| HB27 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any person who charges any fee for the use of a private street that has been continuously used by the general public for a period of not less than six months to be responsible for the costs to conform and maintain the private street to count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB257 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to study and recommend how to implement a smart imports program in Hawaii. Requires electric utilities to offer excess electricity to consumers during daylight hours at cost for any legal purpose beginning 1/1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB555 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state agencies to participate in a carbon offset program to offset carbon emissions caused by their employees' air travel. Requires DLNR to establish and administer a carbon offset program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB583 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and regulates the manufacturing of edible cannabis products as manufactured cannabis products by licensed medical cannabis dispensaries. Establishes standards, including regulations and education protocols, for edible cannabis products. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| SB266 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires and appropriates funds for the Hawaii tourism authority to promote Hawaii's efforts to protect the environment, marine life conservation districts, and coral reefs and provide guidance on the dangers of sunscreens that contain oxybenzone and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB328 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits noncompete agreements for low wage workers whose earnings do not exceed the greater of the hourly rate equal to the minimum wage required by applicable federal or state law or $15 per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB400 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows counties to regulate transient accommodations hosting platforms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| HB194 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers certain fines and forfeitures collected for uncontested traffic infractions to the counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB429 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that, for counties with a population equal to or less than 500,000 that adopt a county surcharge on state tax ordinance, no less than 50% of the revenues shall be used for public transportation systems and compliance with the ADA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB577 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the City and County of Honolulu to establish a pilot program to assist property owners in upgrading their sewer connections. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state agencies to participate in a carbon offset program to offset carbon emissions caused by their employees' air travel. Requires DLNR to establish and administer a carbon offset program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB208 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to the environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB504 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement for the adoption of administrative rules relating to the adoption process of the state building code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB224 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the category of an atomic veteran to special number license plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB254 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons who manufacture, sell, offer for sale, lease, or distribute a product that makes content accessible on the Internet to include digital blocking capability that renders human trafficking hubs, child pornography, revenge pornography, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Technology and the Arts Committee |
| HB266 | Intro
Sine Die | Legalizes hemp to the extent legalized under federal law. Imposes a penalty for the production of hemp unless produced as authorized under federal law or under the state industrial hemp pilot program. Requires the Chairperson of Agriculture to prepar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires manual recounts of election votes when the margin of victory is less than two hundred fifty votes or less than one per cent of the votes cast, whichever is less.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB196 | 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 Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to labor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the factors under which the family court awards custody and visitation of a minor child to ensure parental parity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| SB217 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires candidate names to be randomized on individual ballots and across precincts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB332 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the sales of mobility enhancing equipment sold by prescription, prosthetic devices, prescription drugs sold pursuant to a prescription, diabetic supplies, medical oxygen, and human blood and its derivatives from the general excise tax for tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB430 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that high school students complete a health class. Requires teacher and principal training to include suicide prevention. Allows the training to be conducted through self-review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers certain fines and forfeitures collected for uncontested traffic infractions to the counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB202 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the current renewable energy technology systems tax credit with tax credits for solar or wind energy systems and energy storage systems. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that where public access is required as a condition of a subdivision, either the county must accept dedication of and maintain the access or identify an entity to own and maintain the access. Authorizes the county to require the subdivider t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires vacancies in the office of United States Senator to be filled by special election. Requires any vacancy in the office of State Senator or State Representative to be filled by special election if more than half of the term has not yet been se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to be expended for purposes set forth in section 201H-202, Hawaii Revised Statutes; appropriates $75,000,000 from the general fund to be expended by the Hawaii housing finance and development corpor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB553 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a statewide anti-littering public education and awareness campaign to be administered by the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Authorizes the Hawaii Tourism Authority to enter into contracts and agreements relating to a statewide anti-littering p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB403 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends money transmitter licensure requirements by adding a credit report and extending personal background history from five years to ten years, which will enable the division of financial institutions to join a compact of states that license money ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| HB385 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds specific requirements to Hawaii's sexuality health education law. Requires the Board of Education to collaborate with the Department of Education and the Sexuality Health Education Working Group to provide curricula information to the public. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| SB237 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum detachable ammunition magazine capacity for pistols that may be manufactured, possessed, sold, bartered, traded, gifted, transferred, or acquired.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support the work of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB346 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of transportation to work in conjunction with any relevant educational institution or federal, state, or county agency to develop a strategic plan to protect coastal highways from the effects of coastal erosion and update the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the sunset date for Act 168, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, authorizing certain incentives and actions by the Department of Transportation regarding electric vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB568 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a three-year pilot program which authorizes nonprofit organizations in a county with a population of 500,000 or more to provide shelter to homeless persons, including by hosting temporary encampments on property owned by the organization....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| HB286 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires candidates for president and vice president of the United States to post their most recent income tax return on the Internet at least sixty days prior to and continuing through the date of the general election for free access by the public i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadens the purposes for which a county with a population equal to or less than 500,000 that adopts a surcharge on the state general excise tax, may use surcharge revenues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB359 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires restaurants that sell children's meals that include a beverage to make the default beverage a healthy beverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| SB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Consolidates the application forms for motor vehicle driver's licenses and civil identification cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to prepare a resource land acquisition plan by 6/30/2021. Requires periodic reporting to the Legislature on the progress of preparing the plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB128 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of audible reverse warning systems on vehicles operating in residential zones, except between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on any day. Requires operators of vehicles equipped with an audible reverse warning system to reverse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| HB195 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows counties to adopt and enforce additional ordinances that regulate the sale or use of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices. Requires county ordinances to be no less protective of public health than state law. Repeals sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| HB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to gambling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the state constitution to provide for referendum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB372 | 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] | 2019-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB587 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits physicians from using electroconvulsive treatment on minors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| SB207 | 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 Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB181 | 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 House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| SB167 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits drivers of vehicles in a county with a population greater than 500,000 from making any turns while a traffic control device facing oncoming traffic displays a red signal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Transportation Committee |
