| HB560 | Pass | Requires UH community colleges to establish energy systems and technology training courses for county officers and employees responsible for permitting, inspecting, licensing, and approving construction projects and an advisory committee of industry ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 145, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1247). |
| HB1585 | Pass | Establishes a rebate program for installation of eligible new or upgraded multi-user electric vehicle charging systems. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to contract for third-party administration of the rebate program. Appropriates funds. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 142, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1244). |
| SB1148 | Pass | Appropriates funds into and out of the agricultural loan revolving fund for the Department of Agriculture to provide loans to support local ranchers and farmers. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 152, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1254). |
| HB556 | Pass | Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to adopt minimum appliance efficiency standards for certain products sold or installed in the State that are substantially equivalent to existing appliance efficiency standards es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 141, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1243). |
| SB50 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the Hawaii Nutrition Employment and Training Program to include materials and supplies and the hiring of seven full-time equivalent instructional and student support positions. (SB50 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 156, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1258). |
| SB390 | Pass | Requires the Department of Agriculture to create a dollar-for-dollar matching program for beneficiaries of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to purchase Hawaii-grown produce. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 153, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1255). |
| SB661 | Pass | Grants procurement priority for fuel cell electric vehicles for state and county vehicle purchases. Includes fuel cell electric vehicles in the definition of "electric vehicles" for purposes of parking fee exemption, high occupancy vehicle lane use, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 143, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1245). |
| HB1009 | Pass | Requires a movie theater to provide at least two showings per week per movie offered with open movie captioning. Removes the option for a movie theater to provide eyewear to fulfill the open movie captioning requirement. Makes the open captioning req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 154, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1256). |
| HB1165 | Pass | Requires a license or state identification card to include a person's full legal name, date of birth, gender designation, residence address, and license number. Specifies gender designation options of F, M, or X. Effective 7/1/2020. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 148, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1250). |
| HB711 | Pass | Amends the affirmative defense of extreme mental or emotional disturbance to murder or attempted murder by prohibiting explanations based solely on the defendant's discovery, defendant's knowledge, or the disclosure of the victim's gender, gender ide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 149, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1251). |
| HB664 | Pass | Clarifies that the ban on sexual orientation change efforts applies to conversion therapy practices or treatments that seek to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 157, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1259). |
| SB330 | Pass | Requires the Department of Human Services to implement an earned income disregard program as an intermediate step to implementing a medicaid buy-in program. Requires reports to the legislature. Takes effect upon approval by the Centers for Medicare a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 155, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1257). |
| HB1558 | Pass | Requires the Office of Planning to update the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan and submit the updated plan to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2021 and every tenth session thereafter, using the goals and priority guidelines of the Hawai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 146, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1248). |
| SB375 | Pass | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Office of the Governor, to develop a strategic plan to double local food production and increase food exports by 2030. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit the strategic plan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 151, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1253). |
| SB549 | Pass | Requires restaurants that sell children's meals that include a beverage to make the default beverage a healthy beverage. (SB549 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 138, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1240). |
| SB1246 | Pass | Establishes goals for the adoption and proliferation of telehealth to increase health care access. Establishes the State Strategic Telehealth Advisory Council and permanent State Telehealth and Health Care Access Coordinator position. Dissolves the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 139, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1241). |
| HB257 | Pass | Authorizes the use of private lands for the Ohana Zones Pilot Program. Provides additional time for the implementation of the Ohana Zones Pilot Program to June 30, 2023. Extends the Emergency Department Homelessness Assessment Pilot Program and the M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 128, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1230). |
| HB468 | Pass | Appropriates funds for the healthy aging partnership program to further the program's role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii's kupuna. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 124, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1226). |
| SB567 | Pass | Appropriates funds for program ID HTH420 for the Department of Health to contract for legal assistance with petitions for assisted community treatment and related court proceedings. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 130, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1232). |
| SB366 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging to fund the existing position of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Services Coordinator. Exempts the position from civil service and collective bargaining. (SB366 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 127, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1229). |
| SB1025 | Pass | Requires the Executive Office on Aging (EOA) to develop and implement a plan to maximize the number of Kupuna Caregivers Program (Program) participants and submit a copy of the Program plan to the 2020 Legislature. Authorizes EOA to adopt administrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 126, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1228). |
| SB663 | Pass | Establishes within the DOT a red light running committee to develop policy for pilot programs in the C&C of Honolulu, and Counties of Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 131, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1233). |
| SB98 | Pass | Clarifies the requirement that a driver of a motor vehicle yield to or stop for a pedestrian by specifying when a pedestrian is considered to be within an intersection or adjacent crosswalk or crossing the roadway within a crosswalk. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 132, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1234). |
| HB1248 | Pass | Enacts voting by mail uniformly across all counties for all elections commencing in 2020. Establishes a limited number of voter service centers that would remain open from the tenth business day preceding an election through the day of the election t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 136, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1238). |
