Hawaii 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB706
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/6/23
Refer
2/6/23
Creates the Hawaii Start-Up Business Loan Program to be administered by the Business Development and Support Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, in coordination with the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Establishes the Hawaii Start-Up Business Loan Program Special Fund. Makes an appropriation. Effective January 6, 2050. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB707
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Requires water carriers to keep records of persons who retrieve fireworks from a terminal facility. Requires water carriers to provide an annual compilation of persons who retrieve fireworks from a terminal facility to the appropriate county police department. Establishes penalties for violations.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB708
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/6/23
Refer
2/6/23
Sets fines for possession and use of fireworks. Establishes the Fireworks Possession Special Fund and allocates proceeds of the fund to county police departments and for climate change mitigation. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB709
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Refer
2/17/23
Establishes a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for expenses paid to retrofit a residence with wind resistive devices. Appropriates funds to the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs for the establishment, implementation, and administration of the wind resistance retrofit tax credit program. Effective 7/1/2050. Repeals 1/1/2029. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB71
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Exempts the proposed drilling, construction, or use of a well and well appurtenances on lands leased from the Department of Agriculture from environmental review requirements, provided that the land is being used to support agriculture and food production. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB710
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Refer
2/17/23
Report Pass
3/2/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
3/20/23
Refer
3/20/23
Report Pass
4/4/23
Appropriates moneys for an education and reentry program for incarcerated women. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB711
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
3/20/23
Refer
3/20/23
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice as a grant to conduct a study of all programming offered to persons incarcerated at correctional facilities and convene a group of incarcerated women for the purpose of identifying gaps in programming offered to female inmates. Requires that the study be submitted to the Legislature by 6/30/2024. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB712
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
3/20/23
Refer
3/20/23
Report Pass
4/4/23
Report Pass
4/28/23
Report Pass
4/28/23
Enrolled
5/2/23
Chaptered
6/14/23
Passed
6/14/23
Establishes a trauma-informed certification program at the Windward Community College campus of the University of Hawaii for adult corrections officers. Requires the curriculum to include a level I trauma-informed care course designed for adult corrections officers. (CD1)
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB713
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Establishes a task force to review policy issues and opportunities relating to the navigation, access, and coverage of medicaid services by individuals with autism or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and make a recommendation on whether a waiver or other approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is necessary to ensure accessibility of certain services for individuals with autism or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB714
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Establishes the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders special fund, to be administered by the department of human services, and which shall consist of federal funds and interest earned on those funds. Establishes a temporary fetal alcohol spectrum disorders task force within the department of health for administrative purposes. Requires a report to the legislature.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB715
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Designates the month of September as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month to promote public awareness of the risks of alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB716
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Appropriates moneys for the Department of Education to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization to establish an aquatic safety education program for elementary school students.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB717
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
4/3/23
Expands the definition of "beer" under the liquor tax laws and liquor laws to mean any alcoholic beverage containing no less than 0.5 per cent alcohol by volume obtained by fermentation of any infusion or decoction of malt or any substitute, including alcohol seltzer beverages and excluding sake, cooler beverages, and other distilled products. Authorizes brewpubs to sell beer they manufacture, or beer manufactured on their premises, subject to certain conditions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB718
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Clarifies teachers and other personnel of state public charter schools are members of the same collective bargaining unit as their Department of Education counterparts.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB719
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/25/23
Gives the Office of Information Practices the discretion to resolve disputes about open records or open meetings either through an opinion or, when the opinion would likely be in favor of the agency, through informal written guidance. Appropriates funding for the Office of Information Practices to hire two new full-time positions for a Legal Assistant and Attorney.