| SB2339 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires an employer who denies compensability, or indicates compensability is not accepted, to submit a written report to the director and claimant within thirty days of its denial of, or indication not to accept, compensability that substantiates i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-11
(H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting no (0) and Berg, McKelvey, Souki, Takumi, Tokioka excused (5). |
| SB2858 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the public utilities commission to establish rules and policies and issue orders related to retail wheeling to enable renewable energy producers operating on state lands to sell electricity directly to state government entities located on th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-11
(H) The committees on EEP recommend that the measure be HELD. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Morita, Coffman, Cabanilla, Chang, Har, Herkes, Ito, Luke, Sagum; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Thielen; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Chong, C. Lee, Ching. |
| SB2383 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of labor and industrial relations to exercise enforcement powers against an employer in a covered establishment that would require the employer to adhere to, and comply with, the notification and penalty provisions of sectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-11
(H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting no (0) and Berg, McKelvey, Souki, Takumi, Tokioka excused (5). |
| SB2455 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts motor vehicle sun screening regulation from application to transparent sun screening materials applied to AS-1 portion of windshield which comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 205. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-10
(H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| SB2790 | Engross
Sine Die | Protects the health, safety, and well-being of children following the occurrence of a situation that may have caused physical, psychological, or emotional harm to children during a school activity. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-10
(H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| SB2028 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a program in the family court for the registration of child custody evaluators; allows board of family court judges to adopt certification of child custody evaluators; effective 7/1/2040. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-10
(H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Bertram, Tokioka, Wakai, Ward excused (4). |
| SB2614 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the court, in its discretion, to order forfeiture of a defendant's vehicle if it was used in the commission of the excessive speeding offense and in at least two prior excessive speeding convictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-10
(H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| SB2878 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes trustees of revocable living trusts to base their reasonable compensation on the compensation levels allowed for trustees of estates. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-10
(H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| SB2356 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of gas power leaf blowers; prohibits the use of leaf blowers on or near residential zones, except within allowed time periods; prohibits leaf blowing operations from blowing debris onto adjacent property without permission; effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-09
(H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| SB2625 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning July 1, 2010, requires at least every two years an audit of the department of business, economic development, and tourism's out-of-state offices; repeals exemption from audit and accounting requirements for out-of-state offices; beginning F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-09
(H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| SB2358 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that high occupancy vehicle lanes may be used by electric vehicles capable of driving at least fifty-five miles per hour, regardless of the number of occupants. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-08
(H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| SB2450 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a civil violation for possession of one ounce or less of marijuana that is subject to a fine of not more than $300 for the first violation, and $500 for every violation thereafter. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2460 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfers authority for the Molokini shoal marine life conservation district and its waters from DLNR to KIRC; authorizes KIRC to issue commercial permits and collect fees, including a user fee, and gross receipts for the use of Molokini shoal marine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2728 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorized the Department of Health to form multidisciplinary and multiagency advisory committees to recommend improvements to the statewide trauma system; provides statutory protection from discovery for advisory committees. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Health Committee |
| SB2738 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the chairperson of the natural area reserves system commission to designate a representative from the natural area reserves system commission to serve on the legacy land conservation commission; authorizes the members of the legacy land co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Water, Land, & Ocean Resources Committee |
| SB2251 | Engross
Sine Die | Updates, organizes, and clarifies current campaign financing laws. Effective November 2, 2010, and applies to reporting periods beginning after November 2, 2010. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2252 | Engross
Sine Die | Enacts requirements for ballot issue committees, including contribution and expenditure requirements. Defines automated phone call and requires certain information to be stated at the beginning of such phone calls. Amends the definition of advertisem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2800 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "necessary sustenance" with regard to pet animals. Adds a definition for "primary pet enclosure". Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2331 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that by January 1, 2015, a minimum of two per cent of each utility's net electrical power generation be from biofuel or from agricultural producers. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB2844 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits health insurers from denying or limiting coverage for organ or tissue transplantation services on the basis that the insured, member, enrollee, or subscriber is infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. Effective 7/1/50. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Health Committee |
| SB2083 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates after-school and prevention programs that address bullying, sexual health issues, emotional literacy, domestic violence, civic responsibility, and healthy relationships as objectives and policies in the Hawaii state plan. Eff. 7/1/50. (SD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Health Committee |
| SB2350 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the student board of education member to be a voting member and mandates the election of the student board of education member to be made by public secondary school students. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Education Committee |
| SB2874 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a blank fill-in amount on income tax returns for the school-level minor repairs and maintenance special fund and the libraries special fund. Effective 7/1/2099.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Education Committee |
