HI Legislation | 2018 | Regular Session

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB2766	Pass	Clarifies the applicability of benefits for accidental death and service-connected disability benefits for members of the Employees' Retirement System. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 069, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1170).
SB2180	Pass	Clarifies that defendants may be convicted of lesser included offenses in cases filed via felony complaint. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 100, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1201).
HB2075	Pass	Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to provide fifty per cent matching grants to Hawaii awardees of alternative energy research grants from the United States Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research. Makes appropriations. ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 067, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1168).
SB2613	Pass	Authorizes the county liquor commissions to issue new class 2 restaurant licenses before restaurants commence operation. Clarifies that class 2 restaurant licenses are transferrable. Requires an applicant for a new class 2 restaurant license or a tra... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 090, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1191).
HB2538	Pass	Amends descriptions of capital improvement projects related to the Live Stock Feed Mill and Waste Stream Recycling Facility in the General Appropriations Act of 2015, as amended by the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2016 and the General Appropria... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 088, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1189).
HB1667	Pass	Makes a housekeeping amendment to clarify that eligibility for probation does not apply to certain drug paraphernalia violations that have been decriminalized. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 102, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1203).
SB2738	Pass	Clarifies that found electronic devices that may contain personal information shall be sanitized before they are provided to finders or disposed of by public auction or other means. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 082, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1183).
SB2858	Pass	Requires the State to consider hurricane resistant criteria when designing and constructing new public schools for the capability of providing shelter refuge. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 084, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1185).
SB2745	Pass	Amends the definition of "confidential personal information" for offenses against property rights to eliminate unconstitutionally vague provisions. Specifies other types of confidential personal information. Clarifies when a password constitutes conf... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 101, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1202).
SB2719	Pass	Extends the period during which a victim of child sexual abuse may bring an otherwise time-barred civil action against the victim's abuser or an entity with a duty of care. Applies retroactively to April 24, 2012. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 098, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1199).
SB2154	Pass	Repeals the requirement that noncandidate committee organizational reports include information regarding contributors and contributions. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 081, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1182).
HB1577	Pass	Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a 3-year compost reimbursement pilot program to provide reimbursements to farmers and ranchers when purchasing compost from a certified processor, dealer, retailer, or wholesaler licensed to do busi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 089, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1190).
HB1850	Pass	Clarifies that the offense of promoting pornography for minors does not apply to a legal guardian of a minor. Deletes the exemption for other persons in loco parentis to a minor. (HB1850 CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 096, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1197).
SB2742	Pass	Resolves inconsistencies in the processing of expungements and public dissemination of criminal history record information related to cases in which the defendant is acquitted or charges are dismissed by reason of physical or mental disease, disorder... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 097, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1198).
SB2612	Pass	Allows social clubs granted federal tax-exempt status to sell wine from the social club's inventory to club members for off-premises consumption. Waives certain requirements for the issuance of class 10 special licenses. Enables class 10 special lice... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-07-05 Act 091, 06/29/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1192).
SB2053	Pass	Makes permanent the regulation of athletic trainers. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-29 Act 058, 06/27/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1159).
HB2306	Pass	Appropriates $500,000 of general revenues of the State for the Food Safety Certification Costs Grant Program for fiscal year 2018-2019. Effective June 29, 2018. (HB2306 CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-29 Act 057, 06/27/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1158).
SB2297	Pass	Extends the sunset date of Act 65, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, which provides a limited exemption to the licensing requirements for certain individuals in situations when an electric utility must retain qualified individuals to work with high voltag... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-29 Act 060, 06/27/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1161).
SB2556	Pass	Establishes an Industrial Hemp Special Fund within the Department of Agriculture to deposit fees and expend funds necessary for the Industrial Hemp Pilot Program. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-29 Act 059, 06/27/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1160).
SB2146	Pass	Allows an election officer who is required to issue a public notice in a statewide or county publication to satisfy the publication requirement by submitting the notice to the publication and conspicuously posting the notice on the website associated... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-29 Act 062, 06/28/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1163).
HB694	Pass	Establishes the Health Analytics Program in the Med-QUEST Division of the Department of Human Services and authorizes the Department of Human Services to maintain an all-payers medical claims database. Appropriates funds for the establishment of two ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-29 Act 055, 06/27/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1156).
HB2610	Pass	Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation's manufacturing grant program. (HB2610 CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-29 Act 061, 06/28/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1162).
HB1932	Pass	Authorizes agencies to adopt emergency rules to account for changes in controlling and superseding federal statutes or state or federal case law, subject to public hearing and at least 30 days notice. Provides for expiration no later than adjournment... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-29 Act 056, 06/27/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1157).
SB2691	Pass	Allows boards, under Hawaii' Sunshine Law, to provide a copy of the public notice of a meeting to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor or appropriate county clerk's office via electronic mail. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-29 Act 063, 06/28/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1164).
HB1604	Pass	Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds. Makes findings required by Article VII, Section 13, of the State Constitution to declare that the issuance of authorized bonds will not cause the debt limit to be exceeded. Amends the titles and descri... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-25 Act 054, 06/22/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1154).
HB2697	Pass	Requires the Office of Veterans' Services to organize, coordinate, and conduct a biennial Hawaii Veterans Summit. Appropriates funds. (HB2697 CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-25 Act 052, 06/22/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1152).
