| SB895 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that all letterheads, documents, symbols, and emblems of the State and other political subdivisions include accurate and appropriate Hawaiian names and language. Establishes references for accurate, appropriate, and authentic Hawaiian names ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB564 | Engross
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 |
| HB854 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires hotels to distribute porterage service charges to employees in full or disclose to customers that the charges are being used for other purposes. (HB854 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Tourism and International Affairs Committee |
| SB1175 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of health and Hawaii state hospital to consider certain recommendations made by the senate special investigative committee on the Hawaii state hospital and submit a written report to the legislature of its status of implementi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB314 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for critical positions in UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Cooperative Extension Service. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB779 | Engross
Sine Die | Raises the district courts' jurisdictional limit for civil actions involving specific performance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1185 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposes to amend the State Constitution by requiring the first principal installment of general obligation bonds and reimbursable general obligation bonds to mature not later than one year from the date of issuance. (HB1185 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB638 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes UH graduate student assistants as collective bargaining unit (15), effective 12/31/2016. Requires the director of human resources development to establish a working group to submit recommendations on the rights and privileges of individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB1119 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for burial grants for qualifying Filipino veterans to provide funeral and burial services and transportation of their remains to the Philippines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB180 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the requirements relating to the statement of expenditures to be filed upon the adjournment sine die of a special session. (HB180 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB846 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes Department of Education (DOE) employees and agents to volunteer to administer auto-injectable epinephrine to a student with anaphylaxis in an emergency situation. Requires DOE to report on the status of implementation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Education Committee |
| HB1126 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the state procurement office to establish a database of all government procurement contracts, accessible to each governmental entity. Requires state procurement office oversight of procurement information. Appropriates funds to establish the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Government Operations 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 |
| HB96 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Office of the Ombuds at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Appropriates funds to establish and operate the office. (HB96 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB546 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires UH to provide nonsupervisory employees in blue collar positions with the same educational benefits provided to faculty. (HB546 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts 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 |
| HB1326 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the monetary threshold to $600 with respect to property or services for theft in the second degree. Effective 01/01/2016. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HB811 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for two full-time equivalent graduate assistant positions at the Hawaii educational policy center at UH. (HB811 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB1162 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits any subdivision, including by condominium property regime, of parcels of agricultural lands one hundred acres or greater in size if at least fifty per cent of the parcel has soil classified by the land study bureau's detailed land classific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB1126 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the reimbursement rate for participants of the forest stewardship program. Clarifies that long-term leaseholders are eligible to participate in the program. Requires forest stewardship program applicants to enter into a program implementati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB975 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds a preference for rental housing trust fund project applicants that receive federal low-income housing tax credits, regardless of volume cap. (SB975 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB683 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a limited purpose driver's license, limited purpose provisional driver's license, and limited purpose instruction permit. Provides that limited purpose driver's licenses, limited purpose provisional driver's licenses, and limited purpose inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB752 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Family Court to issue an order requiring wireless telecommunications service providers to transfer billing authority and rights to phone numbers to petitioners who are domestic abuse victims or to release petitioners who are domestic a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Human Services Committee |
| SB451 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits state employees from taking any official action directly affecting a business or other undertaking that a parent, sibling, or adult child has a substantial financial interest. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB416 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of the state highway fund for the establishment of cycle tracks. Defines the term "cycle track" and clarifies the permitted uses of a cycle track. Authorizes pedestrians, non-motorized vehicles, and mopeds to use bicycle lanes, cyc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1003 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the current Hawaii small business innovation research program by providing matching funds for phase II and phase III awards in the interest of diversifying and stimulating Hawaii's economy. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB134 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act. Establishes procedures and remedies for use in actions for partition of real property involving heirs property (real property held in tenancy in common that meets certain requirements). Effective 7/1/21...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. |
| SB470 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that property or natural resources used or taken in violation of laws or rules pertaining to Kahoolawe island may be subject to seizure, disposal, and forfeiture in accordance with existing law if the offense occurs within the fast lands of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1179 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for annual adjustments to the Hawaii standard deduction, income tax rate brackets, and personal exemption in response to increases in inflation as documented by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index. Requires DOTAX to submit a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1209 | Engross
Sine Die | Corrects errors. Harmonizes age and service requirements for judges who are members of the employees' retirement system with requirements for other contributory plan members. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB1230 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an interagency working group to create a comprehensive plan to transfer the Department of Accounting and General Services's personnel and functions related to neighbor island public schools, to the Department of Education. (HB1230 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB792 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Hawaii Rules of Evidence to authorize nonresident property crime victims to testify in misdemeanor or petty misdemeanor property criminal proceedings by a live two-way video connection. (HB792 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1071 | Engross
Sine Die | Amending or repealing various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, and deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions. (HB1071 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB269 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the process and grounds for a person to petition the court to vacate a conviction for obstructing or occupying a public place on grounds that the person was homeless at the time of committing the offense. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB615 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to: (1) require written notice of an appointment to the Senate for advice and consent concurrent with the governor, judicial selection commission, or chief justice's making of the appointment; and (2) clarify that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB836 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires state departments, upon the closure of facilities, to consider the facility's suitability for use by public charter schools or early learning pre-plus programs, and to notify the Department of Accounting and General Services, Department of E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1012 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates an exemption from liability of an employer for harassment by a supervisor unless the supervisor's agency status is proven to effect the harassment. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB343 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts qualifying totally and permanently disabled veterans from paying the state motor vehicle registration fee. Requires the Office of Veterans Services to report the number of qualifying veterans to the Legislature and Department of Taxation. App...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB16 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies when a towing company must release a vehicle to its owner, if the owner arrives on the scene after the vehicle has been hooked up to the tow truck. Includes renters and authorized borrowers of vehicles in existing consumer protection requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. |
| HB544 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii board of regents to study the feasibility of selling or leasing the building that houses the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, or leasing or selling the underlying land. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB662 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires shippers to notify the fire chief of a destination county prior to shipment as to where fireworks shipments imported into the State or between counties are to be distributed; defines the term redistribution to clarify shipment notification r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Public Safety Committee |
