| SB2423 | Intro
Sine Die | Gives boards of directors authority to install or allow the installation of solar energy or wind energy devices on the common elements of condominiums. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-02
(S) Recommitted to CPN. |
| SB2755 | Intro
Sine Die | Promotes safer roadways and fewer distractions while driving by prohibiting the use of mobile electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle, with certain exceptions. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-02
(S) Recommitted to JGO. |
| SB819 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates additional funds for the kupuna care program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
(S) The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2264 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores adult dental care under QUEST.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
(S) The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2033 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes appropriation out of the emergency and budget reserve fund for the general assistance program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
(S) The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2044 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates general funds for domestic violence shelters. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
(S) The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2061 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits bidders and their subcontractors who are registered under an apprenticeship agreement with DLIR to benefit from a 5% reduction in their bid amount on contracts for $250,000 or more. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
(S) The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2062 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a responsible construction contractor law which specifies prerequisites for government construction contractors and subcontractors. Amends various sections of the Hawaii Public Procurement Code, chapter 103D, HRS, to simplify and streamli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
(S) The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2586 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the charter school review panel (CSRP) to determine a clear process with rigorous criteria for charter schools to be reauthorized. Requires the CSRP to reauthorize a charter school no later than four years following the initial issue of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
(S) The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2588 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the charter school administrative office to withhold funds for its operational expenses, including salaries for staff and the executive director. The total amount of withheld funds shall be determined by the review panel and shall not exceed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
(S) The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2861 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for child care subsidies. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
(S) The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2913 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii community development authority to ensure that the Kakaako Makai master plan remains a product of the community-based planning process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
(S) The committee on WTL deferred the measure. |
| SB2407 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an electricity bill reduction for residential electrical meters on islands where renewable electric energy is generated and exported. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-24
(S) The committee(s) on CPN recommend(s) that the measure be HELD. The votes in CPN were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Baker, Ige, Espero, Green, Sakamoto; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Ihara, Hemmings. |
| SB2170 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale and distribution of foie gras produced using the method of force feeding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-23
(S) The committee on JGO deferred the measure. |
| SB2202 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends immunity from liability to a person who voluntarily permits the use of the person's property to shelter people during a natural or man-made disaster. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-23
(S) The committee on JGO deferred the measure. |
| SB2516 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a standardized form for cemetery and pre-need funeral authorities' financial statements and actuarial reports. Ensures sufficient funds are available to cover future claims. Requires the department of commerce and consumer affairs to report t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-23
(S) The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB2783 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any new construction, major renovation, or retrofit of an existing building of a hotel include motion sensor technology or other technology in the hotel rooms to control the lighting and air when people are absent from the room.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-23
(S) The committee on ENE deferred the measure. |
| SB2793 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the contractor license board to modify and consolidate the number of classifications or subclassifications into no more than classifications, by not later than January 1, 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-23
(S) The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the deposit into trust of one hundred per cent of all funds paid to purchase a pre-need funeral plan plus all interest earned. Allows a cemetery or pre-need authority to deduct certain allowable expenses from a trust. Requires annual stateme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-23
(S) The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB2554 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that all new single-family residential home construction shall be net zero capable by 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-23
(S) The committee on ENE deferred the measure. |
| SB2931 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to submit to the Legislature a copy of all reports written by the alcohol and drug abuse division, the adult mental health division, and the child and adolescent mental health division of the department of health pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-23
(S) The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB1601 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that one member of the land use commission be a farmer. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
(S) The committee on WTL deferred the measure. |
| SB492 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the considerations of the commission on water resource management to include noninstream uses of water and the instream uses in context of the geographic region in determining instream flow standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
(S) The committee on WTL deferred the measure. |
| SB2774 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents persons with HIV or AIDS from being automatically excluded from organ transplants due to their diagnosis; requires that any procurement organization in the State to maintain donor lists including high risk donors and persons with HIV or AIDS...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
(S) The committee on HTH deferred the measure. |
| SB2036 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the toxic mold remediation task force to examine the potential hazards of toxic indoor mold and fungal contamination, and to recommend standards and guidelines for its prevention and remediation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
(S) The committee on HTH deferred the measure. |
| SB2914 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires registrar to provide adjoining landowner, upon request, any information of record relating to the management, control, and title of any public highway, waterway, or water course.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-22
(S) The committee on WTL deferred the measure. |
