| SB2684 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes motor vehicle insurance requirements for transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers. Provides express authority for counties to regulate transportation network companies. (SB2684 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2855 | Engross
Sine Die | 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. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2028 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts personal income tax income and general excise tax income in an amount up to an unspecified percentage of the costs of construction and operation of projects entered into under a public-private partnership with the ERS to improve water infrast...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB818 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to accept FDA-approved, CDC-recommended tuberculosis (TB) blood tests in addition to the TB skin test for the purpose of obtaining a certificate of TB examination. Amends the law requiring tuberculosis clearance prio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB2972 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii sea grant college program to create a north shore beach management plan for the north shore of Oahu stretching from the Kawailoa to Waialee ahupuaa. (SB2972 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2793 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends until 6/30/2023 the provisions of Act 264, SLH 2013, which requires the State and the counties to take action within sixty days for broadband-related permit applications, requires the State to take action within one hundred forty-five days fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2679 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies a customer has the right to rescind a deferred deposit by returning the principal amount used to fund the deferred deposit within a specified time frame. Permits customers to convert a deferred deposit into a loan installment plan in certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2544 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a tiered scale for the biennial renewal fees for professional employer organizations, based on the number of covered employees a professional employer organization reports to the department of labor and industrial relations. Effective 7/1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1607 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a pilot pesticide treatment coupon project, within the existing little fire ant program, and a little fire ant site map. Requires the Department of Agriculture to report to the Legislature on projec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2146 | Engross
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 for the master plan. Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2938 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the state fuel tax to generate additional revenues for the state highway fund by amending section 243-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Allows for an increase in the state motor vehicle registration fee and increases the amount of the fee to be d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2446 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes public employees facing position abolishment, reduction-in-force, or workforce restructuring to opt to receive either voluntary severance benefits or a special retirement benefit in lieu of exercising any reduction-in-force rights. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2540 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Human Services a Medicaid Buy-in Program for Workers with Disabilities. (HB2540 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2020 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates general funds for the department of land and natural resources to conduct and contract for studies to identify the causes of decline in limu and reef fish along the Ewa coast. (HB2020 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2668 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the High Technology Development Corporation to continue to provide grants to businesses with a federal small business innovation research phase II or III awards. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2883 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that amendments to birth records that change parenthood shall not be conducted through the Uniform Information Practices Act procedures to correct personal records, but must be pursuant to a court order of appropriate jurisdiction or other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2012 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that the benefits of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund are subject to negotiation. (HB2012 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2221 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes fines beginning January 1, 2017, for owners of parking facilities with at least one hundred parking spaces that do not provide at least one parking space equipped with a charging system exclusively for electric vehicles. Allows for a warn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2898 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation for fiscal year 2015-2016 for the department of labor and industrial relations and the department of human services to cover short-term costs required to comply with the Affordable Care Act. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1735 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to study the effects of Hawaii's low property tax rates. Appropriates funds. (HB1735 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2025 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Marine Species Task Force to identify ten vital marine species vulnerable to extinction if take levels of those species increases and recommend actions to ensure the sustainability of those species. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1987 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a youth gang information program in the office of youth services. Appropriates funds for the development of prevention and intervention services and programs statewide for youth at risk, and to monitor gang activities and establish new ga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3038 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporarily extends unemployment insurance benefits for unemployed workers whose regular unemployment benefits are exhausted or whose regular benefits year expires during the period from September 4, 2016, through October 28, 2017. Makes an appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2229 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Sports Task Force to plan and coordinate efforts to keep the Pro Bowl in Hawaii, to secure Hawaii as a host site for a National Football League pre-season game, world-title soccer tournaments, mixed martial arts Ultimate Fighti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1932 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates general funds for reimbursement of administration and operating expenses of the department of Hawaiian home lands for fiscal year 2016. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2320 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes pharmacists to prescribe and dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptive supplies to patients eighteen years of age or older, regardless of a previous prescription from an authorized prescriber. Specifies requirements pharmacists mus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2302 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an advisory committee to assist the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism in developing and implementing a statewide dark skies protection strategy. Sunsets June 30, 2021. (SB2302 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2069 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a community improvement districts program with a revolving fund, and a pilot project in Kapalama. (HB2069 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB1839 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the planning, design, and construction of a visitor and interpretive center at Diamond Head State Monument. (HB1839 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1580 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds as a grant to Empower Oahu to maintain and expand the weed and seed strategy, which is a collaborative effort to reclaim, restore, and rebuild communities. Effective July 1, 2030. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2669 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the supervision requirements for licensure of clinical social workers, including by permitting the option of meeting supervision requirements through a video conference service that is compliant with all federal and state privacy, security,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2596 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to DOA to research and develop methods for the prevention and treatment of macadamia felted coccid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1595 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Remote Testimony Task Force (Task Force) to develop procedures to allow the public to submit testimony remotely via the Internet during legislative proceedings. Requires the Task Force to report to the Legislature prior to the 2017 Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB3036 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that employers, employment agencies, and labor organizations may take adverse employment action for reasons other than those currently protected under Hawaii's anti-discrimination law. (SB3036 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2047 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires HCDA to undertake and complete the Kalaeloa energy corridor project. Requires reports to the Legislature. (HB2047 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2566 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes criteria for the Public Utility Commission's methodology in determining the rate that a public utility should pay a producer for nonfossil fuel-generated electricity that the producer supplies to the public utility. (HB2566 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1813 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporarily prohibits a person listed in the federal Terrorist Screening Database from owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm or ammunition. Requires surrender or disposal of firearms and ammunition. Allows for removal of the disqualification. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB2607 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist PQ Energy LLC and special purpose entities to be formed by it with the development and construction of renewable energy plants within the State of Hawaii. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2491 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for programs, ceremonies, and activities commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. (HB2491 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3000 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a retirement benefit incentive for public employees, otherwise eligible to retire, whose positions are subject to layoff due to the consolidation or abolition of functions, or the privatization of the functions of the position. Appropriat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1008 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the examination for a driver's license to test the applicant's knowledge of operating a vehicle in a manner that ensures the safety of blind or visually impaired pedestrians. (HB1008 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2193 | Engross
Sine Die | Defines "person in custody" as used in the offenses of sexual assault in the second degree and third degree to mean a person who is stopped by or under the control of a law enforcement officer for official purposes. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2649 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the PUC to establish performance incentive mechanisms that directly tie electric utility revenues to the utility's achievement on performance metrics. Allows PUC to delay implementation until no later than January 1, 2020. (HB2649 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1384 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires additional Land Use Commission review for permit plan applications for wind turbines with over 100 kilowatt capacity and located within three-quarters of a mile of residential, school, hospital, or business property lines. (HB1384 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2428 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires public retiree contributions to the EUTF to be paid through withholdings of retirement benefit amounts from the ERS. (SB2428 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1892 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all State agencies to reasonably provide and maintain onsite collection methods at buildings and facilities under an agency's jurisdiction for the collection of recyclable materials. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2648 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an advisory committee to evaluate solid waste infrastructure needs. (HB2648 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2460 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an advisory law enforcement employment standards and training board responsible for developing statewide employment standards and training for county and state law enforcement officers who carry firearms and wear a badge. Allows the relev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2346 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the types of investment personnel that may be appointed by the ERS. Authorizes the ERS board to appoint investment professionals and support staff. Exempts appointed investment officers, professionals, and specialists from civil service law a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1869 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to assist and fund the National Wildlife Research Center with research of the negative impacts of the rose-ringed parakeet on Kauai and development and implementation of a control plan to reduce the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
