| SB2975 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes DOE employees to volunteer to administer or assist a student with blood glucose monitoring.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Health Committee |
| SB2939 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the sunset provisions, with respect to the University of Hawaii, from sections 40-1, 40-2, 40-4, 40-6, 40-58, and 40-81, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB2655 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the date of filing of monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual general excise tax returns from the 20th day of the respective applicable month to the last day of the month. Applies to returns and payments due on or after 1/1/17. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2860 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the board member terms in sections 457-3 and 468E-6(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, from three years to four years to align the terms of members of the Board of Nursing and the Board of Speech Pathology and Audiology with the terms of members of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-03
To House Health Committee |
| SB646 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits the installation of clotheslines in any residential dwelling, apartment, condominium, or townhouse, under certain conditions. Defines a reasonable restriction on the placement and use of clotheslines as any restriction that is necessary to pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1010 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a person who is not licensed or authorized to practice law in the State to provide legal services on a temporary basis in this State if the attorney provides services in association with or assists a Hawaii licensed attorney or as in-house cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-02
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1507 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to study methods to reduce the use of all disposable bags. (HB1507 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2608 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the board of education to conduct annual self-evaluations, report a summary of its self-evaluations to the legislature, and post the summary on its public website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Education Committee |
| SB2314 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes a person ineligible for a deferred acceptance of guilty plea or deferred acceptance of nolo contendere plea in cases where the person was originally charged with the offense of abuse of a family or household member and the charge is subsequentl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1141 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits new installation of a cesspool and new construction served by a cesspool after December 31, 2016. Authorizes the department of health to develop rules for exceptions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-22
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB443 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the office of planning and LUC to update agricultural soil classification system and maps. (HB443 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB759 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DOE and DAGS, in consultation with the State Energy Office of DBEDT and Hawaii Natural Energy Institute of UH, to develop a cooling master strategy and comprehensive retrofitting study for public schools and to report findings to the Legisla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB458 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, requires public schools to annually provide information about the human papillomavirus and other vaccines to parents and guardians of students entering grade 6. Requires the Department of Health to develop th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB264 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the PUC to establish a process for the creation of integrated energy districts. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1482 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a crowdfunding exemption for limited intrastate investments between Hawaii residents and Hawaii businesses, limited to no more than $1,000,000 raised over a twelve month period, and no more than $5,000 per investor. Includes disclaimer re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB498 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funding for FY 2015-2016 and FY 2016-2017 from the state general fund to DHS for positions within the Adult Protective and Community Services Branch. Authorizes DHS to extend the federal ceiling to increase the amount of federal funds av...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB906 | Engross
Sine Die | Ensures that certain eligible housing projects will remain affordable for certain minimum periods to be certified for exemption from general excise taxes. (HB906 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB1241 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for Department of Health lead poisoning prevention activities. (HB1241 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1098 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to make adjustments to the collection of fees for the Mortgage Loan Recovery Fund without regard to chapter 91, HRS, to better maintain the intended $750,000 balance in the Mortgage Loan Recovery ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB995 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the DOA to provide grants to support existing whole system approach, on-farm mentoring programs. Appropriates funds as a grant for existing whole system approach, on-farm mentoring programs. Appropriates unspecified sums to the Future Farmers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB1453 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for land acquisition, plans, design, and construction of a new well, alternative energy development to power the well, and a post-harvest facility at Moloaa on the island of Kauai. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB152 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act. Establishes procedures and remedies for use in actions for partition of real property involving heirs property (real property held in tenancy in common that meets certain requirements). (HB152 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB484 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires PUC to establish community-based renewable energy tariff or tariffs by no later than January 1, 2016, to allow more utility customers to participate in renewable energy production and use. Prohibits cost-shifting to non-participants. (HB484 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB485 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DLNR to develop individual emergency response plans for natural and non-natural emergencies that threaten small boat harbors under DLNR jurisdiction. (HB485 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB1039 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Local and Immigrant Farmer Education Program of the UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Cooperative Extension Service to support the growth and sustainability of the agriculture industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB1087 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the amount of the barrel tax deposited into the Environmental Response Revolving Fund from 5 cents per barrel to an unspecified amount to support environmental activities and programs. