| HI | SB3064 | Intro
Sine Die | Reinstates the Governor's authority to transfer funds to cope with the effects of natural disasters, for operating purposes, or to supplement the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Firefighter's Contingency Fund. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SCR8 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing The Issuance Of A Term, Non-exclusive Easement Covering A Portion Of State Submerged Lands At Kaneohe, Koolaupoko, Oahu, For The Existing Boat Ramp And Concrete Wall, And For Use, Repair, And Maintenance Of The Existing Improvements Const... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SCR12 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing The Issuance Of A Term, Non-exclusive Easement Covering A Portion Of State Submerged Lands At Maalaea Beach Lots, Waikapu, Wailuku, Maui, For The Existing Seawall, And For Use, Repair, And Maintenance Of The Existing Improvements Construc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SCR10 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing The Issuance Of A Term, Non-exclusive Easement Covering A Portion Of State Submerged Lands At Kaneohe, Koolaupoko, Oahu, For The Existing Concrete Boat Ramp, And For Use, Repair, And Maintenance Of The Existing Improvements Constructed Th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2209 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "thrill craft" in the state boating law. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3187 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the tuition residency rules for the University of Hawaii to grant the resident tuition fee for enrollment at any University of Hawaii campus to individuals who have graduated from a Hawaii high school and are enrolling in an undergraduate de... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3118 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Human Services to provide temporary emergency assistance, case management, and other recovery services following the period covered by an emergency proclamation and establishes an Emergency Management Program within the D... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2376 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the rate of compensation and maximum allowable amounts per case for court-appointed counsel and guardian ad litem in family court proceedings. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3143 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation for asbestos remediation to temporarily relocate Department of Health offices and begin preliminary planning for the redevelopment of the Kinau Hale site. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3029 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes appropriations and approves payments for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2023-2024. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3174 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates an obsolete fee for a certified copy of a tax clearance. Adds a penalty for failure to comply with reporting requirements under general excise tax law and transient accommodations tax law for collection of rent by a third party. Raises the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3053 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the conveyance tax rate for certain properties. Exempts conveyances of certain real property from the conveyance tax. Eliminates the cap on the amount of conveyance tax collections allocated to the land conservation fund and rental housing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3052 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms county debt limit statements law to exclude tax increment bonds from the debt limit of the counties if a constitutional amendment authorizing the use of tax increment bonds and excluding tax increment bonds from determinations of the countie... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB3113 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the allowable loan term for direct loans provided by DHHL to be forty years, instead of thirty years, as currently outlined in section 215 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3112 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the loan limit for direct loans provided by DHHL to seventy-five percent of the maximum single residence loan amount allowed in Hawaii by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's Federal Housing Administration, instea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB2375 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes one additional district court judgeship in the First Circuit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2374 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Judiciary Supplemental budget for the 2023-2025 biennium. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2377 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the rate of compensation and maximum allowable amounts per case for court-appointed counsel in criminal proceedings. Appropriates funds. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3161 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to issue temporary threatened species licenses and draft administrative rules for the conservation of threatened species. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2205 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends state boating law policy to include a provision to promote and attain every person's right to a clean and healthful environment. Prohibits the Department of Land and Natural Resources from renewing a commercial use permit if renewal would caus... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB2215 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates the maximum administrative fines allowed for violations of chapters 84 and 97, Hawaii Revised Statutes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3144 | Intro
Sine Die | Effective January 1, 2024, transfers the responsibility and management of certain private security contracts from the Department of Law Enforcement to the Department of Defense, the Department of Health, and the Department of Human Services for their... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB2228 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program special fund to support the State Fire Council and its programs and activities, including for the hiring of administrative personnel. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3203 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables boards to operate more effectively by amending sections of the Sunshine Law pertaining to the declaration of policy and intent, permitted interactions of members, limited meetings, executive meetings, exceptions, board packets, and minutes. A... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB3267 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any state-funded facility built on Department of Hawaiian Home Lands land to be managed and operated by veterans or a veteran-run organization. Prohibits the co-management of any veterans' facility or state-funded facility utilized for veter... