit to teaching in the Hawaii public school system. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3342 | Intro
25% | Establishes a spay and neuter special fund and an advisory committee for the special fund. Allows funds from an income tax check-off to be deposited into the spay and neuter special fund. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3369 | Intro
25% | Allows the Director of Health to grant an exemption from the requirement to upgrade, convert, or connect a cesspool if the State is unable to present evidence that the cesspool is affecting the State's drinking water supply or recreational waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3385 | Intro
25% | Requires electronic smoking device of e-liquid manufacturers to submit certifications with the Department of Taxation annually, stating that products comply with federal regulations. Requires the Department of Taxation to maintain a directory. Impose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3333 | Intro
25% | Exempts accessory dwelling units, ohana dwelling units, and certain affordable rental housing projects developed pursuant to a county ordinance from school impact fees. Effective 6/30/2024. Sunsets 7/1/2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB3346 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to provide and disseminate its procedures for dealing with bullying. Requires principals, teachers, and staff to disseminate the Department's bullying procedures to students. Defines bullying procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3380 | Intro
25% | Requires each motor vehicle insurance policy to cover the replacement cost of a child passenger restraint system damaged during a collision for which liability coverage under the policy is applicable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2014 | Intro
25% | Beginning October 1, 2024, requires that all cartridges for electronic smoking devices and solutions for filling or refilling an electronic smoking device to be in child-resistant packaging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2689 | Intro
25% | Creates a state-initiated process to expunge records of arrests and convictions pursuant to section 712-1249, Hawaii Revised Statutes, at no cost to the record holder. Requires the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to submit biannual reports to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2732 | Intro
25% | Limits the payment of any delinquent tax and penalty required by the Director of Finance of a county as a condition precedent to the registration, renewal, or transfer of ownership of a vehicle more than 25 years old to the aggregate amount of delinq...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2881 | Intro
25% | Prohibits any person from intentionally encouraging or coercing any other person to consume alcohol or any other intoxicant for the purpose of enabling the other person to operate a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant. Provides that a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2980 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Cultural Corridor Authority to develop plans to redevelop areas affected by disaster while maintaining historic and cultural preservation. Establishes an income tax credit to incentivize the voluntary relinquishment of real property l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2966 | Intro
25% | Establishes a goal to transition all state-owned, non-road vehicles to be zero-emission vehicles by the end of 2045. Defines non-road vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2981 | Intro
25% | Establishes as a class B felony the unlicensed performance of contractor work, during or within 5 years following a national emergency, state of emergency, or disaster proclamation, in an affected political subdivision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3004 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to maintain seventy-five health technician positions within the Department of Education for the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn Program. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2968 | Intro
25% | Includes hydrogen vehicles as a priority for state agencies when purchasing or leasing light-, medium-, and heavy-duty motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2989 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Judicial Council to nominate persons for appointment to a county ethics commission; provided that the county's charter or ordinance requires members of the commission to be appointed from nominations made by the Judicial Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2971 | Intro
25% | Raises the criminal penalty for the offense of indecent exposure from a petty misdemeanor to a misdemeanor if the victim is less than sixteen years of age. Provides that the state of mind requirement is not applicable to the fact that the victim is l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2990 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the purchase and sale of a motor vehicle to another individual who is not duly licensed to operate that category of motor vehicle. Prohibits the registered owner of a motor vehicle from allowing an individual who is not duly licensed to ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2987 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Teacher Home Assistance Program to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide housing vouchers to certain teachers who are employed by the Department of Education and commit to teach at hard-t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2982 | Intro
25% | Establishes the regenerative tourism program with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to increase regenerative tourism. Establishes a grant program. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB1209 | Intro
25% | Conforms the amount allowable for the Hawaii expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for the gainful employment tax credit to the credit amounts allowed in the federal tax code. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2015 | Intro
25% | Amends the priority for which moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund are to be used.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2093 | Intro
25% | Establishes jurisdiction for the Department of Law Enforcement over enforcement of chapter 132D, HRS, relating to illegal fireworks. Establishes provisions for police and fire officers to enter premises and for the Director of Law Enforcement to insp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2003 | Intro
25% | Requires police commissions to establish and police officers to complete training programs on cultural competency and implicit bias and racial and ethnic sensitivity. Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to establish and law enforcement officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2136 | Intro
25% | Establishes fees that medical providers may charge for medical records and imposes civil penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2073 | Intro
25% | Allows counties to prohibit discrimination against renters based on their source of income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2047 | Intro
25% | Requires certain employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care and supplemental paid sick leave to employees under certain public health eme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2013 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the assessment of fees upon inmates for medical, dental, or mental health services or treatment that is provided within a public correctional institution in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2033 | Intro
25% | Prohibits excited delirium from being recognized as a valid medical diagnosis or cause of death in the State. Prohibits a local health officer or local agent of the Department of Health from stating on a certificate of death or in any report that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2481 | Intro
25% | Establishes a timeline by which roasted coffee, instant coffee, and ready-to-drink coffee beverages that use a geographic origin in labeling or advertising are required to contain a certain per cent coffee by weight from that geographic origin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2466 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Crisis Intervention and Diversion Services Program within the Department of Health to expand existing services to divert those with mental health issues to appropriate health care services. Defines "mental health emergency worker". Decl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2468 | Intro
25% | Requires all health insurers in the state, including medicaid managed care programs, to cover annual mental health wellness examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
