| HB2518 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the business mitigation relief pilot program to assist businesses and commercial property owners negatively impacted by the construction of the rail project. Establishes guidelines and procedures for financial assistance through the progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2379 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to limit commercial use of state ocean waters where it is reasonable for environmental or user safety considerations to do so.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2143 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes HISC to adopt rules to change its invasive species list. Authorizes an agent of HISC to enter private property, under specific conditions, to control or eradicate invasive species. (HB2143 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2709 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to issue a receipt that shall serve as a temporary registration certificate for the medical use of marijuana upon receipt of a written certification form completed by or on behalf of a qualifying patient. Increases p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
The committee(s) on HLT/JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2332 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Joint Formulary Advisory Committee established under chapter 457, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and allows the Board of Nursing to determine the exclusionary formulary for qualified advanced practice registered nurses with prescriptive authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1573 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies county zoning authority by distinguishing single-family residential use from single-family vacation rental use and allowing amortization by ordinance for single-family transient vacation rentals over a reasonable period. (HB1573 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2132 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits denying a student a meal for the first: (1) thirty days of a semester while the student's application for free or reduced lunch is being processed; or (2) week the student's meal fund balance is zero or negative. Authorizes DOE to adopt rul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1546 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals provisions exempting electric vehicles from the payment of parking fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2014 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to keep a record of the former physical addresses and current physical address of the employer and the North American Industry Classification System code applicable to the employer. (HB2014 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2404 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a federal inspection station at Kona International Airport at Keahole. (HB2404 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1906 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes certain unnecessary and redundant reporting responsibilities of the family courts and the Department of Human Services in cases where temporary restraining orders are sought for alleged domestic abuse involving a family or household member wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2360 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the nursing member on the Hawaii Healthcare Workforce Advisory Board (Board) is the Director of the Hawaii State Center for Nursing and that the Hawaii/Pacific Basin Education Center member is the director of the University of Hawaii J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2361 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to replenish funds in the Premium Supplementation Trust Fund to cover the costs of health care expenses for eligible employees and for premium supplementation for employers that are entitled to premium supplementation under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2454 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers administration of the licensing and regulation program for private trade, vocational, and technical schools from the department of education to the department of commerce and consumer affairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1637 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the University of Hawaii to hire six additional staff attorneys. (HB1637 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2621 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the counties in which medical marijuana dispensary licenses are authorized to apply for a license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2176 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Maunalua Bay task force to study and develop recommendations for a Maunalua Bay master plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1863 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensures that any surplus proceeds from an association foreclosure be paid to junior creditors and the former owner of the condominium instead of first being paid to the first mortgage holder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
The committees on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) McKelvey, Woodson, Belatti, Brower, Creagan, Hashem, C. Lee, Nakashima, Takayama, Fukumoto Chang; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Har, San Buenaventura; 0 Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Kawakami, Oshiro, Yamane, McDermott. |
| HB2117 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an exclusion from income tax for the first $ of income earned by farmers whose annual gross income is $ or less. (HB2117 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2705 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to assess physical education in kindergarten through elementary grades in public schools and report to the Legislature. (HB2705 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants OHA officers and employees collective bargaining rights. Gives OHA voting rights as a public employer. (HB665 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2520 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Kakaako community development district. (HB2520 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2457 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an earned credit certificate for contractors in public works projects who meet certain apprenticeship requirements. Clarifies information that a bidder must disclose in a competitive sealed bid for public works projects. (HB2457 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2099 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "person in custody" as used in the offense of sexual assault in the second degree and third degree to mean a person who is stopped by or under the control of a law enforcement officer for official purposes. (HB2099 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2302 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to institutionalize intergovernmental and interagency coordination on transit-oriented development planni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2058 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for certain dam and reservoir projects that improve facilities to protect public safety and provide significant benefits to the general public as important water resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2564 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a pilot program that creates a vegetative buffer zone around five selected schools near a commercial agricultural production area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1811 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an Elderly Working Group to recommend a strategic plan to address health care concerns and needs for Hawaii's seniors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB2467 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and designates Flavobacterium akiainvivens as the official microbe of the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2420 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts to assist with its staffing and operating costs. (HB2420 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1765 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires UH to conduct a study on the effects of sunscreen on Hawaii's coral reefs. Appropriates funds. (HB1765 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB1810 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes health care providers under the state medicaid program to ask about supplemental nutrition assistance program (food stamp) participation on medicaid certification and re-certification forms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB2767 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the University of Hawaii from placing a financial obligation hold on a student's financial account due to an unpaid tuition balance, prior to the last day by which students are allowed to drop a course or receive a refund of tuition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB1901 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any state or county agency who employs personnel whose job duties require or may require intervention in a domestic violence situation to provide such employees with a minimum of 15 hours of domestic violence intervention training. (HB1901 H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB2640 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the homeless emergency action response team program in DHS. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB2397 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 231-7.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify the types of cases that can be appealed, clarify certain procedures, and make other technical, nonsubstantive changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1758 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the John A. Burns School of Medicine to fund medical residency programs to help alleviate the shortage of primary care physicians in rural Oahu and neighbor island communities. (HB1758 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB1524 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a property assessed clean energy program to promote renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements. Increases a property's tax assessment to make loan payments. Authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds and appropriates bond r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB2134 | Intro
Sine Die | Moves section 709-908, Hawaii Revised Statutes, pertaining to furnishing tobacco products and electronic smoking devices to minors from the chapter on offenses against the family and against incompetents to the chapter on offenses against public heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB2209 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that employers, employment agencies, and labor organizations may take adverse employment action for reasons other than those currently protected under Hawaii's anti-discrimination law. (HB2209 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2278 | Intro
Sine Die | Consolidates the Office of Information Management and Technology and the Information and Communication Services Division of the Department of Accounting and General Services, including all related information technology functions, in the Office of En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2208 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the common law employer and employee relationship is not required for employment. Requires ESARO to render appeals decisions within 30 days or a reimbursement will be made. Requires publication of decisions. Authorizes requests for adv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2194 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts University of Hawaii employees who are directly involved in the research or development of technology that is sponsored and approved by the University of Hawaii from Chapter 84, HRS, when performing activities in the transfer and commercializ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1950 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning January 1, 2070, prohibits the sale of an e-liquid container for an electronic smoking device unless the container is packaged in child-resistant packaging and labeled with warning language. (HB1950 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2538 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows fee in lieu funds in the Kalihi to Ala Moana school impact district to be used to purchase completed construction, construct new school facilities, improve or renovate existing structures for school use, or lease land or facilities for school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1223 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaiian Language College at the University of Hawaii at Hilo to establish a four-year pilot Hawaiian language medium preschool program as part of the Hawaiian Language College Laboratory School Program for the school years 2016-2017, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB2197 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the design and construction of a warehouse to serve as a storage site for training logistics and related matters for the Hawaii Army National Guard at Pohakuloa training area on Hawaii island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2505 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Department of Education schools and charter schools to post informational signs that include the Department of Human Services phone number for reporting abuse and neglect. (HB2505 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Education Committee |
| HB1734 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates administrative penalties for any person who knowingly captures, kills, or takes any shark or ray within state marine waters. Provides exemptions for native Hawaiian gathering rights and cultural practices, research purposes, and public and pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1224 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a pilot program to provide classes at the Hawaiian language college to high school students. Requires the pilot program to be designed, implemented, and operated by the Hawaiian language college. (HB1224 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Education Committee |
