| HB2113 | Pass | Bans the ignition, possession, selling, offering for sale, and use of aerial luminaries. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 319, 7/10/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1436). |
| HB2883 | Pass | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a flood study on Makaha Valley and investigate all funding sources to finance the flood study and necessary repairs and improvements recommended by the flood study. Appropriates funds. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 283, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1386). |
| HB679 | Pass | Exempts National Rifle Association certified firearms instructors from absolute liability for injury or damage caused by discharge of their firearms during the course of providing firearms training at a firing range to persons seeking to acquire a fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 301, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1418). |
| HB2608 | Pass | Directs the director of transportation to select a statewide driver's license reciprocity committee to evaluate foreign countries' requests for driver's license reciprocity to ensure the standards of the foreign countries' driver's license testing is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 314, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1431). |
| HB2626 | Pass | Permanently establishes the safe routes to school program within the department of transportation. Establishes a safe routes to school program special fund. Assesses a surcharge of $25 for violations of speeding in a school zone and a $10 surcharge o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 317, 7/10/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1434). |
| HB1967 | Pass | Amends the medical tort chapter of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make the medical claim conciliation process less adversarial and to emphasize inquiry, conciliation, and settlement. Renames the panels as medical inquiry and conciliation panels. Eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 296, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1413). |
| HB2584 | Pass | Allows the director of labor and industrial relations to accept the notice of employer's workers' compensation insurance from approved third party agencies in a manner and form approved by the director. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 262, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1365). |
| HB1974 | Pass | Removes the residency requirements for the burial of members of the armed services and their dependents in veterans cemeteries. Establishes criteria consistent with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs eligibility requirements for burial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 307, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1424). |
| HB2574 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to provide notice of hearings pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by written notice of hearing by first class mail, rather than registered or certified mail with return receipt....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 261, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1364). |
| HB2644 | Pass | Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to provide preferential water carrier service tariffs for ratepayers that engage in agricultural activities. (HB2644 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 232, 7/5/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1335). |
| HB2175 | Pass | Exempts task force members from certain requirements, restrictions, and prohibitions of the State's code of ethics. Defines task force. Effective July 1, 2012. (HB2175 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 208, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1311). |
| HB1892 | Pass | Places the Reapportionment Commission within the Office of Elections for administrative purposes. Directs the Chief Election Officer to request an appropriation from the general fund to support the Reapportionment Commission, to be effective in the y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 223, 7/5/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1326). |
| HB2290 | Pass | Authorizes public events celebrating Children and Youth Day to be held on State Capitol grounds on the first Sunday in October and public events, such as the Children and Youth Summit, to be held on State Capitol grounds in the month of October, unle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 221, 7/5/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1324). |
| HB2328 | Pass | Establishes the Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax as a new chapter within the Hawaii Revised Statutes. Extends the sunset provision of Act 166, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, to extend the exemption from taxation of capital gains realized fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 220, 7/5/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1323). |
| HB2004 | Pass | Modifies the relevant state of mind regarding the unlawful operation of motor carriers from "knowingly and wilfully" to "intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly". Effective July 1, 2012. (HB2004 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 203, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1306). |
| HB626 | Pass | Enacts Uniform Collaborative Law Act, which authorizes disputants to enter into collaborative law participation agreements signifying interest to resolve the dispute without intervention of a tribunal (court or other third party decision maker). Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 207, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1310). |
| HB2099 | Pass | Clarifies that attorney's fees may be included in costs that may be assessed against a party who brings, prosecutes, or defends a workers' compensation claim without reasonable ground. Effective July 1, 2012. (HB2099 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 234, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1337). |
| HB2275 | Pass | Establishes a hospital sustainability fee and the hospital sustainability program special fund to receive moneys from the hospital sustainability fee to receive federal medicaid matching funds under the QUEST Expanded Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 217, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1320). |
| HB2273 | Pass | Requires the DOE and the Hawaii High School Athletic Association to develop a concussion awareness program to provide guidelines for public and private schools. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 197, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1300). |
| HB2454 | Pass | Allows programs statutorily authorized to obtain criminal history record checks on employment and licensing applicants to participate in the rap back program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 210, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1313). |
| HB2751 | Pass | Creates the petty misdemeanor offense of disrespect of a house of the legislature. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 204, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1307). |
| HB2448 | Pass | Part I establishes a formula for calculating the amount to be contributed by the State towards a claimant's attorney's fees and costs, in lieu of recovering the full amount. Defines the term "medical institution". Clarifies that the lien amount in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 211, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1314). |
| HB2266 | Pass | Clarifies that the information technology steering committee shall consist of eleven members: four members to be appointed by the senate president, four members to be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, one member to be appointe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 224, 7/5/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1327). |
| HB304 | Pass | Appropriates moneys from the general fund to provide grants for public health, welfare, and education. Effective July 1, 2012. (HB304 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 215, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1318). |
| HB2415 | Pass | Establishes a joint task force to assist the Department of Human Services in exploring the development and possible implementation of a medicaid buy-in program for working individuals with disabilities. (HB2415 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 200, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1303). |
| HB2347 | Pass | Permits the pledging of receipts that are in addition to, and are not derived from, an undertaking or loan program for which the general obligation bonds are issued. (HB2347 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 231, 7/5/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1334). |
