| SB2311 | 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 |
| SB2523 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a workers' compensation insurer to exercise subrogation rights against a third party that causes a compensable injury. Clarifies limits of reserves for the claim. Prohibits premiums from rising on the claim in excess of the estimated net subro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2464 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for a tax credit of one hundred percent of the first $10,000 of wages, as shown on a W-2 wage and tax statement, and paid to an individual as a qualified production cost incurred by a qualified production in any county of the State; applies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2521 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends salary disclosure and other requirements for public employees, elected officials, and appointed department heads. Prohibits disclosure of names of all public employees, excluding elected officials and appointed department heads, when salary in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2463 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a motion picture, digital media, and film production infrastructure tax credit of an unspecified percentage of qualified infrastructure costs; requires qualified expenditure of at least $10,000,000; provides for an application fee of $10,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2459 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an agricultural development and food security program from the agricultural development and food security special fund. Repeals the sunset date of the energy security special fund. Increases barrel tax allotment to energy security special fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB2515 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the convening of a task force to conduct a study as to whether an agribusiness cooperative program should be established in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB2458 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes principals and vice-principals of DOE from bargaining unit (6).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2514 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of agriculture to lease land under its jurisdiction to qualified farmers at a reduced rate for food production. Requires the department of agriculture to adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91, HRS, to administer and implement t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB2303 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the volunteer position of county pollution inspection advisor for each county to advise the state department of health on permitting, inspection, safety, and enforcement concerning certain environmental regulation and pollution control occurr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2513 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the Attorney General shall collect accounts delinquent for more than 90 days for executive departments, excepting the University of Hawaii. Creates a fund into which an unspecified percent of any money recovered by the Attorney General ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2510 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2300 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax credit for an unspecified percentage of the annual costs of long-term care insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2299 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the auditor to conduct a management and financial audit of the services provided by Evercare and Ohana Health Plan to medicaid clients under the QUEST Expanded Access program. Effective July 1, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2509 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies residency requirements for community representatives of the Kalaeloa Community Development District to the Hawaii Community Development Authority. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Water, Land, and Housing Committee |
| SB2452 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the mandatory lease-to-fee conversion of leasehold business property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2451 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the music therapy board within the department of commerce and consumer affairs. Requires licensure in order to use the title of "music therapist" or practice music therapy in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2297 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Hawaii state planning act to include the development of renewable energy resources on public trust land and public-private partnerships to achieve the State's energy objectives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Water, Land, and Housing Committee |
| SB2449 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that funding for the adult and community education program shall be from appropriations by the legislature, supplemented by student fees. Establishes the adult and community education program special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2448 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits sale of home pregnancy test kits without packaging or a label that warns women not to drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy. Creates penalties for manufacturers of home pregnancy test kits for failure to include required warning langua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2294 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the separation between church and state in terms of civil rights commission investigations, hiring, public accommodation, and rental housing practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2293 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| SB2501 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a privacy interest does not apply to information regarding complaints made against a professional or vocational licensee if the applicable licensing authority determines that the complaint was referred for legal action and the licensee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2500 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for fair compensation when leased public land for agricultural or pastoral uses is withdrawn, condemned, or taken for public purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Water, Land, and Housing Committee |
| SB2223 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes state and county governmental agencies to use chapter 287, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to suspend the driver's license of an individual who has refused to pay a debt owed to a governmental agency, following judgment or order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| SB2499 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an appropriately qualified service provider to be present during any sex offender treatment session; requires that a participant receiving treatment services shall not be required to admit guilt as part of any treatment protocols if the part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2443 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, beginning 01/01/13, specific labeling for any food or raw agricultural commodity sold in the State that contains or was produced with a genetically engineered material.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2437 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health benefits plans offered to retired EUTF members to include certain benefits and excludes any benefits relating to fertility treatments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2488 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes military funeral honors for Hawaii governors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2283 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the last four digits of a social security number, a Hawaii driver's license number, or a Hawaii state identification card number on application to register to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2282 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a state registration fee of $35 for motorcycles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2410 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 15th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2280 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the nineteenth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2431 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23
To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2180 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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 |
| SCR3 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Addition Of Financial Literacy Education To The Public School Curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-20
To Senate Education 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 |
