| HB2193 | Intro
Sine Die | Subjects to legislative disapproval any tuition fee increase at the University of Hawaii. Requires the University to submit a resolution for review of and a detailed justification for the increase. Applies to tuition fees for the 2017-2018 academic y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HB2258 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support three additional inspector positions on the island of Oahu within the department of agriculture's pesticides branch.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2290 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the name of the High Technology Development Corporation to Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Effective July 1, 2050. (HB2090 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB2337 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the salary cap on the State Librarian position. (HB2337 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1552 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that increased fines may apply if a noncandidate committee fails to timely file a second preliminary general report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires police commissions to establish and police officers to complete training programs on cultural competency and implicit bias and racial and ethnic sensitivity. Requires DPS to establish and public safety officers to complete training programs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1553 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the due dates of preliminary, final, and supplemental reports to be submitted to the Campaign Spending Commission. Requires all past and current candidates with an active candidate committee registration to file supplemental reports every y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2286 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides professionally licensed or certified government employees with the same privileges and immunities as other state employees. (HB2286 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1532 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State Ethics Commission to review the University of Hawaii Board of Regents' official disclosures to determine if any decision or action by a Board of Regents member violated conflict-of-interest laws. Protects from public disclosure the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2220 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurance coverage for lifestyle and nutrition programs intended to treat diabetes and pre-diabetes. (HB2220 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the department of land and natural resources, a four-year public land lease pilot project in counties with a population between 170,000 and 200,000. Authorizes lessees of public land to relinquish a lease. Provides for the disposit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2184 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for the design and construction of a food security facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1743 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes trespass requirement that agricultural lands have a fence or signs stating private property. Establishes that a person sentences for theft of soil reimburse the land owner for the cost of the soil.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1913 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts qualified small businesses from the general excise tax. (HB1913 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Contractors License Board, for contracting positions excluding elevator mechanics, to accept in lieu of a specific experience requirement for licensure, equivalent knowledge, training, or experience, including self-employed or unlicensed e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1912 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to review administrative rules and recommend the repeal of rules that are no longer statutorily authorized.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2651 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines the term "Hawaii attest work". Provides clarification to the term "peer review".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1884 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Office of the Long-term Care Ombudsman for three full-time (3.0 FTE) ombudsman specialist positions, one each on Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii. (HB1884 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2288 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocates an unspecified amount of the Corporation Income Tax collected each year for five years to the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation Revolving Fund for the HI Growth Initiative, an investment program to develop an ecosystem to support hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2253 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands access to opioid antagonists to prevent drug-overdose fatalities. Establishes the Overdose Prevention and Emergency Response Act. (HB2253 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1579 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of elections to join the Electronic Registration Information Center and share information with counties to encourage voter participation and ensure integrity of voter registration rolls. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1640 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a stipend program for qualified individuals currently enrolled in job training programs. Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to establish a program to offer insurance pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1647 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the number of district judges in the second judicial circuit by one.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1641 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the examiner of drivers to include information about a person's disability on the person's driver's license or civil identification card.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB2601 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals provision requiring counties to adopt ordinances regulating agricultural tourism as a precondition for allowing agricultural tourism activities in an agricultural district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Tourism Committee |
| HB2248 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies procedures to amend condominium association declarations and bylaws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1803 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires motor vehicles to be operated on public highways during daylight hours with the daytime running lights on. Requires motor vehicles not equipped with daytime running lights to be operated on public highways during daylight hours with the head...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2583 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires principals to consult with teachers and school community councils when expending moneys provided to their schools. Requires the weighted student formula to include a superintendent's reserve to address needs at unique and remote schools. Gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB2619 | Intro
Sine Die | Gives the Real Estate Commission enforcement powers over planned community associations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2185 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who practice carbon farming for agricultural purposes on property located in agricultural districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2515 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that when a unit owner and association reach a payment plan to cure a nonjudicial foreclosure, completion of the payment plan is required to cure the default. Prohibits an association from converting unpaid fines into fees that may cause a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1929 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of health to recruit board-certified forensic health care professionals, including those from other states. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2529 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for emergency medical services for North Kona.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB2765 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires pest control operators to contact an expert prior to terminating a honey bee colony to determine whether the colony can be safely removed and transported.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1875 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Health for FY 2016-2017 for a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week, ambulance unit for the County of Kauai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB1817 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits owners in a planned community association or condominium to submit a payment plan within thirty days after receiving notice from an association regarding any delinquent assessments and provides owners with time to cure delinquent assessments....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1876 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to require dementia training for caregivers. Requires the department to establish training criteria and annually review the training program. Takes effect on 6/1/2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB1944 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State's medicaid managed care and fee-for-service programs to cover services provided through telehealth. Specifies medical professional liability insurance policy requirements with regard to telehealth coverage. Clarifies requirements f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2633 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes product labeling standards for products purporting to be Hawaiian sea salt or alaea salt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1675 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits teachers and persons who are licensed to provide professional counseling from engaging in or advertising sexual orientation change efforts on students and persons under eighteen years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB2487 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an electronic benefits cardholder to present photo identification for certain transactions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2710 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the UH John A. Burns school of medicine to monitor and research issues related to medical marijuana dispensaries. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB2325 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes various updates to title 24, Hawaii Revised Statutes, including: requiring property insurers to establish catastrophe reserve funds; requiring an insurer seeking to discontinue writing property coverage to file an affidavit; requiring the Insur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1952 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a dispute resolution process by which a dispute for a bill for emergency services or a surprise bill may be resolved. Specifies disclosure requirements for health care professionals and health care facilities, including estimated costs fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB2608 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires registration of check cashers, requires bond, requires verification that customer has only one deferred deposit agreement outstanding at any time, allows extended payment plan by customer, increases investigatory and enforcement powers, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2214 | Intro
Sine Die | Simplifies the process for an entity to become an authorizer (an entity that approves or denies applications to become a charter school). Establishes a shortened timeline for the release of charter school funds. Authorizes charter schools to retain a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB1617 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the state director of finance to annually transfer general funds to the counties to fund lifeguard and emergency medical services personnel positions in the counties. Repeals the emergency medical services special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB1775 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires information on organ and tissue donation to be included in the curriculum for the statewide driver education program and behind-the-wheel driver training program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB2531 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii public housing authority to document violations related to prohibited acts of smoking. Defines the term "violation" as it relates to prohibited acts of smoking in and around public housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB1953 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes public sector employees and volunteers who may have been exposed to a communicable disease through contact with bodily fluids in the course of their duties to petition a court for an order requiring testing of the person or decedent who is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
