| HB457 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a community court outreach project in the City and County of Honolulu, subject to the availability of funds and memoranda of agreements from the Judiciary, Prosecuting Attorney, and the Public Defender. Appropriates funds. (HB457 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB894 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts individuals selling only insurance for property stored at a self-service storage facility from obtaining a license as an insurance producer provided that specific requirements are met. (HB894 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB95 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the licensing procedures of the industrial hemp pilot program by allowing applicants to apply for a license at any time during the year in which the applicant plans to grow industrial hemp.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB725 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to establish a weigh in motion and axle scale system at all commercial harbor facilities. Requires maritime cargo carriers to report to the Department containers or loads subject to highway weight restriction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB486 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the mortgage interest deduction for second homes under the Hawaii Income Tax Law. Specifies that the revenue gain attributable to this measure be deposited into the Rental Housing Revolving Fund. Requires the Department of Budget and Finan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB887 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Rate Stabilization Reserve Fund within the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to help subsidize the costs of providing health and other benefit plans for active employees and retirees and their beneficiaries. Caps employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB491 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and funds a two-year pilot school sidewalk maintenance and repair program that requires counties to maintain and repair sidewalks in school zones or other areas of significant school related pedestrian traffic. Requires each county to rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB54 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the Chairperson of BLNR from adopting any rule with respect to a small boat harbor where a marine fueling station has been established that requires the exclusive fueling of vessels from that station only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB172 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a property owner or agent to enter adjacent property under certain conditions to eradicate albizia trees before they become hazardous. Provides defense to criminal prosecution. (HB172 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1457 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Division of Aquatic Resources to promote education about nearshore reef wildlife and to develop a comprehensive plan, programs, and policies for its sustainable management. Places a temporary ban on the issuance of new aquarium fish perm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1341 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the month of October as "Farm to School Month in Hawaii."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB462 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Public Safety to solicit proposals for a new correctional facility. Requires new facility to be operated by public employees. Temporarily suspends the current EIS process for potential sites for the proposed Oahu Community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB263 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends provisions related to licensed medical marijuana dispensaries by imposing GET on a percentage of dispensaries gross proceeds or gross income and allocating a portion of GET revenues received from dispensaries to the Medical Marijuana Registry ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1591 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Promise Program to provide scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students enrolled at a University of Hawaii community college. Appropriates funds to establish and implement the program. (HB1591 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB622 | 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] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB860 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that where a quiet title action involves kuleana land, at the request of a defendant or defendants, the court shall order mandatory mediation or consolidation of separate actions, respectively; defendant's access to the land for native Hawai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1581 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires candidates for President and Vice President of the United States to disclose their federal income tax returns in order for their names to appear on a Hawaii ballot. (HB1581 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB574 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that royalties from state land leases for basalt cinder and trap rock manufacturers shall be paid into the Basalt Materials Research Account within the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems Special Fund. Sunsets December...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB1283 | Intro
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 the PUC to delay implementation until no later than January 1, 2020. (HB1283 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the Department of Human Resources Development to pay claims required by Hawaii's Workers' Compensation Law. (HB1103 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
Received from Governor re: Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 4). |
| HB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables condominium associations to adopt rules and regulations that require unit owners to prohibit smoking inside a condominium unit as part of a lease agreement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1443 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Airport Corporation within the Department of Transportation for administrative purposes, to be operational on July 1, 2018. Sets out appointment of members to the board of directors and powers and duties of the Hawaii Airport C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1569 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission, when considering certain types of grid modernization plans, to direct an independent third party to establish an initial grid modernization plan. Requires the Commission to allow public comments and subjects ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes licensing requirement for dog breeders and clarifies and strengthens laws pertaining to abandonment of or cruelty to animals. (HB185 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all motorized recreational vessels operating in nearshore waters to observe no-wake zones at specified beaches. (HB117 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB464 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that no financial or property surety shall be required for bail in a case in which no felony is alleged. Provides that a person who commits a criminal offense while on bail for which no financial or property surety was required shall be guil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB715 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties to incorporate urban agriculture principles and policies in land use planning and to allow urban agriculture as a residential use in a residentially designated zone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows counties to submit their general plans to LUC for review and to request land use boundary amendments in conformance with those plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes pharmacists to administer the human papillomavirus, meningococcal, influenza, or tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccines to persons between eleven and seventeen years of age pursuant to a prescription issued by the person's primary car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the ability of the board of directors of a planned community association to impose excessive regular assessments or special assessments, except in emergency situations, without the approval of a majority of members present at an association me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB51 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a licensed real estate broker to pay a commission to a corporation or partnership; provided that the licensed real estate broker earned the commission on behalf of the corporation or partnership and is a member, officer, shareholder, or partn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB778 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes dwelling units on privately owned agricultural land with soils of overall productivity rating classes C, D, or E, subject to certain conditions. Allows the counties to prohibit such dwelling units or to limit such dwelling units to certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Housing Committee |
| HB1530 | Pass | Appropriates funds to provide for the expenses of the Legislature, Auditor, Legislative Reference Bureau, Ombudsman, and Ethics Commission. (HB1530 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
Act 001, 02/22/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1101). |
| HB1586 | Intro
Sine Die | Phases out the county allocation of transient accommodations tax revenues over a 3-year period. Implements new income tax brackets and rates over a 3-year period. Doubles the amount of the personal exemption. Places limitations on claims for itemized...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HB768 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the office of information practices to adopt rules that all state and county agencies subject to the Uniform Information Practices Act must follow for consistency in agency record protection responsibilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB555 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies provisions regarding examinations of defendants' fitness to proceed in the prosecution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the conditions under which the definition of "enter or remain unlawfully" shall apply with reference to criminal trespass in the second degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB426 | Intro
Sine Die | Substitutes the rulemaking requirements of Chapter 91, HRS, for the adoption of certain University of Hawaii policies with the open public meeting requirements of chapter 92, HRS. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1078 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to department of budget and finance for collective bargaining cost items related to the transition of the operation of Maui regional hospitals to Maui Health Systems, a Kaiser Hospital.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB300 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows courts to authorize a person or entity other than a deputy or an officer to provide technical assistance in executing a search warrant that pertains to an electronic device or storage media. (HB300 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB903 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "renewable portfolio standard" to more accurately reflect the percentage of renewable energy penetration in the State. Establishes renewable portfolio standards and targets for gas utility companies that mirrors those set for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1042 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts a more explicit definition of "small business"; clarifies the powers of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board; increases the number of board members, with two nominated by the Board; clarifies when agencies are required to report to the B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB691 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Judiciary and the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu to support the Veterans Treatment Court. (HB691 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1225 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to SFCA to fund celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Hawaii state capitol. (HB1225 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides certain rights to sexual assault survivors with regards to the testing of sexual assault evidence collection kits. Requires the Attorney General to provide the Legislature with an initial report prior to the 2018 Regular Session on law enfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB512 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the Ethics Commission may employ or retain its own attorneys. (HB512 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB818 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans the sale, offer for sale, or distribution for sale of sunscreen or personal care products containing oxybenzone. (HB818 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB868 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to establish trust accounts to provide matching funds to tenants who rent dwelling units. Specifies tenancy termination requirements. Authorizes the issuance of general obligations bonds for capital improv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB283 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amounts of fines that may be assessed against a noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures for campaign spending violations. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to recover its costs from violators. Directs moneys co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1549 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a county shall not impose an inclusionary zoning requirement on a housing development offered exclusively for sale to buyers earning 120% or less of the area median income. (HB1549 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
