| SB3364 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-08
Act 225, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1326). |
| HB2478 | Pass | Authorizes the Governor to execute a compact on behalf of the State to cooperate in the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. Establishes procedures for selection and succession of commissioners from the State of Hawaii. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 216, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1317). |
| SB2983 | Pass | Beginning 1/1/2026, authorizes the Department of the Attorney General to regulate charitable fundraising platforms and platform charities. Includes provisions relating to the misuse of funds. Imposes vicarious liability upon a platform charity for a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 205, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1306). |
| SB2284 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-08
Act 200, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1301). |
| HB1922 | Pass | Expands the department of land and natural resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule deemed necessary to protect certain wildlife. Expands the board of land and natural resources' authority to timely adopt, amend, or repeal certain rules if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 223, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1324). |
| HB1842 | Pass | Increases the maximum fine for violations of the fire protection laws. Specifies that each day a violation exists or continues to exist shall constitute a distinct and separate offense. Raises the criminal penalty for the offense of arson in the four...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 201, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1302). |
| SB2782 | Pass | Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to develop multilingual accessibility standards. Appropriates funds to establish one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) position to develop multilingual accessibility standards within the Office of En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 203, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1304). |
| HB2107 | Pass | Appropriates funds to establish a Limited English Proficiency Language Access Coordinator position and for programming support for LEP community projects within the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 210, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1311). |
| HB1527 | Pass | Prohibits animal owners and their employees from performing any surgical procedures on the owner's pet animal or pet animals. Provides that a violation of the prohibition is a misdemeanor. Clarifies that the offense of cruelty to animals in the first...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 221, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1322). |
| SB2182 | Pass | Amends the persons required to collect the Ocean Stewardship User Fee. Extends the sunset date of the Ocean Stewardship Special Fund to 1/1/2031. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 214, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1315). |
| HB2475 | Pass | Provides that advertisements or offers of unpermitted commercial ocean use activities or commercial ocean recreational equipment are prima facie evidence that the owner disseminated or directed dissemination of such advertisements or offers and the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 227, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1328). |
| SB2687 | Pass | Prohibits a person from recklessly distributing, or entering into an agreement with another person to distribute, materially deceptive media, subject to certain exceptions. Establishes criminal penalties for distributing materially deceptive media. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 191, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1292). |
| SB2240 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-05
Act 190, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1291). |
| SB3365 | Pass | Requires the Department of Agriculture to certify treatments performed on wood chips, compost, and filter socks. Places certain restrictions on the distribution or transportation of plant care components without prior treatment certification from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 197, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1298). |
| SB2960 | Pass | Requires that lessees and purchasers of farm lots and ranch lots use that land for farming and producing food, under certain conditions. Authorizes certain agricultural cooperative associations to apply for farm lots. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 194, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1295). |
| SB2216 | Pass | Clarifies and modernizes the way the State Ethics Commission provides advice and conducts investigations. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 188, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1289). |
| SB3070 | Pass | Lowers the Employees' Retirement System's funding period to amortize the System's total unfunded accrued liability. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 192, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1293). |
| HB2298 | Pass | Beginning 7/1/2027, requires roasted coffee, instant coffee, and ready-to-drink coffee beverages that contain Hawaii-grown and Hawaii-processed coffee blended with coffee of another regional origin to contain no less than fifty-one per cent coffee by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 198, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1299). |
| HB2144 | Pass | Requires the Department of Health to amend the definition of "homemade food products" in its administrative rules on food safety and adopt certain rules regarding the sale and delivery of homemade food products. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 195, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1296). |
| HB2278 | Pass | Clarifies labeling requirements for macadamia nuts to require a disclosure indicating that a product may contain macadamia nuts not grown in Hawaii if the consumer package contains macadamia nuts grown outside the State. Exempts from the labeling req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 199, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1300). |
| HB1916 | Pass | Prohibits, upon written request from certain public servants or their representative, any government agency, person, or organization from making certain personal information publicly available on the Internet. Effective 10/1/2024. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 187, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1288). |
| HB1832 | Pass | Authorizes a state department, division, or agency, rather than the Department of Human Resources Development, to conduct a minimum qualification review of applicants for vacant positions within the department, division, or agency. Requires the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 186, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1287). |
| SB2217 | Pass | Establishes a phased process for adjusting the reporting period for gift disclosures filed with the State Ethics Commission to conform with the fiscal year. Provides for electronic filing of documents required by the State Ethics Commission. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 189, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1290). |
| SB2079 | Pass | Allows the State of Hawaii Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 196, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1297). |
