| SB2405 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows, under certain conditions, the transfer and transport of medical cannabis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2403 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an anti-bullying council within each public high school to inform students of and to address bullying complaints from students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2629 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the requirement that handling or extermination of insects, vermin, or other pests be conducted in accordance with standard pest control practices and applicable laws to avoid criminal liability for cruelty to animals. Clarifies the definition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2628 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, appraisal cost, and expert witness fees if the judgment on compensation or damages exceeds the plaintiff's original written statement by ten per cent or more and allows payment in settle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2627 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to clarify that the Legislature is required to comply with balanced budget requirements and use the latest Council on Revenues estimates to enact a balanced budget; grants standing to specific officials to seek jud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2626 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires school community councils and principals to provide detailed justification for proposed changes and opposition to proposed changes; requires school community councils to hold two community meetings annually in each school community.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2624 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals exclusive representation requirements and protects employees' freedom to independently form an employee organization within their appropriate bargaining unit for the purpose of collectively bargaining with their employer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2623 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that religious organizations are permitted to refuse to rent or otherwise allow use of their facilities for the purpose of civil union solemnization or civil union recognition or celebration and such organizations shall not be not subject to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2622 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the meetings of the reapportionment commission, commission committees, and advisory councils shall be open to the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2621 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides additional acts that qualify as impersonation of a law enforcement officer in the first degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2619 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals ten round capacity limit on detachable ammunition magazines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2393 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a task force within the DOE to determine the appropriateness, feasibility, and impact of classifying cheerleading as an interscholastic sport.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2618 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals Act 105, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2617 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes Constitutional amendment to provide that regular sessions of the state legislature shall occur in every odd numbered year rather than annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2391 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a statewide ban on consumer fireworks, except by permit for religious and cultural events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2616 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this Act is to develop a truth in accounting process for preparation and reporting of the State budget, which requires that the State government fulfill its responsibility to the public to transparently and timely report upon the actua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2615 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "permanent resident" for legislative reapportionment as any individual counted as a usual resident in the last preceding U.S. census within the State of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2614 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the taxable wage base for unemployment taxes to wages of no more than $7,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2388 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the aging and disability resource center program in the executive office on aging. Appropriates funds for the further development and expansion of the aging and disability resource center program statewide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2613 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a competitive market for the generation of electricity; deregulates electric utilities with respect to rates and other matters with consideration to transition costs; provides direct access by retail customers to the competitive market.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2612 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that public employers are permitted to deduct group insurance premiums from employee's compensation upon written permission; removes public employer requirement to deduct membership or union dues from compensation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2387 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the operations of the office of information management and technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2611 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the exemption of specific services from the definition of 'employment' for the purposes of unemployment compensation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2241 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 20th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2610 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes penalties for caregivers who fail to report the death or disappearance of a child to law enforcement or who provide false information to law enforcement authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2385 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to develop additional procedures and protocols in the event a lineal or cultural descendant of Native Hawaiian skeletal remains that are interred at a burial site cannot be established.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2609 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the disclosure deadline for financial interests to January 15 of each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2242 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases various court service fees of the sheriff, police officers, and serving officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2607 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that every judgment for child support is enforceable until paid in full.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2382 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the Native Hawaiian Hospitality Association for its tourism-related programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Tourism Committee |
| SB2606 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires premises licensed under chapter 281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to have an advertisement or sign posted on or about the premises that provides customers with a warning that women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy. Effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2604 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the non-school-hour programs special fund as a dedicated source of funding for non-school-hour programs. Makes appropriations from the non-school-hour programs special fund and the general fund for non-school-hour programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2243 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes resisting arrest in the first degree a felony for attempting to deprive a law enforcement officer of their firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2379 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the terms for contracts for concessions to sixty-five years. Allows contracts for concessions, at the end of the initial term, to be negotiated and renewed for an additional term without the issuance of a public notice for bid; provided tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Water, Land, and Housing Committee |
| SB2602 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the department of education to add a mandatory economic and financial management literacy course to the public high school curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2601 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Hawaii grow your own teacher program. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2600 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the location, display, and advertising of tobacco and intoxicating liquors within 5 feet from the point-of-sale in stores.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2244 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes appropriations for various rehabilitation, reentry, and job skill programs of the department of public safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2599 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a parent, guardian, or other person having the care, custody, or control of a child to report the death of a child or location of the corpse of a child to law enforcement within an unspecified number of hours after learning of the death or l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2376 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of photovoltaic systems producing energy solely for use by the agricultural activities of the fee or leasehold owner of the property in agricultural districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB2596 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education, local school boards of public charter schools, and private schools to maintain, monitor, and enforce anti-bullying, anti-cyberbullying, and anti-harassment policies and procedures to protect students or groups of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2374 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies requirements for agricultural commodities certificates. Specifies that lack of agricultural commodity certificate to show proof of ownership is prima facie evidence of theft in the second degree. Makes theft of certain agricultural commodit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB2373 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the public land development corporation to submit an additional report of its plans and activities to the legislature no later than 180 days after the submission of its first report. Requires the board of directors to submit an annual evalua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Water, Land, and Housing Committee |
| SB2371 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the state law enforcement investigation unit to conduct administrative, civil, and criminal investigations of state law enforcement officers similar in powers to internal affairs units of county police departments. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2370 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes counties to adopt a program to facilitate residential and commercial development in specified areas, and to expedite approval of development projects within those areas. Exempts certain development projects from all statutes, ordinances, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2367 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers the authority and enforcement responsibilities relating to the advertising and marketing of fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, and coffee from the DOA to the ADC. Requires the DOA to assist the ADC in regulating the advertising and marketing o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB2587 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii charter school facilities fund for funding the repair, maintenance, and other facilities needs of charter schools. Establishes the Hawaii charter school facilities fund advisory board within the charter school administrative of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2586 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DLIR to update the administrative rules relating to unemployment benefits for national guard members by 01/01/2013. Exempts rules from public notice and hearing requirements. Requires DLIR to report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2585 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2364 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
