| HI | SB1511 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the purpose of the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii and that its undertakings shall be limited to acts that are reasonably necessary to carry out its purpose. Repeals the requirement that the University of Hawaii contract wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 804). |
| HI | SB2601 | Engross
50% | Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse committed on or after July 1, 2024, may be initiated. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on trauma-informed response. Effective 7/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 803). |
| HI | SB2615 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the counties to require contractors to disclose information regarding its employees' wages, benefits, hours, and employment status and deny, revoke, or suspend a building permit application for violating laws relating to wages, benefits, h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-24-24 9:00AM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB2974 | Engross
50% | Establishes a Business Revitalization Task Force within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to identify methods to improve Hawaii's general economic competitiveness and business climate, including the mitigation of regulator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 805). |
| HI | SB2948 | Engross
50% | Beginning 1/1/2025, permits residential uses in certain areas zoned for commercial use under certain circumstances. Requires, no later than 1/1/2026, each county to adopt or amend ordinances to allow for adaptive reuse of existing commercial building...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 803). |
| HI | SB3202 | Engross
50% | Requires the director of the county agency responsible for land use to review and act on any application for subdivision, consolidation, or resubdivision of certain parcels within the urban district, with certain conditions. Amends the calculation of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 810). |
| HI | SB3312 | Engross
50% | Adopts, establishes, and designates the shaka as the official gesture of the State. Authorizes the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to develop a public work of art related to the shaka and its history to be displayed in a prominent location i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 804). |
| HI | SB2119 | Engross
50% | Authorizes out-of-state pharmacists to transfer prescription information for the initial fill of an out-of-state prescription. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 3:45PM; Conference Room 224. |
| HI | SB2066 | Engross
50% | Establishes another means for a housing project to seek an exemption from laws and rules of the State that are developed under various programs of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-24 11:00AM; Conference Room 224. |
| HI | SB2079 | Engross
50% | Allows the State of Hawaii Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
[Hearing: Apr 23 @ 9:00 am]
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Tuesday 04-23-24 9:00AM in conference room 325. |
| HI | SB2085 | Engross
50% | Establishes the office of the state fire marshal to direct fire protection efforts statewide. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-24-24 10:05AM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB2070 | Engross
50% | Exempts career and technical education goods and services purchases by the Department of Education from the State Procurement Code. Requires the Department of Education to acquire three verbal or written quotes for career and technical education purc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 1:45PM; Conference Room 229. |
| HI | SB2132 | Engross
50% | Amends the deadline related to the repair of conditions that constitute health or safety violations. Increases the amount deducted from a tenant's rent for the tenant's actual expenditures to correct health or safety violations and defective conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 2:31PM; Conference Room CR224. |
| HI | SB2182 | Engross
50% | Amends the persons required to collect the Ocean Stewardship User Fee. Extends the sunset date of the Ocean Stewardship Special Fund to January 1, 2031. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
[Hearing: Apr 23 @ 10:15 am]
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Tuesday 04-23-24 10:15AM in conference room 229. |
| HI | SB2245 | Engross
50% | Adds a definition for "exigent circumstances" and amends the definitions of "harm" and "imminent harm" under the Child Protective Act. Clarifies when the police may take protective custody of a child and when the Department of Human Services may assu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 761). |
| HI | SB2337 | Engross
50% | Expands the counties' authorization to exercise the same powers as the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for purposes of developing, constructing, financing, refinancing, or providing mixed-use developments. Applies to bond proceeds ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 791). |
| HI | SB2345 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Law Enforcement to coordinate crisis intervention training for state and county law enforcement agencies. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-24-24 1:40PM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB2354 | Pass | Expands the definition of "beer" under the intoxicating liquor law to mean any alcoholic beverage containing not less than 0.5% alcohol by volume obtained by fermentation of any infusion or decoction of malt or any substitute, including alcohol seltz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Act 009, 04/19/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1109). |
| HI | SB2413 | Engross
50% | Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 9:05 am]
Bill scheduled for Conference Committee Meeting on Wednesday, 04-24-24 9:05AM in conference room 325. |
| HI | SB2475 | Engross
50% | Establishes a harm to students registry, for all early learning programs or schools and K-12 educational institutions within the State, that contains information on school employees, contractors, or volunteers for whom, as result of an investigation,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 1:45PM; Conference Room 229. |
| HI | SB2487 | Engross
50% | Exempts drug paraphernalia for marijuana from certain penalties under the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. Lowers the penalties for the possession and transfer without remuneration of certain amounts of marijuana, marijuana concentrate, and marijua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Failed to pass Final Reading. Ayes, 9. Noes, 15 (Senator(s) Aquino, DeCoite, Elefante, Fevella, Fukunaga, Hashimoto, Inouye, Kanuha, Keohokalole, Kidani, Kim, McKelvey, Moriwaki, Richards, Wakai). Excused, 1 (Senator(s) Lee). |
| HI | SB2536 | Engross
50% | Establishes accounting services procurement preferences for certain Hawaii accounting service businesses. Clarifies that the existing reciprocity procurement preference includes offerors under sections 103D-302 and 103D-303, Hawaii Revised Statutes. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 9:45AM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB2526 | Engross
50% | Requires the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group to assist the Office of Enterprise Technology Services in working with certain state agencies to inventory and categorize the business criticality of each major state information technology...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-24-24 10:20AM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB2600 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the use of electronic mail to deliver certain documents when purchasing a condominium. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 2:31PM; Conference Room CR224. |
| HI | SB2537 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that the Chief Energy Officer is responsible for supporting the renewable portfolio standards and reporting on certain energy matters. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 791). |