HB1900	Pass	To adjust and request appropriations for Fiscal Biennium 2017-19 funding requirements for operations and capital improvement projects of Executive Branch agencies and programs. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-25 Act 053, 06/22/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1153).
HB2607	Pass	Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a statewide computer science curricula plan for public school students in K-12 that may include design thinking as part of the curricula and ensure each public high school offers at least ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-22 Act 051, 06/21/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1151).
HB2651	Pass	Establishes a process to upgrade and support next-generation wireless broadband infrastructure throughout the State. Establishes a permitting, application, review, and approval process for small wireless providers or communications service providers ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-22 Act 049, 06/21/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1149).
HB2352	Pass	Increases membership on the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to include a member of the Native Hawaiian Education Council and a non-voting public university student teacher. Clarifies that a permit is required for non-licensed teachers serving in publi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-22 Act 050, 06/21/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1150).
HB2215	Pass	Requires the driver of a vehicle passing and overtaking a bicycle proceeding in the same direction to allow at least three feet of separation between the right side of the driver's vehicle and the left side of the bicyclist. (HB2215 CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-21 Act 047, 06/20/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1147).
HB2442	Pass	Requires the counties to take into custody any abandoned vehicle on a public road within ten business days. Amends the conditions that constitute a derelict vehicle. Allows, rather than requires, that abandoned vehicles be disposed of by public aucti... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-21 Act 048, 06/20/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1148).
HB2596	Pass	Requires certain vessel owners to apply for a certificate of title within twenty days of becoming an owner or within twenty days of establishing principal use of the vessel in waters of the State. Establishes what information is required to be includ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-21 Act 046, 06/20/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1146).
SB3095	Pass	Beginning 1/1/2019, requires all users of restricted use pesticides to be subject to a requirement to report on their use of restricted use pesticides to the Department of Agriculture (DOA). Prohibits the use of a restricted use pesticide on or withi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-14 Act 045, 06/13/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1145).
SB2653	Pass	Establishes requirements for licensure by endorsement for physicians, surgeons, and osteopathic physicians beginning on 12/31/2018. Appropriates moneys. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-14 Act 044, 06/13/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1144).
SB2298	Pass	Allows advanced practice registered nurses, pharmacists, and physicians to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors in volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotations provided to eligible students that enable the students to obtain ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-14 Act 043, 06/13/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1143).
SB2582	Pass	Authorizes the courts to impose an extended term of imprisonment for an offender who is convicted of negligent homicide in the first degree and did not remain at the scene of the crime and render reasonable assistance to an injured person. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 040, 06/10/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1140).
HB2318	Pass	Specifies that certain government records maintained by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands are not required to be publicly disclosed or made open to inspection pursuant to public records requests and may be discussed during an executive meeting of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 029, 06/07/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1129).
HB2305	Pass	Extends the pesticide subsidy program manager position through the fiscal year immediately following the program sunset date. Extends the position's civil service and collective bargaining laws exemption until the expiration of the position. (HB2305 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 032, 06/07/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1132).
HB2333	Pass	Authorizes the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to deposit moneys it receives from the repayments of loans and payments of interest or fees from the Hawaii capital loan program in chapter 210, the Hawaii large fishing vessel ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 028, 06/07/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1128).
HB2341	Pass	Amends Act 263, SLH 2016 to allow the Employees' Retirement System to make direct payments to spouses or former spouses of ERS members or retirants, including former former members with vested benefit status when the former spouse has been awarded al... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 030, 06/07/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1130).
SB2945	Pass	Eliminates the requirement that the applicant for a liquor license or renewal of a license, or in the case of transfer of a liquor license, both the transferor and the transferee, produce either a tax clearance certificate from the Internal Revenue S... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 025, 06/07/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1125).
HB2108	Pass	Extends the authorization to issue special purpose revenue bonds to assist Kaiuli Energy, LLC, with the financing of the planning, design, and construction of a seawater air conditioning district cooling facility and chilled water distribution system... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 037, 06/07/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1137).
SB1208	Pass	Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Twin Bridge Farms, Inc., to purchase certain lands. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 038, 06/07/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1138).
HB634	Pass	Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist the Board of Water Supply in upgrading Nuuanu reservoir #1 to meet state dam safety standards, as a component of the Nuuanu hydroelectricity project. (HB634 CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 035, 06/07/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1135).
HB1770	Pass	Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the career criminal prosecution unit. (HB1770 CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 033, 06/07/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1133).
SB2514	Pass	Provides that a person is engaging in business in the State for the purpose of the general excise tax law if, in the current or immediately preceding calendar year, the person has $100,000 or more in gross income, or two hundred or more separate tran... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 041, 06/12/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1141).
SB2831	Pass	Reinstates the authority of the University of Hawaii President as the Chief Procurement Officer for contracts for construction and construction-related professional services furnished by licensees under chapter 464, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 042, 06/12/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1142).
HB2359	Pass	Provides that certain areas within Hawaii Public Housing Authority housing projects are closed to the public and amends criminal trespass in the second degree to permit the prosecution of an unauthorized entry or a violation of a written prohibition ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 0031, 06/07/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1131).
SB2821	Pass	Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of 12/31/2017, except as provided. (CD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2018-06-13 Act 027, 06/07/2018 (Gov. Msg. No. 1127).