| SB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the State or a county that repairs or maintains a street of which the ownership or jurisdiction is in dispute between the State and the county, shall be immune from liability for personal injuries or property damage arising out of the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB932 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the University of Hawaii open educational resources task force to conduct a comprehensive analysis and evaluation of all general education courses and high attendance courses taught at the University of Hawaii system to identify open educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Prioritizes the duties of the division of the consumer advocate to proceedings that involve accounting, financing, and utility rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB428 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a task force within the department of transportation to explore certain topics associated with the use of the metric system in Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB786 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes issuance of GO bonds to finance plans, design, construction, and equipment for a new gymnasium at President Roosevelt high school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB403 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the deadline by which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from 3/31/2019 to 3/31/2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB702 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals criminal prohibitions and penalties pertaining to marijuana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB857 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes tips or gratuities paid directly to an individual by a customer of the employer and reported or declared to the employer under the definition of income used to calculate payments of child or spousal support.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the permit fee for any aerial devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnics for a display from $110 to $300.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB920 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a fair market appraisal to be performed prior to any sale, lease, or exchange of any public land to a governmental agency without public auction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB863 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends appellate jurisdiction of the supreme court and the intermediate appellate court to conditions as they existed prior to July 1, 2006. Reestablishes criteria for assigning appeals. Reestablishes requirement that most appeals be filed with the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB793 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for operating expenses of DBEDT.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB968 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes Department of Public Safety to inspect shipping containers for illegal fireworks and explosives. Establishes a shipping container inspection program using explosive-sniffing dogs and associated special fund. Authorizes Department of Transp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB466 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to conduct a feasibility study in consultation with the department of agriculture on the viability of an integrated, multi-crop production system for palm-based vegetable oil for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires for shippers with knowledge they are transporting fireworks to notify the appropriate county fire department of the shipment into the State or between counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB899 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Family Medicine Residency Program to establish a consortium of hospitals and other institutions participating in medical training to develop physician residency opportunities throughout the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to establish residential substance abuse treatment facilities and appropriates funds for that purpose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB881 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds for the department of health to develop a secure inpatient psychiatric facility at Hawaii state hospital to serve the mentally ill who need stricter security and inmates and detaine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB578 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the period that a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from March 31, 2019, to December 31, 2019. Allows a county with a population equal to or less than five hundred thousand that adopts a surcharge on state t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB459 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the construction of tiny homes for residential use within agricultural districts, on farms that are engaged in agricultural production. Provides that a tiny home shall be subject to county ordinances or permitting requirements that are dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB781 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a defendant convicted of certain prostitution offenses to file a motion to vacate the conviction if the defendant is not subsequently convicted of any offense under the penal code within twelve months after the date of the original conviction ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB868 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises county allocations of transient accommodations tax revenues to reflect the growth in population of each respective county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB746 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of polystyrene foam containers or the sale or provision of food or beverages packaged or contained in polystyrene foam containers at public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB865 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes decisions of the family court appealable to the supreme court instead of the intermediate court of appeals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB420 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of ag-tech zones within the city and county of Honolulu. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB622 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines terms relating to unmanned aircrafts. Establishes the offenses of unauthorized use of unmanned aircraft in the first, second, and third degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB787 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes issuance of GO bonds to finance plans, design, construction, and equipment for new music facilities at President Roosevelt high school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB202 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes repeal dates for all professional and vocational regulatory programs under the professional and vocational licensing division of the department of commerce and consumer affairs. Requires the auditor to perform an evaluation of each progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB505 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes non-commercial motor vehicles from those vehicles required to obtain a certificate of inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB532 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "physician", for purposes of health care peer review, to include physicians participating in nationally-recognized accredited graduate medical training programs that occur in a health care entity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB689 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates the Department of Agriculture to take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent, or minimize the adverse effects of biotechnology and genetic engineering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB613 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires check cashers to be registered with the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Requires a check casher to offer a voluntary payment plan under certain circumstances. Provides the structure for voluntary payment plans. Clarifies that a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB778 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes various changes to the campaign finance laws. Allows voluntary contributions to the Hawaii election campaign fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB882 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of public-private partnership within DAGs. Adds design-build-finance-operate-maintain and design-build-operate-maintain project delivery methods to the types of methods that may be used in construction projects solicited throug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB709 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-fourth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SCR2 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The State Public Charter School Commission To Report On The Criteria Developed And Prioritization Advised For Charter School Facilities Funding Pursuant To Section 302d-29.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB399 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolishes or repeals certain non-general funds and transfers unencumbered balances to the general fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of education for the planning, design, and construction of, and equipment for, a bookmobile facility in Makiki.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB544 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that passenger cars obtain a certificate of inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale and use of consumer fireworks except for cultural events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of human services, Med-QUEST division, to amend the Hawaii medicaid state plan to include the city and county of Honolulu's special transit service as a method of providing non-emergency medical transportation so that the spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB842 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to allow a recount of votes cast in an election be conducted in a manner to be provided by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires disclosure of albizia trees and associated risks in a disclosure statement as part of the sale or transfer of residential real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for initiative procedures. Takes effect upon ratification of a constitutional amendment enabling direct initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1017 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Erin's law task force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, report recommendations for the establishment of a program to educate public scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals Act 67, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, relating to alternative energy research and funding. Repeals Act 141, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, relating to the research and development program in the Hawaii technology development corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Technology and the Arts Committee |
| SB618 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB525 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes Department of Health unannounced inspections of care facilities discretionary rather than mandatory.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB841 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from the definition of "advertisement" communications on clothing and other attire associated with a candidate's candidate committee. Removes clothing, other attire, yard signs, and sundry items and advertisements made by a candidate or cand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB864 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii relating to the appointment and retention of justices and judges. Authorizes the senate to approve or reject subsequent terms of office for supreme court justices. Changes the required ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
