| HB2469 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that Hawaii's anti-discrimination law does not prohibit or prevent an employer, employment agency, or labor organization from refusing to hire or refer or from discharging an individual for reasons unrelated to unlawful discriminatory pract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB2855 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation out of the Hawaii Film and creative industries development special fund. Makes a technical amendment to section 201-113, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2113 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "beneficiary consultation". Prohibits the department of Hawaiian home lands from disposing or extending a general lease to non-beneficiaries, unless there are no applicants seeking to enter into a general lease for the use and occupancy of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2376 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search and rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter a prohibited area or hiking on a trail closed to the public. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2453 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the comptroller to cause any state building under its jurisdiction and with air conditioning to set the operating temperature at a temperature recommended by industry standards. Provides exemptions for specific facilities. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1699 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to include the annual premium cost of health care paid by the employer on behalf of the employee on the employee's final pay stub for the calendar year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB2203 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the registration process for stored vehicles with expired license plates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB3157 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to conduct a comprehensive performance audit of the University of Hawaii Community College system and report its findings to the 2021 legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2274 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates cannabidiol under the department of health to be consistent with the Hawaii Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Allows licensees under the industrial hemp pilot program to market their products to the consumer market in a manner that is regulated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2335 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Office of Youth Services Revolving Fund. Permits individual vocational programs within the purview of the Office of Youth Services to engage in commercial enterprises, including the sale of goods and services, for self-sustainability ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1862 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits DLNR from establishing or implementing bag limits for game mammals in public hunting areas. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2195 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides liability protections for public and private landowners who expressly allow access and use of their land to practitioners of native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2564 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the building energy efficiency revolving loan fund and creates a clean energy revolving loan fund under the administration of the Hawaii green infrastructure authority. Makes an appropriation into the clean energy revolving loan fund. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2801 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish preferential electricity rates for residential properties located within a one-mile radius of a utility scale wind energy facility. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to review and adjust th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1621 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Honolulu Shoreline Climate Protection Pilot Project. Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to develop a comprehensive plan to protect urban Honolulu from the risk of coastal disaster events. Anticipat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2419 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes violations of voting requirements for elections of a condominium association subject to the enforcement powers of the Real Estate Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1995 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DOH to convene a working group that includes the participation of the HPHA executive director or designee, to study and examine the effects of prohibiting smoking and using tobacco products on the premises of substance abuse treatment facili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2949 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a civil cause of action by a vulnerable adult for financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult. Allows attorney's fees and costs and punitive damages. Establishes degrees and classes of felonies for financial exploitation of an elderly per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2429 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes training requirements for employees of transient accommodations in human trafficking awareness and response. Requires operators of transient accommodations to display National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline information to emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| HB1858 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Sea Grant College Program, with the Department of Health, to develop and conduct a two-year comprehensive statewide outreach program that provides science-based information and understanding of sewage contamination sources in nearshore m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB2514 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Department of Law Enforcement Services to consolidate the law enforcement functions, including security and service of process duties, of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Public Safety, and Department of Trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB2670 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that every judgment for child support is enforceable until paid in full.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2337 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "chronically homeless individual" to provide clarity and improve the delivery and development of homeless services. Effective 12/31/2059. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3045 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a prescription affordability commission within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to review prescription drug costs and establish levels of reimbursement. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1746 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii relating to the authorization of legislation governing the process by which executive reprieves, commutations, and pardons are submitted to and considered by the governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2331 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a long-term recovery authority to work with the state disaster recovery coordinator in enhancing the capacity of the government, relevant agencies, and the community to recover from the impacts of disasters and build resilience and sustai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2976 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of agriculture to conduct preclearance quarantine inspections prior to direct travel to or from the State. Appropriates funds to implement a preclearance quarantine inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2715 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to adopt rules to protect the welfare of livestock transported to, from, or between any island of Hawaii. Requires the department to adopt interim rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1866 | Intro
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] | 2020-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1741 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the offenses of sexual assault in the first and third degree, when perpetrated against someone who is mentally defective, to remove the standard of proof regarding knowledge that the other person was mentally defective, as that term is defined...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2115 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the state ethics code to require candidates for state elective offices to disclose the name of clients assisted before state agencies. Gives the state ethics commission discretion in determining how financial disclosure statements should be fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2341 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definitions of "certificate of disability" and "person with a disability" to allow a person with a disability that does not limit or impair the ability to walk and needs special accommodations to enter and exit their vehicle to be issued a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB2327 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that churches granted an exemption under section 441-22.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are exempt from all requirements of chapter 441, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and that other exempted entities shall comply with any provision of this chapter u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB3178 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the office of Hawaiian affairs board of trustees may remove the administrator by majority vote, rather than by two-thirds vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2093 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to establish a standardized data collection process; collect and analyze data relating to, among other things, student discipline, school climate, and student achievement; and annually report certain information t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2957 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to DOA for the pesticide subsidy program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2834 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes programs for the production and processing of hemp in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB2646 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies in the state water code that fire safety use is a beneficial use of water. Requires the board of land and natural resources to work with the county governments, Hawaii emergency management agency, and owners to use reservoir water for fire ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2822 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a motor vehicle redemption program for used motor vehicles to be redeemed in exchange for a refund. Imposes a motor vehicle redemption fee on all motor vehicles sold on or after 7/1/2020. Establishes a motor vehicle redemption special fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB2064 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for employers who create on-site early childhood facilities. Establishes and appropriates funds for 1.0 FTE on-site early childhood facility coordinator position. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020. T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2478 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the planning and design of a memorial to honor service members of the recent conflicts in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the various theaters of the Global War on Terrorism, to be located at the Hawaii State Veterans ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2343 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the ceiling for using moneys in the civil monetary penalty special fund for use by the Department of Health for CMS-approved compliance activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| SB3132 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the department of transportation to address transportation infrastructure already impacted by sea level rise, identify other vulnerable associated public infrastructure, create a plan for mitigating and adapting to sea level rise, and provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB3081 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for locally produced, organic food. Exempts locally produced, organic food from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB3025 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the immediate towing of parked vehicles that are not properly registered, do not display valid safety inspection stickers, or are otherwise illegally parked.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB1742 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the penal code to add abuse of a family or household member to felonies that qualify for repeat offender sentencing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB3133 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the air freight inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee and charge and corresponding fund to finance inspection, quarantine, and eradication activities relating to air freight that arrives at the State's airports. Transfers pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2945 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Education to offer no less than three credits of professional development courses, classes, or other programs annually to each teacher at no cost to the teacher.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies who may access information stored in the electronic prescription accountability system. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2048 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for selected public middle school teachers to attend an evidence-informed or evidence-based and culturally relevant bullying intervention training session and for those selected public middle school teachers to provide training on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
