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HB2824Intro

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Designates February as "Hawaii-Grown Cacao Month."
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2012-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee
HB2823Intro

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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the Waikiki Community Center in the 23rd representative district. Effective July 1, 2012.
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2012-01-27
To House Finance Committee
HB2743Intro

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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...
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2012-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HB2821Intro

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Requires businesses in the State to collect a 10-cent fee for each single-use checkout bag provided to a customer, with certain exceptions. Subject to income and general excise taxes, allows businesses to keep 20% of the fees collected from 1/1/13 to...
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2012-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HB2818Intro

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Appropriates funds for CIP in the 2nd representative district.
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2012-01-27
To House Finance Committee
HB2759Intro

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Prohibits smoking in units of multifamily residential dwellings if the smoke is a nuisance. Requires some condominium associations, if not prohibited by bylaws or articles of incorporation, to adopt bylaws or rules that prohibit smoking in certain ar...
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2012-01-27
To House Health Committee
HB2815Intro

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Requires the price of bottled water offered for sale by an airport concession to be at the average price of bottled water offered for sale to the public elsewhere in the same county but does not preclude bottled water from being offered for sale at a...
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2012-01-27
To House Transportation Committee
HB2814Intro

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Requires the public land development corporation to address specific issues in its projects, such as protecting the public health and safety of the people of the State; promoting environmental sustainability; and respecting the host culture and prote...
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2012-01-27
To House Water, Land, & Ocean Resources Committee
HB2811Intro

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Establishes a household battery recycling program. Establishes a 5 fee per package of batteries and a 10 refundable deposit fee per battery. Establishes requirements for redemption centers. Amends State planning act to include the proper disposal of ...
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2012-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HB1897Intro

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Clarifies that a contractor with a specialty contractor license may execute a contract that includes a craft outside the scope of the specialty contractor's license if the craft constitutes no more than one-half per cent of the contract's total value...
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2012-01-27
(H) Re-referred to CPC, referral sheet 9
HB2805Intro

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Establishes a Hawaii veterans court within the Judiciary. Makes an appropriation. Effective July 1, 2012, and repeals on June 30, 2021.
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2012-01-27
To House Public Safety & Military Affairs Committee
HB2804Intro

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Authorizes military funeral honors for Hawaii governors.
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2012-01-27
To House Public Safety & Military Affairs Committee
HB2758Intro

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Establishes a temporary tax credit for purchase and installation of light-emitting diode and fluorescent lighting systems. Repeals language pertaining to expired tax credits for solar and wind energy devices, heat pumps, and ice storage systems.
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2012-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HB2803Intro

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Designates the Honor and Remember Flag as the State's emblem of service and sacrifice by the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces who have given their lives in the line of duty.
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2012-01-27
To House Public Safety & Military Affairs Committee
HB2802Intro

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Establishes a preference to bidders who employ veterans with disabilities.
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2012-01-27
To House Economic Revitalization & Business Committee
HB2801Intro

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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 17th representative district.
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2012-01-27
To House Finance Committee
HB2741Intro

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Changes the existing ethanol facility tax credit to a biofuel production facility tax credit; includes ethanol and other liquid biofuels in the definition of biofuel; changes the amount of the tax credit from thirty per cent of nameplate capacity to ...
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2012-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HB2724Intro

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Requires a financial and management audit of department of public safety commissary operations and out-of-state commissaries where Hawaii inmates are confined.
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2012-01-27
To House Public Safety & Military Affairs Committee
HB2797Intro

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Establishes an emergency management task force to review, evaluate, and make recommendations for the revision of chapters 127 and 128, HRS.
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2012-01-27
To House Public Safety & Military Affairs Committee
HB2796Intro

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Establishes a department of civil defense to which all civil service, disaster relief, and emergency preparedness powers and functions currently assumed by the state department of defense shall be transferred.
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2012-01-27
To House Public Safety & Military Affairs Committee
HB2795Intro

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Authorizes any active duty military personnel or accompanying dependent stationed in Hawaii whose driver's license expired while the member was deployed overseas to use a valid Status of Forces Agreement driver's license until obtaining a valid state...
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2012-01-27
To House Public Safety & Military Affairs Committee
HB2757Intro

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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 11th representative district.
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2012-01-27
To House Finance Committee
HB2794Intro

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Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 35th representative district.
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2012-01-27
To House Finance Committee
HB2791Intro

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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 44th representative district. Effective July 1, 2012.
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2012-01-27
To House Finance Committee
HB2787Intro

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Appropriates funds for CIP in the 42nd representative district.
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2012-01-27
To House Finance Committee
HB2786Intro

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Amends the General Appropriations Act of 2011 to re-allocate funding for Ewa Elementary School to include design, construction, and equipment for a teachers' lounge and fourteen-classroom building. Appropriation. Effective July 1, 2012.
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2012-01-27
To House Finance Committee
HB2006Intro

