| SB2484 | Engross
Sine Die | Raises the permit fee for aerial devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1800 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires funds appropriated to the University of Hawaii for a specific purpose to be expended for that specific purpose. Requires a report that explains to the Legislature any nonconformity with the previous requirement. Requires unexpended funds to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB2081 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes public agencies to initiate public purpose projects through which a public utility will purchase fuel or electricity. Eff. 1/1/2112. (HB2081 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2687 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for the Colorectal Cancer Screening and Awareness Program (Program) to be administered by the Department of Health. (SB2687 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3081 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to establish, administer, and support on-the-job training for individuals who are unemployed and dislocated due to the closure of Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company on Maui. (SB3081 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2163 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate monies to fund operational costs to provide training, program evaluation, therapeutic prevention, and mental health programs for high risk youth. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2259 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DBEDT to prepare a report examining the linkages between the State's tourism industry and other local industries of the State for the purpose of reducing economic leakage and improving the State's economic input-output model. Makes an approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2010 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to approve First Job Training Programs. (HB2010 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2691 | Engross
Sine Die | Regulates electronic smoking devices and e-liquid under chapter 245, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SB2691 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To House Health Committee |
| HB1590 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Chief Election Officer to select a letter of the alphabet by lot and arrange candidate names on ballots in alphabetical order by last name, beginning with the randomly selected letter. Requires notice to voters and candidates of the orde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2545 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the high-growth grant program and special fund to provide grants to qualified businesses for certain business development activities. Makes an appropriation. (HB2545 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2327 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies scope of Office of Consumer Protection investigator powers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2876 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts lands to which Hawaii Public Housing Authority holds title from the definition of "public lands" in section 171-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To House Housing Committee |
| HB1346 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a program within the office of youth services for positive youth development through after school and school break programs. (HB1346 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2013 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for bargaining unit (8) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2015-2017. (HB2013 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2848 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies chapter 489D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requirements for money transmitter licensee change in control application, including requirement for criminal background check of persons who will assume control of the licensee. Updates reference to f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2162 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Homeless Programs Office of the Department of Human Services for services to help the homeless obtain government issued identification. (HB2162 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2367 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to enable Hawaii Renewable Resources, LLC, to establish and fund food, animal feed, energy production, waste recovery, and related facilities on Oahu. (SB2367 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2307 | Engross
Sine Die | To provide fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for Unit (14) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2007 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the membership of the State Council on Mental Health, defines quorum for the Council, and specifies number of votes required to constitute valid acts of the Council. Designates the State Council on Mental Health within the department of health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To House Health Committee |
| HB2704 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes exemptions from Hawaii securities law for limited intrastate investments with Hawaii businesses. (HB2704 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2309 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires law enforcement agencies and departments to compile information on untested sexual assault collection kits and transmit the information to the Department of the Attorney General. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to prepare a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2257 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes eligible for membership on a county arborist advisory committee certified arborists, horticulturists with specialization in trees, and persons who have received a master's degree in botany. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2694 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies Hawaii's employment security law for independent contractors. Includes twenty factors to be used as guidelines when determining whether an individual could be an independent contractor. Requires the director of labor and industrial relation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2200 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the BLNR Chairperson to transfer public land trust funds to the Kahoolawe Rehabilitation Trust Fund. Authorizes the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to expend public land trust funds for purposes consistent with those of the Kahoolawe Rehabilita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2773 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the natural resource management, clean energy, and green workforce development goals of the Aloha+ Challenge. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2227 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to continue the operations of the Statewide Language Access Resource Center and Multilingual Website Pilot Project within the Office of Language Access. (HB2227 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3017 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the John A. Burns School of Medicine to fund medical residency programs to help alleviate the shortage of primary care physicians in rural Oahu and neighbor island communities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB2030 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that certain types of dissemination, distribution, republication, and use of campaign materials or the financing of which by any person is not a coordinated activity and shall not be considered a contribution to a candidate. (SB2030 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2495 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires every government procurement officer to attend initial training by the State Procurement Office and the procurement workforce of any governmental body to attend follow-up training as determined by the State Procurement Office. Requires the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2137 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an on-farm mentoring program to teach and train farmers to utilize a whole farm system approach to agriculture. Makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture to support existing on-farm mentoring programs and for a pilot on-farm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB1178 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the authorized benefit for acupuncture treatments allowed under personal injury protection benefits provided through motor vehicle insurance. (SB1178 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB83 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation from the tourism special fund for fiscal year 2016-2017 for travel expenses and subsidies incurred by the intercollegiate athletics program of the University of Hawaii. Requires the governor to determine whether such funding sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB2343 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits any county and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority from disqualifying a legal nonconforming dwelling unit from the Housing Choice Voucher Program if the unit meets zoning and building code requirements and other program standards, including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2955 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows permanent resident aliens to receive a permit to acquire a firearm. Requires the issuing authority for firearms permits to perform an inquiry on an applicant using the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS), National Law Enforcement Teleco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB2389 | Engross
Sine Die | Broadens the scope of health and health care data and other information submitted to the State Health Planning and Development Agency. (SB2389 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB2438 | Engross
Sine Die | Replaces the Hawaii election campaign fund with the general revenues of the State as the funding source for the operating expenses of the campaign spending commission. Appropriates moneys to the commission for operating expenses. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2688 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of an e-liquid container for an electronic smoking device unless the container is child-resistant and prohibits the sale of an e-liquid container for an e-liquid containing nicotine unless the e-liquid packaging is labeled with war...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1870 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides a taxpayer who hires a person totally disabled a nonrefundable tax credit for the six-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer. (HB1870 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2677 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the submittal of electronic fingerprints for the purpose of criminal history record checks from: (1) nurse licensure applicants beginning with the July 1, 2017 licensing biennium; and (2) nurse licensure renewal applicants beginning with the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2661 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the process, including payment obligations, mediation requirements, and triggers for further default, where a condo unit owner and association reach a payment plan to resolve a nonjudicial foreclosure. Establishes procedures providing condo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2100 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the number of district judges in the second judicial circuit by one. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2645 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires consideration of a defendant's knowledge that a stolen bicycle was the victim's transportation to and from work or was necessary to the victim's employment in imposing a sentence for theft of a bicycle. (HB2645 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB668 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides immunity from liability to DOH and its employees, agents, and volunteers for operating the clean and sober homes registry. (SB668 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2493 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the state procurement policy board to annually review and examine procurement contracts of at least two executive department, division, or agency contracts that are over $50,000. Requires the state procurement policy board to randomly perfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB2840 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the DOH to continue to disclose, including through electronic means, lists of names of persons whose deaths have been recorded by DOH to state agencies that maintain official lists of persons and are prohibited by federal law from sharing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Health Committee |
| SB2244 | Engross
Sine Die | Reduces the benefit multiplier for judges who become judges, are reappointed, or promoted after June 30, 2016. (SB2244 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2092 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Community Development Authority to prohibit or restrict the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles on sidewalks on private streets in the Kakaako Community Development District. (HB2092 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB2041 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the commission on water resource management to establish a program to provide technical assistance to the counties and public water systems to implement standardized water audits of public water systems. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2506 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for TruTag Technologies, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
