Hawaii 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1028
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Refer
1/31/23
Report Pass
2/13/23
Refer
2/13/23
Beginning 1/1/2024, requires rental kayaks to be registered and numbered with the Department of Land and Natural Resources and have the identification number affixed to the rental kayak. Requires the Department to establish fees for registration and registration renewal of rental kayaks. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1029
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Prohibits the sale of farm raised fish and wild fish and shellfish without a label stating where the seafood was landed.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB103
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/20/23
Removes the ability for a Mayor or the Governor to suspend electronic media transmission during a state of emergency.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1030
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the department to contract a third-party administrator for the operation of the mitigation banks. Clarifies the sale of credits involved in conservation mitigation banking. Defines "conservation mitigation bank". Effective 1/1/2024.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1031
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources' state historic preservation division for a library digitization process and for the division's operations.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1032
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Requires the department of land and natural resources to prepare plans and a program to facilitate voluntary relocation of Presidential development away from areas at risk of sea level rise. Establishes the sea level rise relocation special fund. Requires the department of land and natural resources to complete and maintain a current inventory of all public lands that are located outside the sea level rise exposure and special flood hazard areas. Allows the exchange of public land for private lands for the transfer of development rights or land exchanges to relocate private development away from high risk areas. Expands the climate change adaptation priority guidelines. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1033
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Refer
1/31/23
Expands the department of land and natural resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule deemed necessary to protect certain aquatic life. Expands the board of land and natural resources' authority to temporarily adopt, amend, or repeal certain natural resource rules by formal action at a publicly noticed meeting if the board finds that such adoption, amendment, or repeal is necessary to implement effective and adaptive management measures in response to new or previously benign aquatic nuisance species, in light of newly available technology, or in light of newly available data. Creates new fines for violations of rules pertaining to the department's prevention of or response to previously benign aquatic nuisance species. Authorizes the department to prevent or respond to threats from aquatic nuisance species from all discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel, not just ballast water and hull fouling.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1034
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Refer
2/17/23
Requires the maintenance of at least three hundred parking stalls at Ala Wai Boat Harbor at no cost for recreational ocean access and for the practice of traditional and customary Native Hawaiian rights. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1035
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
3/24/23
Refer
3/24/23
Exempts medical and dental services provided by health care providers to patients who receive Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE benefits from the general excise tax. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1036
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to issue special activity permits for the purpose of recognizing and protecting individuals exercising their Native Hawaiian traditional and customary rights.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1037
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Refer
2/17/23
Designates Limu Kala (Sargassum echinocarpum) as the official Hawaii state limu. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1038
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Refer
2/17/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Temporarily allows for the reimbursement of services provided through telehealth via an interactive telecommunications system and two-way, real-time audio-only communications in certain circumstances. Defines "interactive telecommunications system". Effective 12/31/2050. Repeals 12/31/2025. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1039
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Establishes the Environmental Crimes Unit within the Office of the Attorney General. Makes the disposal of motor vehicle tires in violation of State law governing recovery of used motor vehicle tire recovery a petty demeanor crime. Establishes a $1 motor vehicle tire surcharge to be imposed on every replacement tire installed on a motor vehicle in the State after September 30, 2023. Requires tire retailers and tire wholesalers who install replacement tires to pay the surcharge to the Department of Health, and the Department of Health to deposit the revenues into the Environmental Management Special Fund. Allows the Department of Health to use the Environmental Management Special Fund to fund the Environmental Crimes Unit. Appropriates Funds.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB104
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/20/23
Establishes the Hawaii Educational Expenditure Trust Fund as a separate fund of the Department of Education for improving the education of, and supporting the programs benefiting, the students of the Hawaii public school system.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB1040
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Refer
2/17/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
3/17/23
Refer
3/17/23
Report Pass
3/24/23
Refer
3/24/23
Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to establish the native Hawaiian supportive housing pilot program on the Leeward Coast of Oahu to provide individual or shared micro housing units and services to native Hawaiian beneficiaries who are homeless, or threatened with homelessness, and on the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands waiting list. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)