| SB892 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the attorney general to disclose confidential covered offender registration information to criminal justice agencies for administration of criminal justice and covered offender registration purposes and to disclose an indication of a covered o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB534 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for Hawaii Public Housing Authority to hire an additional security guard to improve security and monitoring at the Alu Street gate of Kalihi Valley Homes public housing. (HB534 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB589 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Judiciary to retain mental health services and substance abuse treatment for the Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement program, which is an intensive supervisory program for persons on probation. (HB589 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB111 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the ballot of an absentee or military-overseas voter is valid even if the voter becomes ineligible to vote after casting the ballot. Repeals the requirement that an absentee voter's ballot be deemed invalid if the voter returns the retu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB391 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Purpose section. Part II: Clarifies that when a unit owner and association reach a payment plan to cure a nonjudicial foreclosure, completion of the payment plan is required to cure the default; specifies that if a unit owner and an associati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB628 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires department heads to inform the governor of any vacancy in any board or commission. Requires the governor to maintain a listing of all boards and commissions including specified information. Appropriates funds for 1.0 FTE position to manage l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB80 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes a restraining order that preserves the financial assets of the parties and their dependents upon the commencement of annulment, divorce, or separation court action. (HB80 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1566 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes "substantial net benefit" as the public utilities commission's standard for a merger involving an electric public utility and allows the commission to establish reasonable criteria to determine whether a "substantial net benefit" exists i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1541 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that the legislative allowance for Oahu-based members' required travel within the State shall be equal to the federal Department of Defense flat rate per diem amount for temporary duty of the same duration in the applicable locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB77 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to study the feasibility and cost effect of establishing an Office of Administrative Hearings that conducts administrative hearings for the State's executive branch agencies. A report of findings and recommen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB689 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants county agencies the implicit right to enter property to investigate agricultural buildings and structures for violations of and compliance with building code exemption qualifications. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1184 | Engross
Sine Die | Replaces criminal penalties for certain airport offenses addressed in Chapter 261, Hawaii Revised Statutes, or in certain administrative rules or orders issued pursuant thereto, with a civil penalty. (HB1184 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB643 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all newly created, replaced, or reprinted state and county letterheads, documents, symbols, and emblems to include accurate, appropriate, and authentic Hawaiian names and language. Establishes references for accurate, appropriate, and authen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB492 | Engross
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. Amends the offense of criminal trespass in the second degree to repeal the definition of "reasonabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1170 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires any report of a study or an audit enacted with a legislative appropriation and conducted by an executive department or agency, including the Hawaii health systems corporation, and by the legislative reference bureau, auditor, judiciary, or O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB453 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for one ambulance unit each for the County of Kauai and the County of Hawaii, including equipment, supplies, and personnel costs. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Health Committee |
| SB767 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the high-growth grant program and special fund to provide grants to qualified businesses for certain business development activities. Makes appropriations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB104 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the procedures to amend condominium association declarations, bylaws, and other governing instruments that are not of a material adverse nature to condominium owners or do not imperil the viability or stability of the condominium associatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB145 | Engross
Sine Die | Restores the deduction for state taxes paid for taxpayers with income above specified thresholds. Establishes limitations on claims for itemized tax deductions, based on taxpayer's federal adjusted gross income. (HB145 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB593 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that, notwithstanding provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to the contrary, the amount of the state tax credit for research activities shall be calculated based on all qualified research expenses for the taxable year. Appropriates funds f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB421 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes requirements for body-worn cameras for law enforcement officers. Establishes policy guidelines for the use and discontinuance of use of body-worn cameras by law enforcement officers. Establishes certain restrictions on the use of body-wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1570 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires lessors of rental motor vehicles to include an option for the lessee in the motor vehicle rental agreement to contribute a sum to DLNR for the preservation and protection of the environment, commencing on January 1, 2020. (HB1570 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB888 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes appropriations for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1421 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a regulatory scheme for roofing contractors to protect consumers from unlicensed insurance adjusters. (HB1421 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB667 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires mortgage servicer licensees to establish an education program that includes development of internal policies, procedures, and controls and a continuing education program for its employees. Defines "nonprofit organization" and lowers the appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| SB247 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires recounts of election votes when the margin of victory is less than two hundred fifty votes or less than one per cent of the votes cast, whichever is less. Takes effect on 01/07/59. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB690 | Engross