| HI | SB2591 | Engross
50% | Imposes a fine on any private landowner that fails to disclose or record with the Bureau of Conveyances, or in documents used to offer real property for sale, the existence of burial or archaeological sites on their property that the landowner knew o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 760). |
| HI | SB2727 | Engross
50% | Allows condominiums to be eligible for commercial property assessed financing. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 791). |
| HI | SB2731 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to honor veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 2:40PM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB2715 | Engross
50% | Makes it unlawful for an employer to discharge, discipline, or otherwise penalize or threaten any adverse employment action against an employee because the employee declines to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting that communicates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Tarnas, Garrett, Tam, Alcos; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB2782 | Engross
50% | Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to develop multilingual accessibility standards. Appropriates funds to establish an unspecified number of positions to develop multilingual accessibility standards within the Office of Enterprise ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-24-24 10:10AM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB2718 | Engross
50% | Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to admit and consider hearsay evidence. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Tarnas, Garrett, Alcos; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB2726 | Engross
50% | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on how certain other states approach the following subjects as they relate to condominiums: an ombudsman, licenses for management, alternative dispute resolution, governmental regulation, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 2:31PM; Conference Room CR224. |
| HI | SB2834 | Engross
50% | Amends the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to provide for a process to dispose of the tenant's personal property and surrender the dwelling unit to a landlord when there is a death of a tenant. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 2:31PM; Conference Room CR224. |
| HI | SB2885 | Engross
50% | Establishes a working group to develop a Homeless Triage and Treatment Center Program within the Statewide Office of Homelessness and Housing Solutions in the Department of Human Services. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 2:45PM; Conference Room 329. |
| HI | SB2919 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the counties' authority to regulate the time, place, manner, and duration in which uses of land and structures may take place. Allow counties to enact a zoning ordinance to amortize or phase out transient vacation rental units. Expands the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-24 1:30PM; CR 224. |
| HI | SB2937 | Engross
50% | Repeals the sunset date for the exemption of laboratory school programs of the Hawaiian language college at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from state English-medium standards, assessments, performance ratings, staff qualifications, and staff traini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 1:45PM; Conference Room 229. |
| HI | SB2991 | Engross
50% | Requires the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to adopt rules establishing criteria and procedures for the creation of new bargaining units. Requires certain employees or any employer or exclusive representative proposing a new bargaining unit to submit a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 791). |
| HI | SB3011 | Engross
50% | Makes it unlawful for any entity or agent thereof to operate a weed whacker in or within one hundred feet of a residential zone, subject to certain exceptions. Extends the time for the use of leaf blowers and weed whackers within or near residential ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 3 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Takayama, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB3207 | Engross
50% | Removes the salary cap of Superintendent of Education. Makes permanent the annual performance evaluation requirements for the Superintendent of Education. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 1:45PM; Conference Room 229. |
| HI | SB3234 | Engross
50% | Amends the laws relating to the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund and Hawaii Property Insurance Association by: imposing a different transient accommodation tax rate for transient vacation rentals, a property insurance surcharge on conveyance tax, and a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 791). |
| HI | SB1035 | Engross
50% | 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 12/31/2023. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 722). |
| HI | SB458 | Engross
50% | Establishes the geothermal energy resources development special fund. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Redistributes geothermal royalties to the counties for specific purposes, geothermal energy resources development special fund, departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 702). |
| HI | SB2305 | Engross
50% | Establishes a Silver Alert Program within the Department of Law Enforcement to help locate and safeguard missing persons who are sixty-five years of age or older, cognitively impaired, or developmentally disabled. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/30...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-23-24 2:30PM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB2350 | Engross
50% | Establishes a separate prohibition on driving motor vehicles with noisy mufflers on public highways in high density population areas. Establishes separate fines for violations of motor scooter and motor vehicle muffler laws. Defines "high density pop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 10:00 am]
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Wednesday 04-24-24 10:00AM in conference room 329. |
| HI | SB2443 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program, to be implemented by the State in only those locations where a photo red light imaging detector system has been implemented. Creates a new offense of noncompliance with maximum speed limit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
[Hearing: Apr 24 @ 10:00 am]
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Wednesday 04-24-24 10:00AM in conference room 329. |
| HI | SB2401 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to each county as a grant-in-aid, subject to a county match, for the implementation of feral chicken control programs. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for a feeding of feral animals education campaign. Effective 7/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 774). |
| HI | SB2461 | Engross
50% | Specifically authorizes a medical cannabis dispensary to purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from another dispensary. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules regarding medical cannabis products within a certain time. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 722). |
| HI | SB2605 | Engross
50% | Beginning 1/1/2026, requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 722). |
| HI | SB2721 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the penalties for violations of ocean recreation laws. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Ichiyama, Tarnas, Poepoe, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB2845 | Engross
50% | Prohibits a person from selling ammunition to a person under the age of twenty-one. Prohibits a person under the age of twenty-one from owning, possessing, or controlling ammunition, with exceptions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
The Conference Committee recommends that the measure be Passed, with Amendments. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Holt, Takayama, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
