| SB1040 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires Hawaii fresh produce or items made with Hawaii grown produce sold at farmers' markets to be displayed with a label or sign containing an identity statement declaring the Hawaii produce's county of geographic origin. Requires non-Hawaii produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB290 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state ethics commission to offer a more comprehensive ethics training course that is to be completed by persons subject to section 84-41, HRS, at the next available ethics training course administered by the state ethics commission takin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the scope of action that is permitted by the fair treatment provisions of the ethics code from official action by a legislator to taking action in the exercise of the legislator's legislative functions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB658 | Intro
Sine Die | Reconstitutes the office of information practices as the information practices commission and places the commission administratively within the department of accounting and general services. Requires the governor to appoint the commission members fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2015-2017 for salary and employer-union health benefits trust fund costs for public employees in collective bargaining unit (8) and for certain employees excluded from collective bargaining. Effective 01/07/2059...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends a budget proviso for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to clarify the projected cost of annual vacation payouts by the Department during fiscal year 2014-2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB1252 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the transient accommodations tax, accommodations provided solely for use as temporary lodging by an individual, or the individual's immediate family members or companions when the individual is receiving healthcare services in a county i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Tourism and International Affairs Committee |
| SB633 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows reservists and national guard members in active service who desire to run for office to file nomination papers and take their oaths by mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB749 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a two-year Hawaii Colorectal Cancer Screening and Awareness Pilot Program (pilot program). Appropriates funds for the pilot program. Repeals the pilot program on June 30, 2017. (SB749 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB815 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that at least two members on the board of regents be current students of the University of Hawaii at the time of initial appointment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB936 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the defense of justification for the use of force, under sections 703-302 through 703-309 of the Penal Code, precluding civil liability to an injured perpetrator convicted of the underlying crime or lesser included offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB490 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines alcohol impact area as a geographic area designated by a county due to the area having been adversely affected by chronic public inebriation or illegal activity associated with off-premises liquor sales or consumption. Provides a county with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB619 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the authorization to issue special purpose revenue bonds for Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning LLC.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB1144 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that State Ethics Code shall not apply to faculty and professional and technical staff of the University of Hawaii when engaged in technology transfer activities. Requires such persons to comply with a regulatory framework and research comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a special fund for the operation of the charter school commission and charter schools. Provides assessment exemptions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1120 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board the option to provide notice of hearing by online posting on the board's webpage if service by first class mail fails to elicit a response from the party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that all task force members must file an annual disclosure of financial interests and makes those disclosures public records available for inspection and duplication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB473 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of the attorney general to develop and implement a state program to allow active and retired law enforcement officers to carry a concealed firearm in Hawaii pursuant to the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB643 | Engross
Sine Die | Deletes duplicative provision of awarding grandparents reasonable visitation rights. Adds as prerequisites to awarding visitation that the court find that awarding visitation to grandparent is in the best interest of the child and that denial of reas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1161 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits courts from considering federal disability benefits awarded to a military veteran when making a disposition of property pursuant to a divorce decree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1213 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows an employer to seek a temporary restraining order and injunction against further harassment of an employee or invitee who may be harassed at the employer's premises or worksite. Effective January 7, 2059. (SB1213 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1281 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to operate an additional emergency medical services unit in the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village areas. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Health Committee |
| SB1051 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the definition of electric vehicles to include fuel cell electric vehicles for purposes of parking exemptions, HOV lane use, registration, and required parking spaces in places of public accommodation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB298 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for advanced life support ambulances based in Makalei and Puna on the island of Hawaii; an ambulance vehicle and operational costs to service Kakaako on the island of Oahu; and to operate an additional emergency medical service uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB810 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires practitioners to register to use the electronic prescription accountability system in order to administer, prescribe, or dispense a controlled substance; requires all practitioners administering, prescribing, or dispensing a controlled subst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Health Committee |
| SB947 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms the State personal exemption amount to the federal personal exemption amount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1279 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits noncompete agreements and restrictive covenants that forbid post-employment competition of employees of a technology business. Effective 01/07/2059. (SB1279 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. |
| SB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers the executive office on early learning from the governor's office to the DOE.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB850 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the state public charter school commission to allocate to charter schools for facilities projects. Requires annual reporting to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1014 | Engross
Sine Die | Defines specific rights granted to a person who is houseless including equal access to housing, jobs, and shelters, equal treatment by government agencies, and access to life-sustaining activities and essential services. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Human Services Committee |
| SB152 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies the criminal offenses for which biological evidence must be retained for a certain period following a conviction and the standards for uses of retained evidence. Establishes a process for the disposal of biological evidence earlier than the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1282 | Intro
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 |
| SB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits subcontractors, contract bidders, and applicants for state grants or subsidies along with state contractors and subcontractors from making campaign contributions for the life of the contract. Requires all public contractors to explicitly ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB669 | Intro
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 |
| SB988 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits certain certified officers and employees of the Research Corporation of UH to non-renewable positions of no more than three years. Requires placement of all other officers or employees in appropriate collective bargaining unit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB699 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 for committing an offense of misuse of 911 emergency telephone service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB578 | Intro
Sine Die | Enable the office of elections to implement elections by mail in any interested county, beginning with the 2016 primary election. By 2018, requires all federal, state, and county primary, special primary, general, special general, and special electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB246 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public disclosure of information contained in the official daily calendar of the governor, lieutenant governor, state department heads, and state agency heads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB847 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends annual bonuses for teachers to align with changes in state and federal school benchmarks and priority designations. Authorizes continuing bonuses for teachers in designated high-need schools that improve and become no longer designated as such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB648 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires lobbyists and their clients to make monthly disclosures during any month the legislature is in session, and a report for June 1 through December 31. Adds required disclosures regarding lobbying events, contractual relationships with legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB710 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of health to support the revision of the state integrated solid waste management plan. Effective 7/1/2053. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1127 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides alternative civil enforcement options that may be utilized by the board of land and natural resources in the processing of natural and cultural resource violation cases. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB883 | 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 |
| SB249 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with fiscal year 2016-2017, requires reimbursements from a non-general or federal fund to the general fund for the annual required contribution made for state employees and retirees whose compensation is or was paid from the non-general or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. |
| SB1352 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the amount of the state tax credit for research activities shall be calculated based on all qualified research expenses for the taxable year, without regard to the increase of expenses over past years. Appropriates funds for a complianc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of the prosecuting attorney of the county of Maui for the prosecution of cases under the drug court and mental health court programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB410 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes members of a county council to jointly attend and speak at meetings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the repair and construction of the Waikiki aquarium and the UH Manoa softball field.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
