| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB1151 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes restaurants with a liquor license to sell beer, malt beverages, or cider for off-premises consumption, under certain conditions. Authorizes retail dealers with a class 4 liquor license to sell beer, malt beverages, or cider in non-original...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1008 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes various appropriations to implement the recommendations of the increased food security and food self-sufficiency strategy. Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a strategy and goals for increased food security and self-sufficiency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB1071 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes it clear that the police may grant applications to acquire firearms to lawful permanent resident aliens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB715 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases renewable portfolio standards to seventy per cent by 12/31/2035 and one hundred per cent by 12/31/2050, unless the acquisition of renewable energy is not beneficial to Hawaii's economy. Clarifies and establishes events or circumstances that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB19 | Engross
Sine Die | Reauthorizes the counties' authority to establish a county surcharge on state tax for a limited time period, with the surcharge to be effective from 1/1/2017 to 12/31/2027, if adopted. Allows counties that have already established a county surcharge ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1127 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides alternative civil enforcement options that may be utilized by the board of land and natural resources in the processing of natural and cultural resource violation cases. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1011 | Engross
Sine Die | Defines dangerous wheels and prohibits their use. (HB1011 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB1067 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Attorney General to require electronic financial reporting by professional solicitors. Imposes a fine for late financial reports by professional solicitors and for commercial co-venturers who are found by the Attorney General to have v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB262 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends Act 156, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, as amended by Act 142, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, as amended by Act 124, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014, to continue the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program by extending the sunset date of the Act and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Health 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 |
| SB937 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the disclosure deadline for financial interests for legislators from between January 1 and January 31 to between January 1 and January 15 of each year. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Legislative Management 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 |
| SB897 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes limited revenue-generating activities within the Kahoolawe island reserve. Appropriates moneys to the Kahoolawe island reserve commission for the management, restoration, and preservation of the Kahoolawe island reserve. Requires the Kahoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB1120 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board the option to provide notice of hearing by online posting on the board's webpage if service by first class mail fails to elicit a response from the party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB849 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporarily authorizes the state public charter school commission to request the issuance of general obligation bonds to finance public charter school facilities. Creates a working group to act in an advisory capacity to determine the criteria for an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Education Committee |
| SB879 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a civil violation subject to a fine of $100 for intentional or knowing possession of one ounce or less of marijuana. Amends the offense of promoting a detrimental drug in the third degree to clarify that the offense applies to the knowing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB843 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends or repeals provisions of Chapters 302A and 302L, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as related to early childhood education, for housekeeping and other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Education 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 |
| SB846 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes Department of Education (DOE) employees and agents to volunteer to administer auto-injectable epinephrine to a student with anaphylaxis in an emergency situation. Requires DOE to report on the status of implementation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Education Committee |
| SB509 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the attorney general to prepare a statement for each proposed constitutional amendment in plain English that indicates the purpose, limitations, and effects of the proposed amendment. Requires the attorney general to distribute each statemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Judiciary 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 |
| SB305 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of tobacco products and e-cigarettes on the premises of Hawaii health systems corporation facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Health 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 |
| SB1341 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides resources to develop a waiver from certain provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Health 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 |
| SB204 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii sea grant college program to create a north shore beach management plan for the north shore of Oahu stretching from the Kawailoa to Waialee ahupuaa. Requires matching funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB857 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the fiscal flexibility and autonomy previously granted to the Department of Education until June 30, 2020, to allow the Department to continue to use its resources in a more cost-effective manner. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Education Committee |
| SB806 | Engross
Sine Die | Continues the hospital sustainability program by extending its sunset date to June 30, 2016, updating the referral dates in the statute, and revising the funding amount for the hospital sustainability program for fiscal year 2015-2016. Appropriates f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Health Committee |
| SB1051 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the definition of electric vehicles to include fuel cell electric vehicles for purposes of parking exemptions, HOV lane use, registration, and required parking spaces in places of public accommodation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1129 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the lieutenant governor's rulemaking authority; authorizes the lieutenant governor to assess and collect fees and administrative fines; and establishes a revolving fund into which the fees and administrative fines are to be deposited; clari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Judiciary 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 |
| SB618 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the lapsing date to 1/30/2020, of the special purpose revenue bonds issued to assist Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning in building seawater air conditioning projects on Oahu. Effective 1/29/2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB1374 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to investigate the possibility of acquiring lands owned by Dole Food Company, Inc., that are suitable for long-term diversified agricultural production, and to identify which of those lands are in the agricultural district. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB13 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands doctoral degree requirement for licensing of psychologists to include additional doctoral programs accredited by the American Psychological Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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 |
| SB470 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that property or natural resources used or taken in violation of laws or rules pertaining to Kahoolawe island may be subject to seizure, disposal, and forfeiture in accordance with existing law if the offense occurs within the fast lands of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB798 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a chronic pain medication agreement to be executed between a patient and any prescriber of a narcotic drug within the State for use as chronic pain medication under certain conditions. Requires the administrator of the narcotics enforcement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To House Health 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 |