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Authorizes the director of business, economic development, and tourism to allow the sale of motor vehicle gasoline that does not contain ethanol unless sufficient quantities of locally produced ethanol or biofuel crops have been produced and are avai...
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2012-01-27
(H) Re-referred to TRN, EEP, CPC, referral sheet 9
HB2785Intro

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Amends tax brackets and rates for the individual income tax.
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2012-01-27
To House Finance Committee
HB2784Intro

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Adds funds to supplement operations at Kahuku Hospital.
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2012-01-27
To House Health Committee
HB2783Intro

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Requires that energy produced by solar or wind energy devices installed on the common elements of a condominium or cooperative housing project be used in whole or in substantial part to meet the energy consumption needs of the association.
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2012-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HB2782Intro

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Repeals the public land development corporation on 1/1/15.
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2012-01-27
To House Water, Land, & Ocean Resources Committee
HB2781Intro

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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 25th representative district. Effective July 1, 2012.
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2012-01-27
To House Finance Committee
HB2779Intro

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Requires counties to more strongly consider negative impacts on beaches when assessing developments within special management areas and shoreline setback variance applications and to establish guidelines for the granting of variances.
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2012-01-27
To House Water, Land, & Ocean Resources Committee
HB2778Intro

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Provides that a county may not prohibit, based upon proximity to a county sewer system, the use of an otherwise authorized individual wastewater system as an on-site means of wastewater disposal in lieu of wastewater treatment works.
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2012-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HB2777Intro

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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 46th representative district.
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2012-01-27
To House Finance Committee
HB1691Intro

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Bases the minimum wage on the federal poverty level for a family of 2 persons for Hawaii, beginning 1/1/13.
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2012-01-27
(H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on ERB with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Ching excused (1).
HB2772Intro

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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects to benefit the 41st representative district. Effective July 1, 2012.
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2012-01-27
To House Finance Committee
HB2770Intro

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Requires PLDC to consult with OHA on the corporation's projects, activities, and rules. Requires the Hawaii public land optimization plan to include protection of traditional and customary Hawaiian rights. Requires PLDC to hold a public meeting befor...
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2012-01-27
To House Water, Land, & Ocean Resources Committee
HB2755Intro

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Requires the Honolulu authority for rapid transit to collect the county surcharge on state tax established by the city and county of Honolulu pursuant to section 46-16.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires a county that establishes a county surcharge ...
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2012-01-27
To House Transportation Committee
HB2765Intro

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Decreases the state motor vehicle registration fee.
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2012-01-27
To House Transportation Committee
HB2764Intro

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Establishes the Solar Loan Guarantee Pilot Program which allows the employees' retirement system to guarantee loans made by financial institutions to qualifying public employees for the purchase and installation of solar water heating or photovoltaic...
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2012-01-27
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HB2738Intro

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Encourages the use of the mortgage foreclosure dispute resolution process for nonjudicial foreclosures of residential property, by shortening the time period for completing the process.
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2012-01-27
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HB2754Intro

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Designates Uluulu: The Henry Kuualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaii as the state archive for moving images; establishes a special fund; establishes a tax check-off.
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2012-01-27
To House Culture & the Arts Committee
HB1924Intro

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Proposes a constitutional amendment to both require the legislature to enact laws to authorize the counties to issue tax increment bonds and to also exclude the bonds from determinations of the funded debt of the counties.
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2012-01-27
(H) The committee(s) on WLO recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
HB2737Intro

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Requires specified persons who own, control, or have custody or control of ten or more dogs over age six months with sexual organs intact to meet minimum standards of care to ensure the proper treatment and care of dogs and their offspring. Prohibits...
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2012-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee
HB2753Intro

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Authorizes and sets forth procedures for impounding a motor vehicle after a person has been fined three or more times for operating a vehicle without a valid certificate of inspection, or for operating a vehicle without being duly licensed, without a...
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2012-01-27
To House Transportation Committee
HB2752Intro

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Caps the state vehicle weight tax for one vehicle registered to certain totally permanently disabled veterans at $50 for a vehicle that has a net weight of ten thousand pounds or less, or $100 for a vehicle that has a net weight of more than ten thou...
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2012-01-27
To House Transportation Committee
HB1833Intro

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Requires the State or county to indemnify public agency property owners from liability arising from the sale of food or food products by vendors at a farmers market on agency property.
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2012-01-27
(H) The committee(s) on AGR recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
HB2245Intro

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Establishes the farm-to-school program in the department of agriculture to increase the procurement of locally-grown fruits and vegetables. Establishes a task force within the Department of Agriculture to examine the feasibility of establishing schoo...
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2012-01-27
(H) The committee(s) on AGR recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
HB2750Intro

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Authorizes counties to license commercial dog breeders and implement minimum standards of housing and treatment of dogs bred commercially.
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2012-01-27
To House Economic Revitalization & Business Committee
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