Hawaii 2022 Regular Session All Bills
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2162
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Refer
1/26/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Refer
2/8/22
Report Pass
3/4/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Refer
3/10/22
Report Pass
3/23/22
Refer
3/23/22
Report Pass
4/7/22
Report Pass
4/29/22
Report Pass
4/29/22
Enrolled
5/3/22
Chaptered
6/17/22
Passed
6/17/22
Establishes ranked-choice voting for special federal elections and special elections of vacant county council seats. Effective 1/1/2023. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2163
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/23/22
Engrossed
3/3/22
Refer
3/10/22
Report Pass
4/7/22
Report Pass
4/28/22
Report Pass
4/28/22
Enrolled
5/3/22
Chaptered
6/17/22
Passed
6/17/22
Makes negligent homicide in the first degree a class A felony if the person causes the death of another by operating a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol and the person has prior convictions for operating a vehicle under the influence or a suspended and revoked license and privilege to operate a vehicle due to driving while under the influence of an intoxicant or the person is a highly intoxicated driver, subject to certain conditions. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2164
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Refer
1/28/22
Modifies the existing plant and animal declaration form to also require in-bound travelers to the State to acknowledge state laws, federal laws, and individual responsibility to protect the environment and agriculture of the State. Requires all other documents travelers are required to complete to enter the State, except documents only relating to COVID-19, to include an environmental and agricultural affirmation.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2165
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
3/4/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Refer
3/10/22
Report Pass
3/24/22
Refer
3/24/22
Increases the credit amount and the income eligibility cap thresholds for the income tax credit for low-income household renters by using tax brackets. Provides for inflation increases every 3 years based on the urban Hawaii consumer price index. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2166
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Requires and establishes deadlines for state facilities, except smaller facilities, to implement cost-effective energy efficiency measures. Directs the Hawaii State Energy Office to collect utility bill and energy usage data for state-owned buildings and to make the data publicly available. Establishes a goal for the State to achieve at least twenty-five percent reduction in the electricity consumption of state facilities. Beginning 7/1/2023, requires, where feasible and cost-effective, the design of all new state building construction to maximize energy and water efficiency, maximize energy generation potential, and use building materials that reduce the carbon footprint of the project.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2167
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/1/22
Refer
2/1/22
Report Pass
3/4/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Refer
3/10/22
Report Pass
3/22/22
Refer
3/22/22
Establishes a film infrastructure income tax credit. Requires that the film infrastructure project spend an unspecified amount on eligible infrastructure costs. Sets an aggregate cap amount for the credit per year. Appropriates funds to the department of business, economic development, and tourism's creative industries division for two full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) positions. Effective 10/18/2050. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2168
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct a study examining the amount of land needed to meet the State 2050 Plan.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2169
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/3/22
Refer
2/3/22
Report Pass
3/4/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Refer
3/10/22
Appropriates moneys to fund the operating expenses of the four Hawaii food banks contracted by the Office of Community Services to administer The Emergency Food Assistance Program in each of the State's counties. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB217
Introduced
1/22/21
Refer
1/25/21
Establishes causes and procedures for impeachment of the governor, lieutenant governor, and appointive officers.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2170
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/15/22
Refer
2/15/22
Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study that identifies and analyzes alternative tourism governance systems. Requires the study to include a solicitation of input from certain stakeholder groups. Requires a final report to be submitted to the Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2025. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2171
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Refer
2/10/22
Authorizes independent generators of renewable energy to wheel the renewable electricity they produce to users of renewable energy under administrative rules established by the Public Utilities Commission. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2172
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/4/22
Refer
2/4/22
Report Pass
3/4/22
Engrossed
3/8/22
Refer
3/10/22
Prohibits issuance of future large capacity underground storage tank systems mauka of the underground injection control line beginning July 1, 2022. Prohibits operation of and renewal of large capacity underground storage tank system permits located mauka of the underground injection control line beginning January 1, 2023. Defines large capacity underground storage tank system and underground injection control line. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2173
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/1/22
Refer
2/1/22
Allows an electric utility to own, operate, lease, plan, construct, install, maintain, and replace broadband facilities, including middle mile infrastructure, to help facilitate the development of and investment in broadband facilities and services to rural, unserved, underserved, and urban communities throughout the State. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2174
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Report Pass
2/18/22
Refer
2/18/22
Establishes within the Department of Agriculture, an Aquacultural Area Lease Program for the purpose of identifying state facilities, state lands, and state marine waters that are suitable for use as commercial agricultural areas and leasing them to be used for aquaculture. Allows agencies having control and management of identified aquacultural areas to lease the facilities, lands, and waters to the Department of Agriculture for the purposes of the Act. Allows the program to use the moneys in the Aquaculture Development Special Fund to carry out the purposes of the Act and requires the revenues obtained from aquacultural area leases to be deposited into the special fund. Imposes penalties and civil and criminal liabilities. Exempts the program from being subject to the Hawaii Ocean and Submerged Lands Leasing Act. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB2175
Introduced
1/20/22
Refer
1/21/22
Requires counties to create special improvement districts in subdivisions with privately owned roads that do not have existing procedures to maintain the private roads. Prohibits the approval of new subdivisions of ten or more residential lots unless a county can certify there are mechanisms or procedures in place to ensure the private roads are maintained adequately. Makes the county responsible for the subdivision's road maintenance if a county fails to follow certification requirements when approving subdivisions.