| SB683 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the state building code special fund into which is deposited one quarter of one per cent of all state fund appropriations for capital improvement projects designated for the construction management cost element. Makes appropriation from the h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-12
The committee on PSM deferred the measure. |
| HB1416 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that participation in a health wellness program does not constitute illegal gambling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1414 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the real estate commission to ensure compliance by enforcing any rule, order, decision, demand, or requirement of the commission issued pursuant to chapter 514B, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB437 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the liquor commission to conduct alcohol abuse treatment and prevention activities. Allows liquor license fees to be used for funding the treatment and activities. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| HB1391 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the amount deducted from the county surcharge on state tax to reimburse the State for costs of assessment, collection, and disposition from 10% to 5%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on TRN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1382 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the operation of jet skis at any speed above thirty miles per hour, except under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with Representative(s) Carroll, Cheape, Jordan, Ward voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Fale voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cachola, Har, C. Lee, McKelvey, Takai, Thielen excused (6). |
| HB1117 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the general excise tax exemption for housing projects built on federal lands. Provides that tax revenues gained from repealing this exemption shall be deposited into the rental housing trust fund for the purpose of building affordable rental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on WAL recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB639 | Intro
Sine Die | Reclassifies pseudoephedrine as a schedule V drug that may only be dispensed with a prescription; exempts cold products that contain other active ingredients, with certain conditions. Requires pharmacies to maintain pseudoephedrine-related records fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee on HTH deferred the measure. |
| HB836 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires escrow depositories to report any change of their corporate designated escrow officer or branch manager to the Commissioner of Financial Institutions; establishes a statutory fee for the transfer or change in control of an escrow depository ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB1164 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the Board of Land and Natural Resources discretion to grant easements for less than fair market value for structures that were authorized by a governmental authority and constructed landward of the shoreline within the record boundary of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. |
| HB1359 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the additional increase on the gross rental or gross rental proceeds derived from furnishing transient accommodations and the requirement that the revenues collected be deposited into the general funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on TOU recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB631 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides immunity from civil liability for trained installers and inspectors of automotive child passenger restraint devices, except in situations of gross negligence or intentional, wilful, or wanton conduct. Effective 07/01/2030. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. |
| HB230 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the liquor commission to conduct and fund state and county alcohol abuse treatment and prevention activities. Allows liquor license fees to be used for those activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB835 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the judicial council to nominate persons for appointment to a county ethics commission; provided that the county's charter or ordinance requires members of the commission to be appointed from nominations made by the judicial council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL. |
| HB1343 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Attorney General to service loans for any executive department. Effective July 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on CPC/JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB461 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows an eligible customer-generator in a net energy metering agreement to donate credits for excess electricity that remain unused after each twelve-month reconciliation period to any charitable organization (as defined in section 467B-1, Hawaii Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1319 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons who act as providers of debt settlement services to be registered by DCCA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on CPC/JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts collaboration among all accident and health or sickness insurers, third party administrators, managed care plans, health care providers, and government agencies from state antitrust laws when the collaboration is intended to adopt uniform adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee on HTH deferred the measure. |
| HB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a named operator exclusion to enable a named insured to exclude specified persons from being covered under a motor vehicle insurance policy. Provides that a named insured that has rejected in writing the offer of uninsured motorist coverag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on TRN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1134 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes references from the public land development corporation to the public private partnership corporation. Adds two non-voting members to the board of directors. Amends the process and requirements for the development and implementation of develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be HELD. The votes were as follows: 17 Ayes: Representative(s) Luke, Nishimoto, Johanson, Cullen, Hashem, Ing, Jordan, Kobayashi, Lowen, Morikawa, Onishi, Takayama, Tokioka, Woodson, Yamashita, Fukumoto, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| SB919 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the land use commission to establish a transfer of development rights program. Specifies certain requirements for transfer of development rights. Allows the creation of a transfer of development rights credit bank. Establishes the conservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee on WTL deferred the measure. |
| HB480 | Intro
Sine Die | Assesses a surcharge on any land reclassified equal to any increase in the assessed value of the land resulting from the reclassification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on WAL recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB508 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a condominium association, as a junior lienholder, to commence or continue a nonjudicial foreclosure action on a property subject to a judicial foreclosure even if the lender has filed for foreclosure. Preserves the right of owner-occupants to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. |
| HB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Agriculture to work with the Taro Security and Purity Task Force to identify taro lands, adjust lease rents, and modify lease qualification criteria. Effective July 1, 2020. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with Representative(s) Choy, Cullen, Fale, Kawakami, Takayama, Tsuji, Ward voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Tokioka voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cachola, Har, C. Lee, McKelvey, Takai, Thielen excused (6). |
| SB1199 | Intro
