| SB2887 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines computer fraud in the third degree and designates it as a class C felony. Amends section 708-891 and 708-891.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to include computer fraud that occurs not only when accessing a computer, but also when accessing a compu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB3014 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides tax credits for the investment, transportation expenditures, and certain payroll costs associated with a qualified live musical or theatrical production or qualified musical or theatrical facility infrastructure project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB3012 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires counties to seek declaratory ruling from the land use commission for reclassification of lands in a county general plan. Changes to the general plan take effect immediately upon approval of the reclassification by the land use commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Water, Land, and Housing Committee |
| SB2886 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the penalties for: (1) unauthorized computer access in the first degree from a class B felony to a class A felony and increases the required value of information obtained from more than $5,000 to more than $20,000; (2) unauthorized computer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2885 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a procedure for law enforcement and attorneys in a criminal case to obtain records located out-of-state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB3009 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires reading, math, science, and other assessments administered to students in grades three through six of the department of education's Hawaiian language immersion program to be developed originally in the Hawaiian language; requires the board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB3005 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii to establish a Center for Agricultural Leadership. Requires the University of Hawaii to establish a two-year pilot project at one high school campus in each county to determine the steps necessary for a school farm t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB3004 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the public land development corporation to address specific issues in its projects, such as protecting the public health and safety of the people of the State; promoting environmental sustainability; and respecting the host culture and prote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Water, Land, and Housing Committee |
| SB2999 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 16th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2217 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a definition to the Uniform Probate Code to specify that the term "spouse" shall include parties to a civil union in accordance with chapter 572B, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
(S) The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB2997 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for vice-principals of the department of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2995 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the use of force, justifiable as a defense under sections 703-302 through 703-309 of the Penal Code, shall limit a person's civil liability as to a perpetrator who suffers injury or death; provided that, if injured, the offender is ulti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2119 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all crematoriums operating without air pollution control permits and which were constructed prior to March 20, 1972, to submit permit applications to the department of health by December 31, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2980 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii internet lottery and gaming corporation for the purpose of conducting internet gambling in Hawaii. Allocates proceeds to capital improvements at public schools and the University of Hawaii system, scholarships and educational l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2125 | Intro
Sine Die | Encourages government agencies to plant food bearing trees to conserve natural resources and enhance quality of life; establishes a limitation on liability for any injury to any person arising from the person's harvesting from food bearing trees on l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2455 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to determine the feasibility of using viatical settlements and accelerated death benefits as potential funding sources for long-term care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2454 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriations funds from the Hawaii tobacco settlement special fund to support health and physical education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
(S) The committee(s) on HTH deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 01-27-12 2:45PM in conference room 229. |
| SB2132 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes an excise tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes, little cigars, and large cigars. Imposes an excise tax on bulk and small quantity purchases of tobacco products and cigars. Requires a portion of the tax to be expended for tobacco prev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-27
(S) The committee(s) on HMS deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 02-02-12 1:15PM in conference room 016. |
| SB2034 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a water service holders mailing address, amounts paid by or owed to the service holder for water or sewer services, and an individuals service location shall not be made available for public inspection or duplication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
(S) The committee on PGM deferred the measure. |
| SB2194 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all employers to use the e-verify system to verify that an applicant is eligible to work in the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
(S) The committee on PGM deferred the measure. |
| SB2358 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the state director of finance to waive county permitting requirements for pending state CIP projects for which funds were released in fiscal years 2010-2012 and 2012-2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
(S) The committee on PGM deferred the measure. |
| SB2193 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces county reimbursement to the State from gross proceeds of the county's surcharge on state tax from ten to five per cent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
(S) The committee on PGM deferred the measure. |
| SB2192 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts certain ground signs from county outdoor advertising regulation. Allows ground signs to be posted in public places.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
(S) The committee on PGM deferred the measure. |
| SB2345 | Intro
Sine Die | Upon the acceptance of a conceptual design fee from a procurement officer, any non-selected offeror shall agree to waive the right to protest. Makes permanent the increased dollar amounts of small purchases whose procurement is subject to the policy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
(S) The committee on PGM deferred the measure. |
| SB2068 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits strikes by public employees who are designated as essential employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
(S) The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB2069 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the State and the counties to bargain separately and independently with public sector unions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
(S) The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB2076 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits counties to pass ordinances that require written notification of defects or obstructions on certain county properties as a prerequisite to filing a claim against the counties for injuries or damages arising from against the alleged unsafe or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
(S) The committee on PGM deferred the measure. |
| SB2017 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows private individuals and entities to provide funding for capital improvement projects. Requires naming any public structure after a private individual or entity that contributed a specified percentage of the funding for the structure, if the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
(S) The committee on PGM deferred the measure. |
| SB2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that telework is compensable under workers' compensation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-26
(S) The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB2734 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits adults from soliciting minors to electronically transmit nude images of minors; prohibits minors from electronically transmitting nude images of themselves or other minors, or soliciting other minors to do so; prohibits persons from possess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2864 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies circumstances under which defendants may earn pretrial credit for time of detention when already serving a sentence for an unrelated offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2799 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Human Services to disclose confidential records pursuant to a court order, after an in camera review of the records by the court, upon a showing of good cause by the party seeking the release of the records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2733 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the sunset date and makes permanent the law shielding county lifeguards from liability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2863 | Intro
Sine Die | Update the statutes to authorize persons authorized by the courts to serve legal process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2862 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make it consistent with federal laws on controlled substances; and amends section 329-32 relating to the registration requirements for physicians who utilize Hawaii's Medical Use of Marijuana Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2732 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the driver's license revocation provisions to allow license revocation for a period of time up to the maximum term of probation allowable when a driver is convicted of manslaughter resulting from the operation of a vehicle, or negligent homici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| SB2637 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires private employers who provide pension plans to their employees to allow an employee who has vested to receive pension payments upon becoming disabled, regardless of age. Allows the director of labor and industrial relations to reopen workers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2861 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the law to define how pretrial assessments are generated and to provide statutory authority to the Department of Public Safety to supervise person ordered released from custody by the courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2860 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the law to delete the Intake Service Center as an agency responsible for preparing the pre-sentence diagnosis and report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2794 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a discount and savings program to generate revenue for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for the purpose of maintaining its trust lands and communities, and educating participants about the state's lands and natural resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2729 | Intro
Sine Die | To provide greater protection to our children, this bill amends the offense of promoting child abuse in the second degree to include the possession of particularly violent or egregious child pornography.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2727 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Health to provide certain public health records to law enforcement officers to facilitate criminal investigations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2726 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 520-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to delete the exclusion of lands owned by the government in the definition of "land."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2725 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the limitations of liability for public entities based on the duty to warn of dangers on public lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2791 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts expenditures less than $250,000 from trust funds identified in section 213(d), Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, from the requirements of chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2724 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends and clarifies the definition of "improved public lands" for the limitation of liability for public entities based on the duty to warn of dangers on public lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Water, Land, and Housing Committee |
| SB2723 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 662-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the State of Hawaii to demand a trial by jury in the same manner as a private individual in a tort action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2722 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies certain limitations regarding the State's liability in tort cases and brings the State's liability in line with similar federal liability in many cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2721 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "similar circumstances" concerning joint liability in certain motor vehicle accidents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2719 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from restrictions on gifts under the ethics code invitations or complimentary tickets to a widely attended charitable event from a charitable entity, whether or not the charitable entity is the host of the charitable event. Requires disclosur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-25
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
