| SB2895 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission's Executive Director to dismiss a discrimination complaint and issue a notice of right to sue after a determination of a reasonable cause of discrimination is made and conciliation fails. Authorizes the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2321 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires any state or county agency who employs personnel whose job duties require or may require intervention in a domestic violence situation to provide such employees with a minimum of eight hours of domestic violence intervention training. Makes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2117 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2016-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2032 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies: (1) the due dates of preliminary, final, and supplemental reports to be submitted to the campaign spending commission; and (2) that the supplemental report due on January 31 must be filed every year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2250 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates revenues for repair work and resurfacing of Kalani Street, Auld Lane, and Rawlins Lane on the island of Oahu. (HB2250 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2819 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the name of the High Technology Development Corporation to Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Effective 7/01/2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2791 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the department of business, economic development, and tourism for the purpose of promoting, regulating, and administering the made in Hawaii brand program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB2318 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the address confidentiality program to help survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking to relocate and keep their addresses confidential. Appropriates funds. (SB2318 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2539 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary special action team for the Hawaii State Hospital to address the capacity and census issues at the hospital and the development there of a new forensic facility ready for occupancy by June 30, 2019. Appropriates funds for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2689 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definitions of "dealer", "retailer", "wholesale price" and "wholesaler" to include electronic smoking devices and e-liquid. Establishes definitions for "disposable electronic smoking device", "electronic smoking device", "eliquid", and "re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To House Health Committee |
| HB2542 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Auditor to audit the Plant Quarantine Branch of the Department of Agriculture. (HB2542 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
The recommendation was not adopted. |
| SB2026 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Hawaii apprentice hunting license to authorize persons without a hunting license to hunt under direct supervision of a licensed hunter. (SB2026 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2023 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to designate and adopt rules for the management of no fewer than five community-based subsistence fishing areas by December 31, 2020. Establishes designation process and rule requirements. (HB2023...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB2546 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Agriculture Grant Program and Agriculture Grant Program Special Fund to provide grants to qualified farmers for certain farming activities. Makes an appropriation. (HB2546 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB2122 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases maximum potential unemployment benefits for employees separated from service from 26 to 39 times the individual's weekly benefit amount commencing on or after March 7, 2016. Requires terminated or laid off Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2031 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that increased fines may apply if a noncandidate committee fails to timely file a second preliminary general report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2445 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits a candidate who has filed nomination papers to use election campaign funds to make charitable donations or to award scholarships after the candidate is declared to be duly elected to office because the candidate is unopposed. (SB2445 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2076 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish policies and rules for the implementation of retail wheeling. Requires the Commission to report on the status of the implementation of retail wheeling annually until the implementation is complete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB2237 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to support the revision of the State Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan, based on the goal of achieving zero waste. (HB2237 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2418 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to article V, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution to provide that the attorney general be elected as a nonpartisan elected official rather than appointed by the governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
Notice of bill proposing constitutional amendment transmitted to Governor pursuant to Article XVII, Section 3 (Sen. Com. No. 2). |
| HB1909 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the provisions for equal pay and sex discrimination for substantially similar work. Clarifies employer defenses. Prohibits employer actions regarding wage disclosure and applicant wage histories. Requires that employer advertisements include m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1609 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the UH Board of Regents to develop procedures for the full utilization of university facilities. Requires the administration of the different UH campuses to collect and report data relating to facilities utilization. Prohibits the UH Board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB2085 | Engross
Sine Die | Aims to reduce and ultimately eliminate Hawaii's dependence on imported fossil fuels for electrical generation and ground transportation by 2045. (HB2085 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB2502 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the trafficking of protected animal species, with limited exceptions. (HB2502 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB750 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Anaergia Incorporated with the development of facilities for renewable nonfossil fuel energy production in Maui.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-14
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB2714 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a basalt rebar market study. (HB2714 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB212 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxpayers who purchase and install battery backup systems for solar energy systems. (HB212 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-14
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2940 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that certain sections of the State Ethics Code shall not apply to technology transfer activities; provided that the activities comply with the regulatory framework and research compliance program approved by the board of regents. Requires t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-14
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB2409 | Engross
Sine Die | Deletes duplicative provision of awarding grandparents reasonable visitation rights. Adds as prerequisites to awarding visitation that the court find that awarding visitation to a grandparent is in the best interest of the child and that denial of re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2693 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows transient accommodations brokers to register as tax collection agents to collect and remit general excise and transient accommodations taxes on behalf of operators and plan managers using their services. Applies to taxable years beginning afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3105 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that health care providers who refer patients to facilities in which the provider has a financial interest disclose the financial incentives associated with the referral to patients, and establishes that failure to do so is an unfair or dece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB2478 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the State to submit and implement a waiver from certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2378 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Board to set, charge, and collect fines for violations of section 183-17, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Clarifies that any person violating any provision of part II of chapter 183, Hawaii Revised Statutes, or any rule adopted pursuant thereto s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB2562 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes temporary programs, to be implemented beginning on January 1, 2017, in debris removal from, and trespass onto, public property to be run by DAGS and DPS in coordination and conjunction with each other. Amends and creates criminal trespass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB533 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the news media, under the supervision of emergency management agency personnel, to access areas that are closed pursuant to emergency management powers of the governor and mayor. (SB533 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2247 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the commission of certain offenses of assault, sexual assault, and abuse of a family of household member in the presence of a minor is an aggravating factor in the sentencing of the defendant convicted of the offense. Takes effect on 1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2085 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Makes an appropriation for the kupuna care program. Part II: Makes an appropriation for the aging and disability resource center. Part III: Makes an appropriation for fall prevention and early detection services for the elderly. Part IV: Make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Health Committee |
| SB3037 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DLNR to implement a management plan for Lipoa point on Maui. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2199 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Transit Oriented Development Authority within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to oversee and manage development of infrastructure on state lands within one-quarter mile radius of rail stations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB2560 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of independent expenditures and political contributions. (HB2560 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2355 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the land use commission to amend, modify, or vacate boundary amendment approvals, special permit approvals, and conditions of direct state concern granted pursuant to chapter 205, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by motion of the commission or of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2271 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources for research and mitigation efforts relating to the rapid ohia death disease in the State. Requires the department to submit a report to the legislature. Makes an appropriation. Effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2767 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the University of Hawaii at Manoa to hire three psychologists and one case manager to provide student mental health services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB2558 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires state agencies to participate in a carbon offset program to offset carbon emissions caused by their employees' air travel. Requires DLNR to establish and administer a carbon offset program. (HB2558 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2251 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to assess the viability of the glass advance disposal fee program and report to the Legislature. Requires the Department of Health to report to the Legislature on the Department's progress in adopting the recommendat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2484 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a study identifying traffic problems on and near the H-1 Freeway. (HB2484 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2685 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows allow electronic insurance cards, in addition to paper insurance cards, to be used as proof of insurance for motor vehicles, motorcycles, and motor scooters. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2749 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Sewage Runoff and Infrastructure Review Task Force in DOH to examine the extent of sewage runoff and sewage infrastructure in each county. Makes an appropriation for the task force. (HB2749 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2124 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the ERS board to appoint investment professionals and support staff. Exempts appointed investment officers, professionals, and specialists from civil service law and collective bargaining. Provides option for incumbent investment specialis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2454 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes income tax rates after 12/31/2015. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Finance Committee |
