| HB2702 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases TAT. Requires distribution of one-half of TAT revenue collections to each county based on the proportion of TAT revenues generated by each county. Reduces the general excise tax rate for gross proceeds received on the sale of food or on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Tourism Committee |
| HB1896 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes pharmacists to prescribe and dispense contraceptive supplies to persons eighteen years of age or older. Specifies requirements pharmacists must meet prior to prescribing and dispensing contraceptive supplies. Requires all insurers in the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2641 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to create a domestic violence call sheet with a domestic violence legal hotline number and shelter hotline number. Requires both the Department of Human Services and the Department of Labor and Industrial Rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2001 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Commission on Criminal Justice and Sentencing Reform in the Governor's Office. Requires the Commission to develop a statewide framework of sentencing and corrections policies to further reduce the State's incarcerated population by an u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2246 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a seven-year limit on tenants in state low-income housing projects. Prohibits state low-income housing units from being passed along from one individual to another. Requires unemployed tenants who live in state low-income housing to perfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB1686 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "imminently dangerous to self or others" to mean that, without intervention, the person will likely remain dangerous to the person's self or others within the next ninety days. (HB1686 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2096 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an attorney's duty to report the unauthorized practice of law despite any applicable privilege.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1782 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a sexual abuse prevention instructional program for public schools modeled after Erin's law. Sets out guidelines of instruction. (HB1782 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2368 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to keep a record of the physical addresses of the employer and the North American Industry Classification System code applicable to the employer; deletes anachronistic provision pertaining to insurance plan information. Takes effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2573 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents the Public Utilities Commission from approving power purchase agreements that prohibit the sale of energy to third parties or require the utility consent to the sale of energy to third parties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB2547 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the increased access to responsible small dollar loans pilot program, within the department of commerce and consumer affairs division of financial institutions, to increase the availability of responsible small dollar investment loans of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB2592 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Pelatron Power Evolution LLC with the development of renewable energy power plants within the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB1931 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the minimum Hawaiian blood quantum requirement of certain successors to lessees of Hawaiian home lands from one-quarter to one thirty-second. (HB1931 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1824 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources for the restoration and preservation of historic relief maps of the Hawaiian Islands. (HB1824 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that informal adjustment shall be prioritized over formal action for a child under family court jurisdiction solely as a result of truancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2178 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to employ and retain independent counsel. (HB2178 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2498 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a homeless care residence program to provide financial assistance to households providing temporary housing and care to a homeless relative. Requires that providers undergo certification and inspection by the department of human services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB2309 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals certain restrictions on investments that can be made by the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund and make housekeeping amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2683 | Intro
Sine Die | Invests in high technology development by facilitating a connection between the high technology industry, returning kamaaina, and visitors to the State. Appropriates funds to the High Technology Development Corporation. (HB2683 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2663 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of land and natural resources, in consultation with the office of the governor and the department of human services, to establish a transitional housing center for the homeless at Sand Island state recreation area. Makes an ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB1712 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the ways in which the operator of a website, online service, online application, or mobile application working with the DOE can use student data.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2652 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii tax credit scholarship program to benefit students with disabilities by providing scholarships to cover transportation costs and any other educational fees associated with a student attending a public school that is not in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB1612 | Intro
Sine Die | Gives HCDA jurisdiction over non-education-related development of the site of the University of Hawaii-West Oahu.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2190 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Puuhonua Commission within the Department of Public Safety to help post-incarcerated persons, probationers, and parolees reintegrate into society. Creates county advisory committees to advise the commission. (HB2190 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2195 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals requirement that the University of Hawaii prepare an annual report regarding the Construction Academy. (HB2195 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1606 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows homeless persons to replace their lost, stolen, destroyed, or mutilated civil identification cards free of charge, provided they show verification of their homeless status through certain documentary evidence. (HB1606 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1780 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Executive Office on Early Learning to establish language developmental milestones, develop a parent resource, and select tools or assessments for educators to assess the language and literacy development of deaf and hearing-impaired chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2032 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the Commission on Water Resource Management shall require an owner or prior owner of an abandoned well to repair or seal the well at the owner's or prior owner's expense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2249 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes enhanced penalties for multiple noise violations by a licensee in a county with a population of 500,000 or more during a single calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2574 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires reporting guidelines for large-scale, outdoor commercial agricultural operations across the State. Establishes disclosure and public notification requirements for outdoor application of pesticides in various environmentally sensitive areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1539 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Agriculture for planning and engineering studies and designs for construction of water source development and associated renewable energy sources for agricultural development and delivery. (HB1539 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2373 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the current rate of the liveaboard fee for state small boat harbors and clarifies that the liveaboard fee may be increased or decreased by rule adopted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1755 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends various statutes to clarify the role of advanced practice registered nurses with regards to their authority and participation in the health care system. Amends definitions in the statutes to conform with the duties and responsibilities of adva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2598 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for a reduction or waiver of fees for critical dams and reservoirs and provides funding to implement drought mitigation measures across the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2374 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a holder of a mooring permit within state small boat harbors to transfer the mooring permit to a new vessel owner under certain terms and conditions. Establishes a Mooring Permit Task Force to examine issues regarding the transfer of state sma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1754 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Hawaii apprentice hunting license to authorize persons without a hunting license to hunt under direct supervision of a licensed hunter. (HB1754 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2203 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires financial institutions and mortgage servicers to provide written notice to borrowers regarding the status of their insurance coverage; obtain force-placed insurance subject to certain conditions; and terminate and refund any moneys to the bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2757 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows dwelling units and housing facilities for the elderly on class D or E lands in the agricultural districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Housing Committee |
| HB1715 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates $6,000,000 in general funds to fund the public prekindergarten program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2031 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates that only nonpotable recycled wastewater shall be used for certain purposes by 1/1/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1927 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a tax credit for individual and corporate taxpayers that provide either solar-powered air conditioning units or solar energy systems specifically designed to provide electricity for air conditioning units for schools. (HB1927 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HB2616 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a community net energy metering program. Requires the public utilities commission to administer the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2039 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Community-based Marine Resources Grant Program. Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for positions and programs in support of community based co-management of nearshore marine resources. (HB2039 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1511 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the ERS from investing in coal companies. Requires the ERS to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature regarding divestment from fossil fuel investments. (HB1511 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2173 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a lessee shall have the option to purchase nonresidential real property under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2136 | Intro
Sine Die | Gives counties the power to manage property required to operate electric utilities and to acquire such property through eminent domain or other means allowed by law. Excludes electric utilities owned and operated by a county from the definition of "p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1635 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a lessee shall have the option to purchase commercial real property under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2164 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides definitions of "advertising" and "solicitation materials" as they apply to the regulation of real estate brokers and salespersons. Specifies information that must be included on advertising and solicitation materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1860 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows county lifeguards to enforce state laws, rules, and regulations in the near shore zone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a landlord, when processing an application to rent residential property, to charge an application screening fee for the actual cost of screening the applicant. Requires landlords to refund any unused amount of the application screening fee and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
