| HI | SB1587 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Affordable Housing Land Inventory Task Force within the Hawaii Community Development Authority to update the maps, tier tables, and inventories of State lands suitable and available for affordable housing development in the Affordable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2052 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the public access room to establish and maintain an outreach and engagement program for primary, secondary, post-secondary, and community education. Requires the department of education and university of Hawaii to assign appropriate staff to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
The recommendation was not adopted. |
| HI | SB2784 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the authority of employers to pay tipped employees less than the minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3213 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires one per cent of the transient accommodations tax be allocated to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for the purposes of building affordable housing for individuals on the DHHL waiting list.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2034 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's and Hawaii Public Housing Authority's projects to develop housing exclusively for qualified residents. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1208 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the income thresholds and credit amounts of the income tax credit for low-income household renters by using tax brackets individuals and different categories of households. Annually adjusts the income thresholds and credit amounts for infla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2448 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the time requirement when a disbursing officer shall inform the employee of indebtedness. Reduces the minimum amount owed per pay period from $100 to $50 or 5% of the new employee's wages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2712 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Warehouse Worker Protection Act. Requires certain warehouse employers to provide written descriptions of quotas to employees and maintain records of quotas and employee work speed data. Protects employees from quotas that would preven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2716 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows retirement benefits to be negotiated during collective bargaining negotiations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2779 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to consider all avenues and models that may satisfy the housing needs of native Hawaiian beneficiaries and facilitate the reduction of the waitlist, including compliance with the plan implemented in Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2946 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii to submit to the Legislature annual reports of all university employees who performed work from a location outside of the State for more than sixty consecutive days during the applicable year no later than December 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3339 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Red Hill remediation authority. Creates the Red Hill remediation special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3336 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the retention of third party professionals with the necessary financial, accounting, and land inventory expertise to evaluate and address the completeness and accuracy of the public land trust ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3313 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to increase the salary schedules of deputy sheriffs within the Department of Law Enforcement. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2507 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from civil service requirements employees performing services in University of Hawaii student or employee housing and certain personal services in privately financed leased or owned buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2823 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a blue ribbon committee within the Department of the Attorney General to analyze the Hawaii Administrative Rules and identify any rules that are not supported by statutory authority. Requires each state agency to cooperate with the blue r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2061 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a one-year school bus driver certification subsidy pilot program within the Department of Education. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2113 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes appropriations to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for its manufacturing assistance programs. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2089 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that fire safety use is a beneficial use of fresh water in the State Water Code. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to cooperate with the counties and reservoi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2188 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows striking workers to be eligible for unemployment benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2824 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds to the Agribusiness Development Corporation for the upgrade of South and West Maui's R-1 water delivery systems, and the upgrade of certain water reservoirs located in the forest wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3337 | Intro
Sine Die | Reestablishes the appraisal management company registration program within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Clarifies that chapter 466L, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed. Applies registration requirements retroactively to 6/30/202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3331 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an alternative process for the termination of the rental agreement that involves mediation. Requires the Governor to notify the Chief Justice, Legislature, and Revisor of Statutes when the final wildfire proclamation will expire. Declares...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2833 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for the establishment and hiring of one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) project manager III position to aid in the development of affordable housing options in the State....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2435 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to administer an undivided interest Lease Award Program for beneficiaries on the homestead lease waiting list who are sixty years old or older or terminally ill, under certain conditions. Requires the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2609 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases from $2,000 to $2,240, the minimum amount of guaranteed compensation required for an individual employed by and an employer who is exempt from the State's Wage and Hour Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2879 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for an artificial intelligence government services pilot program to provide certain government services to the public through an internet portal that uses artificial intelligence technologies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2063 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB2117 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "preceptor" to include physician assistants, registered dietitians, and social workers. Amends the definition of "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to clarify that preceptors may be compensated for the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB471 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits camping in public areas that are not designated as camping locations by the State or a county with certain exceptions. Allows the court to order violators to participate in homeless services in lieu of prosecution or sentencing. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB343 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes provisional or associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Allows psychologist license applicants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2720 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a process by which a neighbor of a tenant may seek relief from the tenant's landlord for acts of harassment by the tenant. Includes an alternative process for the eviction of tenants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2055 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a three-year summer tuition pilot program to provide funding to UH community colleges to offset the costs aligning the resident tuition rates for the summer semester with the resident tuition rates for the spring and fall semesters at the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HI | SB2314 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB2346 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct a voluntary firearm buyback program in each county of the State. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect 1/1/2042. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2307 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with various agencies and upon request of the inmates, to assist inmates in obtaining the inmates' civil identification card, birth certificate, social security card, and oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2458 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the primary caregiver to be absent from the community care foster family home; provided that the substitute caregiver is present during the absence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2444 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the installation of a new outdoor emergency siren in the Pacific Palisades area of Oahu. Declares that the general expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 1/1/2042. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2005 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to construct a mental health facility for inmates or detainees with mental health needs. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3219 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a newly hired public employee to file a complaint with the Hawaii Labor Relations Board if the employee is not provided, within 20 calendar days of being hired, a general orientation on the employee's benefits and rights, or if the exclusive r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3216 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts cultural practitioners of martial arts from the prohibition of and penalty against butterfly knives; provided that evidence of instructor certification is provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3238 | Intro
Sine Die | For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024, provides an aquaculture investment tax credit for investments into a qualified aquaculture business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3280 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amounts for the income tax brackets and personal exemption and standard deduction amounts for tax year 2024. Adjusts annually for tax years beginning after 12/31/2024, the income tax brackets and personal exemption, and standard deducti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3232 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of Department of Education schools. Allows a loan to be forgiven for teachers who become a licensed teacher in Hawaii or for teachers who will co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3263 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Program within the Department of Human Services to assist qualifying households in paying their energy bills. Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Special Fund. Declares that the general fund exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3284 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies some of the measures the Director of Health may take in response to emergency circumstances affecting the availability of safe drinking water or the discovery of contamination in a public water source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3295 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make restitution in the form of financial support t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3298 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Attorney General to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions or proceedings, when the employee was acting within the scope of their employment and was not grossly negligent or wanton. Requires that, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3358 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to indemnify Molokai ranchers whose herds were affected by the bovine tuberculosis outbreak and have not received indemnification from other sources. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3322 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates and expands the statutory prohibition on the use of tobacco at public schools to include prohibiting the possession and use of electronic smoking devices. Requires the Department of Education to be responsible for educating students, employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
