Hawaii 2023 Regular Session All Bills
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB936
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to prioritize the allocation of low-income housing tax credits to state-owned development projects.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB937
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Refer
1/31/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Refer
2/17/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Specifies that a simple majority of affirmative votes of the members of the Land Use Commission present at a meeting and qualified to vote is required for any boundary amendment. Reduces the number of days by when the Land Use Commission must act for certain actions related to amendments to district boundaries. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB938
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Requires each county to adopt reasonable standards to allow the construction of up to four dwelling units on any land with an urban state land use district classification that is zoned for residential use where a single-family dwelling unit is permitted.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB939
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Establishes as a priority guideline for the provision of affordable housing the use of lands leased to the federal government or under federal government control and that are to be returned to the State.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB94
Introduced
1/18/23
Refer
1/20/23
Refer
2/3/23
Report Pass
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
3/22/23
Refer
3/22/23
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to approve or deny an application for a special activity permit for aquatic research within ninety days from the date that it was submitted. Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds for the establishment of two full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) positions within the Division of Aquatic Resources to support the special activity permit review process. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB940
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Establishes an additional minimum Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit of $250 per month per person for SNAP-eligible households whose income is below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level, as established by the United States Department of Agriculture. Requires that SNAP-eligible households whose monthly income exceeds two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level receive a graduated decline of additional SNAP benefits. Requires state general funds to be used to supplement the cost of the additional benefits. Appropriates funds.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB941
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Report Pass
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
3/23/23
Refer
3/23/23
Report Pass
4/6/23
Report Pass
4/28/23
Report Pass
4/28/23
Enrolled
5/4/23
Chaptered
7/3/23
Passed
7/3/23
Authorizes the School Facilities Authority to partner with public and private agencies to develop housing on or off campus for teachers, educators, and staff and develop classrooms. Authorizes the School Facilities Authority to request any state or county agency to render services to the Authority. Authorizes the School Facilities Authority to contract to manage the leasing and property management of housing projects or transfer the property to another public agency. Authorizes the School Facilities Authority to transfer appropriated funds to partner state agencies for the development of housing and classrooms, subject to approval by the Governor. Appropriates funds out of the School Facilities Special Fund to be expended by the School Facilities Authority for the construction of housing and classrooms. Authorizes the School Facilities Authority to adopt administrative rules to lease vacant housing. (CD1)
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB942
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Bans the sale of flavored tobacco products and mislabeled eliquid products. Establishes fines.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB943
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to fund school health support staff to sustain the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn Program.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB944
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
3/24/23
Refer
3/24/23
Report Pass
3/31/23
Report Pass
4/27/23
Report Pass
4/27/23
Enrolled
5/2/23
Chaptered
6/30/23
Passed
6/30/23
Requires the Department of the Attorney General to convene a task force to recommend amendments to update existing parentage laws that reflect outdated concepts of families, parenthood, conception and gestation, and parental rights. Requires an interim and final report to the Legislature. (CD1)
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB945
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Refer
2/1/23
Report Pass
2/17/23
Refer
2/17/23
Report Pass
3/3/23
Engrossed
3/7/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
3/21/23
Refer
3/21/23
Report Pass
4/4/23
Report Pass
4/28/23
Report Pass
4/28/23
Enrolled
5/4/23
Vetoed
7/7/23
Vetoed
7/7/23
Beginning 1/1/2024, establishes within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Division of Financial Institutions a program for the licensure, regulation, and oversight of special purpose digital currency companies. Extends operations of companies in the Digital Currency Innovation Lab under certain circumstances. Appropriates funds. (CD2)
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB946
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Makes comprehensive updates to chapter 436E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding acupuncture practitioners, to reflect modernized scopes of practice, titles, and licensing and renewal requirements. Beginning with the renewal for the licensing biennium commencing 7/1/2025, requires licensees to complete continuing education as determined by the board. Allows the board of acupuncture to issue licenses by reciprocity.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB947
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Establishes an income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a director of health-approved wastewater system or connecting to a sewerage system. Requires certain information regarding cesspools on real property to be included in seller mandatory disclosures on real property transactions.
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB948
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
Appropriates funds to the Division of Forestry and Wildlife of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to coordinate the removal of hazardous albizia trees that potentially threaten public and private land. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
HI
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Hawaii Senate Bill SB949
Introduced
1/20/23
Refer
1/27/23
Requires that any secure psychiatric rehabilitation program operated or contracted for by the Department of Health must be a forensic facility.