| SB1341 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes various revisions to the employees' retirement system. Effective July 1, 2011. (SB1341 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 11:00AM in conference room 325. |
| SB48 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies criteria that must be considered in deciding whether to transfer inmates from Hawaii to mainland facilities. Prohibits transfer of inmates to the mainland with twelve months or less to serve before being eligible to be paroled. Also prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 2:30PM in conference room 312. |
| HB160 | Enroll
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the kupuna care program. Appropriates moneys from the emergency and budget reserve fund to maintain funding levels of programs for public health, safety, welfare, and education. Effective 7/1/2117. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(H) Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-29-11 11:00AM in conference room 229. |
| SB1355 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a nexus standard for taxing out-of-state businesses on their business activities in Hawaii. Includes local affiliate agreements under the General Excise Tax (GET). Allows out-of-state and in-state businesses to file information regarding sale...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 11:00AM in conference room 423. |
| SB741 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases liquor tax rates. Reduces the liquor tax rate on the first 60,000 barrels produced in a small brewery or brewpub. Permits the provision of a discount through coupons or mail-in rebates for liquor purchases when made in combination with othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(H) Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-29-11 3:00PM in conference room 309. |
| SB1358 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Public Safety to develop a plan to reopen the Kulani correctional facility, implement transfers, and house newly sentenced individuals by December 31, 2011. Report to 2012 legislature. Effective July 1, 2030. (SB1358 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 2:30PM in conference room 312. |
| HB775 | Pass | Transfers all moneys in the photo enforcement revolving fund to the general fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(S) Act 027, 4/28/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1127). |
| SB165 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the sunset date of the Starlight Reserve Advisory Committee by two years. Makes appropriations to the Office of Aerospace Development of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Effective July 1, 2112. (SB165 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 11:00AM in conference room 423. |
| SB1363 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires businesses in the State to collect a 10-cent fee for each single-use checkout bag provided to a customer. Allows for exemptions. Allows businesses to keep twenty per cent of the fees, subject to income and general excises taxes, for the firs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 3:15PM in conference room 225. |
| HB526 | Enroll
Sine Die | Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism and the high technology development corporation to plan for a high technology park or technology incubator facility on Oahu. Requires DBEDT to submit preliminary and final reports...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 11:30AM in conference room 423. |
| SB752 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the uses of the Hawaii Community-based Economic Development Revolving Fund to include operational and certain personnel funding for the community-based economic development program and its advisory council and the enterprise zone program. Appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 11:30AM in conference room 423. |
| SB753 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals existing certification requirements and establishes reporting requirements to measure the effectiveness of the tax credit for research activities. Extends this tax credit for an additional five years. Requires the Manoa Innovation Center to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 11:30AM in conference room 423. |
| SB1382 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates task force to examine Higher Education Act of 1965, to ensure compliance re state authorization of institutions offering educational programs beyond secondary education; and make recommendations re consolidation within one state agency of lic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 2:00PM in conference room 329. |
| SB1385 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits the Department of Education, with the approval of the Board of Education, to lease certain public school lands for the development of affordable workforce housing rental units under specified conditions. Establishes the School Facilities Spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 1:30PM in conference room 329. |
| SB778 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes an additional requirement for a taxpayer to qualify for general excise tax (GET) benefits, to provide that the taxpayer claiming a GET benefit must owe less than fifty per cent of the taxpayer's total GET liability. Defines "reasonable cause...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-28
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 11:00AM in conference room 423. |
| SB1171 | Pass | 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] | 2011-04-27
(S) Act 024, 4/27/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1124). |
| SB289 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Families for R.E.A.L. program and professional and curriculum development in parent involvement for Department of Education and the early learning council. Requires the program to develop a plan to cover a percentage of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 1:30PM in conference room 329. |
| SB239 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the appropriation by a decreasing annual amount of a portion of Hawaii tobacco settlement special fund moneys for annual operating expenses of JABSOM until June 30, 2015. Establishes a University of Hawaii School of Public Health and dedicate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 10:00AM in conference room 229. |
| SB240 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the Physician Workforce Assessment Fee to July 1, 2015. Requires one hundred percent of the assessment fees be used to support health care reform, the medical home model, and physician reimbursements. Requires John A. Burns School of Medicine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 10:00AM in conference room 229. |
| SB596 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to increase access by medically underserved resident populations to culturally appropriate primary health care services by supporting the development of the rural health workforce for the Hilo medical center, by implementing and su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-11 10:00AM in conference room 229. |
| HB377 | Enroll
Sine Die | Part I provides state lease preferences for the reconstruction, restoration, repair, or use of Hawaiian fishponds. Part II authorizes exemptions from state and county permits for the Hawaii marine laboratory refuge for the repair and maintenance of i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(H) Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Thursday 04-28-11 2:00PM in conference room 224. |
| SB1054 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary task force to establish a process to issue temporary restraining orders by the family and district courts upon submission of sworn oral testimony or complaint communicated to the court by means of electronic voice communicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-11 3:30PM in conference room 325. |
| SB1484 | Pass | 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] | 2011-04-27
(S) Act 021, 4/27/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1121). |
| HB1067 | Pass | Repeals the authority of the Executive Director of the Office of Youth Services to transfer youth committed to the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility to adult correctional facilities for disciplinary or other reasons. Effective July 1, 2011. (HB1067 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Act 018, 4/26/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1118). |
| SB1086 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires grocers and wholesale clubs to identify baked bread that has been previously frozen beginning September 1, 2011. Requires grocers and wholesale clubs to identify baked goods that have been previously frozen beginning September 1, 2013. (SB10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-11 3:00PM in conference room 229. |