| SB1124 | Pass | Requires a licensed psychiatrist or advanced practice registered nurse with prescriptive authority and psychiatric specialization to determine, prior to a person's discharge from a psychiatric facility, whether an assisted community treatment plan is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 129, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1231). |
| HB168 | Pass | Authorizes a voter with special needs, including a disability, to request that a ballot be forwarded by electronic transmission at any time. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 137, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1239). |
| HB757 | Pass | Requires DOT and county transportation departments to adopt Vision Zero policies to prevent and eliminate traffic fatalities. Requires the State Highway Safety Council, in consultation with the counties, to review traffic policies and recommendations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 134, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1236). |
| HB465 | Pass | Makes an appropriation to the department of health to provide funding for the kupuna care program. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 123, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1225). |
| SB693 | Pass | Clarifies what pedestrians are required to do when in a crosswalk while a countdown timer is operating. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 133, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1235). |
| SB216 | Pass | Requires a mandatory recount of election votes and ballot measures when the margin of victory for election contests or tabulation for ballot measures is equal to or less than one hundred or one-quarter of one per cent of the votes cast, whichever is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 135, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1237). |
| HB471 | Pass | Establishes quorum requirements for the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs. (HB471 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 125, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1227). |
| HB1453 | Pass | Authorizes the DOH to establish fees for ground transportation to medical facilities and for provision of emergency medical services that do not include transport. Authorizes transportation by ambulance to medical facilities other than hospital emerg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 140, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1242). |
| HB1070 | Pass | Provides that a public school shall not be required by the Department of Education to expend its own school funds to maintain any geographically disadvantageous land on or adjacent to its property. Appropriates funds for teacher stipends for the Grow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 116, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1218). |
| HB546 | Pass | Allows a class 18 small craft producer pub licensee to manufacture not more than 70,000 barrels of malt beverages on the licensee's premises during the license year. Clarifies that a class 14 brewpub licensee or class 18 small craft producer pub lice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 115, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1217). |
| HB116 | Pass | Appropriates funds for the operating budget of the Executive Branch for fiscal years 20192020 and 20202021. (HB116 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 113, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1215). |
| SB754 | Pass | Enacts produce safety rules in accordance with the federal Food and Drug Administration Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 103, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1205). |
| HB807 | Pass | Amends the misdemeanor offense of unsworn falsification to authorities to include knowingly making a false statement to a state investigator or county inspector in certain circumstances. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 114, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1216). |
| SB197 | Pass | Exempts candidates who are deemed elected, running unopposed, or unsuccessful after a primary or special primary election from the prohibition on donating excess campaign funds for charitable or scholarship purposes before the general election date. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 107, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1209). |
| HB507 | Pass | Authorizes a judge or magistrate to approve a search warrant based on sworn oral statements or electronic communications. Effective 1/1/2020. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 117, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1219). |
| SB144 | Pass | Removes restriction on access to transcripts from public contested hearings. Removes statutory remnants from when violations of the lobbyist law resulted in criminal penalties. Allows the state ethics commission to assess an administrative fine pursu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 109, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1211). |
| SB852 | Pass | Clarifies that lost earnings, mental health treatment, counseling, and therapy are eligible for reimbursement to a crime victim as a result of a defendant's offense. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 108, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1210). |
| HB1157 | Pass | Exempts students in post-secondary education programs from immunization requirements if they attend classes exclusively online or through distance learning, under certain conditions. (HB1157 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 101, 06/20/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1203). |
| HB903 | Pass | Requires the Judiciary to establish a financial hardship task force. (HB903 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 112, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1214). |
| HB1307 | Pass | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the existing administrative hearings process in the State and the potential for a centralized office of administrative hearings. Requires state department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 110, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1212). |
| HB1268 | Pass | Amends or repeals various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, and deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 111, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1213). |
| SB1417 | Pass | Appropriates funds for burial grants for qualifying Filipino-American World War II veterans to provide funeral and burial services and transportation of their remains to the Philippines, subject to certain conditions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 121, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1223). |
| HB463 | Pass | Requires and appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to partner with the Hawaii agricultural community to establish a Food Safety Certification Training Program to assist small to medium sized farms to comply with the United States Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 104, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1206). |
| HB169 | Pass | Clarifies provisions of the State Ethics Code regarding gift disclosure statements, retention of financial disclosure statements, transcripts from contested case hearings, and ethics training. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 120, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1222). |
| HB170 | Pass | Clarifies application of the fair treatment and conflict of interest laws with respect to legislators and task force members. (HB170 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 119, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1221). |
| HB852 | Pass | Establishes the Hawaii State Energy Office and Chief Energy Officer position in Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT). Repeals Director of DBEDT's function as Energy Resources Coordinator and Renewable Energy Facilitator. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 122, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1224). |
