| HI | SB607 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard for the purposes of providing instructional materials to eligible students in a timely manner and requires the Department of Education to coordinate with the National Instructional Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB632 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a 5-year pilot program within the Department of Health to eradicate feral chickens in the State. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit a special local need registration to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HI | SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes clear criteria for unpaid student internship programs under the state wage laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to provide employees with written notice of the employee's shift schedule at least ten calendar days before the employee is scheduled to work, under certain circumstances. Requires certain employers to pay their employees twice as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB341 | Intro
Sine Die | Inserts unspecified amounts for minimum required liability coverage for accidental harm and destruction of property for motor vehicle insurance policies in the State. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB3 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows surviving immediate family members of deceased persons for whom law enforcement initiated an investigation to receive a copy of the closing report prepared by the investigating police department after a specified period of time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1081 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the safe routes to school advisory committee within the Planning Branch of the Highways Division of the Department of Transportation. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB905 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires periodic inspections of certain walls and appurtenances of buildings five or more stories in height. Establishes procedures for inspections, preparing inspection reports, and responding to report findings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB745 | Engross
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | SB496 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products and the mislabeling of e-liquids as nicotine free. Authorizes the department of health to appoint, commission, or contract for services of inspectors. Establishes two full-time equivalent program specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB380 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits digital application developers and digital application distribution platforms from increasing the price of a digital application subscription plan that is automatically billed to the user's account without obtaining the user's written conse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1483 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits cyber harassment and cyberstalking. Allows for civil liabilities and injunctions for cyber harassment and cyberstalking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1445 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms the amount allowable for the Hawaii expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment tax credit to the credit amounts allowed in the federal tax code. Increases the low-income household renters' income tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB927 | Enroll
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to specify that reapportionment shall be based on the resident population, as counted in the decennial United States census for the respective reapportionment year, rather than the permanent resident population. (S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB285 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates within the Department of Health's wastewater branch a cesspool conversion section, which will be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent posi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB149 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a continuous Legislature. Requires the Legislature to convene at least once a month. Removes language regarding special sessions, adjournment, and recesses. Creates a two-year deadline for a bill to be submitted for gubernatorial consider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB980 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes standards of conduct for firearm industry members. Authorizes the attorney general or any county attorney or public prosecutor to bring a civil action against a firearm industry member for violation of standards of conduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to provide employees the right to sit at work when standing is not necessary. Establishes fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to establish and operate a child care center pilot program on Oahu for eligible children of state employees, one in or near the state capitol and one in Kapolei. Appropriates funds. Repeals o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB56 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the use of broadband audible reverse warning systems (back-up beepers) on state and county-owned vehicles purchased on or after 1/1/2026. Authorizes the Director of Transportation to provide an exemption in the event broadband sirens are una...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB13 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the Interstate Compact to Phase Out Corporate Welfare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB499 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the conviction of a crime by a person holding a license to practice professional engineering, architecture, land surveying, or landscape architecture in the State, that is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, and dut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB424 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of renewable energy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts any county from disapproving or imposing certain conditions on a housing development project or an emergency shelter unless the county meets certain requirements. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB4 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definitions of the terms "billboards" and "outdoor advertising device" and the acts included in the phrases "displaying an outdoor advertising device" and "maintaining a billboard" as used in state law that governs county licenses for o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the governing body of a county to create, by ordinance, a process for the recordation and enforcement of solar easements. Allows counties to require individuals claiming a solar easement to record that easement by filing a declaration with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB918 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes notice requirements for employers under Hawaii's Workers' Compensation Law. Requires employers who deny the compensability of an employee's injury to submit a written report supporting the denial to the Director of Labor and Industrial Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1481 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes conditions for the importation of fireworks. Authorizes the county fire departments to inspect warehouses, piers, cargo, baggage, and personal effects of persons arriving in the State to ascertain if they contain any fireworks. Requires i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB421 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for the Department of Transportation to assist and enable a person to voluntarily purchase a verified carbon offset for carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the person's air travel to or from an airport in the State. Require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB917 | Enroll
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to provide that freedom of speech protected under the Hawaii State Constitution does not include the expenditure of money to influence elections. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB171 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the state income tax rate by five per cent for taxpayers in the highest income bracket for six years. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB612 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that a written disclaimer be provided by sellers or providers of emotional support animals or certificates or identification tags for emotional support animals that the animal is not a service animal or the item does not qualify as an item f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB1167 | Enroll
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to protect an individual's reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, including the right to abortion and contraceptives. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HI | SB850 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB1180 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of geolocation information and internet browser information without consent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB502 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that inmates engaged in labor or in vocational training be paid no less than the state minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1054 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits non-compete and non-solicit clauses in employment contracts relating to employees of a restaurant, retail store, newspaper, magazine, news agency, press association, wire service, or radio or television transmission station or network.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB1160 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Intermediate Appellate Court to review orders issued by the Hawaii Paroling Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1004 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a carbon emissions tax credit. Expands the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include carbon emissions. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB288 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB1072 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the State's Supreme Court and Intermediate Appellate Court from affirming, modifying, reversing, or vacating a matter on grounds other than those raised by the parties to the proceeding, unless the parties are provided the opportunity to br...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1001 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for the Department of Transportation to assist and enable a person to voluntarily purchase a verified carbon offset for carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the person's air travel to or from an airport in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB977 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for judicial review of orders fixing minimum terms of imprisonment. Specifies that in any civil action brought by the petitioner seeking compensation of any kind or nature whatsoever as a result of, related to, or arising from a conviction and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the right of persons to record law enforcement activities. Establishes a private right of action for violations of the right to record law enforcement activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB988 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires associations of condominium owners to purchase earthquake insurance for their entire buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB901 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB864 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and Hawaii Public Housing Authority's programs to develop housing exclusively for residents of the State who are owner- or renter-occupants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Subjects rent-to-own contracts for real property in the State to state and federal foreclosure procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB345 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the exclusion amount of Hawaii's estate tax. Repeals exemption for tax imposed on transfer of taxable estate located in Hawaii for nonresidents and nonresidents who are not citizens. Applicable to decedents dying or taxable transfers occurring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
