| HI | SB1170 | Engross
50% | Requires the counties to issue affordable housing credits for affordable housing units that are constructed under the various programs of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Sunsets 7/1/2031. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| HI | SB2240 | Engross
50% | Requires the Office of Elections to file an application with Electronic Registration Information Center, Inc. (ERIC), by 6/30/2025, for the State to be admitted as a member of that organization. Requires the Office of Elections to share with each cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 5:20 PM; CR 016. |
| HI | SB3202 | Engross
50% | Part I: Requires the counties, no later than 12/31/2026, to adopt or amend an ordinance to allow at least two accessory dwelling units, subject to certain restrictions, on all residentially zoned lots. Prohibits private covenants for residentially zo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday 05-01-24. |
| HI | SB2401 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture to work with each county to implement feral chicken control programs and feeding of feral animals education campaign. Requires each county to match the funds expended by the Department of Agriculture for the imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. |
| 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 | 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 | SB384 | Engross
50% | Authorizes each county to adopt ordinances to enforce the design and construction requirements for the provision of accessible parking spaces, including the establishment of penalties for failure to comply with the ordinance. Authorizes officials app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | SB2832 | Engross
50% | Specifies that the counties may issue traffic infractions for violations of any law prohibiting or restricting the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles on highways. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB578 | Engross
50% | Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as an investigator in a position identified by the Department of the Attorne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2814 | Engross
50% | Directs the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Agribusiness Development Corporation and the counties, to conduct an agricultural water infrastructure study for the State of Hawaii. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB2018 | Engross
50% | Prohibits a county from changing the land use designation or zoning of a parcel or parcels of property to a less intensive use or reducing the intensity of land use within an existing zoning district below what was allowed under the general plan or s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2029 | Engross
50% | Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale or rent in perpetuity to buyers or renters who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants or renters, and do not own a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB2565 | Engross
50% | Prohibits counties from prohibiting leashed dogs in public parks. Prohibits persons from leaving dog excrement on public or private property. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2111 | Intro
25% | Under certain conditions, limits the payment of any delinquent tax and penalty required by the Director of Finance of a county as a condition precedent to the transfer of ownership of a vehicle to the aggregate amount of delinquent taxes and penaltie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2566 | Intro
25% | Requires lot owners to pay for the repair and maintenance of subdivision roads where the applicable deed does not specify that requirement. Authorizes counties to assess and collect fees for repair and maintenance of subdivision roads if no court-app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2743 | Intro
25% | Authorizes certain counties to use county surcharge on state tax revenues and fuel tax revenues for the repair and maintenance of private roadways that are open to and used by the public. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2772 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Uniform Building Permit Working Group to study the feasibility of creating a single statewide building permit application package and uniform review and approval process for building permits that can be used by all counties. Declares th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2769 | Intro
25% | Requires the state and counties to upgrade to zero emission buses by 2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2335 | Intro
25% | Amends the membership, authority, and duties of the State Building Code Council. Gives the counties the sole discretion to amend, adopt, and update the Hawaii state building codes as they apply within each county's respective jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2976 | Intro
25% | Requires each county board of water supply or water board to prioritize the sustainable recharge of aquifers, ensure the health of watersheds, and, when allocating water for new development, prioritize the development of affordable housing over other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2324 | Intro
25% | Requires the State to share in the cost of county first responder personnel fulfilling state-imposed new mandates or increases in the level of service under existing programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2204 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a county to initiate a land use boundary amendment to implement the county's general plan. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2952 | Intro
25% | Requires each county to develop and maintain a wastewater management plan. Specifies the requirements of the wastewater management plan. Authorizes the Director of Health to exempt a county from creating a wastewater management plan if the county has...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3014 | Intro
25% | Extends the right to enter private property and remove or stabilize natural hazards that are at risk of harming the public or other properties to the county in which the private property is located and that county's respective mayor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2872 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to regulate by ordinance the use of vehicles, campers, and mobile homes as alternative residential dwellings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2723 | Intro
25% | Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2175 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the counties to reclassify up to one hundred acres of land areas in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts; provided that at least seventy-five per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2042 | Intro
25% | Requires counties to grant building permits within sixty days if the application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other certain conditions are met. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2027 | Intro
25% | Restricts any county from disapproving or imposing certain conditions on the development of a housing development project or emergency shelter unless the county meets certain requirements. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2063 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the legislative body of a county from imposing requirements for residential incomes lower than those adopted or established by the State for housing projects. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2314 | Intro
25% | Requires the Director of Transportation to establish and implement a Digital Identification Pilot Program. In coordination with the counties and various agencies, requires the Director of Transportation to submit a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts 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 | SB2733 | Intro
25% | Requires transferors and transferees of used motor vehicles, mopeds, and trailers, including motor vehicles whose owners do not intend to drive the vehicle on public highways, to appear together before the county director of finance with governmentis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts 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 | SB3057 | Intro
25% | Allows the department of planning for each county to approve a variance for the installation of solar water heater systems. Authorizes the department of planning for each county to impose and collect fees for the administration of the solar water hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs 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 | SB2229 | Intro
25% | Repeals section 46-19.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the counties to determine the proper requirements for fire sprinkler systems in residences.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2580 | Intro
25% | Establishes a task force to identify 1 or more parcels of alienable state land and propose a plan for a public-private partnership to develop that land for affordable housing. Requires a report to the Legislature prior to the convening of the 2025 Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2869 | Intro
25% | Designates each county as the special management area authority within the county's respective jurisdiction. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2798 | Intro
25% | Establishes the hike safe card program and search and rescue special fund to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land 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 | SB2901 | Intro
25% | Provides that where public access is required as a condition of a subdivision, the county shall either accept dedication of and maintain the access or identify an entity to own and maintain the access. Authorizes the county to require the subdivider ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2062 | Intro
25% | Expands the housing powers of the counties to include the planning, development, construction, financing, and providing of housing projects, including low- and moderate-income housing and mixed-use developments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2067 | Intro
25% | Requires that each county agency responsible for enforcing its respective building code be accredited by the International Accreditation Service. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2168 | Intro
25% | Makes a person or entity liable for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when the person or entity knowingly enters state, county, or private property, knowingly enters a hiking trail that is closed to the public, or violates applicable laws...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2208 | Intro
25% | Amend the procurement code to require County Council approval for contracts awarded by a county under its statutory authorization for sole source procurement if the contract amount exceeds $30,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB2025 | Intro
25% | Eliminates certain restrictions for developing state-owned real property located within one-half mile radius of any station along the elevated mass transit system. Permits high-density development of state-owned real property located within one-half ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2032 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Accessory Dwelling Unit Construction Grant Program within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide funding to private property owners for the construction of accessory dwelling units, including any necessary a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB494 | Engross
50% | Requires the counties to establish expedited procedures to approve demolition permits for vacant residential properties. Allows the Department of Taxation to satisfy certain tax liens through the nonjudicial foreclosure of vacant and abandoned reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
