| HB1143 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that teachers teaching at hard-to-staff schools be paid the national average of a similarly situated teacher, with annual cost of living adjustments, or according to the teacher's salary schedule. Requires teachers who are paid the national ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1507 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to plan for and hold a 2020 Hawaii Philippines sister city trade show and economic outlook symposium. Takes effect 1/1/2051. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| SB334 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies the administrative rule definition of "assistance animal". Clarifies the type of verification an individual may provide to substantiate a reasonable accommodation request for a specific assistance animal. Specifies that possession of a vest ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| HB163 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds campaign spending report filing deadlines of April 30 and October 1 of a general election year for candidates and candidate committees. (HB163 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB656 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that the auditor conduct an annual review of certain rapid transportation authorities in the State. Repeals the requirements that the comptroller verify the capital costs of a locally preferred alternative for a mass transit p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB198 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes counties to levy a county surcharge on transient accommodations tax in their respective counties pursuant to certain conditions. Sunsets on 12/31/2036. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| SB808 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes pharmacies to accept the return of any prescription drug for disposal via collection receptacles or mail-back programs; prohibits pharmacies from redispensing returned prescription drugs or from accepting returned prescription drugs in exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB1206 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends section 39-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to authorize premiums received from the sale of general obligation bonds to be used for eligible capital expenditures pursuant to section 39-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB141 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that disclosure of communications by an agency to the ombudsman does not waive any existing attorney-client or attorney work-product privilege pertaining to those communications. Prohibits the ombudsman from disclosing privileged communicat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HB495 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies the types of fire protection systems for which the State Fire Council may establish qualifications and procedures for testing and certifying individuals. (HB495 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB498 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires inclusion of an unspecified minimum percentage of affordable housing units in state agencies' development and redevelopment plans along the rail transit corridor. Allows the Office of Planning to make exceptions to the affordable housing req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB364 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a professional tour guide certification task force to determine whether it is appropriate to require persons who use various state resources for commercial purposes or apply for various commercial use permits to hold and maintain certific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| SB253 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies the substantive provisions of Executive Order No. 1802, which requires all state agencies to: contract internet-related services only with internet service providers that demonstrate and contractually agree to support and practice net neutra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| HB246 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides funding for rental or lease of facilities under legislative appropriations and bond authorizations to the State Public Charter School Commission for the design, planning, construction, repair, and maintenance of public charter school improve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB308 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the deadline for the Legislative Reference Bureau to submit the sunrise analysis required by Act 109, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, from 9/1/2019, to 12/2/2019. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB1059 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits noncompete agreements for low wage workers whose earnings do not exceed the greater of the minimum wage required by applicable federal or state law or $15 per hour. (HB1059 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB671 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts students in post-secondary education programs from immunization requirements if they attend classes exclusively online or through distance learning. Takes effect on 7/1/2020. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB1220 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the suspension and expulsion of children participating in the Executive Office on Early Learning Public Prekindergarten Program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB565 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to implement a vision zero program in Hawaii by 7/1/2020. Establishes a goal of no traffic fatalities or serious injuries by 2030. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB996 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for fiscal year 2019-2020 to the State Public Charter School Commission to maintain and continue the current federally funded eighteen existing charter school prekindergarten classrooms that were provided for by a federal preschoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB489 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an offense of knowingly capturing, taking, possessing, abusing, entangling, or killing a shark in state marine waters, along with penalties and fines. Expands the existing prohibition on knowingly capturing or killing a manta ray in state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB395 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the exemption from conveyance tax for realty leases of less than 5 years by applying the exemption only to residential leases of 1 year or less. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1368 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii. Takes effect on 1/1/2051. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB662 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits vehicle lessors from renting, leasing, or offering for rent or lease, vehicles subject to a manufacturer's recall, until appropriate repairs are made. Defines peer-to-peer vehicle sharing related terms. Requires persons in the peer-to-peer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1275 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes various technical amendments to chapters 231, 243, 244D, and 245, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB472 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for a feasibility and cost study relating to the construction of a new boat ramp and pier in Puna. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1016 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a business from seeking a new retail tobacco permit or renewal of an existing permit if the place of business is located within 750 feet of a preschool, school, or public playground. Beginning January 1, 2020, prohibits the sale of tobacco ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB1134 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for a Heeia State Park community-based long-range plan and planning and design of the education center for the Heeia National Estuarine Research Reserve System. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB379 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the governor to negotiate land exchanges to acquire lands that are suitable for long-term diversified agricultural production in return for state lands to be developed for housing. Requires a report to the legislature. Takes effect 12/31/2050....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1221 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definitions of "dangerous to others" and "dangerous to self" to include the refusal to take psychiatric medication or undergo mental health treatment such that self-inflicted violence and violence to others is probable. (HB1221 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1027 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued after 12/31/19 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of $1,500 per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every 36 months. Exempts mandatory health care coverage from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB419 | Engross
Sine Die | Raises the minimum age requirement to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Removes the parental consent and written approval by the family court requirements for a minor to marry. Requires, rather than permits, the family court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HB894 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the operating budget of the Department of Accounting and General Services land survey program (AGS211) for the fiscal biennium 2019-2021. (HB894 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB1243 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the State newborn hearing screening program to mandate reporting of diagnostic audiologic evaluation results, improve hearing follow-up of infants, and update definitions and terminology. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB497 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the grant application process requirements for organizations that may receive a grant from the State. Specifies additional grant application process requirements for nonprofit organizations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB572 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the auditor to conduct a performance audit of certain offices and programs within the Department of Public Safety. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| SB798 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the digitization of records, files, and other materials of the state historic preservation division to be expended by the department of land and natural resources. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1534 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits ticket sellers from disclosing ticket purchasing information to any third party unless the ticket seller has received consent from the ticket purchaser. Prohibits ticket sellers from disclosing ticket purchasers' personally identifiable inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB438 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides a tiered income tax credit to taxpayers who install or upgrade an electric vehicle charging system that is available for use by the public, unless otherwise required by law. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB827 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a merchant in the State from adopting a warranty policy that requires a purchaser to pay an additional fee to obtain a repair, replacement, or refund for goods returned pursuant to the warranty. Defines "merchant in the State". (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1050 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a task force within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to examine and report on the feasibility of the State establishing and operating a housing loan program for state employees similar to the United States Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Housing Committee |
| SB1500 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to collaborate with various agencies to research and develop a plan for a mechanism for increased water circulation in Pokai Bay. Requires the Department of Health to report its activities to the legislature. Takes e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1126 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for Fiscal Biennium 2019-2021 for the professional and vocational licensing program of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, which is under the purview of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Intrastate Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1501 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to implement the cesspool compliance grant program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB705 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for operating expenses of the Department of Accounting and General Services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HB1041 | Engross
Sine Die | Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2018. Clarifies wording regarding the Hawaii applicable exclusion amount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB831 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the counties to incorporate urban agriculture principles and policies in land use planning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1340 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that mandatory seller disclosures in real estate transactions include identification of residential real properties lying within the sea level rise exposure area as officially designated by the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB844 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a task force in the Department of Taxation to discuss the need to rebalance and repurpose the tax programs created by the general excise tax, income tax, and property tax laws. (HB844 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB69 | Engross
Sine Die | Raises the threshold under the contractor licensing law's handyman exemption from $1,000 to $1,500 and makes it applicable only to the cost of labor and materials. (HB69 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
