| HI | SB1536 | Intro
25% | Permanently reinstates the liability protections previously afforded to county lifeguards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1199 | Intro
25% | Lengthens the time period in which certain vehicles must have a safety inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1553 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for positions and activities related to coconut rhinoceros beetle infestation control.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB1544 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of fraud as a class B felony. Disqualifies a person from holding elective public office for a period of ten years upon conviction of fraud.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1430 | Intro
25% | Repeals motor vehicle safety inspection requirements for certain motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB792 | Intro
25% | Establishes a local agriculture transportation cost reimbursement incentive program to be administered by the Department of Agriculture to reimburse eligible producers for a portion of the producer's costs to transport agricultural commodities. Makes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1450 | Intro
25% | Requires all public contractors to explicitly agree through a provision in their public contracts to be subject to the prohibition and penalties for any violations of campaign finance laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1428 | Intro
25% | Bans instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools. Establishes new parental rights regarding health services and records. Establishes the parental right to sue and receive damages if schools fail to adhere to new pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB733 | Engross
50% | Requires the office of Hawaiian affairs to conduct a feasibility study on establishing Native Hawaiian cultural centers within the State. Requires the Office to submit a report of its study findings and recommendations to the legislature. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB375 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis Authority within the Department of Health to adopt rules to regulate responsible, adult-use of cannabis in the State. Establishes that possession of cannabis by an adult in the amount of four ounces or less without a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB96 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Aquaculture Development Branch within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the rights, powers, functions, duties, employees, and other capital of the Aquaculture and Livestock Services Branch of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB771 | Intro
25% | Establishes a criminal penalty and monetary fines for aquarium fishing violations. Clarifies that each fish or aquatic life specimen taken in violation of certain fishing laws regarding aquarium fish and the possession and use of prohibited explosive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB305 | Intro
25% | Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB761 | Intro
25% | Beginning July 1, 2024, provides a general excise tax exemption for medical services performed by health care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB508 | Intro
25% | Requires the Clean Water Branch to perform water quality testing during brown water advisories and post informational signs to explain health risks associated with water runoff during brown water advisories. Requires the Department of Health to prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB776 | Intro
25% | Amends the composition of the Board of Agriculture by requiring representation from the islands of Molokai and Lanai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1555 | Intro
25% | Exempts the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children and the sale of nonprescription drugs from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB824 | Engross
50% | Requires the securing of mooring lines from vessels requiring tug assistance to be manned by an existing, operational stevedoring company that is operating within the State, except the securing of mooring lines from vessels for purposes of shipyard o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB283 | Engross
50% | Excludes from the charter school per-pupil funding calculation all amounts relating to programs that provide comparable benefits for all public school students regardless of whether the student is a Department of Education school student or a public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB665 | Intro
25% | Requires each Department of Education classroom to be equipped with an opioid antagonist. Requires the Department of Education to train employees on opioid-related drug overdose prevention, recognition, and response and opioid antagonist administrati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB520 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Farm Succession Pilot Program under Leeward Community College in collaboration with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the pilot p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB420 | Engross
50% | Establishes the sustainable food systems working group within the department of agriculture. Requires the working group to submit a plan, any recommendations for implementing the plan, and any proposed legislation to the legislature. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB301 | Intro
25% | Amends Act 257, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to authorize the School Facilities Authority to provide affordable housing to Department of Education teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB745 | Engross
50% | Extends the offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes a mandatory $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB113 | Engross
50% | Clarifies that calculations to determine whether a non-perishable good labeled "Hawaii Made" has met the requirement that at least 51% of the wholesale value of the product is added by production within the State include operating and overhead expens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB850 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1432 | Intro
25% | Prohibits social media platforms from engaging in censorship of candidates for elected office and other users.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB847 | Intro
25% | Allows a person to be eligible for a license as a professional engineer if the person has completed four years of full-time or equivalent part-time professional level government employment performing lawful experience in review of engineered plans an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB288 | Intro
25% | Transfers the Culinary Institute of the Pacific from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as an administratively attached agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB730 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to restore and restock fishponds by providing fingerlings and limu and establishing one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) aquaculture coordinator biologist VI position. Effective 6/30/30...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB783 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education Committee on Weights to consider the impact of its weighted student formula recommendations on small and remote schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB517 | Intro
25% | Authorizes operators of motorcycles to utilize the lane shoulders that are at least three-feet-wide with the concurrent use of emergency flashers on interstate highways as authorized by the Department of Transportation. Requires the Department of Tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB241 | Intro
25% | Establishes general excise tax exemptions for food, medical services, and feminine hygiene products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1486 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness; Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife; and Department of Health, Food Safety Branch; and in consultati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB823 | Engross
50% | Provides an exemption for flatbed trucks from registration renewals and initial registrations of motor carrier vehicles when used as marine terminal equipment temporarily moving in or between certain terminals. Adds new terminal locales, times, and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB666 | Intro
25% | Requires the State, to the extent practicable, to plant fruit trees in new or renovated landscaping that includes trees. Authorizes persons to harvest fruit from those fruit trees. Provides that the State is not liable for any injuries or illnesses r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1431 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of Fentanyl possession, production, or distribution as a Class A felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1262 | Intro
25% | Establishes statewide goals for solid waste reduction and organic waste diversion. Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to reduce all organic waste produced within the county by faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB790 | Intro
25% | Prohibits dispositions that authorize diverting water from East Maui county streams for commercial purposes, except for existing water uses by the Maui County Department of Water Supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB1606 | Intro
25% | Establishes a surcharge on the conveyance tax upon the transfer or conveyance of prolonged vacant property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB34 | Intro
25% | Creates a temporary income tax credit for taxpayers who sell real property to owner-occupants. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB767 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the Governor or a Mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital statistics during a declared state of emergency. Allows for a reasonable delay in an agency's response to a request as a result of extenuating circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | SB280 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Education to create temporary positions under certain conditions. Amends the requirement that the Department of Education report the creation of temporary positions to the Department of Budget and Finance by requiring that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB521 | Engross
50% | Establishes a Surplus Military Land Task Force within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to plan for the remediation and restoration of lands currently under federal control that are anticipated to be returned to the State, consider p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HI | SB1192 | Intro
25% | Establishes minimum hour and daily pay rates for substitute teachers for the 2024-2025 to 2028-2029 school years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1259 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to DOA for the continued administration of the Hawaii healthy food incentive program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB282 | Intro
25% | Reduces the amount transferred to the works of art special fund from 1% to 0.5% of all state fund appropriations for capital improvements designated for the construction cost element.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2 | Intro
25% | Proposes a constitutional amendment to change the Board of Education back to an elected board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB734 | Engross
50% | Establishes an inter-division program between the State Historic Preservation Division, Land Division, Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands, Island Burial Councils, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs that addresses the location, movement, and res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1195 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to report to the Legislature on the progress and ultimate outcome of the ongoing lease rent renegotiations and to recommend whether the management duties for the valley should be transfe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