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB840 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of public safety to construct a multi-story correctional facility at the Halawa correctional facility to replace the existing Oahu community correctional center. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1293 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that the real property tax exemption for property owned as a primary home covers persons who own, but cannot occupy in, the primary home due to a serious medical condition; provided that they do not rent or lease out that property. (HB1293 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB283 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an exemption from general excise taxes for the development of mixed-use projects incorporating affordable housing units on state or county lands. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB583 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for an annual inflationary adjustment to long-term care facility prospective reimbursement rates for care provided to Medicaid recipients. (HB583 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB1469 | Engross
Sine Die | Caps the distribution of conveyance tax revenue as follows: Caps at $7,600,000 or ten percent, whichever is less, the distribution into the land conservation fund, with any difference to be expended on wildfire prevention, control, and emergency resp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB827 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and the appropriation of funds for plans, design, and construction of a juvenile services center as part of a mixed-use residential project at 902 Alder Street. (HB827 HD3)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB619 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies standards and criteria for the Public Utilities Commission and Division of Consumer Advocacy to apply when determining whether to approve a sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, disposition, encumbrance, merger, or consolidation, of an electri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB613 | Engross
Sine Die | Limits and controls the ways in which a computer service provider working with the DOE can use student data. (HB613 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1393 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the types of energy generation and distribution devices that could make certain electric utility customers eligible for net energy metering. Defines "renewable energy generation and distribution device". (HB1393 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1454 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who incur certain expenses for manufacturing products in Hawaii. Applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015. Sunsets January 1, 2023. (HB1454 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB1188 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes appropriations of money in the Hawaii tobacco settlement fund to set dollar amounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1086 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires LRB to update its 1985 study on environmental reorganization for Hawaii and assess the feasibility of implementing the findings and recommendations of the 1992 department of environmental protection task force. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB1372 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the DOA to establish a working group to study the feasibility of excluding any person who provides water solely to agricultural activities from the definition of "public utility" as used in chapter 269, HRS. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB314 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of: (1) Any advertising device or billboard erected, placed, or maintained upon a county office building if erected, placed, or maintained by authority of the county agency, department, or officer; and (2) Any outdoor advertising d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1161 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of human services to restore basic adult dental benefits to medicaid enrollees and to provide outreach and eligibility services for individuals and families at federally qualified health centers. Appropriates fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB1195 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the capacity from two to three nursing facility level residents in Type I Expanded Adult Residential Care Homes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB527 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for salaries and benefits for lifeguards for Kua bay located in Kekaha Kai State Park on the island of Hawaii, an area under the jurisdiction of DLNR. (HB527 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB1040 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the HISC to contract with UHERO to establish an economic model formula to establish the impact and cost of mitigating the most significant invasive species in the State. Directs LRB to update its 2002 study to reflect costs and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB853 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a K-12 Agriculture Workforce Development Pipeline Initiative in DLIR to conduct trainings for teachers and school administrators in agricultural self-sufficiency. Appropriates funds to support the Initiative. Effective 01/20/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB507 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with UH CTAHR, to research and develop methods for the prevention and treatment of macadamia felted coccid. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB825 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes licensing requirements and enforcement provisions for transient vacation rentals to be administered by the department of commerce and consumer affairs. (HB825 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Tourism and International Affairs Committee |
| HB737 | Engross
Sine Die | Limits the total number of property insurance policies that an insurer may annually non-renew in a lava zone in Hawaii County during a state of emergency to five per cent of the insurer's policies in force, except for nonpayment of premiums or impair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB763 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Executive Office on Aging and the city and county of Honolulu to establish a three-year intergenerational playground pilot program. Requires reports to the Legislature and the mayor of the city and county of Honolulu. Appropriates funds....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB437 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the natural resource goals of the Aloha+ Challenge. (HB437 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
