| HB1329 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of SPRBs to four separate projects of Paradise Ohana Automotive Training & Education, LLC, Paradise Ohana Automotive Technologies, LLC, Paradise Ohana Automotive Discovery Center, LLC, and Paradise Ohana Motorsports Center, LL...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HB1092 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes income received from deferred compensation retirement plans from the state income tax for taxpayers who meet certain income requirements. (HB1092 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1072 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the board of psychology to issue certificates of prescriptive authority to medical psychologists who meet certain education, training, and registration requirements. (HB1072 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Health Committee |
| HB825 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes licensing requirements and enforcement provisions for transient vacation rentals to be administered by the department of commerce and consumer affairs. (HB825 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Tourism and International Affairs Committee |
| HB1011 | Engross
Sine Die | Defines dangerous wheels and prohibits their use. (HB1011 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB295 | Engross
Sine Die | Limits compelled disclosure of sources or unpublished information by journalists, newscasters and persons participating in collection or dissemination of news or information of substantial public interest. Establishes exceptions. (HB295 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB546 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires UH to provide nonsupervisory employees in blue collar positions with the same educational benefits provided to faculty. (HB546 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB83 | Engross
Sine Die | Restores the deduction for state taxes paid for taxpayers with income above specified thresholds. Establishes limitations on claims for itemized tax deductions, based on taxpayers' federal adjusted gross income. Allows corporate taxpayers to claim st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB414 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the County of Kauai, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit and Victim Witness Assistance Program. (HB414 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1008 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the examination for a driver's license to test the applicant's knowledge of operating a vehicle in a manner that ensures the safety of blind or visually impaired pedestrians. (HB1008 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB719 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of GO bonds and appropriates funds for the Lahaina Flood Control Project. Requires the appropriation to be matched by county funds. (HB719 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB837 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to enforce and create a registry for ivory and rhinoceros horn items that are intended for sale or purchase within the State; provided the age and species of the items can be documented. Provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| HB727 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "qualified plan" under the Hawaii Health Connector to specify that a plan must be a bronze, silver, gold, or platinum plan for individual plans and a gold or platinum plan for small business health options program plans. (HB7...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB180 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the requirements relating to the statement of expenditures to be filed upon the adjournment sine die of a special session. (HB180 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1071 | Engross
Sine Die | Amending or repealing various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, and deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions. (HB1071 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1482 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a crowdfunding exemption for limited intrastate investments between Hawaii residents and Hawaii businesses, limited to no more than $1,000,000 raised over a twelve month period, and no more than $5,000 per investor. Includes disclaimer re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HB1181 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the state income tax law by changing the amounts of the basic standard deduction and personal exemption. (HB1181 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB737 | Engross
Sine Die | Limits the total number of property insurance policies that an insurer may annually non-renew in a lava zone in Hawaii County during a state of emergency to five per cent of the insurer's policies in force, except for nonpayment of premiums or impair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB543 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the auditor to audit the University of Hawaii's management of faculty workload one year prior to the expiration of UHPA agreements. Requires the auditor to conduct an audit of the University of Hawaii's management of faculty workload and rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB619 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies standards and criteria for the Public Utilities Commission and Division of Consumer Advocacy to apply when determining whether to approve a sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, disposition, encumbrance, merger, or consolidation, of an electri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB848 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that under the Hawaii Post-Secondary Education Authorization Program, institutions may request an administrative hearing pursuant to chapter 91, HRS, for proceedings concerning denials, suspensions, or terminations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB197 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends amount of Transient Accommodations Tax revenues allocated to the counties from a specified sum to a percentage of the revenues collected for the counties to address visitor industry impacts on county services and tourism-related infrastructure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Tourism and International Affairs Committee |
| HB612 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits disclosure of votes cast in a postponed election. Authorizes discretionary withholding of election results unrelated to postponement. Clarifies Governor's emergency postponement authority. Limits postponement period to seven days after an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB811 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for two full-time equivalent graduate assistant positions at the Hawaii educational policy center at UH. (HB811 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB487 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a state-funded Aloha Grant Program, to be developed and administered by the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB52 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires compliance with the Military Selective Service Act to be eligible for enrollment in a state-supported post-secondary institution, qualify for state financial assistance for post-secondary education, or be eligible for state or county employm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB345 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes a conveyance tax on the conveyance of a controlling interest of an entity that has an interest in real property in the State. Applies to conveyances occurring after June 30, 2015. (HB345 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB801 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to SunStrong LLC, a renewable energy developer, for the provision of electric energy and installation of renewable energy projects in Hawaii. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| HB1017 | Engross
Sine Die | Restores the exemptions from the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act for individuals who offer or negotiate the terms of a residential mortgage loan with or on behalf of an immediate family member or for the individual's own reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1107 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the establishment and maintenance of a bookmobile that shall serve the rural areas of the island of Hawaii. (HB1107 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB607 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that each neighbor island county is represented on the early learning advisory board for a term of office of three years. Appropriates funds. (HB607 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB549 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a loan repayment program for attorneys who practice in an area of law related to public service. Makes an appropriation. (HB549 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB1050 | Engross
Sine Die | Mandates the Department of Agriculture and the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to perform specified tasks to address the interisland spread of invasive species. Requires annual reports. Appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| HB1039 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Local and Immigrant Farmer Education Program of the UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Cooperative Extension Service to support the growth and sustainability of the agriculture industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| HB1486 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the assessment of the state fuel tax from a specified cents per gallon to the greater of a specified cents per gallon or a specified percentage of the wholesale price per gallon to the retailer, subject to a minimum monetary amount of tax bas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB608 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds up to $45,000,000 to Waimea Nui Community Development Corporation, a private not-for-profit corporation, for the planning, acquisition, and construction of agriculture, renewable energy, and ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
