| SB2362 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii tourism authority to work in cooperation with the department of transportation to develop and air on incoming commercial flights to the State public service announcements about the State's fragile ecosystem and how to protect it; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2363 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii tourism authority, in cooperation with the department of transportation, to establish and maintain kiosks at each airport with information on the State's fragile ecosystem and how to protect it; appropriates funds for the kiosks f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2620 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an independent audit of the wireless enhanced 911 fund annually. Specifies that information on the status of projects undertaken or planned by public safety answering points, and the results of the audit shall be included in the board's annu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2624 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers the television and film industry activities and responsibilities under the department of business, economic development, and tourism to the Hawaii tourism authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) The committee on TSM deferred the measure. |
| SB2881 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes benefits of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund in collective bargaining negotiations; removes the authority and power of the Legislature to establish a contribution amount for the State and counties to the Hawaii employer-u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2374 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires charter schools to maintain accounting and financial records and conduct a financial audit annually. Requires that failure to maintain records and conduct the audit result in suspension of the school's charter. Establishes a process for appe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) The committee on EDH deferred the measure. |
| SB2633 | Intro
Sine Die | Granting temporary relief from county housing requirements as recommended by the construction industry task force to stimulate housing construction statewide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) The committee on EDH deferred the measure. |
| SB2380 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all bottled water to be labeled with the date of bottling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) The committee on HTH deferred the measure. |
| SB2892 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a homeowner to force a court supervised foreclosure if a non-judicial foreclosure is successfully appealed due to an unfair sales price.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB2901 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a charter school, or public school as applicable, with a pro rata share of per pupil funds when a student transfers from a public school to a charter school, or vice versa, subsequent to the annual charter school student enrollment verificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) The committee on EDH deferred the measure. |
| SB2135 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the position of a school liaison officer within the Hawaii National Guard and provides for and appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2146 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the planning special fund for the operations of the office of planning, including personnel costs. Effective 7/1/50. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2152 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the chief justice to temporarily assign a circuit judge to district court where a district judge is unavailable or for other reasons. Contingent upon ratification of related constitutional amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) The committee on JGO deferred the measure. |
| SB2664 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the identity theft offenses and the definition of "personal information" in chapter 708, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify that the identity theft offenses include the transmission of personal information of an actual person, alive or dead, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-10
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JGO. |
| SB2684 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Hawaii Clean Energy Investment Bond Program for renewable energy system and energy efficiency improvements on residential and commercial properties, and authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to finance the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on ENE deferred the measure. |
| SB2177 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that county police chiefs be appointed and removed as prescribed by each county's charter. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(H) Referred to PBS/LAB, referral sheet 23 |
| SB2178 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends law to allow the personnel directors of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii counties to be appointed and removed by either the merit appeals board or mayor of the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB2692 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensures funds are available for future fiscal emergencies by renaming and revising the Emergency Budget and Reserve Fund to create the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund and requiring five percent of general fund end of year balances to be deposited int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on HMS deferred the measure. |
| SB2693 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensures funds are available for future fiscal emergencies by creating the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund in the Constitution and requiring five percent of general fund end of year balances to be deposited into it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on HMS deferred the measure. |
| SB2949 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that furloughs are a subject to collective bargaining.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on LBR deferred the measure. |
| SB2712 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a ten percent tax credit on costs incurred for the construction or renovation of a hotel or resort property through December 31, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on TSM deferred the measure. |
| SB2717 | Intro
Sine Die | To increase general assistance program efficiency by eliminating the requirement to send a ten-day pending notice requesting additional medical evidence when a determination and certification is made that an applicant does not have a physical, mental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on HMS deferred the measure. |
| SB2718 | Intro
Sine Die | To provide a State lump-sum death benefit in an amount equal to the Social Security Administrations Lump-Sum Death Benefit for deceased medical or financial assistance recipients who are ineligible for the Social Security Administration benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on HMS deferred the measure. |
| SB2719 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Human Services to improve the safety and cost-effectiveness of psychotropic medication use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on HMS deferred the measure. |
