| SB679 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriations funds to DAGS for the Artists in the Schools program administered by the state foundation on culture and the arts. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| HB984 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires child care facilities, including infant and toddler child care centers that care for children one year of age or younger, to develop, maintain, and implement safe sleep policies to prevent sudden unexpected infant deaths and sudden infant de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on HUS recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1106 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a private right of action against any person who maintains a residentially zoned property that is found in violation of a state law or rule, or county ordinance three or more times within eighteen months, and that causes injury or damage to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with Representative(s) Fale, Hanohano voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Har, Tokioka excused (2). |
| HB1410 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the ethanol facility tax credit with the biofuel production facility tax credit. Expands tax credit eligibility to include larger facilities and production of multiple types of biofuel. Changes the formula for calculating the amount of tax c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on EEP/EDB recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB982 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Transportation Highways Division to collect an unspecified amount from franchise utility companies for the use of the state right of way. (HB982 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with Representative(s) Hanohano voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Har, Tokioka excused (2). |
| HB404 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires premises licensed under chapter 281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to have a sign posted on or about the premises, including women's restrooms, that notifies persons of the risks of birth defects for women drinking alcoholic beverages during preg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Har, Tokioka excused (2). |
| SB874 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a workers' compensation impartial exam to be conducted by a doctor whose specialty is appropriate for the injury to be examined.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| HB985 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs DHS to implement automated systems to detect and prevent fraudulent, wasteful, and abusive medicaid claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on HUS recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB662 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Hawaii health corps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| SB1351 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies when a business may scan the machine-readable zone of an individual's Hawaii identification card or driver's license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee on TEC deferred the measure. |
| HB1039 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows former foster care youths who are attending an institution of higher education as a full-time student, to stay in the foster care system until the age of 23.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on HUS recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB444 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands definition of habitual operator of a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant to include persons with convictions within the last ten years of the offense for habitually operating a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. |
| SB1342 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the forfeiture of any property used or taken in any violation of laws or rules that results in a petty misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL. |
| SB854 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of elections to implement a program allowing voters to register to vote on election day and requiring voters to vote by mail for all elections beginning in 2016, with certain exceptions. Makes an appropriation for the voting moder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB1288 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits an employee to use family leave time to care for a sibling. Defines "sibling". Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases liquor taxes and repeals excise and use tax exemptions on the sale of liquor. Designates a percentage of funds from liquor taxes to go toward the community health centers special fund and the trauma system special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| HB1368 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the General Excise Tax and Use Tax in certain instances by an unspecified amount. Directs the deposit of tax revenue into an unspecified account for unspecified purposes. Effective January 20, 2020. (HB1368 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Re-referred to EDB, FIN, referral sheet 24 |
| HB1123 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the gallonage tax on the first 60,000 barrels of beer brewed or produced during a taxable year by a small brewery or brewpub in the State to $0.23 per gallon of beer. Effective January 20, 2020. (HB1123 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
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 Har, Tokioka excused (2). |
| HB442 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the limited liability protections against trespasser lawsuits to qualifying owners of four or less acres of agricultural land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on AGR recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB840 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces individual fees for Hawaii banks and nondepositories for specific regulatory items with one assessment. Increases and clarifies bank powers. Clarifies the authority of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions. Effective 01/01/2112. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB955 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires obtaining a certificate of vehicle inspection every twenty-four months for all vehicles. Takes effect 1/1/2016. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB1307 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the tax on tobacco products by an unspecified amount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| SB813 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends definitions and adds registration and fee requirements for professional employer organizations; repeals chapter 373L, Hawaii Revised Statutes; amends the definition of leased employees for enterprise zone coverage of a qualified business; amen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| HB1306 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the completion of two hours of training on human trafficking in order to obtain or renew a teaching license. Requires the Department of Education to provide training on human trafficking for employees. Requires human trafficking to be includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on HUS recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB981 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the DOH to provide public health statistics records to law enforcement officers for evidence in criminal investigations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL. |
| SB984 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to Pacific Renal Care Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| SB941 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State and the counties to approve, approve with modification, or disapprove all broadband-related permits within one hundred twenty business days of submitting a permit application and a fee; provided that if no action is taken on the on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to CPN/JDL. |
| SB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Hawaii public housing authority, when selecting tenants, from considering a prospective elderly or disabled tenant's conviction for a minor crime that occurred five years or more before the application date. Provides exceptions for evic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. |
