| HB2077 | Pass | Permits hydroelectric facilities that are considered small hydropower facilities by the United States Department of Energy on agricultural district lands. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Act 173, 06/30/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1275). |
| HB2363 | Pass | Excludes employers under certain circumstances from providing Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI) coverage for themselves if they perform services for their own corporation, limited liability company (LLC), limited liability partnership (LLP), partn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Act 187, 07/01/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1289). |
| HB2569 | Pass | Requires the Department of Education to establish a goal of becoming net-zero with respect to energy use by January 1, 2035. Requires the Department of Education to expedite the cooling of all public school classrooms. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Act 176, 06/30/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1278). |
| HB1668 | Pass | Authorizes any state court to permit the use of a trained and credentialed facility dog in a judicial proceeding to facilitate the testimony of a vulnerable witness. (HB1668 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Act 178, 06/30/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1280). |
| HB2049 | Pass | Establishes the roads commission to make recommendations on the ownership of private roads. Adds roads, alleys, streets, ways, lanes, bikeways, and bridges to the list of public highways or public trails that can be dedicated or condemned. Exempts th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Act 194, 07/01/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1296). |
| HB2543 | Pass | Makes permanent the provisions of Act 151, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, and Act 264, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013 that require the State and the counties to take action within sixty days for broadband-related permit applications, require the State to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Act 193, 07/01/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1295). |
| HB2626 | Pass | Prohibits the DOH from issuing a permit for a new underground fuel storage tank within 100 yards of the shoreline. Allows DOH to issue a permit to repair or replace existing underground fuel storage tanks. Allows permit holders for existing undergrou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Act 179, 07/01/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1281). |
| HB2029 | Pass | Establishes the Water Infrastructure Loan Program under the Department of Agriculture. Allows the Department to make loans for the purchase and installation of water infrastructure improvements, equipment, and property. Establishes the water infrastr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Act 171, 06/30/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1273). |
| HB2715 | Pass | Requires the Auditor to contract with an actuarial firm that has experience conducting workers' compensation closed claims studies in the United States to perform a study of closed claims in the State's workers' compensation system, subject to consul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Act 188, 07/01/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1290). |
| HB2086 | Pass | Appropriates and deposits general funds into the state highway fund as a subsidy. Requires governor to provide a plan to sustain the state highway fund. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Act 195, 07/01/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1297). |
| HB1752 | Pass | Appropriates general revenue for two full-time equivalent positions as grant administrative support personnel in the office of community services for fiscal year 2016-2017. (HB1752 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Act 189, 07/01/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1291). |
| HB1749 | Pass | Amends the goals of the Hawaii water plan to include the utilization of reclaimed water for uses other than drinking and for potable water needs in one hundred percent of state and county facilities by December 31, 2045. (HB1749 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Act 170, 06/30/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1272). |
| HB2040 | Pass | Establishes a two-year pilot program in the Department of Land and Natural Resources that enables public-private partnerships to provide funds for projects that increase water security. (HB2040 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-07-01
Act 172, 06/30/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1274). |
| HB2084 | Pass | Prohibits all insurers in the State, including health insurers, mutual benefit societies, health maintenance organizations, and health benefits plans under chapter 87A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, from discriminating with respect to participation and co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 135, on 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1237). |
| HB1608 | Pass | Appropriates $750,000 for the UH Graduation Pathway System. (HB1608 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 150, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1252). |
| HB1654 | Pass | Allows a permanent absentee voter to temporarily receive a ballot at an alternate address for elections within an election cycle. Clarifies that certain conditions that normally lead to a termination of permanent absentee voter status do not apply if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 168, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1270). |
| HB1814 | Pass | Appropriates funds for a full time position to provide training and track data on public school pupil punishment and use of restraints restrictions established by Act 206, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014. Requires report. Appropriates funds. (HB1814 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 151, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1253). |
| HB2305 | Pass | Authorizes the creation of Regional State Infrastructure Improvement Subaccounts within the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund and the use of the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund to provide loans and grants to finance regional state infrastructure improvements...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 132, on 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1234). |
| HB1044 | Pass | Amends the offense of sexual assault in the second degree to include a person who knowingly subjects to sexual penetration with a minor at least sixteen years of age and the person is contemporaneously acting in a professional capacity to instruct, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 153, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1255). |
| HB1561 | Pass | Amends nuisance abatement laws to authorize civil suits to abate violations of trespass and other offenses that involve the unlawful occupation of real property. (HB1561 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 154, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1256). |
| HB1055 | Pass | Requires on an 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. If...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 167, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1269). |
| HB2293 | Pass | Enables the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to develop mixed-use developments in partnership with state and county departments and agencies. Eff. 7/1/2016. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 131, on 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1233). |
| HB1669 | Pass | Redefines "peer review" to include reviews done by out-of-state public accountancy licensees. Increases deadlines for filing of peer review compliance reporting forms and appealing certain ratings from 10 days to 30 calendar days. Allows members of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 145, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1247). |
| HB1517 | Pass | Provides that the commission of certain offenses of assault, sexual assault, and abuse of a family or household member in the presence of a minor is an aggravating factor to be considered in the sentencing of the defendant convicted of the offense. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 157, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1259). |