| SB2210 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of plastic objects on any boat registered in the State; establishes a working group to develop rules for subsistence fishing; provides a tax credit for items purchased to comply with the prohibition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on WTL deferred the measure. |
| SB2248 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a tax credit for employers who fund continuing education for certain employees to improve their existing skills; limits the amount of employer contributions paid under the employment security laws for the 2010 and 2011 calendar years even if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on LBR deferred the measure. |
| SB2008 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes health care treatment advisory panel which shall review health insurance rate filings to ensure that rates incorporate appropriate levels of health care treatment. Makes appropriation from compliance resolution fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB2528 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the state executive branch to offer a voluntary severance or a special retirement incentive benefit to state employees who elect to voluntarily separate from service when their positions are identified for abolishment or when they are dire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2530 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a system under the department of commerce and consumer protection to collect, analyze and distribute health insurance claims information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB2022 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes criminal penalties for fraudulent installation or reinstallation of an airbag. Requires that any person engaged in the business of purchasing, selling, or installing an airbag maintain detailed records of airbags they purchase, sell, or i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JGO. |
| SB2540 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of public safety to plan for a model wellness center to be built in East Hawaii. Report to legislature in 2011. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2031 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary health care case management task force in the department of human services to research the quality of care provided by case managers and case management agencies and to ensure that appropriate standards of practice are consist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to CPN. |
| SB2555 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the public utilities commission to adopt rules that will enable government entities to purchase electricity in bulk electrical loads; authorizes government entities that purchase electricity in bulk electrical loads to contract with renewabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on ENE deferred the measure. |
| SB2049 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables the department of human services to provide vocational rehabilitation and other services to the deaf or blind. Requires the department of human services to establish a strategic plan to restructure its services to the deaf, hardofhearing, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2561 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates the retail and wholesale sales of spray paint. Designates the department of public safety with jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on PSM deferred the measure. |
| SB2562 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires retail dealers with more than seventy-five thousand square feet of retail space to operate redemption centers. Effective 10/1/2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| SB2064 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes holding public events that celebrate Children and Youth Day to be held on state capitol grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JGO. |
| SB2833 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of pension obligation bonds to fund the employer contributions of the State and counties to the employees' retirement system to reduce unfunded actuarial accrued liability. Appropriates funds for payment of the employers' cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2067 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of human services to provide medicaid presumptive eligibility to patients who have been waitlisted for long-term care; and conduct a study of a computerized medicaid applications system; requires reports to the legislature. (S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| SB2326 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that services to be rendered shall be performed by employees paid at wages or salaries not less than the wages paid to public officers and employees for similar work in the State of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| SB2078 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a minor to give informed consent for emergency shelter and related services. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JGO. |
| SB2098 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a joint legislative keiki caucus and a joint legislative kupuna caucus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JGO. |
| SB2622 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies which veterans qualify for civil service hiring preference.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on PSM deferred the measure. |
| SB692 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires private employers who provide pension plans to their employees to allow an employee who has vested to receive pension payments upon becoming disabled, regardless of age. Permits director of labor and industrial relations to reopen workers' c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on LBR deferred the measure. |
| SB2125 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a tax credit for hotel renovations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on TSM deferred the measure. |
| SB2645 | Intro
Sine Die | Waives the medical licensing fees for physicians licensed to practice medicine and prescribe prescription medication in the State of Hawaii, provided that no less than twenty per cent of their patient case load is Medicaid or Medicaid-like patients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on HMS deferred the measure. |
| SB2392 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a family leave insurance fund to be administered by DLIR under the workers' compensation statute. Amends the definition of injuries covered under the workers' compensation statute to include family leave.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on LBR deferred the measure. |
| SB2904 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires mediation and binding arbitration for an impasse in collective bargaining between a public employer and bargaining unit 5 teachers and other personnel of the department of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on LBR deferred the measure. |
| SB2655 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of state boating facilities and state parks for shark tours. Prohibits the use or transportation of diving cages used for placing humans in close proximity with sharks. Authorizes the issuance of permits for educational, scientific,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) Re-Referred to WTL. |
| SB2670 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Public Utilities Commission from issuing a certificate of public convenience and necessity for new electrical generation facilities that can only use fossil fuels as their energy source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-02-09
(S) The committee on ENE deferred the measure. |
