| SB2762 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits use, sale, alteration, or installation of motor vehicle mufflers that emit more than 95 decibels of sound.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB2107 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the driver's license of a civilian employee or civilian contractor of the United States Department of Defense that expires while the employee or contractor is stationed outside the United States remains valid for ninety days after the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB2689 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DOA to establish a permanent hemp program pursuant to federal law, and a corresponding special fund. Requires DOH to adopt rules for the licensing, inspection, and regulation of industrial hemp processing facilities. Reduces or repeals certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1810 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the shipping container inspection program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Increases the maximum fine for each violation of the fireworks law. Requires PSD to submit reports to the legislature on implementation of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2592 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funding for the implementation and development of the Hawaii coordinated access recovery entry system to increase access to treatment for all individuals who suffer any form of substance abuse and mental illness. Requires the DOH to purs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2773 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires providers authorized to prescribe opioids to discuss with patients certain risks associated with controlled substances that are opioids prior to issuing initial opioid prescriptions for the treatment of acute pain. Requires providers to incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2602 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "farm dwelling" that applies to allowed uses in the agricultural district. Amends certain land subdivision and condominium property regime laws related to agricultural land, as recommended pursuant to Act 278, Session Laws of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2096 | 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] | 2020-02-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2180 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources for ornamental and landscaping entomologist specialist, plant pathologist extension agent, and pesticide specialist positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB2839 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 40-53(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow reissuance due to a non-received, lost, fraudulent, or altered payroll check to be assessed a $30 fee per check. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2840 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the state procurement administrator to hire an innovative project delivery officer and funds this position. Authorizes a ten-year pilot program creating an innovative project delivery partnership between the state procurement office and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2105 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of the attorney general to conduct a feasibility study on whether the legislature may authorize competing physicians to engage in collective mediation with health benefit plans. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2132 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a water sports equipment decal program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2456 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of unlawful shipment of e-liquid products. Includes e-liquid and electronic smoking devices containing e-liquid within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Allocates a portion...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1740 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the governor to refer applications for pardon to the attorney general for consideration and investigation, and requires the attorney general to make a recommendation. Establishes a comprehensive application process for executive pardons. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HB2040 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the uses of the transaction fee for recordings in the bureau of conveyances and land court authorized under Act 120, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009. Applies the fee to all services rendered by the bureau pursuant to chapters 501 and 502, HRS. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2596 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the broadband service infrastructure grant program to award grants to applicants to extend deployment of facilities used to provide broadband service to unserved and underserved areas of the State. Takes effect on 7/1/2112. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2387 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and Office of Hawaiian Affairs as mandated by the Constitution of the State of Hawaii and Hawaii law. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2234 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to conduct a study on increasing the number of restaurants and nonprofit organizations donating surplus food. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2487 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the sustainability coordinator of the office of planning to complete a study on implementing a green new deal for the State. Requires the study to identify federal and international polices; review Hawaii's environmental, economic, and cultu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB1695 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Education to inform students and their parents or guardians of ability to opt out of standardized tests. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2029 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a statewide sustainability division within the office of planning to ensure long-term planning, coordination, and implementation of Hawaii's sustainability goals and policies. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB1600 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals provisions that allow the lending of certain firearms for use within the State for up to 15 days and for use outside the State for up to 75 days without being subject to a background check and other requirements under chapter 134, HRS. Prohib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| HB2540 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the excise tax to an unspecified amount for each cigarette sold, used, or possessed by a wholesaler or dealer. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2313 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts certain specific types of alternative investment fund information from disclosure under chapter 92F, the disclosure of which would put the system at a competitive disadvantage and frustrate its legitimate government function.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2108 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DOH, in conjunction with DHS and the insurance commissioner, to conduct a study determining the feasibility of establishing an all-payer health care pilot program in a county with a population greater than 500,000. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1873 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an outreach program in the department of health to inform physicians and appropriate non-physician practitioners participating in medicare that comprehensive care planning services for those with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Health Committee |
| HB138 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a general excise tax exemption for medical services provided by physicians for taxable years beginning after July 1, 2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2194 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "coastal hazards" and "beaches" and includes specific references to "coastal dunes" to clarify CZM policies in chapter 205A, HRS, including special management areas, shoreline setbacks, and variances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB2640 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a section to the Hawaii Revised Statutes which promotes the construction of high density housing within a one-half mile radius of a rail station along the Honolulu rail transit system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2004 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for program ID HTH420 for the Department of Health to contract for legal assistance with petitions for assisted community treatment and related court proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2232 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits certain individuals who, as a minor, were diagnosed with behavioral, emotional, or mental disorders or adjudicated by the family court to have committed a certain number of crimes of violence from owning firearms unless the person has been ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| HB2496 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for schools in the Nanakuli-Waianae complex area for capital improvement projects to install, repair, and maintain air conditioning in those schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB2351 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a pilot diaper benefit program for parents who participate in the first to work program administered by the department of human services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2496 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires original equipment manufacturers of digital electronic equipment to make documentation, parts, and tools available to independent repair providers and owners for the purposes of diagnosis, maintenance, and repair on fair and reasonable terms...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1986 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to develop trauma-informed approaches for the Department of Education. Task force to cease 7/1/2021. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2059. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1871 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the executive office on aging to report on its assessment of progress made toward the reported goals of the long term care commission and make recommendations as needed to accomplish these goals. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2059. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2381 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes forfeiture of certain ERS benefits, pursuant to court order, for state or county employees and designated beneficiaries who are convicted of an employment-related felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2266 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to address areas already impacted by sea level rise, identify vulnerable critical public infrastructure, create a plan for mitigating and adapting to sea level rise, and provide p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB3161 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes certain state grant-in-aid recipients to request certain amendments to grants-in-aid contracts during governor-declared states of emergency. Authorizes the governor to release qualified state workers to serve in community-based disaster re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB2507 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale or furnishing of tobacco products, including electronic smoking devices, to persons under twenty-five years of age. Increases the minimum age from twenty-one years of age to twenty-five years of age for purchase and possession of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2157 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Agriculture to support agriculture in the State. Authorizes any moneys appropriated to be transferred to the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2088 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the procurement preferences for class I and class II Hawaii products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB1733 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it a Class C felony to purchase, manufacture, or otherwise obtain firearm parts for the purpose of assembling a firearm having no serial number. Amends certain requirements relating to firearms registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2631 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the chief of police in a county issuing a firearm permit to conduct a mandatory review of an applicant's mental health records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2710 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a law enforcement officer to search a person convicted of violating certain temporary restraining orders or protective orders, including the person's motor vehicle and the person's residence, for firearms without obtaining a search warrant if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2716 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding new sources of revenue generated by the state veterinary laboratory and animal disease control that can be deposited into the Animal Industry Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2078 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires contractors and subcontractors to submit tax clearances as a condition of obtaining building permits for private developments exceeding a certain value. Requires contractors and subcontractors to submit additional tax clearances before assig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB2243 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the certification incentive program to include speech pathologists. Clarifies school eligibility requirements. Adds an additional temporary bonus for teachers and speech pathologists who continue to be employed at a school that has transition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Health Committee |
| HB1855 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires electric utilities to offer smart imports, or excess electricity, to consumers beginning 1/1/2022. Requires PUC to direct the State's electric utilities to study and recommend how to implement a smart imports program in Hawaii by 1/1/2022 an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