Sine Die | Consolidates and clarifies unlawful disclosure of tax returns and tax return information requirements under chapter 231, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB1200 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies the Department of Taxation's current unauthorized inspection policies and procedures, which were adopted in conformance with the prohibitions of the Taxpayer Browsing Protection Act of 1997 and Internal Revenue Code section 7123A, including ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| HB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 471-2, HRS, to prohibit the owner of an animal, and the owner's employees, from performing any surgical procedure, including but not limited to surgical birth, ear cropping, tail docking, and debarking on the animal without being licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB593 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the PLDC to initiate a pilot project after the adoption of rules. Prohibits the PLDC from planning, developing or implementing any projects other than the pilot project until the pilot project has been completed. Requires the PLDC to include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be HELD. The votes were as follows: 17 Ayes: Representative(s) Luke, Nishimoto, Johanson, Cullen, Hashem, Ing, Jordan, Kobayashi, Lowen, Morikawa, Onishi, Takayama, Tokioka, Woodson, Yamashita, Fukumoto, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| SB768 | 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] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on EGH/TEC/JDL deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 02-14-13 10:30AM in conference room 016. |
| HB589 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals chapter 171C, HRS, relating to PLDC. Repeals requirement that HCDA assist the PLDC in certain specified areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on WAL/FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of business, economic development, to investigate the feasibility for Hawaii to participate in the multi-state Powerball lottery operated by the Multi-State Lottery Association or the Mega Millions lottery operated by the Mega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on EGH/JDL deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 02-14-13 10:30AM in conference room 016. |
| HB314 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a state crowdfunding website, which allows members of the public to donate their own money toward the funding of specific public capital improvement projects and monitor the progress of those projects as they near completion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB1034 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to exempt refunding general obligation bonds from the requirement that all general obligation bonds for a term exceeding two years shall be in serial form maturing in substantially equal installments of principal, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| HB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires motor vehicle insurers to electronically report to the insurance commissioner all existing policies within 45 days. Requires each insurer to report cancelled, nonrenewed, altered, and new policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on TRN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1072 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires members of the board of regents of the University of Hawaii to file an annual disclosure of financial interests with the state ethics commission. Makes the disclosures public record and available for inspection and duplication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cachola, Har, C. Lee, McKelvey, Takai, Thielen excused (6). |
| SB234 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to develop additional procedures and protocols in the event a lineal or cultural descendant of Native Hawaiian skeletal remains that are interred at a burial site cannot be established.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee on TEC deferred the measure. |
| HB1219 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the general excise tax exclusion for amounts received by a managed care support contractor of the TRICARE program for the actual cost or advancement to third party health care providers pursuant to a contract with the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Re-referred to HLT, FIN, referral sheet 21 |
| SB1375 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "collective bargaining" in section 892, HRS, to clarify that "other terms and conditions of employment" are limited to what is specifically incorporated into a collective bargaining agreement. Requires the arbitration panel t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB1354 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the flat percentage for post-retirement allowances with a graduated schedule of percentages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| HB1228 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the income tax credit for renewable energy technologies by providing that administrative rules that require a renewable energy technology system to meet output capacity requirements in order for a taxpayer to be eligible to claim the credit sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB585 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the important agricultural land qualified agricultural cost tax credit by (1) clarifying the amount of the credit; (2) repealing the requirement that qualified agricultural costs be reduced by the amount of funds received from the irrigation r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| HB942 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Harbors and Parks Development Authority to coordinate and administer programs to make optimal use of harbors and park lands, while ensuring that the public lands are maintained for the people of Hawaii. Effective July 1, 3000. (HB942 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committees on FIN recommend that the measure be HELD. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Luke, Nishimoto, Johanson, Cullen, Hashem, Ing, Kobayashi, Lowen, Morikawa, Onishi, Takayama, Woodson, Fukumoto, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; 3 Noes: Representative(s) Jordan, Tokioka, Yamashita; and Excused: none. |
| SB34 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that across-the-board wage increases or reductions and changes in health and retirement benefits for excluded employees in the excluded managerial compensation plan are at least equal to adjustments provided under collective bargaining to em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| HB679 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates $700,000 for the Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence. Effective July 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cachola, Har, C. Lee, McKelvey, Takai, Thielen excused (6). |
| HB1470 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the absence in the Hawaii state plan of a priority guideline or functional plan applicable to a proposed reclassification of district boundaries shall not be grounds for the LUC to defer a decision on the petition to the applicable coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on WAL recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB584 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement for special inspection and certification of reconstructed vehicles prior to operation upon a public highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on TRN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB246 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals Act 282, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, which: 1) transferred development rights of certain public lands to the PLDC; 2) exempted certain lands from the definition of public land; 3) created the stadium facilities special fund; and 4) allowed t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee on WTL deferred the measure. |
| SB719 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the HHFDC and HCDA to develop programs to issue development credits to projects that incorporate urban gardening programs. Requires HHFDC and HCDA to report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on EGH/HRE deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 02-12-13 3:00PM in conference room 414. |
| HB1458 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the rate adjustment recommendation board within the Insurance Division to make recommendations to the Insurance Commissioner regarding the disposition of rate adjustment filings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB711 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii community development authority to establish zoning rules within the Kakaako community development district only by the use of transfer of development rights. Specifies procedures and requirements for the transfer of development r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-11
The committee on WTL deferred the measure. |