| SB1288 | Pass | Makes emergency appropriations from the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund and makes technical corrections to Act 191, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, to permit the awarding of grants to specified organizations. Extends the lapse date of Act 191's approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Act 025, 4/27/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1125). |
| SB1292 | Pass | Makes emergency appropriations from general revenues for fiscal year 2010-2011 to address the budget shortfall in for the health care payments program (HMS 401) in the Department of Human Services. (SB1292 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Act 017, 4/26/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1117). |
| SB675 | Pass | Repeals state authorization to allow a private not-for-profit corporation to acquire student loan notes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Act 020, 4/27/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1120). |
| HB112 | Pass | Allows the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to designate an access organization to oversee public, educational, and governmental channels on cable television. Effective July 1, 2011. (HB112 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Act 019, 4/27/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1119). |
| SB698 | Pass | 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. (SB698 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Act 022, 4/27/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1122). |
| HB879 | Enroll
Sine Die | Authorizes a planned community association or a condominium association to pursue nonjudicial foreclosure for outstanding liens; authorizes payment plans for outstanding liens under certain conditions; allows an association to acquire a unit through ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-11 10:00AM in conference room 016. |
| HB1540 | Pass | Makes permanent statutory provisions that: (1) reduced the maximum employment period for teachers hired on an emergency basis by DOE from 4 years to 3 years; and (2) require those unlicensed teachers hired on an emergency basis prior to 7/1/08, to at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) Act 023, 4/27/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1123). |
| HB159 | Enroll
Sine Die | Raises the percentage of the annual charter school fund allocation that the charter school administrative office may withhold for operational expenses from two per cent to five per cent; provided that the charter school administrative office report a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-27
(S) The conference committee deferred the measure. |
| HB1642 | Enroll
Sine Die | Requires a qualified high technology business that claims the tax credit for research activities to file annual survey information with the department of taxation by June 30 of each year; requires the department to report to the legislature by Septem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-26
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-27-11 1:30PM in conference room 423. |
| HB638 | Enroll
Sine Die | Provides for instant runoff voting for all elections in which no primary election is held; authorizes the chief election officer or the county clerk to use the instant runoff voting method in special elections that would normally require a separate r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-26
(H) Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Thursday 04-28-11 8:30PM in conference room 325. |
| HB277 | Enroll
Sine Die | Establishes the Military Affairs Liaison Trust Fund as a separate fund of a nonprofit corporation, to support the nonprofit corporation in its duties as the state liaison in matters relating to the military. Appropriates funds for the trust fund. Eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-26
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-11 2:30PM in conference room 312. |
| HB306 | Enroll
Sine Die | Amends the method of computing the estate and transfer tax, generation-skipping transfer tax, and the estate tax for noncitizens. Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" in the State's enterprise zone program to include production of ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(S) Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 671). |
| HB1622 | Pass | Requires the construction of a state law enforcement memorial in the capitol district, provided private funds are solicited and used for the construction of the memorial. Effective July 1, 2011. (HB1622 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(S) Act 014, 4/25/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1114). |
| SB124 | Pass | Exempts an insurer from prohibitions on cancellation or nonrenewal of a motor vehicle insurance policy; provided that the insurer offers a replacement policy that offers the same or better coverage, terms, or conditions at a lower price through an af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(S) Act 011, 4/25/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1111). |
| HB393 | Enroll
Sine Die | Establishes a procedure that allows certain DUI offenders whose privilege to drive was suspended or revoked prior to the effective date of the ignition interlock law to obtain an ignition interlock permit or permit to drive their employers' vehicles,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(H) Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Thursday 04-28-11 1:30PM in conference room 225. |
| SB1273 | Pass | Authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to enforce consumer protections and market reforms relating to insurance of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(S) Act 015, 4/25/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1115). |
| HB1307 | Enroll
Sine Die | Establishes a refundable ohana residential housing income tax credit for qualified taxpayers that purchase a qualified principal residence on or after 04/01/2011, and before 01/01/2013, that is payable to the qualified taxpayer in 2 equal installment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-11 1:30PM in conference room 423. |
| HB1087 | Pass | This measure amends section 353-61, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to delete the Hawaii Criminal Justice Association from the panel to nominate members of the paroling authority since the association no longer exists. (HB1087 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(S) Act 016, 4/25/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1116). |
| SB704 | Pass | Exempts certain third party owners and operators of on-site renewable energy systems from regulation as public utilities by the public utilities commission. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(S) Act 009, 4/25/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1109). |
| SB27 | Pass | Removes long-term care insurance from the definition of "accident and health or sickness insurance" and related terms within the insurance code; removes reference to insurance fraud statute. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(S) Act 012, 4/25/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1112). |
| SB35 | Pass | Amends section of motor vehicle industry licensing act to reflect updated statutory cross-references and make nonsubstantive technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(S) Act 013, 4/25/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1113). |
| SB1346 | Pass | Amends definition of "renewable electrical energy" to include, beginning 1/1/15, customer-sited, grid-connected renewable energy generation. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(S) Act 010, 4/25/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1110). |
| SB1360 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires Community Care Foster Family Homes to have a primary caregiver as a certified nurse aide and a substitute caregiver as a nurse aide with a certain minimum number of continuing education hours for Community Care Foster Family Homes certified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-11 10:50AM in conference room 229. |
| SB756 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an excise tax on direct broadcast satellite service providers. Modifies the renewable energy technologies income tax credit. Repeals the income tax exemption for stocks and stock options from a qualified high technology business. Effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(S) Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 672). |
| HB793 | Enroll
Sine Die | Suspends from 1/1/2012, to 6/30/2015, the exemptions for certain persons and certain amounts of gross income or proceeds from the general excise and use tax and requires the payment of the tax at a rate of 4%. Appropriates funds to expedite implement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-25
(S) Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 671). |