| HB2482 | Pass | Broadens the scope of health and health care data and other information submitted to the state health planning and development agency. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 139, on 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1241). |
| HB1894 | Pass | Clarifies that under the Hawaii Post-Secondary Education Authorization Program, when an institution ceases to operate, the student transcripts shall be kept permanently in a form prescribed by the director and other records requested and obtained by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 143, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1245). |
| HB1943 | Pass | Provides an inflationary adjustment to the methodology used to reimburse facilities for the long-term care of medicaid recipients for fiscal year 2016-2017. Makes an appropriation. (HB1943 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 136, on 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1238). |
| HB2350 | Pass | Updates the wording from "foster boarding home" to "resource family home" and "foster parent" to "resource caregiver"; establishes qualified immunity for resource caregivers and child caring institutions adhering to the reasonable and prudent parent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 133, on 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1235). |
| HB2671 | Pass | Requires the Chiefs of Police and state and county agencies that have the power of arrest to report crime incident reports and other crime information to the Attorney General. (HB2671 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 155, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1257). |
| HB2326 | Pass | Makes numerous amendments to Hawaii's mortgage rescue fraud prevention act, chapter 480E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for consistency with the federal Mortgage Assistance Relief Services Rule. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 142, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1244). |
| HB1878 | Pass | Appropriates funds for Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRCs) and for fall prevention and early detection services for the elderly. Requires the Executive Office on Aging to submit a report to the Legislature no later than 60 days prior to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 138, on 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1240). |
| HB1046 | Pass | Provides compensation and expungement of conviction to persons who can demonstrate they were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned when actually innocent. (HB1046 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 156, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1258). |
| HB1096 | Pass | Specifies that mortgage loan originator companies shall be open for business to the public during posted business hours, at least some of which shall be during regular business hours. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 144, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1246). |
| HB2247 | Pass | Authorizes the State and counties to pay the approved travel costs of their officers and employees directly to vendors or by cash advance to the officer or employee, unless otherwise provided in a collective bargaining agreement or upon affirmative c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-30
Act 158, 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1260). |
| HB2501 | Pass | Requires that where an application has been made for a lease to continue a previously authorized disposition of water rights, a holdover may be authorized annually until the pending application for the disposition of water rights is finally resolved ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-28
Act 126, 06/27/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1228). |
| HB1700 | Pass | To adjust and request appropriations for Fiscal Biennium 201517 funding requirements for operations and capital improvement projects of Executive Branch agencies and programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-24
Act 124, on 06/23/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1225). |
| HB2593 | Pass | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds in the amount of $30,000,000 to assist Hawaii Renewable Resources, LLC, with the development of facilities for food crop, animal feed, and renewable non-fossil fuel production on Oahu. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-23
Act 117, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1218). |
| HB2559 | Pass | Repeals the authority of a law enforcement officer to take into custody and transport a person subject to an assisted community treatment order to any designated mental health program. Requires a court order stating probable cause to believe a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-23
Act 114, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1215). |
| HB2669 | Pass | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for TruTag Technologies, Inc. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-23
Act 118, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1219). |
| HB2205 | Pass | Establishes requirements for public charter school board meetings. Clarifies that revocation and renewal proceedings shall not be subject to Chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Authorizes charter schools to assess fees and charges for co-curricular ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-23
Act 113, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1214). |
| HB545 | Pass | Transfers excess revenues from the bureau of conveyances special fund to the Hawaii historic preservation special fund. Makes an appropriation for an integrated information management system and document digitization for the State's historic preserva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-23
Act 119, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1220). |
| HB625 | Pass | Specifies that harassment by stalking and sexual assault are among the offenses that disqualify a person from owning, possessing, or controlling any firearm or ammunition. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-23
Act 109, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1210). |
| HB2233 | Pass | Requires every physician, osteopathic physician, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, and naturopathic physician to provide the applicable licensing authority with a current electronic mail address when applying for or renewing a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-23
Act 115, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1216). |
| HB2267 | Pass | Defines curricular materials to include both printed and digital material. Clarifies that moneys for curricular materials can be used for digital formats. (HB2267 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-23
Act 112, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1213). |
| HB799 | Pass | Clarifies the authority of the State, its employees and its independent contractors to kill or attempt to kill wildlife by aerial means in furtherance of official State duties. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-23
Act 111, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1212). |
| HB801 | Pass | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to SunStrong LLC, a renewable energy developer, for the provision of electric energy and installation of renewable energy projects in Hawaii. (HB801 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-23
Act 116, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1217). |
| HB2403 | Pass | Amends the composition of the medical advisory board. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-23
Act 120, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1221). |
| HB2632 | Pass | Requires firearms owners who have been disqualified from owning a firearm and ammunition due to a diagnosis of significant behavioral, emotional, or mental disorder, or due to emergency or involuntary hospitalization to a psychiatric facility, to imm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-23
Act 110, 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1211). |
| HB1684 | Pass | Exempts the operations of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority from bidding requirements for concessions or space on public property. (HB1684 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-23
Act 121, on 06/22/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1222). |
| HB2121 | Pass | Appropriates moneys from the general fund for civil legal services for low- and moderate-income persons to be purchased by the Judiciary. (HB2121 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-06-22
Act 105, 06/21/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1206). |
