| SB2275 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a duty on parents and guardians to report a missing child within 48 hours. Imposes a duty on parents and guardians to report the death of a child or the location of a child's corpse within 2 hours of discovery. Makes the failure to report a m... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2273 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes each county to determine whether the county shall require two number plates or one number plate for a vehicle registered in the county; raises fee for plate reassignment from $5 to $75. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2270 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires fifty per cent of the works of art special fund to be used for performing arts and their related costs. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Economic Development and Technology Committee |
| SB2267 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts counties from laws or rules that would require the performance of construction or improvements upon a street or way if the county takes over a private street or way for which the county is unable to determine the owner. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2266 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the department of health to reestablish at minimum one assertive community treatment team for mental health outreach and case management and makes an appropriation. Effective 07/01/2012. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2418 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the recovery of costs and reasonable attorney fees by the prevailing party in a civil action under the recreational use statute. Allows a landowner, public entity, or a nonprofit corporation to charge a fee to offset the cost of managing o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Water, Land, and Housing Committee |
| SB2265 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the minimum bodily injury motor vehicle insurance to $100,000 for bodily injury or death to one person and $200,000 for bodily injury or death to two or more persons. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| SB2417 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows milk produced by a hoofed animal to not be pasteurized if it is intended for personal consumption or personal use by any person, including a milk producer. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2231 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the director of health to convene a mental health and substance abuse parity working group to determine how the State can come into compliance with federal mental health and substance abuse parity laws and regulations and enhance existing st... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2264 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the director of transportation to adopt rules to regulate harbor noise. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Transportation and International Affairs Committee |
| SB2263 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning January 1, 2015, establishes under the department of health a medical cannabis pilot program to dispense marijuana for medical use in accordance with chapter 329, HRS. Creates a medical cannabis special fund to collect fees from qualified p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2414 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the annual fee paid by cable operators be deposited into the general fund instead of the compliance resolution fund. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2411 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain private employers to allow employees to take paid leaves of absence for organ, bone marrow, or peripheral blood stem cell donation. Requires the employer to restore the employee returning from leave to the same or equivalent position... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Health Committee |
| SB2408 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DLNR to establish a new marine life conservation district in each county. Prohibits the taking of aquarium fish during the months of January, April, July, and October. Establishes violation as a misdemeanor. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Water, Land, and Housing Committee |
| SB2406 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes the mental disorder of posttraumatic stress disorder to the definition of debilitating medical condition to allow for the use of medical marijuana in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-01-23 To Senate Health Committee |
| 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 |