| SB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the earned income tax credit from a nonrefundable tax credit to a refundable tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB472 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the executive office on aging to coordinate with the University of Hawaii center on aging to implement an active aging initiative. Establishes an active aging advisory committee. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Transitions from lump sum deferred deposit transactions to installment-based small dollar loan transactions. Specifies various consumer protection requirements for small dollar loans. Beginning 1/1/2020, requires licensure for small dollar lenders th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires commercial marine license applicants to appear in person before the department of land and natural resources. Prohibits the department from issuing or renewing a commercial marine license to an alien crew member who has not been granted perm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB113 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires both chambers of the legislature to implement rules to permit residents to present testimony through audiovisual technology. Appropriates moneys to establish audiovisual systems throughout the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to use certain reporting and accountability procedures in implementing the public land trust reporting requirements of Act 178, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006. Requires the Department of Land and Nat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB404 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the term "master and servant" with "employer and employee" throughout the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB224 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB151 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to licensing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| HB360 | Intro
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 12/13/2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a voter with special needs to request that a ballot be forwarded by electronic transmission at any time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB212 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires LRB to conduct a feasibility study associated with the implementation of audiovisual technology in both chambers of the legislature and submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the legislature. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Dissolves the state capitol management committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB522 | Intro
Sine Die | Classifies certain former military vehicles as special interest vehicles. Authorizes owners of former military vehicles to apply for registration with the Director of Finance of the county in which the former military vehicle is to be operated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to state programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB271 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an emergency response vehicle noise task force to determine the impact of emergency response vehicle sirens in terms of excessive noise, the effect on public safety, and the relative effectiveness of the use of emergency lights instead of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB199 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows former employees of charter schools to represent the nonprofit organization that supports the charter school that employed the former employee through business or financial transactions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the exemption of persons with disabilities from minimum wage requirements. Takes effect on 1/1/2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires renewal of driver's licenses every four years, rather than every two years, for licensees who are seventy-two years of age or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the general prohibition against the operation of a pickup truck with any passenger 12 years of age or under in the bed or load-carrying area of the vehicle to one that prohibits the operation of the truck while any passenger of any age is in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB348 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB598 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds knowingly making a false statement to a county inspector a crime within the offense of unsworn falsification to authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to state highways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB46 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB306 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public notice of sale of agricultural property in a planned community association within 90 days of subdivision and sale. Prohibits any residential use for any period of structures on agricultural and preservation land. Allows for county enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB45 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB542 | 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 House Finance Committee |
| SB323 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of land and natural resources to consider the advice and recommendations of the game management advisory commission in carrying out its duties and powers; adopting, amending, or repealing rules; and in its managements of game ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB579 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to establish one full-time equivalent Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position in the Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Division of the Department of Health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| HB16 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Housing Committee |
| HB196 | 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 House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| HB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitles the landlord to start exhibiting a dwelling unit to prospective purchasers, mortgagees, and tenants 2 days upon receipt of the present tenant's notice of terminating the rental agreement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB215 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health (DOH) to purchase and rent traps for feral chickens and roosters to residents for a nominal fee. Authorizes DOH to contract with eligible entities to administer the program. Imposes a 1:1 match requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB528 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a local redevelopment agency to contract with a developer for construction of non-residential projects on public land within a redevelopment area. Exempts the costs of construction of work or improvements of a redevelopment project from ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB51 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| HB473 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the long-term rental assistance pilot program to be administered by the department of health. Appropriates funds for the administration of the pilot program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Housing Committee |
| SB123 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds into and out of the rental housing revolving fund for the purposes for which the fund was established, such as providing loans or grants for the development, pre-development, construction, acquisition, preservation, and substantial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB262 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, a statewide breeding ecology study and foraging ecology study on the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB514 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Director of Taxation to make available to any county official charged with enforcing land use laws the name and addresses of any transient accommodation business registered with the Department of Taxation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| SB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the State's preemptory powers over the regulation of tobacco products. Clarifies the county powers to adopt and enforce ordinances and rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants tuition waivers to University of Hawaii community college students who meet certain criteria. Initiates the waiver program as a pilot program in counties with populations of less than 100,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HB88 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends requirements for medical examinations in workers' compensation claims by requiring that the examining physician be mutually selected by the employer and employee or appointed by the Director of Labor. Provides for document distribution, cost a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB255 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to human services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HB376 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a supplemental environmental assessment or supplemental environmental impact statement after the passage of 15 years from the date of the acceptance of the statement or the determination of a finding of no significant impact, if the proposed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB498 | 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 House Transportation Committee |
| SB127 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a grant-in-aid to each county, other than the county of Kalawao, for the county agency responsible for enforcing its respective building code to be accredited by the International Accreditation Service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB585 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes biennial requirements of forty credit hours in specified continuing medical education programs for renewal of physician assistant licenses, beginning with the renewal for the licensing biennium on 2/1/2020, and every biennial renewal ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| HB149 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| SB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to provide for the orderly transfer of jurisdiction over state highways to the county in which the highway is located, provided that the county has a population greater than five hundred thousand.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB293 | Intro
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 11/13/2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
