| SB1260 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires beers sold or distributed in the State whose labels convey the impression that the beers were produced in Hawaii to indicate otherwise if not produced in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-07
The committee on AGL deferred the measure. |
| SB25 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that distributors of telephone directories and advertising materials pick up unclaimed telephone directories and advertising materials within seven days of receiving a request to do so if the telephone directories and advertising materials a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-07
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| HB359 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes administrative inspections within the West Hawaii regional fishery management area. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-07
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with Representative(s) Jordan voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cachola, Har excused (2). |
| SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the issuance of permits to new and existing covered sources that will increase coal consumption and prohibits the approval of power purchase agreements that propose to burn or consume coal that will generate more than 50 megawatts of energy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-07
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB892 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the offenses of assault against a law enforcement officer in the first and second degree to include assaults against firefighters and water safety officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-07
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL. |
| HB1408 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides tax credit rates and certification requirements for various renewable energy technologies. Requires an annual report from Department of Taxation and a 2017 study from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee(s) on EEP recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1387 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DLNR to supplement currently mandated end-of-year reports on endangered species with annual mid-year updates of population counts for endangered aquatic life and wildlife inhabiting state marine waters and coastal lands. Makes the updates av...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee(s) on OMH/WAL recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that the counties issue affordable housing credits to DHHL for the development of vacant lots. Authorizes issuance of credits upon mutual agreement of county and DHHL. Repeals provision that county requirements for affordable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on HSG with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| SB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, syrup, and powder with the revenues generated to be deposited into the community health centers special fund and the trauma system special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee on HTH deferred the measure. |
| HB1023 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits educational institutions and employers from requesting a student, prospective student employee, or prospective employee to grant access to, allow observation of, or disclose information that allows access to or observation of personal inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee(s) on EDN/HED recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB869 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Human Services to draw from other funds appropriated to the Department of Human Services to maintain the level of General Assistance benefits payments set at the beginning of each fiscal year for the entire fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| HB870 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a special fund, the Interim Assistance Reimbursement Special Fund, into which interim assistance reimbursements received from the Social Security Administration are deposited for repayment of state-funded financial assistance provided und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| HB1357 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the director of transportation to certify to the governor that adequate highway capacity exists in a county's business district at a minimum of level of service D before any construction of a new subdivision or housing development project ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee(s) on TRN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB844 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends chapter 461J, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by mandating that physical therapists practicing in the State of Hawaii shall submit evidence of continuing competence at each renewal period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| HB1127 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes critical health or safety reasons the overriding priority among the criteria used to establish current and overall repair and maintenance requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee(s) on EDN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB851 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes statutory language specifying considerations and provisions for contracting transportation of school children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| HB1329 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DOE to use a specified percentage of its public land trust revenues to fund Hawaiian language immersion programs. Establishes a commission within OHA to oversee the DOE's allocation and use of those public land trust revenues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee(s) on EDN/OMH recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB852 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 103-55(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make wage certification inapplicable to contracts to provide transportation services for school children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| SB956 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the procurement code contracts made by the Hawaii public housing authority for security services furnished at any public housing project or complex.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee on HMS deferred the measure. |
| SB487 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the Native Hawaiian Hospitality Association for its tourism-related programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee on THA deferred the measure. |
| SB489 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a traffic safety injury prevention and treatment surcharge on each communications service connection, with revenue collected from the surcharge to be deposited equally between the trauma system special fund and the John A. Burns school of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee on TIA deferred the measure. |
| HB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the definition of "victim" to include insurance companies for the purposes of criminal restitution orders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB969 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons who act as providers of debt settlement services to be registered by DCCA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB970 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any minor under the age of eighteen from possessing or smoking tobacco products. Takes effect 1/1/2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee on HTH deferred the measure. |
