| HB636 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a legislator to disclose each source of annual income derived from a single source that is $25,000 or more, or that represents an amount equal to 25% or more of the legislator's total annual income from all sources, excluding legislative sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-03
(S) 48 Hrs. Notice 04-05-12. |
| HB2184 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates deadlines for the director of finance to establish accessible searchable websites and implement pilot program on data collection and subawards reporting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2745 | Intro
Sine Die | Issues general obligation bonds to fund the repair and maintenance or capital renewal and deferred maintenance projects of various departments, the University of Hawaii, Hawaii health systems corporation, and the judiciary. Exempts contracts of less ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2552 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the state vehicle registration fee by $1, to be deposited into the Disability and Communication Access Board Special Fund to cover the costs of administering the parking program for persons with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State to pay interest on late payments to an operator of an adult day care facility, community care foster family home, or adult residential care home. Effective July 1, 2050. (HB2130 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1793 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes penalties for the destruction or harvesting of native forest resources including the sandalwood tree. Establishes Department of Land and Natural Resources policies and rules to protect native forest resources. Effective January 7, 2059. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2102 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates medicare part B reimbursements for employee-beneficiaries and spouses of employee-beneficiaries hired after June 30, 2012. Effective July 1, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2467 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides greater protection to children by amending the offense of promoting child abuse in the second degree to include the possession of images of any form of child pornography that involves a minor who is younger than the age of twelve, sadomasoch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
(H) The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2259 | Intro
Sine Die | Applies the National Fire Protection Association's Hydrogen Technologies Code to hydrogen production, storage, use, and handling for stationary and portable applications in the State and establishes the state hydrogen permitting authority. Contains a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2419 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows counties to seek declaratory ruling from the land use commission for reclassification of lands under a county general plan or county development plan. Specifies that changes to the general plan take effect immediately upon approval of the recl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2384 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the land use commission, upon request, to extend the time period for which a boundary amendment is effective for at least 2 years if the appropriate county officer or agency determines that the petitioner has substantially commenced developm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2357 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows fifty per cent of the works of art special fund to be used for performing arts and their related costs. Effective July 1, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2590 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for natural resource-related community service administrative penalty alternatives and an enhanced collection mechanism for outstanding fines and penalties resulting from aquatic resource violations. Effective January 7, 2059. (HB2590 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2189 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires medicaid home and community-based waiver programs to allow family members hired and directed by the waiver program individual to provide specific approved in-home care services to the individual. Effective July 1, 2050. (HB2189 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-01
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2653 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the upgrading of existing wireless telecommunications facilities from state and county permitting processes. Provides expedited permits for siting of wireless telecommunication facilities and proposed new tower and antenna support structure. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2728 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a taxpayer to designate a specified amount of the taxpayer's income tax refund to be deposited into the Early Learning Trust Fund. (HB2728 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB835 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to article VII, section 6 of the state constitution to authorize the legislature to deposit excess general fund revenues into a fund to fund pension benefits and other post-employment benefits for State employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2834 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the sunset date for the Hawaii economic development task force to 6/30/14. Effective 6/29/12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2665 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a statewide stroke system of care by designating primary stroke centers and acute stroke capable centers. Defines emergency services training and transport protocols. Establishes a stroke registry working group. Establishes a stroke syste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2531 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the chairman, with unanimous consent of the commission, to suspend administrative rules for the purpose of awarding a lease to a native Hawaiian who has been on the waitlist for at least twenty years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1893 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporarily allows exemptions from the environmental review process under chapter 343, HRS, for certain narrowly defined state or county construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2726 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a spay and neuter special fund and allows funds from an income tax check-off to be deposited into the special fund. Establishes an advisory committee to assist the department of budget and finance in establishing eligibility criteria and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1894 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporarily suspends judicial review under section 103D-710, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for a two year period beginning on July 1, 2012, and ending on June 30, 2014. (HB1894 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2025 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes certain private employers to administer a work-sharing plan to avoid temporary layoffs, if approved by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Allows employees under a work-sharing plan to receive unemployment benefits to compens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1896 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporarily establishes a higher medical loss ratio for a tax-exempt mutual benefit society's or health maintenance organization's health insurance plan than the ratio set under the federal Public Health Service Act. Requires, when reviewing rate fil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2305 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii public schools science and technology trust fund to support the teaching and learning of science and technology in Hawaii's public schools. Authorizes income tax return designations to the trust fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1801 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the automatic deposit of general excise tax revenues into the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund until such time that the trust fund's unfunded actuarial accrued liability is fully amortized. Effective July 1, 2013. (HB1801...