| HB1614 | Pass | Automatically imposes a restraining order upon parties filing for annulment, divorce, or separation to preserve the financial assets of the parties and their dependents and maintain the current island of residence and school of enrollment of a minor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-12
Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 213, 07/10/2018, (Gov. Msg. No. 1322). |
| HB2601 | Pass | Increases the rental motor vehicle surcharge from $3 to $5 for lessees without a valid Hawaii driver's license from the rental motor vehicle surcharge. Requires that the revenues from the increase in motor vehicle surcharge tax be expended for state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-12
Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 215, 07/10/2018, (Gov. Msg. No. 1324). |
| HB1876 | Pass | Allows a motor vehicle insurer to satisfy the requirement that an insurer provide a complete sales and claims office in the State through the establishment and maintenance of an office by the insurer's licensed producer in every county the insurer do...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-12
Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 216, 07/10/2018, (Gov. Msg. No. 1325). |
| HB2071 | Pass | Establishes a Law Enforcement Standards Board for the certification of county police officers, state public safety officers, and employees of the Departments of Transportation, Land and Natural Resources, Taxation, and Attorney General with police po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-12
Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 220, 07/10/2018, (Gov. Msg. No. 1329). |
| HB2589 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Transportation under certain conditions to designate shoulders upon which the Department may authorize the driving of motorcycles. Takes effect on 1/1/2019. Repeals on 12/31/2020. (HB2589 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-12
Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 218, 07/10/2018, (Gov. Msg. No. 1327). |
| HB1646 | Pass | Provides that when a candidate other than the incumbent is elected to the office of United States Senator, and the incumbent vacates the office prior to the expiration of the incumbent's term, the Governor must temporarily appoint the member-elect to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-12
Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 214, 07/10/2018, (Gov. Msg. No. 1323). |
| HB1873 | Pass | Clarifies the process, including payment obligations, mediation requirements, and triggers for further default, where a condominium unit owner and association reach a payment plan to resolve a nonjudicial foreclosure. Establishes procedures that prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 195, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1304). |
| HB1520 | Pass | Prohibits an insurer from renewing or re-enrolling an individual in a short-term, limited-duration health insurance policy or contract if the individual was eligible to purchase health insurance through the federal health insurance marketplace during...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 192, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1301). |
| HB2097 | Pass | Requires the Attorney General to defend any civil action or proceeding against a county and any person employed by the county to provide lifeguard services at a designated state beach park under an agreement between the State and the county. Appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 181, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1290). |
| HB2353 | Pass | Makes miscellaneous technical amendments to facilitate library operations. Changes references to the Hawaii State Library Foundation to the Friends of the Library of Hawaii. Clarifies the functions of the Friends of the Library of Hawaii program fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 171, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1280). |
| HB2416 | Pass | Clarifies that intangible property shall be exempt from the general excise tax used outside the State. Subjects intangible property acquired from an unlicensed seller and used in the State to the use tax at 4 percent of the value of the property. (HB...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 183, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1292). |
| HB1401 | Pass | Requires a pilot program for the 2020 primary and general elections in any county with a population of less than 100,000 to be conducted by mail. Establishes a voter service center to provide certain election services. Allows for additional places of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 182, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1291). |
| HB2384 | Pass | Updates Uniform Controlled Substances Act for consistency with federal law. Allows prescription of drugs to patients undergoing medically managed withdrawal, also known as detoxification treatment and maintenance treatment, by practitioners who are p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 152, 07/09/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1261). |
| HB2742 | Pass | Establishes the Office of Medical Cannabis Control and Regulation in the Department of Health to regulate and administer the registration of qualifying patients and primary caregivers and medical cannabis dispensaries. Extends civil service exemption...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 159, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1268). |
| HB2277 | Pass | Establishes the East Hawaii Child Welfare Services Section Pilot Project within the Department of Human Services to increase staff in the East Hawaii Child Welfare Services Section. Appropriates funds. (HB2277 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 177, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1286). |
| HB2357 | Pass | Creates an eviction process for the Hawaii public housing authority's state low-income housing projects or programs and elder or elderly housing. (HB2357 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 204, 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1313). |
| HB2418 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Education to expend previously appropriated funds to satisfy the settlement of class counsel attorney's fees related to a class action lawsuit against the State. (HB2418 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 165, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1274). |
| HB2464 | Pass | Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to conduct a study on the issue of Hawaiian Home Lands lessees selling or transferring their leases for a fee or other personal gain and then applying for a subsequent lease and submit a report of the fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 179, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1288). |
| HB2385 | Pass | Updates chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make it consistent with amendments in the federal Controlled Substances Act as required under section 329-11, HRS. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 190, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1299). |
| HB2375 | Pass | Permits advanced practice registered nurses to certify an employee's disability. Increases the penalty an employer is assessed for failing to submit timely wage and employment information. Permits filing of an appeal of a decision related to temporar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 162, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1271). |
| HB2208 | Pass | Requires association health plan policies to comply with the laws of this State regardless of the association's domicile. Enables certain voluntary associations, including employer associations that issue association health plans, to qualify for auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 199, 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1308). |
| HB2435 | Pass | Amends the definition of "rates" in Hawaii's Motor Carrier Law to clarify that, for packages that include other, non-transportation services, "rates" only refers to charges for the provision of transportation by motor vehicle of passengers. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 189, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1298). |
| HB1869 | Pass | Provides a specific exemption to the landlord-tenant code for a seller who occupies the residential real property after the transfer of the seller's ownership rights. Takes effect 11/1/2018. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 194, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1303). |
| HB2354 | Pass | Changes from $2 to $5 of authorized income tax check-off that may be designated payable from an individual's state income tax refund to the libraries special fund. Changes from $4 to $10 permitted to joint filers in the designation of check-off to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 170, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1279). |
