| HB1941 | Intro
Sine Die | Continues the Hospital Sustainability Program for one year. Appropriates funds out of the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund for fiscal year 2016-2017. Amends various reimbursement rates under the program to certain private hospitals throug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2271 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a grant program within chapter 163D, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2410 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends to June 30, 2017, the University of Hawaii's exemption from accounting and financial management system requirements that are applicable to state agencies. (HB2410 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2357 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a minor who is fourteen years of age or older to consent to mental health treatment or counseling services by a licensed mental health professional if the professional deems the minor is mature enough to participate intelligently in the tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2238 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hawaii Renewable Resources, LLC, with the development of a natural gas production facility on Maui that will establish and fund food crops, with renewable natural gas and electricity ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2063 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Keahole Management Group LLC with planning, designing, constructing, and equipping facilities for the manufacturing and processing of products. (HB2063 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1663 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "pen register" to include cell phones and other communications devices among those that the numbers transmitted to and from may be recorded. (HB1663 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1667 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the career criminal prosecution unit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2597 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Office of Aerospace Development to hire various positions. Establishes PISCES as a division of the Office of Aerospace Development located on Hawaii Island. Directs PISCES staff to promote and market Hawaii as a research destination. Allow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1529 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the establishment of public employee collective bargaining units not already specifically authorized in law. Allows part-time and full-time graduate student assistants employed by UH to collectively bargain their wages, hours, and other te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1954 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals exemption for calabash style anonymous campaign contributions amounts that aggregate to less than $100 that are received from ten or more persons at the same political function.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2382 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 229, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014, to make the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the State's liaison to the Pacific-Asia Institute for Resilience and Sustainability. (HB2382 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1550 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amounts of fines that may be assessed against noncandidate committees that make only independent expenditures for campaign spending violations. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to recover the costs of investigation services and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1843 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of land and natural resources, with the collaboration of the department of agriculture, to identify, purchase, and rehabilitate freshwater reservoirs in central Maui suitable for fishing, agriculture, and aquaponics. Authorize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2414 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides express legal authority to enable the University of Hawaii to create, promote, and participate in new economic enterprises that use university research and provide workforce opportunities for affiliated university personnel. (HB2414 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1551 | Intro
Sine Die | Distinguishes the dissemination, distribution, and republication of campaign materials from other coordinated activities. Specifies when the financing by any person of such dissemination, distribution, and republication shall not be considered a cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1525 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an offense for remaining unlawfully in or upon state property after a request to leave is made by any law enforcement officer under certain conditions. Requires the departments with jurisdiction over state property to develop and implemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2693 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes two positions in the State Historic Preservation Division in the Department of Land and Natural Resources. (HB2693 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1727 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to notify employees, when providing their annual wage summary statements, that they may be eligible to receive the federal earned income tax credit. (HB1727 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2351 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes establishment of civil service positions and appropriates associated general and non-general funds to enable Executive Branch departments to provide services to the public with civil service employees rather than through contracting. (HB23...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2738 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Three-to-six Out-of-school Program for grades kindergarten through twelve. Authorizes the Department of Education to contract with private providers to furnish out-of-school programs for grades kindergarten through twelve, cond...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2299 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides Enterprise Zone incentives for qualified renewable energy technology business activity on real property owned by the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority. Effective February 19, 2022. (HB2299 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2270 | Intro
Sine Die | Restructures the Hawaii Invasive Species Council as the Hawaii Invasive Species Authority, attached administratively to the Department of Agriculture, for the enhancement of the State's invasive species prevention, early detection, rapid response, co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1688 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii county office of the prosecuting attorney for the career criminal prosecution unit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2718 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for the Korean natural farming pilot program to combat various agricultural pests in Hawaii. Repeals on June 30, .
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2298 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands funding sources to support creative industries development within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Removes all references to the Hawaii Television and Film Development Board. (HB2298 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1621 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the establishment of after-school programs for public middle and intermediate school students. (HB1621 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2650 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the condominium sub-meter working group within DBEDT to examine installing sub-meters in condominiums. (HB2650 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2428 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the University of Hawaii from transferring moneys from its special and revolving funds, or general funds appropriated for other purposes, to fund construction projects that are not explicitly authorized by the Legislature. (HB2428 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2112 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases notary public fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2048 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the HCDA from approving community development plans and permit applications for the Kakaako district without an MOU between the Authority and the developer or owner of the relevant land acknowledging the ownership of adjacent streets and hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2708 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that qualifying patients and primary caregivers, and government officials and employees, shall not be subject to background checks to enter or remain on the premises of certain medical marijuana facilities for an authorized purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
The committee(s) on HLT/JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1624 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the auditor to conduct a comprehensive audit of the University of Hawaii system. Makes an appropriation. (HB1624 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HB2385 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for a declaration to be filed with the petition as an alternative to an affidavit; expands the court's ability to continue the hearing on the petition for good cause; gives the court more flexibility in deciding when a guardian ad litem is nec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2390 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the Department of Public Safety to the exceptions for the use of lie detector tests and psychological tests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1991 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates the selection, inspection, and settlement offer process for claim adjusters of homeowners insurance claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1725 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizes celebrations of Children and Youth Day as an official State event.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HB1792 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it unlawful for a person to sell aquatic life acquired through spearfishing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2739 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support the DOE's Student Travel Program. (HB2739 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1788 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to conduct child death reviews and implement a program to perform maternal death reviews. Requires the Department of Health to submit an annual report to the Legislature relating to child and maternal de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2310 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "dependent-beneficiary."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2387 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes misdemeanor offenses under chapter 134 (Firearms, Ammunition and Dangerous Weapons), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the offenses that disqualify parolees from the provisions of Act 139, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1676 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the number of at large members of the Board of Agriculture from four to three and adds a member who is required to be a resident of the City and County of Honolulu. Takes effect January 20, 2050. (HB1676 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1544 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to Pasha Hawaii Holdings, LLC for the redevelopment of Honolulu Harbor, Oahu.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1746 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires anyone harvesting forest trees or plants for commercial purposes to obtain a license and submit monthly reports to DLNR.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2692 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a general excise tax exemption for businesses affected by construction from a county mass transit project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1530 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii at Manoa to provide its nonsupervisory blue collar employees in collective bargaining unit (1) and supervisory blue collar employees in collective bargaining unit (2), or one of their family members, with tuition wai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2091 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits agricultural tourism uses and activities, including overnight accommodations, in conjunction with bona fide farming operations on agricultural district lands statewide and establishes operational and income requirements. (HB2091 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1549 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a commission on the history and culture of the early settlers of African ancestry and their Hawaiian African descendants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1808 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows medical marijuana production centers to be greenhouses, shade houses, and open-air growing operations, provided that they are not visible from any thoroughfare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
The committee(s) on HLT/JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