| HB2374 | Pass | Transfers the Office of Language Access to the Department of Health, as an administratively attached agency. Effective 7/1/2012. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 201, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1304). |
| HB461 | Pass | Enacts the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act to ensure ability of members of the military and others eligible voters who are overseas to participate in all elections for federal, state, and local offices. Authorizes ballots and balloting mater...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 226, 7/5/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1329). |
| HB1968 | Pass | Appropriates $400,000 out of the temporary deposits account in the trust fund of the department of labor and industrial relations to the credit of the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program special fund. Appropriates $400,000 out of the reduce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 233, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1336). |
| HB2623 | Pass | Specifies that real property held in tenancy by the entirety shall continue to have the same immunity from the claims of separate creditors of spouses or reciprocal beneficiaries if conveyed into a joint or separate revocable trust, under certain cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 209, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1312). |
| HB1755 | Pass | Updates voter registration laws, including authorizing the acceptance of electronic applications to register to vote; applies to all primary, special, nonpartisan, and general elections, beginning with the primary election of 2016. Makes an appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 225, 7/5/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1328). |
| HB238 | Pass | Adds a mandatory prison term of fifteen days and a fine of not less than $150 nor more than $600 for a person with certain prior convictions who is convicted for the first time for violation of a temporary restraining order. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-06
(S) Act 206, 7/3/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1309). |
| HB1879 | Pass | Extends until June 30, 2015, the sunset provision in section 5 of Act 72, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, which exempts pest control operators' activities from the definition of "excavation". Requires exempt pest control operators to attend training pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-02
(S) Act 196, 6/29/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1299). |
| HB2871 | Pass | Requires Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a temporary west Maui ocean recreation management area advisory committee to advise Department of Land and Natural Resources on issues relating to the state waters within the west Maui oc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-02
(S) Act 194, 6/29/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1297). |
| HB2529 | Pass | Exempts expenditures less than $100,000 from the Hawaiian home operating fund, Hawaiian home receipts fund, Hawaiian home trust fund, native Hawaiian rehabilitation fund, and Hawaiian home administration account from the Hawaii public procurement cod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-29
(S) Act 174, 6/28/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1277). |
| HB2326 | Pass | Extends the reporting date of the 2010-2012 Tax Review Commission. Effective May 2, 2012. (HB2326 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-29
(S) Act 181, 6/28/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1284). |
| HB2295 | Pass | Amends the offense of use of a computer in the commission of a separate crime to also include knowingly using a computer to pursue, surveil, contact, harass, annoy, or alarm a victim or intended victim of certain offenses. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-29
(S) Act 192, 6/28/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1295). |
| HB2740 | Pass | Extends the sunset provision relating to the reduction of the fuel tax on naphtha sold for use in a power-generating facility to December 31, 2015. (HB2740 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-29
(S) Act 188, 6/28/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1291). |
| HB1695 | Pass | Prohibits penalties for erroneous claims for refund or credit from being added to tax underpayments on which penalties are already imposed for substantial understatements or misstatements. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-29
(S) Act 185, 6/28/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1288). |
| HB1705 | Pass | Exempts from the state income and general excise taxes, privately-owned nonprofit public water systems that supply potable water to residential communities that lack any access to public utility water services and are federally tax-exempt under secti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-29
(S) Act 184, 6/28/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1287). |
| HB2226 | Pass | Codifies the Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification System and establishes an Automated Victim Information and Notification System Special Fund. Effective July 1, 2012. (HB2226 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-29
(S) Act 190, 6/28/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1293). |
| HB2375 | Pass | Requires the office of consumer protection to educate consumers about fraudulent activities that may be committed against homeowners who face property foreclosures, liens, or encumbrances, as appropriate. Establishes criminal penalties and a mandator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-29
(S) Act 183, 6/28/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1286). |
| HB2605 | Pass | Conforms Hawaii income tax law with amendments to the Internal Revenue Code made in calendar year 2011. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-29
(S) Act 179, 6/28/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1282). |
| HB1875 | Pass | Implements the 2011 recommendations of the mortgage foreclosure task force, and other best practices, to address various issues relating to the mortgage foreclosures law and related issues affecting homeowner association liens and the collection of u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-29
(S) Act 182, 6/28/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1285). |
| HB2150 | Pass | Authorizes the use of photovoltaic systems, biogas, and other small-scale renewable energy systems producing energy solely for use in the agricultural activities of the fee or leasehold owner of property in agricultural districts. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
(S) Act 167, 6/27/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1270). |
| HB2319 | Pass | Establishes a venture accelerator funding program under the Hawaii strategic development corporation to assist the State's technology businesses to compete for investment capital. Appropriates funds; provided that up to $250,000 shall be expended for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
(S) Act 170, 6/27/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1273). |
| HB2265 | Pass | Makes permanent the amendments made to section 103D-305, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by Act 175, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009. Amends section 103D-305, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify procurement officer responsibilities; require procurements greater...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
(S) Act 173, 6/27/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1276). |
| HB2873 | Pass | Transfers the Pacific international space center for exploration systems (PISCES) from the University of Hawaii to the department of business, economic development, and tourism's office of aerospace development. Establishes a PISCES board of director...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-27
(S) Act 169, 6/27/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1272). |
| HB1398 | Pass | Authorizes Hawaii Public Housing Authority to develop public housing projects under a partnership or development agreement with a private party. Provides exemptions from chapters 103 and 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, if not prohibited by federal law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-26
(S) Act 164, 6/26/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1267). |
| HB2540 | Pass | Allows the Department of Human Services to charge reasonable fees to obtain a child care license or certificate of registration and establishes a special fund. (HB2540 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-06-26
(S) Act 161, 6/26/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1264). |
