| HB1486 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the assessment of the state fuel tax from a specified cents per gallon to the greater of a specified cents per gallon or a specified percentage of the wholesale price per gallon to the retailer, subject to a minimum monetary amount of tax bas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means 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] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1091 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the standard deduction and allowable personal exemption amounts for all filing statuses. Increases the number of exemptions that may be claimed by taxpayers who are 65 years of age or older and meet certain income requirements. (HB1091 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1198 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Honolulu Family Justice Center; provided that the City and County of Honolulu provides matching funds on a 1:1 basis. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB564 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for programs, ceremonies, and activities commemorating the 50TH Anniversary of the Vietnam War.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB854 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires hotels to distribute porterage service charges to employees in full or disclose to customers that the charges are being used for other purposes. (HB854 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Tourism and International Affairs Committee |
| HB1185 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposes to amend the State Constitution by requiring the first principal installment of general obligation bonds and reimbursable general obligation bonds to mature not later than one year from the date of issuance. (HB1185 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1119 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for burial grants for qualifying Filipino veterans to provide funeral and burial services and transportation of their remains to the Philippines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means 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] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1126 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the state procurement office to establish a database of all government procurement contracts, accessible to each governmental entity. Requires state procurement office oversight of procurement information. Appropriates funds to establish the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB96 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Office of the Ombuds at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Appropriates funds to establish and operate the office. (HB96 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts 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] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB1326 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the monetary threshold to $600 with respect to property or services for theft in the second degree. Effective 01/01/2016. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB811 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for two full-time equivalent graduate assistant positions at the Hawaii educational policy center at UH. (HB811 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB1179 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for annual adjustments to the Hawaii standard deduction, income tax rate brackets, and personal exemption in response to increases in inflation as documented by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index. Requires DOTAX to submit a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1230 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an interagency working group to create a comprehensive plan to transfer the Department of Accounting and General Services's personnel and functions related to neighbor island public schools, to the Department of Education. (HB1230 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB792 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Hawaii Rules of Evidence to authorize nonresident property crime victims to testify in misdemeanor or petty misdemeanor property criminal proceedings by a live two-way video connection. (HB792 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
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] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB544 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii board of regents to study the feasibility of selling or leasing the building that houses the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, or leasing or selling the underlying land. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB487 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a state-funded Aloha Grant Program, to be developed and administered by the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB197 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends amount of Transient Accommodations Tax revenues allocated to the counties from a specified sum to a percentage of the revenues collected for the counties to address visitor industry impacts on county services and tourism-related infrastructure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Tourism and International Affairs Committee |
| HB1028 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the establishment of a special innovative procurement process for the procurement of supplies, services, professional services, or construction. Requires the establishment of procedures by the procurement policy board for use of the spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB155 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of accounting and general services to develop a Wailuku state office master plan to address the shortage of space in the Wailuku state office building and old courthouse building. Makes an appropriation. (HB155 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB968 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes that a taxpayer is liable for any amounts passed on and separately stated as the tax owed by the taxpayer for the transaction in a receipt, contract, invoice, billing, or other evidence of the business activity. Provides for civil penalty...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means 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] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB456 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that citizen complaints against a police officer that involve allegations of domestic abuse against a family or household member on the part of the police officer shall not be required to be in writing or sworn to by the complainant. Takes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB848 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that under the Hawaii Post-Secondary Education Authorization Program, institutions may request an administrative hearing pursuant to chapter 91, HRS, for proceedings concerning denials, suspensions, or terminations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB1259 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes permanent exemptions granted to the HTA from requirements for Comptroller's supervision of accounts, publication of consolidated financial statements, approval of business and accounting forms, and deposit of funds into the tourism special fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB549 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a loan repayment program for attorneys who practice in an area of law related to public service. Makes an appropriation. (HB549 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts 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] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means 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] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB452 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of the attorney general for statewide sexual assault services for fiscal biennium 2015-2017. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB810 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the P4C Program of the University of Hawaii Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education and for teachers of the Department of Education to train with the P4C Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB886 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the high-earner income tax brackets established pursuant to Act 60, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009 by an additional five years. Raises the income tax credits provided to low-income households by the refundable food/excise tax credit and low-inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
