| SB2894 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse prosecutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-28
(S) Referred to JGO. |
| SB2895 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes the "one-gallon per person per day" exception to the prohibition against the removal of sand and other minerals, except for sand inadvertently taken, such as those taken on the body, in clothes, toys, recreational equipment, and bags.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-28
(S) Referred to WTL, JGO. |
| SB2896 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of transportation to allow vehicles carrying at least two persons to use zipper lanes when the University of Hawaii is not in session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-28
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| SB2678 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a program for granting low-income housing tax credit loans in lieu of low-income housing tax credits administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds to fund loans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to EDH, WAM. |
| SB2679 | Intro
Sine Die | Expedites the construction of affordable housing units by requiring ministerial permits associated with the project to be issued by the state or county within forty-five days of acceptance of the permit application for the project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to EDH/TIA. |
| SB2680 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a quasi-legislative process to simplify the State Land Use Commission's procedures in limited situations involving state or county petitions for district boundary amendments to conform State land use classification with county plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to WTL/TIA, JGO. |
| SB2681 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires counties within 60 days to accept or reject a public infrastructure dedication, under specified conditions, as part of an affordable housing project, or the infrastructure is deemed dedicated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to EDH/TIA. |
| SB2682 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the Hawaii Television and Film Development Board with the Hawaii Creative Media Commission and renames and expands the Hawaii Television and Film Development Special Fund into the Creative Media Development Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2683 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Board of Land and Natural Resources to consider a renewable energy land lease as part of its customary public meeting schedule, avoiding the expense and delay of duplicative public hearings and allows proprietary business information regar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| SB2686 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the conditions under which state and county retirees may be reemployed while still receiving employees' retirement system benefits; and requires reimbursement of retirement allowances and payment of contributions for retirees reemployed i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR, WAM. |
| SB2687 | Intro
Sine Die | Suspends employer contributions for active and retiree life insurance premiums effective July 1, 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR, WAM. |
| SB2688 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates Medicare Part B reimbursements for spouses of employee-beneficiaries who are retired employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR/HTH, WAM. |
| SB2689 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employer contributions for retiree health benefit plans to be limited to either a percentage of the actual health plan premium or a percentage of the base monthly contribution, whichever is less.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR, WAM. |
| SB2690 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies how health benefit plans offered to retirees eligible for Medicare under the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund are to be coordinated with Medicare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR/HTH, WAM. |
| SB2694 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides employer contribution amounts for Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund health benefit plan premiums in plan years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 for employees of collective bargaining unit 10 and their excluded counterparts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR, WAM. |
| SB2703 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the sunset date of the Interdepartmental Council on Early Childhood Education from June 30, 2010, to June 30, 2013, and adds four additional members to the Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2705 | Intro
Sine Die | Restructures the governance system of the State's public education system in order to create greater accountability; and repeals the powers and duties of the Board of Education. Authorizes the Governor to appoint the Superintendent of Education subje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to EDH/JGO, WAM. |
| SB2706 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Hawaii's Constitution by making the department of education into a cabinet-level department with a superintendent appointed by the governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to EDH/JGO, WAM. |
| SB2708 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to award costs and attorneys' fees to employers, and provides that an employer, employee, or labor organization that commits unfair or prohibited practices that interfere with the statutory rights of an employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR, JGO. |
| SB2711 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a job creation income tax credit for each new full time employee hired during calendar years 2010, 2011, and 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2713 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the application of current law as it pertains to the processing of permits and licenses for affordable housing developed under chapter 201H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to also include mixed-use developments, infrastructure for residential devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| SB2714 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores the law with regard to non-ceded lands controlled by the State, to what it was prior to the passage of Act 176, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to WTL, JGO. |
| SB2722 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State and counties to negotiate and execute separate collective bargaining agreements with exclusive representatives of public employee organizations. Increases accountability by making the Governor the sole negotiator for the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR/TIA, WAM. |
| SB2723 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensures fiscal solvency of public employers by modifying the factors that an arbitration panel must consider when making binding contract decisionsincluding consideration of the impact of pay increases on other bargaining units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR/JGO, WAM. |
| SB2724 | Intro
