| SB1331 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires pretrial risk assessments, pretrial bail reports, and arraignments to be completed within an unspecified number of working days after an arrest. Obligates the intake service centers to interview lay sponsors within an unspecified number of d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
The committee(s) on PBS recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB810 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires practitioners to register to use the electronic prescription accountability system in order to administer, prescribe, or dispense a controlled substance; requires all practitioners administering, prescribing, or dispensing a controlled subst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB807 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the narcotics advisory committee to recommend acceptable topics and curriculum for the continuing medical education program. Establishes requirements for a mandatory continuing medical education program for prescribing practitioners that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SCR13 | Engross
Sine Die | Requesting The Interagency Council On Homelessness To Convene A Working Group To Determine The Best Practices For Collecting, Storing, And Sharing Data On Homeless Youth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To House Human Services Committee |
| SB1014 | Engross
Sine Die | Defines specific rights granted to a person who is houseless including equal access to housing, jobs, and shelters, equal treatment by government agencies, and access to life-sustaining activities and essential services. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
The committee(s) on HUS recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB638 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes UH graduate student assistants as collective bargaining unit (15), effective 12/31/2016. Requires the director of human resources development to establish a working group to submit recommendations on the rights and privileges of individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
The committee(s) on LAB recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB728 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires equal pay for similar work for any employee performing services under certain government contracts. Establishes a requirement for government contractors to report wages paid to employees, by gender. Provides penalties for contractors found t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
The committee(s) on LAB recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB752 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Family Court to issue an order requiring wireless telecommunications service providers to transfer billing authority and rights to phone numbers to petitioners who are domestic abuse victims or to release petitioners who are domestic a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
The committee(s) on HUS recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB1209 | Engross
Sine Die | Corrects errors. Harmonizes age and service requirements for judges who are members of the employees' retirement system with requirements for other contributory plan members. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Re-referred to LAB, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 32 |
| SB128 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a motor vehicle from being operated within one yard of a person operating a bicycle. Appropriates highway fund moneys for a grant-in-aid to the city and county of Honolulu to operate a van pool program on Oahu; subject to certain reporting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB819 | Engross
Sine Die | Bars prohibition of student or class participation in a fundraiser or charitable activity in conjunction with a nonprofit organization as part of a school project when participation benefits student learning. Requires the department of education to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Education Committee |
| SB533 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the news media, under the supervision of emergency management agency personnel, to access areas that are closed pursuant to emergency management powers of the governor and mayor. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB150 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that an affidavit on application for voter registration shall be a part of the application associated with the issuance of a civil identification card and driver's license. Requires each county examiner of drivers to electronically store th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1116 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates consistency between statutes pertaining to unfit to proceed and acquit and commit regarding the Hawaii state hospital receiving copies of court examinations upon commitment to the hospital. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Health Committee |
| SB612 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for a period of probation for any person convicted of the offense of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant. Mandates a period of probation for any person convicted of operating a vehicle after license and privilege have be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB833 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes protocol for public charter schools in the event a school becomes financially insolvent. Authorizes school closure if determined necessary by an authorizer in the event of financial insolvency or due to health and safety issues. Allows a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Education Committee |
| SB511 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides the state land use commission with the authority to amend, modify, or vacate conditions of a boundary amendment and special permit conditions granted pursuant to chapter 205, Hawaii Revised Statutes, if there has been a failure to substantia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB1097 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies section 269-15(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, so that the Public Utilities Commission may order the Consumer Advocate, rather than the Director of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, to appear in regulatory proceedings initiated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB785 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes permanent Act 141, SLH 2009, which requires the counties to issue affordable housing credits to DHHL. Makes permanent Act 98, SLH 2012, which requires the counties to issue affordable housing credits for each residential unit developed by DHHL....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Housing Committee |
| SB1126 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the reimbursement rate for participants of the forest stewardship program. Clarifies that long-term leaseholders are eligible to participate in the program. Requires forest stewardship program applicants to enter into a program implementati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB1368 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of liquor at street closure events except under certain conditions. Effective July 1, 2020. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB844 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the executive office on early learning pre-kindergarten program to be administered by the executive office on early learning which may partner with the department of education. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Education Committee |
| SB409 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies county zoning by allowing amortization or phasing out of nonconforming single-family transient vacation rentals over a reasonable period of time. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB216 | Engross
