HI Legislation | 2013 | Regular Session
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HI | SB563 | Amends the form and function of the Candidate Advisory Council for the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii. Repeals the existing statutory provisions regarding the Regents Candidate Advisory Council. (CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-14 Act 72, 5/13/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1172). |
| HI | SB4 | Requires all front and back seat passengers to be restrained by a seat belt assembly or child passenger restraint while the motor vehicle is being operated upon any public highway. (SB4 HD2) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB856 | Establishes January 30 of each year as "Civil Liberties and the Constitution Day" to celebrate, honor, and educate the public about various individuals' commitment to preserving civil liberties. (SB856 HD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1171 | Authorizes the phased review of certain projects by the Department of Land and Natural Resources' State Historic Preservation Division to ensure consistency between state and federal law. Removes language that provided the Governor with the option to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB827 | Prohibits employers, unions, and candidates or their agents from assisting voters with completing absentee ballots. Subjects special elections by mail to the same voter assistance prohibitions as for absentee ballots. Requires absentee voters to affi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB507 | Creates notice requirements for regular annual meetings and special meetings of a planned community association. (CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB2 | Amends the offenses of terroristic threatening in the first degree and robbery in the first degree to include the use of simulated firearms. (SB2 HD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB44 | Defines "law enforcement officer" in chapter 334, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to assess whether there is probable cause to believe a person is mentally ill or suffering from substance abuse or is otherwise ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB31 | Requires noncandidate committee reports to disclose contributions received and contributions made, and for independent expenditures, the identity of the candidate supported or opposed by the expenditure and whether the expenditure supports or opposes... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB909 | Provides fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for collective bargaining unit (13) and its excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit repr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB908 | Makes an emergency appropriation of funds for fiscal year 2012-2013 for public employees in collective bargaining unit (9) and for employees excluded from collective bargaining that are on the same compensation plans as those officers and employees w... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1106 | Allows a child care program licensed by the United States Department of Defense or the Hawaii Council of Private Schools to be exempt from licensing by the Department of Human Services; provided that for child care programs licensed by the Hawaii Cou... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB682 | Clarifies the authority of the county fire chiefs to examine building plans and documentation to ensure that they are in compliance with the county's adopted fire code. Requires the issuance of permits before work may begin. Effective July 1, 2013. (... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-08 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB6 | Requires dogs or cats that are captured or killed in a snare or trap to be reported to a county animal control officer. Establishes a misdemeanor animal cruelty offense for the use of steel-jawed leg-hold traps, and the use of snares, conibear, and f... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | HB222 | Appropriates funds for the office of Hawaiian affairs for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1, 2013, and ending June 30, 2015. Effective July 1, 2013. (CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | SB5 | Provides several means of compensation in addition to rent reductions when the State withdraws, condemns, or takes public land leased for intensive agricultural or pastoral uses and renders the land unusable for the original purposes of the lease. (C... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1133 | Exempts a container of liquid which DOH finds to be the sole item of a meal or diet from the Deposit Beverage Container Program. Limits the exemption for dietary supplement beverage containers from the Deposit Beverage Container Program to a single s... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB3 | Provides for the election of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs board members through a system of nonpartisan primary and general elections to begin with the 2014 elections. (CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | HB25 | Allows a condominium association, as a junior lienholder, to commence or continue a nonjudicial foreclosure action on a property subject to a judicial foreclosure even if the lender has filed for foreclosure. Preserves the right of owner-occupants to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | SB877 | Authorizes the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to provide written notice of hearing to all parties by first class mail at least fifteen days before the hearing and clarifies the Board's powers for conducting appeals under Hawaii laws relating to occupat... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | HB800 | Makes an emergency appropriation from the Energy Security Special Fund to staff and support the Hawaii Refinery Task Force. (SD2) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | SB1280 | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Kona SWAC, LLC, in constructing part of a seawater air conditioning district cooling system. (CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1360 | Makes permanent the general excise tax exemptions for condominium common expenses paid by managers, submanagers, and suboperators and for hotel employee expenses paid by hotel operators and timeshare projects. Eliminates the aggregate cap of $400,000... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | HB152 | Requires the auditor to assist DLIR in adjusting and periodically reviewing the adequacy of the medical fee schedule. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/13. (CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB1396 | Appropriates funds for the planning and design of the Nisei Veterans Legacy Center, subject to matching funds. Requires a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2014. Effective July 1, 201... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | SB867 | Sets the base monthly contributions for health benefit plans, including two-party plans, paid by the State and counties for retired employees to specified amounts beginning 01/01/14. Effective 01/01/14. (CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB82 | Authorizes Hawaii Public Housing Authority to receive, use, and dispose of property and sell real property subject to legislative approval; receive gifted property to benefit public housing residents; and use volunteer services. Directs the Hawaii Pu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1349 | Reenacts the tax credit for qualified research activities to apply to taxable years from 2013 to 2019. Adds, amends, and deletes definitions. Establishes new reporting requirements. Requires DBEDT to conduct studies to measure the effectiveness of th... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB655 | Allows health professionals, subject to certain requirements, to treat the partners of patients diagnosed as having certain sexually transmitted diseases by dispensing or prescribing medication to the partners without examining the partners. Provides... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | HB17 | Deletes the "one gallon per person per day" exception to the prohibition against the removal of sand and other beach or marine deposits, except for materials inadvertently taken, and creates an exemption for public emergencies and traditional cultura... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB816 | Provides fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for unit (1) and its excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal b... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB858 | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation for the HI Growth Initiative, an investment program to develop an ecosystem to support high-growth entrepreneurial companies in the State. Requires report to Legislature. Appropriatio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB820 | Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2013-2015 for public employees in collective bargaining unit (5) and for employees excluded from collective bargaining who are on the same compensation plan as those officers and employees within collective barg... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | SB1340 | Establishes the young adult voluntary foster care program to care for and supervise eligible foster youth until age twenty-one. Takes effect 7/1/2014. (CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | HB424 | Authorizes the governor to appoint commissioners of deeds to administer oaths, take acknowledgements, and take proofs of execution outside of the United States in connection with the execution of conveyance documents relating to a time share interest... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | SB1339 | Creates a state definition for a rural area for purposes of federal programs only so that certain areas that would not otherwise be considered rural pursuant to a federal definition will be eligible for federal funds designated for rural areas. (CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | HB672 | Prohibits the sale and purchase of electronic smoking devices to minors under eighteen years of age. Requires retailers to sell tobacco only in a direct face-to-face exchange between the retailer and consumer, except for in-bond concessions (duty-fre... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | SB1336 | Designates the Kahuku Medical Center as a rural hospital for a period of ten years beginning on July 1, 2013. Repeals June 30, 2023. (CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | HB62 | Prohibits pharmacy benefits managers, or their partially or wholly owned subsidiaries, from using a patient's medical health information to market or advertise to that patient the services of a preferred pharmacy network that is owned by the pharmacy... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB1374 | Allows procurement officials to choose the appropriate source selection method to meet the circumstances of each procurement. Effective July 1, 2013. (HB1374 CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB430 | Exempts charitable income tax deductions from the itemized deduction caps. (HB430 CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | SB642 | Amends the definitions of "adequate supply", "medical use", "primary caregiver", "usable marijuana", and "written certification". Allows the medical use of marijuana if the amount of marijuana possessed by the qualifying patient does not exceed an ad... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB458 | Removes the requirement that general excise tax revenues be deposited to the credit of the state educational facilities improvement special fund. Limits expenditures from the special fund to projects authorized by the legislature for fiscal years end... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | SB1161 | Clarifies that all costs and expenses associated with the impoundment and disposal of an unauthorized vessel by the Department of Land and Natural Resources shall be borne by the vessel owner and clarifies circumstances when no vessel registration sh... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | HB833 | Provides fund authorizations and appropriations for all collective bargaining cost items for salary increases and other wage related costs in the arbitrated settlement for unit (10) and its excluded counterparts for fiscal year 2012-2013. (HB833 CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | SB635 | Amends offenses of causing injury or death to a service dog and intentional interference with the use of a service dog to include law enforcement animals. Adds a definition of "law enforcement animal" to the Penal Code. (CD1) [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Enrolled to Governor. |
| HI | HB114 | Requires the Administrator of the State Procurement Office, rather than the University of Hawaii President, to serve as the chief procurement officer for specified procurement for construction. Requires procurement for professional services for const... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB841 | Updates the Insurance Code by streamlining and improving the operations of the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and ensuring that the Insurance Division retains its accreditation with the National Association of I... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB65 | Specifies that an otherwise qualified retail community pharmacy that requests to enter into a contractual retail pharmacy network agreement shall be considered part of a pharmacy benefit manager's retail pharmacy network for purposes of a beneficiary... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
| HI | HB988 | Amends Environmental Response Revolving Fund to support the operations of an environmental disaster standby and response facility in the State for the recovery and rehabilitation of native wildlife due to oil- or fuel-related disaster. Effective July... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-07 Transmitted to Governor. |
