| SB952 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends article XVII of the State Constitution to provide for Referendum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB242 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows electronic copies, as an alternative to printed copies, of a bill to be made available for members of a house in which the bill is being voted upon for third or final reading in fulfillment of the 48-hour availability requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB1111 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of health to transfer federal capitalization grant funds between the water pollution control revolving fund and the drinking water treatment revolving loan fund, in accordance with title 40 Code of Federal Regulations sectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the appropriations of general funds to fund cost items negotiated in collective bargaining agreements or awarded in arbitrations between the bargaining unit and the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB832 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a public charter school student who has been notified of the prospect of charter revocation or nonrenewal or school closure to enroll in a school outside of the student's service area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. |
| SB1223 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the corporation income tax by taxing real estate investment trusts without regard to the federal deduction for dividends paid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB813 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to operate pre-kindergarten programs in elementary schools for four and five-year olds that are not eligible for public kindergarten and appropriates an unspecified amount for such purpose. Requires the department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB889 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds and appropriates funds to support the development of the joint emergency management center, including planning, land acquisition, and the initial appraisal scope. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB461 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2015-2017 for employer-union health benefits trust fund costs for public employees in collective bargaining unit (4) and for certain employees excluded from collective bargaining. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires on application to register to vote, a Hawaii driver's license number or a Hawaii state identification card number or, if no license or identification card has been issued, the last four digits of the applicant's social security number.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB61 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Tourism and International Affairs Committee |
| SB369 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts adoption of selected regulations, by the University of Hawaii board of regents, from chapter 91 and requires adoption of selected regulations to be subject to chapter 92. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB465 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Sunshine Law to expressly allow certain government records to be shared among public board members where no commitment relating to a vote on the matter is made or sought and no additional discussion other than a statement describing the go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB898 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 7th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB275 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii sexual assault response and training program and sexual assault victim examination protocols, including time frames pertaining to the collection, submittal, and analysis of forensic medical evidence. Makes appropriations. (SB27...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB572 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires independent civil process servers to meet additional requirements in order to be placed on the director's list of qualified civil process servers. Makes permanent Act 116, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, relating to persons authorized to serve ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB262 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends Act 156, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, as amended by Act 142, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, as amended by Act 124, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014, to continue the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program by extending the sunset date of the Act and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Health Committee |
| SB944 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides students access to nonpublic schools through school choice scholarship program, which provides grants to eligible entities to allocate funds to eligible students for enrollment in nonpublic schools based upon financial need.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB237 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires incumbent state legislators to file large contribution reports to the campaign spending commission within ten days of receiving a contribution of an amount aggregating more than $500 during a legislative session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB704 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a ratio of one electric vehicle parking stall to be reserved per 100 stalls in places of public accommodations. Designates the appropriate county authority having jurisdiction over planning and permitting for enforcement. Clarifies the elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to report U-6 figures alongside U-3 figures when reporting on the State's unemployment rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates procedural and administrative requirements for law enforcement agencies for eyewitness identifications of suspects in criminal investigations. Grants a defendant the right to challenge any eyewitness identification to be used at trial in a pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB509 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the attorney general to prepare a statement for each proposed constitutional amendment in plain English that indicates the purpose, limitations, and effects of the proposed amendment. Requires the attorney general to distribute each statemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the County Infrastructure Development Revolving Loan Fund and specifies uses of the Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB587 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state ethics commission to hold a hearing prior to determining if a complaint is frivolous and lists evidence that may be considered by the commission in making a determination. Allows the commission, by a majority vote, to order a compl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB1182 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes resign-to-run on all state elected public officers for any federal or state office with a term that begins prior to the end of the term held.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB1306 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a taxpayer who provides transient accommodations on real property leased from a related entity to claim a general excise tax deduction from the amount of gross proceeds or gross income received from its sublease of the real property. Takes ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB413 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Hawaii Rules of Evidence to authorize nonresident property crime victims to testify in criminal proceedings by a live two-way video connection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB834 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides voting rights to the high school student member of the board of education and gives the governor authority to select the student member from a list of nominees compiled by the state student council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1330 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides funding to construct a dynamic tax model.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB1099 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation for fiscal year 2014-2015 for the Office of the Governor to meet payroll shortfalls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1378 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a pilot program to provide tuition free 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 and initiated at a laboratory ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB819 | Engross
Sine Die | Bars prohibition of student or class participation in a fundraiser or charitable activity in conjunction with a nonprofit organization as part of a school project when participation benefits student learning. Requires the department of education to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Education Committee |
| SB1005 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee or prospective employee for smoking or using tobacco products outside the course of employment. Exempts nonprofits whose primary purpose is to discourage the public's use of tobacco produc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB950 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to perform a comprehensive management, financial, and program audit of the University of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB255 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of elections to establish a vote-by-mail pilot program for the 2016 elections in one state representative district within each county. Requires the office of elections to submit a written report to the legislature before and after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB493 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows wagering losses allowable as an itemized deduction under section 165 of the Internal Revenue Code to not be subject to the state limitation on itemized deductions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB984 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an interagency working group consisting of the senate education committee chairperson, house of representatives education committee chairperson, superintendent of education, and comptroller, or their designees, and any other persons the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB760 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a misdemeanor for knowingly and fraudulently representing oneself as the owner or trainer of a service dog. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an alternative incarceration pilot program with mandatory electronic monitoring under the department of public safety for parolees and the judiciary for probationers. Establishes criteria for eligibility, conditions, and retake. Makes app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB686 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the office of veterans services for the planning, design, and construction of a veterans' memorial.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB366 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the operating and capital improvement budget of the Executive Branch for fiscal years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires government agencies and custodians of records of government agencies to have a retention schedule on file with the department of accounting and general services. Requires that retention schedules be updated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of Hawaiian education within the department of education to provide instruction to public school students on Hawaiian culture, history, and language, pursuant to article X, section 4, of the state constitution. Requires the dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1341 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides resources to develop a waiver from certain provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Health Committee |
| SB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB857 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the fiscal flexibility and autonomy previously granted to the Department of Education until June 30, 2020, to allow the Department to continue to use its resources in a more cost-effective manner. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Education Committee |
| SB1116 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates consistency between statutes pertaining to unfit to proceed and acquit and commit regarding the Hawaii state hospital receiving copies of court examinations upon commitment to the hospital. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Health Committee |
| SB215 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a person 70 years of age or older to claim an exemption from jury duty beginning 1/1/16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
