| 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 | 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 | SB3293 | Intro
25% | Establishes an exemption to overtime compensation for employees on public works projects working on a Saturday, Sunday, or state holiday under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Labor and Technology 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB3311 | Intro
25% | Establishes that it is an unlawful discriminatory practice for public accommodations to deny a person with a disability full and equal enjoyment of information related to their services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations using inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3334 | Intro
25% | Expands the required contents of a notice of claim of construction defect served on a contractor. Requires the claimant to provide actual evidence of the nature and cause of the construction defect and extent of necessary repairs along with the notic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2995 | Intro
25% | Requires petitions or motions for a pro hac vice appearance for a court proceeding or arbitration proceeding to be supported by evidence of the applicant's and local counsel's Hawaii business registrations, the applicant's and local counsel's Hawaii ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2998 | Intro
25% | Establishes processes and requirements during a state of emergency or local state of emergency related to eviction moratoriums, foreclosure moratoriums, mortgage deferments, loan deferment, adverse information reported to consumer reporting agencies,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB2338 | Intro
25% | For policies, contracts, plans, agreements, and plan contracts issued or renewed after 12/31/2024, requires the insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2459 | Intro
25% | Requires the employer to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit within thirty days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate. Establishes that the employer's failure to initiate the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2472 | Intro
25% | Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires certain long-term care facility operators to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2551 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2025, requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for biomarker testing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2510 | Intro
25% | Requires all public schools to implement universal screenings for students in kindergarten through third grade to identify and support students who are at risk of dyslexia and other learning disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2496 | Intro
25% | Establishes a gray water income tax credit to encourage the installation of qualified gray water systems certified by the Department of Health on existing residential properties and new housing developments. Effective for taxable years beginning afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2506 | Intro
25% | Decreases the number of board members of the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund from 10 trustees to 9. Changes the composition of board members to include 2 citizens of the State who are not employees, among other things. Limits the trustee's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2494 | Intro
25% | Provides police officers who become members of the Employees' Retirement System after 6/30/2023 with retirement benefits similar to those provided for members of the Employees' Retirement System who became members before 7/1/2012, including but not l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2612 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of habitual runaway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2540 | Intro
25% | Reinstates income tax credit for cesspool upgrade, conversion, or connection for eligible taxpayers and eligible expenses. Applies retroactively to 12/31/2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment 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 | SB2568 | Intro
25% | Authorizes pharmacists to order and administer immunizations and vaccinations to children three years of age and older under state law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2633 | Intro
25% | For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024, provides a temporary income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a wastewater system approved by the director of health, or connecting to a sewerage system. Sunsets 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2604 | Intro
25% | Establishes a court's authority to issue an order restricting abusive litigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2577 | Intro
25% | Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation to the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a state-wide blanket environmental impact statement for geothermal exploration and development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2509 | Intro
25% | Requires the DOE to work with the BOE to create a public digital platform by the 2025-2026 school year that shows how schools are adopting high-quality instructional materials for K-6 English language arts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2786 | Intro
25% | Beginning on 7/1/2024, requires that the state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes not exceed $1,136...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2883 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to ensure that inclusive curricula are available to all students at public schools. Makes it a discriminatory practice to refuse to approve, remove, or prohibit the use or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2848 | Intro
25% | Allows direct shipment of beer and distilled spirits by certain licensees. Requires the Liquor Commission of each county to adopt rules and regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection 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 | SB2748 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to develop and implement a statewide internet and mobile phone-based hazard tracking system that includes notifications, warnings, maps, weather, and related resources about various hazards in the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2882 | Intro
25% | Relaxes the requirements for prescribing certain controlled substances as part of gender-affirming health care services. Expands the protections established under Act 2, SLH 2023, to include gender-affirming health care services. Clarifies jurisdicti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2785 | Intro
25% | Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires the Department of Human Services to perform ...
[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 | SB2840 | Intro
25% | Provides a new source of interim financing for affordable housing projects using housing programs under chapter 201H, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Sunsets 7/1/2029. Effective 1/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2761 | Intro
25% | Authorizes 2 or more members of the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority to meet during the transition period described in section 195H-6, HRS, regarding any matter relating to the Authority's business; provided that no commitment to vote is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2788 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to achieve the full funding, including estimated payment increases, of Medicaid home- and community-based services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2839 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to develop and implement a Holocaust and genocide curricula. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2902 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to purchase a Striker fire truck to be housed on a Department of Defense facility on Maui. Declares that the general funds expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
