| HB590 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Creative Industries Advisory Group while retaining the Film Industry Branch and Creative Industries Division of DBEDT. Repeals the Hawaii Television and Film Development Board along with the grant and venture capital programs t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB973 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for a Research and Grant Technology Program within the High Technology Development Corporation. Effective 7/1/2038. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1105 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the terms of collective bargaining agreements and associated provisions to be deemed the prevailing wages and terms serving as the basis of compliance with chapter 104, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the construction of certain rental housing pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB199 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes physical isolation as a form of abuse, allegations of which the Department of Human Services is authorized to investigate and instances for which the Department may take corrective action, including obtaining judicial relief. Takes effect 1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB739 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the scope of practice of behavior analysis. Clarifies who may provide behavior analysis and applied behavior analysis services regardless of licensure status, including licensed individuals working within an overlapping scope of practice, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB393 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that the removal or replacement of a director elected by a class of unit owners shall be by a majority of only the members of that class. Specifies that for an election in a mixed-use condominium project where directors are elected by diffe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB500 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the R.E.A.C.H (Resources for Enrichment, Athletics, Culture, and Health) Program in the Department of Education (DOE) to provide a standardized framework and funding for after-school programs in public middle and intermediate schools. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1039 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Public Safety in collaboration with county and state agencies and, upon request of the inmate, to issue civil identification cards to the inmate and to assist the inmate in obtaining the inmate's birth certificate, social s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB700 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the offense of cruelty to animals in the first degree to include indigenous birds. Amends the offense of cruelty to animals in the second degree to include certain restraints to dogs. (SB700 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB981 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to send notices of hearing electronically. Requires the party seeking judicial review to bear the cost of preparing a transcript, except as provided by law, in which case the Board shall bear the cost of prepar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB618 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the board of education to establish a process whereby the public may petition the board to add items to the agenda of the next meeting. (SB618 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB597 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism a broadband coordinator to create the state broadband plan. Requires report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. (HB597 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB975 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates an Advisory Council for Global Economic Competitiveness to be attached to DBEDT. Directs the council to recommend policy additions and changes to attract more foreign direct investment and increase state exports abroad. Appropriates funds. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB92 | Engross
Sine Die | Applies an inflation adjustment factor to long-term care providers' annual costs or basic prospective payment system rates. Appropriates funds. (HB92 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB234 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the voluntary severance benefits option from chapter 89E, HRS. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1082 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes appropriations for personnel and equipment for the Hawaii Community College Agriculture Program. (SB1082 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB687 | Engross
Sine Die | Broadens the scope of the Early Learning Program to include early childhood development. Expands the function of the Early Learning Board beyond an advisory capacity and amends the composition and powers of some board members. Allows the Early Learni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB801 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires certain amounts of child support moneys collected by the Department of Human Services (DHS) for public assistance of a child to pass through to the family receiving the public assistance. Requires DHS to disregard passed through child suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB76 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for severance benefits for separated employees affected by Act 103, SLH 2015, as may be negotiated through collective bargaining supplemental agreements. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1466 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Youth Advisory Commission within the Office of Youth Services to advise the Governor and Legislature on the effects of legislative policies, needs, assessments, priorities, programs, and budgets relating to youth. Appropriates funds. (S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1084 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the appointment process of certain members of the Hawaii Tourism Authority's (Authority) Board of Directors (Board). Clarifies the Authority's reporting and disclosure of specific information. Requires the Board to develop policies and procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB669 | Engross
