| HI | SB1511 | Veto | Clarifies the purpose of the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii and that its undertakings shall be limited to acts that are reasonably necessary to carry out its purpose. Repeals the requirement that the University of Hawaii contract wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Vetoed on 07-09-24 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1361). |
| HI | SB2601 | Pass | Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse committed on or after July 1, 2024, may be initiated. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on trauma-informed response. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 250, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1355). |
| HI | SB2532 | Pass | Clarifies that the definition of "dwelling", as it relates to offenses against property rights, includes multi-unit buildings and connected parking or storage areas that are restricted to residents. Allows the owner of a multi-unit building, an owner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 240, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1345). |
| HI | SB2845 | Pass | Prohibits a person from selling ammunition to a person under the age of twenty-one. Prohibits a person under the age of twenty-one from owning, possessing, or controlling ammunition, with exceptions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-09
Act 248, 07/09/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1353). |
| HI | SB2085 | Pass | Establishes the Office of the State Fire Marshal within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to be headed by a State Fire Marshal. Exempts the State Fire Marshal from Civil Service Law. Requires the State Fire Council to establish the ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 209, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1310). |
| HI | SB2182 | Pass | Amends the persons required to collect the Ocean Stewardship User Fee. Extends the sunset date of the Ocean Stewardship Special Fund to 1/1/2031. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 214, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1315). |
| HI | SB2721 | Pass | Clarifies the penalties for violations of ocean recreation laws. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 215, 07/08/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1316). |
| HI | SB2782 | Pass | Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to develop multilingual accessibility standards. Appropriates funds to establish one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) position to develop multilingual accessibility standards within the Office of En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-08
Act 203, 07/05/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1304). |
| HI | SB2079 | Pass | Allows the State of Hawaii Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-05
Act 196, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1297). |
| HI | SB2350 | Pass | Establishes a separate prohibition on driving motor vehicles with noisy mufflers on public highways in high density population areas. Establishes separate fines for violations of motor scooter and motor vehicle muffler laws. Defines "high density pop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 171, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1272). |
| HI | SB2413 | Pass | Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report to the Legislature on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 181, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1282). |
| HI | SB2401 | Pass | Requires the Department of Agriculture to work with each county to implement feral chicken control programs and feeding of feral animals education campaign. Requires each county to match the funds expended by the Department of Agriculture for the imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 185, 07/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1286). |
| HI | SB2461 | Pass | Authorizes medical cannabis dispensaries to purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from other dispensaries without showing that such purchase is necessary for a qualifying patient's continuous access for medical use, or for medical, sci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 172, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1273). |
| HI | SB2526 | Pass | Requires the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group to assist the Office of Enterprise Technology Services in working with certain state agencies to inventory and categorize the business criticality of each major state information technology...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 173, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1274). |
| HI | SB2715 | Pass | Makes it unlawful for an employer to discharge, discipline, or otherwise penalize or threaten any adverse employment action against an employee because the employee declines to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting that communicates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 174, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1275). |
| HI | SB2819 | Pass | Requires vehicles traveling ten miles per hour or more below the posted speed limit on a two-lane highway, behind which five vehicles are formed in a line, to pull over where possible to let the trailing vehicles pass or overtake. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 175, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1276). |
| HI | SB2943 | Pass | Establishes a commercial drivers workforce working group within the Department of Transportation to address the workforce shortage of commercial drivers in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 177, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1278). |
| HI | SB3011 | Pass | Makes it unlawful for any person to operate a weed whacker in or within one hundred feet of a residential zone, subject to certain exceptions. Extends the time for the use of leaf blowers and weed whackers within or near residential zones. Provides e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-03
Act 179, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1280). |
| HI | SB2070 | Pass | Exempts career and technical education goods and services purchases by the Department of Education from the State Procurement Code. Requires the Department of Education to acquire three written quotes for career and technical education purchases that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 150, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1251). |
| HI | SB2245 | Pass | Adds a definition for "exigent circumstances" and amends the definitions of "harm" and "imminent harm" under the Child Protective Act. Clarifies when the police may take protective custody of a child and when the Department of Human Services may assu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 144, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1245). |
| HI | SB2305 | Pass | Establishes a Silver Alert Program within the Department of Law Enforcement to help locate and safeguard missing persons who are sixty-five years of age or older, cognitively impaired, or developmentally disabled. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 158, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1259). |
| HI | SB2475 | Pass | Establishes a harm to students registry, for all early learning programs or schools and K-12 educational institutions within the State, that contains information on school employees, contractors, or volunteers for whom, as result of an investigation,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 156, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1257). |
| HI | SB2497 | Pass | Repeals the provision that made references to the base amount in the Internal Revenue Code inapplicable to the research activities tax credit and allowed credits for all qualified research expenses to be taken without regard to previous years' expens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 139, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1240). |
| HI | SB2718 | Pass | Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to admit and consider hearsay evidence. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 141, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1242). |
| HI | SB2991 | Pass | Requires the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to adopt rules establishing criteria and procedures for the creation of new bargaining units. Requires certain employees or any employer or exclusive representative proposing a new bargaining unit to submit a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 143, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1244). |
