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• Act 10, HB 142 – State Ethics Commission Package; Gifts: Lobbyists; Penalty

  Prohibits lobbyists from making gifts that are prohibited under state ethics law

• Act 9, HB 140 – State Ethics Commission Package; Financial Disclosures; Records

  Provides the State Ethics Commission with the discretion to maintain or destroy records of financial disclosure statements beyond the current 6-year statutory requirement. Applies retroactively to applicable disclosures that are in the Commission's possession and control

• Act 8, HB 137 – Package; Ethics Commission; Lobbyists; Statement of Expenditures

  Beginning 1/1/2025, requires the statement of expenditures filed by lobbyists and other persons who engage in lobbying activities to include certain information on the identity of the legislative or administrative action that was commented on, supported by, or opposed by the person filing the statement during the statement period

• Act 7, HB 130 – Office of Elections Package; Mail-In Ballots; Validity; Timeframe

  Changes the deadline for the validation of ballots following an election

• Act 6, HB 99 – Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission Package; Cash Contributions

  Limits to $100 the total amount of cash a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee may accept from a single person during each election period

• Act 5, HB 93 – Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission Package; Relating to Candidate Committee and Noncandidate Committee Organizational Reports

  Amends sections 11-322 and 11-333, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require the Campaign Spending Commission ("Commission") to publish on its website the names of candidate and persons who qualify as noncandidate committees who fail to file an organizational report or a corrected organizational report with the Commission

• Act 4, HB 90 – Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission Package; Candidate Committee and Noncandidate Committee Fundraisers

  Amends section 11-342, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to increase transparency by requiring candidate committees and noncandidate committees to file fundraiser notices regardless of the price or suggested contribution for attending the function

• Act 3, HB 1514 – Legislative Agencies; Appropriations

  Appropriates funds to provide for the expenses of the Legislature, Auditor, Legislative Reference Bureau, Ombudsman, and Ethics Commission

• Act 2, SB 1 – Abortion; Physician Assistants; Consent by Minors; Reproductive Health Care Services; Disclosures; Subpoenas; Licensing Authorities; Disciplinary Action; Investigations; Proceedings
• Act 1, SB 36 – Criminal Procedure; Prosecution; Felonies; Complaint; Information; Preliminary Hearing; Grand Jury

  Specifies that a person may be tried and sentenced for certain alleged felony offenses through the complaint and preliminary hearing process, indictment by grand jury, or by written information. Specifies that multiple attempts to initiate a felony prosecution for the same offense, either through the same initial charging method or an alternative method, or in different forums, shall not be permitted, except in certain circumstances

Featured documents

• Act 18, HB 2060 – Domestic Abuse; TRO; Family Courts

  Provides that family courts may withhold from public inspection any record of a denied temporary restraining order or denied protective order; provided that these records shall remain accessible to law enforcement without a court...

• Act 57, SB 2425 – Condominiums; Associations; Unit Owners; Mediation; Arbitration; Condominium Education Trust Fund

  Repeals the sunset provision of Act 196, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, making permanent the amendments to sections 514B-71(a), 514B-72(a), and 514B-161, Hawaii Revised...

• Act 55, SB 2384 – Motor Vehicles; Disabled Vehicles; Towing Expenses

  Authorizes any vehicle involved in a motor vehicle accident that cannot be moved under its own power or is otherwise disabled to be towed away at the expense of the registered owner. Specifies the applicable requirements and fees for towing motor vehicles involved in accidents under...

• Act 63, SB 2877 – Mental Health Counselor; License Requirement; Practicum Internship Experience; Post-graduate Experience Supervision

  Clarifies that the practicum internship experience requirement is to be included with the course work in counseling requirement for mental health counselors. Clarifies that the supervised mental health practicum intern experience requirement is a total of 300 hours of supervised client...

• Act 36, HB 1978 – Special Immigrant Juvenile Status; Family Court Jurisdiction

  Specifies that the family court has jurisdiction in proceedings concerning the custody or guardianship of an immigrant child pursuant to a motion for Special Immigrant Juvenile factual findings requesting a determination that the child was abused, neglected, or abandoned before the age of...

• Act 10, SB 1772 – A Bill for an Act Relating to Employers
• Act 6, HB 2725 – Supplemental Capital Improvement Projects; Executive Branch

  Appropriates funds for supplemental capital improvement projects for fiscal biennium 2019-2021...

• Act 5, SB 3080 – Judiciary; Supplemental Appropriations; Budget

  Appropriates supplemental funds for the Judiciary for the fiscal biennium beginning 7/1/2019, and ending 6/30/2021...

• Act 2, HB 180 – A Bill for an Act Relating to Public Employees
• Act 1, HB 2 – A Bill for an Act Relating to the Privacy of Health Care Information Act