Hawaii 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB490
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement to hire law enforcement officers dedicated to investigating complaints, conducting investigations, and cooperating with enforcement authorities to ensure compliance with state laws and rules, county ordinances, including the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, and the rules adopted thereunder, on Hawaiian home lands; provided that the law enforcement officers hired for this purpose shall not be prohibited from exercising their law enforcement authority outside of the Hawaiian home lands. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB491
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Refer
1/27/23
Expands from forty-five days to sixty days, the time within which: any agency that reviews and comments upon an application for a business or development-related permit, license, or approval for a Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing project shall respond; a county shall approve, approve with modification, or disapprove housing projects developed by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation; and the Land Use Commission shall approve, approve with modification, or disapprove a boundary change for a Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing project. Clarifies that the provisions that require agencies, counties, and the Land Use Commission to act within sixty days, or deem their failure to do so as their acceptance or approval of the application, project, or petition, do not apply to applications, projects, and petitions that have been withdrawn.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB492
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Authorizes a county that has adopted a surcharge to state tax to extend the surcharge to 12/31/2053. Extends the end date of the one percent Transient Accommodation Tax increase to 12/31/2053. Requires the State Auditor to conduct an audit and annual review of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation until 12/31/2053. Requires the Comptroller to certify the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation's invoices for capital costs until 12/31/2053.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB493
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Refer
2/17/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
For a period of 3 years, provides that no new vehicle needs a safety inspection until 3 years after the date the vehicle was first sold; provides that electric vehicles shall require a safety inspection every 24 months; and provides that electric vehicles participating in a road usage charge fee program shall pay a road usage charge fee based on a self-reported photo odometer reading. Effective 7/1/2050. Repeals 6/30/2026. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB494
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Refer
1/30/23
Report Pass
2/16/23
Refer
2/16/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
3/21/23
Refer
3/21/23
Requires the counties to establish expedited procedures to approve demolition permits for vacant residential properties. Allows the Department of Taxation to satisfy certain tax liens through the nonjudicial foreclosure of vacant and abandoned residential properties at any time after establishing vacancy and abandonment. Appropriates moneys. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB495
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Refer
1/27/23
Refer
1/30/23
Extends the time each county has to amend and adopt the Hawaii state building codes from two years to six years.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB496
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products and the mislabeling of e-liquids as nicotine free. Authorizes the department of health to appoint, commission, or contract for services of inspectors. Establishes two full-time equivalent program specialist position and one full-time equivalent hearing officer position. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/2024.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB497
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/9/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
3/30/23
Report Pass
4/27/23
Report Pass
4/27/23
Enrolled
5/2/23
Chaptered
7/6/23
Passed
7/6/23
Prohibits certain oversized commercial vehicles from driving in the far left lane on roadways with three or more lanes for traffic moving in the same direction, subject to certain exceptions. Effective 1/1/2024. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB498
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Refer
2/17/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Establishes the Shipping Container Inspection Program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Amends the definitions of "aerial devices" and "fireworks" within state fireworks law. Requires reports to the Legislature on implementation of the Shipping Container Inspection Program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB499
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Clarifies that the conviction of a crime by a person holding a license to practice professional engineering, architecture, land surveying, or landscape architecture in the State, that is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, and duties of the licensee constitutes a ground for disciplinary action by the State Board of Professional Engineers, Architects, Surveyors, and Landscape Architects. Allows the Board to suspend or revoke a convicted licensee's license or decline to reissue a license to a convicted licensee subject to certain conditions.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB5
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Requires the State to consider hurricane resistant criteria when designing and constructing new state buildings, constructed on or after 7/1/2023, for the capability of providing shelter refuge.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB50
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/20/23
Prohibits the distribution, sale, and provision of plastic straws, except for those who request single-use plastic straws for medical reasons. Establishes a fine for violators. Takes effect 1/1/2024.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB500
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Refer
2/17/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
3/22/23
Refer
3/22/23
Report Pass
4/4/23
Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to establish additional permanent mental health practitioner positions within the Division of Student Success' Counseling and Student Development Center. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB501
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB502
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Requires that inmates engaged in labor or in vocational training be paid no less than the state minimum wage.