| HI | SB2079 | Engross
50% | Allows the State of Hawaii Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| HI | SB2085 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Office of the State Fire Marshal within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to be headed by a State Fire Marshal. Exempts the State Fire Marshal from Civil Service Law. Requires the State Fire Council to establish the ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| HI | SB2133 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation 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, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-26-24 at 5:30PM in Conference Room 329. |
| 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 governmental or qualified non-governmental entities of the power...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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. Makes an appropriation. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 4:25 PM; CR 329. |
| 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] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-26-24 3:30PM in conference room 325. |
| 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. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 4:45 PM; CR 016. |
| HI | SB2536 | Engross
50% | Establishes a new accounting services procurement preference for certain Hawaii accounting service businesses and adds it to the list of selection criteria for the procurement of professional services. Clarifies that the existing reciprocity procurem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| HI | SB2787 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Office of Community Services the Immigration Services and Access Unit. Makes appropriations for the unit, including funding for new positions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| HI | SB2837 | Engross
50% | Requires the transfer of the Maui State Veterans Home to a state agency having a Maui affiliation, in a manner and to an extent that may be negotiated between the Oahu Regional Health Care System or state agency having a Maui affiliation and the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday 05-01-24. |
| HI | SB2725 | Engross
50% | For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023, adds a definition for "qualified member" and repeals the definitions for "direct member" and "indirect member" as used in the State's passthrough entity taxation election law. Amends the passthrough entit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 4:55 PM; CR 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. Clarifies that uses that include the provision of transient accommodations are not considered residential uses an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday 05-01-24. |
| 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. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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. Makes appropriations to implement th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday 05-01-24. |
| 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, with the assistance of the Department of Health. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| HI | SB2119 | Engross
50% | Authorizes out-of-state pharmacies to transfer prescription information for the initial fill of an out-of-state prescription in the State. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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. Takes effect 11/1/2024. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-25
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 816). |
| 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] | 2024-04-24
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-25-24 3:30PM; Conference Room 229. |
| HI | HB679 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to support the State's response to the August 2023 wildfires that affected the County of Maui. Requires the Auditor to conduct an audit on the contracts funded by the appropriation. Makes an appropriation to the One Ohana Bank Trus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 806). |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB500 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for various workforce readiness programs and opportunities. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 699). |
| HI | HB824 | Engross
50% | Creates a medical release program within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for certain ill or impaired inmates who pose a low risk to public safety. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 760). |
| 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 | 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 | 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). |
| HI | SB2836 | Engross
50% | Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the Interagency Council for Maui Housing Recovery to coordinate and facilitate Maui's permanent housing recovery and facilitate consultation and collaboration between st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678). |
| HI | SB2450 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the Department of Transportation to weigh any ocean transport container offloaded at any harbor in the State and fine any company that offloads an ocean transport container having an excessive gross weight. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB201 | Engross
50% | Expands the definition of "historic property" for purposes of the Historic Preservation Program. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB1408 | Engross
50% | Establishes the digital equity grant program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