| SB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the appointment requirements and qualifications for child custody evaluators. Requires the judiciary to establish a complaint process regarding a child custody evaluator appointed by the court. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL/WAM. |
| SB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the repeal date of Act 88, SLH 2006, from 01/01/2016, to 01/01/2021. Extends tax credits for qualified film production costs incurred before 01/01/2021.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee on TEC deferred the measure. |
| HB900 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tiered glass advanced disposal fee system based on the capacity of a glass container.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on EEP recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB777 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides additional acts that qualify as impersonation of a law enforcement officer in the first degree. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. |
| HB1266 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for agricultural tourism including overnight accommodations coextensive with bona fide farming operations. Authorizes counties to adopt rules and ordinances. (HB1266 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with Representative(s) Cabanilla, Cheape, Fale, Hanohano, Johanson, Kawakami, Morikawa, Ward voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Thielen voting no (1) and Representative(s) Har, Tokioka excused (2). |
| SB1012 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the existing protest procedures in chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and replaces them with a procedure governing the award of health and human services contracts that will not involve the exercise of adjudicatory authority by the execut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on HTH/HMS/JDL deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 02-14-13 1:20PM in conference room 016. |
| HB911 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Environmental Information Technology Office within the Department of Health. Effective July 1, 2013. (HB911 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Re-referred to EEP/HLT, FIN, referral sheet 24 |
| HB735 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the development, testing, propagation, release, importation, planting, or growing of genetically engineered Hawaiian taro in the State. Establishes limited prohibitions on the engineering, testing, and cultivation of non-Hawaiian taro in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on AGR/OMH recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB920 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board to establish a $30 fee for the filing of appeals and fees for other administrative expenses. Establishes a Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board Special Fund. Effective July 1, 2013. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB172 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a rebuttable presumption that visitation decisions made by a parent of the child are in the best interests of the child. Presumption can be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence of demonstrable harm to the child. Provides factors th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on HUS recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB923 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Disability Compensation Division Special Fund and authorizes the Disability Compensation Division to establish fees for subpoenas, injury reports, and hearings applications; establishes and funds two full-time positions. Effective July ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB752 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the agricultural land acquisition special fund for the purchase of agricultural land by the agribusiness development corporation for the protection of agricultural lands, land banking, promotion of farm ownership, and agricultural diversi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| HB1073 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the Board of Regents to appointing only one University General Counsel. Requires the University General Counsel to report directly to the Board of Regents. Authorizes the hiring of staff attorneys. Authorizes the Board of Regents to contract w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with Representative(s) Hanohano voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Har, Tokioka excused (2). |
| SB1383 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the president of the University of Hawaii's authority to serve as the chief procurement officer for construction contracts for the University of Hawaii and requires the state administrator of the state procurement office of the department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on HRE recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HRE were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Taniguchi, Kahele, Keith-Agaran, Kidani, Slom; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Ige, Tokuda. |
| HB700 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of child abuse or neglect to include acts or omissions of any person or legal entity. Clarifies reporting duty to be based on a reasonable suspicion. Expands medical personnel's duty to report to include reporting injuries suffe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on HUS recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the parents of a minor mother or minor father to contribute to the support of their grandchild.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
The committee(s) on HUS recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB935 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the conveyance tax on certain real estate transactions and allocates a portion of conveyance tax revenues to the Natural Area Reserve Fund for watershed protection and invasive species control and to the Rental Housing Trust Fund. Effective Ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with Representative(s) Cheape, Fukumoto, Hanohano, Johanson, Morikawa, Ward voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Fale, McDermott voting no (2) and Representative(s) Har, Tokioka excused (2). |
| HB938 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that any equipment, article, instrument, aircraft, vehicle, vessel, business record, or natural resource used or taken in violation of the rules applicable to the Kahoolawe Island Reserve may be seized and subject to forfeiture pursuant to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Re-referred to JUD, referral sheet 24 |
| SB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows department of education employees and agents to volunteer to administer epinephrine to a student in anaphylactic shock. Requires the department of health to provide proper instruction and training to every employee or agent who volunteers to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| HB657 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes an excise tax equal to $3.20 per ounce of tobacco in each article or item of tobacco products, other than large cigars. Allocates monies generated to certain special funds and the general fund. Effective July 1, 2013. (HB657 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with Representative(s) Evans, Hanohano, Ing, McKelvey, Rhoads voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Fale, McDermott voting no (2) and Representative(s) Har, Tokioka excused (2). |
| SB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to demolish the Ewa Beach fire station and construct a LEED certified EMS facility at the same location.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| HB1469 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts bars and nightclubs that hold dispenser or cabaret licenses to allow smoking by posting "smoking permitted" signs. Provides that county ordinances shall not prohibit or restrict smoking in these establishments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Re-referred to HLT/CPC, referral sheet 24 |
