| SB724 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the requirements for a condominium association's standard proxy form by deleting the option for a condominium owner to give the proxy to the board as a whole.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB109 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the vehicle weight tax a military member who is assigned to a unit outside of the State, is a member in good standing, and claims Hawaii as the member's state of legal residence for purposes of withholding state income taxes from the mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that property may be disposed of if required for expenses for reasonable living accommodations. Allows disposal of real property if the disposal was pending prior to the filing for an annulment, divorce, or separation, with the proceeds of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB209 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides, under certain circumstances, amnesty for used car purchasers from paying unpaid vehicle registration fees or penalties if the purchaser had no knowledge of the delinquent fees or penalties upon the purchase of the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows counties with populations less than 100,000 to enact a zoning ordinance to amortize or phase out nonconforming single-family transient vacation rental units over a reasonable period of time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB300 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds as 42F grants to the Hawaii Theatre Center, Ka Lima O Maui, Ltd., Kauai Habitat for Humanity, Inc., and Central Oahu Youth Services Association for construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB268 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows probable cause for fireworks offenses to be established from statements from witnesses and photographs, video, and other recordings authenticated by witnesses. Simplifies definitions of aerial device, articles pyrotechnics, consumer fireworks,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB297 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines digital media account. Prohibits contracts that prohibit, limit, or restrict the transfer of a digital media account upon the account holder's death, and provides for the transfer of a decedent's digital media account to a devisee or heir.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Technology and the Arts Committee |
| SB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the distribution and selling of plastic straws. Establishes a fine for individual and business violators. Requires individual violators to additionally pick up litter or perform community service. Effective 1/1/2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides to a taxpayer who hires an individual with a disability a nonrefundable tax credit for the 6-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB169 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the photo red light imaging detector systems program. Authorizes counties to administer the program. Requires fines collected for violations on a county highway to be transmitted to the appropriate county after expenses are deducted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twentieth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB243 | 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 withheld by employers for payments of child or spousal support.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB305 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals ban on electric guns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the time the county councils have to review affordable housing projects from forty-five to sixty days. Repeals option for county councils to approve with modifications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB299 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the board of education to hold no less than six community meetings each year; provided that at least one meeting shall be held in each county. Requires the board of education to allow public testimony on items not on a public meeting agenda ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement for special inspection and certification of reconstructed vehicles prior to operation upon a public highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB175 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows counties with populations less than 100,000 to enact a zoning ordinance to amortize or phase out nonconforming single-family transient vacation rental units over a reasonable period of time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB322 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to article XI of the Hawaii State Constitution to include game animals on state lands as resources to be managed and conserved by the State and its political subdivisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB180 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons arrested for felony sexual offenses to provide a DNA sample. Defines felony sexual offenses. Provides for the destruction of DNA samples and expungement of a DNA database profile when appropriate. Makes an appropriation for the costs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the requirement to include a registered voter's social security number in a notice to withdraw the voter's signature from a petition. Removes the requirement to include a space for the social security number of each registered voter signing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB151 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires shippers that have knowledge of cargo entering the State or being shipped between counties and containing fireworks to report the cargo to the applicable county fire department. Authorizes the applicable county fire department to inspect shi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB295 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a deliberative process privilege is consistent with the legislative intent of the uniform information practices act. Specifies that the confidential disclosure exception includes intra- and inter-agency memoranda and correspondence tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB359 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a mandatory manual recount of election ballots in any election for any office when the margin of victory is equal to or less than one-half of one per cent of the ballots cast. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the requirements for a condominium association's standard proxy form by deleting the option for a condominium owner to give the proxy to the board as a whole.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides to a taxpayer who hires an elderly individual a nonrefundable tax credit for the six-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB354 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes advertising, including online advertising, any transient accommodation or resort time share vacation interest, plan, or unit without the proper registration identification number and proper local contact information a misdemeanor. Subjects any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB205 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a county to adopt rules or ordinances that place stricter limitations on a passenger seated in the bed or load-carrying area of a pickup truck while the vehicle is in operation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB232 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables patients and primary care providers to enter into direct primary care agreements to provide primary care services. Specifies that direct primary care agreements are not insurance and are not subject to the State's insurance code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB298 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms state debt limit statements laws to include tax increment bonds if a constitutional amendment authorizing the use of such bonds and excluding such bonds from determinations of the counties' funded debt is ratified.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to sell long-term leasehold interests for berths at the Keehi Boat Harbor and Ala Wai Boat Harbor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB168 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows counties to set their own minimum wage at a rate that is higher than the state minimum wage rate. Increases the minimum wage in the State to $15 per hour beginning 1/1/2020. Authorizes the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB201 | Intro
Sine Die | Excepts from the definition of historic property any private residence that has not been entered, or nominated by the owner of the residence for entry, onto the Hawaii register of historic places. Clarifies that nothing in section 6E-10, Hawaii Revis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the court to take all practical steps to ensure the attendance and participation of the respondent in a guardianship petition hearing, including moving the hearing site if necessary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to further support technology in schools, as originally authorized in Act 168, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Technology and the Arts Committee |
| SB363 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for the affordable housing revolving fund to provide community development financial institutions with capital to lend to developers of affordable housing projects, under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB280 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Resources Development. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB172 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an exemption from tort liability for the State and counties arising from lifeguard services, except for gross negligence or wanton acts or omissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a nine-month holding period before disposition of forfeited property by the attorney general. Establishes a claims process for a legal owner to pick up forfeited property within sixty days following the mandatory nine-month holding period, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB181 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that trial commence within 6 months in all criminal cases, pursuant to rule 48(b), (c), or (d) of the Hawaii rules of penal procedure, provided that any periods that delay the commencement of trial and are caused by court congestion shall be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB211 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts changes and improvements to existing portions of the Waianae coast emergency access road within the Waianae district of Oahu from environmental assessment requirements under chapter 343, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB186 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Judiciary for the fiscal biennium beginning 7/1/19, and ending 6/30/21. Effective 7/1/19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB134 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes automatic voter registration upon application for a driver's license or civil identification card, except when an applicant affirmatively declines on an application to register to vote. Requires the examiner of drivers to electronically t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB347 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the President of the University of Hawaii from serving concurrently as a campus chancellor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the distribution, sale, and provision of plastic straws. Establishes a fine for violators. Takes effect 1/1/2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB270 | Intro
Sine Die | Enhances community noise control as regulated by county liquor commissions in counties with a population of seven hundred thousand or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB349 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes persons with disabilities under the minimum wage requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB183 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocates additional transient accommodations tax revenues to the counties of Kauai, Hawaii, and Maui. Sunsets 12/31/2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the period in which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from 3/31/2019 to 3/31/2020. Authorizes the use of surcharge revenues to address affordable housing and homelessness. Exempts gross income and gross pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
