| SB1121 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires laborers and mechanics working on public works to file complaints within three years of the date the payment was due and ensure confidentiality of the complainant. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB673 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the number of Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems' board members to eleven by adding the director of the office of aerospace development to the board of directors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Article III, section 14, of the Hawaii Constitution, to ensure that no bill becomes law if the legislature has so altered or amended the bill during its passage through either house that it no longer reflects its original purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB758 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that the method of service of process for all civil cases under chapter 634, Hawaii Revised Statutes, when personal service is unsuccessful, shall include publication in a newspaper of general circulation three times or publication on the w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB368 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the collective bargaining cost items of bargaining unit (5) and for cost adjustments for their excluded counterparts. Effective date 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1210 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows more than two members of a board to discuss official board business as long as no commitment to vote is made and the number of members do not constitute a quorum of the board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases various court service fees of the sheriff, police, and other authorized independent process servers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB479 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a new section to chapter 712, HRS, which makes solicitation of prostitution a petty misdemeanor. Amends the prostitution statute by narrowing the offense to a person who engages in, or agrees or offers to engage in, sexual conduct with another p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB85 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB866 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the After-School Plus (A+) Program. Requires DOE to submit a report to the legislature regarding efforts to address the impact of increased minimum wage on the A+ Program and proposal to assist families with A+ Program tuition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Education Committee |
| SB614 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 14th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts the statute to implement the constitutional provision on impeachment by establishing qualifying causes, manner, and procedures for impeachment of the governor, lieutenant governor, and appointive officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB497 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the privacy exemption within the Uniform Information Practices Act for county police department officers. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. |
| SB488 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires separate electricity utility metering of nonresidential and residential condominium units in all mixed-use condominium projects. Authorizes condominium boards to also authorize separate metering of other utilities and up to half of the cost ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. |
| SB774 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Land and Natural Resources to create an inventory of taro lands, in conjunction with the Taro Security and Purity Task Force. Appropriates funds. (SB774 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB301 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to post and update information on drug formularies on their websites for the benefit of insureds, potential insureds, and providers. Establishes a formulary acce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. |
| SB995 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the financial disclosure statements of the Hawaii labor relations board and the labor and industrial relations appeals board to be made available for public inspection and duplication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB1300 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 24th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB844 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the executive office on early learning pre-kindergarten program to be administered by the executive office on early learning which may partner with the department of education. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Education Committee |
| SB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes junior kindergartens to provide schooling for children who turn five between August 1 and January 1 of a given school year, and would otherwise be required to wait until after their fifth birthday to enroll in kindergarten. Requires the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB243 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that in the event of a natural disaster, the chief election officer or county clerk in the case of county elections prior to the commencement of the election has the authority to determine whether to postpone or vote by absentee ballot in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Tourism and International Affairs Committee |
| SB496 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits compelled disclosure of sources or unpublished information for journalists, newscasters and persons participating in collection or dissemination of news or information of substantial public interest. Establishes exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB715 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases renewable portfolio standards to seventy per cent by 12/31/2035 and one hundred per cent by 12/31/2050, unless the acquisition of renewable energy is not beneficial to Hawaii's economy. Clarifies and establishes events or circumstances that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB1243 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the BOE to administer standardized tests early in the school year in order to use the tests to inform instruction in the school year in which the test is administered. Establishes conditions for standardized testing. Requires periodic audits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB980 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the R.E.A.C.H. (Resources for Enrichment, Athletics, Culture, and Health) program in the Office of Youth Services to provide a standardized framework and funding for afterschool programs in public middle schools. Establishes a R.E.A.C.H. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB570 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a conditional exception to journalists and newscasters from being compelled to disclose a source of information or unpublished information. Repeals on 1/1/2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB1287 | Engross
Sine Die | Protects sound recordings fixed prior to 02/15/1972 against unauthorized public performance. Protects any right in sound recordings fixed prior 02/15/1972 existing under Hawaii common law, or civil or criminal statutes. Establishes civil remedies for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB150 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that an affidavit on application for voter registration shall be a part of the application associated with the issuance of a civil identification card and driver's license. Requires each county examiner of drivers to electronically store th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB146 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants immunity to state agencies and employees of the State from liability for injury or damage to persons or property arising out of hazardous recreational activities; and establishes limitations on damages when a state agency and employee of the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an independent prison oversight committee to monitor and report on the conditions of state correctional facilities, ensuring that the State's correctional facilities comply with federal and state laws and achieve transparency and accountabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB941 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents recovery in negligence by persons injured during commission of or flight from a felony for which they have been convicted. Prevents recovery in negligence by persons who are uninsured or chemically impaired at the time of a motor vehicle acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1016 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to establish an advanced life support ambulance to be based in Puna on the island of Hawaii, including the acquisition of a vehicle and equipment and personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical services personnel. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Health Committee |
| SB897 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes limited revenue-generating activities within the Kahoolawe island reserve. Appropriates moneys to the Kahoolawe island reserve commission for the management, restoration, and preservation of the Kahoolawe island reserve. Requires the Kahoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB142 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the requirements relating to the statement of expenditures to be filed upon the adjournment sine die of a special session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the submission of a question regarding a constitutional convention to be placed on the ballot for the 2016 general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB1332 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an additional sanction available to the judiciary prior to full parole revocation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. |
| SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the primary election in an unspecified year, requires the office of elections to implement elections by mail. Thereafter requires all federal, state, and county primary, special primary, general, special general, and special elections ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB450 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a legislator or public employee from naming, appointing, or hiring a relative to public office or employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB896 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires remote schools to be allocated funds using categorical allotments, rather than through the weighted student formula. Defines a remote school as any public school that is a high school located at least a one-hour drive away from the next near...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB603 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a public funding program for elections to the state house of representatives. Excludes from the partial public financing program candidates for the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, state senator, and state representative pertaining t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB1065 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes appropriations for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB129 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires certain employers to provide sick leave to service workers for specified purposes under certain conditions. Defines service workers and employers. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB824 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons arrested for a felony offense involving a violent crime to provide DNA samples. Provides for the expungement and destruction of DNA records under certain circumstances. Provides funds directly to the counties to fund expenses necessa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB851 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an emergency appropriation for fiscal year 2014-2015 for food services in the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB708 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a civil penalty for possession of one ounce of less of marijuana or marijuana concentrate that is subject to a fine of not more than $100. Makes various conforming amendments to statutes to reflect the establishment of the civil violation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB997 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all registered lobbyists to attend an annual two hour training course administered by the state ethics commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB106 | Engross
Sine Die | Recalibrates the general fund expenditure ceiling from fiscal year 2019-2020. Requires the recalibration to be based on the previous fiscal year's general fund appropriation, rather than the previous fiscal year's general fund expenditure ceiling. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
