HI Legislation | 2019 | Regular Session

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HB106Intro

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Prohibits or restricts the use of electroconvulsive treatment on persons depending upon their age.
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2019-01-22
To House Health Committee
HB254Intro

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Short form bill relating to human services.
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2019-01-22
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee
HB49Intro

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Short form bill relating to international affairs.
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2019-01-22
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee
SB201Intro

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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...
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2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee
HB328Intro

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Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC), at the request of the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA), to establish and operate transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement zone subaccounts within t...
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2019-01-22
To House Transportation Committee
SB118Intro

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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.
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2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB220Intro

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Appropriates funds to further support technology in schools, as originally authorized in Act 168, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018.
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2019-01-22
To Senate Technology and the Arts Committee
HB7Intro

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Short form bill relating to public safety.
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2019-01-22
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee
HB113Intro

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Establishes marketplace facilitators as the sellers of tangible personal property. Requires other persons who provide a forum for listing of tangible personal property and the taking or processing of orders to report information about purchasers to t...
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2019-01-22
To House Finance Committee
HB277Intro

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Short form bill relating to higher education.
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2019-01-22
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee
SB363Intro

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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.
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2019-01-22
To Senate Housing Committee
HB315Intro

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Establishes one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) child care site director position in the University of Hawaii Windward Community College Ke Kula Kamalii o Hanaiaulu Hawaiian Language Immersion Childcare Center.
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2019-01-22
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HB341Intro

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Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriate funds for the construction of an invertebrate and plant propagation facility and baseyard improvements on Oahu, a predator proof fence on Oahu, and a predator proof fence on Maui.
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2019-01-22
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HB459Intro

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Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to provide for referendum by the electorate.
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2019-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee
HB474Intro

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Appropriates funds to establish a pilot program for dementia screening and outreach with an emphasis on the Native Hawaiian and uninsured populations.
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2019-01-22
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee
HB256Intro

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Short form bill relating to human services.
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2019-01-22
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee
SB280Intro

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Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Resources Development. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050.
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2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee
HB15Intro

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Short form bill relating to housing.
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2019-01-22
To House Housing Committee
SB172Intro

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Makes an exemption from tort liability for the State and counties arising from lifeguard services, except for gross negligence or wanton acts or omissions.
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2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
SB355Intro

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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...
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2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB152Intro

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Short form bill relating to broadband communications.
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2019-01-22
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee
HB174Intro

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Requires the State Council on Mental Health to comprise at least 3 members with demonstrated knowledge of or work experience involving Native Hawaiian concepts of well-being, culturally grounded mental health methodologies, or traditional healing or ...
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2019-01-22
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HB5Intro

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Increases the minimum wage to $11.50 per hour in 2020, $13.00 per hour in 2021, and $14.60 per hour in 2022.
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2019-01-22
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HB374Intro

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Establishes the position of state coordinator on homelessness and requires the state coordinator on homelessness to report directly to the lieutenant governor. Makes an appropriation.
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2019-01-22
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee
HB87Intro

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Clarifies that financial institutions are authorized to conduct business with persons and entities that lawfully deal with industrial hemp.
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2019-01-22
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee
HB80Intro

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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 35th Representative District.
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2019-01-22
To House Finance Committee
SB181Intro

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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...
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2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB211Intro

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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.
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2019-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee
SB278Intro

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Appropriates funds for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050.
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2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee
HB599Intro

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Establishes the Teacher Home Assistance Program to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide housing vouchers to certain teachers who are employed by the Department of Education and commit to teach at hard-t...
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2019-01-22
To House Housing Committee
HB408Intro

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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...
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2019-01-22
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
SB186Intro

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Appropriates funds for the Judiciary for the fiscal biennium beginning 7/1/19, and ending 6/30/21. Effective 7/1/19.
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2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB134Intro

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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...
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2019-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee
SB347Intro

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Prohibits the President of the University of Hawaii from serving concurrently as a campus chancellor.
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2019-01-22
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HB14Intro

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Short form bill relating to housing.
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2019-01-22
To House Housing Committee
SB131Intro

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Prohibits the distribution, sale, and provision of plastic straws. Establishes a fine for violators. Takes effect 1/1/2020.
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2019-01-22
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
SB270Intro

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Enhances community noise control as regulated by county liquor commissions in counties with a population of seven hundred thousand or more.
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2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HB236Intro

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Establishes and appropriates funds for a Safe School Sidewalks Program that requires each county to maintain, repair, and construct sidewalks in school zones and other areas of significant school-related pedestrian traffic. Requires each county to an...
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2019-01-22
To House Transportation Committee
HB335Intro

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Allows counties to enact a zoning ordinance to amortize or phase out nonconforming single-family transient vacation rental units over a reasonable period of time.
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2019-01-22
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee
HB559Intro

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Requires that, effective January 1, 2020, 25% of parking stalls for all residential multi-family buildings that have twenty or more parking stalls and commercial buildings that have forty or more parking stalls are electric vehicle charger ready.
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2019-01-22
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HB525Intro

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Provides to a taxpayer who hires an elderly individual a nonrefundable tax credit for the 6-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer.
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2019-01-22
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HB21Intro

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Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to initiate condemnation proceedings to acquire the Pali Lanes property in Kailua and to operate it as a bowling alley. Appropriates funds.
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2019-01-22
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HB101Intro

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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.
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2019-01-22
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HB319Intro

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Amends the conveyance tax by adding a fee schedule for foreign entity-owned investment properties sold within five years.
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2019-01-22
To House Finance Committee
HB237Intro

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Establishes a community food forest program in the Department of Land and Natural Resources to work collaboratively with local government and community organizations to provide sources of healthy food statewide.
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2019-01-22
To House Agriculture Committee
HB417Intro

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Prohibits health insurers from denying coverage for early refills of topical eye medication prescriptions under certain conditions.
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2019-01-22
To House Health Committee
SB349Intro

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Includes persons with disabilities under the minimum wage requirements.
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2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee
HB85Intro

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Repeals safety inspection requirements for motorcycles, mopeds, trailers, semitrailers, pole trailers having a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less, and antique motor vehicles.
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2019-01-22
To House Transportation Committee
HB436Intro

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Establishes a Homeland Security and Resiliency Council to identify electric grid and other critical infrastructure needs and provide recommendations for enhancing the State's grid and critical infrastructure resiliency. Appropriates funds.
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2019-01-22
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HB20Intro

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Requires health insurers to provide coverage of cannabidiol oil derived from industrial hemp.
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2019-01-22
To House Health Committee
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