| SB2819 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-03
Act 175, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1276). |
| SB3087 | Pass | Authorizes early learning programs to be established on public school campuses and other available public buildings. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 152, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1253). |
| HB2426 | Pass | Clarifies when a relative seeking to be a resource caregiver for a child is entitled to an administrative appeal for the Department of Human Services' denial of a foster home license. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 148, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1249). |
| HB2493 | Pass | Creates two new commercial driver's license restrictions relating to operating a commercial motor vehicle in excess of eighteen thousand pounds gross vehicle weight rating and operating a commercial motor vehicle on Lanai and Molokai only. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 137, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1238). |
| SB2991 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-02
Act 143, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1244). |
| SB2974 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-02
Act 142, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1243). |
| HB470 | Pass | Clarifies the definition of "provider" as it relates to the entities eligible to provide no cost emergency shelter and related services to a consenting minor to include certain organizations who are not considered child placing organizations or child...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 145, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1246). |
| SB3305 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-02
Act 154, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1255). |
| HB2491 | Pass | Amends existing state law to adopt federal penalties for commercial driver's license violations. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 135, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1236). |
| HB2227 | Pass | Expands the existing exemption from state law governing child care for United States Department of Defense-certified child care providers on federal property to those operating off federal property. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 146, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1247). |
| HB2481 | Pass | Repeals the Time Share Commissioners of Deeds. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 134, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1235). |
| HB2458 | Pass | Requires the Director of Law Enforcement to investigate alleged violations of the law when directed to do so by the Governor or when the Director determines that an investigation would be in the public interest. Authorizes the Director of Law Enforce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 132, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1233). |
| SB2342 | Pass | Increases the penalties for violations of repeated driving without motor vehicle insurance and, beginning 1/1/2026, increases required motor vehicle insurance minimums. Clarifies the required coverage for shared cars that are made available through a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 138, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1239). |
| HB2224 | Pass | Requires the Executive Office on Aging, in coordination with the State Health Planning and Development Agency, to create a comprehensive long-term care plan to accomplish certain long-term care policy goals that ensure the availability of a full cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 159, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1260). |
| SB2497 | Pass | Repeals the provision that made references to the base amount in the Internal Revenue Code inapplicable to the research activities tax credit and allowed credits for all qualified research expenses to be taken without regard to previous years' expens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 139, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1240). |
| HB2400 | Pass | Requires a teacher to forfeit their teaching license if the teacher resigns or retires during the pendency of any investigation into allegations of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or other physical abuse of a student. Requires the forfeiture of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 157, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1258). |
| HB2492 | Pass | Amends existing law to meet new federal regulations for commercial driver's licenses when the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse prohibits a driver from operating a commercial vehicle due to drug and alcohol violations. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 136, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1237). |
| HB2457 | Pass | Expands the requirement that the Department of Law Enforcement pursue and obtain accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc., to all divisions and sections within the Department. Establishes five CALEA coordi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 131, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1232). |
| HB2425 | Pass | Clarifies that a confirmed report of child abuse or neglect, harm, or threatened harm will result in the perpetrator's name being maintained in the central registry. Clarifies when a person's name may be expunged from the central registry and establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 147, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1248). |
| HB2480 | Pass | Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to set a fee for the issuance of an apostille or a non-apostille certification by administrative rules. Establishes the Apostilles and Certifications Special Fund. Appropriates funds into and out of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 133, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1234). |
| SB2070 | Pass | Exempts career and technical education goods and services purchases by the Department of Education from the State Procurement Code. Requires the Department of Education to acquire three written quotes for career and technical education purchases that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 150, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1251). |
| SB2257 | Pass | Authorizes the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to consider qualified individuals with at least an associate's degree or high school diploma with comparable education and coursework, industry experience, and content expertise to teach career and techni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 151, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1252). |
| SB2475 | Pass | Establishes a harm to students registry, for all early learning programs or schools and K-12 educational institutions within the State, that contains information on school employees, contractors, or volunteers for whom, as result of an investigation,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 156, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1257). |
| SB2305 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-02
Act 158, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1259). |
| SB2245 | Pass | Adds a definition for "exigent circumstances" and amends the definitions of "harm" and "imminent harm" under the Child Protective Act. Clarifies when the police may take protective custody of a child and when the Department of Human Services may assu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 144, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1245). |
| SB3207 | Pass | Removes the salary cap of the Superintendent of Education. Makes permanent the annual performance evaluation requirements for the Superintendent of Education. Takes effect 6/29/2024. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 149, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1250). |