| HB2192 | Pass | Authorizes the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to appoint an organization as the limited owner of a cemetery, under certain circumstances, for the purposes of filing complaints and engaging in certain security and perpetual care activities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 193, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1294). |
| SB2943 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-03
Act 177, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1278). |
| SB1258 | Pass | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to develop and implement a management system for the Kaena point state park, Makua and Keawaula sections. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 170, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1271). |
| HB1597 | Pass | Clarifies that members of the public may sue a board or alleged board after receiving an adverse Office of Information Practices decision, and that the decision will be reviewed de novo. Establishes a two-year statute of limitations to bring the laws...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 160, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1261). |
| SB2861 | Pass | Makes certain long-term exclusive listing agreements for the sale of residential real property void and unenforceable under the state law that governs unfair and deceptive practices. Prohibits the recording or filing of exclusive listing agreements o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 176, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1277). |
| HB1869 | Pass | Establishes the felony offenses of misuse of uncrewed aircraft in the first, second, and third degrees. Requires uncrewed aircraft to be operated by a human operator at all times. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 161, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1262). |
| SB3011 | Pass | Makes it unlawful for any person 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 zones. Provides e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 179, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1280). |
| HB2501 | Pass | Repeals the reporting requirement to identify the cost impacts to the State of providing workers' compensation coverage for University of Hawaii students. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 167, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1268). |
| HB2513 | Pass | Expands expungement eligibility to persons whose convictions for consuming a measurable amount of alcohol while under the age of twenty-one or first-time property offenses predated current expungement provisions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 168, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1269). |
| HB1923 | Pass | Authorizes overnight camps in operation prior to January 1, 1961, to be regulated via the special permit process. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 182, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1283). |
| SB2401 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-03
Act 185, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1286). |
| SB2526 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-03
Act 173, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1274). |
| SB3242 | Pass | Requires the Department of Transportation or county transportation agency having jurisdiction over roads, highways, or similar infrastructure to evaluate high-risk or dangerous corridors or intersections and plan strategies for mitigation. Provides t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 180, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1281). |
| HB2337 | Pass | Replaces representatives from the sugar and pineapple industries with representatives of the coffee and diversified agriculture industries on the Advisory Committee on Pesticides. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 183, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1284). |
| SB795 | Pass | Requires productions to provide evidence of reasonable efforts to comply with all applicable requirements to qualify for the Motion Picture, Digital Media, and Film Production Income Tax Credit. Requires taxpayers be given notice of and an opportunit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 169, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1270). |
| HB2546 | Pass | Allows for the use of fine meshed nets for the protection of plants against invasive species, under certain conditions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 184, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1285). |
| HB2070 | Pass | Requires cash or protest bonds paid or filed by parties initiating an administrative appeal for protests of solicitations or award of contracts under the Hawaii Public Procurement Code to be returned to the initiating parties, minus administrative co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 162, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1263). |
| SB2461 | Pass | Authorizes medical cannabis dispensaries to purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from other dispensaries without showing that such purchase is necessary for a qualifying patient's continuous access for medical use, or for medical, sci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 172, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1273). |
| HB2071 | Pass | Provides that any photo red light imaging detector system's clear and unobstructed recorded image of a motor vehicle license plate shall be prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle to which the license plate is attached is the motor vehicle for wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 163, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1264). |
| SB2958 | Pass | Amends or repeals various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes or the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, or deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 178, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1279). |
| HB2399 | Pass | Exempts an additional administrative assistant position in the Hawaii State Public Library System from civil service. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 165, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1266). |
| HB2343 | Pass | Expedites the enforcement of orders of wage payment violations by allowing the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to file certified copies of the final orders in any court of competent jurisdiction. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 164, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1265). |
| SB2350 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-03
Act 171, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1272). |
| SB2715 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-03
Act 174, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1275). |
| SB2413 | Pass | Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report to the Legislature on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 181, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1282). |
| HB2482 | Pass | Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor or the appropriate county clerk's office to ensure access to paper or electronic copies of all meeting notices and removes the requirement to post notices in a central location in a public building. (CD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 166, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1267). |
