| HB2714 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a basalt rebar market study. (HB2714 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB212 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxpayers who purchase and install battery backup systems for solar energy systems. (HB212 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-14
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB2478 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the State to submit and implement a waiver from certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2378 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Board to set, charge, and collect fines for violations of section 183-17, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Clarifies that any person violating any provision of part II of chapter 183, Hawaii Revised Statutes, or any rule adopted pursuant thereto s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB2199 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Transit Oriented Development Authority within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to oversee and manage development of infrastructure on state lands within one-quarter mile radius of rail stations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB2560 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of independent expenditures and political contributions. (HB2560 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2558 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires state agencies to participate in a carbon offset program to offset carbon emissions caused by their employees' air travel. Requires DLNR to establish and administer a carbon offset program. (HB2558 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2251 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to assess the viability of the glass advance disposal fee program and report to the Legislature. Requires the Department of Health to report to the Legislature on the Department's progress in adopting the recommendat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2484 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a study identifying traffic problems on and near the H-1 Freeway. (HB2484 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB2749 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Sewage Runoff and Infrastructure Review Task Force in DOH to examine the extent of sewage runoff and sewage infrastructure in each county. Makes an appropriation for the task force. (HB2749 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2124 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the ERS board to appoint investment professionals and support staff. Exempts appointed investment officers, professionals, and specialists from civil service law and collective bargaining. Provides option for incumbent investment specialis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2610 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the qualifications for a motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit to require a production to: (1) Hire an unspecified percentage of the production's talent and crew, with some exceptions, from the county in which th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2019 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes instant runoff voting procedures for any federal, state, or county election not held on the date of a regularly scheduled primary or general election. (HB2019 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2186 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs and appropriates funds for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to provide workforce development, worker training and retraining, and other dislocated worker assistance programs for workers affected by the cessation of sugar produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2576 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a 3-year pilot parametric disaster insurance program within DAGS to be funded by the interest from the hurricane reserve trust fund. (HB2576 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB1597 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for research and mitigation efforts relating to the rapid ohia death disease in the State. Requires the Department to submit a report to the Legislature. Makes appropriation. (HB1597 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB2570 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits counties from requiring buildings served by a microgrid to be connected to an otherwise available source of electrical power. Excludes microgrids from being regulated as public utilities. (HB2570 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB2188 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes Hawaii Correctional Industries to sell products and services on the open market to the general public. (HB2188 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB2563 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the restoration of a continuous beach and infrastructure for public access along the Waikiki waterfront. (HB2563 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Tourism and International Affairs Committee |
| HB1840 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs in consultation with the Comptroller to develop strategies for the upkeep, repair, and maintenance of Sunset Memorial Park in Pearl City, Oahu. Requires a report to the legislature. (HB1840 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2554 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and designates American Sign Language as a language distinct from English and Hawaiian. (HB2554 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB2555 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Board of Agriculture to regulate the growing of industrial hemp for research purposes. Requires the regulation of growers selling industrial hemp. Makes an appropriation. (HB2555 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB2517 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds county-certified cesspools within 200 feet of an existing sewer system to the definition of "qualified cesspool" for the purposes of determining eligibility for an upgrade, conversion, or connection income tax credit. (HB2517 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB1013 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Right to Try Act. Authorizes manufacturers to make investigational drugs, biological products, or devices available to terminally ill patients who have given written, informed consent. Exempts from liability and sanctions, persons who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB375 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the amount of the exemption from attachment or execution of (1) real property that is owned by any individual who is not delinquent on income taxes, real property taxes, or mortgages; and (2) a motor vehicle. Exempts one month of child supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2408 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Transportation to issue revocable permits without approval of the Board of Land and Natural Resources. Effective July 1, 2050. Repealed on July 1, 2021. (HB2408 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB2115 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides authority to plan for the management and disposition of digital assets. (HB2115 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2240 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the University of Hawaii green special fund within UH to reduce energy consumption and costs. Requires University of Hawaii to submit annual report to legislature. (HB2240 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB2313 | Engross
Sine Die | Preserves the Employees' Retirement System's use and control of unclaimed member contributions and benefit payments. (HB2313 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2618 | Engross
Sine Die | Deletes appropriations for capital renovations, as a source of funds for the Works of Art Special Fund. (HB2618 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB2750 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Native Hawaiian Housing Task Force, administratively attached to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, to identify duplicative services and improve efficiency in providing housing-related services to Native Hawaiians. Requires a report. Mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2659 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a percentage of funds in the Housing First Special Fund to be used to provide homes for persons who qualify for social security disability benefits and are diagnosed with life-long, serious mental illnesses. (HB2659 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB2356 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends provisions relating to the use of collected information related to birth defects studies. (HB2356 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1592 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits certain restraints and tethers that endanger or deny sustenance to the dog. Specifies penalties. (HB1592 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2407 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the statute that authorizes the Department of Transportation to negotiate disposition of lands under its control for aeronautical, airport-related, maritime, and maritime-related operations. (HB2407 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB2080 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes fuel cell electric vehicles in the definition of electric vehicles for purposes of parking exemptions, HOV lane use, registration, and required parking spaces in places of public accommodation. Grants procurement priority for fuel cell elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1730 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires electric utilities that use a time-of-use feature in its rate structure to include a credit to the eligible customer-generator for any net electricity produced during peak hours of usage. (HB1730 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1559 | Engross
Sine Die | Restricts asset forfeitures to cases involving the commission of a covered misdemeanor or felony offense. Repeals administrative forfeiture proceedings. Requires the agency to pay for safe and secure storage of the seized property until the completio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2171 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to operate an additional emergency medical services unit in the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village areas. (HB2171 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1940 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants employed at the University of Hawaii. (HB1940 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1355 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a commission within the Department of Taxation to review and make recommendations on expenditures, revenue enhancement, and tax policy. (HB1355 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2694 | Engross
Sine Die | Ensures participation of all political parties on the Reapportionment Commission by providing that if there are no members belonging to the minority party or parties in a house of the legislature, the members belonging to the same minority party or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1744 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides public charter schools with the right of first refusal for the use of DOE athletic facilities within the school complex area and on available dates. Requires DOE school principals to provide public charter schools with schedules of available...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2434 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to establish and staff an advanced life support medic unit in Puna on the Island of Hawaii and for emergency medical services for North Kona. (HB2434 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1613 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants tuition waivers to students at the community colleges who meet certain criteria. Initiates the waiver program as a pilot program in a county with a population of less than 100,000. (HB1613 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB2528 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for public outreach, planning, and an environmental impact statement for a Hawaii island public shooting facility. (HB2528 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2262 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the continuation of the manufacturing grant program, within High Technology Development Corporation. (HB2262 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2296 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the ex-officio National Aeronautics and Space Administration representative from the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems Board. (HB2296 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB2094 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the comptroller to include recommendations from Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 77 in the State comprehensive annual financial report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB1625 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Regents to decide program and salary funding requirements for organized research units of the University of Hawaii and report to the Legislature. (HB1625 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
