| HB1634 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the tax rate on the sale of large cigars beginning 7/1/16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2377 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the sunset date on the use of new safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and incidental take licenses as recovery options for conserving and protecting the State's threatened and endangered species to July 1, 2020. (HB2377 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends provisions relating to the deposit and use of moneys in the Litigation Deposits Trust Fund (Fund). Provides that recoveries from civil action or settlement of civil claims initiated or prosecuted by the Attorney General, and recoveries from fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2716 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the owner of self-storage facilities to tow a motor vehicle or boat if an occupant is in default for sixty or more days. Authorizes limits in rental agreements on the liability of the owner of self-service storage facilities based on the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2145 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that clean, naturally occurring beach sand moved from a beach, stream mouth, or channel to an adjoining beach or littoral cell for purposes of sediment or erosion control or for ecosystem restoration is not a water pollutant for purposes of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2372 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of commercial activity for purposes of DLNR regulation of ocean and coastal recreation activities. Specifies that land-based retail, rental, and activity providers are not subject to DLNR regulation. (HB2372 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1144 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to provide victims of crime with specific rights related to the criminal justice process. (HB1144 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2148 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the sunset date on new approvals and issuances of safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and incidental take licenses as recovery options for conserving and protecting the State's threatened and endangered species.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1801 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces executive and managerial salaries at the University of Hawaii for fiscal year 2016-2017 to the extent necessary to provide $4,000,000 in the same fiscal year for graduate assistant salaries. Requires a report on the reduction and redistributi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2005 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to establish a pilot program to permit two private-pay individuals to be cared for in the same community care foster family home, subject to certain conditions. Requires the Department of Human Services to examine th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2375 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and operate aquatic mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve aquatic habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1895 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires insurers to cover contraceptive supplies dispensed in an amount sufficient for a twelve-month period. (HB1895 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2395 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 231-18, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow disclosure of tax return information to the Department of the Attorney General, federal, state, or local officials, and other persons in specified situations; and amends section 235-116, Hawaii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB656 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to develop disaster-preparedness educational materials and conduct community outreach seminars. (HB656 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1828 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes motor vehicle insurance requirements for transportation network companies and persons who operate or serve as drivers for transportation network companies. Exempts transportation network companies from oversight under the motor carrier la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2282 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a parent's rights may be terminated if the court determines, by clear and convincing evidence, that the child was conceived during an act of rape or sexual assault creating a presumption that termination of parental rights is in the bes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2698 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the purposes of building infrastructure and constructing homes on Hawaiian Home Lands. (HB2698 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1659 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows courts to authorize a person or entity, other than an officer of justice, to carry out a search warrant. Allows courts to authorize an officer to obtain technical assistance if the search warrant granted pertains to an electronic device or sto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1741 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Read to Me International Foundation for the promotion of reading aloud to children. (HB1741 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2314 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes forfeiture of certain Employees' Retirement System benefits, pursuant to court order, for state or county employees and designated beneficiaries who are convicted of an employment-related felony. (HB2314 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1829 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends penalties pertaining to certain medical marijuana prohibitions. Repeals certain medical marijuana prohibitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2400 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the legal notice required on cigarette shipping containers to reference the age of twenty-one rather than the age of eighteen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2523 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes default rules for homeowners, community, and condominium associations that have not adopted rules allowing for the placement of solar energy devices on single-family residential dwellings and townhouse units. (HB2523 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2038 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the natural resource management, clean energy, and green workforce goals of the Aloha+ Challenge. (HB2038 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB502 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems. (HB502 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1685 | Intro
Sine Die | Subjects proposed salaries for any UH employee that are at least double that of the governor to the disapproval of the legislature. Requires UH to submit an annual report on the employees with salaries in excess of the governor's salary. (HB1685 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2369 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation for fiscal year 2015-2016 for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Department of Human Services to cover short-term costs required to comply with the Affordable Care Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2345 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals section 346-47 and amends sections 457A-1.5, 457A-2, and 457A-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to delete references to the Department of Human Services as licensing or certifying health care settings; and deletes references to the Department of Hu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1937 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes framework and requirements for the licensure of school psychologists in both the public and private sectors of employment. (HB1937 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2435 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the Department of Health and Department of Agriculture for a water-quality study of the water resources, including but not limited to ground water, surface water, and adjacent marine waters, of the Waialua district on the is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2024 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all motorized recreational vessels operating in nearshore waters to have properly functioning propeller guards. (HB2024 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1949 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits monies in the John A. Burns School of Medicine Special Fund to be used for loan repayment for certain health care professionals. Extends the sunset date from the physician workforce assessment fee and related requirements for use of monies in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2274 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Agricultural Loan Revolving Fund to support the State's food sustainability goals. (HB2274 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2519 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an annual maximum deduction of $5,000 per individual or $10,000 for a married couple filing jointly for contributions made to the Hawaii College Savings Program. (HB2519 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Insurance Commissioner to determine whether residential property insurance is unavailable due to a moratorium on insurance policies in a lava zone during a state of emergency due to lava flow. (HB370 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2468 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and requires the Employees' Retirement System to make direct payment to a spouse or former spouse of a system member or retirant of all or a portion of the member's or retirant's benefits pursuant to a Hawaii domestic relations order. Appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2135 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows home schooled students to participate in extracurricular activities offered at the public school that they would otherwise be required to attend. (HB2135 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1620 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax credit for individual taxpayers within the State who install plastic water catchments on the properties at which they reside. Allows taxpayer to elect to make the tax credit refundable. (HB1620 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2301 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the composition of the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority. (HB2301 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2431 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts teachers, counselors, administrators, coaches, or other employees employed by the Department of Education or a public charter school involved in educational trips from certain ethics code provisions. (HB2431 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1759 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurers to promptly pay clean claims for services and repeals the exemption of Medicaid claims from the clean claims definition, as well as claims from self-insured employer groups and claims for services rendered to individuals asso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2131 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds as a prerequisite to awarding grandparent visitation that the court finds that denial would cause significant harm to the child. Clarifies procedures for awarding visitation. (HB2131 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2349 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the application deadline for financial assistance for higher education available to foster or former foster youth, clarifies that financial assistance is for related higher education costs, and clarifies eligibility and program requirements o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1955 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a framework for the regulation of veterinary technicians and the practice of veterinary technology. (HB1955 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2493 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires recording of a domestic violence identification code on all arrest and incident reports of law enforcement contacts involving an offense between family members. Requires monthly statistical reports to the Attorney General and to the public. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2283 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends chapter 467B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require affirmative disclosures to donors by professional solicitors, to clarify the chapter's exemptions from registration, and to make other technical amendments to Hawaii's charitable solicitation l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2300 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Planning to review and propose updates to the State Planning Act and submit a written report to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation. (HB2300 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1716 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the Early Learning Advisory Board to the Early Learning Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1825 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DLNR to establish a West Maui Ocean Recreation Management Area Advisory Committee to advise on issues relating to state waters within the west Maui ORMA, particularly those adjacent to Kaanapali. Requires report to the Legislature. (HB1825 H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2078 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the court to require a person who violates certain laws pertaining to aquatic resources to complete an aquatic resources educational class administered by DLNR in lieu of or in addition to paying a monetary fine. Authorizes the court to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