Sine Die | Decreases income tax rates by approximately 25 percent for all but the top income earners. Reinstates higher income tax brackets and rates similar to those that were repealed on 12/31/2015. (HB690 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB164 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies laws regarding an arbitrator's failure to disclose certain facts prior to or during arbitration. (HB164 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB261 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits smoking in a motor vehicle in which a person under the age of eighteen is present. Requires the department of health to report on the enforceability of this Act and coordination of related data collection activities of the respective law en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB207 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the low income-household renters' income tax credit based on adjusted gross income and filing status. (HB207 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB855 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the submission of a voter registration application either to register to vote or update the voter's registration information constitutes a request for permanent absentee voter status unless the applicant specifically indicates the appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB441 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definitions of "disclosure date" and "electioneering communication" pertaining to electioneering disclosure statements. Takes effect on 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB865 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) employees subject to civil service and collective bargaining rights. Gives OHA voting rights as a public employer. (HB865 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB617 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the requirements that any plan of land for deregistered land must meet for recordation at the bureau of conveyances. Requires that any plan of land that involves deregistered land that is filed with the registrar of conveyances must be ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB648 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a state earned income tax credit. Changes income tax rates after 12/31/16. Repeals the sunset date for amendments made to the refundable food/excise tax credit by Act 223, SLH 2015. Appropriates funds to DOTAX for certain tax preparation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1062 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the family court to terminate parental rights if the court determines, by clear and convincing evidence, that the natural parent committed sexual assault of the other natural parent, the child was conceived as a result of the sexual assault ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Human Services Committee |
| SB1037 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that certain agencies be notified when a firearm permit application is denied because the applicant is prohibited from owning, possessing, receiving, or controlling a firearm under federal or state law. Requires the firearms permit issuing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB998 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the DLNR to allow bottomfish fishing in six of the Bottomfish Restricted Fishing Areas and to amend any administrative rules to provide that any restriction on fishing shall be based on scientific evidence of environmental necessity. (HB998 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB499 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates unspecified funds for staff positions and various services to support the Hawaii zero to three court. Takes effect 2/28/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB765 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands methods for the delivery of funding to projects under the Hawaii community-based economic development technical and financial assistance program by providing loans to capitalize a qualified community development entity. Removes the cap on loa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB122 | Engross
Sine Die | Entitles designated family members and other interested persons of a person having a mental health emergency to: notice of emergency admission, examination, and hospitalization. Entitles designated family members and other interested persons to the o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Health Committee |
| HB932 | Engross
Sine Die | Gradually increases the credit amounts and amends the income brackets of the refundable food/excise tax credit. Repeals the sunset date of Act 223, SLH 2015, which amended the food/excise tax credit. (HB932 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1178 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2018-2019 for the initial staff necessary to develop and manage the Heeia National Estuarine Research Reserve and its programs. Eff. 3/14/2092. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB1277 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the minutes at public agency meetings to be kept by written or recorded by analog or digital means. If the minutes are recorded, requires that a written summary accompany minutes, and that the written summary include any significant actions ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB795 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for certification of a reforestation carbon project at Haleakala, Maui, operated by DLNR, under an established forest carbon standard certification system. Requires DLNR to submit an annual report on the project certification to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB556 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that all applicants for health and human services procurement contracts possess all licenses necessary to conduct the subject business. Repeals the requirement that all contracts include only costs, fees, and taxes reflected o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB888 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the LRB to study the feasibility of providing health benefits to state and county employees using a self-insured model. Makes an appropriation. (HB888 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB494 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires persons charged with operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant or habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant to be fitted with a continuous alcohol monitoring device if the person: (1) has a prior conv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB968 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes permanent civil service positions for the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to provide services historically and customarily performed by civil service employees in connection with creating housing opportunities for homeless individuals and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB476 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes abuse of a family or household member who is younger than fourteen years of age a class C felony. (HB476 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