Sine Die | Streamlines the reporting requirements of the Department of Human Services (DHS)and the family courts to require DHS, upon direction of the court, to provide the family court with an oral or written report regarding the safety of a minor child of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB1298 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the one-year residency requirement for all appointed officers who are department heads and deputies or assistants to a department head. (SB1298 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB836 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the department of education to offer voluntary training for teachers and educational officers on sex trafficking prevention. Requires the department to provide explanatory information about sex trafficking prevention and response to teachers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1239 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for research on prevention and mitigation of Rapid Ohia Death. Effective 3/9/2092. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB693 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for the operational costs of an organization providing prevention, intervention, and group and individual counseling for high risk youth. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB663 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the fines for speeding violations occurring in a school zone or construction area. (SB663 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1177 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes common interest agricultural communities. Exempts offers or dispositions of interests of land registered as common interest agricultural community from the uniform land sales practices act. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB553 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes allocation of supplemental categorical funding to remote schools, subject to legislative appropriation. Appropriates funds. (SB553 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1077 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that a mutual benefit society shall maintain a minimum net worth calculated based on gross annual premium revenues and gross annual health care expenditures. Requires gross annual premium revenues and gross annual health care expenditures t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB298 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Workforce Readiness Program within the Department of Education to allow students to graduate from an extended high school enrollment with a high school diploma and an industry-recognized associate's degree. Appropriates moneys to develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB975 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a misdemeanor offense for unauthorized sale or purchase of a disability parking permit. Clarifies law enforcement authority to confiscate altered, invalid, or unauthorized disability parking permits. (SB975 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1292 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the redevelopment of the Hilo area by establishing the framework, requirements, and conditions for redevelopment districts and specifically designating the Waiakea Peninsula Redevelopment District, appropriates funds for the implementati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB660 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the infrastructure development loan subaccount within the dwelling unit revolving fund to make loans to developers to finance the costs of the infrastructure of housing developments. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2030. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1240 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for the coordinated statewide homeless initiative, subject to certain conditions. Takes effect 7/1/2030. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB306 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that projects that contain a combination of time share interests, transient vacation rentals, and private residential units located in the same project are required to provide basic documents that will enable an owner to sell the owner's ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB394 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates criminal penalties for real estate brokers for improper deposit, segregation, or disposition of client trust account funds. Requires the principal broker to report the client trust account number and name of the managing institution to the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1300 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii institute of marine biology at UH to conduct ongoing studies of the environmental impacts of sewage spills on affected coral reefs. Requires the institute of marine biology to submit an annual report to the legislature prior to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1255 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to provide financing to assist Honokaa Land Company, LLC, with acquiring, developing, and renovating various agricultural facilities and structures. (SB1255 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB245 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each unit of government of the State and its political subdivisions to exercise reasonable care in the maintenance of all government records under its control that are required to be made available for public inspection. (SB245 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB389 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes speed limits for Hawaii Route 3000, also known as the Lahaina Bypass or the Honoapiilani Highway Bypass. (SB389 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB720 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for the concussion monitoring and educational program for school athletics, concussion and awareness program for youth athletic activities, and administration of a concussion and awareness program for youth athletics. (SB720 HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB233 | Engross
Sine Die | Offers employees of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation whose positions will be abolished or directly affected by a reduction-in-force, workforce restructuring plan, or privatization the choice of receiving both special retirement benefits and volu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1288 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist HPC Foods, Ltd., to fund multi-project capital improvement programs, the construction of facilities, and other processing activities. (SB1288 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB872 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the State Ethics Commission to employ or retain its own attorneys. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB857 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes that employers shall pay all workers' compensation claims for compensable injuries and shall not deny claims without reasonable cause or during a pending investigation. Creates a presumption of compensability for claims submitted by emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB887 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a prepaid wireless E911 surcharge of 1.5 per cent of prepaid wireless service purchased at the point of sale. Allows sellers to deduct and retain 3 per cent of the surcharges collected to offset administrative expenses, but requires selle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1481 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to study the uses of and determine best practices regarding blockchain technology. Effective 7/1/2038. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor, with the assistance of the Department of Human Services, to conduct a study to assess the impact of using Medicaid funds to provide coverage for the treatment for homelessness. Requires the Auditor to submit a report to the Legi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB404 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires sellers of electronic smoking devices or eliquid to obtain a retail tobacco permit or dealer or wholesale license. Increases the license fee for wholesalers or dealers and the retail tobacco permit fee. Applies the cigarette and tobacco prod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