| HI | SB2974 | Pass | Establishes a Business Revitalization Task Force within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to identify methods to improve Hawaii's general economic competitiveness and business climate, including the mitigation of regulator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 142, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1243). |
| HI | SB3207 | Pass | Removes the salary cap of the Superintendent of Education. Makes permanent the annual performance evaluation requirements for the Superintendent of Education. Takes effect 6/29/2024. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-02
Act 149, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1250). |
| HI | SB2591 | Pass | Imposes a fine on any private landowner that fails to disclose or record with the Bureau of Conveyances, or in documents used to offer real property for sale, the existence of burial or archaeological sites on their property that the landowner knew o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 119, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1220). |
| HI | SB2937 | Pass | Repeals the sunset date for the exemption of laboratory school programs of the Hawaiian language college at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from state English-medium standards, assessments, performance ratings, staff qualifications, and staff traini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 127, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1228). |
| HI | SB3236 | Pass | Clarifies that if no personal property designation appears in a recorded instrument, the interests of the beneficiaries shall be real property. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-07-01
Act 121, 06/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1222). |
| HI | SB2119 | Pass | Authorizes out-of-state pharmacies to transfer prescription information for the initial fill of an out-of-state prescription in the State. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 096, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1197). |
| HI | SB2443 | Pass | Establishes the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program, to be implemented by the State in only those locations where a photo red light imaging detector system has been implemented. Creates a new offense of noncompliance with maximum speed limit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 112, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1213). |
| HI | SB2536 | Pass | Establishes a new accounting services procurement preference for certain Hawaii accounting service businesses and adds it to the list of selection criteria for the procurement of professional services. Clarifies that the existing reciprocity procurem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-28
Act 113, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1214). |
| HI | SB2731 | Pass | Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to honor veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 083, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1184). |
| HI | SB3312 | Pass | Adopts, establishes, and designates the shaka as the official gesture of the State. Authorizes the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to develop a public work of art related to the shaka and its history to be displayed in a prominent location i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-24
Act 085, 06/21/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1186). |
| HI | SB2537 | Pass | Clarifies that the Chief Energy Officer is responsible for supporting the renewable portfolio standards and reporting on certain energy matters. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-21
Act 055, 06/20/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1155). |
| HI | SB1035 | Pass | Exempts from the general excise tax those medical and dental services provided by health care providers to patients who receive Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE benefits. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
Act 047, 06/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1147). |
| HI | SB2337 | Pass | Expands the counties' authorization to exercise the same powers as the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for purposes of developing, constructing, financing, refinancing, or providing mixed-use developments. Applies to bond proceeds ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Act 045, 05/30/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1145). |
| HI | SB2600 | Pass | Authorizes the use of electronic mail to deliver certain documents when purchasing a condominium. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Act 044, 05/30/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1144). |
| HI | SB2726 | Pass | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on how certain other states approach the following subjects as they relate to condominiums: an ombudsman, licenses for management, alternative dispute resolution, governmental regulation, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Act 043, 05/30/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1143). |
| HI | SB2066 | Pass | Establishes another means for a housing project to seek an exemption from laws and rules of the State that are developed under various programs of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 038, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1138). |
| HI | SB2133 | Pass | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to issue bonds for housing project infrastructure and finance the development of regional state infrastructure projects. Exempts bonds issued by HHFDC for improvements by assessments, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 034, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1134). |
| HI | SB2132 | Pass | Amends the deadline related to the repair of conditions that constitute health or safety violations. Increases the amount deducted from a tenant's rent for the tenant's actual expenditures to correct health or safety violations and defective conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 032, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1132). |
| HI | SB2834 | Pass | Amends the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to provide for a process to dispose of the tenant's personal property and surrender the dwelling unit to a landlord when there is a death of a tenant. Takes effect 11/1/2024. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 033, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1133). |
| HI | SB3202 | Pass | Part I: Requires the counties, no later than 12/31/2026, to adopt or amend an ordinance to allow at least two accessory dwelling units, subject to certain restrictions, on all residentially zoned lots. Prohibits private covenants for residentially zo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
Act 039, 05/28/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1139). |
| HI | SB2841 | Pass | Designates May 15 of each year as Water Safety Day. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-15
Act 024, 05/15/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1124). |
| HI | SB2919 | Pass | Clarifies the counties' authority to regulate the time, place, manner, and duration in which uses of land and structures may take place. Clarifies that uses that include the provision of transient accommodations are not considered residential uses an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Act 017, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1117). |
| HI | SB2159 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, to prepare a report on freshwater and saltwater aquatic organisms regarding their agricultural and economic impact on the State's food se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-26-24 5:30PM in conference room 325. |
| HI | SB2322 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to continue water sampling and analysis of Tier 1 beaches during brown water advisories, with certain exceptions and under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 4:25 PM; CR 329. |
| HI | SB2329 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for mullet production for fishponds and stock enhancement, including for new positions, equipment, maintenance, and operating costs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-26-24 5:30PM in conference room 325. |
