| SB783 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the $0.66 monthly surcharge on wireless telephone accounts and terminates the wireless enhanced 911 fund once all moneys in the fund are expended. Effective 7/1/2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the same rights, benefits, protections, and responsibilities of spouses in a marriage to partners in a civil union.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1554 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the board of education to hire an executive director. Allows executive director to hire staff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1008 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows counties to conduct criminal history record checks on certain: 1) liquor commission employees and prospective employees; 2) prospective employees working with vulnerable adults or seniors; and 3) prospective fire, emergency medical services, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB343 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows election day voter registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1420 | Intro
Sine Die | No later than September 1, 2011, requires each acute care hospital and critical access hospital to establish a nurse staffing committee to develop a documented nurse staffing plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1138 | Intro
Sine Die | Protects collaborative discussions and potential agreements between health care providers, insurers, or other interested entities on uniform administrative standards regarding evidencebased medicine, clinical efficacy, and better quality procedures f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB552 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1268 | Intro
Sine Die | To eliminate Medicare Part B reimbursements for retired employee beneficiaries and the spouses of employee beneficiaries who are retired employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates all election days as state holidays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB746 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits installation of audible motor vehicle alarm systems beginning 1/1/2012. Requires audible motor vehicle alarm systems to be uninstalled or disabled by 1/1/2012. Exempts authorized emergency vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB234 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a mortgagee in possession of a foreclosed property to pay all costs or fees related to the property for which a lien may be placed and to maintain the foreclosed property in a certain condition until transfer to a subsequent purchaser; remov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB894 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurance policies and contracts to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids in their base plans. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1419 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes provisions for automatic repeal of certain special and revolving funds beginning on June 30, 2011. Makes clarifying amendments to provisions pertaining to new special or revolving funds. Effective July 1, 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1267 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys from the emergency and budget reserve fund to maintain levels of programs for education, human services, and health. Effective upon approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax credit for physicians who provide on-call services to emergency departments; creates the Hawaii health corps program; establishes health care-associated infection reporting requirements; expands definition of "quality assurance comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB553 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB666 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state ethics commission to make available to every chair of a board or commission a copy of the most recent financial disclosure of board or commission members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1552 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all employers to use the e-verify system to verify that an applicant is eligible to work in the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB5 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a waiver program to exempt gambling winnings legally acquired outside of the State during a consecutive 5-day period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB235 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits deficiency judgment against a mortgagor after a short sale of residential real property pursuant to a foreclosure by action or foreclosure by power of sale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB449 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1551 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a license applicant does not have a significant privacy interest in records that show relevant experience, trade examination results, or adequate bonding. Makes such information contained in government records subject to disclosure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1418 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a joint hearing mechanism in the facilitated application process for building permits, and limits the liability of public entities or employees for issuing a building permit for a project that has been properly stamped and signed by a qua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1266 | Intro
Sine Die | Provide for the issuance of grant revenue anticipation revenue notes and bonds or "GARVEE Bonds," as provided for by the federal National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 (the "NHS Act") and the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transporta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1136 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an earned time program that provides incentives for inmate rehabilitation; allows only non-violent drug offenders to become eligible for parole when they make consistent progress in certain programs. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Streamlines the facilitated application process by authorizing the use of an architect's stamp to absolve permitting agencies of liabilities in issuing a permit or approval and to relieve permitting agencies of any duty to conduct project reviews pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB345 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB895 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the lapse date of funds appropriated from the emergency and budget reserve fund for the housing first pilot program to December 31, 2011. The legislature appropriated the funds for the program pursuant to Act 191, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1005 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs parking facilities that have 1,000 or more parking spaces to designate 1% of spaces for electric or green hybrid vehicles. Makes it a traffic infraction for any non-electric or non-green hybrid vehicle to park in a parking space designated fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1550 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production tax credits to increase the tax credits to unspecified percentages and dollar amounts and to provide additional non-refundable tax credits for qualified media infrastructure projects in ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1415 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a new community development district located in the Banyan Drive area in Hawaii county and places it under the jurisdiction of the Hawaii community development authority. Requires the department of land and natural resources and the board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1265 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for retirement benefits for State and county employees who become members of the Employees' Retirement System after June 30, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1135 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits counties from issuing building permits for commercial or residential structures that are within one hundred feet downhill of any state-owned property with hillsides or cliffs with slopes of thirty degrees or more; allows for written waivers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB115 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the ADC to issue revenue bonds to finance intrastate marine transportation options to assist agricultural and maricultural product producers in transporting their products to local markets and consumers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB237 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "electronic communication", as used in determining various offenses of harassment, to include the Internet, cell phone, personal digital assistance device, or any wireless hand-held device. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB346 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB450 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB667 | Intro
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] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB896 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a homeless job training program to be managed by the department of human services and the department of labor and industrial relations. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1134 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain retail dealers with more than seventy-five thousand square feet of interior space to operate redemption centers within one year of a governor's publication of a notice declaring that the statewide redemption rate for the preceding ei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB1004 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that government entities are only liable in certain cases for the percentage share of the damages that they actually caused.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an income tax check-off for an unspecified amount to be divided as follows: 50% equally to the 10 UH campuses; 25% to UH Manoa; and 25% to the UH Hilo athletics program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB347 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB555 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
| SB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the governor and legislature to ensure public access to information, services, and proceedings of the executive and legislative branches. Authorizes the governor to convene a fair access commission to review public access issues for the neig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-12-01
Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. |
