| HB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "employment" under workers' compensation law to exclude service performed by an individual in the employ of the individual's spouse from mandated coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the Kanu o ka Aina new century public charter school program Kauhale Oiwi o Puukapu for facility expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB579 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any patient involuntarily admitted to a public psychiatric facility and who is accused of committing or attempting to commit a violent crime from personally attending any educational courses outside the psychiatric facility. Allows the pati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| SB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB354 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes criminal offenses of unlawful chop shop activity in the first and second degrees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB313 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the goal that at least three per cent of the State's annual purchasing expenditures be awarded to veteran-owned businesses. Creates government contract preferences for veteran-owned businesses. Requires the comptroller to prepare a report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB553 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for state or county ocean and water safety officers. Exempts new collective bargaining units from the election process when composed of employees covered by a valid agreement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the minimum value of a gift that must be reported by a legislator or government employee, or spouse or dependent child of a legislator or government employee, from $200 to $100; applies to gift disclosures filed for the period beginning on Ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB171 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii teacher standards board to establish a program to select and evaluate activities relating to the professional development of teachers. Effective 07/01/2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| SB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent certain state and county protections from liability on improved lands. Makes permanent the protection from liability for county lifeguards, counties, and the State for damages resulting from rescue, resuscitative, or other lifeguard s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB577 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that a complaint not resolved within 30 days by the Hawaii labor relations board be deemed resolved in favor of the complainant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB315 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all poll books to accurately reflect whether absentee voters have submitted ballots before election day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB555 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the campaign finance law by: (1) defining "matching payment period"; (2) correcting statutory references; (3) changing report filing deadlines; (4) specifying noncandidate committee reporting requirements for contributions made; (5) requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB271 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State and the counties to repay the pension accumulation fund over a twenty-year period for the total sum of moneys that were used by the State and the counties to fund retroactive cost items for HGEA and UPW contracts pursuant to Act 10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB316 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the responsibilities of the elections commission to more closely monitor the chief election officer. Clarifies the duties of the chief election officer in monitoring elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB531 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to allow police officers who would otherwise be ineligible to reside low-income housing, to reside in state low-income public housing for purposes of increasing the security and safety of the residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Housing Committee |
| SB556 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that one of the five trustees representing public employers be appointed by the mayors of the counties, with the approval of the Hawaii State Association of Counties, to specifically represent the counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB228 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all food establishment inspections to be performed only by registered sanitarians or food and drug inspectors. Requires the department of health to post monthly on its website each food establishment inspection report that includes a violati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends article X, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution to modify the appointment process for the board of regents of the University of Hawaii; repeals reference to the candidate advisory council for the board of regents of the University of Ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB317 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals chapter 171C, HRS, relating to the public land development corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB557 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds two members to the board of trustees of the employees' retirement system. One of the new members is to be appointed by unanimous agreement of the mayors of each county and approved by the Hawaii State Association of Counties. Effective 07/01/203...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB759 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the general excise tax money received from interisland loading, transportation, and unloading of aquacultural commodities, livestock, and meat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| HB575 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that payments for a debt of the State or a political subdivision, other than general obligation bonds, be a second charge on the general fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes GO bonds for CIP projects for various irrigation systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB124 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing Committee |
| HB244 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 707-701, HRS, to include intentionally or knowingly killing a person in an especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel manner, manifesting exceptional depravity, as murder in the first degree. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB319 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of the legislative analyst to create fiscal impact statements for certain bills that have a fiscal impact. Makes an appropriation to the office of the legislative analyst.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB534 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the proceeds of the housing finance revolving fund be used for affordable housing, historic preservation, and open space expenditures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Housing Committee |
| SB559 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state director of finance to transmit to the counties a percentage of fines and forfeitures collected for uncontested traffic infractions that are in excess of amounts required by the State for administrative costs of the traffic violati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB573 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends permitted uses within agricultural districts. Applies section 205-5, HRS, and any ordinances, rules, or regulations adopted in accordance with section 205-5, HRS, to lands that are not within forest reserve boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a mandatory minimum jail sentence of not less than three years for conviction of burglary of a dwelling during a civil defense emergency or disaster relief period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates the creation and maintenance of periodically updated information about state finances and capital improvement projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB560 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent certain state and county protections from liability on improved lands. Makes permanent the protection from liability for county lifeguards, counties, and the State for damages resulting from rescue, resuscitative, or other lifeguard s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB756 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers 1 cent of the deposit beverage container fee in excess of funds necessary to reimburse refund values and pay handling fees to redemption centers into the natural area reserve fund for expenditure on watershed programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | Renames the office of information practices to the information practices commission and places the commission administratively within DAGS. Requires the governor to name the commission members. Authorizes the commission to hire an executive director ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB561 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the legislative reference bureau to conduct a study on special purpose revenue bonds and report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB322 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii good agricultural practices program. Makes an appropriation. Effective July 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Public Land Development Corporation. Transfers certain assets to the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB283 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the exemption of specific services from the definition of 'employment' for the purposes of unemployment compensation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB538 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Hawaii Medical Board to require physician clinical practitioners to complete twelve hours of continuing medical education on palliative care every four years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| HB324 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires solicitations for procurement of construction to require offerors to list subcontractors if the value of the contract is in excess of $500,000 and the work to be performed by the subcontractor is in excess of $25,000. Allows substitution of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB325 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits smoking on all public beaches.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporarily prohibits certain counties from building any new sewer system until the existing sewer system for the area with that county's largest population density is retrofitted and upgraded to meet current and future capacity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB232 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a museum of music, dance, and cultural arts design committee. Authorizes the committee to invite developers to prepare plans, specifications, and designs for a new museum, and to review for approval the proposed museum development plans submi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB209 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals task force member exemptions to certain conflict of interest and disclosure prohibitions of the State's code of ethics. Clarifies that all task force members must file annual disclosures of financial interests. Makes task force member disclos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB356 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 20th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB540 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, no later than 1/1/2015, 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 smokers and o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| SB567 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an at-risk youth task force to recommend a cost-effective, comprehensive system to address problems relating to at-risk youth and their families. Requires the at-risk youth task force to submit a report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the court advisement to a defendant who is not a citizen of the United States to be expanded to include a guilty plea, nolo contendere plea, deferred acceptance of guilty plea, or deferred acceptance of nolo contendere plea.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
