| HI | SB2285 | Engross
50% | Amends the functions and duties of the State Health Planning and Development Agency. Clarifies the definition of "health care". Establishes a task force known as the Hui Hoomana. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 803). |
| 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 | 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 | SB2287 | Engross
50% | Requires the Information Technology Steering Committee to assist the Chief Information Officer to develop a plan to enhance the mobile application developed to enable the public to access the State's website. Requires the Chief Information Officer's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-24-24 10:10AM; Conference Room 016. |
| HI | SB2284 | Engross
50% | Establishes a two-year program at the University of Hawaii to develop a wildfire forecast system for the State using artificial intelligence. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
House Conferees Appointed: Ichiyama, Todd, Poepoe Co-Chairs; La Chica, M. Mizuno, Souza. |
| 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 | SB2512 | Engross
50% | Establishes notice and reporting requirements for the expenditure or use of public resources by the Governor, pursuant to the Governor's emergency powers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-24-24 1:30PM; Conference Room 016. |
| 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 | SB2505 | Engross
50% | Establishes system resilience as a metric to be monitored and considered by the Public Utilities Commission. Authorizes the use of amounts collected through the Hawaii electricity reliability surcharge by the Commission to perform certain duties. Eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 729). |
| HI | SB2502 | Engross
50% | Requires the University of Hawaii to establish and implement a two-year program to develop web-GIS wildfire susceptibility and vulnerability maps for the State to determine which communities, landscapes, buildings, and infrastructure are most vulnera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
House Conferees Appointed: Ichiyama, Todd, Poepoe Co-Chairs; La Chica, M. Mizuno, Souza. |
| HI | SB2787 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Office of Community Services the Immigration Services and Access Unit. Appropriates funds for the unit, including for new positions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-24-24 10:01AM; Conference Room 016. |
| 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 | 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 | 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] | 2024-04-22
House Conferees Appointed: Holt, Lamosao Co-Chairs; Kong, La Chica, Pierick. |
| HI | SB3279 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the Office of Wellness and Resilience the State of Well-Being Project to assess and enhance tier 1 and tier 2 mental health support services for all key stakeholder communities across the State. Appropriates funds to establish full...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 2:45PM; Conference Room 329. |
| HI | SB3290 | Engross
50% | Requires the Disability and Communication Access Board to convene a working group to study the state of American Sign Language interpretation services in Hawaii. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 1:45PM; CR 329. |
| 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] | 2024-04-22
House Conferees Appointed: Tam, Tarnas Co-Chairs; Martinez, Alcos. |
| HI | SCR45 | Engross
50% | Urging The Director Of Finance To Adopt Administrative Rules To Define "beneficial Effects To The State" In Section 38-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, To Include The Financing Of Housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1940-24), recommending adoption. |
| HI | SCR97 | Engross
50% | Requesting The Hawaii State Energy Office To Convene A Renewable Liquid Fuels Working Group To Study Local Production, Development, And Incentives For Renewable Liquid Fuels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 790). |
| HI | SCR143 | Engross
50% | Requesting The University Of Hawaii To Develop A Comprehensive Plan To Address Student And Faculty Housing Facility Needs At The Manoa Campus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1935-24), recommending adoption. |
| HI | SCR142 | Engross
50% | Urging The Department Of Education To Study The Impact Of Teacher Salary Step Movements On Salary Schedule Compression.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1934-24), recommending adoption. |
| 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] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 726). |
| 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 | 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 | SB2652 | Engross
50% | Expands items that may be contained in the state budget to include information related to vacant positions for reclassification or abolishment. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 704). |
| HI | SB2819 | Engross
50% | Requires vehicles traveling ten miles per hour or more below the posted speed limit on a two-lane highway, behind which five vehicles are formed in a line, to pull over where possible to let the trailing vehicles pass or overtake. Effective 7/1/3000....
[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 | SB2693 | Engross
50% | Establishes the offense of charitable fraud during a state of emergency. Provides that a person commits charitable fraud during a state of emergency if that person, during a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, performs certain deceptive ac...
[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, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| HI | SB2831 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Taxation, under certain circumstances, to assist a county in levying, assessing, collecting, and otherwise administering the county transient accommodations tax, including delinquencies and penalties, for a 6-year period ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 704). |
| HI | SB2943 | Engross
50% | Establishes a commercial drivers workforce working group within the Department of Transportation to address the workforce shortage of commercial drivers in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[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 | SB3305 | Engross
50% | Requires all public charter schools that exclusively offer prekindergarten programs to adhere to the public charter school law, with certain exceptions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-22-24 1:30PM; Conference Room 229. |
| HI | SB3364 | Engross
50% | Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to develop destination management action plans for each county and to perform specific actions in each plan. Expands the powers and duties of the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Repeals the exemption of the Hawaii Tour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-24 10:00AM; Conference Room 325. |
| HI | SB2289 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Health to include in its annual report regarding Kalaupapa Settlement details and updated information, as available, regarding the permanent transfer to other qualified governmental or qualified nongovernmental entities of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 694). |
| HI | SB2362 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for statewide research into ornamental ginger pathogens, prevention of the spread of ornamental ginger pathogens, production and distribution of pathogen-free ornamental ginger plants, and outreach to ornamental producers. Effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 759). |
| HI | SB2725 | Engross
50% | Reduces the pass-through entity level tax rate and allows the tax credit to be carried forward to subsequent years. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 698). |
| 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] | 2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 759). |
| HI | SB2837 | Engross
50% | Temporarily authorizes the Oahu regional health care system to oversee the operations and management agreement of the proposed state veterans home on Maui. Establishes a timeline and process for the permanent oversight of the operations and managemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 690). |
| HI | SCR1 | Engross
50% | Recognizing The Day In 2025 Of The Second New Moon After The Winter Solstice Of 2024 As The Lunar New Year In The State Of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 682). |
| HI | SB2322 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Health to continue water sampling and analysis of Tier 1 beaches during brown water advisories, with certain exceptions and under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 737). |
| HI | SCR3 | Pass | Urging The United States Geological Survey To Conduct Topographical Surveys, Particularly Within Lava-flow Hazard Zones 1 And 2, To Update Its Long-term Lava-flow Hazard Map Of Hawaii Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | SB3344 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund and Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund Corporation to provide compensation for property damage resulting from catastrophic wildfires in the State. Requires the Corporation's board to report to the Legislature. Mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 684). |
| HI | SB2133 | Engross
50% | Authorizes HHFDC to issue bonds for housing project infrastructure and finance the development of regional state infrastructure projects. Exempts bonds issued by HHFDC for improvements by assessments, and the interest thereon, from state, county, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678). |
| HI | SB2286 | Engross
50% | Permits the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to enter into contracts with eligible employers or registered apprenticeship programs in the private sector to provide on-the-job training to eligible interns. Requires the Department of Human ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678). |
| HI | SB2291 | Engross
50% | Establishes advisory boards, focused on workforce development, for the Agribusiness Development Corporation, Hawaii Technology Development Corporation, and Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678). |
| HI | SB2308 | Engross
50% | Authorizes additional fines and penalties for convictions of speeding in a school zone. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678). |
| HI | SB2546 | Engross
50% | Requires hunting guides who take their clients to hunt on private lands to first obtain written permission from the owner of the private land, or occupier or holder, where appropriate. Requires hunting guides to provide copies of the written permissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678). |
