HI Legislation | 2010 | Regular Session | Senate

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
SB400	Intro Sine Die	Decriminalizes possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana and makes the possession a civil violation subject to a fine of not more than $100. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB681	Intro Sine Die	Requires the legislature to follow fundamental principles of the sunshine law, including: conducting public hearings on legislative rules; giving a four-day public notice for hearings; and requiring a majority vote to suspend legislative rules. Requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB965	Intro Sine Die	Requires that, in order for a board to hold an emergency meeting, the board must obtain concurrence from the Director of the Office of Information Practices to the board's finding that the conditions necessary for an emergency meeting exist. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1252	Intro Sine Die	Establishes a state poet laureate within the state foundation on culture and the arts. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1519	Intro Sine Die	Short Form bill. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB127	Intro Sine Die	Clarifies disorderly conduct offense to include music containing lyrics that is played to incite violent activity. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB401	Intro Sine Die	Allows a qualifying patient to possess 12 marijuana plants and 7 ounces of marijuana at one time. Prohibits identification of the site where marijuana is grown on a registry card. Prohibits a certifying physician from naming a patient's particular de... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB682	Intro Sine Die	Proposes a constitutional amendment to require that ethics commissioners are not themselves subject to the jurisdiction of the ethics commission. Requires elected officers and candidates for elective office to make public finance disclosures that may... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB966	Intro Sine Die	Authorizes the electronic filing of meeting notices under part I of chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes, on the state calendar. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1253	Intro Sine Die	Proposes a constitutional amendment to establish crime victim rights. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1520	Intro Sine Die	Short Form bill. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB128	Intro Sine Die	Conforms county ethics procedures for civil fines with state ethics commission procedures by allowing appeals of civil fines directly to a court under the Administrative Procedures Act; authorizes counties to allow a county ethics commission to issue... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
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.