| SB402 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the offenses of murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, assault in the second degree, and terroristic threatening in the first degree to include conduct committed against victims who the courts and police are attempting to kee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB683 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits use of courtrooms and rooms within a courthouse by judges and justices to conduct private ceremonies for which the judge or justice is paid a fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB968 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the charge of escape in the second degree to persons who fail to present themselves to a correctional or detention facility at the date and time as ordered by the court for service of a term of custody or confinement for a felony conviction. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1254 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a program to encourage and reward the reporting of illegal fireworks activities by residents. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1521 | Intro
Sine Die | Short Form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends chapter 707 to specify that (1) the negligent operation of a vehicle that results in the death of a person who is within a crosswalk is negligent homicide in the first degree; and (2) the negligent operation of a vehicle that results in substa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB403 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the offense of murder in the second degree by including deaths caused by the defendant in the course of, in furtherance of, or in flight from the commission or attempt to commit certain specified felonies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB684 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies time period in which contractors under chapters 103, 103D, and 42F, HRS, are prohibited from making campaign contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB969 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits the conditional search of persons and vehicles entering state correctional or detention facility grounds. (SB969 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | Delays implementation of the reduced ignition propensity cigarettes law to 09/30/2010. Creates a special revolving fund to receive deposits of cigarette certification fees. Authorizes the state fire council to expend moneys from the fund to cover the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1522 | Intro
Sine Die | Short Form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB130 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes limited immunity for seeking medical assistance for victims of drug overdoses. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB404 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds from the emergency and budget reserve fund for various programs, including grants for fiscal year 20092010. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB685 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes on a landowner or land occupier a continuing duty to inspect the property for risk of rockslide, landslide, and for natural hazards and man-made hazards that could result in harm to persons or property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB970 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends section 353-20, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to permit the Director of Public Safety to direct the department to have one or more accounts for committed persons. Also states that the accounts are non-interest bearing and that no interest can be pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals automatic approval provisions and provides for a substitution remedy of a private right of action to enforce the time limits under the automatic permit approval law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1523 | Intro
Sine Die | Short Form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section relating to social worker expertise by removing the designation of social worker testimony as expert testimony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolishes the ten per cent ethanol by volume requirement for gasoline sold in Hawaii for use in motor vehicles. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB686 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals provision that made open meeting requirements for the state legislature and its members subject to rules of the senate and house of representatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB973 | Intro
Sine Die | Deters tax fraud and promotes uniformity in the tax system by conforming Hawaii tax law to the Internal Revenue Code for preparer penalties and accuracy-related penalties. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1257 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the dismissal of a protest of an award of a contract if the reason for the protest is based upon an error in a bid that is less than one per cent of the bid amount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1524 | Intro
Sine Die | Short Form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates 180 day statute of limitations to file a complaint with the civil rights commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB406 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows expenditures from works of art special fund for acquisition of works of art for the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum and Iolani Palace.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB687 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies procurement code to require a final decision to be issued within thirty days of the receipt of the request for hearing. Requires a judicial decision within thirty days of the filing of the application for judicial review. In either case, im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB974 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the High Technology Investment credit, also known as Act 221, to align the statute to its original intent to encourage investment in innovative, research-oriented high technology companies that create jobs and promote economic diversification ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1258 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes various revisions to renewable energy and net energy metering provisions. Encourages the development of renewable energy in Hawaii. (SB1258 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1525 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the systemwide, statewide academy for creative media program to support economic development in Hawaii. Deletes all references to a lease agreement with PBS Hawaii, and provides that funds shall be expended to expand the programs and faci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB133 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the public utilities commission to implement a program to achieve lifeline electricity rates for qualified residential electricity customers. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendment to article V, section 6, of the state constitution to provide that the attorney general be elected as a nonpartisan elected official rather than appointed by the governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB688 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes job security requirements upon the divestiture of a covered establishment employing 100 or more persons. Provides a general excise tax exemption for the first year in which a successor employer is subject to the requirements (SB688 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB975 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the High Technology Investment credit, also known as Act 221, to provide an aggregate cap on the amount of high technology business investment tax credit issued per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1261 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts the hospital-acquired infection disclosure and hospitalacquired infection prevention law to detect, report, and prevent hospital-acquired infections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1526 | Intro
Sine Die | Short Form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB134 | Intro
Sine Die | Offers parents the choice of convening an ohana conference within five days of the department of human services' assumption of temporary custody of a child; permits appropriate, authorized agencies to file a petition with courts for custody of a chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB408 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the post retirement allowance to three per cent for retirants who have been retired for at least ten years. Appropriates funds for the post retirement allowance increase.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB689 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the board of education to develop a minimum staffing formula for off-ratio positions in certain schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB976 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits persons aged fifteen years and six months but less than eighteen years of age from engaging in various tasks that distract from the primary task of driving such as, the use of all cell phones (including hands-free devices) and all other ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1262 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a health care provider to disclose to patients adverse events relating to their medical treatment. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1527 | Intro
Sine Die | Short Form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the judiciary to establish a three-year statewide pilot project for the electronic filing of requests for and issuance of domestic abuse temporary restraining orders on nights and weekends. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts the introduction of bills proposing statutory amendments and new laws to the first year of each fiscal biennium. Reserves the second year of each fiscal biennium for introduction of fiscal measures, emergency measures, and constitutional am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB690 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows for the exchange or movement of civil service employees between the State and any county, between counties, between the federal government and the State, or between the federal government and any county; provided certain conditions are met. (S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB977 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the current reckless driving law to include defined penalties for first-time offenders and repeat offenders guilty of one or more traffic violations under the State's Traffic Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1264 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii medical board to collect and publish information about physicians licensed in the State to allow consumers to make informed decisions in selecting physicians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1528 | Intro
Sine Die | Short Form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the second Saturday in July of each year as "Religious Freedom Day in Hawaii".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB410 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes any restriction on camping in Kaena point state park.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB691 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals section 281-22, HRS, which allows liquor commission employees to support, advocate, or aid in the election or defeat of any candidate for public office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
