| SB1232 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates moneys for capital improvement projects by the Department of Water, County of Kauai for the Hanapepe/Eleele Transmission Waterline Improvement Project and Kapaa storage improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1278 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the board of education to establish and maintain makerspaces, including the equipment, materials, and personnel necessary for the operation of makerspaces in public libraries statewide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the fireworks display permit fee from $110 to $300.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1301 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends criminal liability to the owner of a dog that has been deprived of sustenance. Requires persons holding a dog license to provide notification if ownership of the dog is transferred. Requires persons holding a dog license to provide microchip ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB959 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to repeal inheritance and estate taxes that act as a form of double taxation on individual tax payers.
[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 |
| SB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent Act 116, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, relating to persons authorized to serve civil legal process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB932 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for involuntary termination of parental rights in cases of incest. Provides for denial of custody and visitation rights of convicted parent and preserves the custodial parent's right to court ordered child support.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB6 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires competitive bidding on construction procurements less than $50,000 to contract for drilling work and soil testing. Requires that the bid for drilling and soil testing be separate from a bid for engineering work on the same project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Government Operations 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 |
| SB993 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the thresholds for the exemption of real property from attachment or execution to be based upon the most recent real property tax assessment, regardless of value and for all types of property owners. Clarifies that attachment or execution does...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB1358 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state procurement office to establish a database of certain government procurement contract data, accessible to each governmental body. Appropriates funds to establish the database. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB460 | 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 (2) and for certain employees excluded from collective bargaining. Effective date Janua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB621 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes charter schools to vote on agreements for collective bargaining units (5) and (6). Requires agreements for collective bargaining unit (9) to provide 3 votes for the governor, 1 for HHSC, and 1 for each mayor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education 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 |
| SB860 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the selection of the BOE chairperson by the BOE members, rather than the Governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB647 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits lobbyists from giving gifts to officials in the legislative or executive branch that may be inferred to be intended to influence an official's actions in the performance of the official's duties or intended as a reward for an official's act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor 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. |
| 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 |
| SB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the expenditure of trust funds for the compensation, including fringe benefits, of public employees and contracts for services to be subject to appropriation and allotment. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. |
| SB663 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the fee for the permit for the purchase and use of aerial fireworks, display fireworks, and articles pyrotechnic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB1239 | Intro
Sine Die | Reestablishes the governor's authority to nominate and, with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint the members of the board of regents of the University of Hawaii by repealing the candidate advisory council for the board of regents of the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB566 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and appropriates funds for the department of public safety to create two pilot programs designed to promote inmate visitation at state correctional facilities. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB955 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides protections against burdensome retroactive regulation and lawsuits and prevents frivolous claims against sport shooting range operators and individuals engaging in target shooting. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB462 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires individuals denied a firearm permit or otherwise disqualified from possessing firearms and certain defendants to provide a sworn statement that the individual has disposed of any firearms and ammunition in the individual's possession. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 20th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1310 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the counties to establish and charge user fees for stormwater management systems or infrastructure. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB934 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, and other reasonable expenses if the judgment on compensation or damages exceeds the plaintiff's original written statement by ten per cent or more; but if not mandatory then discretiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB707 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the University of Hawaii sustainability office. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that citizen complaints against a police officer that involve allegations of domestic abuse against a family or household member on the part of the police officer shall not be required to be in writing or sworn to by the complainant. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB480 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects at Maemae elementary school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB128 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a motor vehicle from being operated within one yard of a person operating a bicycle. Appropriates highway fund moneys for a grant-in-aid to the city and county of Honolulu to operate a van pool program on Oahu; subject to certain reporting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB4 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of up to $25,000,000 in special purpose revenue bonds to assist Chaminade University of Honolulu.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB666 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that possession of less than one ounce of marijuana shall be a civil rather than criminal offense. Establishes penalties for violations. Provides for enforcement, notice, and adjudication of violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB165 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DAGS to undertake lease buyback processing under the program of centralized engineering and office leasing services. Requires DAGS to facilitate facility agreements between the State and private investors. Requires DAGS to conduct an invento...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB529 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a tax reform task force to review the general excise tax versus sales tax and compare the Hawaii tax system to those of other states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows committed persons to create approved products and crafts that may be sold through the correctional industries program. Requires that all moneys collected from the sale of products and crafts to be deposited into either the correctional industr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB927 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits state senators to 3 consecutive 4-year terms and state representatives to 6 consecutive 2-year terms beginning with terms commencing on the day of the general election of 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB468 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires compliance with the Military Selective Service Act to be eligible for enrollment in a state-supported post-secondary institution, qualify for state financial assistance for post-secondary education, or be eligible for state or county employm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB210 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds to the criteria for mandatory minimum imprisonment terms and extended terms of imprisonment offenses against pregnant women. Establishes that physical abuse against a family or household member who is pregnant is a class C felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. |
| SB384 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the address confidentiality program to help victims of domestic violence and sexual assault relocate and keep their addresses confidential. Creates the Address Confidentiality Program Surcharge Fund. Requires the Crime Victim Compensation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB930 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of taxation to provide a biennial report on tax expenditures to the legislature on or before September 15th of each odd-numbered year. Requires legislation establishing new tax expenditures to include certain specified provisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1215 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the state public charter school commission to request the issuance of general obligation bonds and to allocate the proceeds thereof for the design, planning, construction, repair, and maintenance of public charter school food service facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB27 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB599 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the elections commission to remove the chief election officer by a majority vote of a quorum at a meeting of the commission. Provides the chief election officer with a period of notice of the removal before it takes effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB414 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies county zoning authority by allowing the amortization or phasing out of single-family transient vacation rentals over a reasonable period of time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
