| HB2004 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends requirements for child passengers. Requires rear facing child safety seats for children under two years of age. Raises certain fines for violations. Effective upon approval. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1940 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the design and development of a professional training facility for guide dogs and other professionally trained service dogs on an undeveloped portion of the State's animal quarantine facility in Halawa valley on Oahu. Effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1602 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes the use of natural organic reduction as a method for the disposal of human remains. Amends the procedures for the resolution of disputes regarding the right of disposition, the right to rely and act upon written instructions in a funeral ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2828 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies in the State Water Code that fire safety use is a beneficial use of fresh water. Requires the department of land and natural resources, in consultation with the Hawaii emergency management agency, to cooperate with the counties and reservoi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1891 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates $110,000 for one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) permanent veterinary medical officer position within the department of health and operating costs. Effective July 1, 2020. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2701 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires agencies allotted a portion of the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to consider actions in achieving the zero emissions clean economy target and climate change resilience. Requires these agencies to report on how expendi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2541 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes the state earned income tax credit refundable and permanent. Increases and amends the refundable food/excise tax credit by basing the amount of the credit on a taxpayer's Hawaii earned income and federal adjusted gross income. Increases minimum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2276 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows revenue generated by the state veterinary laboratory and animal disease control branch to be deposited into the Animal Industry Special Fund. Effective on 7/1/2020. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB141 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires public schools, private schools, and public charter schools to have an employee trained to administer seizure disorder rescue medication. Exempts schools that do not have a student with a seizure disorder. Requires a seizure action plan for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3073 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for programs, ceremonies, and activities commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. Effective 7/1/51. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2548 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to create and implement a marine debris collection pilot program. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for research and development of specialized equipment for the effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3014 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for employers who create onsite early childhood facilities. Establishes and appropriates funds for 1.0 FTE on-site early childhood facility coordinator position. Effective 7/1/2051. Applies to taxable years beginning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2513 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes use of a castration band to inhumanely neuter a dog, cat, or other pet animal, excluding caged birds, under the offense of cruelty to animals in the second degree. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2631 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the courts to enter into agreements with the parties where there is reason to believe the defendant has a physical or mental disease, disorder, or defect that will or has become an issue in the criminal case. Requires either one psychiatri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2647 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the landlord incentive program special fund to reimburse land owners who participate in the section 8 housing choice voucher program for repair costs of tenant-caused property damage when the repair costs exceed the tenant's security depo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2485 | Engross
Sine Die | Broadens the purposes for which indirect costs incurred by the department of education, state public charter school commission, or a charter authorizer from federal grants may be reimbursed. Effective 7/1/2051. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2788 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the lapse date of the appropriations made by Act 12, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, as amended by Act 35, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019, to June 30, 2023, for flooding disaster relief for Kauai and other areas of the State. Effective 6/29/2020. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2884 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the balance that may be retained in the public utilities commission special fund at the end of each fiscal year from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HCR64 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Establishment Of A Working Group To Study The Feasibility Of Building An Additional Work Furlough Center On The Present Site Of The Oahu Community Correctional Center Once The Oahu Community Correctional Center Has Been Relocated To Ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HR48 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Establishment Of A Working Group To Study The Feasibility Of Building An Additional Work Furlough Center On The Present Site Of The Oahu Community Correctional Center Once The Oahu Community Correctional Center Has Been Relocated To Ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2736 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the University of Hawaii college of tropical agriculture and human resources for ornamental and landscape entomology specialist, plant pathologist extension specialist, and pesticide extension specialist positions. Effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2370 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates January as "Kalaupapa Month." Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3013 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes criteria for industry certification awards to public high schools and appropriates funds to the department of education to incentivize public high schools to encourage students to obtain industry-recognized certifications. Requires the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2505 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Health to repurpose unused state facilities to provide short-term residential beds to allow the stabilization, triage, and assessment of patients in need of services for mental health conditions a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2342 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the proper implementation of the kupuna caregivers program. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2458 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the behavioral health services administration of the department of health to convene a working group to compile resources to inform and educate the public about the impacts of excessive digital image screen time on the mental health and rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2942 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the governor's coordinator on homelessness, in conjunction with the Hawaii interagency council on homelessness, to develop plans for the city and county of Honolulu and the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui to coordinate the services and she...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2849 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies membership and certain powers and duties of the law enforcement standards board. Establishes deadlines for the completion of board responsibilities. Appropriates funds to enable the board to accomplish its mission. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2337 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the office of the long-term care ombudsman for an unspecified number of ombudsman specialist positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2059. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2888 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a statewide interoperable communications executive committee for public safety communications, statewide interoperable communications technical subcommittee to provide technical advice to the executive committee, and the position of the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2992 | Engross
Sine Die | Permanently authorizes the Department of Transportation under certain conditions to designate shoulders upon which the Department may authorize the driving of motorcycles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2268 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants exclusive original jurisdiction in matters of divorce to the family court of the circuit in which an applicant is domiciled at the time the application is filed. Repeals the requirement that a person be domiciled or physically present in the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2480 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Hawaii hope card program within the department of the attorney general to issue cards verifying a person's long-term protective order. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2052 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds early childhood education teachers, including public charter school teachers, to the Hawaii educator loan program and allows the education loans of participants to be forgiven after 5 years of teaching. Establishes a cap on the total loan forgiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3058 | Engross
Sine Die | Provide a three-year extension of the sunset provision in Act 38, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017. Effective 7/1/2051. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2259 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a workforce readiness diploma program within the department of education's community school for adults program or adult education program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2051. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3072 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii emergency management agency to inventory all designated emergency shelters and their ability to withstand a category one hurricane or higher. Requires Hawaii emergency management agency to provide a list of shelters and their resp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2692 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates money out of the land conservation fund for the acquisition of a portion of the Na Wai Eha watershed in Wailuku, Maui. Requires the County of Maui to provide matching funds for the land acquisition or for the purchase of the associated w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2264 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the number of days by which students must apply for free or reduced lunch and replenish the student's meal fund. Prohibits serving an alternative meal to students solely for failure to pay within thirty days of the first semester of a schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3011 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the purposes of restoration, repair, maintenance, operation, and one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) permanent park caretaker II for Iolani Palace and nearby structures on palace grounds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2265 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the micro enterprise assistance program on Hawaiian home lands revolving fund to provide grants and loans through the implementation by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands of the micro enterprise assistance program to qualified native H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2065 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Workforce Readiness Program within the Department of Education to allow students to graduate from an extended high school enrollment with an industry-recognized associate's degree to complement the student's high school diploma. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB70 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to continue small boat harbor saturation enforcement operation pilot testing within the Ala Wai and Keehi small boat harbors and develop effective enforcement for the State's small boat harbors, including the hiring of positions. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2925 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of debit cards and online electronic payment systems to pay for certain airport charges. Allows the airport or purchaser to pay for processing fees and charges. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2166 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires vehicles going less than the speed limit on a two-lane highway, behind which a certain number of vehicles are formed in a line, to pull over where possible to let the trailing vehicles proceed when passing is unsafe. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2508 | Engross
Sine Die | Replaces the term "accident" with collision for purposes of certain provisions of the statewide traffic code. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2335 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the healthy aging partnership program to further the program's role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii's kupuna. Effective 12/31/2059. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2051 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the maximum civil penalty for littering from $500 to $1,000. Increases the maximum fine for the offense of criminal littering from $1,000 to $5,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2056 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii to collaborate with the department of education; the department of business, economic development, and tourism; and others to develop an interactive web tool to enable degree-seeking individuals to make better-inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2191 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the purpose of funding construction costs of a water storage and distribution system on agricultural lands owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in Wahiawa, Oahu surrounding the Kukaniloko Bir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-11
To House Finance Committee |
