| HB1017 | Engross
Sine Die | Modifies the renewable energy facility siting process to include biofuel production facilities and distribution infrastructure with capacity to produce or distribute one hundred thousand gallons or more of biofuel annually. Effective July 1, 2030. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| HB1244 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows for religious institutions or organizations to refuse to provide services related to the solemnization of same-sex relationships where the religious institution or organization finds the solemnization to be in violation of its religious belief...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB625 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires land and facilities under the jurisdiction of DOE not being used to be transferred to Department of Land and Natural Resources; provided that the land or facilities is first offered to, or used for charter schools, other educational purposes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1043 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds from the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund into the State general fund to balance the State budget. Effective July 1, 2030. (HB1043 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1268 | Engross
Sine Die | Limits the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund board to contract for health benefits plans only with carriers that provide or administer prescription drug coverage together with medical benefits. Effective July 1, 2030. (HB1268 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1051 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts model regulations of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in conformity with senior investor protections in section 989A of the federal Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Effective January 1, 2012...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1054 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require the Committee on Weights to meet not less than once every odd-numbered year. Effective July 1, 2011. (HB1054 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1055 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the administration of norm-referenced testing. (HB1055 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1058 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends chapter 37, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to include agency-wide technology and computer systems with an estimated useful life of not less than seven years as capital investments to allow all costs to be financed with bond funds and depreciated as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HB18 | Engross
Sine Die | Addresses the conditions under which a minor may operate an all-terrain vehicles. Establishes prohibited acts for owners, operators, and sellers of all-terrain vehicles. Effective January 7, 2059. (HB18 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| HB1064 | Engross
Sine Die | To ensure that Child Protective Act hearings in Chapter 587A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are consistent with federal Title IV-E provisions. (HB1064 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB1065 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation from the general revenues of the State of Hawaii for fiscal year 2010-2011 for health care payments (HMS 401) to address a funding shortfall in the Medicaid program. (HB1065 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB830 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals state authorization to allow a private not-for-profit corporation to acquire student loan notes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB422 | Engross
Sine Die | Applies the solid waste disposal surcharge to waste that is deposited in landfills, incinerators, or waste-to-energy facilities, whether the waste is disposed of in-state or transferred out-of-state. Effective July 1, 2030. (HB422 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| HB1176 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the regulatory structure under which the Public Utilities Commission can certify a cable company to commercially develop, finance, and construct an inter-island high-voltage electric transmission cable system to transmit clean, renewable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| HB1083 | Engross
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. (HB1083 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Water, Land, and Housing Committee |
| HB837 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows good cause to be found for an individual voluntarily leaving part-time employment where eligibility for partial unemployment has been established under various conditions contributed to the voluntary leaving. Effective July 1, 2030. (HB837 HD2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB684 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a minor to give informed consent for emergency shelter and related services. Effective January 7, 2059. (HB684 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB1090 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the fuel tax law to clarify that the entire fuel tax return is a public record available for public inspection. Effective July 1, 2030. (HB1090 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1091 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the current application of the use tax exemption for certain interstate commerce activities by repealing overbroad and redundant language in the use tax law. (HB1091 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HB1095 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a minimum age of twelve years for passengers to be permitted to ride or be carried on a three-wheeled moped. Effective January 7, 2059. (HB1095 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| HB1096 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarify laws relating to operating a moped with a temporary instruction permit. Effective January 7, 2059. (HB1096 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| HB1098 | Engross
Sine Die | Defines "after market motorcycle frame". Allows county directors of finance to register motorcycles with an after market motorcycle frame, using the vehicle identification number on the certification label or a vehicle identification number assigned ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| HB1323 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Western Interstate Commission of Higher Education (Hawaii WICHE). Allows Hawaii WICHE to establish a repayment policy for students who receive financial support from certain funds appropriated for the Hawaii commission. Establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1327 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows for the election of up to two vice-chairpersons of the University of Hawaii board of regents and requires the board to elect any vice-chairperson and chairperson at a meeting held before July 1. Amends the start date of the term of a board cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB245 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the per diem payments for out-of-state witnesses in criminal cases from $110 to $145. Provides an additional $90 per diem payment for witnesses from any island other than the island on which the court is located, when that witness is requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB246 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for career criminal prosecution unit, prosecution in drug court, prosecution in Hawaii's opportunity probation with enforcement, and victim witness as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB250 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the state ethics commission to employ or retain its own attorneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB466 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires independent medical examinations and permanent impairment rating examinations for workers' compensation claims to be performed by physicians mutually agreed upon by employers and employees or appointed by the director of the Department of La...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Health Committee |
| HB260 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides procurement authority to the director of a semi-autonomous county public transit agency. Effective July 1, 2112. (HB260 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB878 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Hawaii nonprofit corporations act to permit member actions by ballot and electronic voting, use of electronic notice, and conduct of meeting by teleconference. (HB878 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1139 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the circumstances under which a district court may serve a summons or other writ outside of the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB884 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the family leave requirement to permit an employee to use family leave time to care for a sibling. Adds definition of "sibling". (HB884 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1141 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies circumstances under which complaints submitted to agencies shall be made available to the public on the agencies' websites. Effective date July 1, 2050. (HB1141 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB139 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the scope of the current law to include the regulation of real estate appraisal management companies in order to comply with the federal Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 and the federal rules adopted thereu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB756 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Disability and Communication Access Board to charge fees to defray expenses of reviewing construction plans to ensure compliance with law and establishes a fee schedule. Establishes an Accessible Building Design Special Account for plan ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB1384 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a working group to discuss potential improvements to the current prior authorization process for prescription medications. Effective July 1, 2050. (HB1384 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB908 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the single school calendar for all public schools does not apply to schools designated by BOE in furtherance of a plan to improve educational outcome in students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB927 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that state agencies may purchase roadway materials with a minimum recycled glass content. Allows use of minimum glass of ten per cent crushed glass aggregate in all basecourse and subbase. (HB927 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB527 | Engross
Sine Die | Disallows workers' compensation benefits for an existing, work-related injury from voluntary participation in recreational or social activities that takes place after regular work hours, where the employee disregarded the restrictions placed on the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB290 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Agriculture Inspection and Certification Special Fund under the Department of Agriculture for the inspection, certification, weighing, or grading of agricultural commodities that are to be imported into, exported from, or shipped with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| HB952 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the public school lands trust to provide for the maximum use of public school lands to generate income to improve public school facilities and infrastructure to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century and beyond. Effective July 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB549 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires notice of state and county board meetings to be posted on the appropriate internet website, and eliminates the requirement that notice be filed in the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. Effective January 7, 2050. (HB549 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB805 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the income tax exemption for income derived from stock options or stock from a qualified high technology business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| HB808 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporarily suspends the distribution of a portion of the conveyance tax to the land conservation fund. Effective June 30, 2011. (HB808 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Water, Land, and Housing Committee |
| HB297 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes a probation services fee on any defendant granted a deferred acceptance of guilty or no contest plea. Effective January 7, 2059. (HB297 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB809 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporarily increases from July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2015, the transient accommodations tax rate on time share units by two percent. Effective July 1, 2011. (HB809 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-10
To Senate Tourism Committee |
| HB1620 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts from insurance code, associations (1) organized before 1880; (2) whose members are active, retired, or honorably discharged members of the U.S. armed forces or sea services; and (3) whose principal purpose is to provide insurance and other be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-08
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB109 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the participation by two or more members of a public policy deliberative body: (1) In a public gathering or community event not tied to matters currently under official deliberation or pending action; and (2) In professional association confer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-08
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1543 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes clarifying amendments to the motor vehicle industry licensing act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-03-08
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