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1810 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, no later than January 1, 2014, the board of trustees of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund to require every health benefits plan established or contracted to include lower deductibles and co-payments for non-tobacco smoker...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1811 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to pay greater contribution rates on their employees' non-base compensation than on base compensation beginning in fiscal year 2013-2014. Clarifies that deferred compensation deductions not be considered as non-base compensation. M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1813 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts any state or county CIP from special management area guidelines and requirements. (HB1813 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2044 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the hearing officer's review to the record of the procuring agencies below. Limits the review to a review of the written record of the procuring agency's protest proceedings for evidence of decisions that may be arbitrary, capricious, fraudule...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1699 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to provide meal breaks for employees who work more than a total of five hours a day. Imposes penalties for failure to provide meal breaks. Clarifies that the penalty is based on an employee's regular hourly rate of pay at the time ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1819 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases from 5% to 30% the percentage of moneys from the excess general fund balance to be deposited into the emergency and budget reserve fund as a temporary source of funding during economic downturn. Requires 30% of the excess general fund balan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2412 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporarily allows the dwelling unit revolving fund to reimburse the general fund for the principal of general obligation bonds issued for housing projects and programs. Appropriates the moneys reimbursed to repair and maintain public housing units. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2865 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Diabetes and Obesity Prevention Task Force. Effective July 1, 2012. (HB2865 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-28
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2843 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys from the emergency and budget reserve fund to DHS for child abuse and neglect social services. Effective July 1, 2050. (HB2843 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2676 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to restore staff positions on Maui, Lanai, and Molokai that were eliminated during the 2010-2011 fiscal year. Makes an appropriation for six full-time medicaid eligibility workers. Makes an appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2350 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Honolulu Family Justice Center. Allows for private donations to be accepted to fund the Honolulu Family Justice Center. Effective January 7, 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-24
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2650 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an option on tax returns for a donation to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. (HB2650 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1884 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to conduct a study on the wages and compensation of other public housing authorities in the United States that are comparable in size to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and comparable in duties and res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2813 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Science, Technology, and Innovation Agency at the University of Hawaii at Hilo through a collaboration between UH Hilo and Hawaii Community College. (HB2813 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1674 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends eligibility for participation in state financial aid, University programs, and resident tuition to students of the University of Hawaii without lawful immigration status who meet certain specified criteria. (HB1674 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2500 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to require money transmitters to register with the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System; amends the fee structure for services provided by the Division of Financial Institutions for the regulation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2499 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjusts regulatory fees for financial institutions to more accurately reflect today's economy. Effective July 1, 3000. (HB2499 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2498 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the fee structure for services provided by the Division of Financial Institutions of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs for escrow depository regulation; amends fines for violations of escrow depository regulations; and adjusts bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2297 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the flexibility of funds from the State of Hawaii endowment fund and expands its use to allow for music education by professional musicians; allows a portion of the fund to be used for the operations of an Oahu-based symphony orchestra duri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1797 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires tolling of oneyear conditional release for a ninety day period commencing upon service of a motion for revocation of conditional release or motion to modify conditions. Effective January 7, 2059. (HB1797 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2468 | Intro
Sine Die | Brings laws relating to false claims to the state and to the counties into compliance with the federal False Claims Act in order to meet federal requirements that state laws provide the same or greater protections as those established under section 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
(H) The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 17 Ayes: Representative(s) Oshiro, M. Lee, Choy, Cullen, Giugni, Har, Hashem, Ichiyama, Jordan, Kawakami, C. Lee, Morikawa, Tokioka, Yamashita, Marumoto, Riviere, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HB1707 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires nonresident owners of residential single family dwellings, apartments, or townhouses who rent their property as a transient accommodation for 30 days or less to rent the property through a licensed real estate broker or salesperson who must ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2144 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of taxation to submit a report to the legislature and the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation on general excise tax exemptions for low-cost housing and affordable rental housing construction and development. (HB...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-23
(H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
