| SB2139 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a medicaid special fund to fund any shortfall in the State's medicaid program. Establishes a 0.5 cents deposit beverage container surcharge to be deposited into the medicaid special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2141 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers authority over the Office of Language Access from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to the Department of Human Services. Effective July 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2113 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 11th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2144 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the same retirement and workers' compensation benefits of police officers to law enforcement officers for personal injuries incurred while off-duty and actually engaged in the apprehension or attempted apprehension of law violators or suspect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2171 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the requirement that a variance application submitted by an architect or licensed mechanical engineer be accepted under certain conditions with the requirement that a variance application submitted by a new occupant of the house be accepted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| SB2177 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the DOE to develop reading, math, and science assessment tests in the Hawaiian language for grades 3 and 4 students in the Hawaiian language immersion program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2176 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides compensation and services to persons who can demonstrate they were wrongfully convicted of a crime and imprisoned.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2148 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits temporary assistance for needy families, temporary assistance for other needy families, and general assistance program recipients from using cash assistance funds to purchase liquor or tobacco products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2109 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of mixed martial arts to include the regulation of other disciplines that use striking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2150 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the county fire chief to require plans and documentation to show compliance with fire code and fire and life safety standards for the construction, alteration, rehabilitation, or addition to any building, structure, or property; change in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2151 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a statewide ban on consumer fireworks, except by permit for religious and cultural events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2199 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a parent, guardian, or other person having the care, custody, or control of a child under age fourteen to report the death of the child to law enforcement within twenty-four hours if the child died under circumstances that would lead a reaso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2107 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to recognize hunting and fishing as a protected individual right.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Water, Land, and Housing Committee |
| SB2152 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans the ignition, possession, selling, and use of aerial luminaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2153 | Intro
Sine Die | Entitles the military representative on the Board of Education to vote on matters before the board by making the representative a member of the board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2198 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale or exchange of an unsterilized cat or dog. Requires pet sellers to implant a microchip in each cat or dog in its possession. Prohibits the sale or exchange of cats or dogs without microchips implanted, and requires pet sellers to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2155 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the term of members of the legislature to a maximum of twelve consecutive years in the house of representatives and twelve consecutive years in the senate, for terms beginning on the day of the general ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2172 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds 2 new members of the board of directors of the PLDC. Requires that the Hawaii public land optimization plan provide for the protection of cultural practices. Requires the PLDC to comply with certain provisions of law relating to the alienation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2156 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a state lottery limited to nonresidents. Requires deposits of unspecified percentages of lottery proceeds to an education fund and the general fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2157 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of human services to test all temporary assistance for needy families benefits applicants for substance abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2196 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes defacing, injuring, knocking down or removing any warning or signal device, highway lighting, or traffic-control device, or attempting to deface, injure, knock down or remove any of the same, a class C felony. Creates an affirmative defense in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| SB2102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires suspension instead of revocation of license, imposes mandatory terms of imprisonment, and requires installation of ignition interlock devices for specified periods for conviction of DUI offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2159 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the public land development corporation on 1/1/15.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2195 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits motor vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than ten thousand pounds from being driven in the far left lane of any roadway having three or more lanes of traffic proceeding in the same direction, except in certain circumstances...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| SB2160 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the exemption granted to the University of Hawaii from certain provisions of the Hawaii public procurement code to 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2161 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases by $100,000,000 the University of Hawaii's authorization to issue revenue bonds to a total principal amount not to exceed $300,000,000 for the purpose of financing the construction and maintenance of qualifying capital improvement projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2162 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the University of Hawaii to carryover into the next fiscal year up to five per cent of the general funds appropriated to it from the previous fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2163 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends eligibility for state financial aid and resident tuition to students of the University of Hawaii without lawful immigration status who meet certain specified criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2099 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for staffing and other costs associated with the licensing of home care agencies by the department of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2097 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a listing of the geographic origins of Hawaii-grown coffees and the regional origins of coffees not grown in Hawaii to be included on product labeling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2096 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of agriculture to develop a food safety compliance certificate registry program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB2190 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of genetically engineered fish or genetically engineered fish products in the State unless appropriately labeled as genetically engineered fish or genetically engineered fish products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2189 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers regulation of cable service from the department of commerce and consumer affairs to the public utilities commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2188 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers programs and services relating to civil defense, hazard mitigation, disaster preparedness, disaster relief, and disaster response and recovery away from the department of defense to a department of civil defense, to be established. Convenes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2077 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the largest medical center in a county with a population over five hundred thousand to create and maintain an electronic diabetes mellitus registry and to submit biennial reports to the legislature regarding the registry. Creates a task forc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2187 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifically limits fees recoverable for assumpsit claims to contract-related claims, unless there are contract and non-contract claims and the attorneys' fees incurred to assert or defend such claims cannot be reasonably apportioned. Makes the class...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2079 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires minimum physical education instruction for all public elementary, middle, intermediate, and high schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2081 | 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] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2082 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a lifetime revocation of a person's driver's license upon a conviction of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant that results in the death or serious bodily injury of another person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| SB2186 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a law enforcement officer to stop a person when the law enforcement officer has reasonable suspicion that the person is in the process of committing, has committed, or is about to commit a crime. Requires a person to provide their true ful...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2185 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to require every candidate for membership in the state senate or house of representatives to be a resident of the legislative district from which the person seeks to be elected for not less than twelve ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2127 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that emissions from crematories constitute air pollutants. Requires director of health to establish ambient air quality standards specifically for crematories.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2128 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes noise restrictions on the harboring, breeding, raising, or keeping of birds within a residential zone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2129 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends paid leave law to allow parents to attend child's Part C IDEA transition conference. Defines parent to include legal parent, guardian, or any other person acting in the place of a parent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows individual beneficiaries enrolled in a Hawaii-employer-union health benefits trust fund health benefits plan to opt out of a requirement to purchase prescriptions by mail order. Allows participants in accident or health or sickness insurance p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2131 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a domestic violence court pilot program and a domestic violence task force. authorizes the department of human services to create a family justice task force. Broadens the group of persons required to report child abuse and neglect. Autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2086 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires nursery stock to be treated for the eradication of pests before the sale or transport of the nursery stock within the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB2183 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that members of legislatively created task forces and working groups are not considered employees of the State for the purposes of the state ethics code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2165 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes classification of the offense of promoting intoxicating liquor to a minor from misdemeanor to a petty misdemeanor. Requires a minimum 24-hour imprisonment for the first offense. Authorizes longer imprisonment term for second, third, and subse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2133 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DHS to notify the legislature of any proposed changes and state plan amendments. Authorizes legislature to require DHS to make changes to medicaid or submit a state plan amendment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Human Services Committee |
