| HI | SB3342 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a spay and neuter special fund and an advisory committee for the special fund. Allows funds from an income tax check-off to be deposited into the spay and neuter special fund. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB3356 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 19th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3333 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB2881 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any person from intentionally encouraging or coercing any other person to consume alcohol or any other intoxicant for the purpose of enabling the other person to operate a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant. Provides that a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2995 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires petitions or motions for a pro hac vice appearance for a court proceeding or arbitration proceeding to be supported by evidence of the applicant's and local counsel's Hawaii business registrations, the applicant's and local counsel's Hawaii ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2980 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Cultural Corridor Authority to develop plans to redevelop areas affected by disaster while maintaining historic and cultural preservation. Establishes an income tax credit to incentivize the voluntary relinquishment of real property l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2968 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes hydrogen vehicles as a priority for state agencies when purchasing or leasing light-, medium-, and heavy-duty motor vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB3017 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes "La Ku oko a", Hawaiian Independence Day, as a state holiday to be observed annually on November 28th.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB2982 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the regenerative tourism program with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to increase regenerative tourism. Establishes a grant program. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB1209 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms the amount allowable for the Hawaii expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for the gainful employment tax credit to the credit amounts allowed in the federal tax code. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2015 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the priority for which moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund are to be used.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB2481 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a timeline by which roasted coffee, instant coffee, and ready-to-drink coffee beverages that use a geographic origin in labeling or advertising are required to contain a certain per cent coffee by weight from that geographic origin.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2459 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the employer to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit within thirty days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate. Establishes that the employer's failure to initiate the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2468 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all health insurers in the state, including medicaid managed care programs, to cover annual mental health wellness examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2472 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires certain long-term care facility operators to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2611 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning on 7/1/2024: (1) requires that state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes not exceed a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2510 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all public schools to implement universal screenings for students in kindergarten through third grade to identify and support students who are at risk of dyslexia and other learning disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2608 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes overtime pay earned during an emergency proclamation as part of the pension calculation for individuals who became a member of the Employees' Retirement System after 6/30/2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2614 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies penalties for violations of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations rules from a fixed fine to a fine proportional to the yearly income of the violator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2506 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreases the number of board members of the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund from 10 trustees to 9. Changes the composition of board members to include 2 citizens of the State who are not employees, among other things. Limits the trustee's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2612 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of habitual runaway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2568 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes pharmacists to order and administer immunizations and vaccinations to children three years of age and older under state law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2610 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits employers from employing employees for a workday longer than eight hours for more than 6 days in a workweek unless the employer pays the employee overtime pay at 1.5 times the employee's regular rate for hours worked in excess of 8 hours, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2509 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the DOE to work with the BOE to create a public digital platform by the 2025-2026 school year that shows how schools are adopting high-quality instructional materials for K-6 English language arts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2786 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning on 7/1/2024, requires that the state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes not exceed $1,136...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2775 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rural Health Task Force within the Department of Health to make recommendations on registered nurse recruitment and retention in rural areas of east Maui, Molokai, and Lanai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2717 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Accounting and General Services to employ persons exempt from civil service and collective bargaining requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2862 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a landlord from renting or leasing, or offering to rent or lease, a dwelling unit in the district described in section 41(2)(D), HRS, at a rate that exceeds the rate for which that dwelling unit was rented or leased or offered for rent or l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2724 | 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] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2776 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State to pay, without delay, military personnel called to active duty at the same rate as their active duty counterparts and provide basic housing allowance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2807 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an annual tax credit for qualified physicians who actively practice medicine in rural areas of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2795 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with other state agencies, to develop and implement a plan to expand the meat processing capacity in the State to allow for meat from axis deer and other wild game to be processed for distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2713 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain employers to provide paid meal periods to certain employees under certain circumstances. Establishes conditions for waivers of the paid meal periods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2796 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health, to the extent allowable under federal law, to prioritize the use of water pollution control revolving fund moneys for projects by homeowners to upgrade cesspools to director-approved wastewater systems or connect ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2763 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the position of the Tourism Liaison Officer within the Office of the Governor. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB2785 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires the Department of Human Services to perform ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2778 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the composition of the Board of Agriculture by providing representation from the islands of Molokai and Lanai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2864 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to develop a safe parking program allowing unsheltered persons who sleep in their vehicles to park overnight on state lands. Requires a report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2774 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Health, a three-year Cesspool Conversion Financial Assistance Pilot Program to provide financial assistance to owners of cesspools located in the county of Maui to upgrade or convert their cesspools to a wastewate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2793 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the position and duties of the State Fire Marshal. Declares that the appropriation will cause the general fund expenditure ceiling to be exceeded. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2788 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to achieve the full funding, including estimated payment increases, of Medicaid home- and community-based services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2791 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture and Department of Health to jointly convene a Hawaii Hemp Task Force to inform public policy and identify methods and actions to best support agriculture and build a hemp industry to support rural economic devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2714 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the period for an employer and an individual or labor organization that has been newly organized or certified as a representative to meet and commence to bargain collectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2792 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to develop a plan that creates an educational pathway in the University of Hawaii community college system that equips interested students with the necessary entry level knowledge, skill set, expertise, and advancement pot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB2901 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB2940 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes provisions for minimum pay for employees who have canceled shifts or reduced work hours at a business establishment with fifty or more employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2944 | 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] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2941 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes provisions for unemployment benefit rights when claimants are unemployed due to a strike or industrial controversy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB2947 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to submit annual reports to the Legislature on prior attendance at early learning programs for students entering kindergarten. Repeals standardized assessment requirements for students entering kindergarten.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2409 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to construct, establish, and operate an environmental toxins testing laboratory to test samples submitted by the public for diseases; water, air, and soil quality; and complex testing. Allows the Director of Finance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