| SB2877 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates an offense of confinement of a dog by tethering under prescribed circumstances with certain exceptions, and establishes mandatory fines for such an offense. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2879 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes certified shorthand reporters to administer oaths or affirmations and to perform the duties of a deposition officer. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2373 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the imposition of fees for a future transfer of real property. Specifies exceptions. Eff 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Water, Land, & Ocean Resources Committee |
| SB2911 | Engross
Sine Die | Updates references to customs and border protection service to reflect current names of agencies within the federal department of homeland security. Adds the federal bureau of investigations to and deletes the citizenship and immigration services fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2662 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the offense of promoting pornography to minors to include disseminating pornographic material to another person who represents that person to be a minor; and adds the offense of promoting child abuse in the third degree to the information char...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2153 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends DNA analysis fee requirement to defendants with deferred pleas and to felony offenders transferring into Hawaii under an interstate compact. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2669 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends chapter 467B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow service of process by substitute service, allows the Attorney General to accept assurances of discontinuance, and amends and clarifies the charity registration exemptions, and clarifies the time ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2926 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for Carbon Bio-Engineers Inc. for development of non-fossil fuel energy production. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB2162 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends crime victims' bill of rights to include notice or waiver of notice as to an offender's unfitness to stand trial, transfer to the state hospital or other psychiatric facility, or regaining fitness to proceed. Requires the department of health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Health Committee |
| SB2420 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the exemption for dietary supplements from the deposit beverage container program; adds hard spirits, and wine containers; effective date 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-04
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB2431 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the department of education to create an internet-based, publicly accessible system for reporting student test scores and other indices of the performance of students and of the public education system. Effective 7/1/2050.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Education Committee |
| SB2182 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that a violation is committed by a driver or registered owner of a vehicle; exempts lessors of rental or U-drive vehicles who provide contact information for the lessee or pay a lesser administrative fee; allows citations to be handed to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Health Committee |
| SB2698 | Engross
Sine Die | Mandates the offer of health insurance coverage for dependents up to age 27 at the option of the parents. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Health Committee |
| SB2954 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a pilot project to transfer maintenance functions of state highways in Maui county from the state department of transportation to the Maui department of public works. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB2960 | Engross
Sine Die | Restructures the department of education into two major divisions the academic achievement division and the administration division and establishes two senior deputy superintendent positions to head the divisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Education Committee |
| SB2451 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires remote schools to be allocated funds using categorical allotments, rather than through the weighted student formula. Defines a remote school as any public school that is a high school located at least a one-hour drive away from the next near...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Education Committee |
| SB2710 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the ability of a board or commission to facilitate public meetings through interactive conference technology. Eff 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2715 | Engross
Sine Die | Suspends the Petroleum Industry Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Program until it is reinstated by the Legislature. Transfers unexpended and unencumbered moneys in the Petroleum Industry Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Special Fund to the gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB2205 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows individual beneficiaries enrolled in a Hawaii employerunion health benefits trust fund health benefits plan to opt out of any requirement to purchase prescriptions by mail order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB2487 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends law to require that the state historic preservation officer be appointed from a list of at least three nominees submitted by the board of land and natural resources; requires that the list of nominees be developed in consultation with the appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Water, Land, & Ocean Resources Committee |
| SB2747 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides a measure for conforming amendments to the Hawaii income tax law based upon amendments to the Internal Revenue Code for calendar year 2009.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2500 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the State auditor to conduct a financial and management audit of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and issue a report no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2011. Requires the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2757 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the term of a commercial driver's license (CDL) for persons 21 years through 71 years from 6 years to 8 years to prepare for the REAL ID Act, which is a nationwide effort to improve the integrity and security of state-issued driver licenses a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB2254 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts certain nonprofit organizations from chapter 454F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to mortgage loan originators. Specifies that in a conflict between this Act and federal law, federal law shall prevail. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2771 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfers ownership and management of Kalawao county from DOH and DLNR to DHHL when there is no longer any person receiving care for Hansen's disease living in Kalaupapa; authorizes DHHL to accept the transfer, provided DHHL transfers that land to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2520 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the native Hawaiian lessees of Hawaiian homestead land to sublease a portion of their land to renewable energy producers. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2779 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that patients be informed of the amount of radiation exposure to the patient prior to obtaining consent to an x-ray or computed tomography scan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-03
To House Health Committee |