| SB2525 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of Hawaiian home lands and the board of land and natural resources to transfer title in fee simple to lessees of homestead lands. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-19
(S) The committee(s) on EDH recommend(s) that the measure be HELD. The votes in EDH were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Sakamoto, Kidani, Chun Oakland, Galuteria; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Tsutsui, Hemmings. |
| SB2573 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires principals to waive the modern history of Hawaii requirement upon request by an out-of-state transfer student, including a military transfer student, who has taken and passed a different board-approved state history course, to enable the stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-19
(S) The committee on EDH deferred the measure. |
| SB2361 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires telephone directories to be distributed only to persons who have signed a written authorization to receive the directory; exempts telephone directory distributors that implement opt-in or opt-out programs. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-19
(S) The committee(s) on JGO deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 02-23-10 10:00AM in conference room 016. |
| SB2126 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an accident and health or sickness insurer, mutual benefit society, health maintenance organization, or dental service organization from requiring a dentist who provides services to its subscribers to accept a fee set by the accident and he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-19
(S) The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB2442 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a psychosexual evaluation to be prepared for a prisoner convicted of violation of privacy in the first or second degree prior to the prisoner's parole hearing. Authorizes the Hawaii paroling authority to consider the evaluation when consider...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-18
(S) The committee on PSM deferred the measure. |
| SB2457 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the procurement code contracts for goods, services, or construction procured by the Kahoolawe island reserve commission for use in the Kahoolawe island reserve.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-18
(S) Re-Referred to WTL/JGO. |
| SB2218 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds age limits for public school students entering grades eleven and twelve.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-18
(S) The committee(s) on EDH deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 02-19-10 1:30PM in conference room 225. |
| SB2838 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources to fund the general fund by disposing of public lands. Also directs the Department to dispose of public lands leased to not-for-profit organizations meeting certain criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-18
(S) Re-Referred to JGO/WAM. |
| SB2923 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes solar energy facilities on class B and C agricultural land; requires the solar energy facility on class B and C land to provide for the energy requirements via a renewable energy source for the agricultural operations on the land on which ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-18
(S) The committee on WTL deferred the measure. |
| SB2447 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the real estate salesperson experience requirement for a real estate broker license to include full-time and part-time real estate sales experience.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-17
(S) The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB22 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the law with respect to excusing prospective jurors from jury duty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-17
(S) The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2023 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires participating lenders in the federal mortgage credit certificate program to notify prospective borrowers of the existence of and criteria for mortgage credit certificates. Specifies contents of required notice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-17
(S) The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB2612 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes exemptions from licensure under the SAFE Mortgage Licensing Act. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-17
(S) The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB2934 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates general funds to pay for QUEST coverage for citizens of compact of free association nations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-12
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| SB2203 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a new part to chapter 209E that establishes health care enterprise zones to provide tax and loan incentives for primary care practitioners located in health care enterprise zones. Requires affected county to concur with the director of health wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-12
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2720 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the executive director of the office of youth services to issue warrants for the arrest and return to custody of wards paroled from the Hawaii youth correctional facility. Additionally, authorizes county police and state law enforcement of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-12
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JGO. |
| SB2212 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows probationers and parolees who meet the requirements of qualifying patients to request that the terms of their probation or parole be modified to be allowed the medical use of marijuana. Clarifies definition of "primary caregiver" in medical ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-12
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JGO. |
| SB2725 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires courts to maintain mental health examination reports as confidential documents, subject to certain specific exceptions for limited distribution of the reports. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-12
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JGO. |
| SB2217 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to develop a comprehensive statewide policy to improve awareness of and strengthen support for persons with dyslexia. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-12
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2224 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the financial disclosure statements of the commissioners of the public utilities commission be deemed public records and available for inspection and duplication. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-12
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JGO. |
| SB2244 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a new temporary minimum hourly wage beginning July 1, 2010, and ending December 31, 2011. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-12
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2782 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment banning the construction of new petroleum, coal, and nuclear power plants within the State without the approval of two-thirds of each house of the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-12
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JGO. |
| SB2798 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a specialty contractor may execute a contract involving the use of two or more crafts or trades if the performance of the craft or trade other than that in which the contractor holds a specialty license constitutes no more than a certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-12
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to CPN. |
| SB2288 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of human services to notify clients of the transfer of the client from one case worker to another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-12
(S) The committee(s) on HMS deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 02-16-10 1:15PM in conference room 016. |
