| HI | HB724 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the prohibition against contributions to a candidate committee or noncandidate committee by state and county contractors to include state and county grantees and the owners, officers, and immediate family members of a state or county contracto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB707 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes it a class C felony to make false, fictitious, or fraudulent claims against the government. Disqualifies a person convicted of making a false, fictitious, or fraudulent claim from holding elected office for five years. Takes effect 3/22/2075. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB719 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes a cap on charges for the reproduction of certain government records. Waives the cost of duplication of government records provided to requestors in an electronic format. Allows agencies to withhold certain deliberative documents before a deci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB727 | Engross
Sine Die | Disallows a ballot issue committee to donate surplus funds to a community service, educational, youth, recreational, charitable, scientific, or literary organization. Disallows the use of campaign funds to purchase up to two tickets for an event or f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB711 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of fraud as a class B felony. Disqualifies a person charged with fraud from holding elected office for ten years. Takes effect 3/22/2075. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB732 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to treat a respondent's failure to explain or otherwise respond to a complaint alleging a violation of campaign spending laws as a rebuttable presumption that a violation has occurred. Provides that the respond...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340). |
| HI | SB1424 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to prohibit a person from serving as a member of the legislature for more than sixteen years during the person's lifetime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB721 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the use of campaign funds to purchase up to two tickets for an event or fundraiser held by another candidate or committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of the fine for campaign spending law violations that may be assessed against a noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures and that has received at least one contribution of more than $10,000, or spent more than ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB718 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the campaign spending commission to serve preliminary determinations of probable cause via first-class mail, instead of certified mail. Establishes a presumption of receipt when the preliminary determination is mailed to the address containe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB726 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits state and county elected officials from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the state legislature, including any extension of any regular session or special session and any legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB1421 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of fraud as a class B felony. Disqualifies a person from holding elective public office for a period of ten years upon conviction of fraud.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB729 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the campaign spending commission to publish on its website the names of candidate committees and noncandidate committees who fail to properly file an organizational report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB201 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the prohibition against contributions to a candidate committee or noncandidate committee by state and county contractors to include state and county grantees and the owners, officers, and immediate family members of a state or county contracto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB1427 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands application of the State's sunshine law to legislatively appointed bodies, including task forces, working groups, special committees, and select committees. Requires the senate and the house of representatives to hold public hearings on a bie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1423 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of the public advocate. Establishes rights for members of the public with respect to the conduct and operation of the legislature and its members. Specifies procedures for the investigation and reporting of alleged violations o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | SB1425 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the permitted uses of campaign funds to only those purposes that are directly related to the campaigns of candidates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB796 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to prohibit a person from serving as a member of the legislature for more than sixteen years during the person's lifetime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB716 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of elections to prepare a voter information guide that includes candidate statements and statements on ballot questions. Appropriates funds to the department of the attorney general, legislative reference bureau, and counties for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB715 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits lobbyists from making prohibited gifts to legislators and state employees. Imposes administrative fines for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1420 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits state and county elected officials from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the state legislature, including any extension of any regular session or special session and any legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB708 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the information in the statement of expenditures reports that lobbyists and other individuals are required to file with the Hawaii state ethics commission to include the identity, by bill number, resolution number, or other similar identifier,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1422 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the class C felony offense of using or making false statements or entries in matters within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the State, or any county. Disqualifies a person from holding elective public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB728 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides grants in aid to several counties' boards of ethics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB722 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "fundraiser" under the election law relating to the notice of intent for fundraisers and fundraising events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB720 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of partial public financing available for all offices. Increases the maximum amount of public funds available for all offices by fifty per cent. Increases the maximum amount of public funds available for a candidate for OHA from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB709 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a lobbyist training course to be designed and administered by the state ethics commission. Makes the lobbyist training course mandatory for all lobbyists who are required to register and renew their registration with the state ethics commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB706 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all members of the legislature to disclose certain relationships with lobbyists or lobbying organizations in their financial disclosures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB731 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a person waives the right to a contested case hearing if the person fails to request a contested case hearing within twenty days of receipt of the commission's preliminary determination. Provides that a final order of the commission may...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of the public advocate. Establishes rights for members of the public with respect to the conduct and operation of the legislature and its members. Specifies procedures for the investigation and reporting of alleged violations o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1426 | Intro
Sine Die | Encourages boards to maintain any electronic audio or visual recording of a board meeting as a public record on the board's website regardless of whether the written minutes of the meeting have been posted. Amends the information that must be include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB705 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each house of the legislature to post a report of the legislative allowance expenditures for each member of the respective house on the legislature's website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB730 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the amount of cash contributions a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee can accept in the aggregate in an election period to $100. Requires receipts for each contribution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