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3288 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a definition for "premium cigar" that is distinct from a "large cigar" and adds a definition for "characterizing flavor" in the Cigarette Tax and Tobacco Tax Law. Excludes premium cigars from percentage excise tax. Establishes an excise t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3377 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a 10-year license for 1 poker and sportsbook gaming facility in a special district designated for tourism in a county with over 500,000 residents and that is not in a hotel. Allows admission for individuals 21 years of age or older. Establ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3372 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes certain disclosure and labelling requirements for food, products, and dietary supplements containing kratom. Prohibits the distribution and sale of kratom products to minors. Imposes civil and criminal penalties for violations. Takes effe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3376 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a 10-year license for one entity to operate online poker and sportsbook betting. Establishes the Hawaii gaming control commission. Imposes wagering tax on gross receipts. Creates the state gaming fund and compulsive gambler assistance prog... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HI | SB3178 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently exempts senior software developers in the Department of Taxation from civil service. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | SB3039 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes law enforcement officers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to effect arrests under the Hawaii Penal Code in limited circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3193 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the cigarette tax and amends the cigarette tax disposition of revenues by allocating the increase in the cigarette tax amount to the Hawaii cancer research special fund. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3076 | Intro
Sine Die | Focuses the law on its intended scope, installment lenders, and clarifies that the law is not intended to eliminate the ability of lenders to make low interest rate loans under the interest and usury law. Removes the term "consumer loan" to consisten... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3134 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to implement a post-market testing program to verify the labeling on cannabis and manufactured cannabis products and monitor the shelf lives of cannabis and manufactured cannabis products. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3057 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the department of planning for each county to approve a variance for the installation of solar water heater systems. Authorizes the department of planning for each county to impose and collect fees for the administration of the solar water hea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3073 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the means of financing for a portion of funds appropriated for deposit into the school facilities special fund to expand pre-kindergarten student capacity within the State from general funds to general obligation bond funds. Extends the lapse... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3080 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the Public Utilities Commission under the Universal Service Program may provide, and may use funds from the Universal Service Fund to provide, free telecommunications access to certain individuals with a print disability. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB3107 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to assume historic preservation review of the effect of any proposed project for lands under its jurisdiction except for projects affecting properties listed or nominated for inclusion in the Hawaii regist... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3046 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's Homebuyers' Club Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB3106 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chairperson's designee to the Commission on Water Resource Management. Increases number of commission members from seven to eight, with only five of eight required to have substantial exper... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3149 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhances sharing of critical infrastructure information between infrastructure owners and operators and the state government. Defines and protects "critical infrastructure information" that is crucial for direct support of the security and resilience... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3136 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a travel placard to be issued to an existing permittee, allowing the person to park a vehicle at a Hawaii airport or port reserved accessible parking space and take the second placard for use at the travel destination. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3105 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Director of Taxation to develop and administer a one-time tax amnesty program that would waive criminal prosecution, fines, penalties, and interest related to general excise tax and transient accommodations tax for qualified owners who c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Housing Committee |
| HI | SB3181 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises sections 286-239 and 286-240, HRS, 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 alcohol and drug violations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB3066 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates general funds to various programs for anticipated operating shortfalls due to the limited ability for departments to transfer funds between programs. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3162 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to operate and approve conservation bank and conservation in-lieu fee mitigation programs. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3166 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the Department of Land and Natural Resources can issue new ocean recreation commercial use permits by unsealed public auction. Revises provisions relating to boating and ocean recreation fees and permits. Specifies how commercial use p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3095 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Climate Health and Environmental Action Special Fund in the Department of Land and Natural Resources to minimize the impacts of, and respond to, climate crises funded by a $25 tax on transient accommodations. Exempts certain housing u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HI | SB3148 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends chapter 132D, HRS, to strengthen county and state agencies' ability to address the illegal use of fireworks in Hawaii. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB3030 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the amount of funding for the Tobacco Enforcement Special Fund administered by the Department of the Attorney General by amending the amount of funds that the Tobacco Enforcement Special Fund can carry over at the end of the fiscal year; incre... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |