| SB2639 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a ninety day extension of the conservation district permit decision deadline beyond the time necessary to complete an environmental impact statement or contested case hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1592 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits certain restraints and tethers that endanger or deny sustenance to the dog. Specifies penalties. (HB1592 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2407 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the statute that authorizes the Department of Transportation to negotiate disposition of lands under its control for aeronautical, airport-related, maritime, and maritime-related operations. (HB2407 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2857 | Engross
Sine Die | Defines "vehicle owner", "scene", and "hooked up" for the purposes of towing unattended vehicles. Establishes a surcharge fee for a difficult hookup. Clarifies that if a vehicle is in the process of being hooked up and the vehicle owner appears on th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2080 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes fuel cell electric vehicles in the definition of electric vehicles for purposes of parking exemptions, HOV lane use, registration, and required parking spaces in places of public accommodation. Grants procurement priority for fuel cell elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2946 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of Hawaiian home lands to adopt rules to allow for indigenous native Hawaiian architectural practices on subsistence agricultural lots to be used for agricultural purposes, including for use as farmer housing. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2153 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows adopted individuals who have attained eighteen years of age, adoptive parents, and natural parents unfettered access to the adopted individual's sealed adoption records. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB1730 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires electric utilities that use a time-of-use feature in its rate structure to include a credit to the eligible customer-generator for any net electricity produced during peak hours of usage. (HB1730 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1559 | Engross
Sine Die | Restricts asset forfeitures to cases involving the commission of a covered misdemeanor or felony offense. Repeals administrative forfeiture proceedings. Requires the agency to pay for safe and secure storage of the seized property until the completio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2171 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to operate an additional emergency medical services unit in the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village areas. (HB2171 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2797 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for start-up grants for newly approved pre-opening public charter schools, and requires the state public charter school commission to establish guidelines and criteria for the grants. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Education Committee |
| SB2956 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires firearm owners who have been disqualified from owning a firearm due to mental illness and who underwent involuntary hospitalization to immediately surrender their firearms to the chief of police upon receiving written notification and author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB1940 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants employed at the University of Hawaii. (HB1940 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2787 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides the authority, procedures, and licensing requirements related to the production of industrial hemp as an agricultural product. Requires the department of agriculture to promote industrial hemp research and development of markets for industri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1355 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a commission within the Department of Taxation to review and make recommendations on expenditures, revenue enhancement, and tax policy. (HB1355 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2388 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits moneys in the John A. Burns school of medicine special fund to be used for loan repayment for certain health care professionals. Removes the cap on expenditures from the special fund. Removes the sunset date from the physician workforce asses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB2600 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires state ethics commission advisory opinions to be approved and signed by a majority of the commission members. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2620 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the conclusive presumption of signage as legally adequate warning of dangerous conditions to "non-natural" conditions on unimproved public land. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB1064 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Procurement Policy Board to adopt rules addressing situations of fewer than three qualified persons for procurement of professional services. Allows the Chief Procurement Officer to proceed with procurement in according with the adopte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2694 | Engross
Sine Die | Ensures participation of all political parties on the Reapportionment Commission by providing that if there are no members belonging to the minority party or parties in a house of the legislature, the members belonging to the same minority party or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1744 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides public charter schools with the right of first refusal for the use of DOE athletic facilities within the school complex area and on available dates. Requires DOE school principals to provide public charter schools with schedules of available...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB2434 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to establish and staff an advanced life support medic unit in Puna on the Island of Hawaii and for emergency medical services for North Kona. (HB2434 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2638 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates money to the state building code council. Effective 7/1/2076. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2780 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes requirements for meeting minutes. Authorizes charter schools to assess fees and charges for co-curricular activities. Clarifies that revocation and nonrenewal proceedings shall not be subject to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Exempt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Education Committee |
| SB3080 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of theft of urn as a class C felony. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2462 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to transfer the operation, administration, management, and maintenance of Honokohau small boat harbor to a public-private partnership or a private organization. Appropriates funds for repairs and mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1613 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants tuition waivers to students at the community colleges who meet certain criteria. Initiates the waiver program as a pilot program in a county with a population of less than 100,000. (HB1613 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB2323 | Engross
Sine Die | Ensures insurance coverage for sexually transmitted disease testing in accordance with national professional guidelines, such as those of the United States Preventive Services Task Force and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. App...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Health Committee |
| SB2611 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to provide training and track data on public school pupil punishment and use of restraints restrictions established by Act 206, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014. Requires report. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Education Committee |
| SB2419 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow each gubernatorial nominee to appoint a person from the same political party as a running mate for lieutenant governor in the general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2528 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for public outreach, planning, and an environmental impact statement for a Hawaii island public shooting facility. (HB2528 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2483 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes requirements upon shippers of fireworks. Expands exceptions to the general prohibitions on fireworks. Amends certain fireworks' label size requirements. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB2262 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the continuation of the manufacturing grant program, within High Technology Development Corporation. (HB2262 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2498 | 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] | 2016-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2810 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Uniform Parentage Act to allow for service by publication when defendants cannot be located or personally served. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2615 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits persons licensed to provide professional counseling from engaging in, attempting to engage in, or advertising sexual orientation change efforts on persons under eighteen years of age. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Health Committee |
| SB3108 | Engross
Sine Die | Bans new underground storage tanks within one hundred yards of the shoreline, as of 7/1/2016. Prohibits operation of and renewal of a permit for an underground storage tank within one hundred yards of the shoreline, as of 1/1/2045. Takes effect on 7/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB2296 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the ex-officio National Aeronautics and Space Administration representative from the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems Board. (HB2296 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2804 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds up to $10,000,000 to assist Big Island Dairy, LLC for the planning, design, and construction of a new milking facility. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB2666 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits all insurers in the state, including health insurers, mutual benefit societies, health maintenance organizations, and health benefits plans under chapter 87A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, from discriminating with respect to participation and co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2094 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the comptroller to include recommendations from Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 77 in the State comprehensive annual financial report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2964 | Engross
Sine Die | Enacts recommendations of the penal code review committee convened pursuant to HCR155 (2015). Effective 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2867 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals annual increment and step salary increases for Department of Education teachers and educational officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB1625 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Regents to decide program and salary funding requirements for organized research units of the University of Hawaii and report to the Legislature. (HB1625 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB1731 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the installation or use of household aerobic units that discharge directly to groundwater unless approved by the Director of Health. (HB1731 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2448 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the department of land and natural resources division of forestry and wildlife for use by the Big Island invasive species committee for the immediate coordinated management of albizia trees on the island of Hawaii. Effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2249 | 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] | 2016-03-10
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2603 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes appropriations to the Executive Office on Early Learning for staffing and for travel by the Early Learning Advisory Board. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB2213 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a state funds matching grant program for resident undergraduate UH students with financial need and whose parents have not earned a baccalaureate or higher degree. (HB2213 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB2931 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands authority of the Director of Transportation over required motor vehicle and motor carrier vehicle inspections in the State. Reduces the amount of insurance information required on an inspection certificate. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
To House Transportation Committee |