| SB2516 | Pass | Clarifies that centralized computer information management and processing services shall be provided through the Chief Information Officer. Specifies that the Chief Information Officer shall be appointed by the Governor and report to the Comptroller....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 140, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1241). |
| HB2430 | Pass | Establishes the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Program. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 155, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1256). |
| SB2718 | Pass | Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to admit and consider hearsay evidence. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 141, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1242). |
| SB3116 | Pass | Establishes that the priority of selection for participation in the Preschool Open Doors Program applies only during the priority application period that occurs prior to the start of each state fiscal year. Establishes that applications received afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 153, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1254). |
| SB2591 | Pass | Imposes a fine on any private landowner that fails to disclose or record with the Bureau of Conveyances, or in documents used to offer real property for sale, the existence of burial or archaeological sites on their property that the landowner knew o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 119, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1220). |
| HB2074 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for Kaiapuni programs and the establishment of three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) Kaiapuni education curriculum specialist II positions and ten full-time equivalent (10.0 FTE) Kaiapuni classroom tea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 126, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1227). |
| SB2659 | Pass | Incorporates a regenerative framework into the Hawaii State Planning Act by expanding objectives and policies for the visitor industry. Requires periodic updates to the Tourism Functional Plan, specifies elements to be included in the Tourism Functio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 128, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1229). |
| HB1529 | Pass | Allows any burial council member whose term has expired to continue in office as a holdover member until the member's reappointment to a second term is confirmed or a successor is nominated and appointed. Prohibits holdover members from holding offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 123, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1224). |
| SB3109 | Pass | Establishes the Act 279 Special Fund until 6/30/2026. Deposits certain unexpended and unencumbered funds appropriated through Act 279, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, that are set to lapse on 6/30/2024 into the Act 279 Special Fund and appropriates fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 125, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1226). |
| SB3123 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to access vital records for purposes of verifying Native Hawaiian ancestry for beneficiary programs. Requires the Department of Health and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to enter into a Memorand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 122, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1223). |
| SB3154 | Pass | Clarifies that failure to comply with approved mitigation commitments, conduct an archaeological inventory survey, or comply with other administrative requirements pertaining to archaeology approved by the Department of Land and Natural Resources sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 129, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1230). |
| SB2289 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-01
Act 118, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1219). |
| HB2626 | Pass | Specifies certain findings the Board of Land and Natural Resources must make for a lease of a government-owned Hawaiian fishpond. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 124, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1225). |
| SB2657 | Pass | Amends the date of Makahiki Commemoration Day. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 120, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1221). |
| SB2937 | Pass | Repeals the sunset date for the exemption of laboratory school programs of the Hawaiian language college at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from state English-medium standards, assessments, performance ratings, staff qualifications, and staff traini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 127, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1228). |
| HB2218 | Pass | Amends the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended, to increase the loan limit for direct loans provided by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from fifty percent to seventy-five percent of the maximum single residence loan amount allowed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 130, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1231). |
| SB3236 | Pass | Clarifies that if no personal property designation appears in a recorded instrument, the interests of the beneficiaries shall be real property. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 121, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1222). |
| SB2119 | Pass | 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] | 2024-06-28
Act 096, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1197). |
| HB1932 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Transportation to acquire, including by condemnation, any real, personal, or mixed property for immediate or future use and own, hold, improve, rehabilitate, sell, assign, exchange, transfer, convey, lease, or dispose of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 109, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1210). |
| SB3191 | Pass | Permanently authorizes the University of Hawaii to continue to regulate conflicts of interest and other ethical issues for technology transfer activities sponsored by the University of Hawaii. Takes effect 6/29/2024. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 115, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1216). |
| SB3122 | Pass | Authorizes the Director of Health to issue public health standing orders for patients to self-refer to certain health care screening services. Establishes requirements for the provision of items or services pursuant to a public health standing order....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 090, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1191). |
| SB2443 | Pass | Establishes the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program, to be implemented by the State in only those locations where a photo red light imaging detector system has been implemented. Creates a new offense of noncompliance with maximum speed limit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 112, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1213). |
| SB2536 | Pass | 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] | 2024-06-28
Act 113, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1214). |
| HB2042 | Pass | Appropriates funds for the Department of Health to contract for the provision of youth mental health and wellness services to address the mental health and wellness needs of youth in the State. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 102, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1203). |