| HB1602 | Pass | Requires the inclusion of a label warning of the risks of addiction and death on the packaging of any opioid drug dispensed by a health care professional or pharmacist. (HB1602 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 151, 07/09/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1260). |
| HB2377 | Pass | Establishes training options as part of vocational rehabilitation for injured employees when training for employment in another occupational field is required for the employee and as part of the employee's rehabilitation plan. Provides that all profe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 188, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1297). |
| HB2145 | Pass | Allows the synchronization of plan participants' medications. Requires plans, policies, contracts, or agreements that are offered by health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations and provide prescription drug benefit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 197, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1306). |
| HB2684 | Pass | Appropriates funds for the Public Utilities Commission to hire two full-time enforcement personnel. (HB2684 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 201, 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1310). |
| HB1626 | Pass | Limits liability for volunteers maintaining or repairing cemetery grounds. Requires the director of commerce and consumer affairs, in consultation with the comptroller, to develop strategies for the upkeep, repair, and maintenance of Sunset Memorial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 193, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1302). |
| HB2694 | Pass | Requires the Department of Health to furnish, free of charge, certified copies of birth certificates for any individual who is homeless, provided the individual's homeless status is corroborated by a verification letter issued by a homeless service p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 174, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1283). |
| HB2005 | Pass | Authorizes the University of Hawaii to issue revenue bonds for the purpose of financing the construction and maintenance of qualifying capital improvement projects. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 184, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1293). |
| HB1938 | Pass | Increases the fine to not more than $1,000 for passing or overtaking a school bus on a state highway while the bus is stopped and its visual signals are turned on. Effective upon approval. (HB1938 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 172, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1281). |
| HB1650 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Human Services to disclose certain information regarding confirmed cases of child abuse or neglect. Establishes a working group to improve safety in child care settings. Requires the working group to report to the Legisla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 176, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1285). |
| HB2025 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Education to issue grants to establish a composting grant pilot project in Department of Education schools. Authorizes a composting grant pilot project working group. Requires report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 207, 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1316). |
| HB2110 | Pass | Directs the Public Utilities Commission to establish a microgrid services tariff to encourage and facilitate the development and use of energy resilient microgrids. Takes effect on 7/1/2018. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 200, 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1309). |
| HB2149 | Pass | Amends the ethics training requirement for dentists in the continuing education program to be six hours of ethics training within the previous two years for each biennial renewal period. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 198, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1307). |
| HB1605 | Pass | Removes unnecessary or redundant provisions of the general excise tax laws. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 166, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1275). |
| HB2507 | Pass | Makes housekeeping amendments to remove preschools from the Superintendent's scope of authority and to clarify that the Executive Office on Early Learning Director may authorize preschool personnel access to a student's immunization registry informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 175, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1284). |
| HB1652 | Pass | Abolishes various non-general funds and accounts of the Department of Taxation and transfers the unencumbered balances to the general fund. (HB1652 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 164, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1273). |
| HB1874 | Pass | Expands the scope of the Condominium Education Trust Fund to cover voluntary binding arbitration between interested parties. Amends the conditions that mandate mediation and exceptions to mandatory mediation. Makes conforming amendments. (HB1874 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 196, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1305). |
| HB1895 | Pass | Establishes positions and appropriates funds to assist in the review, certification, and recertification of dialysis centers and other health care facilities under the purview of the Department of Health. Establishes the Electronic Smoking Device Ret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 206, 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1315). |
| HB2454 | Pass | Establishes a three-year Correctional Industries Former Inmate Employment Pilot Project within the Department of Public Safety to assist former inmates as they reenter society. (HB2454 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 178, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1287). |
| HB2081 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide assistance and supplemental funding to the National Wildlife Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct pilot field studies to evaluate control tools,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 180, on 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1289). |
| HB2271 | Pass | Updates and standardizes the terminology used to refer to behavior analysts and applied behavior analysis. Clarifies the licensing exemptions for certain individuals who provide behavior analysis services. Requires the Department of Education to crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 205, 07/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1314). |
| HB2259 | Pass | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to allow applications for marine event permits up to one year in advance and authorizes the Department to adopt rules to mitigate hazards posed by vessels, thrill craft, drones, and other means us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-11
Act 156, 07/09/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1265). |
| HB1812 | Pass | Authorizes a health care surrogate to act as a medicaid authorized representative to assist a patient with a medicaid application and eligibility process and in communications with the Department of Human Services. Specifies the duties and obligation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-10
Act 125, on 07/05/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1226). |
| HB2169 | Pass | Appropriates moneys for youth suicide early intervention, prevention, and education initiatives in Maui county. (HB2169 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-10
Act 129, on 07/05/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1230). |
| HB2369 | Pass | Decreases the number of members appointed to the Policy Advisory Board of Elder Affairs. Specifies that ex officio members are nonvoting members. Revises the list of agencies that provide representatives to serve as ex officio members. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-10
Act 134, on 07/05/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1235). |
| HB1916 | Pass | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to biennially update the state plan on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, include an implementation work plan for each goal in the state plan, and include information on progress made toward the goals of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-10
Act 146, on 07/06/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1247). |
| HB2613 | Pass | Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2018-2019 to maintain the initial staff position and operations necessary to develop and manage Heeia National Estuarine Research Reserve and its programs. (HB2613 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-07-10
Act 117, on 07/05/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1218). |