Sine Die | Remove bargaining units (2), (3), (4), (6), (8), and (13) from binding arbitration, thereby allowing these bargaining units to strike.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR/JGO, WAM. |
| SB2730 | Intro
Sine Die | Gives small business owners who meet certain exclusions the option to not obtain workers' compensation insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR/EDT. |
| SB2731 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides public unions and employers the same ability as private unions and their signatory employers to collectively design and enter into an alternative workers' compensation system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR/JGO, WAM. |
| SB2732 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the employment security law to reduce the unemployment insurance tax burden on employers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR, WAM. |
| SB2733 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Recreational Renaissance Special Fund to fund improvements and activities related to the Recreational Renaissance Program of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to WTL, WAM. |
| SB2734 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the Department of Land and Natural Resources with flexibility in developing industrial parks in order to address the growing demand in the State for available industrial lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to WTL. |
| SB2735 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes moorage for commercial vessels and commercial vessel activities in the Ala Wai and Keehi Boat Harbors and adjusts fees for permittees of vessels that are used for a place of principal habitation in state small boat harbors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to WTL, WAM. |
| SB2736 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that all costs and expenses associated with the disposal of an impounded unauthorized vessel by the Department of Land and Natural Resources shall be borne by the vessel owner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to WTL, WAM. |
| SB2737 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Conservation and Resources Enforcement Special Fund in the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the purpose of setting aside monies to be used toward the protection of the State's natural resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to WTL, WAM. |
| SB2741 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Secretary of State, an elected position, to serve as the nonpartisan administrator of elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to JGO, WAM. |
| SB2742 | Intro
Sine Die | Restructures the governance system of the Office of Elections to create greater accountability by placing the Secretary of State in charge of elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to JGO, WAM. |
| SB2744 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a segment of Hawaii's lowest paid employees and business community with economic relief by increasing Hawaii's tip credit from 25 cents to $1.25 upon approval in 2010, and to 25 per cent of the tips claimed by an employee as income beginning...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to LBR, WAM. |
| SB2746 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the name of a division of the Department of Public Safety to more accurately reflect the division's duties and removes the member representing the American Civil Liberties Union from the reentry commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to PSM. |
| SB2750 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjusts the rate of the general excise tax assessed on insurance commissions by making it equivalent to the tax rate paid by other commission agent counterparts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2751 | Intro
Sine Die | Suspends for three years, from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2013, the distribution of transient accommodations tax revenues to the counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
To Senate Tourism Committee |
| SB2753 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the due dates for miscellaneous tax types from the last day of the month to the twentieth day of the month to conform with the general excise tax payment deadline. Amends the due date for filing and payment of quarterly periodic insurance prem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2760 | Intro
Sine Die | Delete the sunset provisions of Act 72, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, which established provisional licenses for 16 and 17-year old drivers and continue the graduated driver licensing (GDL) program that will reduce the amount of traffic fatalities amo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| SB2761 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the sunset provision in Act 106, Session Laws of Hawaii 2008.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to HRE, WAM. |
| SB2762 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the sunset provisions, with respect to the University of Hawaii, from sections 40-1, 40-2, 40-4, 40-6, 40-58, and 40-81, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and amend section 14 of Act 58, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006, as amended, from repealing the prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to HRE, WAM. |
| SB2763 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the University of Hawaii from Hawaii Public Procurement Code requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to HRE, JGO. |
| SB2764 | Intro
Sine Die | Allow the Board of Regents to establish fees for campus parking at an open meeting subject to the requirements of chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and exempt from the public notice, public hearing, and gubernatorial approval requirements of chapt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to HRE/JGO, WAM. |
| SB2765 | Intro
Sine Die | To adjust and request appropriations for Fiscal Biennium 200911 funding requirements for operations and capital improvement projects of Executive Branch agencies and programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2766 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires trucks and tractors, except pickup trucks, to drive in the right lane.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| SB2767 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the University of Hawaii scholarship and tuition waiver program to provide financial assistance to students who agree to complete a state-approved teacher education program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in a mathematics or science ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
(S) Referred to HRE, WAM. |
| SB2769 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a monthly surcharge on communications service connections to fund deployment and operation of enhanced 911 system communications service providers and public safety agencies. Creates enhanced 911 board to oversee collection and distributi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2773 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a park and campground for the homeless at sand island state recreation area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-01-27
To Senate Human Services Committee |