Sine Die | For government public works construction contracts greater than $2,000, provides that overtime compensation be not less than 11/2 times the laborer's or mechanic's basic hourly rate of pay plus fringe benefits and that if the department of labor and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB750 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Anaergia Incorporated with the development of facilities for renewable nonfossil fuel energy production in Maui.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB165 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DAGS to undertake lease buyback processing under the program of centralized engineering and office leasing services. Requires DAGS to facilitate facility agreements between the State and private investors. Requires DAGS to conduct an invento...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB152 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies the criminal offenses for which biological evidence must be retained for a certain period following a conviction and the standards for uses of retained evidence. Establishes a process for the disposal of biological evidence earlier than the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB337 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires birthing facilities to perform a pulse oximetry test or other medically accepted screening on newborns to screen for critical congenital heart defects. Requires birthing facilities to submit an annual minimum data set related to pulse oximet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Health Committee |
| SB1012 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates an exemption from liability of an employer for harassment by a supervisor unless the supervisor's agency status is proven to effect the harassment. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB375 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the growing of industrial hemp for certain purposes under specified conditions. Appropriates funds for department of agriculture staff to assist in registration of industrial hemp growers and seed testing. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB1162 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits any subdivision, including by condominium property regime, of parcels of agricultural lands one hundred acres or greater in size if at least fifty per cent of the parcel has soil classified by the land study bureau's detailed land classific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB1310 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the counties to establish and charge user fees for stormwater management systems or infrastructure. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB735 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning with the July 1, 2017, licensing biennium, requires licensed registered nurses and licensed practical nurses to submit evidence of completed continuing competency requirements prior to the renewal of the license. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Health Committee |
| SB543 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulates out-of-state certified public accountants by establishing clear standards, including a limited privilege to practice within the State, and subjecting all certified public accountants practicing in Hawaii to oversight by the state board of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB209 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the offense of promoting a dangerous drug in the first degree to include possessing fifty or more capsules, tablets, ampules, dosage units or syrettes containing one or more dangerous drugs. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB465 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Sunshine Law to expressly allow certain government records to be shared among public board members where no commitment relating to a vote on the matter is made or sought and no additional discussion other than a statement describing the go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB818 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to accept FDA-approved, CDC-recommended tuberculosis (TB) blood tests in addition to the TB skin test for the purpose of obtaining a certificate of TB examination. Amends the law requiring tuberculosis clearance prio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Health Committee |
| SB1220 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the definition of "tobacco products" to include any product containing nicotine, but not containing tobacco. Imposes an excise tax equal to eighty per cent of the wholesale price of any tobacco product, other than large cigars, sold by a whol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Health Committee |
| SB472 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfers OIP from LG to DAGS. Clarifies the independence of OIP as an administratively attached agency. Clarifies the employment status of OIP attorneys and the civil service exemption for OIP personnel. Effective 1/7/2059. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1022 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to repeal the minimum one-year Hawaii residency requirement for appointment as an officer of a principal department pursuant to article V, section 6, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB663 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the fee for the permit for the purchase and use of aerial fireworks, display fireworks, and articles pyrotechnic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB1178 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the authorized benefit for acupuncture treatments allowed under personal injury protection benefits provided through motor vehicle insurance. Ties increases in payments for acupuncture treatments in with annual increases, if any, to the med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB757 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of electronic smoking devices in places where smoking is prohibited. Updates signage requirements, with certain exceptions. Takes effect on 9/1/2015. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Health Committee |
| SB115 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a child to undergo a physical examination prior to attending seventh grade, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Health Committee |
| SB683 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a limited purpose driver's license, limited purpose provisional driver's license, and limited purpose instruction permit. Provides that limited purpose driver's licenses, limited purpose provisional driver's licenses, and limited purpose inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB866 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the After-School Plus (A+) Program. Requires DOE to submit a report to the legislature regarding efforts to address the impact of increased minimum wage on the A+ Program and proposal to assist families with A+ Program tuition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Education Committee |
| SB619 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the authorization to issue special purpose revenue bonds for Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning LLC.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB1348 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the university laboratory school to conform its student enrollment profile to the standard prescribed by the University of Hawaii college of education in order to meet the University of Hawaii college of education's research requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Education Committee |
| SB704 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a ratio of one electric vehicle parking stall to be reserved per 100 stalls in places of public accommodations. Designates the appropriate county authority having jurisdiction over planning and permitting for enforcement. Clarifies the elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB925 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder coordinator position in the family services division of the department of health. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Health Committee |