| HB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that moneys appropriated for the high core program storefront school shall be allocated directly to the school independently of the Wahiawa community school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee(s) on EDN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB502 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the DOA to create positions within the department to monitor local food production. Requires the issuance of an RFP for the establishment of a food sufficiency baseline that determines the percentage of food locally produced an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| HB744 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the prohibition against student bias based on sex in educational or recreational programs receiving financial assistance from or using facilities of the state or county by adding race, religion, and sexual orientation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
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, Say excused (2). |
| HB78 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that general engineering contractors and general building contractors will require further examination and additional fees prior to issuance of additional specialty licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB541 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts federal veterans disability benefits from seizure to enforce a court judgment, except for certain child and spousal support cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL. |
| HB737 | Intro
Sine Die | Assists agricultural enterprises in the State by authorizing the State to issue special purpose revenue bonds for their benefit. Contingent upon ratification of constitutional amendment authorizing the State to issue special purpose revenue bonds and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| SB546 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows an employee with a family member in the United States armed forces who is on active duty or notified of a call to active duty, to use family leave for certain activities for which an employee may take military family leave under federal law. P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. |
| SB1212 | Intro
Sine Die | Assesses the State Fuel Tax based on a percentage of the weighted wholesale price per gallon of gasoline and average wholesale price per gallon of diesel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee on TIA deferred the measure. |
| HB206 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all employees whose financial disclosure statements are public pursuant to section 84-17(d), HRS, complete a mandatory ethics training course. Allows state ethics commission to hold ethics training at times of the year other than Januar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| SB1028 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies notice requirements for Hawaii Community Development Authority public hearings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL. |
| HB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires operators of commercial websites or online services that collect personally identifiable information through the Internet about consumers in the State who use the websites or online services to conspicuously post their privacy policies on th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB761 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys from the general fund to provide a grant to North Hawaii Community Hospital. Takes effect 1/1/2030. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii tourism authority to contract with a section 501(c)(3) private nonprofit, engaged in promoting Hawaiian culture, to develop and maintain a comprehensive Hawaiian cultural resources inventory database; appropriates funds; requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee on THA deferred the measure. |
| HB931 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the statutory changes enacted into law (Act 160, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010) by the 2010 Legislature, to require the removal of landowner's induced or cultivated vegetation that interferes or encroaches seaward of the shoreline.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee(s) on OMH/WAL recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB550 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends and clarifies the definition of "improved public lands" in Act 82, Session Laws of Hawaii 2003, for purposes of limiting liability for public entities based on the duty to warn of dangers on public lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
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, Say excused (2). |
| SB576 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a financial and management audit of the department of public safety commissary operations and a financial audit of out-of-state commissaries where Hawaii inmates are confined. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB741 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the prohibition on the sale of Kakaako community development district lands by HCDA to certain specified lands within the Kakaako community development district. Requires the HCDA to determine the costs and benefits of selling and purchasing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| HB933 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows BLNR to grant easements for less than fair market value for structures that were authorized and constructed landward of the shoreline within the record boundary of landward property at the time of construction, but are now located seaward of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| HB1079 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes military funeral honors for Hawaii governors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee(s) on VMI recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB569 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax credit for businesses that sponsor after-school programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Choy voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| HB669 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "thrill craft". Limits number of vessels that parasail and thrill craft permit holders are allowed to operate per permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
The committee(s) on OMH recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB948 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends procedures for petition and hearing for court-ordered, involuntary medical treatment of inmates and detainees in custody of the department of corrections. (HB948 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| HB1087 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the election of the office of Hawaiian affairs board members through a system of nonpartisan primary and general elections to begin with the 2014 elections. (HB1087 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| HB255 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of public safety to establish a three-year medical release pilot project. Effective July 1, 2050. (HB255 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cachola, Say excused (2). |
| SB72 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of public safety to assess and refer inmates to the Hawaii paroling authority (HPA) for possible medical release. Allows an inmate to be considered for medical release at the request of the director, the inmate, or the inmate'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. |
| SB705 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the release on supervised parole prior to expiration of the maximum sentence for certain persons determined to be eligible under a validated risk assessment at a parole hearing. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. |
