| SB881 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a voluntary employees' beneficiary association trust and the employee organization that established the trust, upon the insolvency of the trust, to assume all liabilities and indemnify the State. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1173 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes requirements, standards, guidelines, and incentives for energy-efficiency initiatives and programs. (SB1173 HD3)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1449 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the general excise tax return filing and payment procedures to require periodic estimated payments and one annual return. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB51 | Engross
Sine Die | Redefines the practice of dentistry to include teeth whitening. (SB51 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB53 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes various clarifying and technical amendments, and corrects inadvertent errors, in the Life Settlements Model Act, chapter 431E, HRS, which establishes consumer protections in life settlement transactions. Effective 01/01/2020. (SB53 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB614 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants additional family leave to address family care, legal, and financial issues directly related to or resulting from the impending military deployment or active military deployment of the employee's child, spouse, reciprocal beneficiary, or paren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB887 | Engross
Sine Die | Revises the escrow depository law to: (1) clarify which escrow transactions are covered by the statute and which are not; (2) update the statute to adequately reflect the present day size of the transactions routinely handled by the industry; (3) pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB56 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes compliance with smoking restriction law by nightclubs and restaurants a condition of renewal for a liquor license. Authorizes the liquor commission in each county to enforce smoking laws, concurrently with the department of health. Increases fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1179 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a state farm to school policy, and a farm to school program in the department of education. (SB1179 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB58 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a driver exclusion endorsement to enable a named insured to exclude specified persons from being covered under a policy. Effective July 1, 2050. (SB58 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB891 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the unfair or deceptive insurance practices statutes by prohibiting certain unfair or deceptive practices by health insurers. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB619 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows incarcerated persons who were Hawaii residents at the time of their arrest and who have no more than two years left before release from imprisonment, to vote by absentee ballot in Hawaii's elections. Effective 7/1/2050 (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1181 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a certified fringe benefit reporting form which may be approved for use or provided by the department of labor and industrial relations that itemizes the cost of fringe benefits paid to both union and non-union laborers who perform work for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1184 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds a definition for confidential witness. Allows factual matters obtained in the course of investigation, conciliation, and litigation of complaints to be used as evidence in litigation of complaints filed with the commission. Effective 7/1/2050. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB63 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires an employer to pay temporary total disability benefits regardless of whether the employer controverts the right to benefits. Specifies that the employee's ability to return to work is to be decided by the employee's treating physician. Conve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB623 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the scope of tuition assistance to Hawaii National Guard members attending the University of Hawaii. (SB623 HD1))
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB64 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the labor and industrial relations appeals board (appeal board) to utilize a hearings officer and allow that hearings officer to hold a hearing, in order for the appeal board to expedite hearings on certain workers' compensation matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB65 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that if evidence of an alleged victim's character for aggressiveness is offered by an accused and admitted under paragraph (2) or rule 404(a) of the Hawaii Rules of Evidence, evidence of the same trait of character of the accused offered by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1192 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands jurisdiction of small claims division of the district court. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB905 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfers the Office of Community Services from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to the Department of Human Services. Permits the Department of Human Service to conduct a pilot project to assist undocumented immigrants and refugees wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB906 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands ability of a board or commission to facilitate public meetings through available interactive conferencing technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1194 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits possession of gaff designed to be attached to gamecock or other fighting fowl. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1197 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of taxation to provide an annual report on tax expenditures to the legislature on or before September 15th of each odd-numbered year. Requires legislation establishing new tax expenditures to include certain specified provisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB635 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfers jurisdiction and management of Kahana valley from the department of land and natural resources, parks division, to the office of Hawaiian affairs. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1199 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates certain state waters surrounding the island of Molokai as the Molokai Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Area. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB636 | Engross
Sine Die | Fortifies the recreational renaissance program of the department of land and natural resources through various amendments to state law. (SB636 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB638 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a 2-year moratorium on evictions of residents from Kahana valley state park; authorizes DLNR to negotiate and execute long-term residential leases with qualified persons in state parks; establishes the planning council to create and imple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1203 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the DLIR's office of community services to establish a voluntary community service program for all residents between the ages of 15 and 18. Requires DLIR to report to the legislature. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB639 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to issue residential leases in state parks; establishes a planning council to monitor compliance with the leases. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1205 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides temporary health insurance for unemployed persons who lost their health insurance. Effective July 1, 2020. (SB1205 HD3)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB360 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows home-schooled students to participate on an equal basis in extracurricular activities offered at the public school they would otherwise be required to attend. (SB360 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB642 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that across-the-board wage increases or reductions, step movements, and employer contributions for health benefits for excluded employees in the excluded managerial compensation plan are at least equal to adjustments provided under collectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB643 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfers management of Kahana valley state park from the department of land and natural resources to the department of Hawaiian home lands. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB921 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals section 348-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that establishes the Statewide Council on Independent Living within the Department of Human Services. Takes effect January 1, 2050. (SB921 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB86 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Makua valley reserve commission to oversee preservation and restoration activities in Makua valley on Oahu. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB646 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the governor's power to unilaterally limit appropriations that were previously approved by the legislature to require the governor to explain in writing any decisions to reduce, withhold, or otherwise limit appropriations approved by the legis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1215 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the state constitution to require candidates for the state senate or house of representatives to be a resident of the legislative district from which the person is a candidate for not less than twelve consecutive months prior to the general el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB93 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a grace period during which a candidate or candidate's committee may return or refund contributions. Changes 20% contributions cap to an unspecified amount. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB654 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows election-day voter registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1221 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends criminal trespass in the first degree to include a person who enters or remains unlawfully in or upon the premises of a public housing project after reasonable request or warning to leave by housing authorities; excludes an invited guest. (SD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1226 | Engross
Sine Die | Adjusts the amount of Transient Accommodations Tax that is deposited into the Tourism Special Fund from 34.2 percent to an unspecified percentage. Effective July 1, 2020. (SB1226 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB940 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires direct payment for the provision of pre-hospital ambulance treatment and transport services. Requires insurance entities contracting with the State to provide Medicaid coverage to enter into written contracts with a minimum of 50 percent of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1227 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Establishes the Department of Tourism (Department). Establishes an interagency working group to facilitate the transitioning of the Department. Transfers the Convention Center Enterprise Special Fund, Tourism Spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB1228 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that commercial fishing operations can transfer ownership without losing necessary permits. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB101 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the counties to conduct criminal history record checks on taxicab drivers and applicants for taxicab driver's certificates. Eff 7/1/2112. (SB101 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB378 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DLNR to continue to hold public informational meetings to hear concerns and suggestions from the public regarding the taking and protection of uhu, weke/moana kali, and ulua/papio. Requires DLNR to use and present all available data to suppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB661 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an advisory committee to assist the director of commerce and consumer affairs regarding regulation of the funeral industry. Establishes a pre-need cemetery and funeral special fund. Clarifies prohibited practices. Authorizes the director ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB105 | Engross
Sine Die | Modifies requirements related to the basis for court appointment of a conservator. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB382 | Engross
Sine Die | Revises appointment process for the Stadium Authority. Effective July 1, 2009. (SB382 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
| SB384 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to ensure that all traffic safety measures are in place and operational prior to the opening of a newly constructed public or charter school. Requires the same of private schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2009-05-11
Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. |
