| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HB2610 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the qualifications for a motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit to require a production to: (1) Hire an unspecified percentage of the production's talent and crew, with some exceptions, from the county in which th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB2019 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes instant runoff voting procedures for any federal, state, or county election not held on the date of a regularly scheduled primary or general election. (HB2019 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2186 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs and appropriates funds for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to provide workforce development, worker training and retraining, and other dislocated worker assistance programs for workers affected by the cessation of sugar produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
